OH: Everytown: Ohio law could reflect ATF policy on 'crime guns'
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Ohio firearms owners could have the same guidelines as the federal government when it comes to buying and possessing short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and firearms suppressors.
Senate Bill 214 removes firearm suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns from Ohio’s definition of dangerous ordnance. Supporters said it brings Ohio state law in alignment with federal law.
Last month, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ended enforcement of certain registration and approval requirements for firearms suppressors and short-barreled firearms. |
Atrius Upgrades Corporate Partner Level, Donates Rifle For November Sweeps
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Atrius Development Group has upgraded its corporate partnership to the Platinum level and donated a rifle for the organization’s November sweepstakes.
“Strong advocacy is essential to the future of our industry,” said Atrius Founder and CEO Ryan Spadafore. “SAF plays an important role in protecting the constitutional rights of Americans, supporting lawful business and ensuring our industry can continue to innovate and compete. Atrius is proud to stand with SAF in defending the Second Amendment and the future of our industry.” |
‘Kill a cop’: Leftists see gun charges dropped due to conservative Second Amendment push
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President Donald Trump’s policy to stop enforcing a gun law has been a gift to conservative Second Amendment advocates — and, now, to three alleged leftist militants searched by Alabama police.
Grand jurors indicted roommates Levi Belcher, Anthony Slota, and Tadashi Erekson on Oct. 5 after officials linked Belcher to online threats against immigration agents and allegedly found weapons in their home. The Justice Department motioned on Oct. 29 to dismiss all three of the men’s charges of possessing a short-barreled rifle, and a judge has already approved the dismissals for Slota and Erekson. Belcher still faces a threatening communications charge, while the other two have no more federal counts. |
MS: Scott Colom on Why Democrats Need to Rethink the South
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The Friday before the election, I flew to Memphis and then drove to Tupelo, Mississippi, for an end-of-campaign rally. Bill Clinton, James Carville and Mitch Landrieu were all headed there in a show of neighboring state solidarity on behalf of Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom. There were a handful of local reporters perched in the balcony of an old church sanctuary turned event space, but I was the only person present from the national press corps.
Everyone there was acutely aware of how hard it would be to topple a Republican senator and elect a Black man in Mississippi. |
GOA Celebrates 50 Years of No-Compromise Fighting for Gun Rights
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Gun Owners of America (GOA) is celebrating 50 years of standing for the Second Amendment with No Compromise. Founded in 1976 by the late California State Senator H.L. "Bill" Richardson, GOA was established to give gun owners a stronger voice against those seeking to restrict their constitutional rights.
Over the past five decades, GOA has helped lead the fight against some of the most significant attacks on the Second Amendment. From opposing the Brady Act and the federal Assault Weapons Ban to fighting gun confiscations following Hurricane Katrina, GOA has remained committed to defending the rights of all Americans. |
GA: Man openly carries AR-15-style rifle through downtown Savannah, sparking mixed reactions
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A man carrying an AR-15-style rifle openly through downtown Savannah is drawing mixed reactions from residents and visitors, raising questions about gun rights, public safety and Georgia’s open-carry laws.
Cody Tlacuatl told WSAV his decision to walk through the city with the rifle is about exercising his Second Amendment rights. Saying people he’s encountered have largely been positive.
“When I walked in Savannah open carrying my rifle, everybody that I had an interaction with, they loved it,” Tlacuatl said.
However, people downtown Savannah who WSAV spoke with had differing opinions about seeing a rifle carried openly in a busy downtown area. |
Demetrio Daga worried most about his two young boys
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Demetrio Daga is not doing well in New York’s Albany County jail, especially last week when his son Dimitri had his 8th birthday.
When Daga turned eight, his father was in the very same jail, but he was facing drug charges.
“When I turned eight, I got a letter from my father from the very facility I am now in,” Daga said this week. “Now, I’m here in some twisted nightmare and my son is in the same situation I was in. It’s a punch in the gut.”
Daga never heard from his father after that, which is not what he wants for his two young boys. |
SAF Files Brief with Supreme Court in Response to Cook County's Effort to Quash "Assault Weapons" Case
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a response brief with the Supreme Court in Viramontes v. Cook County responding to Cook County's effort to moot the case.
In late October, the lead plaintiff in SAF's landmark "assault weapons" ban case, Mr. Viramontes, asked to be dismissed from the case. Following that request, Cook County filed a brief with the Supreme Court suggesting the case should be mooted and dismissed. Today, SAF and its partners replied to Cook County and explained to the Court why the case should continue. |
The Second Amendment has become a security blanket
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El-Sayed is far from the first to boast about the rising concentration of Arab and Muslim populations in states like Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas. Americans have routinely criticized Europeans for their lack of action as their homelands are transformed by Muslim immigration. They have often stated that a similar phenomenon could never happen here because Americans are well armed thanks to the Second Amendment. |
MN: New blue state governor sold herself as a moderate, she’s already pushing gun control
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Minnesota Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar is already drawing fire for remarks suggesting she will erode Second Amendment rights once she takes office.
The longtime Democrat senator won the gubernatorial election last week, easily beating Republican Lisa Demuth in the solidly blue state, and will replace scandal-drenched “Tampon” Tim Walz, who had become a mockery.
Klobuchar’s recipe for success was based on the perception that she is a moderate, but an early push for gun control measures has some suggesting that she is just another wild-eyed leftist who deceptively packaged herself for voters. |
OH: Bill removing certain weapons from Ohio's 'dangerous ordnance' list sent to DeWine
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State lawmakers have sent to Gov. Mike DeWine a bill that removes short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns from a list of weapons that are heavily restricted in Ohio and require registration and special licenses. But it’s a change from the original bill, which just removed suppressors from the state's dangerous ordnance list.
Rep. Tex Fischer (R-Canfield) said Senate Bill 214 is the next step for Ohio after what was known as the One Big Beautiful Bill was signed by President Trump last year. That law eliminated the transfer tax on those weapons. |
DOJ Sues Glendale, California Over Concealed Carry Permits Costing Up to $2,106, Psych Exams and Social Media Reviews
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The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Glendale on Monday, Nov. 9, over concealed carry permit costs and a permitting process it says violate the Second Amendment. United States v. City of Glendale, Case No. 2:26-cv-13098, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California as a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. That is the kind of case that asks a judge to declare a policy unlawful and order it stopped.
Last month I covered the Civil Rights Division’s warning letter giving Glendale until Nov. 4 to come to the table or face a lawsuit. The complaint is now on file, and its fee math puts the cost of carrying in Glendale at about $54 a month. |
OR: "Felt like the right thing to do": Silver Rail dad has his guns turned into garden tools
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A Silver Rail Elementary parent turned in three firearms to be converted into garden tools Wednesday, saying the Oct. 15 shooting changed how he felt about keeping guns in his home. A Bend church is hosting another event for the public this weekend.
Tim Ballard turned over his guns -- a handgun, an AR-15 and a shotgun -- to Antioch Church, which runs regular events called Guns to Gardens.
"I respect the role that guns play in the community and keeping us safe. But at the same time, this is the only place where it happens. And so I felt like, you know, I may not be able to change everything, but I can do something. And this felt like the right thing to do," Tim Ballard said.
His daughter was at Silver Rail the day of the shooting. |
IL: Chicago police aren't going after domestic abusers' guns despite state law
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Her requests were granted. And the Chicago Police Department was sent a search warrant, which officers had 96 hours to execute.
But that didn’t happen. Instead, a cop was back in court two days later to ask the judge to drop the warrant, according to a transcript of that hearing.
The officer argued that too much time had passed since Dominique last saw her ex-boyfriend’s gun, saying that made it difficult for police to “conclusively say that that firearm remains in the location.” |
NY: Tossed in 2024, Revived in 2026: Second Circuit Sends NYC’s One-Gun Carry Limit and 90-Day Purchase Wait Back for a History Test
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Three gun owners challenging New York City’s one-gun carry limit, its 90-day wait between handgun purchases, and its old two-handgun cap on carry licenses got those claims back on Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a federal judge was wrong to throw them out and sent them back to the district court. There, the city will have to show each rule fits the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.
The plaintiffs are Charles Mills of Queens, Craig Sotomayor of Nassau County, and Braden Holliday of the Bronx. They sued in August 2022, and U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed the entire case on Dec. 5, 2024. |
Supreme Court Rejects 22 Gun Rights Cases, Leaving Major Firearm Restrictions in Place
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected 22 gun rights cases on November 9, 2026, declining to review challenges to lifetime firearm prohibitions, misdemeanor-based gun bans, and restrictions imposed before a criminal conviction. The decisions leave several significant Second Amendment questions unresolved, even as the justices prepare to hear a landmark challenge to bans on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.
Washington Gun Law President William Kirk highlighted the sweeping denials in a November 10 video, examining the cases rejected by the justices and several important Second Amendment challenges that remain pending. |
NM: New Mexico Defies Court Ruling as Gun Rights Battle Heads Back to Court
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NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed a preliminary injunction motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, seeking to block enforcement of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s law requiring a seven-day “cooling-off” waiting period to take legal possession of a lawfully purchased firearm after the buyer has passed a federally mandated National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check. NSSF, earlier this week, filed a legal challenge to the law. |
SAF Promises Lawsuits If Newly Elected Democrats Pass More Gun Restrictions
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Democrats, who just took control of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate with a big win in the midterm elections and won control of several more state Houses and Senates, have a lot of gun control plans for the upcoming legislative sessions.
And one major gun-rights group has some plans of its own—taking things to court if any of those plans should become law. The Second Amendment Foundation took to social media on the day after the election to warn newly elected Democrat lawmakers that any infringements on the right to keep and bear arms will be answered by a lawsuit. |
SAF Tells the Supreme Court Viramontes Should Continue After Cook County Pushes for Dismissal
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The Second Amendment Foundation has answered Cook County at the U.S. Supreme Court. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, SAF and its partners filed a response brief arguing that Viramontes v. Cook County should continue, according to SAF’s announcement.
I covered the lead plaintiff’s exit and the county’s push to end the case in He Wanted a Smith and Wesson AR-15. Now He Wants Out of the Case and Cook County Wants the Whole Thing Dismissed. What has changed is that SAF has now filed its reply. Cook County wants the case declared moot. A moot case is one with no live dispute left to decide, and it ends without a ruling on whether the law is constitutional. |
CO: State Of Colorado, Denver Offer Contradictory Responses Over Gun-Carry Bans
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Colorado and Denver appeared to contradict each other Wednesday while responding to a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case involving out-of-state residents carrying firearms for self-defense.
The Firearms Policy Coalition sued both the state and the city of Denver over what it calls an “effective ban” on out-of-state residents carrying firearms for personal protection in September, updating their complaint on Oct. 6. In their responses to the FPC’s motion for a preliminary injunction, Colorado, Denver and the Denver District Attorney appeared to point the finger at laws they claimed allowed for non-residents to carry. |
Clerk Who Fought Off Armed Robbers Quits Over Circle K Gun Ban
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Remember the Ohio convenience store clerk who opened fire on a crew of robbers after they drove a stolen minivan straight through the storefront where he worked?
He’s done working for Circle K, and the way the company handled things is exactly what you’d expect from a corporation with a strict “no weapons at work” policy.
Watson wasn’t charged with any crime for defending himself. Prosecutors didn’t go after him. His employer, on the other hand, took a different view.
The Monday after the shooting, Watson says his boss sent a text ordering him to stay home and letting him know his name had been pulled from the schedule. He initially figured it was temporary. |
OH: Rep. King Votes in Support of Senate Bill, Aligns Ohio with Federal Gun Laws
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State Representative Angie King (R-Celina) on Tuesday voted in support of Senate Bill 214 – legislation to remove firearm suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns from Ohio’s definition of dangerous ordnance in alignment with federal law.
“I was proud to vote YES on Senate Bill 214 to bring Ohio law in line with federal law and protect the Second Amendment rights of Ohioans,” said King. “I have always been a strong supporter of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and I will continue to stand up for the freedoms of law-abiding citizens.” |
CO: FPC Slams Colorado, Denver's "Wizard of Oz" Defense: "Pay No Attention to the Gun Ban Behind the Curtain"
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In their November 11 filings, the defendants attempt to defend their unconstitutional carry restrictions by pointing fingers at each other and asking the court to ignore the combined effect of their laws. Colorado argues that its laws permit open carry, conveniently ignoring Denver's prohibition on open carry. Denver, meanwhile, claims that FPC member and plaintiff Gene Hoffman's non-Colorado carry permits authorize him to carry concealed, even though Colorado refuses to recognize those permits for a California resident. |
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