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Justice Kavanaugh to Second Amendment: We're Really Busy Now, Come Back In A Year Or Two
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"Additional petitions for certiorari will likely be before this Court shortly and, in my view, this Court should and presumably will address the AR–15 issue soon, in the next Term or two." {emphasis added}
Kavanaugh all-but signals that he will be a fourth vote to grant cert. He does not identify any vehicle problems, or reasons why the Maryland petition should not be granted. Does he really think that rulings from the Ninth Circuit will help much in the deliberations? |
SCOTUS: Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett Side With Liberal Justices on Maryland ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the three liberal justices in rejecting to hear a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban Monday.
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Submitter's note: Kavanaugh has a disturbing deep state history (covering up the murder of Vince Foster) and it appears he got the proverbial "phone call in the night" and was ordered to delay the inevitable, i.e. delay a ruling that these bans are illegal. The 2nd amendment was all but repealed in the 20th century and we're just NOW getting it back to 2nd class status, and the traitors fear it gaining 1st class status. |
MA: Is it still self-defense if you kill a bystander by mistake?
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A man believed that a romantic rival was about to shoot him as he was getting a pedicure, so he shot first — but he accidentally killed a salon employee instead. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Court tried to figure out the proper punishment.
Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez claims that he isn’t guilty of anything since he acted in self-defense, or at most he should be tried for involuntary manslaughter. But the state wants to charge him with second-degree murder. |
OH: BFA testifies for HB 108 to protect victims of violent crime from being victimized a second time
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On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) testified before the Ohio House Judiciary Committee in support of House Bill 108, which would create a pretrial procedure for a person asserting self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person's property.
The bill, sponsored by Representative Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.), seeks to prevent crime victims who defend themselves from being victimized a second time by forcing them to defend themselves in court even when there is evidence that their conduct was legal. |
MA: Holyoke Mall shooting: Should self-defense apply when a bystander dies?
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In an unusual special session, the Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments involving whether a man who killed a bystander during an altercation at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside can argue he acted in self defense.
The appeal centers on a fatal shooting at a nail salon in 2023, and asks whether Kenneth Jose Santana-Rodriguez should be shielded against a murder charge because he believed he was defending his own life against a man who confronted him while he was getting a pedicure, even though he ended up killing a nail salon worker. |
SCOTUS Turns Down Pair of Second Amendment Cases
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to take up a pair of major Second Amendment cases from Maryland and Rhode Island that challenged bans on semi-automatic rifles labeled as “assault weapons” and similarly mislabeled “high-capacity” magazines, respectively.
Regarding Maryland’s “assault-weapons” ban, the Fourth Circuit previously upheld the state’s ban on the sale and possession of several common semiautomatic rifles, including the AR-15, and held that such rifles are not “arms” under the Second Amendment. The NRA filed an amicus brief in that case, titled Snope v. Brown, arguing that the Fourth Circuit contradicted the Supreme Court’s precedent in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008). |
FL: Second Amendment groups file for summary judgment in bid to overturn Florida’s open carry ban
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A Palm Beach gun owner and two Second Amendment groups have filed a motion for summary judgement in their federal court challenge to Florida’s law banning individuals from openly carrying firearms, claiming the law is unconstitutional.
Gun Owners of America, the Gun Owners Foundation, and gun owner Richard Hughes originally filed their lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last August, alleging that the law banning open carry violates the Second and Fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution and places them, their members, and their supporters at risk of being arrested and prosecuted should they openly carry firearms in public. |
OH: Man dies in stabbing on Columbus' East Side, suspect claims self-defense
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Police responded to a stabbing report at about 10 p.m. June 3 in the 3100 block of Allegheny Drive. Officers found Damon Riley, 35, suffering from a stab wound, police said.
Paramedics took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 10:30 p.m.
Police said another man at the scene told police he had stabbed Riley in self-defense after Riley attacked him. The man is cooperating with detectives, and an investigation into the stabbing continues, police said. |
NC: No charges filed in downtown Asheville shooting that killed 1, wounded several bystanders
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City police will not file charges against a man in a downtown Asheville gunfight after police say he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Andy Garcia Porras.
After gunfire erupted on Rankin Avenue near College Street around 12:07 a.m. June 1, Asheville Police Department detectives reviewed a "significant amount of physical and digital evidence" and conducted "an extensive series of interviews" with victims and witnesses, the department said in a June 4 news release. After consulting with the Buncombe County District Attorney's Office, officials determined not to press charges, the release said. |
NM: “Two Years Behind Bars for Defending Himself”: New Mexico Man Found Not Guilty After Delayed Trial
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After spending nearly two years in jail, 31-year-old Francisco Javier Grado-Flores has finally been acquitted on all charges in a shooting case he claimed was self-defense. A New Mexico jury sided with Grado-Flores, finding him not guilty of murder, manslaughter, and weapons violations in the 2023 shooting death of his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, Raul Rene Montejano Jr.
What makes the story even more troubling? Grado-Flores spent over 700 days behind bars waiting for a trial, largely due to bungled evidence handling by the Santa Fe Police Department and prosecutors. |
CA: Challenge to California Suppressor Ban Moves Forward
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On April 24, 2024, Gary R. Sanchez filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Rob Bonta, representing the State of California. The suit alleges California banned firearms suppressors in violation of the Second Amendment. Sanchez acted as his own attorney in the case. The district judge granted AG Bonta’s motion to dismiss the case, finding suppressors were not covered by the Second Amendment, because they were “only” accessories, not “arms”. |
MT: Governor Gianforte Wants More Second Amendment Activity In Montana
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Gianforte has also been an avid hunter and shooter for decades, giving him an intimate perspective on the community and a deep-seated respect for the traditions of families and residents. The result of his all-American effort has been a thriving firearms industry, which provides over 2,400 jobs to an economic impact tune of more than $444 million. But all work and no play doesn’t make for a well-balanced Governor; that’s why Gianforte is going back to work so his constituents can play at a world-class shooting complex complete with a Montana State Shooting Center Task Force, whose responsibility it will be to assess and recommend opportunities to expand the state’s development of public gun ranges. |
SCOTUS declines to hear Second Amendment cases involving AR-15s and magazines
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear two significant Second Amendment challenges, effectively allowing a Maryland law banning what gun control extremists label as “assault-style” weapons—including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle—and a Rhode Island law restricting large-capacity magazines.
As a consequence, both laws remain in force.
However, legal challenges to comparable restrictions are still unfolding nationwide, suggesting that the matter may ultimately return to the Court’s docket. |
GA: Georgia Supreme Court maintains restrictions on gun carry
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It will remain illegal for people under 21 to carry a handgun in most public places in Georgia after the state Supreme Court upheld state limits on the right to bear arms.
In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the high court ruled against Thomas Stephens, a 20-year-old who sued after Lumpkin County denied his application for a license to carry a handgun.
Georgia’s Constitution says the right to bear arms “shall not be infringed,” but also gives the state legislature the authority to “prescribe the manner” in which weapons may be carried. |
GA: Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Carry Ban For Young Adults Under 21 Years Of Age
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We’ve reported a number of times in recent years about the battle for Second Amendment rights for 18-, 19- and 20-year-old Americans. It seems anti-gun advocates think all the other enumerated rights in the U.S. Constitution are fine for young adults, just not the right to keep and bear arms.
In the latest court action concerning that particular subset of American adults, the Georgia Supreme Court on May 28 ruled that the state’s law banning possession or carry of firearms by adults under 21 does not violate the state’s constitution. |
Citigroup drops gun-seller restrictions adopted after Parkland shooting
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Citigroup is ending a seven-year-old policy that blocked its banking services for retailers that sold firearms to buyers under age 21 and those who did not pass a background check, reversing a high-profile decision made in the weeks after the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
Citi, one of the largest banks in the country, was lauded by gun-control advocates in March 2018 when it announced its policy, which included banning retailers that sold high-capacity magazines or bump stocks, like the one used by the Parkland shooter. Other Wall Street banks soon followed suit. |
Tiananmen Square Anniversary: Chinese-American Warns U.S. to Protect Gun Rights
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Today is the anniversary of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) troops storming Tiananmen Square to massacre the freedom protesters who had gathered there. A survivor of the CCP’s tyranny who now lives in the U.S. has a message for Americans this anniversary: Don’t give up your guns.
Lily Tang Williams is an American citizen now, an entrepreneur who is running for Congress in New Hampshire. But the self-described “Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution” remembers all too well the nightmare of Communist rule in China, and on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, she emphasized how vitally important the right to keep and bear arms is in preventing such massacres by dictatorial regimes. |
Five Great Low-Recoil Handgun Alternatives to Your 9mm for Self-Defense
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At one time it was en vogue to bash the 9mm’s capabilities as a self-defense cartridge. Much of the 9mm bashing that occurred in the late twentieth century (and spawned cartridges like the .40 S&W) was directed at the cartridge itself even though real culprit because the 9mm’s perceived shortcomings was, in fact, poor bullet design.
Today, however, we have far more sophisticated bullets and the 9mm is once again widely regarded as an optimal self-defense cartridge because it combines substantial stopping power with ample magazine capacity. But the bullet design revolution that helped restore the 9mm’s image did not just benefit the 9mm itself. Better bullet design means that allo cartridges are more capable than ever before. |
Kavanaugh signals Supreme Court will soon decide constitutionality of banning AR-15s
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involves whether possessing AR-15s is protected by the Second Amendment, but the court’s conservatives are signaling they soon will.
Only three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — voted to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on possessing AR-15s, barely falling short of the four votes required to take up a case.
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent a strong signal that he will provide that crucial fourth vote in a future case once the issue percolates more in the lower courts. |
OK: Bill allowing Oklahomans to point weapons while defending property becomes law
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A bill that expands defensive display of firearms to include protecting property was signed into law.
Under state law, Oklahomans can display their firearms as a form of self-defense. House Bill 2818, authored by Rep. Jay Steagall (R-Yukon), expands the law to include protection of private property, whether owned or leased, and businesses.
The measure clarifies what is considered defensive display:
--Verbally informing another person of possession of a gun.
--Exposing a gun in a way any "reasonable person" would understand it was meant for protection against unlawful force.
--Placing a hand on a gun while it is in contained in a pocket, purse, holster or other form of transportation.
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What’s Up With SCOTUS’s Refusal to Hear AR, Mag Bans?
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The U.S. Supreme Court had a chance to finally resolve several issues that have placed Second Amendment proponents at odds with gun control activists for decades, but decided, after more than three months, not to hear the cases.
They were considered by the court at each Friday conference for the last 15 weeks before they finally announced Monday they would probably take them up in the next term — or maybe the one after that.
George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley discussed the cases on X. |
The Supreme Court Shoots Blanks at American Gun Grabbers
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We regret to inform you that the most commonly used gun in the United States of America, the AR-15-style rifle, apparently doesn't qualify for the U.S. Supreme Court's "common use" historical gun test embodied in the Bruen gun decision. At least not yet, anyway.
The Supremes didn't rule on that question this week. Instead, they decided not to take a case that challenged a Maryland law that would have decided the issue.
The deciding vote not to take the Snope vs. Brown case that would have tested Maryland's ban on AR-15-style rifles was Brett Kavanaugh's. He issued a treacly missive saying that he was so sorry, but we'll get 'er next time. |
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