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MI: Gun shops see increased interest in gun locks after James Crumbley trial
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Bill Kuscik, the owner Action Impact Guns in Eastpointe, says people are now more aware of gun locks since the publicity of the James Crumbley trial.
"And hopefully, people are more sensitive to the issue of securing guns. I believe that too," Kuscik said.
Crumbley was convicted of four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Kucick believes that Prosecutor Karen McDonald's demonstration of the ease of a cable lock in closing arguments may have been one of the reasons the jury came back with guilty verdicts.
The state passing gun storage laws is another reason gun shops are seeing an increase in people coming in to buy gun locks and safes. |
NY: Appeals court upholds NY red flag law against Second Amendment challenge
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In a landmark ruling Wednesday, a New York appeals court upheld the state's red-flag law against a challenge to the law's constitutionality, the first New York appeals court to address this question.
The Second Department of the Appellate Division said in its decision that the red-flag law, which allows police to temporarily seize the firearms of individuals deemed to pose a danger to themselves or others, did not violate the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court held in its own watershed decision in 2022 that all manner of state gun laws are vulnerable to legal challenge under the Second Amendment unless a state can show that its restriction is similar to one from a previous era. |
Sen. Kennedy Humiliates Another Biden Judicial Nominee
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“You signed the brief, though, didn’t you?"
“Correct, I signed the brief,” she conceded.
“When you sign a brief you're testifying to the court that everything in it is true, right?"
Maldonado also agreed with Kennedy’s characterization that as far as the court is concerned, since she signed the brief, the words were hers.
“Tell me what you meant by assault weapons,” Kennedy said.
“So, I am not a gun expert,” Maldonado responded. "And at the time, that brief I think was about ten years ago—"
Kennedy followed up by pointing out that she gave the court advice, essentially claiming to be an expert and advised that assault weapons should be banned. |
District Court Judge Rules Illegal Alien Cannot Be Prosecuted for Possessing Firearm
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What is clear, however, is that he is not a citizen of the United States, and although he has been living here since 2002, he has no lawful immigration status.
On June 1, 2020, following the death of George Floyd, Carbajal-Flores was in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Ill., which was then in the midst of protests that included some level of property destruction.
For reasons that are unclear, the defendant was near a business establishment he had no connection to, and which — he claims — a group of men were attempting to break into. That prompted Carbajal-Flores to “join[] what he describes as an impromptu neighborhood watch to protect the business”. |
IL: The Misguided Lawsuit Against Glock That Ignores Chicago’s True Crisis!
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In a move that has sparked considerable debate across the political and social spectrum, the City of Chicago has taken a bold step by filing a lawsuit against Glock Inc., one of the most recognized names in the firearm manufacturing industry. The lawsuit centers around a small device, often referred to as an auto sear or “Glock switch,” which can transform a semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic weapon. This legal action, leveraging the Illinois Firearms Industry Responsibility Act (FIRA), signals a new front in Chicago’s long-standing battle against gun violence. |
FPC and FPCAF File Brief in Support of Lawsuit Challenging NYC Long Gun License Requirements
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Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) announced the filing of an important brief with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Plaintiff-Appellee Joseph Srour in Srour v. New York City, which challenges New York City’s shotgun and rifle licensing requirements. The brief can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.
“There is no historical tradition of requiring a license to possess a firearm,” argues the brief. “The only historical laws requiring a license to possess a firearm applied to persons without recognized rights at the time, namely African Americans and American Indians. These repugnant laws cannot form the historical tradition necessary for the government to satisfy its burden for several reasons.” |
MD: Acquitted: Ex-Marine Not Guilty of 2023 Non-Fatal Shooting
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When the victim was sharpening a hatchet on the steps of a vacant home next to Fitzhugh’s, Fitzhugh asked him to leave. Witness testimony corroborated Fitzhugh’s insistence that he was nothing but polite to the victim.
The witness, a friend of the victim’s, told the court the victim became irate and began threatening Fitzhugh. Fitzhugh testified the victim lunged at him with a six-inch buck knife, at which point Fitzhugh stumbled backwards before pulling out his registered firearm out of an appendix holster, worn inside the belt in front of the hip, and firing, hitting the victim in the shin.
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TX: Woman Shoots Alleged Kidnapper During Wine Country Getaway
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In a modern tale of what may be online dating gone wrong, a Texas woman was traveling for a weekend getaway with a man she had recently met when she was forced to kill the man in an alleged case of self-defense. The incident occurred in the wine country of central Texas.
According to multiple news sources, on Friday, March 15, shortly after noon, Gillespie County 911 received a call from a panicked woman.
“I’ve got a female on the line, she’s quite hysterical. She’s advising that she just shot somebody…She’s been drugged and she’s been kidnapped,” the 911 dispatcher aired to nearby police. |
Right to Arms? Judge rules Second Amendment applies to illegal immigrants, despite federal law
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Earlier this month, a federal judge in Illinois ruled in his favor, saying the law against illegal aliens possessing firearms was unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman wrote in her ruling that the Second Amendment "presumptively protects firearms possession by undocumented persons" because nothing in the wording of the Constitution specifically says they can't own guns.
The judge also noted that Carbajal-Flores gainfully employed, did not pose a danger to society and was otherwise law-abiding before and after his arrest.
Well, except for coming into this country illegally, that is. |
IN: Indiana Governor Holcomb Signs Second Amendment Privacy Law
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NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, applauds Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb for signing House Bill 1084 into law, the NSSF-supported Second Amendment Privacy Act. The law will bar the use of a firearm-retailer specific Merchant Category Code (MCC) for banks, credit card companies or financial service providers to track the lawful sale of firearms and ammunition. |
NJ: Concealed handgun permits soared in NJ after Bruen ruling
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Until the middle of 2022, it was highly unlikely than a New Jerseyan would encounter someone carrying a gun legally, outside of police officers. That is no longer the case, especially in some parts of the state.
According to the state’s new Permit to Carry Data Dashboard, posted by the attorney general earlier this week, the number of concealed-carry gun permits issued by law enforcement rose by nearly 5,000% since June 2022. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court decided the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, finding that the ability to carry a pistol in public is a constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment. |
KS: Anti-Gun Kansas Lawmakers Pushing Restrictive Legislation
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Another punitive measure, SB 548, would repeal Kansas’ constitutional carry status, which has already proven successful and cannot be linked in any way to increased violent crime. The measure would also exempt colleges and universities from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
Another bill would directly infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of Kansas citizens aged 18- to 20-years-old. SB 550 would prohibit anyone under 21, including legal adults, from purchasing and possessing common semi-auto rifles with standard capacity magazines that gun-ban advocates like to call “high-capacity” magazines.
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ME: Report Shows Maine Shooter Should Have Been Disarmed
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We now have confirmation of what I long suspected: there was more than enough cause to disarm the man who carried out Maine’s worst mass shooting under the state’s current laws. Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman explains the top-line results of a new report on the shooting and the failures that led up to it. |
PA: Pennsylvania Prosecutor Argues Federal Gun Ban For Medical Marijuana Users ‘Is Unconstitutional, Full Stop’ In New Court Brief
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Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit over the Second Amendment rights of medical marijuana cardholders—including a local prosecutor in Pennsylvania who is himself a cannabis patient—filed a fresh brief in their case on Tuesday, arguing that the “deprivation of Second Amendment rights for merely using a medicinal substance has no basis in this nation’s history or tradition and is unconstitutional, full stop.”
The underlying suit was filed in January by Pennsylvania’s Warren County District Attorney Robert Greene, along with advocacy group the Second Amendment Foundation and a U.S. military veteran who was recommended medical marijuana but has not registered as a patient because it would deny him the right to possess a firearm. |
MD: Clearly Biased Federal Appeals Court Considers Maryland’s Assault Weapon Ban
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During the oral arguments, Smith noted that the judges seemed predisposed against the Second Amendment claims, often resorting to what he described as “absurd” hypotheticals and showing a lack of understanding of the firearms in question. One judge erroneously claimed that an AR-15 could fire 300 rounds per minute, a statement that was quickly corrected by a Second Amendment attorney present at the hearing.
The central legal contention revolves around whether semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15 are “in common use” and therefore protected under the Second Amendment. This debate stems from previous Supreme Court decisions, including the landmark Heller case, which established that firearms “in common use” cannot be categorically banned. |
NRA on the Offensive in First Amendment Case Against NY as They Head to Supreme Court
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The NRA is once again going to the legal mat with the State of New York, but this time it is the State that is on the defensive. The fight is moving to the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle that has seen NRA confront New York state regulators over their efforts to restrict the organization’s access to insurance and financial services. This confrontation centers not on the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms but on the First Amendment protections of free speech, potentially setting a precedent for the extent of government officials’ influence over the operations of regulated businesses. |
GOP Lawmaker Warns the Dangers of Dems Blurring the Lines of U.S. Citizens, Illegal Aliens
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After an Illinois judge ruled that illegal immigrants living in the United States have Second Amendment rights, critics are pushing back against allowing non-citizens to bear arms.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said that the rule helps the Left blur the lines of citizenship.
"[Democrats have been] "trying to… blur the line between citizenship and everything else — people that are here illegally," Rubio stated during an interview with Fox News Sean Hannity. |
ATF Almost Complies with a Federal Law
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After years of waiting, the ATF suddenly responded to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the Second Amendment Foundation. However, neither response satisfies the requirements of FOIA.
The first FOIA request was filed nearly three years ago after Joe Biden announced his war on “rogue gun dealers.” This request sought records concerning gun dealers who were prosecuted for either transferring a firearm to a prohibited person or failing to comply with an ATF tracing request from 2018 to 2021 – before Biden launched his unconstitutional war. ATF responded with seven pages of photocopied gibberish, which is so devoid of content and context it is unusable.
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Using AI, new technology aims to detect guns before they get into schools
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"Any place where a weapon should not be, we can use our system with your existing infrastructure, your existing cameras," he explained. "We’re now making those cameras proactive into sensors that can detect a threat when it’s happening."
WRAL Investigates got a demonstration of the technology, which just recently launched in Metro Nashville Public Schools and is also in use at schools in Charles County, Maryland.
It is designed to detect weapons that are brandished, as opposed to holstered weapons, so as not to provide false alarms for school resource officers.
One intent is to find those guns in parking lots, before they can make it into the school building. |
CA: Rise in ghost guns has severe impact on San Diego's Latino, Black communities
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A community meeting was held Thursday to discuss the impact of ghost guns and gun violence across San Diego.
The event brought together a diverse group of people to highlight how these issues impact Black and Latino communities the most.
“We respond quickly when its police violence, rightfully so, but we should be just as concerned when it comes to community gun violence because this impacts us the most," said Bishop Cornelius Bowser with Shaphat Outreach. |
AR: Arkansas airport executive killed in shootout was under investigation for weapons sales
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Malinowski opened fire on ATF agents who tried to serve a search warrant at his Little Rock home at around 6 a.m. Tuesday, the agency and Arkansas State Police have said.
An ATF agent was shot and suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, state police said.
The ATF said that "while ATF agents were serving the search warrant, a subject of the investigation opened fire at ATF agents resulting in an agent-involved shooting when an agent returned fire." |
AZ: Arizona County Again Defies State Protections for Self-Defense Rights
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In the latest of a series of challenges by Pima County politicians to Arizona's relatively robust protections for self-defense rights, county supervisors earlier this month voted to penalize gun owners who don't quickly report the loss or theft of a firearm to police. Each violation would draw a potential fine of $1,000, seemingly putting the county once again on a collision course with Arizona law, which bars localities from imposing firearms regulations more restrictive than those enacted by the state. |
KY: Rittenhouse killed two people and claimed ‘self-defense.’ He shouldn’t speak at WKU.
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I can only imagine how some students and faculty/staff members must feel knowing that Kyle Rittenhouse will be in town, let alone on the WKU campus. Some will surely disagree and say that this young man has the right to talk about what he did in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020. They might use terms like “self-defense” and “constitutional rights,” yet fail to see the bigger picture: People died because Rittenhouse shot them.
The men who died were protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed after being shot in the back by police officers several times. The protesters lost their lives. |
WV: 15-year-old boy in West Virginia kills father in self-defense after he shot at his mom
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A 15-year-old boy shot and killed his father in self-defense after the man fired a shotgun at the boy's mother and then pointed the weapon at him, West Virginia State Police said Thursday.
Maxwell Laham's wife and one child fled after he fired at her with a 12-gauge shotgun Wednesday night, according to state police called to the scene in Rock Cave.
Laham's teenage son, who was still in the house, took a 20-gauge shotgun and fled upstairs, the state police statement said. Laham followed his son and pointed his firearm at him, and the son fatally shot his father once in the chest, police said.
No other injuries were reported. The case is still under investigation. |
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