United States President Barack Obama introduces Judge Merrick Garland, chief justice for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as his nominee to replace the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 16, 2016.Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP

On Wednesday Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland as his Supreme Court pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland has conservatives up in arms over his past opposition to the Second Amendment.

The Daily Signal reported:

The conservative Judicial Crisis Network describes Garland, who the Senate did not confirm until 1997, as “a reliable fifth vote for a laundry list of extreme liberal priorities like gutting the Second Amendment.” Also as an appeals court judge, Garland voted in 2007 to reverse a D.C. Circuit Court decision that struck down Washington’s handgun ban as unconstitutional. At the time, pro-gun commentator Dave Kopel wrote that Garland’s vote came as “no surprise” because the jurist already had “signaled [his] strong hostility to gun owner rights.” When the case eventually came before the Supreme Court in 2008, the justices ruled definitively that citizens possess a fundamental right to own guns for lawful purposes.

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The NRA released a video this month to refute an anti-gun nominee like Judge Garland.

The NRA ad features a Venezuelan immigrant who was disarmed by her former Socialist government.



The Free Beacon reported: