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TN: One dead after Chattanooga shooting Thursday, police investigating self-defense claim
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Shortly before, officers responded to reports of a person shot on Bonny Oaks Drive around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Chattanooga Police Department.
They found a 27-year-old man with a non-life-threatening injury, police said. He was treated at the scene. The 27-year-old was not identified as a shooter in the incident, police spokesperson Sgt. Victor Miller said in an email.
A third person involved in the shooting told police it was a self-defense situation, and police are investigating that claim, Miller said.
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IL: Recent Gun Owner ID Laws Struck Down in MD, OR, Give Hope to IL Gun Rights Advocates
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Recent rulings across the country against different states’ gun owner permit laws are fueling hope among Illinois’ gun rights community that the days are numbered for the state’s Firearm Owner’s ID card.
“The challenged law restricts the ability of law-abiding adult citizens to possess handguns, and the state has not presented a historical analogue that justifies its restriction; indeed, it has seemingly admitted that it couldn’t find one,” the majority opinion for the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court said.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said his administration is “looking at all options and reviewing the ruling.” |
12 Steps For Concealed Carry Success
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“These are the times that try men’s souls” was written by Thomas Paine, patriot and United States Founding Father, in his book The American Crisis in 1776.
Now, some 240 years later, being faced with menacing terrorist activities here at home and abroad, we can certainly identify with his words. We are even more aware now of the necessity for being prepared just in case to defend our way of life and our very lives. |
OH: Ohio House moves closer to pushing aside federal gun laws
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Ohio gun owners moved a step closer to guarantees that federal laws could not be used to take away those guns.
The Ohio House Government Oversight Committee recently advanced the Second Amendment Preservation Act, which would stop Ohio law enforcement agencies from enforcing what the act calls unconstitutional federal gun control laws, executive orders or agency rule interpretations.
House Bill 51 has yet to be scheduled for a full House vote. If it passes, it would then move to the Senate. |
IL: With less than 6 weeks before deadline, 3,400 gun owners have registered guns covered by state ban
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Illinois residents who owned guns covered by the state’s sweeping firearms ban before it took effect last January have a little more than one month to register those weapons with the Illinois State Police before facing the possibility of criminal penalties.
Registration began Oct. 1, and through Nov. 21, 3,439 owners had registered nearly 6,600 guns they owned before those firearms became illegal to possess or sell in Illinois, according to state records.
While the degree of compliance is impossible to determine, the number of people who had registered through Nov. 21 represented just 0.1% of the 2.4 million people holding Illinois firearm owner’s identification cards, the state-mandated permits that authorize residents to own guns. |
Congress can regulate gun ownership
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If this constitutional duty were applied to the Second Amendment, gun ownership would by law be more regulated, part of a structured federal organization, define weapons to be owned by Militia members and control individual rights of non-militia gun owners, regardless of the NRA. It's time for Congress to review this constitutional task, connect it to the militia referred to in the Second Amendment and consider its potential impact on our "anyone can own a gun" society. |
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
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Maryland not only requires a license to own a handgun, but also a license to carry one, and also an initial "handgun qualification license" before starting to try to own one. That initial license can take up to 30 days to obtain. Fourth Circuit: In olden times we didn't have "qualification license" laws like these, so there shouldn't be one now. Dissent: I don't see an "infringe" here. |
Gun control measures struck down in two states
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Federal courts in Maryland and Oregon struck down two gun control laws this week as the impact of a Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded the rights of gun owners continues to spread.
A three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against a ten-year-old law in Maryland which required people to acquire a license to purchase a handgun. |
Two More Second Amendment Wins, in Oregon and Maryland
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After blocking Oregon’s Measure 114 from taking effect immediately after it passed last year, Oregon’s Circuit Court Judge Robert Raschio issued his final and permanent injunction against it on Tuesday. That was the same day that Maryland’s Circuit Court Judge Julius Richardson issued his ruling declaring that his state’s Handgun Qualification License requirements were unconstitutional. |
Crapshoot: CZ 82
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With an extensive history of arms production, Czech-made firearms have typically proven to be well designed and executed; often a vast improvement over other firearms produced behind the iron curtain. For example, the CZ 82 represented a huge improvement over the Makarovs that other countries were using.
Manufactured by Česká Zbrojovka (aka CZ) in the Czech Republic, the CZ 82 (or vz. 82) replaced the 7.62x25mm Tokarev CZ 52 pistol in Czechoslovakian military and police service in 1983. It was designed by Augustin Necas and is a compact, single/double-action, semi-automatic pistol with a conventional blowback action. |
2A Incrementalism vs All or Nothing: Restoring Second Amendment Rights
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The other group of Second Amendment supporters argued Second Amendment rights could be restored bit by bit. Pass legislation first, for a permit system. Keep reforming and improving the permit system. Reduce requirements, reduce fees, reduce “gun-free zones”. Keep on incrementally improving the law, until Second Amendment rights were fully restored. They were/are the “Incrementalists”. In the middle 1990’s it was not clear if either approach would be effective.
Twenty years later, it was clear. Second Amendment Incrementalism worked. |
‘Rust’ Killing Forces Hollywood to Make Choices on Guns
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It was shortly after a cinematographer had been fatally shot on the set of the film “Rust” in New Mexico, when a gun Alec Baldwin had been rehearsing with fired a live bullet. The mood around guns on the “Walker” set had become tentative, and its producers had decided that they would stop using real firearms — which they, like many other productions, had selectively used for some close-ups and on a few occasions for blank fire — and would start relying fully on replica guns, including rubber guns and gas-powered guns such as Airsofts.
“I took any conventional weapon that we had off the prop truck and locked it in the safe,” Reeder recalled. |
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