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DE: FPC, SAF Petition Supreme Court To Address Circuit Split In Delaware AWB Cases
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The petition is in response to a circuit court split in two consolidated FPC cases Gray v. Jennings and Graham v. Jennings.
In Graham v. Jennings, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in July denied a preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the law. In Gray v. Jennings, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals did the same, but also ruled that infringement on the Second Amendment didn’t rise to the level of abridging First Amendment Rights. In Gray, SAF and the FPC are joined by DJJAMS LLC and two citizens, William Taylor and Gabriel Gray. In the Graham case, SAF and FPC are joined by two other citizens, Christopher Graham and Owen Stevens. |
CA: Ninth Circuit Addresses Where the Government Can Prohibit Guns
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just handed down an important decision on gun rights. In what’s mostly a win for Second Amendment rights, the court has clarified the appropriate analysis to evaluate bans on guns being carried in certain places.
Hawaii and California both have laws that restrict the carrying of firearms in various "sensitive places," and both states are part of the Ninth Circuit of federal appellate courts. The Ninth Circuit is the largest federal appellate court in terms of geography and population, so its decisions have a large impact. It’s meaningful that two recent cases challenging the respective gun laws in California and Hawaii came to a head at this appellate court. |
IL: Engineer testifies during 2nd Amendement challenge to Illinois assault weapons ban
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An engineer who spent decades designing weapons for one of the world’s leading gun manufacturers testified Tuesday that the assault-style weapons now banned in Illinois are intended only for civilian use and cannot be easily converted into military-grade firearms. James Ronkainen, a former engineer for the Remington Firearms, said the AR-style rifles and many other weapons that are now heavily restricted under the Protect Illinois Communities Act, are classified in the industry as “modern sporting rifles,” or MSRs, and he said ordinary users of such weapons cannot easily convert them into fully automatic weapons.
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NH: Attorney general's office investigates whether Littleton shooting was self-defense
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The New Hampshire attorney general's office is investigating whether self-defense was involved in a fatal shooting in Littleton.
Eric Rexford, 38, was killed in the shooting Monday night. Investigators are considering whether the state's Stand Your Ground Law, enacted in 2011, could be invoked.
"Now, with the Stand Your Ground law in effect, it basically says, you have a duty to retreat, but not if you're in a place that you have a right to be," said legal analyst Patricia LaFrance. "And in this case, of course, it seems this person was traveling on a road. There's no indication that he was not allowed to be on that road. It wasn't private property or anything." |
Dangers of Misrepresenting History: Malcolm Gladwell, Sir John Knight, & the 2nd Amendment
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Historical accuracy plays a crucial role in shaping debates over significant issues like gun rights. When history is misrepresented or distorted, the consequences can be profound, especially when it concerns topics as contentious as the Second Amendment. Historical accuracy plays a crucial role in shaping debates over significant issues like gun rights. In an era of intense public scrutiny and pivotal court rulings on the Second Amendment, misrepresentations of history can fuel misguided policies with far-reaching consequences. |
Harris-Walz Want to Take Your Guns Away
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“We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” she said at the time while touting legislation that would have imposed penalties for gun owners if their firearms were improperly stored at home. |
Surprise Home Visits for Legal Gun Owners: Kamala Harris’s Controversial Statement
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In a bold move that sparked controversy among legal gun owners, Kamala Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, made a statement in 2007 that authorities could conduct surprise home visits to ensure proper firearm storage. Harris emphasized the importance of responsible behavior in the community, stating that simply owning a gun legally does not exempt one from scrutiny. This announcement came during a press conference introducing legislation aimed at penalizing gun owners who failed to store their firearms securely at home. The bill, ultimately signed into law by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, was part of a broader initiative to tighten gun control measures in San Francisco. |
IL: At Illinois 2nd Amendment trial, gun expert says assault weapons are ‘most popular’
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A firearms expert testified Wednesday that the weapons restricted under Illinois’ assault weapons ban include many of the most common firearms that American consumers use for self-defense. Steven Randall Watt, a combat veteran and retired law enforcement officer who now owns a private firearms training company, also said he personally owns many types of weapons restricted by the law, as well as large-capacity magazines that he said are an important element in self-defense.
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Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion
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While the Bruen decision found that restrictions must be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” the Rahimi decision said those laws do not require a “historical twin,” but instead should be “consistent with the principles that underpin our regulatory tradition.”
Since then, some courts have upheld some restrictions while other courts have struck down other restrictions, as the Rahimi decision has not ended ambiguity over how judges should handle Second Amendment challenges, according to gun law experts.
“There’s still a lot of head-scratching by lower-court judges,” Darrell A. H. Miller, a law professor at The University of Chicago, said. |
IL: Illinois Assault Weapons Ban On Trial In Second Amendment Challenge
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The first trial on the constitutionality of the statewide assault weapons ban passed in response to the Highland Park shooting got underway this week in federal court.
In a bench trial in Southern Illinois federal court, gun shop owners and gun rights advocacy groups argue that the ban violates the Second Amendment, while state officials contend that the firearms banned by the Protect Illinois Communities Act are too similar to military-grade weapons and regulating them is consistent with historic traditions. |
Addressing mass shootings in the context of the second amendment
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What you would see would exceed anything you have ever seen on TV or in a movie setting unless you have personally been in a war zone – or been a first responder to one of these shooting sites – or been a parent or a loved one viewing the bodies of the dead and wounded. Especially at close range, the damage inflicted upon a human body by bullets fired from these rifles is described by words like “pulverizing,” “explosive” and “devastating.” That’s because these weapons are designed to destroy whatever they hit. Simply put, let’s say that an AR-15-style rifle is well beyond the weaponry with which the writers of the Second Amendment were familiar. |
Provocative New ‘Pin It On Them’ Campaign from Change the Ref Highlights Grisly Reality of Lawmakers’ Legislative Inaction on Gun Safety
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On a mission to shift America’s social response to gun violence by uniting creativity, activism, disruption, and education, Change the Ref launched a provocative new campaign known as “Pin It On Them,” a retaliatory pin collection that shows the gruesome reality of lawmakers’ continued inaction around gun safety. Inspired by legislators like Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) who have proudly donned AR-15 lapel pins on the House floor, Change the Ref’s collection sheds light on the grisly “other side” of the semiautomatic rifle, including a student lying in a pool of his own blood, a bloodied and bullet-ridden locker, and a student with a bow in her hair and a target on her chest. |
FL: Date Set For Court Review Of Florida’s Young Adult Gun Purchase Ban
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An October 22 start date has been announced for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to begin hearing arguments in the National Rifle Association’s case challenging Florida’s ban on long gun purchase by adults 18 to 20 years old.
In early March, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court upheld the ban in the case NRA v. Bondi, ruling the restriction constitutional under the Second Amendment.
In 2018, the state hastily passed the law following the tragic mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The law prohibits anyone under age of 21 from purchasing a firearm and creates criminal penalties for both underage purchasers and those who sell to under-21-year-olds. |
Would-Be Trump Assassin Charged With Possessing a Gun With a Wiped-Out Serial Number. Is That Charge Constitutional?
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Unlike the district court, the Fourth Circuit held that the first step decided the case. In District of Columbia v. Heller, SCOTUS held that “the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” The Fourth Circuit went on to note that the plain text of the Second Amendment, when first ratified, has never conferred a right "to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." Instead, the Second Amendment protects the right of Americans to own guns for lawful purposes, such as self-defense and hunting. Guns with their serial numbers erased or modified are not in common use for lawful purposes, the Fourth Circuit reasoned. |
TX: Texas gun fight: Can you come armed to the fair?
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Coale says a decision in Paxton's favor could have bigger implications statewide.
"All across the state, not just the state fair but the zoo, the aquarium, you know, even more sort of ordinary things like some warehouse the city may lease out, it would say that no matter what you may have in your lease contracted for nevertheless, because it's public land, there's always gonna be a right to carry a firearm. That's a pretty big change," Coale said.
An injunction hearing to decide if fairgoers will be allowed to conceal and carry is scheduled for Thursday morning. |
MA: Too Many Guns = Too Many Shootings
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The spectre of yet another lone-wolf gunman attempting another assassination of Donald Trump is shocking, but not surprising.
Up until the past 50 years, assassinations of public figures in America were carried out by individuals with a political agenda...
Ed.: You have to be pretty dense to say Routh didn't have a political agenda. |
Sen. Gillibrand Says Her Bill Has Taken 3,000 Illegal Guns Off the Streets
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says the seizure of illegal guns under the anti-gun trafficking statute in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which was shaped by Gillibrand’s Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act, has hit a new milestone. According to Gillibrand, as of this month, the anti-gun trafficking statute has gotten more than 3,000 illegal guns off our streets, including 1,000 confirmed within the last 6 months alone.
The seized weapons included:
317 AR-15s and AR-style weapons;
478 machine gun conversion devices
206 ghost guns
Ed.: For a sense of scale, over the same time, over 27,000,000 new guns have been lawfully-sold. |
Poll: Harris Leads Trump on Handling of ‘Gun Violence,’ Which Ranks Low Among Voter Priorities
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Americans trust Kamala Harris to handle gun violence better than Donald Trump but still don’t prioritize guns very highly in a new batch of post-debate polling.
An ABC News and Ipsos poll released this week shows Harris leading Trump by five points on the question of who’d handle gun violence better. 66 percent of respondents said the issue was more important to their vote, with 26 saying it was one of their single most important issues. That put guns above issues like abortion and the war in Gaza, but only seventh on the overall list of Americans’ concerns.
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AR: Arkansas leaders consider proposal to carry firearms in schools, courts
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It recommends removing bans on carrying guns in places including K-12 schools, school bus stops, state colleges and universities, parades or demonstrations and “meetings of (government) entities."
The report also suggests reducing penalties for violating existing gun laws and evaluating a path to restoring gun rights to people previously involuntarily committed.
The subcommittee on Monday clarified language to permit carrying firearms in courthouses and on “journeys.”
A person is on a “journey,” Sen. Terry Rice, R-Waldron, said, anytime they leave their home “for any purpose or duration” and would be allowed to carry guns in that case under the proposed law. |
NC: Defensive Shooting at Funeral Home Leads to Quick Arrangements, No Arraignment
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A man shot in self-defense at his family’s business in Greenville, North Carolina, didn’t have to be transported far for his final arrangements. The man, Terence Rountree, Jr. was shot and killed by a family member after a dispute with the relative turned violent in the funeral home the family owns and operates.
Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 6, a Greenville police officer was flagged down by a man who told them somebody nearby had been shot, WITN reported. Police descended upon Rountree Family Mortuary where they found the 34-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound that ultimately proved fatal. Rountree was the son of the mortuary’s owners. News reports did not disclose which family member shot him ... |
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