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How to Use Cover, Tactics for Self-Defense
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Cover is a gift from the heavens if someone tries to kill you with a long-range, portable hole puncher. Cover projects a literal blanket of security that sits between you and certain death. I guarantee anyone reading this owns a gun for self-protection and likely carries the gun for self-defense purposes. If you carry a weapon and intend to defend your life and the life of your family, then you need to know how to use that bulletproof heavenly gift. |
TX: Gina Hinojosa Wants To Take Away Your Second Amendment Right
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Texans for Greg Abbott this week released a new video ad highlighting Gina Hinojosa’s record restricting law-abiding Texans’ Second Amendment right. Specifically, her support of an additional license to carry a hunting rifle. In the Texas Legislature, Hinojosa repeatedly voted against measures to protect Texans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms. |
The Second Amendment and AR-15s: an unexplained betrayal of originalism?
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The Supreme Court has never examined the meaning of the “in common use at the time of the founding” limitation that the Heller majority described and said was supported by history. Instead, as detailed below, federal courts have silently transformed the Second Amendment test to extend it to weapons “in common use today.” Under this transformed test, AR-15 semi-automatic rifles might be protected although its advocates explain that they are a 20th century technological development. Yet if Scalia’s words are given their plain meaning, local governments would seem to have authority to enact bans on such weapons.
Ed.: In context, Scalia was explaining that it protects modern weapons. Bad faith argument by the author. |
MS: Suppressors under Mississippi Law
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Over the past several weeks, my office has been reviewing recent court decisions and federal regulatory guidance related to requirements under the National Firearms Act (NFA) to determine their impact for Mississippians. Based on our review, given the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) decision on Oct. 9 to make ATF Form 4 voluntary, and based on Mississippi’s statutes, it is our opinion that ATF Form 4 for suppressors is voluntary for Mississippians as well.
Ed.: Author is the MS AG. |
OR: Sixteen-year-old shoots, kills three children and teacher at Oregon school, then is killed by local resident
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A 16-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing four people, including three children, before being shot dead by a local gunman who followed him into the school, police said, according to Reuters news agency.
The attacker entered Silver Rail Elementary School by shooting through a locked door, police said, without providing any other details about the suspect other than his age.
Ed.: A view from a Montenegro (Balkans, Europe) newspaper, internal translations by AI. |
WA: Washington will charge gun buyers $126 just for permission to shop, and the mandatory training costs extra
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Washington residents who want to buy a gun after May 1, 2027, will first have to pay the Washington State Patrol $126 for a permit, and that fee covers none of the mandatory training the state requires before anyone can apply.
The State Patrol confirmed the fee to AmmoLand, breaking it into $90 for the permit and $36 for the fingerprint background check. The permit is the centerpiece of House Bill 1163, which Governor Bob Ferguson signed in May 2025. Starting next spring, licensed dealers in Washington cannot sell a firearm to anyone without one. |
WA: Man acted in self-defense in Prosser shooting, prosecutors say
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The Benton County Prosecutor's Office says Jose Cruz Escobar, Alejandro Salazar's half-brother who was booked into Benton County Jail for a felony investigation hold following the shooting, likely acted in self-defense.
The office says there is insufficient evidence to keep Cruz Escobar detained.
BCSO, when investigating, learned that Salazar had been treated at a nearby hospital for a mental health crisis where he reportedly became aggressive. He returned home about two hours before the shooting.
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AK: After federal court defends gun rights, Alaska Dept. of Law tells Legislature to fix state law
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Acting Alaska Attorney General Cori Mills is urging Alaska’s next Legislature to correct inconsistencies between state and federal firearms laws following a federal court decision concerning the registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and short-barreled shotguns (SBSs).
In Silencer Shop Foundation v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a federal court ruled that certain federal registration requirements for these firearms and accessories were unconstitutional and could not be enforced against the plaintiffs, including the State of Alaska.
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SAF Fact Sheet Refutes Anti-Gun Rhetoric and Predictions
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has compiled a new fact sheet refuting 85 documented claims from anti-gun groups, advocates and public officials who stated pro-Second Amendment court rulings and reforms would produce more shootings, more deaths and immediate surges in violence.
FBI data and other sources instead show three consecutive years of declining murder rates (-9.1% in 2023, -13.7% in 2024, and -18.1% in 2025), the largest one-year drop in violent crime on record in 2025, and a 2026 trajectory that would put the national murder rate at a modern low of roughly 3.2 per 100,000 based on data through July. The sheet also links all 85 predictions researched and the underlying crime data for transparency. |
NJ: DOJ Investigates New Jersey Gun Permit Delays
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a federal civil rights investigation into the Pennsauken Township Police Department in New Jersey over allegations that excessive delays in processing firearm permits may violate the constitutional rights of residents seeking to purchase or carry firearms.
The investigation, announced Wednesday, October 14, 2026, will examine whether the township’s firearm licensing procedures improperly prevent eligible applicants from exercising rights protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
The 3rd Circuit Upholds the Gun Rights of a Man Who Committed a Nonviolent Misdemeanor 2 Decades Ago
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Thanks to a 2005 DUI conviction in Pennsylvania, Edward Williams permanently lost the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. But he did not realize that until a decade later, and his confusion on that point is understandable.
The federal law that stripped Williams of his Second Amendment rights is commonly described as applying to "felons," and Williams' offense was a misdemeanor. But although his sentence did not include any time behind bars, his crime theoretically could have sent him to prison for up to five years. That was enough to trigger 18 USC 922(g)(1), which covers anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year." |
FPC to D.C. Circuit: Gun Owners Shouldn't Have to Risk Prison to Challenge Gun Bans
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But rather than hear their constitutional challenge, the federal district court dismissed the case under D.C. Circuit precedent requiring a heightened showing of a specific threat of prosecution. Under that rule, law-abiding gun owners who want to exercise their rights but refuse to risk criminal prosecution can be denied the opportunity to challenge the very laws threatening them.
"D.C. threatens peaceable gun owners with felony prosecution and years in prison for possessing standard firearm magazines, then hides behind a court-created rule to deny them their day in court," said FPC President Brandon Combs. "That is a disgraceful constitutional Catch-22. |
Kansas AG Kobach to Newsmax: ATF, DOJ Lost Case Enforcing Illegal Gun Requirements
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Speaking on "Carl Higbie: FRONTLINE," Kobach criticized the agencies for seeking to enforce a tax on certain weapons after Congress eliminated the surcharge in the National Firearms Act.
"Big victory after Congress got rid of the tax. That should have been the end of the matter," Kobach said.
Congress reduced the National Firearms Act tax to zero for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and certain other items as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
The subsequent legal challenge centered on whether the federal government could continue enforcing registration requirements once the associated tax no longer generated revenue. |
AK: AG Mills urges Legislature to fix Alaska firearms law after federal court victory
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Acting Alaska Attorney General Cori Mills is asking the next Legislature to clarify Alaska’s firearms laws after a federal court ruling and a change in federal enforcement policy left uncertainty surrounding ownership of suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns.
The issue is a conflict between Alaska’s criminal code and federal registration requirements that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has announced it will no longer enforce for those items.
Mills welcomed the court decision and said Thursday that lawmakers need to address state statutes that tie a defense against criminal prosecution to compliance with federal registration requirements. |
MI: El-Sayed's own words reveal a radical plan to dismantle the Second Amendment
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Abdul El-Sayed floated replacing the Second Amendment in a video he later made private, raising alarms about his gun control agenda in Michigan.
"What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the Second Amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have healthcare?" That is not a college activist. That is Abdul El-Sayed — the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Michigan — talking into his own camera, on his own channel. And it is one of many videos that he quietly made private from his channel once he decided he wanted a seat in the world’s most powerful legislative body. |
GA: NRA bus tour stops in Savannah as part of national battleground effort
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The National Rifle Association brought its “2026 Gun Bus Battleground Tour” to Savannah Thursday, setting up outside Nine Line Apparel as part of a national effort to energize gun owners and Second Amendment supporters ahead of the midterm elections.
The NRA 2A Day event ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Nine Line Apparel, 450 Fort Argyle Road in Savannah.
“We 100% believe in responsible gun ownership and that it all takes common sense laws. And that when it comes to the second amendment, there’s no one like us that’s gonna defend, promote, and protect your fundamental, constitutional rights,” said Amir Sports. |
NJ: DOJ Opens Investigation Into Pennsauken, NJ for Egregious Firearm Permit Delays
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Pennsauken Township Police face federal scrutiny for allegedly using unjust delays to deny residents their right to keep and bear arms. This is the same Second Amendment Section playbook AmmoLand has documented from Los Angeles County’s multi-year carry-permit black hole to Minnesota’s permission-slips and the rest of the blue-state schemes that treat the right to keep and bear arms as optional.
On October 14, 2026, the Department of Justice opened an investigation to determine whether Pennsauken, New Jersey, deprives citizens of their right to bear arms through egregious and unjust delays in issuing firearm licenses. The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear firearms — including the right to carry firearms. |
Third Circuit Rejects Lifetime Gun Ban Over Decades-Old DUI Conviction
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Edward Williams spent nine years fighting the federal government for the right to keep a firearm to defend himself and his family. His disqualifying offense was a Pennsylvania DUI conviction from 2005.
On October 13, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the government could not constitutionally continue disarming him. The 8–6 decision in Williams v. Attorney General rejects the idea that a conviction carrying a sufficiently long possible sentence automatically gives Washington authority to strip a person of Second Amendment rights for life. |
SAF Fact Sheet: Gun-Ban Advocates’ Doom-And-Gloom Predictions Always Fall Short
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Over the years, gun-ban organizations and other anti-gun advocates have predicted doom and gloom every time Americans are awarded a little more of their Second Amendment freedom, either legislatively or judicially.
While the best example is probably the prediction of “blood running in the streets” every time a state passes constitutional carry, there are dozens of others. Now, the Second Amendment Foundation has produced an outstanding fact sheet that tells the real story, revealing a number of gloom-and-doom prediction by gun-ban advocates to be nothing more than anti-gun lies. |
CA: Newsom Is Betting Big On Gun Control. Here's Why
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 10 more gun control bills into law recently, expanding restrictions on firearm purchases, manufacturing technology and who qualifies as a prohibited person. The package adds new requirements for lawful gun owners and firearm industry businesses while making some changes to existing criminal enforcement and violence prevention programs.
California already requires universal background checks, generally imposes a mandatory 10-day waiting period on firearm purchases and maintains extensive restrictions on prohibited possessors. |
NY: FPC Opposes New York AG's Attempt to Escape Times Square Carry Ban Lawsuit
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James argues that she cannot properly be sued over the Times Square ban and that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue her. FPC's opposition argues that New York law expressly allows the Attorney General, at the Governor's direction, to step into the role of a district attorney and prosecute violations of the ban. That matters because if local prosecutors are ultimately enjoined, James could otherwise remain available to enforce the law in their place. As FPC's brief explains: "If Plaintiffs are right that the Times Square Ban is unconstitutional, that avenue needs to be closed." |
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