OH: Stabbing incident in Cuyahoga Falls deemed self-defense, police say
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The victim sustained a non-life threatening stab wound to the chest and arm and was transported to Summa Health Akron, according to a police case report.
The suspect stated that he was physically assaulted and believed physical harm would occur before the stabbing, the report said. He sustained injury to his head and hand and was treated on scene.
"During an interview with all individuals, officers determined the assault was self defense," the report said, referring to the stabbing. |
CO: Gun rights lawsuit aims at Colorado’s state & local carry restrictions
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Colorado is facing yet another lawsuit over statewide and local gun rights restrictions, this one challenging the state’s concealed carry permitting and the City of Denver’s open-carry ban.
The latest lawsuit, brought by the National Rifle Association and two out-of-state gun owners, argues that the state and city’s carry laws “together leave otherwise qualified nonresidents who travel to Denver with no lawful means to carry a handgun there for self-defense.”
The complaint marks the latest in a line of recent legal challenges, brought by both gun rights groups and the Trump administration, targeting restrictive gun laws in Colorado.
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VA: A Five-Hour Recording No One Had Examined Ends the First-Degree Murder Case Against a Virginia Pharmacist Who Shot Her Husband
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Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth has dismissed a first-degree murder charge against LaToya Crabbe, a pharmacist and mother of three who fatally shot her husband in October 2024, after prosecutors and Manassas City police investigators listened to a five-hour audio recording that had been sitting unexamined on a device seized during the original investigation.
Ashworth announced the dismissal on Friday, Aug. 14, as reported by Prince William Times, saying her office acted after prosecutors and investigators “accessed a previously unexamined audio recording recovered from a digital device seized during the investigation.” |
FL: Florida Woman Kills Ex Who Found Where She Lived, Five Months After His Father’s Murder Case Closed Without a Trial
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A woman shot and killed 31-year-old Maurice Wright Jr. at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex Wednesday night and told Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives she fired in self-defense during a physical attack. Deputies took her in for questioning and then released her. She has not been charged.
Wright was arrested in 2022 and charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his sleeping father. That case closed in March 2026 without ever going to trial, and a review of his record turned up a lengthy criminal history that includes aggravated battery, as reported by Local 10. The woman who fired has not been publicly identified. |
Speakers, Topics Announced for GRPC Pre-Conference Media Event
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The annual Alternative Mass Media Conference (AMM-Con) planning committee has announced speakers and topics for the annual event slated to be held prior to the start of the 41st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC).
Co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, GRPC will run from Sept. 25 – 27 at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport hotel. The AMM-Con pre-conference event will take place starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. |
TX: Federal Judge Rules Biden-Era ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule Unconstitutional
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A federal judge in Texas has ruled that two key provisions of the ATF’s Biden-era “ghost gun” rule violate the Second Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment.
Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor issued the 29-page Opinion & Order Monday in Defense Distributed v. Blanche, the latest round in a case that has already been to the Supreme Court.
O’Connor declared 27 C.F.R. §§ 478.11 and 478.12(c) unconstitutional and said they cannot be enforced against Defense Distributed, the Second Amendment Foundation, or SAF’s current and future members. |
Gun-control orgs fearmongering about suppressors use word games to attack gun rights
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United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix’s ruling that the registration and paperwork requirements for suppressors required by the National Firearms Act (NFA) were unconstitutional took effect at 1:00 a.m. EDT on August 13 after the United States Department of Justice elected to not seek an extension of a stay on his ruling. In a lengthy screed posted on Substack Thursday, Brady United President Kris Brown claimed that the Trump administration was “systematically dismantling the safeguards” that had driven a major reduction in crime, calling suppressors “silencers.”
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Brady United: 5 Straight Crushing Losses Push Gun-Ban Group To The Brink Of Irrelevance
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The press release writer at Brady United, formerly named Handgun Control Inc., has been working overtime lately. And a quick look at the gun-ban group’s web page reveals that you’d have to be a masochist to work at the organization in today’s Second Amendment climate.
In recent days, Brady and other gun-ban advocates have been handed loss after loss, both in court and by the U.S. Department of Justice. And while the home page at Bady’s website proudly states, “We’re freeing America from gun violence,” a look at the “News” page shows that the group has taken it on the chin again and again, and all they can do is whine about it. |
CA: Liberal-Leaning Court Says Anti-Gun Group Had No Right To Sue Over Biden Admin Rule
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A federal appeals court with a liberal reputation shot down a lawsuit by California and an anti-Second Amendment group Friday, saying they lacked standing in a case involving so-called “ghost guns.”
A three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit brought by Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Giffords Law Center against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) demanding tighter regulations on so-called “ghost guns” should be dismissed for lack of standing. Circuit Judges Consuelo M. Callahan, Holly A. Thomas and Anthony D. Johnstone found that the evidence presented cut against the theory presented by Bonta and Giffords. |
CA: Court Dismisses Lawsuit on Ghost Gun Rule Tightness
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he 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a lawsuit by California and the Giffords advocacy group, who challenged the adequacy of a ghost gun regulation measure from the Biden administration. The judges unanimously agreed that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate that the regulation caused them harm.
This decision arrived just days after a Texas judge declared the rule unconstitutional, citing the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The controversial rule concerns the regulation of partially completed firearm components that can be assembled into functional weapons. |
KS: Winfield resident shocked by Kansas lawmaker’s response to her plea for gun safety
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Spoon said she was aware before the shooting that her neighbor, Ronald Williams Sr., was a registered sex offender and convicted felon. She said she was aware that he was capable of violent crime, based on police calls to the house and interactions people had with Williams in the community. “The fact that Kansas has loopholes in gun laws that allow felons to have guns in their possession just doesn’t really make sense to me, especially when they have particularly violent personal crimes,” she said. |
AL: Alabama-based pro-2A gun group warns Flock cameras a path to ‘hard registry’ of gun owners
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Gun rights advocate Taylor Rhodes moved his family from Colorado to Alabama, largely to live in a state that values individual God-given rights and freedoms; now he’s working with BamaCarry, Alabama's largest state-based organization devoted to supporting the Second Amendment, to fight what he sees as one of the threats to these freedoms: Flock Safety cameras.
Recently, Rhodes noticed a Flock camera suspiciously close to his neighborhood in Hoover. Soon, he’d notice more of them, leading him to research the cameras and the information they collect and store. |
State Laws Curb No-Gun Policies for Employers’ Parking Lots
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--A growing number of states have passed laws allowing citizens to have guns in locked cars in employer parking lots and preventing employers from firing or disciplining employees who do so.
--Private businesses, such as shops, movie theaters, and gyms, may post signs indicating guns are not allowed inside.
--Many state laws include an exception allowing employers and property owners to ban guns on the premises of government buildings, courts, schools, polling places, correctional institutions, businesses involved in national defense, other places prohibited pursuant to any federal law or contract, and/or in company-owned or company-leased vehicles. |
Wyden and Merkley introduce bill to block domestic abusers from buying guns
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U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined Congressional colleagues Friday to introduce legislation aimed at preventing domestic abusers from legally obtaining firearms.
The Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act would prohibit individuals subject to temporary restraining orders from purchasing or possessing firearms. The bill also extends federal protections to domestic violence survivors who have been abused by dating partners.
The legislation is named in memory of Jackson, a mother killed by her estranged husband who legally purchased a handgun while under a temporary restraining order. |
MT: How to Lose 33 Grand, Your Guns, and Your Dignity
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Building a social media persona as a master woodsman is tough to pull off when your entire highlight reel is fueled by illegal activity across seventeen states. According to a recent Fish and Wildlife article, Carter J. Hickey, a twenty-one-year-old from Ohio, treated game regulations like suggestions—spotlighting game from vehicles, ignoring bag limits, poaching out of season, and bragging about it all on TikTok. After a wave of public tips sparked a coordinated multi-state investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife agencies, Hickey’s outlaw run ended in court with guilty pleas to seventeen wildlife crimes and thousands in fines for his accomplices. |
CO: Think you own your land? A 100-year-old loophole says state agents can walk right in
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While the concern of urban dwellers may be on the threat to privacy posed by Flock cameras, those in the wide-open spaces that constitute most of Colorado fear the menace posed by a 102-year-old, wrongly decided, but unanimous, ruling of the Supreme Court. Under a 1924 opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who eschewed detailed facts and extolled short opinions, the Fourth Amendment (“persons, houses, papers and effects”) protects only a man’s castle and the curtilage, or outbuildings. Thus, surrounding “open fields” are not constitutionally protected from law enforcement, in the case Holmes decided, “revenuers” searching for unpaid federal liquor taxes. |
Guns.com Customers Score Big Wins in Inaugural Vault Auctions
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Guns.com launched its inaugural Vault Auction earlier this month, and those who participated scored some incredible deals on rare, collectible firearms. From revolvers that made history, like the Colt Bisley and the Smith & Wesson Chief's Special, to a 1980s pre-import-ban Daewoo K1A1 rifle, our winning bidders claimed some hard-to-find items at some very competitive prices.
Check out the prices realized on 10 of our premier Vault Auction firearms below. |
CA: California fails to convince Ninth Circuit on ghost gun issue
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday sided with the federal government on an issue involving ghost guns, sending the case back to a lower court with instructions to dismiss it after finding California and a gun prevention organization suffered no injury.
The panel found California and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence had no standing to challenge a final rule created by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. |
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