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WI: Wisconsin Anglers Can Soon Carry Guns Again
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The Badger State is set to repeal its 25-year-old constitutionally suspect ban on carrying a firearm on or near water.
In a state with some of the best freshwater fishing in the world-- and one in which shooting big muskies before landing them was a thing until the 1960s-- Wisconsin conservation officials long ago banned the carry of firearms "at any time while on the waters, banks or shores" via an administrative rule.
Recently challenged in court by Travis Kobs, a Sheboygan Falls concealed carry permit holder who wanted to keep his legally possessed 9mm pistol for self-defense while on various lakes and rivers fishing, the state Department of Natural Resources has decided it didn't need that rule after all. |
PA: Philly Concealed Carrier Shoots Back At 2 Teens During Attempted Armed Robbery
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Two teenagers, both 16 years old, were involved in a violent attempted robbery that turned into a shooting on Saturday night in Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood. The intended victim, Wayne Hamm, managed to defend himself by firing back, resulting in injuries for himself and one of the attackers.
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Hamm described how a confrontation with the two teens quickly escalated. One of the attackers fired a shot, prompting Hamm to draw his firearm and return fire. Hamm was struck in the back and arm but managed to run away and alert nearby police officers.
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FL: NRA again asks court to overturn Florida law banning people under 21 from buying long guns
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The court last year put the appeal on hold and directed attorneys for the state and the NRA to delay filing briefs until after the Supreme Court issued a decision in a Texas gun case known as United States v. Rahimi.
The Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in June in the Texas case backed a ban on gun possession by people under domestic-violence restraining orders and was a victory for the federal government and gun-control supporters.
But in Wednesday’s brief, lawyers for the NRA said the Rahimi ruling was narrow. |
Congress wants Trump rally answers, but anti-gun lawmaker wants attention
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During the intense grilling faced by now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle over nearly five hours of testimony, most Congressmen and Congresswomen asked about matters related to security measures specific either to the rally in Pennsylvania or President Trump.
Not Gerry.
The representative ... decided this hearing was the perfect time to try to rail against firearms, and he tried in every way he could to browbeat the former director into agreeing with him that guns in the hands of American citizens represents a danger that creates a disadvantage to the Secret Service as it tries to do its job of protecting certain individuals — generally, government officials and some former officials, like President Trump. |
MN: Walz on Vance: ‘I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can’
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) appeared to challenge Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) shooting skills, saying that the vice presidential hopeful cannot hunt pheasants like he can.
“That’s what JD Vance’s stick is, talking about guns. I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can,” Walz said Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
“And that’s a part of saying, but you know what, I guarantee I don’t want weapons of war in classrooms. And there’s no reason that you can’t have reasonable restrictions around that without infringing on your Second Amendment,” he added. |
MN: Ellison seeks to restore ban on young adults carrying guns
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to consider restoring a state law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from getting permits to carry guns in public.
In a petition for rehearing with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, Ellison asked the full court to review a ruling earlier this month by a three-judge panel affirming a lower court decision that Minnesota’s law is unconstitutional. The lower court sided with the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, which sued to overturn the law, and concluded the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of young adults to bear arms for self-defense. |
Trump’s Running Mate, JD Vance, is a True Second Amendment Champion
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Last week, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), accepted the Republican party’s nomination for vice president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WI.
Sen. Vance’s life story is well-known to many through his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which recounts his familial roots in Eastern Kentucky and his hardscrabble upbringing in Middletown, OH. True to form, President Trump chose a patriot with deep ties to Heartland America and to the values and struggles of its resilient, self-reliant people. JD Vance went on to serve with the U.S. Marines in Iraq, graduate from Ohio State University, and then distinguish himself at Yale Law School. He has not, however, forgotten where he came from. |
MN: State Supreme Court establishes duty to retreat before wielding weapon for self-defense
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People confronted with danger must try to find a way to safety before brandishing a weapon in preparation of self-defense, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
Associate Justice Margaret Chutich authored the 4-2 majority opinion, affirming a lower court ruling that upheld the state’s doctrine that one has the “duty to retreat when reasonably possible.”
The majority opinion considered whether it was appropriate to commit the felony charge of second-degree assault — which in Minnesota can apply when a weapon is used with the intent to cause “fear” — in instances when it’s possible to avoid a violent confrontation. |
MN: Minnesota high court sets self-defense precedent in machete case: retreat before brandishing weapon
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In a split decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that even when a person is threatened or under attack they can’t brandish a deadly weapon if it is “reasonably possible to retreat.”
A dissent called the ruling unprecedented in American judicial history.
The case stemmed from a knife and machete altercation in downtown Minneapolis, zeroing in on the specific question of whether a person can claim self-defense when they are charged with felony second-degree assault–fear with a dangerous weapon. Under Minnesota law, a person commits assault–fear by acting with the “intent to cause fear in another of immediate bodily harm or death.” |
NJ: Federal judge rules ban on AR-15 rifles in New Jersey is unconstitutional
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New Jersey's ban on the AR-15 rifle is unconstitutional, but the state's cap on magazines over 10 rounds passes constitutional muster, a federal judge said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan's 69-page opinion says he was compelled to rule as he did because of the Supreme Court's rulings in firearms cases, particularly the 2022 Bruen decision that expanded gun rights.
Sheridan's ruling left both 2nd Amendment advocates and the state attorney general planning appeals. The judge temporarily delayed the order for 30 days. |
NJ: New Jersey AR-15 ban ruled unconstitutional by federal judge
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New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge Tuesday, but both Second Amendment and gun control advocates are planning to appeal the ruling.
In a decision that could force the state to overturn its decades-old prohibition of certain firearms, the court ruled against the New Jersey AR-15 ban but deemed the Garden State’s cap on magazines over 10 rounds constitutional.
U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan ruled people in New Jersey can use the Colt AR-15 “for use of self-defense within the home” but did not rule on the use of any other prohibited semi-automatic firearms. |
MO: Justified Self-Defense Shooting in Ferguson, Missouri
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As the altercation intensified, a male resident arrived home and attempted to mediate the situation. Witnesses reported that Gray, who has a prior felony conviction, drew a semi-automatic handgun and pointed it at the male victim’s head. In response, the male victim drew his own handgun, leading to an exchange of gunfire.
Gray shot the male victim multiple times in the abdomen, causing life-threatening injuries. Despite being wounded, the male victim managed to return fire, hitting Gray in the shoulder. Gray also shot the female victim in the leg during the chaotic scene. |
NJ: Split Decision: Federal Judge Rules N.J. AR-15 Ban Bad, Mag Ban Fine
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U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan, of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, made the July 30 ruling in Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs v. Platkin based on the standard set by the 2022 Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. While the law actually bans more than 60 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, Judge Sheridan limited his ruling to Colt AR-15 rifles because, he said, that was the gun “with which the Court has been provided the most information” in briefs and arguments.
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HI: What country is this?? Hawaii lawmakers rebuilding monarchy without Second Amendment
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Hawaii might be the picture of paradise with swaying palm trees and sugar-sand beaches. Beyond the postcard-worthy landscapes, though, there’s a troubling trend by state officials to write Second Amendment freedoms out of the island state. In Hawaii, lawmakers are taking the approach that Second Amendment rights are a problem to be tamped down and not a freedom to celebrate.
It’s almost as if Hawaiian lawmakers are working to re-establish a kingdom in the island state, one where the U.S. Constitution is a suggestion and not the law of the land. |
Who Are 'the People' Entitled to Bear Arms Under the Second Amendment?
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After Bruen, courts across the country were bombarded with challenges to gun laws as litigants sought to invalidate statutes or fight convictions for violations of statutes that might not pass muster under the test of "historical tradition." Unsurprisingly, different courts reached different conclusions, leading to even more confusion about which gun laws can be enforced. As a result, there is no clear answer to the question of who can (and cannot) exercise their right to bear arms.
Ed.: Good overview of the legal-action state of play for various classes of 'prohibited persons'. |
FL: NRA Challenges Florida’s Under-21 Gun Ban After Supreme Court Ruling
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Following a recent Supreme Court decision, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is renewing its fight against a 2018 Florida law prohibiting individuals under 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns. The NRA argues the law infringes upon Second Amendment rights and is inconsistent with historical firearm regulations.
The law was swiftly enacted after the tragic Parkland school shooting in 2018, where a 19-year-old gunman used a semi-automatic rifle.
While previous court rulings upheld the law, the NRA believes the recent Supreme Court decision in the United States v. Rahimi case strengthens their argument. |
NJ: New Jersey’s AR-15 Ban Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles is unconstitutional while upholding the state’s prohibition on magazine capacities exceeding ten rounds.
In his 69-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan explained his obligation to follow the Supreme Court’s rulings on gun rights despite his personal reservations. “It is hard to accept the Supreme Court’s pronouncements that certain firearms policy choices are ‘off the table’ when frequently, radical individuals possess and use these same firearms for evil purposes,” he wrote, according to KRON 4. |
NC: We the People: Gun Rights
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The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. The robber, Jack Miller, put forward a novel defense: that a law banning him from carrying that gun violated his Second Amendment rights. For most of U.S. history, the Second Amendment was one of the sleepier ones. It rarely showed up in court, and was almost never used to challenge laws. Jack Miller's case changed that. And it set off a chain of events that would fundamentally change how U.S. law deals with guns. Today on Throughline's We the People: How the second amendment came out of the shadows. |
MN: Eighth Circuit Restores Second Amendment Rights for Young Adults
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A three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has unanimously struck down a Minnesota law that forbids the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment for people over 18 but less than 21 years old. The decision is a significant victory in the ongoing process of restoring rights protected by the Second Amendment. Multiple infringements have piled up over the last century.
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Living The Cocked-And-Locked Lifestyle
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Reading the work of Col. Jeff Cooper as a boy in the latter 1950s convinced me a messiah had risen in the west and the 1911 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol was clearly something I needed. My dad gave me one for Christmas in 1960 when I was 12. Col. Cooper had explained why what he called Condition One, cocked and locked with a live round in the chamber, was the only way to carry it. It made enormous sense to me and it has been my mode of carry with single-action auto pistols ever since. It has included competition from bullseye to PPC to Bianchi Cup to IPSC/USPSA to IDPA to bowling pin shooting. It has included on-duty carry under various administrations in three police departments over 43 years and personal concealed carry to this day. |
TX: Texans, Never Leave This Item In Your Car or Truck Overnight
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According to the Associated Press, guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were just ten years ago. And whether it's here in Texas or beyond, guns that are being stolen from cars and trucks that are left outside overnight, those weapons are being used against us. They are being used in crimes.
According to the AP, half of stolen guns are stolen from vehicles. |
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