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The Last Gun I Shot
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The first time I saw an AR-15 up close was at my friend Agustin’s house, in Texas. This was in the summer of 2020, after the mass shootings in El Paso and Sutherland Springs and Midland-Odessa, but before the ones in Uvalde and Cleveland and the Allen Outlets mall. |
OR: Huge Victory Over Magazine Bans
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This is the exact opposite of the reasoning used by Federal Judge Karin Immergut when she found the magazine ban in Measure 114 to be constitutional.
Immergut ignored clear dictates from the US Supreme Court in the Bruen decision, and common sense, when she ruled in our lawsuit against the measure, that it was perfectly ok to ban Oregon gun owners from owning virtually any firearm magazine. She chose to ignore the painfully obvious reality that anyone intent on committing a crime would have ready access to magazines of any size and only the law abiding would be damaged by her clearly biased ruling. |
Smith & Wesson Model 60 Review 2023: A Master of None
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When it comes to firearm maintenance, some materials used in construction are more forgiving than others. Today, many rifles and handguns use stainless steel in their construction. Handsome to look at, either in the white or coated with a finish, and best of all, corrosion resistant. The Smith & Wesson Model 60 revolver was the first successful handgun made entirely of stainless-steel. It was a godsend to cops and citizens, especially those of us who live and work in humid and marine environments where traditional blued steel guns can rust before your very eyes. |
NY: Casilio defends speaking to organization designated as ‘antigovernment’ group by Southern Poverty Law Center
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Republican Erie County Executive candidate Chrissy Casilio is under fire from her incumbent opponent Mark Poloncarz after appearing at a campaign event hosted in part by a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as an “antigovernment movement.”
Casilio spoke in front of a group in Blasdell and answered audience questions Thursday night. According to her campaign, she was invited to speak by SCOPE, a local Second Amendment advocacy group. But the event was also hosted alongside the Constitutional Coalition of New York State, which the SPLC has included in its list of hate and antigovernment groups since 2021. |
The Red Tape of the Bureaucracy
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After that, I spent a great deal of effort ensuring that I was in compliance with the ever-changing rules. My desktop computer was safely stored, as per regulations, but it turned out that, because the edges of the screen are black and I have a large external hard drive, it has been recently re-classified as an “assault mainframe” with “a high-capacity hard drive.” According to the agents who visited my house, this means that I can keep my keyboard plugged in or my USB cable plugged in, but that I cannot do both at the same time. Working around that set me back a week or two. |
TX: Second Amendment
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A federal judge declined to dismiss a Second Amendment suit filed by a gun store owner who challenges the ATF’s recent guidance on how to implement the Gun Control Act of 1968. The man has standing to sue, alleging that the guidance could hold him liable for non-willful actions such as "inadvertent paperwork errors" and result in the revocation of his license. |
NY: Judge slashes law firms' $1.2 million fee request in landmark gun rights case
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A federal judge in New York on Friday awarded more than $447,000 in attorneys fees and costs to the plaintiffs in a case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2022 ruling expanding gun rights, about two-thirds less than the amount that was requested.
Lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Cooper & Kirk, and Kathleen McCaffrey Baynes had asked the court to award more than $1.2 million in fees and costs to plaintiffs for about 1,621 hours of work over several years. |
NV: Deadly break-in brings concerns for homeowner rights, property protection
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On Wednesday, two men were shot while police say they were breaking in the back door of a home near Desert Inn and Torrey Pines.
One died at the scene.
The other was shot in the leg and taken into custody.
Now it’s up to the Clark County District Attorney whether to charge the homeowner.
Police on the scene, said it’s unlikely that will happen, calling the shooting a clear case of self-defense. |
CA: Judge rules California’s detachable magazine ban unconstitutional, state appeals
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California will soon have to stop enforcing its ban on gun owners having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds after a federal judge in San Diego ruled on Friday that the law is unconstitutional.
In his 71-page order, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, a George W. Bush appointee, deemed the law, in scathing detail, an “extreme ban” that curtails Californians Second Amendment rights to buy and own weaponry for self defense, weaponry that can be owned by residents of other states. |
WA: WA gun-rights group says it has been illegally targeted by AG Bob Ferguson
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A Bellevue-based gun-rights organization claims it has been unlawfully targeted by the state attorney general through a yearslong investigation by its Consumer Protection Division.
The Second Amendment Foundation, its founder Alan Gottlieb, and several other affiliated organizations initially sued Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in federal court over the investigation in May. This week, the organization moved the lawsuit to state court, where it believes it will get a quicker resolution. |
Remarks by Vice President Harris on Gun Safety
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And on this issue, we do not have a moment to spare, nor a life to spare.
And here’s the thing: Solutions do exist. It’s a false choice to suggest you either have to choose between supporting the Second Amendment or passing reasonable gun safety laws. That’s a false choice.
President Biden and I believe in the Second Amendment, but we also know commonsense solutions are at hand. |
PA: On killing machines
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Napolitano never once mentions that UNALIENABLE right (not just an ordinary right) is taken from 300 American citizens — hardworking, law-abiding, productive fathers and mothers and sons and daughters — every day of the year. More American citizens have been killed by haters, hotheads and the mentally unbalanced with guns than all the American soldiers who fought in all the wars in our history. Napolitano ignores that brutal and disturbing fact. He goes on and on about the government’s lack of fidelity to constitutional norms… but he completely ignores the UNALIENABLE right guaranteed by that constitution. |
Spain: Exposed in the face of artificial intelligence
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The argument of “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is used repeatedly by the NRA (along with its extreme interpretation of the Second Amendment) to avoid the imposition of any type of gun control. In order to continue making money, this organization is capable of blaming the country’s mental health problem (which, by the way, they’re not willing to spend a penny on) rather than recognizing that the only function of a weapon is to injure or kill. A gun isn’t useful when you’re trying to cut a steak or open a box. It’s only capable of causing thousands of deaths — 31,059 deaths in the United States in 2023 so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a website that counts American firearm deaths in real-time. |
AL: Prosecutors urge federal judge to reject Mobile man’s constitutional challenge to felon gun ban
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office has responded to a motion to dismiss firearms charges against a convicted felon, rejecting claims by the defendant’s attorney that laws banning gun possession by felons are unconstitutional.
The lawyer for Anthony Lee Jackson relied on a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year striking down a century-old New York State law restricting people from carrying concealed guns. The high court ruled that gun laws are constitutionally suspect unless similar regulations were in place during the founding era. |
Peru: New legislation decriminalizes self-defense in Peru
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Peru's one-house Congress has allowed the use of lethal force in case of “imminent danger” in a move to protect the citizenry. President Dina Boluarte has signed the bill into law, it was reported in Lima.
Under the new norm, Peruvians will be able to exercise lethal force in the face of a situation of “imminent danger” or legitimate self-defense and will not face criminal prosecution, it was explained.
The initiative was mooted by Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos of the rightwing party Avanza País, citing insecurity, delinquency, and organized crime concerns. This measure was necessary and that self-defense is “a right that gives us the possibility to protect ourselves and our families,” she argued. |
CA: US judge strikes down California ban on high-capacity gun magazines
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A federal judge in California on Friday declared that state's ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition unconstitutional, saying it violated the Second Amendment rights of firearms owners.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego said California's "sweeping ban" went too far by preventing people from using magazines for lawful purposes, including self-defense.
"The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament of the law-abiding citizen," Benitez wrote in a 71-page decision.
Ed.: The decision is stayed for 10 days pending appeal, so no "Freedom Week" in CA. |
Unlocked Guns in the Home: Arming Criminals Every Day
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Now, in the 21st Century, there is little excuse to leave guns unsecured in the home. We are in the golden age of security technology and devices that lock the firearm away from unauthorized hands but provide quick access to a home defender. Most burglars are not equipped, nor do they have the time, to crack into safes to access firearms during the robbery, but when guns are unsecured, they can be simply picked up and taken. Many armed homeowners point to the need for immediate access to defensive tools as the reason for leaving guns open in the house, but the availability of quick-access safes negates this argument. |
Harris Leading First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
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President Joe Biden appointed the ever-wise Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
As long as that 2nd Amendment is around, they can do nothing. We saw New Mexico Democrats call out the governor over her unconstitutional gun grab. That gave me a little hope.
The White House knows Congress cannot hold this office accountable and in check. Gun control groups are furious because “gun safety laws” are stalled in Congress.
I’m sorry the Second Amendment doesn’t fit your agenda. |
CA: Attorney General Bonta Vows to Appeal District Court Decision on Large-Capacity Magazines
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement in response to a district court decision striking down California’s large-capacity magazine (LCM) ban. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California found the large-capacity magazine ban unconstitutional but granted the Attorney General’s request for a stay of the decision to allow the Attorney General to appeal to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. |
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