IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 656 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Senate should 
not confirm a nominee to the United States Supreme Court whose 
professional record or statements display opposition to the Second 
Amendment freedoms of law-abiding gun owners, including the funda-
mental, individual right to keep and bear arms as affirmed in the 
District of Columbia et al. v. Heller and McDonald et al. v. City of 
Chicago, Illinois, et al. cases. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2016 
Mr. YOUNG of Indiana submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Senate should not confirm a nominee to the United 
States Supreme Court whose professional record or state-
ments display opposition to the Second Amendment free-
doms of law-abiding gun owners, including the funda-
mental, individual right to keep and bear arms as af-
firmed in the District of Columbia et al. v. Heller and 
McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. cases. 
Whereas the Second Amendment states: ‘‘A well regulated 
Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, 
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not 
be infringed.’’; 
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Whereas, on February 13, 2016, Supreme Court Justice 
Antonin Gregory Scalia passed away leaving a vacancy on 
the United States Supreme Court after 30 years of hon-
orably serving on the Nation’s highest court; 
Whereas the loss of a staunch defender of the Second 
Amendment precipitates the need to fill the vacancy on 
the Supreme Court bench with a similarly minded de-
fender of the Constitution and Bill of Rights; 
Whereas, on June 26, 2008, in District of Columbia et al. v. 
Heller, 554 U.S. 570, the Supreme Court held that the 
Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to pos-
sess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and 
to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as 
self-defense within the home; 
Whereas, on June 28, 2010, in McDonald et al. v. City of 
Chicago, Illinois, et al., 561 U.S. 742, the Supreme Court 
said: ‘‘The Second Amendment protects the right to keep 
and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, and we 
struck down a District of Columbia law that banned the 
possession of handguns in the home. . . . We have pre-
viously held that most of the provisions of the Bill of 
Rights apply with full force to both the Federal Govern-
ment and the States. Applying the standard that is well 
established in our law, we hold the Second Amendment 
right is fully applicable to the States.’’; and 
Whereas, in his majority opinion in District of Columbia v. 
Heller, Justice Scalia steadfastly defended Second 
Amendment rights, stating: ‘‘We start therefore with a 
strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is 
exercised individually and belongs to all Americans’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
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•HRES 656 IH 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House that the 
Senate should not confirm a nominee to the United States 
Supreme Court whose professional record or statements 
display opposition to the Second Amendment freedoms of 
law-abiding gun owners, including the fundamental, indi-
vidual right to keep and bear arms as affirmed in the Dis-
trict of Columbia et al. v. Heller and McDonald et al. v. 
City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. cases. 
Æ 
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