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KS: Kansas high school clay shooters prepare for annual tournaments
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Kansas high school teams are preparing for their shot at state clay target tournaments.
The Kansas State High School Clay Target League is hosting its annual state trap shooting tournament June 15 in Sedgwick. The skeet shooting and 5-stand state tournaments take place June 13-16 in Augusta.
In southwest Kansas, Garden City High School freshman Andi Heckel is getting ready to shoot in the trap tournament. She’s one of four girls on the 20-person GCHS team.
Heckel, 15, started shooting shotguns at age 13. She placed second individually in the Kansas 1A Trap Shooting Conference last month, and the team placed first.
“It definitely has been fun having the social aspect and making friends along the way,” Heckel said.
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Comer Probes Biden Administration’s Possible Collusion with Anti-Second Amendment Groups on Litigation Against Firearm Manufacturer
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House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is investigating the Biden Administration about its potential collusion with anti-Second Amendment plaintiffs and the City of Chicago on a lawsuit against Glock, a firearm manufacturer. The plaintiffs are seeking to financially penalize and restrict continued operation of Glock for illegal, aftermarket alterations being made by criminals to the firearm after they have been lawfully sold. In letters sent to the White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention Director Stefanie Feldman and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steven Dettelbach, the Chairman requests certain information, documents, and communications from both entities. |
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
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The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight.
The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration overstepped when it changed course from predecessors and banned bump stocks, which allow a rate of fire comparable to machine guns. The decision came after a gunman in Las Vegas attacked a country music festival with assault rifles equipped with the accessories. |
Supreme Court Rules Bump Stock Ban Unlawful
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he Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to overturn a Trump-era policy banning bump stocks for semi-automatic firearms, arguing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) exceeded its authority.
The Trump administration’s ATF created the regulation 14 months after the deadliest U.S. mass shooting took place in 2017 at a country music festival in Las Vegas. The regulation reversed previous ATF policy that stated a semi-automatic firearm with a bump stock does not constitute a fully automatic firearm or machine gun. The Trump administration, alongside others, argued bump stocks “illegally convert semi-automatic rifles … into fully automatic machine guns,” The Federalist’s founder Sean Davis explained. |
SCOTUS Issues Ruling in Critical Second Amendment Case
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The ceaseless debate over Second Amendment rights in the U.S. took another swerve on Friday after the Supreme Court issued a critical ruling in the highly publicized Garland v. Cargill case.
That case, which saw U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland going against Texas gun shop owner Michael Cargill, centers on the legality of bump stock gun attachments.
(Bump stocks replace the stock — the part that rests against the shoulder — of a semi-automatic weapon. Bump stocks harness recoil energy and allow the user to fire bullets more rapidly than with a standard stock.)
A ruling stemming from former President Donald Trump’s administration banned the sale of bump stocks in 2017. |
Supreme Court has a lot of work to do and little time to do it with a sizable case backlog
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The justices are weighing whether to uphold a federal law that seeks to protect domestic violence victims by keeping guns away from the people alleged to have abused them. An appeals court struck down a law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. That court found that the law violated the 2nd Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” following the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights and changed how courts are supposed to evaluate gun restrictions.
Ed.: Also the Chevron case, and waiting for cert decisions on several 2A cases for next term. |
The Supreme Court Basically Legalizes Machine Guns
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Thomas’ decision argues that because ATF previously allowed bump stocks, it’s about-face after the Las Vegas massacre makes the regulation suspect. It also cites a prediction made by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that the ATF’s regulation of bump stocks would be overturned in court.
But such justifications elide the fact that the ATF reasonably interpreted the law in order to make Americans safer. Agencies may change their minds; there is no rule that once an agency decides something, it must stick to it forever. Notably, in the next few weeks, the court is likely to overrule its own longstanding practice of deferring to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, a principle known as Chevron Deference. |
WI: Allowing guns into the Republican National Convention security zone is worrying
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They are items visitors are prohibited from carrying into the security footprint of the Republican National Convention next month in Milwaukee. An ordinance approved by the Milwaukee Common Council earlier this week takes into account the potential danger of a range of items, such as axes, pellet guns and even hard materials larger than 0.75 inches thick.
That all makes sense, right? You know what is allowed?
Guns.
You read that right. |
Loaded, Unlocked Guns Common in American Homes, Study Finds
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Those are all tragedies waiting to happen, Friar's team said, since "previous research has demonstrated that most fatal unintentional firearm deaths among children and adolescents aged 1–17 years occur in a house or apartment, and that the firearms used were often stored loaded and unlocked and were discharged during play or when showing the firearm to someone else." |
Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Rapid-Fire Bump Stocks
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Cargill was not as great a blow to the ATF as it could have been. In recent years, the Supreme Court has been considering whether to limit federal agencies’ authority to interpret federal law and Congress’s ability to delegate policymaking to agencies.
“They sidestepped that question completely,” said Dru Stevenson, a law professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. “They did not go all the way and say that the ATF has no authority to issue regulations, period.”
But many of the ATF’s regulations rely on similar interpretations of federal law. The decision could have implications for the agency’s ability to regulate other weapons, components, and accessories, including pistol braces and ghost guns. |
AR: Arkansas prosecutor declines to bring charges in ATF agent's fatal shooting of airport administrator
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Jones said that the shooting was justified out of self-defense, because the agent “had a reasonable belief that deadly force was necessary to defend himself," according to The Arkansas Times.
Arkansas attorney Bud Cummins, who represents Malinowski's family, slammed the decision and claimed that 28 seconds was not a "reasonable" amount of time for Malinowski to answer the door and admit the ATF agents voluntarily. Jones's final report included a timeline of the day's interaction, which showed there were just 28 seconds between the time the agents knocked on the door and the time they used a battering ram to break the door down. |
CT: Black self-defense and civilization in Connecticut
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Why would black citizens willingly protecting themselves and their community at no public expense be “a liberal Marxist’s nightmare?” Aren’t they eternal, favored victims? Don’t they deserve protection?
Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) demand total control over everyone. They reserve to themselves a monopoly on the application of violence, which is why they constantly try to disarm everyone, except of course, the people they hire at public expense as bodyguards. They rely on keeping black people subservient, completely dependent on the Marxist state for every aspect of their existence. |
TX: Could It Be Satan? Nope, Just One of His Sissy Boy Wanna-Be Followers
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Fox 7 out of Austin, Texas, is reporting that a Taylor, Texas, break-in was cut short the other week when a knife-wielding home invader got dumped to the ground by an armed homeowner.
Here’s how police say it played out:
Austin Sumpter, 23, was armed with a knife when he broke into a home in the 2300 block of Donna Drive on Monday, May 27 around 11:35 p.m.
The homeowner called 911, and before officers could get there, Sumpter made his way inside where the homeowner, who was armed, shot him. |
CA: Punitive Gun Storage Measure On The Move In California
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California gun owners could face a restrictive—and arguably unconstitutional—new firearms storage law if some anti-gun Democrats in the state assembly get their way. A measure requiring guns to be stored where they are inaccessible for self-defense purposes—the very reason many people own them—recently passed one more hurdle in the legislative process. |
The Rational Ruling on Bump Stocks
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The Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Trump-era ban on so-called “bump stocks” reflects an understanding of the mechanics not just of gunsmithing but also the Constitution. It is the latest step by the high court to restore the Second Amendment as a first-class article in the Bill of Rights. It will be decried by the left, particularly because the vote within the court was on ideological lines, but it bodes well for the rule of law. |
Sotomayor’s Mistake
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To get around this problem, those who wish to ban the AR-15 have taken to claiming that the rifle is not, in fact, “in common use,” and that, as a result, it is not protected under the Second Amendment. Remarkably, Justice Sotomayor just pulled the rug from underneath that argument — and, to make matters worse, did so in an official Supreme Court opinion on the subject of firearms law. Look, again, at the language that Sotomayor uses to describe the AR-15:
He did so by affixing bump stocks to commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.
Sotomayor even uses the word “common”! Not “everyday” or “universal” or “normal” or “usual,” but common — the very word that was used in Heller. |
What the Supreme Court's Bump Stocks Ruling Means for the Second Amendment and Separation of Powers
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I think it’s an interesting decision for this reason: In this case, you have an administration that’s decided that they are going to take something that’s defined in statute and they’re going to try to redefine it in order to ban a firearm or a firearm part that they don’t like.
Now when it comes to, for example, bump stocks: Not a lot of people own bump stocks. Not a lot of people are interested in owning bump stocks. So a lot of people decided, well we’re not even gonna really pay attention to that. |
Trump defied the NRA to ban bump stocks, now says he 'did nothing' to restrict guns
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Less than six years ago, then-President Donald Trump took on the influential gun lobby after the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history. He announced that he had told the National Rifle Association that “bump stocks are gone,” arguing they “turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”
On Friday, Trump’s campaign to return to the White House defended a Supreme Court decision to strike down his own ban on those devices. Trump has been endorsed by the NRA and claimed this year in a speech that he “did nothing” to restrict guns.
Ed.: Trump did *not* defy NRA--the NRA *supported* the bump stock ban, arguably one of the reasons for NRA's troubles. |
HI: Gun Right Owners file Amicus Brief with the Supreme Court in “Spirit of Aloha” Wilson v. Hawaii Case
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NAGR, the National Association for Gun Rights filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court today in the case of Wilson v. Hawaii, a prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license. The Hawaii Supreme Court said that “The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities.” The question appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court is whether or not the Bruen test should apply to criminal prosecutions for carrying without a license. The brief may be found here. |
Wyoming Delegation Says Supreme Court Was Right To Shoot Down Bump Stock Ban
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It was unlawful for former President Donald Trump’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to ban bump stocks, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday in a 6-3 decision, which Wyoming’s Republican U.S. Senators both are celebrating as a victory for gun rights.
A bump stock is a device that increases firing speed in a semiautomatic weapon by bumping a trigger back to its neutral position quickly, if the shooter will maintain forward pressure on the back of the rifle.
Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis had submitted a brief with other Congressional delegates in January, urging the high court to side with a man who was forced to surrender his bump stocks over the federal government. |
Trump Is Fine With SCOTUS Legalizing Bump Stocks, Which He'd Helped Ban
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The Supreme Court struck down the nationwide ban on bump stocks on Friday that former President Donald Trump had worked to implement, but his campaign had relatively little to say on the matter.
“The Court has spoken and their decision should be respected,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign press secretary said in a statement.
Leavitt then highlighted the support he won from the National Rifle Association earlier this year. |
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