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Victory Is the Only Thing
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The overriding challenge, especially for those in the Second Amendment movement, is to capture the majority by electing candidates from the same party who have been fighting increasingly restrictive gun control laws for several years. In a battle such as this, it is better to support someone with whom you may agree perhaps 75% to 80% of the time than it is to refuse to vote, or to cast a protest vote for some third party not-a-chance-in-hell-of-winning individual, thereby allowing the other major party candidate — with whom you disagree 100% of the time — to win.
This is the hard reality: With the future of the Second Amendment at stake, this is no time to be falling on a sword. |
The New York Times’ Baseless Attack against a Second Amendment Advocate
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Its reporters have gone after a gun-rights expert as though he, not the Constitution, were the reason for the Second Amendment’s legal success.
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a remarkably long piece about a man named William English, who, despite being “a little-known political economist at Georgetown University,” has supposedly become “The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle.” In their now-familiarly conspiratorial tone, the work’s authors, Mike McIntire and Jodi Kantor, reported that “one name keeps turning up in the legal briefs and judges’ rulings” within the gun-rights realm. |
Congress’ Censorship-By-Proxy Probe Explores Government’s Role In New YouTube Policies
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House Republicans this week demanded documents from YouTube as part of an investigation into who pressured it to change its policies to prohibit certain videos involving guns.
The House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government wrote to lawyers for Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Youtube, saying that information suggests that “YouTube’s decision to change its firearms policy may have been influenced by government officials and third parties interested in suppressing certain Second Amendment-related content.” |
EU: Guns, Greed, and Rights: Questioning the Narrative of ‘Gun Rights’ in America
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One basic question that is brought to light by the debate over gun regulation in the US is: who is accountable when gun ownership comes along with power? The legalization of gun possession in the United States has brought mostly atrocity to its citizens. The United States government is under an immediate and obvious duty to safeguard its citizens from gun violence. However, the United States has not taken all the required steps to avoid gun violence and instead has a preference for ineffective both state and federal gun control legislation. The gun laws mostly profited the gun business, which is valued at around $9 billion every year... |
DC: Bump stocks back on shelves as ban falls in Senate
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Bump stocks are back in stock at gun stores, after the Supreme Court overturned a ban on them.
“Firearm technology that essentially convert semiautomatic weapons into nearly fully automatic weapons and machine guns,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).
Kaine co-sponsored legislation to ban bump stocks.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) who introduced the bill calls this a common sense approach. |
OR: Oregon gun control Measure 114: Harney County judge turned legal standards ‘on their head,’ state argues
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The Oregon Court of Appeals has denied a motion by Harney County gun owners to dismiss the state’s appeal of a judge’s ruling that found the voter-approved gun control Measure 114 violates the state Constitution.
The appellate court also accepted the state’s opening brief in the appeal even though it came a week after a deadline set in an expedited schedule instituted by the court. State lawyers said they had to wait for corrections to be made in the original trial transcript.
The gun owners who challenged Measure 114 in Harney County now have until July 26 to file their response. |
FL: Griffin Heights Double Homicide Ruled Self-Defense by State Attorney
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The State Attorney’s Office has determined that the double homicide in January at Griffin Heights Apartments falls under the Stand Your Ground law, and no charges will be filed at this time.
Karlik Glenn, 19, and Malachi Hodges, 16, were shot and killed on the night of January 17, as reported by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD). While the case is currently closed, charges can still be brought if new evidence comes to light. |
Bruen In The Balance: Watching SCOTUS Carefully
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As we saw just last week in the case of B&L Productions v. Newsom, courts are skirting right around even applying Bruen at all simply by claiming that certain firearms, parts, or ammunition was never intended to be covered or the the framers never anticipated that a lawful citizen might actually purchase a firearm. With the Second Amendment evaded, Bruen doesn’t even apply and we’re back to the days when any restriction is upheld.
As Chuck describes in the interview, a dream scenario could emerge if the Rahimi decision does include such clarification. With that, the Court could then remand several cases pending cert back to their lower courts to be considered in light of the newly clarified Bruen standard. |
TX: Lawsuit Challenges Carry Ban in Fed Buildings
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Non-profit organizations and Texas citizens filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government, challenging the constitutionality of statutes prohibiting firearm possession on federal property.
Two non-profit organizations supporting gun rights, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc. (FPC) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and two private citizens who are members of these organizations, Gavin Pate and George Mandry, are suing Attorney General Merrick Garland to challenge the constitutionality of two federal statutes. One statute prohibits possession of a firearm in federal facilities, while the other statute specifically prohibits possession of a firearm in United States Post Offices.
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The SCOTUS billionairists have turned the 2nd amendment on its head
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Billionairist justices create new right. The second amendment was established to guarantee communities the right to form and train 900+-person armed militias to protect them from violence. Instead of protecting communities, as was the original intent of the second amendment, the billionairists on the U.S. Supreme Court have now created a new right of any single adult, no matter how deranged, to terrorize communities at will. This ruling is consistent with the MAGA absolutist interpretation of an individual right to bear arms, regardless of the original intent of the framers of the Constitution. |
'The gun argument could lose': Expert predicts 'major loss' for 2A absolutists in SCOTUS
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Despite the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) having a 6-3 conservative majority, one legal expert is predicting a rare win for the liberal minority in a pending decision involving the right of domestic abusers to own firearms.
According to Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar, the conservative majority could split in the pending United States v. Rahimicase that has yet to be decided. In a Thursday interview on CNN, Amar said the differences that became apparent between Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas in a case involving U.S. trademark law could manifest again in Rahimi. |
IL: Murder charges dropped against Alabama man in fatal East Moline shooting
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Murder charges have been dismissed for an Alabama man after a fatal shooting in East Moline on May 4.
Rock Island County State's Attorney Dora A. Villareal has filed a motion to dismiss all charges against 21-year-old Jarquez D. Robertson. In a Thursday, June 20, press release, Villareal announced that additional investigation and evidence determined that Robertson acted in self-defense during a fatal May 4 shooting at the Deerfield Woods Apartment Complex that killed 22-year-old Michael J. Robinson of Davenport. Robinson was found to have been shot multiple times and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. |
SC: Woman charged with murder in girlfriend's death, Rock Hill police say
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A Rock Hill man shot and killed a coworker in self-defense after she pointed a gun at him during an argument on Wednesday, detectives said. A woman is charged with murder for bringing the gun to the woman who was killed.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. along Riverwalk Parkway near Celriver Road, just east of Interstate 77 in Rock Hill. When officers arrived, they found a woman lying on the ground after she'd been shot. The woman was taken to Piedmont Medical Center where she died, Rock Hill Police said. |
IL: Chicago editorial board: 'Worryingly,' law-abiding gun owners defend 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. |
TX: Armed Homeowner Fends Off Intruders in South Houston Gunfight
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A tense attempted home invasion late Tuesday night in South Houston culminated in a dramatic gunfight between the homeowner and two suspects on the 7th floor of a residential building at 4001 Midtown.
Around 10:45 p.m., officers from the Houston Police Department (HPD) rushed to the scene after receiving reports of gunfire. Upon arrival, they found that although a significant exchange of gunfire had occurred, no one had been injured. |
IL: Chicagoans Are Catching On, and the Chicago Tribune Doesn’t Like It
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With runaway violent crime in Chicago continuing to get worse instead of better, lawful citizens in the Windy City are increasingly taking the advice a city 911 dispatcher gave a home intrusion victim a few weeks ago, and that’s not sitting well with the local liberal newspaper.
The victim count on any given weekend in Chicago is simply astounding. According to reports, last weekend over 70 people were shot in the city, nine of them fatally. Add to the increased violence an even more increased response time by police, and you have a recipe for disaster. |
Canada: Oh Canada: Crime Is Up, Fewer Gun Ranges Since Trudeau’s Gun Grab
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In Canada, a ban on more than 1,500 firearm makes, models and variants, together with a mandatory government confiscation (“buyback”) requirement, was imposed by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over four years ago. Contrary to the representations as to the inherent deadliness of these guns and the urgency of ensuring these dangerous weapons were no longer available to ordinary citizens, the government had no plan on how to implement the law (and all indications are that it still doesn’t). The ban and buyback were coupled with an amnesty period, extended to October 2025, to protect owners of formerly lawful firearms from criminal liability for possessing them until the confiscation requirement was operational.
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Since the 2020 election, the number of new gun owners equals the population of Florida
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Firearm industry data has revealed something astounding. In a major shift since 2020, a population the size of Florida has become first-time, brand-new gun owners. That’s right – more than 22.3 million people who previously had decided firearm ownership wasn’t for them looked around, decided they didn’t like what they were seeing, jumped off the fence and lawfully purchased a gun at retail.
22.3 million.
One thing’s for sure. Those Americans can make a difference on Election Day.
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NJ: NJ Gun Rights Activists See Opening To Overturn State Gun Laws in SCOTUS Bump Stock Dissent
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A group of gun rights activists challenging New Jersey’s gun laws may have found unlikely support for their cases, in the form of comments U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made last week as she challenged the court’s majority decision to throw out an ATF rule banning bump stocks.
...Sotomayor wrote about the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, in which federal investigators closed down their investigation after concluding a single shooting suspect used multiple firearms equipped with bump stocks to fire more than 1,000 rounds into a crowd in about 10 minutes. Describing the attack, Sotomayor wrote that the Las Vegas shooter carried out the attack “by affixing bump stocks to commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.” |
Goldwater to Supreme Court: ‘Spirit of Aloha’ Doesn’t Trump 2nd Amendment
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In Hawaii, the word “aloha” is both a greeting and a farewell. But in the context of the Second Amendment, the Aloha State’s highest court only wants to say goodbye to the right of armed self-defense—and not in a nice way.
That’s why the Goldwater Institute, along with our friends at The Buckeye Institute and the Kansas Justice Institute, filed an amicus brief today in the case of Wilson v. Hawaii, asking the United States Supreme Court to undo a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that guts the right to keep and bear arms in that state. |
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| By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country. For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |
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