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SC: Rick Chow verdict sparks debate over self-defense law in South Carolina
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The verdict in the Rick Chow case continues to spark strong reactions across South Carolina and beyond.
Chow was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton. Prosecutors argued Chow unlawfully chased and shot the teen after a confrontation outside his store. The defense argued Chow acted in self-defense.
The case raised questions about the use of deadly force, charging decisions, what evidence jurors were allowed to hear, and whether South Carolina law adequately addresses situations like this one. |
Italy: She killed her violent father, acquitted on appeal for self-defense
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"Run, Mom!" she shouted as she tried to resist her father's fury, holding a knife. Makka Sulaev , 20, was moved today when she heard the judges overturn her nine-year and four-month murder sentence with the words "not punishable for self-defense." Then, in Courtroom 2 of the Turin Palace of Justice, she turned and hugged her lawyer.
The acquittal, handed down by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of the Piedmontese capital, addresses what happened on March 1, 2024, in an apartment in Nizza Monferrato (Asti). |
FL: Florida Attorney General asks judge to declare 3-day firearm waiting period unconstitutional
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier claims the state’s three-day firearm waiting period is unconstitutional, according to court documents.
Uthmeier, along with state attorneys and Commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Mark Glass, submitted an Offer of Judgement asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to declare the law unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Currently, under Florida’s constitution, anyone buying a gun must wait three days between the retail purchase and delivery of the weapon. The law was amended in 2018, following the Parkland shooting, to extend to all firearms, not just handguns. |
Trump’s Justice Department Is Suing Cities and States to Dismantle Gun Laws
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Last December, the Department of Justice opened a new office in its Civil Right Division called the Second Amendment Section. The goal of the office, as previously reported by Mother Jones and The Trace, is to identify firearm restrictions enacted by cities and states that the administration believes to be unconstitutional — and sue to overturn them.
And sue they have.
In the section’s first six months of operation, the Justice Department has brought cases against police departments in Los Angeles County and the Virgin Islands, the city of Denver, the state of Colorado, and the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Virginia may be next... |
VA: Louisa County sheriff says he will not enforce Virginia assault weapons ban
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Louisa County Sheriff Donald Lowe says he will not enforce Virginia’s new assault weapons ban when it takes effect July 1.
The new law prohibits the purchase, sale, transfer, and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms and magazines across the Commonwealth.
In a statement posted on Facebook, Lowe called the ban unconstitutional and said there is significant confusion surrounding the definition of an assault weapon.
Lowe also said the focus should remain on violent criminals rather than law-abiding gun owners.
The sheriff’s comments come as opposition to the law continues to emerge from some prosecutors across Virginia. |
Trump administration pushes sweeping rollback of gun regulations
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has outlined nearly three dozen rule changes intended to ease requirements for gun owners, including eliminating Biden-era expansions to background checks designed to close the 'gun show loophole.' Other proposals would loosen firearm transport rules, remove youth handgun safety notice mandates, and permit mailing handguns. The ATF says the changes modernize regulations, but critics, including Brady United Against Gun Violence, warn they could raise the risk of violent crime and mass shootings. |
Tim Kaine Tells Virginia Sheriffs They’re “Bad for Business” — Gets Schooled by Gun-Rights Leaders
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There’s a Democratic politician named Tim from a Northern state who’s spent his career trying to dismantle the Second Amendment. You’ve heard plenty about that one — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, former running mate to one of the worst presidential candidates in American history, who managed to make the Harris campaign even weaker than it already was.
But there’s another Democratic politician named Tim you should know about, and he’s currently making a fool of himself on social media: U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. |
MD: 4 Armed Teens Try To Carjack Marine Vet. It Doesn’t End Well For Them
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Four would-be carjackers are in jail after allegedly targeting a Marine veteran in what police say was an attempted armed robbery, a Washington, D.C., TV station reported.
Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, allege Jheyco Borda was working on his pickup truck in Oxon Hill when the teens demanded his truck and valuables at gunpoint, according to Fox 5 DC. A security camera caught the incident, during which nobody was injured despite a shot being fired from the gun. |
MI: Defending the Party: Concealed Carry Holder Released After Killing Armed Robbery Suspect
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A tragic conclusion to an after-prom gathering has prompted a swift legal and legislative response in Hazel Park. On May 29, 2026, police responded to multiple 911 calls near Powell and Orchard, where they discovered a chaotic scene of people fleeing a short-term rental home at 23401 Powell. A 20-year-old Detroit man was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, while a 19-year-old woman from Pontiac was transported for treatment of gunshot wounds. |
FL: ‘God-given rights:’ This Florida gun rule may soon be gone for good, AG says
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After a landmark case was filed last year against the state, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that a longstanding gun rule will soon be struck down.
Uthmeier made the declaration on Friday morning via social media, saying that his office is settling in a landmark federal lawsuit against the state’s three-day waiting period for gun buyers.
“Every government office, including mine, exists to protect your God-given rights as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,” Uthmeier wrote. |
FL: State attorney will no longer prosecute Alachua County firearm waiting period violations
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State Attorney Brian Kramer notified Alachua County leaders he will no longer prosecute violations of the county’s five-day waiting period for firearm purchases, citing a new federal court settlement and constitutional concerns.
In a letter to Alachua County officials, Kramer said his office will no longer prosecute violations of the county’s five-day firearm waiting period or any cooling-off period outside what it takes to conduct a background check.
Kramer pointed to a recent federal court settlement in which Florida agreed the state’s three-day waiting period is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. |
NY: NYPD has taken 2,000 guns off the streets so far this year
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The NYPD announced it has taken more than 2,000 guns off the streets of New York City so far this year.
Police say more than 100 of the weapons were ghost guns, which means they're untraceable to law enforcement.
In a tiny community garden in The Bronx, orange flowers will grow from seeds of hope where Carrie Cuthbertson mourns the murder of her son, Devon McFarlane, in 2019.
"I'm going to be his voice forever. We can talk about it, you know, but we've got to do something about it. We are doing something about it," Cuthbertson said. |
AR: Sunday’s ‘Wear Orange’ event a reminder to lock up your damn guns
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In Arkansas, 669 people die each year in homicides and suicides by gun. This inglorious stat, the product of lax gun safety laws and rabid gun culture, puts Arkansas in the top 10 most dangerous states when it comes to firearms.
On Sunday, June 7, the tireless members of Moms Demand Action will circle up the food trucks and convene conversations from 1-3 p.m. at Station 801, 801 South Chester Street, Little Rock. |
6.5 Creedmoor Gets Hotter, Faster with Federal +Peak Alloy Technology
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If you’ve ever called the 6.5 Creedmoor the 6.5 Need More, this one’s for you. Think of it as the +P of the 6.5 Creedmoor world.
Federal just announced the latest addition to its young family of cartridges loaded into proprietary Peak Alloy casings that began with the 7mm Backcountry, but the technology has become far more practical now, with the 6.5 Creedmoor +Peak. We got ahold of some of the first rounds off the production line, and here’s what we learned about this new era in ammunition. |
CO: Colorado’s Second Amendment deserts: Long drives and fewer gun dealers reshape access
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If a [fill in the blank] desert is a geographical region where something is unduly or unnaturally absent, then a Second Amendment desert would be a region in Colorado where people face either no or a dwindling amount of ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
There are no outright bans, the government is not coming to collect your firearms, but if you struggle to get ammunition for what you have, if you struggle to buy and/or transfer a firearm, have you the ability to fully exercise your natural right? |
NJ: New Jersey Glock Subpoenas Are Part of Nationwide Push Against America’s Most Popular Pistol
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New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport recently sent subpoenas to firearms dealers across the state demanding customer records for lawful Glock pistol sales to New Jersey residents over the past ten years. Gun rights groups are calling the move an unconstitutional attack on privacy that has nothing to do with the state’s legal theory and everything to do with exposing gun owners to public harassment.
The subpoenas appear to stem from the state Attorney General’s Office’s 2024 public nuisance lawsuit against Glock, Inc., but the demand for individual customer records goes well beyond what that lawsuit’s legal theory would seem to require. |
FL: Florida Tax Holiday Includes Guns, Ammo, Suppressors & Firearm Accessories
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The Florida Legislature has passed a bill including tax holidays for firearms accessories, and hunting, fishing, and camping supplies. Firearms silencers/suppressors are included as firearms accessories. If Governor DeSantis signs the bill, most of the act will take effect on July 1, 2026. The sales tax holiday for firearms, ammunition, and listed firearm accessories would run from September 1 through December 31, 2026.
The Florida Legislature passed HB 7031E, as amended by the Conference Committee Report, YEAS 29 to NAYS 6, on May 29, 2026. |
OH: Ohio Municipalities Win Expanded Procedural Rights in Firearms Case
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In its briefing and oral argument, ... the state opened its amicus brief by acknowledging that the state and the city disagreed in the strongest possible terms on the underlying merits of this case, and that the state supported the trial court’s decision below enjoining the ordinance. Nevertheless, on the specific procedural question before the court — whether a municipality has the right to immediately appeal a preliminary injunction it believes is erroneous — the state unequivocally declared that it was in full agreement with the city over the right of a municipality to bring the appeal. |
MD: Police can no longer stop to search based on sole suspicion of a gun, appeals court rules
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Police in Maryland can no longer stop and search someone solely based on their suspicion that the person is carrying a gun, the state’s full appeals court ruled in a sweeping opinion that some law enforcement agencies worry could curtail police practices statewide.
The ruling Thursday by the Appellate Court of Maryland was prompted by a case involving Baltimore Police officers who stopped a man only because they believed he had a gun. Attorneys for the suspect, Steven Hicks, argued successfully that officers shouldn’t have done that because of a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court opinion saying people had the right to carry a gun outside of their home for self-defense. |
OH: Ohio Supreme Court says people convicted of domestic violence can get guns back
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The trial court denied the restoration request, noting that Heffley is blocked by federal law from possession of firearms because he was convicted of a felony domestic violence charge.
The state and federal laws put Heffley in a bind: he can't get his gun rights back until the federal prohibition is removed and he can't get the federal prohibition removed until the state restores his rights.
Heffley lost in the trial court, won a reversal in the appellate court and the Allen County prosecutor appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The Ohio Supreme Court said state law gives the court the discretionary authority to restore Heffley's gun rights if he has led a law-abiding life and appears likely to continue to do so. |
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