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NE: In Nebraska, when can you use deadly force in self-defense?
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At 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, near 51st and Q streets, 40-year-old Nicholas Gomez was shot and killed inside another man's home.
The homeowner was taken into custody but was later released. The Douglas County Attorney's Office says the homeowner likely acted in self-defense.
Josh Kidney, the lead instructor at 88 Tactical, told KETV that under Nebraska law there's no duty to retreat in your own home. |
GA: Homeowner Shoots Known Intruder During 3am Break-in Attempt
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An alleged home invader is recovering in the hospital after being shot by a DeKalb County resident early Friday morning.
Officials report the shooting occurred around 4 a.m. on the 3000 block of Bedevere Circle. Police responding to the scene found a person who had been shot.
Investigators believe the two individuals involved had a dispute earlier in the evening. After parting ways, the suspect allegedly attempted to break into the resident’s home and was subsequently shot. |
MN: Minnesota's ban on gun carry permits for young adults is unconstitutional, appeals court rules
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Minnesota's law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from getting permits to carry guns in public is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, affirming a lower court decision that concluded the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of young adults to bear arms for self-defense.
“Minnesota has not met its burden to proffer sufficient evidence to rebut the presumption that 18 to 20-year-olds seeking to carry handguns in public for self defense are protected by the right to keep and bear arms,” the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. |
MN: Minnesota’s age restriction to carry handguns is unconstitutional, court rules
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Minnesota’s ban preventing residents ages 18 to 20 from carrying handguns in public is unconstitutional, upholding a district-court decision that said the Second Amendment right to bear arms should apply to all adults in the state.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit could soon allow Minnesota residents to apply to carry handguns in public once they turn 18, removing an age restriction the state imposed in 2003. |
MA: Massachusetts lawmakers reach compromise deal on gun bill
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On ghost guns, the bill would toughen oversight for those who own privately made, unserialized firearms that are largely untraceable. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice reported recovering 25,785 ghost guns in domestic seizures.
The bill would expand the state's extreme risk protective order law — also known as the red flag law — by authorizing health care professionals and others who interact regularly with individuals in crisis to petition a court to suspend the individual's right to possess or carry a gun to protect them and others. |
NE: Charging Decision In Fatal Omaha Shooting
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The Douglas County Attorney's Office does not charge a man in connection with a fatal shooting early Tuesday morning in Omaha, pointing to self -defense issues involved.
Police say 40-year -old Nicholas Gomez was shot and killed in a house near 51st and "Q" Streets.
Investigators say the homeowner was originally taken into custody, at least for questioning, but has been released. |
IN: Man Fatally Shoots Attacker After Being Punched and Robbed While Playing Pokémon Go
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A deadly shooting in downtown Anderson on Monday evening may be justified under Indiana’s self-defense laws, according to the local prosecutor. The incident occurred just before 10 p.m. along 9th Street, where a 51-year-old businessman was playing a Pokémon-style scavenger hunt on his phone. He was ambushed by 43-year-old Michael Piercy, a homeless man who punched him and stole his phone. The victim then drew his firearm and fatally shot Piercy in a nearby parking lot.
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MN: 8th Circuit Court Rules Minnesota 18-20 Carry Ban Unconstitutional
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We’ve reported several times over the past year how 18- to 20-year-old gun owners in many states are denied their Second Amendment rights despite being considered “adults” for other constitutionally protected freedoms. It’s a travesty, and many such laws have been taken to court.
The tide is turning, however. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit saw things our way, ruling that a Minnesota law banning 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds from carrying a concealed firearm is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. In the case Worth v. Jacobson, the St. Louis-based circuit court unanimously affirmed a lower court’s decision striking down the law. |
CA: 9th Circuit temporarily reinstates law banning convicted felons from owning guns
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A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to reconsider the constitutionality of a 1968 federal law banning convicted felons from owning guns, setting aside a panel’s ruling that the law violated the right to bear arms, at least for those convicted of nonviolent felonies.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a majority of its 29 judges had voted to refer the issue to an 11-judge panel for a new hearing, an order that reinstates the law in the nine Western states covered by the court. The order drew an indignant dissent from Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a member of the earlier panel, who said the appeals court was “doing its best to subvert” the Supreme Court’s approach to firearms cases. |
Henry Grows a New Variety of Rifle in the Garden Gun
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What do you call a rifle without rifling? …A rimfire that fires shotshells? …One of Henry Repeating Arms’ most unusual lever guns?
It’s the Garden Gun, of course. The smoothbore .22 LR shotshell firearm shows a penchant for eradicating pests of the winged, four-legged, or reptilian varieties, simultaneously mitigating collateral damage. Here’s what we learned about the unsung garden companion. |
IN: IMPD: Shooter involved in deadly road rage shooting may have acted in self-defense
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One man is dead following an apparent road rage shooting on Indy’s southeast side.
Right now police believe the shooting appears to be a case of self-defense. The shooter was later released without being arrested.
Just before 8:30 Tuesday night, at Thompson and South Emerson, witnesses claim a confrontation between two armed drivers escalated to a deadly shooting.
When officers arrived they found Gavin Dasaur shot in the street. The 29-year-old died in the hospital. |
FL: Armed Robber Unalived When His Intended Victim Pulls Out His Own Gun
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A fatal shooting occurred on Friday evening at the Forest Creek Apartments in Warrington, Florida. According to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO), the incident is being investigated as a case of self-defense.
ECSO spokesperson Morgan Lewis shared with local media that the initial findings suggest no charges are expected to be filed. “We don’t anticipate any charges at this time,” she stated.
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Trump senior advisor doubles down on Trump's support for Second Amendment
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Former President Donald Trump campaign's senior adviser Chris LaCivita spoke at a panel hosted by pro-Second Amendment group USCCA on Tuesday morning updating the crowd about Trump's recovery and message of unity.
LaCivita said both Trump and himself are supporters of the Second Amendment and reiterated the former president's messaging has always been to allow law-abiding citizens the ability to carry firearms to protect themselves and their families. |
Holding a gun to America's head?
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'Sic semper tyrannis' - 'Thus always to tyrants' - shouted John Wilkes Booth after fatally shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on April 14, 1865. Despite committing a heinous crime, the assassin believed he had saved post-Civil War America from tyranny, something Brutus had unsuccessfully attempted to do for the Roman Republic some 19 centuries before. Donald Trump's would-be assassin could have acted from a similar compulsion last week.
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Falling for gun myths lock, stock and barrel
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On Sunday, President Joe Biden called for Americans to resist temptations to engage in political violence. His urgent Oval Office address was well justified following the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, but Biden should have gone further. He should have again recommended legislation that would — while respecting the right to bear arms — limit the military-grade firepower on our streets. |
Crowd Goes Wild as Vance Boasts of ‘Mamaw’s’ 19 Guns to Injured Trump
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), formally accepting the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, received a loud cheer from the crowd at the Republican National Convention after he relayed a story about his gun-loving grandmother.
The account came just days after Donald Trump was shot in the ear by an attempted assassin. The former president, sitting in the audience, listened as Vance retold the tale of his “Mamaw.”
“When Mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005, and when we went through her things, we found 19 loaded handguns,” the former Marine said, drawing sustained laughter from many observers in the convention hall. |
Trump was shot. Republicans still say guns aren’t the problem.
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Republicans have blamed an array of people and dynamics for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — Democrats’ rhetoric, Secret Service lapses, the gunman’s mental health. One thing they haven’t blamed is guns.
In Milwaukee, where the GOP gathered to nominate Trump this week, the party remains steadfast in its opposition to overhauling state and federal policies regulating firearms, like the AR-15 rifle Trump’s shooter used on Saturday.
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. That son of a bitch is now dead because a good guy with a gun shot him, so let’s keep that in mind,” Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) said ... |
LA: In French Quarter, some businesses gear up to ban guns
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People will soon be free to carry concealed guns in New Orleans without a permit, but those who do so in the French Quarter could soon find their options limited.
Business owners in the Vieux Carré began Wednesday placing new laminated signs in storefronts announcing "No firearms allowed on this property," marking the latest local response to the state's new permitless carry law.
More of the signs, which bear the New Orleans Police Department's crescent logo, are expected to go up this week. They are being distributed starting Thursday by the French Quarter Business Association to store owners who want them, said association president Gina Raby. |
WI: Guns Are Allowed Outside the RNC. This State Law Is the Reason Why.
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The Republican National Convention is underway in Milwaukee, and despite the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, guns are allowed near the convention site because of Wisconsin’s preemption law, which prevents local municipalities from enacting gun regulations stricter than the state’s.
This means in the densely populated city blocks surrounding the Fiserv Forum, the event’s venue, people are allowed to carry loaded weapons concealed with a permit, and openly without, even AR-15s like the weapon used in the July 13 assassination attempt. |
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