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DC: Federal Judge Refused to Block Gun Ban on DC Metro
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“Plaintiffs’ counsel was unable to identify any case in which an individual licensed to carry a handgun has ever been prosecuted simply for carrying a concealed handgun on a Metrorail train or a Metrobus,” wrote Judge Moss, finding the plaintiff commuters lacked standing to ask for the gun ban to be rolled back.
Ed.: Good ol' DC. You can't challenge an unconstitutional law until after you've committed a crime. |
OH: Concealed Carrying Woman Shoots 2, Killing 1, Acquitted With Video Evidence
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A woman got to return home for the holidays after shooting two women, killing one, in Dayton, Ohio, last December.
Georgia Jackson, 36, shot these two women Dec. 2021. She was indicted in August on two counts of murder and four counts of felonious assault, according to the Dayton Daily News.
However, it’s apparently been determined that she acted in self-defense. It didn’t hurt that there was video evidence to back Jackson up. |
The 2022 Midterms: A Thank You To Our Members And Our Promise To Keep Fighting!
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Some are already claiming the election was a disappointment to those who oppose Joe Biden’s signature brand of authoritarianism and obfuscation. That’s a judgment history will have to make later. But what is clear to me now is that many pro-gun Americans did their duty and strove, honorably and effectively, to uphold our essential freedoms.
There will be time for analysis and lessons learned after the final tallies are known. |
Savage Stance Handgun Review: Worth Waiting 100 Years?
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Coming over a century after the company ceased production of its last semi-auto handgun, Savage certainly wasn’t in a rush to beat Father Time with the 2022 release of its new pistol – the Stance.
I’ve actually had the pleasure of shooting both Savage’s very old and very new handguns recently, and I can say they share very little in common. But the real question is how the brand-new Stance pistol fits into the modern handgun market. Let’s take a look. |
Taurus GX4: EDC Report After 18 Months
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Taurus introduced the GX4 to the world in May 2021, and I was able to get an early test model from the company slightly before. A good sequel to the company's budget line of increasingly well-made and dependable G2 and G3 series pistols, the GX4 was more of the same, only smaller and with a better trigger. |
NV: Las Vegas Carjacking Suspect Shot And Killed With His Own Gun By Intended Victim
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Three male suspects got out of the vehicle brandishing guns and ordered the two women out of their vehicle.
One of the suspects pulled the victim from the drivers seat of her vehicle and got into the car. The suspect was unable to start the car. The suspect put his gun in his lap as he continued to attempt to start the car. The victim grabbed the suspect’s weapon and attempted to flee. She was tackled by a second suspect but was able to shoot him at least one time. Another suspect fired on the victim but she was able to flee to a nearby residence and hid until police arrived. |
NC: The Second Amendment and the 21st Century
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Why has Congress never set up a “well regulated Militia”? If it was deemed “necessary” in 1791 why is it not still necessary? What “Arms” were citizens given the right to keep and bear? How could they have envisioned AK-47s and AR-15s that people currently have the right to keep and bear?
What would the constitutional framers say to those who have been murdered with rapid-fire weapons? To their parents who grieve? To relatives and friends? To you and me? Where would they see a line separating “the security of a free State” and the need for individual security to go to school or feel safe in a house of worship? Would they suggest we merely throw up our hands and claim there’s nothing we can do/we must protect the right to own any weapon? |
UT: Utahns back a ban on assault weapons
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Banning assault weapons and LCMs is not an extreme idea. A recent Utah poll showed that 60% of Utahns support banning both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. A national Fox News poll found even higher support for these measures.
This ban is consistent with the history of the Second Amendment. The United States already had an assault weapons and LCM ban for 10 years. Currently, 13 states and Washington, D.C., ban LCMs, while eight states and Washington, D.C., ban assault weapons.[xii]
There is also a long tradition of banning and restricting dangerous guns and ammunition in this country. |
FL: America needs to love its children more than its guns
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Mass shootings now average nearly two a week. They continue to happen faster than most people can keep track of how many times an anguished public cried out “Never again!” only to have it happen again and again and again.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the slaughter of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., by a 20-year-old whose mother, his first victim that day, had bought him the weapon.
Next Feb. 14 marks five years since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 14 students and three educators dead and 17 students wounded. |
LA: Man shot to death in Bogalusa appears to be 'justifiable homicide,' police say
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Police say they received an initial call of a disturbance before receiving a subsequent call from the same location that someone had been shot after a door had been kicked in.
Police arrived to find Thomas suffering from a single gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
According to very early indications, Thomas was a relative of a resident and an argument caused the initial disturbance. Police say Thomas left, but returned and caused an issue outside the residence before he kicked the door in and approached a male resident, who claims to have shot him in self defense.
No arrests have been made as the initial investigation appears to show the incident was a justifiable homicide. |
22 Guns That Helped Fight the Civil War
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The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. It’s estimated that roughly 620,000 soldiers lost their lives over the course of the conflict, and even though roughly half of those fatalities were due to disease, increasingly efficient firearms took a terrible toll. (Compare the war to the other wars in which the most Americans died.)
As technology evolves, strategies and tactics change. One of the most revolutionary changes that occurred during the Civil War was the movement away from flint-based triggers and towards percussion systems, which were much more reliable and would fire even in rainy weather, which their flint counterparts would not. |
Range & Retail Etiquette: It’s not a Single-Party Transaction
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Did you patronize a gun store this holiday season? Did you spend any time at a gun range? How were you treated? Even today, women frequenting these establishments often still face scrutiny not leveled at men. However, the tide is turning as it relates to the growing number of women gun owners, so I am offering some analogies to help businessowners understand why any condescension whatsoever toward women customers is not good for their venue or the firearms community in general. |
FL: 10 Big Legal Battles to Watch in 2023
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GUN AGE LAW: Responding to the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, state lawmakers prohibited sales of rifles and other long guns to adults under age 21. The National Rifle Association quickly challenged the law on Second Amendment grounds. A federal district judge upheld the law, but the issue is now before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
GUN RESTRICTIONS: After the Parkland shooting, more than 30 cities and counties challenged a 2011 state law that threatens stiff penalties if local officials pass gun-related regulations. The 2011 law is rooted in a decades-old measure that bars cities and counties from passing regulations that are stricter than state firearms laws. |
Year in Review: Five most consequential Supreme Court decisions of 2022
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In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen , the court ruled 6-3 on June 23 that states with strict laws on carrying guns in public violate the Second Amendment.
Since the Bruen decision, judges in various states have said it’s unconstitutional to ban guns that lack serial numbers, to block people under felony indictment from buying guns, and to prohibit guns from airports.
However, Bruen does not prevent or undo laws such as licensing requirements, background checks and training, and fingerprinting mandates that exist in many states in order to possess a gun. |
NC: A new chapter lies ahead as NC long session begins in January
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Jordan Roberts, Director of Government Affairs for the John Locke Foundation said that in the policy issues discussed this session, there will be similarities to the previous biennium. Education initiatives, election reform, deregulatory efforts, and second amendment issues will be debated, but perhaps with some new strategies.
“What will be different is the political maneuvering that Republican leaders need to do to get bills across the finish line,” Roberts said. “For the past several sessions, Governor Cooper’s veto was a central strategic issue when considering legislation. With functional supermajorities in both chambers, the calculus changes for which bills may be sent to the governor.” |
Biden administration takes new action to crack down on 'ghost gun' sellers
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The Biden administration took action Tuesday to close a "ghost gun" loophole following an August rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .
ATF sent an open letter to "all federal firearms licensees" outlining how a number of "partially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional" gun kits are now classified as "readily" available weapons, requiring each to carry a serial number and for dealers to run background checks prior to sales. |
Gun Owners of America Slams Omnibus Bill for Advancing Biden Gun-Control Agenda
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National gun rights organization, Gun Owners of America, raised alarm over the FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by Congress, saying it is meant to do more than designate spending.
“Gun Owners of America strongly objects to the Senate amendment in the nature of a substitute to HR 2617 because it is infested with Second Amendment infringements,” the group wrote in a statement released on Dec. 21. The statement lists 12 provisions GOA claims will advance the Biden administration’s gun-control agenda and infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment rights through gun confiscation. |
NY: Pounding on the door on gun violence
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Are they serious strategies or merely mirages – stagecraft meant to give the illusion of acting on gun violence? Western New Yorkers can hope it’s the former but, either way, Buffalo and Rochester have both filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers, alleging a slew of failures that they say contribute to violence in the cities.
But even if the plaintiff cities harbor serious hopes of forcing a change in the national patterns of gun violence, it’s hard not to think the lawsuits are a long shot. The federal government has conferred unwarranted protection on the gun industry and, like Big Tobacco, it has deep pockets. |
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