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IA: Fatal Fort Dodge shooting ruled self-defense, officials say
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No charges will be filed in connection with a fatal shooting in Fort Dodge after investigators determined the shooter acted in self-defense, according to the Fort Dodge Police Department and the Webster County Attorney's Office.
The shooting happened on Friday, July 24, and left 45-year-old Thomas Henry Ahrens, of Fort Dodge, dead. Police said Ahrens was shot and transported to UnityPoint Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. |
Rep. Boebert Introduces The Freedom To Ship Act
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Today, Rep. Lauren Boebert (CO-04), Co-Chair of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, introduced HR 9979 the Freedom to Ship Act, landmark legislation to protect the right of responsible Americans to lawfully ship firearms via common carriers. The bill also repeals the prohibition on mailing handguns through the United States Postal Service.
“For far too long, common carriers have interfered with the lawful transportation of firearms,” said Rep. Boebert. “The Biden Administration’s agenda was to take away our Second Amendment rights, and this legislation helps reverse that. The Freedom to Ship Act prohibits common carriers from forcing Federal Firearms Licensees to sign unjust, non-negotiable contracts and pay exorbitant fees.” |
What the Supreme Court's test for gun rules could mean for AR-15s this year
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Gun regulations were a big focus of the Supreme Court this year. In the coming Supreme Court season, the issue will again be in the crosshairs.
This time, the focus will be on semiautomatic rifles like AR-15s.
Modern gun rules, the Supreme Court said in a landmark 2022 decision, can’t stray too far from historical weapons regulations to pass constitutional muster.
While the Supreme Court appeared to pull back from that controversial test just two years later, two Second Amendment decisions the conservative court handed down in June show it's firmly in place − which could have implications for the coming showdown over semiautomatic rifles. |
PA: Man claims self-defense after shooting in Philadelphia's Fern Rock section
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Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting in which the suspect is claiming self-defense.
It happened on the 6000 block of Warnock Street in the city's Fern Rock section around midnight.
Police say the 45-year-old victim was shot in the backside.
He is in stable condition.
Police continue to talk to the man who pulled the trigger, who says he did it in self-defense.
Detectives did say no suspects have been arrested. |
DOJ Proposes Restoring Firearms Rights to Prohibited Persons
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About one million people who are currently prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law could become eligible to apply to have their gun rights restored under a proposed Department of Justice rule. The proposal would revive a federal relief program that has been effectively dormant for more than three decades after Congress barred the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from using appropriated funds to process applications beginning in 1992. The proposal sits at the intersection of criminal justice reform, Second Amendment rights and executive authority, raising questions about who should regain firearms rights and how much discretion the executive branch should exercise in making those determinations. |
Heller and Bruen are here to stay
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The court’s Second Amendment decisions also further established and fleshed out the contours of reigning doctrine. After over 200 years of giving relatively little attention to the Second Amendment, the court in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller, 2010’s McDonald v. City of Chicago, and 2022’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, held, respectively, that the amendment protects an individual right, that the right applies to the states, and that alleged violations of the right are to be assessed by a text-and-history approach. Operating within this governing paradigm, the past term’s Second Amendment decisions made clear that Bruen’s text and history approach is firmly entrenched...
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WI: Prosecutors to review self-defense claim before filing charges in Fond du Lac shooting
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In asking for a $1 million cash bond, Deputy District Attorney Kurt Klomberg described the circumstances as a “romantic relationship triangle” leading up to the shooting. He asked for a week before the next hearing to complete the assessment of self-defense in the case.
The defense attorney asked a $15,000 cash bond, calling it a self-defense case.
The attorney offered more details on the incident, saying Tennies went to the South Main Street address because his girlfriend called him. An ex-boyfriend was threatening her. Tennies and the woman were in the car, when the victim started banging on the door several times. The victim was warned several times before shots were fired, he said. |
AL: No charges in fatal Huntsville shooting ruled self-defense
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The Huntsville Police Department has concluded its investigation into a fatal shooting that left a 29-year-old man dead, determining the gunman acted in self-defense.
Patrick Erin Blood of Huntsville died from a gunshot wound following an incident in the 6200 block of Torok Circle on Monday, July 27, according to a news release.
Officers responded to the scene around 7:30 p.m. and found Blood suffering from a gunshot wound. |
The court’s big gun cases – and what’s next
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Although Hemani and Wolford provide more information about how to apply Bruen’s history-and-tradition analysis, many questions remain, among them whom the right protects and how far it extends. While we do not know exactly what the next term holds at this point, we do know that we will have more answers to at least one of these questions: what counts as an “Arm” for the purpose of the Second Amendment. On June 30, the justices issued an orders list from their “clean-up conference” which included a cert grant in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins (these two cases have been consolidated). In those cases, the justices will consider whether the Second Amendment protects the right to possess semiautomatic rifles such as AR-15s.
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MD: State Court Upheld the 100-Yard Ban. The DOJ Says the Second Amendment Says Otherwise, and Its Deadline Has Expired
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The U.S. Department of Justice gave Montgomery County, Maryland, until noon Friday to confirm in writing that it will not enforce its new ban on firearms in places of worship, or face a federal lawsuit without further notice. That deadline has now come and gone, and there is no public word on whether the county sent the confirmation or whether the Justice Department has filed. The demand came in a July 30, 2026 letter from R. Jonah Geissler, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, addressed to County Executive Marc Elrich, County Attorney John Markovs, Police Chief Marc Yamada, and Sheriff Maxwell Uy. |
Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak’s family is struggling but not losing hope
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When Dave Adamiak first heard that his son had been arrested by Joe Biden’s ATF, part of him thought he must have done something wrong. Perhaps ATF agents had found a dozen Glock switches or some other illegal device during their search warrant of his son’s home. Dave Adamiak, who will be 71 in October, grew up with the utmost respect for law enforcement, especially federal law enforcement, back when they arrested bad guys and protected the innocent from harm. The federal agents wouldn’t make a mistake, right?
But the ATF found absolutely nothing illegal in Patrick “Tate” Adamiak’s home, so agents concocted a myriad of fake charges for non-functional artifacts and gun parts that were purchased online—all of which remain legal to own. |
IN: Road Rage Aggressor Ignores Repeated Warnings to Back Off, Indiana Prosecutor Rules Driver Acted in Self-Defense
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A driver who fatally shot a man during a July 21 road rage confrontation will not face criminal charges, the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement detailing an investigation built on multiple witness statements, video recordings, forensic evidence, and physical evidence from the scene and both vehicles.
According to the prosecutor’s statement, the encounter began between roughly 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. as a Volkswagen Jetta carrying a male driver and a female passenger traveled from Marion County into Hancock County. A Dodge Journey driven by an adult male began following at an extremely close distance, less than one foot behind by witness estimates, and possibly as close as six inches. |
MN: Third Circuit Finds NJ "Assault Firearm" Ban Unconstitutional - Supports Knife Rights' Switchblade Ban Challenges
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Following the en banc Third Circuit's landmark ruling that New Jersey's "assault firearm" ban and its ban on magazines holding more than ten rounds both violate the Second Amendment, Knife Rights has filed Notices of Supplemental Authority under Rule 28(j) in our Second Amendment challenges to the Federal Switchblade Act and Minnesota's total ban on switchblades. That opinion lays out and applies the law as to arms bans perfectly, supporting Knife Rights' arguments in its Second Amendment cases.
Written by Biden appointee Judge Arianna Freeman, the 10-5 opinion correctly applied the text-and-history test set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in NYSRPA v. Bruen. |
What the Moroccan Invasion of Spain Should Teach Americans About the Second Amendment
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The current mass invasion of tens of thousands of Moroccan men, including reportedly huge numbers of criminals and soldiers, into Spanish territory has resulted in a great deal of looting and violence. The incident illustrates exactly why citizens should have their own firearms.
Estimates of how many Moroccans, the overwhelming majority of whom are men, have invaded Spanish territory in North Africa this week range from a little below 40,000 to 60,000, and it seems the flow has not yet stopped. Groups of citizens in Ceuta have begun patrolling the streets, since the Spanish military won’t take any decisive action. The problem is that, unlike the Spanish military, the citizens do not have a lot of weapons.
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MD: Lawsuit Targets Montgomery County, Maryland’s, Revamped Firearm Ban
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A common ploy for anti-gun governments at all levels is to pass a restrictive gun law that won’t hold up to legal scrutiny, have a court overturn the law as an unconstitutional infringement on the right to keep and bear arms, then pass another law equally, or nearly, as restrictive as the “solution” to the court ruling.
Enter Montgomery County, Maryland, the new poster jurisdiction for such gun-ban shenanigans. |
TX: Fifth Circuit Rejects Challenge to Texas No Guns Sign Law
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Texas entities lack standing to challenge a state law that requires them to give notice about guns being prohibited on their properties, the en banc Fifth Circuit ruled.
The full federal appeals court issued the fractured ruling on Friday, with a majority opinion authored by Judge Edith Jones, a Ronald Reagan appointee. Six judges said they concurred in the judgment, and four of those judges only joined parts of the majority opinion. Three of the 16 active judges who heard the case dissented, saying the decision shields future potentially unconstitutional actions from judicial oversight.
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S&W Reveals America 250th Limited-Edition Model 642, 66 Revolvers
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Smith & Wesson gave its popular Model 642 and Model 66 Combat Magnum revolvers a patriotic facelift to close out July. The new limited-edition models celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, which is fitting for one of the nation’s oldest and most iconic firearm brands.
These concealable and iconic J-Frame and K-Frame wheelguns are chambered in .38 Special +P for the Model 642 and .357 Magnum/.38 Special +P for the Model 66 Combat Magnum.
The small J-Frame 642 features a 1.875-inch stainless-steel barrel and holds five rounds. The lightweight design comes to an unloaded weight of just 14.4 ounces and measures 1.3 inches wide and 6.31 inches long. |
SD: Why South Dakota Should Be Watching the Supreme Court’s Next Big Second Amendment Case
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While the state is not a party to the Illinois/Connecticut consolidated cases, South Dakota’s recent actions strongly suggest it would support the challengers seeking to overturn those bans. Based on existing South Dakota law, Attorney General Jackley’s prior amicus effort, Governor Rhoden’s public statements, and the Legislature’s long-standing direction on firearm policy, South Dakota’s legal position has consistently been that commonly owned semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15 fall within the protections of the Second Amendment, and that broad prohibitions on those firearms are unconstitutional. |
VA: Gun-control org spent $1 million for firearm ban that could go down as epic self-own
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Despite massive spending in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race, the gun-control organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have left the state with far more modern semiautomatic firearms than there were prior to a short-lived ban.
Pro-Second Amendment organizations filed suit after Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749, a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” into law May 14, eventually securing court orders blocking the legislation. |
Trump Admin Rakes Maryland County Over Coals For Banning Guns In Churches
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A liberal stronghold near the nation’s capital received a legal warning shot from the Justice Department Thursday regarding an ordinance banning the carrying of firearms in houses of worship.
Democratic Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich signed Bill 23-26 into law Monday, updating the county’s ordinances in response to an April 28 ruling by the state Supreme Court that struck down some of the county’s previous legislative provisions regarding firearms. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted a letter sent to the Washington, D.C.-area county Thursday, warning that the provisions barring firearms from places of worship - even those that granted permission for people to carry firearms... |
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