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OH: Prosecutor’s Office: Man accused of killing his brother acted in self-defense, will not face charges
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On Sept. 18, the attorney for Ameen S. Farraj, 18, of North Olmsted, the man accused of shooting and killing his brother, claimed his client was defending their mother from a vicious attack.
But, according to information from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office sent to Fox 8 News, the teen will no longer face charges.
After the Prosecutor’s Office’s Self-Defense Committee reviewed the evidence currently available in Farraj’s case, it was determined that the State of Ohio would not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Farraj was not acting in self-defense.
As a result, the case will not be presented to a grand jury, and the municipal charges will be dropped. |
ID: Man released as police investigate possible self-defense in Coeur d’Alene shooting
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A man initially detained after two people were shot at a Coeur d'Alene home early Tuesday has been released as police investigate whether the shooting was an act of self-defense.
According to the Coeur d'Alene Police Department, the shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday at a home near East Mullan Avenue and South 19th Street.
Police said a woman had been out with a friend and returned to her home with the friend. The two were confronted by another man who also lived at the home. |
NJ: Knife Rights Sues New Jersey Over Knife and Self-Defense Bans
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Knife Rights has launched a federal Second Amendment challenge to overturn New Jersey's insane and morally indefensible laws banning self-defense with knives, as well as all other non-firearm weapons such as pepper spray, stun guns, billys, knuckles, blackjacks and hundreds of other common every-day objects that might be used as improvised weapons. This includes baseball bats, golf clubs, hammers and screwdrivers, as but a few examples, all of which New Jersey criminalizes when carried in anticipation of possible self-defense. |
USCCA Joins SAF as Newest Diamond-Level Corporate Partner
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that the U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) has joined SAF as a corporate partner at the Diamond level.
The new partnership highlights the ability for citizens to fully exercise their Second Amendment freedoms across the nation. SAF provides aggressive legal action to ensure our right to keep and bear arms remains steadfast through landmark legal battles protecting the Second Amendment, while USCCA follows a concealed carry holder throughout their life to educate, train and provide legal defense services in the event they're needed. |
ME: SAF Urges Supreme Court to Strike Maine Firearm Waiting Period Law
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court in Beckwith v. Frey, supporting petitioners' request for review of a First Circuit decision upholding Maine's firearm waiting period law.
The First Circuit held that laws regulating the purchase or acquisition of firearms do not target conduct covered by the Second Amendment's plain text, and that such laws are constitutional unless plaintiffs prove they are "abusive" toward Second Amendment rights. SAF argues this standard revives the interest-balancing Heller and Bruen rejected. Once a law burdens people who wish to exercise the right to keep and bear arms, the government must justify it with historical tradition – full stop. |
Italy: Italian Homeowner Who Shot and Killed a Burglar Says He Fears Prison: I Shouldn’t Have Fired, I Was Panicking
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A 35-year-old homeowner who shot and killed a burglar inside his home in the early hours of Sunday now says he fears he will end up in prison, telling reporters, “I shouldn’t have fired, I was panicking.”
The shooting happened in Baldissero D’Alba, a town near Cuneo in northern Italy, as reported by ANSA. The man made his comments publicly on Monday, saying he is afraid of facing the same fate as an earlier defender he referred to only as Roggero.
That fear is the whole story here, and it is one American gun owners should sit with rather than dismiss. This man defended himself inside his own home, and his first instinct afterward was not relief. It was dread about a courtroom. |
NJ: New Jersey Faces Lawsuit Over Knife, Baseball Bat Ban For Self-Defense
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A pro-Second Amendment group led a lawsuit Monday seeking to have New Jersey’s laws barring the carrying of items like baseball bats and knives for self-defense thrown out.
The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs and Knife Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of four individual plaintiffs, arguing that by prohibiting the use of items other than firearms for self-defense, New Jersey was violating the Second Amendment rights of residents. The complaint said that the state has been in “panic mode” since the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller v. District of Columbia. |
FL: Uber Eats Driver Shoots Knife-Wielding Attacker After Parking Dispute
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A defensive gun use outside a Florida restaurant shows why the right to carry matters when an ordinary workday turns dangerous. An Uber Eats driver was picking up an order in Port St. Lucie when a man he had encountered over a parking spot followed him into the restaurant, then pursued him outside. Police say the man shoved the driver and pulled a knife as the driver backed away. The driver fired one shot.
Port St. Lucie’s police chief called the shooting self-defense. The driver faces no criminal charges. He had a gun when he needed one, a fact that now puts this case at odds with Uber’s policy prohibiting delivery workers from carrying firearms while using its app. |
TN: Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar In His Driveway During Middle Of The Night, Now He’s In Jail
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A Memphis homeowner is facing seven felony charges after opening fire during an early-morning confrontation with a person he says was trying to break into his vehicle.
Demarcus Collier, 27, was arrested and charged with seven counts of aggravated assault along with vandalism following the Saturday incident. The charges are not based on the shooting of the alleged burglar, but on bullets that investigators say traveled beyond Collier’s property and damaged nearby homes and vehicles. |
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales
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A federal appellate court has struck down longstanding restrictions that barred direct interstate handgun sales between licensed dealers and buyers who live in different states, ruling that the provisions violate the Second Amendment.
The ruling marks another victory for gun-rights groups under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen precedent, which requires the government to show that modern firearm restrictions align with the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.
Several provisions of federal code, originally enacted in 1968, collectively prohibited the buying and selling of handguns across state lines. |
FL: Sales tax holiday underway for Second Amendment
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The Founding Fathers appreciated citizens having the right to arm themselves, and they weren’t all that big on taxes either.
So they may appreciate this.
Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced Florida’s Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.
It is the second year for the holiday that provides tax relief on firearms, ammunition along with hunting, fishing and camping supplies, according to a news release from the governor’s office. |
MD: SAF Files Reply Brief In Case Challenging Maryland’s Glock Ban
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SAF filed the lawsuit in May immediately after Gov. Moore signed Senate Bill 334 into law. The new law states that a person “…may not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or transfer a machine gun convertible pistol.” It further defines a “machine gun convertible pistol” as a firearm that contains a cruciform trigger bar. Unique to Glock and Glock-style handguns, a cruciform trigger bar is a pivotal component to the overall design of the handgun. SB 334 purports to ban these popular and completely legal handguns in an effort to prevent their already-illegal conversion into machineguns. The ban goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027. |
5th Circuit En Banc to Rehear Felon Gun Ban Cases
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On September 14, the Fifth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in United States v. Cordova, a Second Amendment challenge to the lifetime felon gun ban, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). That follows the July 20 en banc rehearing grant in United States v. Squire, a challenge to the same prohibition under the Commerce Clause. These cases test whether Congress had the power in the first place, and even if so, is it prohibited from doing so?
As I posted previously, Squire posed “a novel question about whether the Second Amendment protects a convicted drug trafficker from being dispossessed of a firearm inside his home based on our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” |
These Supreme Court Cases Could Reshape Gun Rights, Elections, and Parental Rights
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On Dec. 2, justices will consider whether state and local governments can ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15 in cases out of Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut.
In Viramontes v. Cook County, the plaintiff, Cutberto Viramontes, sued in 2021 over the county’s ban on AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic rifles.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, ruling that Supreme Court precedent would allow regulation of certain weapons and citing the Heller and Bruen rulings. |
SAF Win: District Admits Unlawful Search Violated Student’s Rights
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In October last year, SAF filed the case after Harrington’s vehicle was searched on Hillsboro-Deering High School grounds solely on the basis of school officials learning that Harrington lawfully owned a firearm in his personal life. Harrington owns a handgun which he sometimes carries with him in his truck – in full compliance with all federal and New Hampshire state laws – but never brought the gun to school, which he knew was prohibited. Upon learning that Harrington lawfully owned a firearm, however, he was subjected to interrogation and his vehicle being searched without his consent. No firearm was found during the illegal search as it was safely stored at his home, nowhere near the school campus. |
DOJ Determines Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to 18 to 20-Year-Olds is Unconstitutional
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel released a legal opinion stating that licensed dealers may sell handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds under the Second Amendment. The office cited two statutes which prohibit dealers from selling handguns or ammunition to anyone under the age of 21 that the concluded are inconsistent with the Second Amendment, which
The Office of Legal Counsel stated that 18- to 20-year-olds are considered part of “the people” protected by the Second Amendment, and the department cannot impose criminal penalties on dealers who sell to law-abiding adults 18 years of age and older. |
DOJ says Federal 18-20-Year-Old Handgun Ban Unconstitutional
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The Department of Justice has concluded that the federal prohibition on federally licensed dealer handgun sales to adults aged 18 to 20 cannot be constitutionally enforced. As accurate as this conclusion may be, it is also incomplete and highly endangered, as the distance between a DOJ enforcement posture and a final, binding judicial resolution is precisely the kind of gap that swallows rights whole amid shifting political winds. |
NJ: Gun owners challenge NJ restrictions on nonfirearm weapons
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Gun rights advocates have a new target in their crusade to strike down New Jersey’s longstanding prohibitions on weapons, suing Monday to overturn state restrictions on the use of items like knives, stun guns, slingshots, brass knuckles, bear spray, and bats for self-defense.
The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Arizona-based Knife Rights, and four New Jersey gun owners are asking a federal judge to declare the restrictions illegal and unenforceable under the Second Amendment, saying they prevent people from using less-lethal tools than guns for self-defense.
“The Second Amendment protects all common arms not just guns,” attorney Daniel Schmutter wrote in the complaint filed Monday in federal court. |
RI: RI gun owners renew push to overturn magazine ban
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The Big Bear Hunting and Fishing store in Glocester and other gun owners are once again challenging the high-capacity firearm ban, arguing it represents an unconstitutional block on the possession of magazines owned by millions of Americans, including many Rhode Islanders, for self-defense.
The Glocester fishing and hunting supply store filed a motion this week asking U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. to strike down the 2022 law without heading to trial, alleging it violates the Second Amendment. Joined by individual gun owners, the store asserts that the law violates the Takings Clause by forcing gun owners to give up, sell, or modify magazines holding more than 10 rounds without just compensation... |
Experts at GW Law Discussed Pending U.S. Supreme Court Cases
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“With Bruen, Justice Thomas announced a new methodology, which is to look at the history and tradition of firearms regulation, particularly as it existed at the time of the enactment of the Second Amendment in 1791, to see if a particular regulation is consistent with that history.”
One of the best indications of what the framers thought about military weapons, Cottrol said, was that they required them in the National Firearms Act of 1792, mandating that every white man own a rifle and a bayonet. The idea that military-grade weapons are outside of the protection of the Second Amendment contradicts the amendment’s actual purpose to ensure a citizen militia. |
MN: DOJ threatens lawsuit against Minnesota over gun purchase waiting period
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sent a notice of suit to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her on Sept. 17, threatening to sue the state and the two cities over firearm purchase waiting periods, according to the letter.
The letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, argues that Minnesota’s permit-to-purchase and transferee report requirements violate the Second Amendment rights of residents who have not obtained a permit to carry. |
AL: NRA endorses Tuberville for governor, Moore for U.S. Senate
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The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) has endorsed U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) for governor against Doug Jones and U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) for U.S. Senate.
The organization posted both endorsements on its social media pages, where both candidates reposted them.
"Alabamians can count on @CoachForGov to go on offense for the Second Amendment. Tuberville has a proven record of standing with hunters, outdoorsmen, and law-abiding gun owners across the Heart of Dixie. NRA-PVF is proud to endorse Tommy Tuberville for Governor of Alabama!" the organization said in its post. |
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