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Ordinary citizens defended themselves with a firearm several thousand times a day. Firearms Instructor Robyn Sandoval brought us four news stories of armed defense. These armed citizens saved lives. Some had to press the trigger and some decided not to shoot.
What should we do in their place? |
MI: Detroit police say gas station clerk fatally shot teen ‘in lawful self-defense’
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A 28-year-old man from Dearborn will not face charges in connection with a Nov. 25 shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy.
According to authorities, it happened at about 1 a.m. at a gas station near the intersection of Dearborn and Cobalt streets in Detroit. Police said the 17-year-old boy entered the gas station, went behind the clerk’s counter and was acting “as if he had a handgun,” when the clerk shot the teen.
The clerk stayed on the scene until police arrived and was briefly detained. |
IN: Vincennes man shot in apparent self-defense incident in southern Indiana
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According to police, they received a 911 call from a homeowner, saying he shot a trespasser in front of his home.
When cops got there, they found a person with a gunshot wound to the leg. Police didn't identify the suspect, only saying he was from Vincennes.
The homeowner gave his gun to a deputy as soon as they arrived. The homeowner went to the sheriff's office to provide a voluntary statement. |
King Introduces Legislation to [Ban Modern Weapons], Protect 2nd Amendment Rights for Law-Abiding Americans
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“As a gun owner, a combat veteran, and the husband of a survivor of gun violence, I know firsthand the damage a firearm can do on the battlefield or at a neighborhood grocery store,” said Kelly. “And as our country and communities have experienced mass shooting after mass shooting, it's past time we look at fresh approaches to protect Arizona kids and families from the most dangerous weapons. The GOSAFE Act is a targeted bill that protects the rights of responsible gun owners while regulating the most dangerous semi-automatic rifles, detachable high-capacity magazines, and accessories that have increasingly concerned law enforcement and been used over and over again in mass shootings.” |
MA: Switchblades in the SJC firing line
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Seven years after the US Supreme Court suggested that a similar ban on carrying stun guns in the Commonwealth was unconstitutional – overturning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s conclusion that such a ban was permissible – these spring-activated knives are next in the firing line.
“Just as the Constitution protects the possession of stun guns, it strains credulity to suppose that individuals have a fundamental constitutional right to carry a handgun outside their homes but not a vastly less lethal item such as a knife,” knife rights groups wrote in a brief submitted to the SJC. |
MD: A Win for Freedom in Maryland
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Maryland’s Draconian requirements for purchasing a handgun were recently deemed unconstitutional in yet another post-Bruen win for the Second Amendment.
A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 that Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License (HQL) requirement is in direct violation of the Second Amendment. |
Second Amendment: Protect Gun Exporters Act introduced in House by Tennessee lawmaker
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Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee introduced the Protect American Gun Exporters Act on Wednesday. The bill stops the current export license “pause” and prevents the Department of Commerce from taking any substantially similar actions in the future unless standard rule-making procedures are followed.
“President Biden’s antipathy for the Second Amendment is becoming more blatant every single day,” Rep. Green said. “There is clearly no action he won’t take when it comes to limiting our right to keep and bear arms. That’s why I introduced this bill. Someone has to stand up to this administration.” |
MD: Judge: Montgomery County gun law preempted by state law
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A Montgomery County law placing limits on firearms oversteps state laws, according to a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge.
Judge Ronald B. Rubin, in a decision issued Monday, said he will issue a permanent injunction blocking portions of the local law.
“In summary, the comprehensive and intertwined scheme of existing state regulation preempts Montgomery County’s efforts…to place additional legal hurdles on wear and carry permit holders, state licensed firearms dealers and privately made firearms,” Rubin wrote in a 21-page decision. |
CA: No murder charge for shooting that killed San Jose woman in bar
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A man who shot back at a fellow patron in a bar near Watsonville is not expected to face charges for the killing of his assailant and of a San Jose woman who was working there, Monterey County prosecutors said.
District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni issued a release Tuesday saying that the case was considered self-defense and that the shooter — a 47-year-old Watsonville man — would be arraigned on a felony charge of carrying a loaded firearm in public. |
WI: Archery Hunter Kills Mountain Lion in Self-Defense
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On November 11, at about 3:45 in the afternoon, Ben Karash shot a mountain lion that was stalking him in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Karash was belted into his tree stand, hunting deer. He saw the lion coming closer from about 40 yards out. He shouted. He waved his arms. The lion knew he was there. The lion knew he was not a deer. The lion kept moving closer.
Have you ever watched a house cat stalk a bird? Mountain lions stalk their prey in a similar fashion. |
Gun violence as a public health crisis explored by U.S. Senate Democrats
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Tuesday discussed how to treat gun violence as a public health crisis, in hopes of building upon last year’s federal gun safety legislation.
“Across the country, gun violence is a public health epidemic,” Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, said in his opening remarks.
Senate Republicans pushed back against framing gun violence as a public health crisis and argued that approach would violate the Second Amendment and that the focus should be on mental health. |
AZ: Flagstaff discontinues advertising at the airport to prevent a lawsuit regarding local gun range
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The City of Flagstaff will not be running ads at their airport after threats of a lawsuit from Goldwater Institute. The reason is that the city denied a Flagstaff veteran’s application to run his ad for his gun range.
Rob Wilson ran his 10-second silent ad for his gun range, Timberline Firearms and Training, at the Flagstaff airport thousands of times in 2019. When he tried to renew the ad in 2023, he was denied because the city said it did not align with their advertising policy, which included violence and antisocial behavior. “After serving the country and the navy for 22 years protecting everyone’s rights, it’s especially frustrating to watch seven elected officials believe they have authority beyond what they do,” Wilson said. |
KY: Kentucky lawmakers to consider legislation similar to a Red Flag law
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Kentucky lawmakers are preparing to debate a bill similar to a Red Flag law.
Republican Sen. Whitney Westerfield told WDRB News the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary will meet next month to discuss two versions of a CARR Law.
CARR stands for Crisis Aversion and Rights Retention.
Lawmakers considered similar legislation last year, but it didn't advance. Westerfield said the idea is to have something in place to take guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
The senator said his version addresses Second Amendment concerns, but didn't provide specifics. |
OH: Judge rules Dayton’s lawsuit vs. state over gun background checks will continue
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Part of a lawsuit filed by the city of Dayton and others, alleging that the state of Ohio has failed to maintain adequate records for firearm background checks, will proceed to the next phase of the case.
Judge Michael Holbrook last month granted the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s motion to dismiss a portion of the lawsuit filed by a private citizen, and also denied a writ of mandamus, in which a court orders a lower court, agency, or other body to act in a certain way. However, the portion of the suit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbus will continue in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. |
FL: New Yorker with questionable credentials trying to stop unlicensed carry in Florida
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New York native Christopher McClenic says he founded the Stop Permitless Carry in Florida political action committee four months ago to “make life easier for law enforcement.”
McClenic, a retired Secret Service special agent, takes issue with CS/HB543, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law April 3. The law, which took effect July 1, authorizes Floridians and out-of-state visitors who meet specific requirements to carry a concealed firearm without a state license. |
MD: Hearing Shows Rifts Over Extent Of Gun Regulation
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Most lawmakers seem to agree that something needs to be done about so-called "ghost guns" that have infiltrated Massachusetts' streets, but a fierce debate continues about the extent of additional gun regulation such as restricting where legal gun owners can carry and updating the statewide ban on assault weapons.
Massachusetts has the lowest rate of firearms fatalities in the contiguous United States, but reform supporters argued during a Committee on Public Safety hearing Tuesday that the problem of gun violence is still potent enough to warrant additional action, particularly amid the increasing presence of untraceable "ghost guns." |
There Is No Right to a “Freedom from Fear”
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Counter to what we might have expected, he didn’t even address privately-owned arms! Instead, he called for governments and militaries to reduce their arms, to prevent them from waging war. The private ownership of arms for self-defense, hunting, recreation, etc. was not even mentioned, and it is fair to point out that state arms reduction would make enforcement of civilian disarmament much more difficult.
In contrast, extending this “right” to peacefully held civilian arms would require the state to become even more intrusive, immoral, and destructive. This is reason enough to reject the right to “freedom from fear” as a fraudulent tool of would-be tyrants. However, there are even more good reasons to reject it. |
A Gun-Control Amendment?
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The only positive thing that one can say about the governor of California’s ongoing attempt to add a gun-control amendment to the U.S. Constitution is that his effort is more transparent than usual.
Instead of having a set of corrupt judges wave their wands and remove the right to keep and bear arms from the Constitution—which he would happily do if he got the chance—Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is trying to amend the document openly, via the designated amendment process. This is a disgrace, but, at the very least, it’s a disgrace that we can see—and fight—out in the open. |
NY: New York’s top court upholds state gun laws – for now
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State Attorney General Letitia James took credit for defending New York's gun laws against the Second Amendment challenges. Her office successfully argued that the Court of Appeals should not even consider the Second Amendment arguments since the plaintiffs had not made them when the case was heard by lower courts. But convincing the court not to consider the Second Amendment claims in these particular cases is not the same as convincing the court that the Second Amendment claims are wrong, and both gun rights advocates and judges on the court expect that they will have to consider in future cases whether New York's gun regulations conflict with the Supreme Court's Bruen decision.
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