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OH: Marksmanship opportunities available year-round at OHCC
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When Richard Rudes was a boy, he joined the Junior Rifle Program at the Oak Harbor Conservation Club (OHCC) to improve his marksmanship skills. Today, he coaches the Junior Rifle Program and is also the rifle coach at Bowling Green State University. His skills as a marksman and a coach were showcased this summer when the OHCC Team brought home several medals from the National Matches at Camp Perry.
“This year, our team brought home several medals and a number of high placings,” Richard said.
Richard brought home four of them: bronze medals in the John C. Garand and Modern Military matches and silver medals in the Rimfire Sporter and Vintage Sniper matches.
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TX: Why Grand Prairie guns keep turning up at crime scenes in Mexico
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Tracing can be helpful to agents, revealing patterns used by criminals and identifying possible suspects. And it can be used to alert gun sellers. But the data also can be of limited value when a gun’s serial number is filed off, when the sales paperwork is missing or when the firearms are old.
Those guns from Grand Prairie are a prime example.
The 275 Grand Prairie confiscated guns, it turns out, are very old. Some were bought so long ago that the North Texas gun store owners who sold them are long dead. |
Biden’s Swan Song: More Executive Orders on Guns
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President Joe Biden (D) just couldn’t fade out of the political limelight without taking yet another swing at lawful gun owners. On September 26, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat presidential nominee, announced new executive actions aimed at further curtailing Americans’ Second Amendment-protected rights.
Under the auspices of the ill-conceived Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), which the NRA-ILA repeatedly warned about while under consideration in Congress, the president and vice president imposed executive actions involving devices to convert semi-automatic firearms into full-automatic and active-shooter drills in schools. |
TX: Federal Data Reveals Texas As A Major Source Of Illicit Guns In the U.S. And Mexico
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released a report identifying gun stores linked to a high number of “crime gun traces.” Under this program, known as the “Demand Letter 2” notice, gun stores that had 25 or more firearms traced to crimes within three years of their original sale receive extra scrutiny. However, this notice doesn’t necessarily mean the dealer engaged in illegal activity. Rather, it aims to identify and add oversight to gun sellers whose firearms have ended up in the hands of criminals. Many of these guns end up in Mexico. |
Self-Defense in a Wildlife Attack: No Gun? Use This
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It wasn’t with a gun, and it wasn’t against a predator of the two-legged kind, but it is one heck of a self-defense tale—or at the very least, a story of defense of man’s best friend.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is investigating a remarkable incident near Cañon City, where a man reportedly killed a mountain lion with nothing more than a shovel to protect himself and his dog. According to a report from Fox 31 News, the encounter took place late on the night of Thursday, September 26, when a CPW officer responded to a campground west of Cañon City. Upon arrival, the officer was met by a man who had the carcass of a dead mountain lion sprawled across the hood of his Jeep. |
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Smith & Wesson Fight with Mexico
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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has accepted Smith & Wesson’s request to decide whether Mexico’s suit against the gunmaker should be tossed out.
On Friday, SCOTUS granted cert in Smith & Wesson v. Mexico. The case centers on the foreign government’s claim that the American firearms industry writ large, and Smith & Wesson in particular, is responsible for cartel violence south of the border. The Court will decide whether that claim is viable under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). |
PA: Justice Department Defends Ban On Gun Ownership For Medical Cannabis Users
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This filing responds to a lawsuit by Robert Greene, the District Attorney of Warren County, Pennsylvania, who is a registered medical marijuana patient. Along with the Second Amendment Foundation, Greene filed suit against the DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other federal agencies, arguing that the ban infringes on his right to bear arms for self-defense.
The DOJ’s filing, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, seeks to dismiss Greene’s suit.
"Marijuana's physical and mental effects impair a person's judgment, including judgment about whether to use firearms," it says. |
Guns Over Children
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I note this to revisit a point I frequently make. School security measures may be necessary, but are utterly insufficient in a culture besotted with guns and the many angry, delusional, disturbed or sociopathic men and boys who itch to use them.
During last week’s VP “debate,” the slick and ambitiously dishonest JD Vance clucked sympathetically about school shootings and then suggested making doors and windows stronger along with a recommendation for more resource officers – good guys with guns. I don’t suppose he considered open fields of joggers or swarms of middle-schoolers blinking into the afternoon sun. (Statistically, the vast majority of shootings occur outside school buildings.) |
OH: Guns and alcohol do not mix
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This year, in State v. Striblin, the Fifth Ohio District Court of Appeals struck down the prohibition against possession of firearms while drinking in liquor establishments, holding that such restrictions are inconsistent with “the historical tradition of firearms regulation.”
Soon, the Ohio Supreme Court will take up the case to decide the matter once again. I concur with John Connor Dever, a Muskingum County prosecutor, that alcohol and guns shouldn’t mix. Let’s hope the Ohio Supreme Court chooses common sense over precedent and concurs. |
FL: Lauderhill Woman Stabs Man in Self-Defense During Alleged Robbery Attempt
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In a reported act of self-defense, Robinette Varnidoe of Lauderhill claimed to have stabbed a man who attempted to rob her after following her from an ATM. The incident, which happened around 7:30 a.m. yesterday on the 4300 block of Northwest 21st Street, caught the attention of local residents as the confrontation escalated from a pursuit to a physical altercation outside her residence. According to NBC6, Varnidoe recounted the moments leading up to the stabbing, stating she grabbed the knife in self-defense after the assailant, identified as Ferroid Thomas, dragged her outside her home while trying to steal her purse and phone.
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Sri Lanka: Defence Ministry urges civilians to surrender all firearms issued to them
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The Ministry of Defense has decided to temporarily take back all firearms and ammunition issued to civilians for self defense.
According to the powers vested on the Defense Secretary by Section 6 (1) and 6 (2) of the 1916 Firearms Act No. 33, these firearms and ammunition issued to civilians for self defense are being retrieved to conduct a review on them and to consider on returning them back after the conclusion of the review.
“All license holders must return their firearms and ammunition to the government’s Commercial Explosives Storage Facility in Welisara before November 07, 2024”, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement issued. |
GA: Off-duty Atlanta police officer shot, killed while breaking into Douglas County home, deputies say
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An Atlanta police officer was shot and killed outside a Douglas County home during what investigators say was an apparent early-morning break-in attempt. He was identified as Investigator Aubree Horton by the Atlanta Police Department.
It happened around 5 a.m. Friday at a home along Orkney Way near E. Carroll Road in the Andrews Country Club neighborhood.
According to Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds, deputies responded to a burglary call.
"On an attempted burglary, understanding, at this time, that a person attempted to gain entry into the residence behind," the sheriff said. "When he gained entrance, the homeowner produced a firearm in self-defense and shot the individual. At this time, the individual is deceased. |
TN: Let Rittenhouse speak at U. Memphis: legal group
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The Christian legal group recently sent a demand letter to school officials, asking them to let Rittenhouse speak this fall semester, improve security, and fix past problems with the ticketing system.
The letter also asks for a refund of the fee used to pay for security who ended up doing nothing to stop the disruption of Rittenhouse’s March 20 speech.
Rittenhouse is a Gen Z Second Amendment advocate, most known for shooting three men, two of them fatally, during a violent Black Lives Matter protest in Aug. 2020. A jury found him not guilty on all charges in 2021.
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Will this Supreme Court term turn out to be a bang or whimper?
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In Garland v. VanDerStok, the Court will consider the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) authority to regulate ghost guns—weapons that lack a serial number and that can be assembled at home using pre-made kits. In 2022, ATF deemed ghost guns “firearms” under a federal gun control law, meaning that sellers would have to secure a federal firearms license, keep sales records, and conduct background checks and that manufacturers would have to mark all ghost guns with a serial number. A group of plaintiffs sued on the basis that Congress did not include ghost guns in the definition of firearms, and a lower court agreed. Now, the Supreme Court will resolve the dispute. |
IL: Judge Refuses to Block Concealed Carry on Public Transportation
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A United States District Court judge refused to stay an injunction against an Illinois law blocking the carrying of firearms on public transportation.
Last month, in a case brought by the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that the Illinois law banning firearms from being carried on public transportation by concealed carry holders was unconstitutional. The judge granted an injunction to the plaintiffs, blocking the enforcement of the law. Illinois vowed to appeal the judge’s ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. |
Harris is a Human Disinformation Campaign When It Comes to Guns
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Kamala Harris is the most anti-gun candidate who has ever been as close as she is to becoming president, even if she has been less than forthcoming on her specific views on firearms and the Second Amendment. It doesn’t help that she has avoided any meaningful interaction from the media, where she can be pressed to explain her positions. What few appearances she has made have been absolute disasters, even though they have all been with compliant Harris supporters who have handled the candidate with kid gloves. |
SCOTUS Takes Case Concerning Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gunmakers
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case concerning Mexico suing some U.S. gun manufacturers for allegedly putting guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Mexico claims the companies deliberately chose to “profit off the criminal market for their products” and caused a flood of guns to fall into the hands of Mexican cartels. And the Mexican government wants the companies to pay billions of dollars in damages.
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DE: Delaware motions to dismiss permit-to-purchase lawsuit
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The state motioned to dismiss the case last week, arguing the plaintiffs do not have standing to bring the case forward because the alleged injuries they will endure from delayed purchasing of a handgun are “speculative allegations" since the law has not yet been implemented.
Additionally, the state argues the Eleventh Amendment bars federal courts from hearing state law claims against state entities.
While permit-to-purchase was signed into law in May, the State Bureau of Identification still has 14 months to implement the licensing program. |
Trump’s Election Bid Is a Wild Card as Supreme Court Term Opens
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The case resembles the court’s 6-3 ruling last term to toss out a ban on bump stocks, the devices that let a semiautomatic weapon fire as rapidly as a machine gun. The Trump administration put the rule in place after a man using bump stocks killed 60 people in the Las Vegas concert massacre.
Neither case involves the constitutional right to bear arms, instead centering on the power given by Congress to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The bump stock ruling could signal how the court will approach the latest case, indicating more concern with the text of the law than the impact of a regulation, says Erin Murphy, a Washington lawyer who filed a brief backing the challengers in the ghost-gun case. |
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