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SAF Announces Staff Promotions To Kickstart 2026
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Continuing to fulfill its mission to defend, secure and restore the right to keep and bear arms for all Americans, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has created two new positions and promoted current staff members to fill those roles.
Dana Wilson has been promoted to the role of Director of Development, and Tanner Lineberry will serve as the organization’s new Associate Director of Marketing. |
TN: Criminal defense attorney explains manslaughter charges after suspected burglar killed
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A man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after admitting to police that he shot a burglary suspect.
This happened on Robin Hood Lane in Memphis this Thursday. Marques Griffin, 30, told police he heard a noise in his apartment and found a man in his living room.
According to MPD, Griffin followed the intruder outside and fired three shots as the man ran away.
The suspected burglar died at the hospital.
Phil Harvey, the owner of Harvey Criminal Defense Lawyers, said that based on Griffin’s charges, MPD and the DA’s office decided he did not have a legitimate self-defense claim. |
Amazon Cutting Off Second Amendment Author from Being Able to Sell His Book
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A respected, self-published Second Amendment author reports that Amazon no longer allows new copies of his books to be sold, only used ones, directly denying him to be compensated for his work.
“Note that Amazon has shut down new copy sales of The Origin of the Second Amendment and The Founders’ View of the Right to Bear Arms by limiting access to my publishing storefront, Golden Oak Books,” David E. Young informed his readers on his On Second Opinion blog in December. Any links to Amazon on this page or on my web page, secondamendmentinfo.com, or elsewhere will no longer show sales of new copies from the publisher (these are self-published books). Only used copies are available from Amazon or elsewhere.” |
MA: Man in fatal stabbing claims self-defense
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Cambridge District Court prosecutors on Friday charged Victor J. Rivas with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon leading to serious bodily injury and with carrying a dangerous weapon. Rivas, 51, was involved in an altercation on Tuesday night in an apartment at 116 Norfolk St. in Cambridge that led to a fatality. Rivas pled not guilty through his public defender, who argued that Rivas had acted in self-defense.
Assistant District Attorney Jacob McCrindle told Associate District Court Justice Kareem A. Morgan that the state was continuing to investigate whether a charge of murder or manslaughter was warranted. He said there was some evidence corroborating the defendant’s claim that he had acted in self-defense. |
FL: Tenant charged in deadly Port Charlotte landlord shooting claims self-defense
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Fearing for his life, Ruddy said he fought with the landlord, receiving scratches and bite marks before eventually gaining control of the gun and shooting Martinez Castillo. Ruddy then told the neighbor to call police to explain what happened.
Police discovered Martinez Castillo dead by the rear sliding door and a black semi-automatic handgun on the floor.
Investigators cite evidence of intentional killing
Investigators determined Ruddy intentionally killed Martinez Castillo because the gun malfunctioned at first before he fixed it and fired multiple shots at her. |
MN: Truck driver keeps Second Amendment fight rolling
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A truck driver is keeping his Second Amendment fight alive in an attempt to invalidate a state’s concealed-carry reciprocity gun law.
Long-haul truck drivers with guns face a confusing mix of state laws. Reciprocity laws vary: some states accept permits from others, while some do not. A trucker can be legal in one state but face serious criminal charges once crossing a state line.
Federal legislation to create a uniform reciprocity law has been introduced multiple times in the last 10 years alone. Each time, the bill failed. Two truck drivers decided to tackle the problem in court.
Last January, interstate truck drivers David McCoy II and Jeffrey Johnson Sr. filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota. |
CA: Federal court rules against California's open carry gun ban
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A federal appeals court has ruled that California's ban on openly carrying firearms in large counties violates the Second Amendment, following a case brought by Mark Baird, a resident of rural Siskiyou County.
"My question is to the state of California and to the court. Do we have enumerated rights or don't we?" Baird said. "This has less to do with the gun than it does the liberty. You know, the state is very quick to say, oh, it will return to the Wild West. Well, we could open carry a weapon in 2012. Was that the Wild West? Were the streets running red with blood in 2012, when it was perfectly unremarkable for people to carry an unloaded pistol on their hip and the magazine in their other pocket?" |
Anti-Gun Democrat Senators Lash Out At DOJ’s New Second Amendment Section
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As much as gun-rights activists and pro-rights politicians have embraced the new Second Amendment Section within the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) civil rights division, anti-gun advocates somehow hate the new office even more.
That was made evident by a January 5 letter written to the DOJ by two longtime gun-ban advocates in the U.S. Senate. U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, jointly penned a letter criticizing the new office, which is intended to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights from infringements by all levels of government.
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Venezuela's top thug unwittingly writes an NRA ad for the Second Amendment
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Diosdado Cabello: "The country is calm because the monopoly on arms in Venezuela is held by the State". "Holding the position of arms has allowed us the control so that no group or anyone can claim acts of violence"
Except for him, of course. His violent goon squads and death squads hunt down and kill anyone who dissents with the regime. They also deal drugs as the country's biggest drug lords, closely affiliated with Colombia's FARC and ELN Marxist narcoterrorists. The United Nations has put out entire reports about his death squad regime. And no surprise, in 2017, he sent out hit squads to take out then-Sen. Marco Rubio. |
CA: Federal Government Sides With Gun Owners in Major California Ammunition Case
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The United States Department of Justice has taken an extraordinary step in a Second Amendment case that could reshape firearms regulation nationwide. On January 5, 2026, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed an en banc brief supporting gun owners who are challenging California’s ammunition background check system, declaring the state’s regulatory scheme “straightforwardly unconstitutional.”
The filing marks a dramatic reversal of traditional federal positioning. Rather than defending gun control measures or remaining neutral, the DOJ now argues that California’s Proposition 63 ammunition regime violates the Second Amendment by using bureaucratic complexity as a weapon against lawful gun ownership. |
NC: NC’s ‘Great Refusal’ to sign US Constitution led to Bill of Rights
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Yesterday, you may have noticed that we took the bold (or maybe odd) decision to begin publishing all 85 essays from the Federalist Papers, which, at a rate of one per Thursday, will take us about 85 weeks, if my math is correct. In the context of this project and the 250th anniversary of our nation, it is important to also remember North Carolina’s response to this push to ratify the US Constitution in 1788.
Even if we revere the Constitution now and recognize its genius, not everyone was immediately convinced. Article 7 said that if at least nine of the 13 states ratified the document, it would become effective in those states. |
VA: Virginia Democrats Prepare Sweeping Gun Control Push
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As the Virginia General Assembly prepares for its 2026 session beginning January 14th, gun rights and gun control advocates are gearing up for what promises to be a contentious debate over firearms regulations. Following the 2025 elections, Democrats secured a governing trifecta: control of the House of Delegates (with a strengthened majority), a narrow 21-19 edge in the Senate, and the governorship with Abigail Spanberger set to take office. This shift ends four years of Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoing dozens of gun-related bills, creating space for measures that had previously stalled. |
HI: Hawaii Has Been Called Before the High Court
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Once again, the state of Hawaii is attempting to nullify the Second Amendment within its borders. But, on Jan. 20, in Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a law that makes it a crime to carry a handgun on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission
I use the term “state” to describe Hawaii because, according to my history books, Hawaii joined the Union in 1959, and, in so doing, agreed to be bound by the U.S. Constitution. Sometimes, though, I’m left unsure as to whether Hawaii’s current government knows that. |
VA: Lynchburg teens, stolen guns and car break-ins spark police warning
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Lynchburg police are sounding the alarm on a troubling trend involving young teens, stolen guns, and a surge in car break-ins across the area.
Court documents reveal a 15-year-old EC Glass High School student was involved in a months-long spree of breaking into cars last summer and winter. Disturbingly, the teen even brought a stolen firearm to school.
Capt. Stuart Herndon of the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office stressed the dangers of unsecured guns. “Leaving a firearm in a car is just not a good practice. How many times do you get out of your car, and you might just accidentally leave it unlocked?” |
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