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Poll: Pro-Gun Supreme Court Ruling Remains Broadly Popular
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision recognizing an individual’s right to carry a gun for self-defense.
Those are the results from the latest Marquette Law School poll released on Wednesday. It found 64 percent of Americans favored the core holding in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public. Those findings align with the school’s previous polling that found widespread support for the ruling.
“A solid majority, 64%, favor Bruen’s affirmation of a right to possess a firearm outside the home, while 36% are opposed to the decision,” the school said in a press release. |
LA: Louisiana Lawmakers Advance Permitless Concealed Carry Gun Bill
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Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, as Republican lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday during a special session that was called to address violent crime.
Legislators also greenlighted a bill that would provide a level of immunity from civil liability for someone who uses a concealed firearm to shoot a person in self-defense. |
CT: Cheshire man files federal lawsuit seeking to carry a gun into U.S. post offices for self-defense
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David Nastri, a town resident who previously unsuccessfully sued Connecticut officials to carry a gun into state parks, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to challenge the law that bans carrying a firearm into U.S. post offices for self-defense.
As part of the lawsuit, Nastri and the nonprofit, public interest law firm We The Patriots USA are seeking a nationwide preliminary injunction barring U.S. postal officials and federal officials from enforcing the current law, which prohibits people from carrying a firearm into a post office for the purpose of self-defense, their attorney Cameron Atkinson said. |
FL: The Florida Senate has approved the shooting of bears in self-defense
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The Republican-controlled Senate voted 24-12 on Wednesday to approve a bill (HB 87) that critics contend will result in increased deaths of the once-threatened species.
The House passed the bill last week. But the Senate made a change to make clear the self-defense protections wouldn’t be available to people who lure bears with food or in other ways for purposes such as training dogs to hunt bears. The change means the bill will have to be considered again by the House. |
TN: Gun Owners of America announces ‘premiere’ Second Amendment convention
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The pro-Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America announced Thursday their first-ever summit to be held in August in Knoxville, Tennessee, saying it aims to draw tens of thousands of attendees with the goal of being the “premiere event” for firearms enthusiasts.
The event, titled the Gun Owners Advocacy and Leadership Summit, will be held just months before the pivotal 2024 presidential election, which GOA’s senior vice president, Erich Pratt, says is going to be “the most critical in history for Second Amendment rights,” according to a press release. |
Could Ninth Circuit Inaction Change Gun-Rights Plaintiffs’ Fortunes?
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On Tuesday, the appeals court rejected a request from Attorney General Rob Bonta (D.) to take Junior Sports Magazines Inc. v. Bonta to an en banc review. That would have likely resulted in the September ruling against California’s ban on marketing that could appeal to minors being overturned. Instead, not a single judge on the Ninth Circuit voted to take up the appeal.
“It seems like forever since the Ninth Circuit has refused to hear a gun case en banc,” Alan Gottlieb, head of plaintiff Second Amendment Foundation, told The Reload. “Hopefully, this is a new trend.” |
IL: State appeals court revives challenge to Cook County’s gun, ammo tax
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Cook County’s tax on guns and ammunition is still in place, but a case alleging the ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment has been revived.
In 2012, Cook County approved a $25 per gun and 1 to 5 cent per cartridge of ammunition tax. Initial challenges went to the Illinois Supreme Court, which in 2021 ruled against the county. The county then modified the ordinance.
Gun rights advocate Todd Vandermyde sued again on a Second Amendment challenge. After a district court dismissed the case, earlier this week an appeals court reinstated the challenge. |
LA: Louisiana lawmakers advance permitless concealed carry gun bill
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Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list of states that allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, as Republican lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday during a special session that was called to address violent crime.
Legislators also greenlighted a bill that would provide a level of immunity from civil liability for someone who uses a concealed firearm to shoot a person in self-defense. |
HI: California can continue to restrict use of butterfly knives — for now — court rules
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Hawaii and California can continue to enforce their laws against butterfly knives — pocket knives with folding blades that can be joined together and used as a weapon — while an 11-judge federal appeals court panel decides whether the laws violate the constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense.
A conservative three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last August that the knives could be considered “arms” and that Hawaii’s law violated Second Amendment standards that the Supreme Court declared in 2022. |
CO: Radical gun bill shows far-left Dems don't trust you to protect yourself
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With blatant disregard for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as the Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling, anti-gun politicians in the state legislature are once again attempting to ban all the most common firearms used for self-defense, home protection and sport shooting.
House Bill 24-1292, sponsored by state Reps. Elisabeth Epps and Tim Hernandez, is a sweeping ban on the manufacture, sale and transfer of every semi-automatic, centerfire shotgun, rifle and handgun that accepts a magazine. |
PA: Pennsylvania's high court sides with township over its ban of a backyard gun range
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A township ordinance that limits firing guns to indoor and outdoor shooting ranges and zoning that significantly restricts where the ranges can be located does not violate the Second Amendment, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The man who challenged Stroud Township's gun laws, Jonathan Barris, began to draw complaints about a year after he moved to the home in the Poconos in 2009 and installed a shooting range on his 5-acre property. An officer responding to a complaint said the range had a safe backstop but the targets were in line with a large box store in a nearby shopping center. |
MD: Baltimore lawsuit leads ghost gun manufacturer to halt sales in Maryland
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A leading manufacturer of ghost guns has agreed to stop selling its untraceable, unassembled firearms to Maryland residents under a settlement agreement announced Wednesday by the city of Baltimore.
City leaders sued the company, Nevada-based Polymer80, two years ago “in response to the rapid escalation of ghost guns appearing on Baltimore streets and in the hands of minors,” according to the mayor’s office. Officials said the settlement grants the city all measures of relief requested in the lawsuit, including $1.2 million in damages. |
WA: Bill requiring stolen guns to be reported moving through Washington Legislature
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A bill which would require gun owners to notify the police of a stolen firearm within 24 hours of the theft has passed the State House and awaits placement on the Senate floor calendar.
HB 1903 would penalize owners who fail to report stolen guns with up to a $1,000 civil infraction fine. It would require law enforcement to register stolen firearm reports with the FBI's National Crime Information Center, which is used by police to pursue suspects and locate stolen items. |
NH: New Hampshire lawmakers consider bills related to buying guns
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Guns and the rights of the individual were up for debate Thursday at the New Hampshire State House.
State lawmakers approved one bill to protect the privacy of gun buyers and rejected another that would have allowed people to voluntarily give up their access to firearms.
House Democrats wanted to give people experiencing mental health issues the option to forfeit the right to buy firearms by allowing them to put themselves on a state-administered do-not-sell list. |
HI: Hawaii Supreme Court Achieves a Higher Caliber of Juris-Stupid
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You’re a child playing a game and some kids break the rules they don’t like. Would you play with them again? Could you ever trust them? Now, read on and tell me the difference between the Hawaii Supreme Court’s (HSC) recent ruling and those kids not following the rules?
As an aside, I’m wondering, as parents, how these justices would handle their own children if they refused to follow the rules while playing a game? What if one of the cherubs decides while playing baseball that you must tag him twice before he’s out. He may disagree with the current rule or even argue for a rule change, but that doesn’t change the rule. He’s bound by the rules as they exist, right? |
Relying on the Second Amendment
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Those people that want all guns out of the hands of the average citizen may not have long to wait. While we currently have the second amendment to protect our rights, we must be ever vigilant. Consider that presidential candidate Trump has said: "allows for the termination of all rules ... even those found in the Constitution;" (Trump rebuked for call to terminate Constitution over 2022 election results, PBS News Hour Politics, Dec. 4, 2022), and “l have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President."
If Trump wants to retain power past a second term, he will have a vested interest in ignoring the Constitution. Consider this: he could invent a crisis, ignore the Constitution and confiscate all guns.
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CA: Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks California Law On ‘Abnormally Dangerous’ Firearms
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A federal judge blocked enforcement of California’s law Wednesday permitting lawsuits against firearms manufacturers that sell “abnormally dangerous” guns.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a firearms trade association, sued in May 2023, arguing the law violated the Second Amendment and defied the Supreme Court’s landmark New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen ruling. District Court Judge Andrew Schopler, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta from enforcing the law while the lawsuit proceeds. |
Gun Rights for Non-Violent Ex-Felons: The Hypocrisy and Legal Confusion
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Gun and the right to bear arms is a sensitive subject in New Mexico and throughout the United States. With spikes in crime in the major cities and within New Mexico the legislature and the governor embarked on a session that attempted to create more regulations around gun ownership.
Locally in Otero County, New Mexico, Representative John Block claims to be 100% pro-gun and brags he is the most conservative legislator in New Mexico. Yet when pressed on guns and the rights of non-violent ex-felons to own guns, he becomes silent and is not as ambitious nor outspoken in his support. Why? |
MD: More common than Glocks, ghost guns dominate Baltimore’s streets
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Baltimore Police officers chased a teenager in a stolen car in October through the leafy Loch Raven neighborhood, where they eventually caught him and found a beige handgun in a book bag: a Polymer80 with a 30-round magazine.
The week after Thanksgiving 2022, then-18-year-old Dominique Edmonds shot and killed a man in an alley in the southwest corner of the city. When police arrested him at an apartment weeks later, they found a blue gun: also a Polymer80, this one with a 15-round magazine.
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