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CO: Murder charge dropped in I-25 shooting case
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"After a careful and comprehensive review of all the evidence in the case -- which included numerous consultations with members of my office -- and after applying Colorado law to the evidence, I have concluded that we could not prove Mr. Long's guilt to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt," the statement said. "The evidence establishes a strong and valid self-defense claim pursuant to Colorado law. As a result, we will ask the court to dismiss the remaining charges against Mr. Long. This was an extremely difficult and heart-wrenching decision but, ultimately, in my opinion, the correct one. |
NH: New Hampshire Attorney General Challenges Massachusetts’ Gun Laws
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New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said Monday that Massachusetts should not have the right to prosecute residents who cross state lines with their guns, WBZ reported.
In briefs filed with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Formella defended two New Hampshire men who were charged with unlawfully carrying weapons into Massachusetts without the proper firearms license, according to WBZ. |
Americans Divided on Many Issues, Right to Carry Isn’t One of Them
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Americans are deeply divided on many issues these days. But a recent poll conducted by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, WI, revealed at least one area of broad agreement: A supermajority in the U.S. supports a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The poll questioned 1,005 adults nationwide from July 24 to Aug. 1, 2024, and has a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points. |
MN: Court Denies Rehearing, Upholds Ruling Striking Down Minnesota’s Carry Permit Age Restriction
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The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a petition for a rehearing in a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, solidifying a ruling that Minnesota’s ban on carry permits for young adults ages 18-20 is unconstitutional.
The case, Worth v. Harrington, was filed in June 2021 by SAF, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Firearms Policy Coalition, and three private citizens—Austin Dye, Axel Anderson, and Kristin Worth.
They were represented by attorneys Blair W. Nelson of Bemidji, Minnesota, and a team from Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C. |
CA: Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction In Challenge To California’s Non-Resident Concealed Carry Ban
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A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners, challenging California’s prohibition on non-resident concealed carry permits. U.S. District Court Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, partially granted the motion for preliminary injunction, setting the stage for further legal proceedings.
Judge Garnett’s decision requires the state to respond within 21 days and directs both parties to confer and submit a proposed order for the injunction that aligns with her findings. |
Trump Issues Strongest Defense of Gun Rights Since Assassination Attempt
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On Saturday at Gun Owners of America’s inaugural Advocacy and Leadership Summit, President Donald Trump virtually addressed the crowd of attendees with both words of encouragement and a warning about the siege facing Second Amendment rights in the lead-up to the November election.
President Trump’s speech, which was warmly received by the crowd, comes at a time when Second Amendment rights face some of their greatest threats in history. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the anti-gun tyrants in Congress and state legislatures across the country have unleashed a relentless assault against guns, owners, and dealers nationwide. |
VA: Police: Woodbridge man charged for leaving unsecured guns within reach of his 2 kids
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A Woodbridge man is facing felony child neglect and other charges after police found several unsecured guns in his North Woodbridge home within reach of his two children, according to police.
As part of an ongoing investigation, Prince William County police obtained a search warrant for the man’s home, located in the 13200 block of Hill Court in North Woodbridge, and found multiple firearms belonging to the man unsecured inside the home, according to Master Police Officer Renee Carr, a Prince William County Police Department spokeswoman.
Officers also determined two children of the accused, a 2-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, resided in the home and were able to access the firearms, Carr said in a news release. |
NY: NYC has a tool to keep guns away from dangerous people. It barely uses it.
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New York City rarely leverages state laws meant to prevent potentially dangerous people from having or buying guns, state data shows.
Now, as the number of people seeking permits to arm themselves in the city grows following a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision aimed at making it easier to carry a gun, anti-violence advocates are asking whether local officials have dedicated enough attention to a tool that could prevent shootings and save lives. |
Will Sporting Clays Become the Standard Training Defense Against Drones?
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Small drones are now common on the world’s battlefields. Ever-downsized, they are used mostly for intelligence gathering but also carry weapons, including explosives, and the technology is advancing by the day!
And, like erratic flies they resemble, they’re hard to neutralize.
Shooting at them with semi-auto rifles is about as successful as using rifles for hunting airborne birds! |
CA: California Must Issue Concealed Carry Permits To Out-of-State Residents
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A federal judge has ordered California to accept concealed carry applications from out-of-state residents. This victory is the second time a state has been forced to issue out-of-state concealed carry permits this month. Early in August, New York City passed an emergency order to issue permits to non-New York residents to avoid a lawsuit by Gun Owners of America (GOA).
In this case, the California Rifle Pistol Association (CRPA), Gun Owners of California (GOC), Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) teamed up to take on the California concealed carry law, in CRPA v. Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD). |
Trump on Guns: His Track Record on the Second Amendment
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Picking up 304 electoral votes over Clinton's 227, Trump became the 45th President and was inaugurated in January 2017. Likewise, the incoming 115th United States Congress, in which Republicans held control of both chambers (54-46 Senate, 246-187 House) led to unrealized hope in 2A circles that the polarity switch would see rapid movement on gun reforms such as national concealed carry reciprocity and the Hearing Protection Act.
Similarly, his campaign promises to repeal gun-free zones nationwide and allow military personnel to carry firearms on base and at recruiting stations for self-defense never made it to reality.
Ed.: This article thoroughly lays out the good & the bad. |
Gun-Rights Group Calls Attention To Anti-Gun Nature Of Democrat Party Platform
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On Monday’s first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Pro-Second Amendment advocates were blowing the whistle on the Democratic Party Platform.
“Tim Walz lied when he said, ‘No one wants to take your guns,’ and that could not be made more clear by this DNC platform, which is loaded with blatantly unconstitutional policies that won’t do anything to stop crime or make America safer,” Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America (GOA) told the Daily Caller News Foundation. |
MD: Second Amendment Foundation Seeks Supreme Court Review Of Maryland Rifle Ban
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), along with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and individual David Snope, has escalated their legal battle against Maryland’s ban on modern semiautomatic rifles to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The group, represented by a legal team from Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C., and the DiGuiseppe Law Firm in Southport, N.C., filed a petition for certiorari challenging the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that likened these firearms to fully-automatic military rifles, thus ruling them outside Second Amendment protections. |
Neither Harris Nor Her Party Perceives Any Constitutional Constraints on Gun Control
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That treatment of this subject is similar to the approach that Democrats took in 2016, when their platform mentioned "the rights of responsible gun owners" but did not elucidate the basis of those rights, and in 2020, when the platform did not go even that far. The 2016 platform devoted a paragraph to gun control, which became two paragraphs in 2020 and has now expanded to five. Neither of the two most recent platforms so much as alludes to respect for gun rights. |
MD: Pro-gun group seeks Supreme Court review of Maryland ‘assault weapons’ ban
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A pro-gun group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to weigh a challenge to Maryland‘s ban on assault-style firearms, commonly referred to as “assault weapons,” after lower courts rejected efforts to overturn the state’s 2013 law.
The Firearms Policy Coalition is fighting against the 2013 law that classifies numerous semiautomatic weapons as illegal “assault weapons.” Earlier this month, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit split 10-5 in a ruling that upheld the law despite efforts by pro-gun litigants to utilize a recent landmark Second Amendment ruling that some believe would result in the nullification of gun control laws. |
The Harris/Walz Game Plan for Attacking the Second Amendment
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According to the platform, the Democrats want:
Universal background checks.
“Assault weapon” and standard-capacity magazine bans
Mandatory safe-storage laws
Repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
Increased red-flag laws
Increased funding for the ATF
Increased funding for the FBI, to conduct more background checks
Increased funding for the CDC, “because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis.” |
CA: Another California gun law blocked over Supreme Court’s ‘historical tradition’ test
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In another blow to California’s efforts to restrict carrying guns in public, a federal judge has barred the state from allowing only California residents to seek concealed-carry licenses.
That requirement is part of a new state law passed in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that struck down many states’ limits on carrying concealed weapons and said any government restrictions must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation,” dating back to the nation’s founding. |
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