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When Self-Defense Shapes Probable Cause- Third Circuit Raises the Stakes in Kendig v. Stolar
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In a significant Fourth Amendment decision, the Third Circuit held in Kendig v. Stolar, 2026 WL 1145264, that law enforcement may, in certain circumstances, be required to include known affirmative-defense evidence in probable cause affidavits submitted in support of arrest warrants.
This case arose after Corey Kendig shot and killed a man during a late-night altercation outside a Pennsylvania bar. Kendig claimed that he acted in self-defense after being outnumbered, attacked first, and placed in a chokehold during the confrontation. Surveillance footage and witness accounts supported portions of that account. |
IN: Prosecutor: Weekend Double Homicide in Anderson was Self-Defense
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A double homicide in Anderson from over the weekend has been determined as self-defense.
The Madison County Prosecutor’s Office sent out a press release on Wednesday, stating that 41-year-old John Christopher Worley, who had been preliminarily charged with murder in the Saturday night stabbing and shooting deaths of Koty L. Riall, 37, and his father, Rodney D. Riall, 58, will not face formal charges.
According to Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings, the decision not to criminally charge Worley was made after a thorough review of evidence, witness statements, and applicable Indiana law. The case could be reviewed again if more evidence emerges. |
VA: SAF Files Lawsuit Challenging Newly Passed Assault Weapons Ban In Virginia
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Following closely on the heels of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signing new gun control legislation into law, the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have filed a lawsuit challenging the commonwealth’s new bans on “assault firearms” and large-capacity magazines.
Gov. Spanberger signed into law a ban on so-called “assault firearms” declaring that “…any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.” The law further defines an “assault firearm” as a semiautomatic rifle chambered in any caliber besides .22 rimfire or one that contains a litany of common features such as a collapsing stock, pistol grip, threaded barrel or more. |
NH: Senate passes bill to allow faculty, not students, to carry guns on campus
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The New Hampshire Senate on May 14 passed a bill that would allow faculty — but not students — to carry weapons on the state's college campuses.
The original bill, HB 1793, would have barred public colleges and universities in New Hampshire from regulating firearm possession across campuses, in addition to non-lethal weapons such as pepper spray, mace, stun guns and tasers. It would’ve allowed students to carry guns on campuses. |
NH: Senate GOP Compromise Turns Campus Carry into ‘Packing Professors’
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Farrington responded to the gutting of his legislation via social media.
“I’m disappointed by the decision of Senate Republicans to categorically deny college students of their natural rights. There’s no reason to allow professor carry but not student carry,” Farrington wrote.
“College students are legal adults, and they are not second-class citizens.”
Sen. Bill Gannon, R-Sandown, who offered the amendment, said senators heard “extensive testimony on both sides” and called his legislation “the balanced path forward.” |
DOJ Targets D.C. AR-15 & Suppressor Bans as Second Amendment Civil Rights Violations
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The Trump Justice Department just sharpened its attack on Washington, D.C.’s gun-control regime, and this time the target is bigger than a single bad law.
In a First Amended Complaint filed May 14, 2026, the United States argues that the District of Columbia, its Metropolitan Police Department, and Acting Police Chief Jeffrey Carroll are violating the Second Amendment by enforcing local laws that ban AR-15-style rifles and suppressors. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asks a federal judge to declare those bans unconstitutional and block D.C. from enforcing them. |
NH: Lawmakers to decide the fate of the Campus Carry bill
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Lawmakers Thursday will be tasked with deciding the fate of a proposed Campus Carry Bill that would allow citizens to carry weapons on college campus who receive state funding; however, its exact fate remains questionable after lawmakers indicated it’s headed for study.
Due to the fact that House Bill 1793’s future looks like it’s headed for defeat, the bill’s sponsor, Rep.Sam Farrington R-Rochester has an apparent backup plan that would transform his legislation to an amendment to a bill that’s already passed the Senate which would mandate that insures cover activity-specific prosthetic devices. |
Second Amendment Must be Safeguarded Against Overreach
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Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement held a hearing on “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment” During the hearing, members discussed the history and purpose of the Tiahrt Amendment and the consequences of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ prior failures to abide by it. The hearing also examined the ATF’s track record protecting Second Amendment rights. |
Higgins Opens Hearing on Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment
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Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement Chairman Clay Higgins (R-La.) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on “Privacy Protections & the Second Amendment: Examining ATF’s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment.” In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Higgins highlighted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’s (ATF) history of abusing the Tiahrt Amendment and disregarding the Second Amendment under the Biden Administration. He also expressed hope that the Trump Administration would end the Biden ATF’s most destructive regulations. |
Trump administration remains unreliable Second Amendment ally
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Those groups now have a powerful ally in the Trump administration, which has filed several lawsuits aimed at vindicating Americans’ gun rights, including two filed last week in Colorado. But even as the Justice Department advertises its commitment to defending the Second Amendment, its position in other gun cases belies that stance.
The Colorado lawsuits involve the state’s 15-round magazine limit and Denver’s “assault weapon” ban. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, argues that both laws are unconstitutional for the same reason: They ban arms “in common use” for “lawful purposes,” which the Supreme Court has said are covered by the Second Amendment, ... |
GA: Advocates for gun safety measures cheer Georgia governor’s veto
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Gov. Brian Kemp has vetoed a bill that would have blocked local governments from punishing motorists for keeping firearms unsecured in parked cars.
Senate Bill 204 targeted ordinances like one passed in Savannah that makes motorists liable for up to a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail for leaving a gun in an unlocked vehicle.
In a statement, Kemp said he was vetoing the legislation because it would open law enforcement officers to lawsuits for enforcing the rules even though they had no say in enacting them. |
VA: Virginia Governor Signs 'Assault Weapon' Ban Into Law, Gets Sued Immediately
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Almost before the governor's ink was dry on a ban of popular semi-auto firearms and standard capacity magazines, the Virginia state government was hit with a lawsuit challenging the prohibition.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a former Everytown volunteer with an anti-gun record in Congress, signed SB 749 into law on Thursday. The controversial bill was muscled through the Virginia General Assembly by a thin Democrat majority bolstered by the fact that one in five of the Democrat majority seats in the state House are held by Moms Demand Action volunteers backed by the organization for office last year. |
Muskets Like Those From 1776 Are Mostly Exempt From Today’s Gun Laws
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With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second.
Imagine what that can do to a human body. Now, imagine that it’s almost completely exempt from gun regulations.
How can that be? Well, under federal and most state laws, many antique or replica guns aren’t technically considered firearms. In most places, even convicted felons can own them. |
NC: Ruger Moves Corporate HQ from CT to Gun-Friendly North Carolina
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Reports indicate that Ruger has shifted its headquarters from the state where it was founded to one more closely aligned with the Second Amendment.
Famously founded in 1949 in a small red barn in Southport, Connecticut, by William B. Ruger and Alexander McCormick Sturm, the now publicly traded firearms giant has moved its headquarters to Mayodan, North Carolina. The move, which was official in January, was confirmed by the Hartford Business Journal this week.
Ruger has long had a footprint in the Tar Heel State, with Bill Ruger attending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the 1930s before he went to work for the U.S. arsenal at Springfield Armory in World War II. |
ATF Posts Draft Document Acknowledging Medical Cannabis Scheduling Change
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has posted online a draft version of federal form 4473 (Firearm Transaction Record) revising the definition of an “unlawful” drug user.
Historically, the agency has defined any person with a history of cannabis use as an “unlawful user” and legally prohibited them from lawfully purchasing or possessing a firearm. The revised form acknowledges that this prohibition no longer applies to those who exclusively consume state-authorized medical cannabis products, which the Justice Department recently reclassified from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. |
CT: What Problem Does The Glock Ban Actually Solve?
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I was disappointed to see criticism of Representative Mitch Bolinsky for voting against Connecticut’s proposed Glock ban. Whether someone supports or opposes gun control generally, this particular proposal deserves honest scrutiny.
Connecticut already has a 10-round magazine limit. Supporters of the bill argue the ban improves public safety because certain pistols could theoretically be converted to automatic fire with illegal aftermarket devices. But those conversion devices are already illegal under federal law, and automatic weapons themselves are already heavily prohibited.
The practical question is simple: how much additional safety is actually gained? |
Trump administration is a powerful but unreliable ally of Second Amendment advocates
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Last December, Dhillon deployed the same argument against the District of Columbia’s “assault weapon” ban in another lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Division’s newly established Second Amendment Section. Although federal appeals courts so far have not been receptive to such challenges, at least four Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch — seem inclined to agree with Dhillon.
That suggests the Supreme Court may soon weigh in on the constitutionality of “assault weapon” bans, which typically target rifles based on arbitrarily disfavored features such as pistol grips, folding stocks and flash suppressors. |
The fact of the matter
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In United States v. Hemani ... there are factual questions about the behaviors of habitual drug users. The answer to these questions matters because the court has held that the “Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation” permits the government to temporarily disarm individuals found “to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another.” Can Congress make a categorical judgment that those who abuse drugs pose this sort of danger? If it does, then how closely should a court scrutinize that finding? Or does the Second Amendment demand that a jury “make an individualized finding about whether somebody’s use is impacting their day-to-day life” in a way that makes them a threat to others? |
JagerWerks Adds Aimpoint COA Milling Service for Glocks
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If you've got a standard-frame or Slimline Glock without an optic cut and you've been wanting to run an Aimpoint Acro, JagerWerks just added a service that's worth knowing about. The Michigan-based slide shop has launched the Aimpoint COA cut, a direct-milling service that opens up the Acro P-1, P-2, and other Acro-footprint optics on Glocks that weren't set up for it from the factory. |
The Guns That Fought for Sicily - Operation Husky's Hidden Arsenal
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A few days off in Sicily are never just a few days off, not if you're the type of person who writes for TFB. The island is absolutely saturated with World War II history, but apart from a pillbox here and there, you won’t notice it unless you go looking for it. But sooner or later, any visit to southeastern Sicily will bring you within reach of Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia 1943, located in Modica in the province of Ragusa. I made the time, and it was worth it. Here’s my article focused on the firearms carried by the soldiers, as well as a visit to the Machine Gun Room. |
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