As Chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, Jon has fought to protect gun rights for all law-abiding Americans, regardless of where in the country they live.

Jon led a bipartisan effort in Congress in 2008 to push the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Washington, D.C.’s longstanding ban on gun ownership. The Court agreed and found the restrictions unconstitutional.

Jon stepped back up to the plate in 2009, leading a successful bipartisan effort in Congress to convince the Supreme Court to strike down state and local government restrictions on gun ownership. Jon filed a 59–page brief with the Court that had the signatures of 309 Senators and Representatives — more members of Congress than any friend-of-the-court brief in U.S. history. The Court, again, struck down the restrictive gun laws in a decision Jon called “a victory for all Americans.”

In 2010, Jon held the Defense Department’s feet to the fire when the Department was accused of selling reloadable brass ammunition shells directly to private companies, instead of putting them to a public bid. Jon confronted the Department, pointing out that the law required a public bid so individuals and small companies could purchase the brass.

Jon recently shot down a proposal for the EPA to ban lead bullets, saying it “doesn’t even come close to passing as common sense in Montana.” He also introduced legislation to allow American-made guns that were given or sold to a foreign government to be re-imported and sold in the U.S.–legislation endorsed by the NRA.

And as one of the Senate’s leading pro-gun rights members, Jon has backed legislation to allow guns to be carried through national parks, to protect hunting on public lands, and to allow Americans with concealed weapon permits to carry their firearms in states that have their own concealed weapon permits.

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