Well before Florida’s Amber Ullman incident in the summer of 2010, gun control activist doctors had been poking and prodding a sore spot. The American Academy of Pediatrics in particular had declared a culture war on gun owners and advanced the battle into exam rooms across America. They were questioning their patients and their parents […]
MD Magazine, a New Jersey-based website for medical doctors, recently conducted a poll of 1,700 physicians (of whom 901 responded) on their views about guns. Results were mixed but tended to strip away the false veneer of hoplophobia that the medical establishment perpetually tries to stick on us. No one should rely on this poll […]
Angry and frustrated gun prohibitionists across America seem to be boiling over these days. The social activist Florida doctors who believe their medical degrees give them the right to attack the Second Amendment have just been dealt the latest in a series of humiliating defeats in federal court. With a third decision, the U.S. Court […]
Implementing DRGO’s mission also includes sharing our expertise with policy makers. In this capacity, DRGO weighs in on firearms-related policy process by way of submitting amicus curiae briefs and providing relevant testimony to legislators. This section indexes those briefs and testimonies. Amicus Curiae Briefs: Amicus curiae briefs are legal documents submitted to a court in […]
A practicing psychiatrist, DRGO’s Dr. Robert Young knows the dangers of encountering violent or mentally unbalanced patients or their family members. Psychiatry is one of the medical specialties most at risk for being targeted with a lethal assault. Visit our YouTube channel for all content. Dr. Young speaks with Cam Edwards about an article […]
[Editor’s Note: In November DRGO’s Robert B. Young, MD was invited to attend a meeting in Dallas of the American Medical Association’s Litigation Committee. This AMA management committee assembled to discuss the ongoing litigation aimed at overturning Florida’s Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act (FOPA), also known as the Docs vs. Glocks law. DRGO has been involved […]
The American Medical Association (AMA) filed an amicus curiae brief (linked here) in the Wollschlaeger case this week supporting a challenge to Florida’s Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act (Docs vs. Glocks law). We’ve been following this case. DRGO’s position is laid out in the CCJ-DRGO amicus brief filed in late September. The AMA brief continues the […]
A U. S. District Court judge has handed down a permanent injunction against Florida’s Docs v Glocks law (BERND WOLLSCHLAEGER, et al., Plaintiffs vs. FRANK FARMER, et al., Defendants). The unfavorable ruling for the law should come as no surprise, since Judge Marcia Cooke telegraphed her disapproval of the law in a temporary injunction last […]