On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police officers may not stop and search individuals based on an anonymous tip. NRA filed a friend of the court brief in support of the defendant, who had been stopped, searched, and arrested by Miami police after an anonymous telephone caller claimed that someone fitting the defendant's description was illegally carrying a firearm. Joining NRA in support of the defendant were the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which normally do not see eye-to-eye with our Association's support for the Second Amendment, and the Congress of Racial Equality, which has NRA Board Member Roy Innis as its National Chairman. This decision is of note because it shows that the Supreme Court is not willing to carve out a gun exception to the Fourth Amendment.
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