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GA: Witnesses supported library shooter’s self-defense argument
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The DeKalb County district attorney's office has shed more light on a judge's decision to dismiss the case against a man who shot another man after an argument at the Decatur Library.
Medicus Brown, 44, faced charges of aggravated battery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony after authorities said he shot Frederick Mitchell in the eye Feb. 2. Court records show his attorney, public defender Kyle Obiora, filed a motion for immunity from prosecution May 8, arguing Brown was acting in self-defense.
On Aug. 7, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Shondeana C. Morris granted the motion and dismissed the case. |
MA: SAF Files Amicus Brief In Massachusetts Challenging Carry Permit Denials
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Pratt v. Westbrook, a case challenging subjective carry permit denials.
SAF is joined in the brief by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The brief was filed by attorney Jason Guida, who served as local counsel pro bono. |
NRA-ILA Names Patriot Mobile Official Partner of the 2026 NRA Gun Bus Battleground Tour
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The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today announced Patriot Mobile as the official wireless connectivity partner of the 2026 NRA Gun Bus Battleground Tour.
The partnership will put Patriot Mobile's brand front and center on the tour under the designation "Connected by: Patriot Mobile," reflecting both the company's role as the NRA's official wireless provider and the connectivity it will supply as the Gun Bus travels the country. |
MA: Massachusetts Fails to Kill Lawsuit Over Nonresident Carry Permit Delays
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Massachusetts cannot make a Second Amendment lawsuit disappear simply by issuing carry permits after it has already kept lawful citizens disarmed for months.
That is the central takeaway from a federal judge’s refusal to dismiss the core claims in Lawson v. Campbell, a lawsuit brought by the Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners Action League, and three nonresident gun owners challenging Massachusetts’ burdensome License to Carry process. |
IL: Pregnant Black Woman Who Stabbed Her Boyfriend in Self-Defense Will Not Go to Prison
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Keshia Golden, an African American mom from Chicago, Illinois, who fatally stabbed her boyfriend while she was eight months pregnant, has avoided prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge in his 2022 death. She received two years of probation Monday in the killing of Calvin Sidney. Her attorneys have maintained that she acted in self-defense during a violent confrontation and was trying to protect herself and her unborn child. |
LA: Louisiana’s Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday begins Friday, runs through Sunday
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If hunting supplies are on your shopping list, you can keep the sales tax by buying them this weekend. Byron Henderson with the Louisiana Department of Revenue says the annual 2nd Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday.
“Consumer purchases of firearms, ammunition and wide range of other hunting supplies are exempt from state and local sales tax,” Henderson explained.
Henderson says the sales tax holiday only applies to consumer purchases; it does not apply to business or commercial purchases. |
Rep. Clyde Files Amicus Brief in Defense of Americans’ Second Amendment Freedoms
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Today, Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09), in partnership with the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in the case Viramontes v. Cook County (consolidated with Grant v. Higgins), a major Second Amendment case addressing the constitutionality of semi-automatic rifles. More than 60 House Republicans joined Rep. Clyde on the brief.
In Viramontes v. Cook County, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether the Second Amendment protects the right to possess semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15s, after Cook County, Illinois and the State of Connecticut enacted bans on these firearms, which were upheld by the lower courts. |
GA: Rep. Clyde Leads GA GOP Delegation in Urging Attorney General Carr to Clarify Georgia Law Following Historic NFA Court Ruling
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“...Now that NFA registration is no longer required and, under the court’s ruling, may no longer lawfully be demanded of Georgians covered by the injunction, this provision no longer maps cleanly onto federal law. Read literally, it could be misunderstood to condition Georgia’s exemption on an act of federal registration that a covered person is no longer required, or even permitted, to complete. This ambiguity has deterred Georgians, who are in full compliance with all applicable federal law, from fully exercising their Second Amendment rights, out of a well-founded fear that doing so could place them in violation of Georgia’s criminal code.” |
USVI: DOJ Just Slapped Virgin Islands With Another Complaint Over Semiauto Gun Ban
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint against the Virgin Islands Wednesday over gun laws the territory enacted in June, including bans on modern semiautomatic firearms and standard capacity magazines.
The Second Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ announced litigation against the Virgin Islands Police Department in December 2025, accusing the agency of imposing “unreasonable conditions” and using a “good cause” standard the Supreme Court invalidated in the June 2022 Bruen decision. The “First Supplemental and Amended Complaint” addressed legislation passed by the territory in June that included the semiauto and magazine bans in an effort to render the case moot. |
MD: Maryland Carry Case Asks Supreme Court to Finish What Wolford Started
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The fight in Novotny v. Moore has moved to the next stage. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether Maryland’s sprawling “sensitive places” scheme deserves review, or whether the Fourth Circuit should be ordered to take another look after Wolford v. Lopez.
Attorneys for Maryland carry-permit holders and the Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Maryland Shall Issue, and Maryland State Rifle & Pistol Association filed their reply brief on September 2. The Supreme Court simultaneously distributed the petition for its September 28 conference, completing the scheduled briefing in Supreme Court No. 25-1324. |
How government is failing on gun crimes
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Debate over reducing firearm crimes often focuses on whether or how much to limit the Second Amendment right to bear arms. After all, some argue, if we make more guns illegal then criminals won’t be able to access as many guns.
This argument falls short on so many levels. And in a recent article giving several examples, I highlighted that “[e]ven on an island nation like Australia, where presumably government has total control of what comes in and out of the country, the passage of a gun law designed to clamp down on firearms did not deliver in terms of homicide, suicide, number of guns, reduction of mass shootings, or prevalence of gun ownership.” |
Supreme Court Considers Concealed Carry Reciprocity Fight
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A long-haul truck driver is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Minnesota can shut off his right to bear arms the moment his rig crosses the state line—even though he holds valid carry permits from two other states.
The case, Johnson v. Jacobson, Supreme Court No. 26-255, goes directly at the nationwide patchwork of carry-permit reciprocity laws that forces armed citizens to navigate changing rules, buy multiple permits, or surrender access to a defensive handgun while traveling. |
PA: Lehigh Acres pickaxe attack suspect arrested after victim shoots him in self-defense, sheriff says
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According to Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno, deputies discovered the victim shot Jordan after he attacked him with a pickaxe.
After the victim had told Jordan to leave the property, Jordan followed the victim with a pickaxe and shoved it into his back, which caused him to fall to the ground. Jordan then stood over the victim, threatening to strike him, before the victim shot Jordan in self-defense, according to Sheriff Marceno.
Jordan and the victim declined to press charges; however, deputies responded to the property again on Wednesday after another incident between the two. After Wednesday's incident, the victim decided to press charges against Jordan for the Monday incident. |
MI: Bay County dog shot amid fight, self-defense possible
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Investigators say a 51-year-old man and a 32-year-old man were fighting when the 32-year-old man's dog, a Rottweiler named Luna, attacked the 51-year-old.
Carlisle lives nearby and says the man being attacked by the dog pulled out a weapon.
"He pulled out the gun and shot the dog right there on the sidewalk," Carlisle said.
"The dog was potentially protecting the owner who got into a fight with another individual, and then the dog was shot afterwards," said Anthony Trevino of Bay County Animal Services. |
FL: Florida Firearm Tax Holiday Starts
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Floridians can proudly call their sunny home the Gunshine State for the rest of 2026, now that the second annual tax holiday on firearms, ammo, and gun-related gear has begun.
Passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the tax-free period is dubbed the Hunting, Fishing, and Camping Sales Tax Holiday. It will run from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2026, and covers everything from ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories – such as barrels, magazines, cases, bags, optics, and suppressors – to bows, fishing tackle, camping gear, flashlights, and tents. |
FL: Woman who shot veteran in self-defense over a Walmart parking space cannot be prosecuted
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A Broward woman who shot and killed a 62-year-old veteran during a dispute over a parking space at a North Lauderdale Walmart cannot be charged because she is immune under Florida’s stand-your-ground law, the Broward State Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.
The woman, Melissa Payne, shot Lauderhill resident Bart Diguglielmo in the abdomen as he approached her in the parking lot of the Walmart in the 7900 block of West McNab Road.
Assistant State Attorney Stephen Zaccor filed a closeout memorandum outlining the state’s decision not to file charges against Payne, concluding that she acted in self-defense and the state’s stand-your-ground law immunizes her from prosecution. |
FL: No charges in self-defense shooting
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Terry Lee Murphy, 32, of Venice, forced his way into Bean’s apartment in the Maren Apartments & Townhomes community on Vistera Boulevard in North Venice early July 1 and threatened to kill him and members of his family, it states.
Murphy got access to the complex by scaling a perimeter wall, police said at the time, and there had been prior conflicts between the men.
Once in the apartment, Murphy repeatedly shoved and struck Bean while holding one hand behind his back as if he were armed, the release states.
The confrontation continued into a bedroom, where Bean retrieved a firearm and fired three times. |
Final Agenda Set for 41st Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference
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...Sept. 25 – 27 in Dallas at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport hotel.
This year's keynote address will be given by the Honorable Roger T. Benitez (Ret.) – one of the most consequential judicial defenders of the Second Amendment in the post-Heller era.
Additional speakers include:
--Robert Cekada, Director, ATF
--Robert Leider, ATF Chief Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel
--Brandon Herrera, Second Amendment advocate and Congressional candidate
--Barry Arrington, acting Chief of the Second Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
Ed.: Far too many speakers to list them all here. |
Inside The ‘Top Secret’ Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years
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It was after midnight at a small-town Texas gun store. Two men — a state lawmaker and a congressional candidate — were purchasing suppressors in the presence of a congressman and top officials of a pro-Second Amendment organization.
Just hours before, the congressman learned the Trump administration would abide by one of the most consequential Second Amendment rulings in over 90 years. The men proceeded to make history, becoming the first Americans to purchase suppressors without registration since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president.
The entire story that led to this historic moment hasn’t been told. Until now. |
House Republicans Ask High Court to Protect AR-15s
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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is leading more than 60 House Republicans who filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to rule that bans on AR-15 semiautomatic rifles are unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court will hear Grant v. Higgins, which asks whether bans on AR-15s violate the Second and 14th amendments. The case is consolidated with Viramontes v. Cook County.
Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut enacted bans on these guns. The bans were upheld by the lower courts. |
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