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The truth on permitless carry
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“The relationship between constitutional-carry laws and homicide is negative, which is the opposite of what gun-control activists have predicted,” wrote Adams. In fact, “Constitutional-carry laws were associated with about 6% lower homicide rates. The doomsday scenarios of constitutional-carry opponents are not supported by social science.”
Adam referenced a study published by the Center for Justice Research earlier this year that affirmed his national research.
“Beginning June 13, 2022, Ohio became the 23rd state to allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. In the year following, crime involving guns dropped across Ohio’s eight largest cities as a whole and in six of the eight individually.” |
Bump Stock Ban Crashes And Burns In Senate
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Democratic New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich called for unanimous consent to pass the measure on Tuesday
“As a firearms owner myself, there’s no legitimate use for a bump stock – not for self defense, not in a law enforcement context, not even in military applications … but what they are tailor made for is a mass shooting,” he argued.
Republican Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts objected to Heinrich’s request, which prevented the bill from moving forward, according to NBC News.
Ed.: Expect them to try again. Anti-gun politicians aren't so easily defeated. |
IL: Police say teen charged with shooting man in Elgin fired gun in self-defense
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A 16-year-old has been arrested for the Sunday night shooting in the 600 block of Villa Street but was acting in self-defense when he fired the weapon, Elgin police said.
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The teen was taken into custody Tuesday. Based on a review of the case facts, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office determined the shooting was done in self-defense and charged the teen with unlawful possession of a firearm/no FOID, a class 3 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a class 4 felony, the post said. |
AZ: MMA veteran Shannon Ritch claims self-defense after deadly shooting in Arizona
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Shannon “The Cannon” Ritch, an old school MMA veteran with more than 140 professional fights on his resume, was released by police in Phoenix after claiming self-defense in a deadly shooting that left one man dead this past Saturday.
FOX 10 in Phoenix initially reported the news with Phoenix police confirming the incident in a statement sent to MMA Fighting on Wednesday.
The altercation allegedly started over a parking spot at a local bar called Twin Peaks where Ritch got into an argument with 32-year-old Alejandro Samplina. |
SC: Dispute between co-workers leads to deadly shooting in Rock Hill, police say
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The woman then got into a car driven by 32-year-old Brittany Reed, an acquaintance. When the man got into his car and started to drive away from the workplace, Reed blocked the man, who was stopped in traffic, with her car.
At that point, the female co-worker walked up to the man's car with a gun. The man pulled out a gun and shot the woman.
Reed then punched the man in the face and he yelled at her to leave. He waited for police to arrive at the scene.
Police determined that the shooting was done in self-defense and the man will not face charges. Reed, a Lancaster resident, was arrested and charged with assault and battery. |
Senate GOP Blocks Bump Stock Ban
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Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic move to ban bump stocks after the Supreme Court ruling lifted the Trump-era ban on the assault rifle accessory this week.
The ban on bump stocks, which enable semi-automatic weapons to be fired continuously like a fully-automatic gun, was upheld by the Biden administration after a mass shooter in Las Vegas used a bump stock to kill 58 people.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), brought up a resolution to ban bump stocks by unanimous consent of the Senate. Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) objected, blocking passage. |
NV: Man Dies in Reno Shooting, Police Say It Was Self-Defense
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A man was fatally shot Wednesday in what authorities have ruled as a self-defense case. Local police responded to a call at 2:48 p.m. on the 3400 block of Comstock Drive, where an altercation between two men had escalated, resulting in a gunshot.
Upon arrival, officers found the man who had been shot, and he was promptly transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The shooter remained at the scene and fully cooperated with law enforcement, according to the police report. |
IL: Supporting Criminals? Chicago Tribune Frets Over Citizens Defending Themselves
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In a city where criminals know they can get away with violence and criminal shootings – even when police are involved – it’s not surprising that law-abiding Chicagoans would consider arming themselves and, God-forbid, having to use their firearm for self-defense or to protect their families.
That’s just too much for The Chicago Tribune editorial board. The media masters there went out and did the most editorial board thing possible and decried such a trend.
“Worryingly, we’re seeing more signs of that phenomenon in Chicago, with three separate episodes over the last weekend in which would-be victims proved to be both armed and willing to fire at their assailants,” the board chose to write.
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Senate Democrat: Supreme Court ‘readying to fundamentally rewrite’ Second Amendment
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Murphy’s biggest concern, he said, “is that this Supreme Court has been signaling, in some of their decisions on guns, that they are readying to fundamentally rewrite the Second Amendment and take away permanently the ability of Congress to do simple things, like require people to go through a background check or move forward on taking dangerous weapons like AR-15s off of the streets.”
Ed.: Congress never had the ability to ban guns; hopefully the Court will remind them of that. |
NY: Armor Republic Challenges New York State’s Body Armor Ban
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Armored Republic Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Armored Republic) is suing New York State over its body armor ban.
The case is challenging a New York law that bans body armor. Shortly after the Buffalo supermarket shooting, the New York legislature introduced a bill to ban body armor in the Empire State. On June 6, 2022, the bill passed. Less than a month later, on July 1, Governor Cathy Hochul signed the bill into law. A week later, on July 6, the law went into effect. Although the law banned body armor for civilians, there are exceptions. Police officers, military personnel, and certain security professionals were still allowed to own body armor. Who qualifies to own body armor fell to the sole discretion of the New York Department of State. |
Sen. Cotton says banning bump stocks ‘treads close to the line’ of being unconstitutional
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday that legislation enshrining the Trump-era ban on bump stocks “treads close to the line” of violating the Second Amendment following the Supreme Court reversal of that prohibition Friday.
“On the legislative question, I would suggest before we infringe on the rights of law-abiding American citizens, we should crack down on violent crime, gun crimes,” Cotton said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
When pressed on whether he thinks a bump stock ban would violate the Second Amendment, Cotton said, “I think it could.” |
GA: Georgia legislators are not working for us on guns
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It has been almost a year since a group of concerned physicians in Georgia signed an open letter to our lawmakers about the crisis we face from injuries and death in our state because of firearms.
More than 1,500 people die every year in Georgia from gun violence; every single day, we lose at least four people to gun violence. On average, a child dies from a firearm injury every other day in our state. Many more are injured. These injuries often have lifelong consequences, and every family of an injured child is affected in some way. We know because we treat these children and their families. |
CO: New gun law stands to backfire
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About 25% of Colorado gun deaths since 2016 involved someone shooting in “justifiable self-defense,” based on data from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. Each incident means someone survived a rape, murder, armed robbery or another life-threatening crime.
Going forward, teachers and students in schools — and anyone in a “sensitive” space where conflicts and tensions run high — won’t have the option of self-defense with a gun. They won’t have the chance of a trained, vetted person — licensed by a sheriff — saving them from a deadly attack.
We hope to be wrong, but public safety probably took a hit the moment Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 131 into law this month. |
Biden Pushes Gun-Control Message in Latest Ad
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The campaign has largely ignored the latter concern throughout this election. In fact, in its announcement of the new ad, the Biden Campaign doubled down on the call for a new ban on AR-15s and other popular firearms.
“If you care about the gun violence crisis in this country, there is only one candidate in this race with a proven record of successfully taking on the gun lobby and only one candidate who will ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Biden communications director Michael Tyler told The Hill, which broke news of the ad. “That’s President Biden.” |
Biden Gun Export Reg Violates Free Trade, Skirts Congress
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The Biden administration’s new arms and ammunition export rule violates the spirit of the Second Amendment and restricts international trade.
But it’s also the administration’s latest attempt to use federal agencies to circumvent Congress.
Heritage Action for America, a grassroots organization attached to The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is taking on the Biden administration’s interim rule to limit U.S. gunmakers’ ability to export arms. |
SAF Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Post Office Firearms Carry Ban
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A federal lawsuit challenging the ban on firearms carry in U.S. Post Office facilities has been filed by the Second Amendment Foundation in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.
This action brings the number of current cases involving SAF to almost 60, reinforcing the organization’s growing reputation as a legal powerhouse responsible for a large number of federal and state lawsuits challenging gun restrictions across the country. These lawsuits were made possible largely thanks to a SAF Supreme Court victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago in June 2010, which incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment. |
MS: Mississippi is burdened with the nation’s highest rates of gun deaths, gun violence
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In the rural South, we are conditioned to a self-image of small communities like fictional Mayberry where crime and violence are almost non-existent and the real dangers from gun violence lurk on the streets and back alleys of Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
However, the mean streets are not limited to the big cities. Rural Mississippians now live squarely in locales prone to gun violence. We don’t live in Mayberry in the rural South. We live in a region and a state with a dangerous rate of gun death and gun violence, and we are as a state among the nation’s leaders in household gun ownership. |
NJ: Gun rights groups target New Jersey’s ‘one gun a month’ law in federal suit
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A trio of gun rights groups are taking aim at New Jersey for its firearm permitting regime, which they claim is “onerous, unconstitutional and ahistorical.”
In a lawsuit filed late Tuesday night in New Jersey federal court, Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation and private citizen Christian Benton — a New Jersey resident who claims he's still waiting on his permits after the 30-day issuing period — joined forces in an effort to upend the state’s gun permit process.
“New Jersey does not allow a person to so much as purchase a firearm without receipt of a government permission slip,” the groups claim in their 35-page suit. |
TX: Supreme Court's bump stock decision will have deadly consequences
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Machine guns are banned because of the devastating number of bullets that are fired from a single trigger pull. The shooter using a bump stock is not consciously making separate trigger pulls, but the recoil from the first pull mechanically continues the firing until the finger is removed from the trigger or the ammo runs out. The gun is thereby converted into a “machine gun.”
Ed.: That isn't how bump firing works. |
Critics Fundamentally Misconstrue the Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Ruling
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After the Supreme Court overturned the Trump administration’s bump stock ban last week, critics complained that the justices had interpreted the Second Amendment in a way that rules out perfectly reasonable gun regulations. That was an odd complaint, because the case did not involve the Second Amendment.
The Court’s decision upheld an important principle that goes far beyond gun control: Federal bureaucrats do not have the authority to invent new crimes by rewriting the law. All Americans, regardless of how they feel about gun rights, have a stake in that principle, which is crucial to the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the due process requirement of fair notice. |
MA: Cross Border Carry Case at Appeal Level in Massachusetts
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As of this writing, amicus briefs have been filed by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in support of the Commonwealth. An amicus brief has been filed by New Hampshire Representative Jason Gerhard in support of Dean Donnell. No other amicus briefs have been filed.
As a practical matter, the requirement to obtain a license from every state or commonwealth a person might travel to or through becomes a ban on the exercise of Second Amendment right in large areas of the United States. |
Bump Stocks are NOT Machineguns, Rate of Fire is Irrelevant
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Bump stocks are not machine guns. Not only are they not machine guns in the legal definition, but they are significantly different from machine guns in other ways as well.
In the recent Supreme Court decision on Garland v Cargill, Justice Clarance Thomas wrote:
A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a “machinegun” as defined by §5845(b) because: (1) it cannot fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger” and (2) even if it could, it would not do so “automatically.” |
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