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Firearms Instructor Ben Branam brings us four news stories of armed defense. These everyday citizens defended themselves and their neighbors from lethal threats. When seconds couted, they had a plan. What would you do in their place?
20 minute podcast. Discussion and news sources at the episode webpage. |
NV: Las Vegas woman shoots, kills suspected carjacker in self-defense, police say
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Las Vegas police say a woman shot and killed a suspected carjacker in self-defense last month and another suspect is still on the run.
According to local reports, on Nov. 19, two women were sitting in a parked car waiting to go into a friend's party before three suspects pulled up in a separate vehicle and blocked their car in.
The three men got out, guns drawn yelling at the two women to exit their car, Fox 5 Vegas reported. |
IL: Pritzker Aims For Assault Weapons Ban By Anniversary Of Mass Shooting
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker endorsed legislation banning the sale of assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines and banning most people under 21 from obtaining gun licenses.
House Bill 5855, the "Protecting Illinois Communities Act," was introduced last week by State Rep. Bob Morgan (D-Highwood), who was present at the July 4 Highland Park parade mass shooting.
Speaking Wednesday at an unrelated news conference, Pritzker said his administration had consulted with Morgan about the bill while it was being drafted. |
AR: Gun nuts living in ‘La La Land’
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Some people even say that every mass shooting just proves that we actually need more guns to protect ourselves from all these shooters. And I just imagine myself turning to Ethel and her friend in that darkened theater and saying, “Hey, would some more raping convince you that you are actually watching ‘La La Land’?”
It’s not mental health or unlocked doors enabling so many mass shootings here in ’Murica. It’s the guns, plain and simple. The ease with which one can acquire a gun here has indelibly transformed the United States into the kind of place where these shootings will happen on a regular basis. |
Behind the Bullet: .327 Federal Magnum
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The late 1800s saw quite the flurry in the world of cartridge development, and I am often shocked by how many of those early designs remain with us as the 21st century is closing its first quarter. The .22 Long Rifle, .45-70 Government, .38 S&W Special, .30-30 Winchester and .45 Colt are all cartridges which were introduced in the last three decades of the 19th century and remain popular to this day. There have been improvements on these ideas: the .450 Marlin is an update of the hot .45-70 loads, and the .357 Magnum is an elongated and souped-up version of the .38 Special. The same idea was applied to the .32 S&W—in 1984s .32 H&R Magnum and then ultimately .327 Federal Magnum. |
OR: As Oregon’s Gun Litigation Diverges, a Collision is Inevitable
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The legal fight over Oregon’s gun-control ballot initiative is headed in two different directions, but the paths will eventually have to crash back into each other.
In the wake of Measure 114’s adoption last month, gun-rights advocates filed multiple lawsuits against the permit-to-purchase and magazine ban provisions at the state and federal levels. They argued both provisions are unconstitutional under the right to keep and bear arms protections in the United States Constitution and the Oregon Constitution, especially under the standard articulated by the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. But they got different results at each level. |
Guns and logic
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Ignoring the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings, in June 2022, by a 6-3 margin along ideological lines, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home to demonstrate a specific justification for the permit. Under the law an applicant could not merely use a vague, unsupported claim of “for self-defense,” but needed to document why concealed carry was necessary, such as being subjected to threats or being followed by a stalker. |
MD: Video shows gun store owner firing at undercover cop car
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Video of a controversial shooting outside a Rockville gun store early Tuesday is being used to try to prove that the now-jailed man shown firing his gun at an undercover police car was acting in self-defense.
Attorney David Martella says his client, Andy Raymond, was put in a "crazy situation" where two “good guys” thought the other was a “bad guy." But Montgomery County District Court Judge Patrick Mays said Raymond should stay in jail without bail while the justice system sorts it out.
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CA: A City, If You Can Keep It: Do you have your CCW?
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Bruen affirmed that you do not need a reason under the Second Amendment to bear arms in public for the purpose of lawful self-defense. While California does still require permit holders to be of “Good Moral Character,” there is no definition of this and this will likely also be struck down. Case in point: Contra Costa County will apparently deny you if you have a speeding ticket, while Shasta County will not. A textbook subjective standard, exactly what the court forbade. |
Just Give Up Your Guns Rights, You Will Be Fine, Say Freedom Haters
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New York Times columnist David Brooks is reminding America why they shouldn’t put faith in opinion writers pontificating from their metropolitan ivory towers.
Brooks recently said America would be a much safer country if Americans would simply give up their freedoms and become more like Europe. If America wouldn’t hold onto the individual right to keep and bear arms spelled out in the Second Amendment, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, he argues it would be a much safer place.
In his estimation, giving up the ability for self-defense and defense of loved ones would make crime just go away. |
IL: Armed Defender Stops Four Robbers in Chicago
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Crime happens everywhere. It was an hour before dawn on a Monday morning when a driver was attacked in his parked car on Chicago’s West Side. A car pulled up next to him. There were several teenagers inside, with some reports saying there were three and some reports saying four teenagers inside. One of the teenagers got out and pointed a firearm at the intended victim. The robbers told the victim to hand over his belongings. |
OR: Oregon Supreme Court keeps block on new gun restriction law
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Oregon 's stringent new voter-approved gun law remains on hold after the state Supreme Court declined to grant an emergency motion request by the state to overturn a lower court's ruling.
Oregon's high court Chief Justice Martha Walters issued a ruling Wednesday that denied the request of Democratic Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to reinstate the law, which is known as Measure 114 . The law had been set to go into effect Thursday before Harney County Judge Robert Raschio blocked the measure in response to gun rights groups that sued. |
MO: Black Dems in Jeff City jump into action early
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State Sen. Brian Williams, D-University City, has pre-filed legislation that will reinstate the requirements needed to obtain a permit to conceal and carry a firearm. Missouri repealed the permit requirement during the 2016 legislative session.
“I’m tired of asking how many more tragedies it will take before the Legislature takes action to thwart our state’s high murder rates and enact commonsense gun laws,” said Sen. Williams. |
Blue States Maneuver To Sidestep Supreme Court Gun Rulings
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As the pace of judicial victories by Second Amendment rights advocates picks up, blue state legislators are scrambling to circumvent the Supreme Court’s precedents by rewriting gun control laws in ways that maintain some restrictions.
One state looking to restrict gun rights in the wake of the Bruen decision is Oregon. In November, Oregonians voted to approve Measure 114, which would require citizens to obtain licenses, take training courses, and complete background checks if they want to purchase guns.
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IL: Illinois State Rifle Association criticizes proposed gun control measures
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Illinois lawmakers and firearm advocacy groups are speaking out against legislation that they say will infringe upon Illinoisans' Second Amendment rights.
House Bill 5855, filed by state Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield, aims to prohibit individuals from purchasing semi-automatic weapons in Illinois. It also increases the length of restraining orders and sets up age restrictions for applying for a Firearm Owner's Identification card.
The measure would also ban manufacturing, delivering, selling, purchasing, and possession of any magazine that can hold more than ten rounds. Anyone with a magazine over ten rounds would be committing a felony, if the measure passes and is approved by the governor. |
CA: Judge declines to shoot down California’s restrictions on openly carrying guns in public
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A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by two men to block California's restrictions on openly carrying firearms in public.
If that sounds familiar, that's because the same federal judge made the same ruling in 2020. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2021 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the high court struck down a New York law which severely restricted the right to carry handguns in public, the plaintiffs were allowed to re-file an amended version of their federal lawsuit. |
TX: Guns much more likely to be present at domestic violence incidents in Texas
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The presence of guns at domestic violence incidents also put law enforcement at risk. Jacob said research shows most law enforcement shot in the line of duty were killed during a domestic violence call.
“It wasn't gang. It wasn't grand theft auto. It wasn't terrorism. It was domestic,” Jacob said. “Those are the most dangerous calls that PD responds to.”
Baccus said TCFV wants the incoming Texas Legislature to help counties implement procedures to remove firearms from abusers’ possession. But a federal judge in Texas ruled last month that disarming people under protective orders violates their second amendment rights. |
CO: Colorado breaks mass shooting record as gun deaths rise
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Mass shootings are just one piece of a growing problem that state legislators and Colorado voters have been trying to combat since gunmen killed 13 at Columbine High School in 1999. In 2000, the state instituted background checks at gun shows, followed by a 15-round limit on ammunition magazines and a universal background check requirement in 2013. Colorado’s extreme risk protection order went into effect in 2020, and in 2021, the state legislature passed mandatory reporting for lost or stolen firearms and a bill requiring safe firearm storage.
Still, the rate of gun deaths in Colorado has steadily increased since 2008, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. |
NY: For now, New York's gun ban in churches can be enforced again after appellate court ruling
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A federal appellate ruling Wednesday placed a stay on a judge's ruling that prohibited law enforcement agencies from enforcing a new state law that bans pastors and permitted gun owners from carrying their concealed firearms inside houses of worship.
"Having weighed the applicable factors ... we conclude that a stay pending appeal is warranted," the three-judge panel for the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
So the gun ban can now be enforced by law enforcement, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. |
FBI used secret powers to strip more Americans of their gun rights, documents reveal
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The FBI has secretly stripped eight more people of their rights to own, use, or purchase firearms, according to internal FBI documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and over a dozen GOP members of Congress in October demanded that the FBI and Justice Department hand over proof that the FBI is no longer waiving people's gun rights with internal forms, which the Daily Caller uncovered in September had been signed by 15 people. Now, the Washington Examiner has obtained eight heavily redacted signed forms — indicating a more widespread bureau effort than previously known to target the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. |
CO: Colorado lawmakers must act to end relentless cycle of mass shootings
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Here’s what the Legislature and governor should do in the coming months.
Enact a gun-purchase waiting period. Some Democrats have long advocated this measure, and it’s time to get it done. It would likely reduce suicides in a state that ranks in the top 10 for such deaths. One of every 14 middle and high school students in Colorado has attempted suicide. In 2021 in Colorado, 740 people died by suicide using a firearm. The death of Sol Pais is often cited in connection with the proposed waiting period — in 2019 the 18-year-old Pais traveled from her native Florida to Colorado, bought a gun the same day and almost immediately ended her life. |
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