
“A richly documented and tightly argued amicus curiae brief filed on his behalf by the US Justice Foundation, Gun Owners Foundation, and several other public interest groups contends that the ruling by the appellate court in Texas ‘establishes a per se rule that, every time the police have a valid warrant, they can execute it without knocking, violating the Fourth Amendment at will,’ if they discover that a resident has a legally owned firearm. ‘If the police are now permitted to justify no-knock raids any time there is a firearm in the residence,’ observes the brief, ‘no American home is safe from a terrifying, middle of the night home invasion.'”
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/02/henry-magee-john-quinn-and-right-of.html
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