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FL: Fort Lauderdale- Armed Renter Stops Two Armed Burglars
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At around six in the evening, an hour before sunset, two armed men broke into a Fort Lauderdale home. The home was rented as a bed and breakfast.
How does that news story apply to us? Suppose you keep your self-defense firearm in your bedroom. If you're in the back of your home and you hear your front door being broken down, then you start your home defense with a fistfight.
That isn't how we practice. |
MI: Prosecutor holds off on charges in deadly Portage stabbing amid self-defense questions
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Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Getting is holding off on filing charges against a Portage homeowner who police say stabbed a man to death who was trying to break into his car.
The homeowner, who was held at the Kalamazoo County Jail on an open murder charge, is being released while Portage Public Safety continues investigating, according to Getting.
Getting tells News Channel 3 his office is declining to make an immediate charging decision as investigators review whether the stabbing was legally justified as self-defense. |
Bruen’s Footnote 9 Not a Carve-Out from Text and History
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It then inserted footnote 9 to that statement, explaining that “nothing in our analysis should be interpreted to suggest the unconstitutionality of the 43 States’ ‘shall-issue’ licensing regimes, under which “a general desire for self-defense is sufficient to obtain a [permit].” However, the Court warned that “because any permitting scheme can be put toward abusive ends, we do not rule out constitutional challenges to shall-issue regimes where, for example, lengthy wait times in processing license applications or exorbitant fees deny ordinary citizens their right to public carry.” |
Bear shooting in Granby renews debate over Connecticut regulations
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A Granby man has been charged with killing a black bear that he says was going after his chickens, reigniting a debate in Connecticut over bear encounters and what homeowners should be allowed to do to protect livestock and property.
The man said the bear had a history of going after his livestock and had become more aggressive. He was charged with the illegal harvesting of a bear under a law passed in 2023.
People who live in Granby said they have watched the bear population grow, and conflicts with humans increase. The state also noted an increase in human-bear conflicts in its State of the Bears report this year, with unsecured trash and bird feeders among the factors driving encounters. Backyard chickens remain another concern. |
SAF Urges Supreme Court To Reject Lifetime Gun Bans For Nonviolent Felons
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) joined the National Rifle Association in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Johnson v. United States, urging the Court to review the Tenth Circuit’s decision upholding a lifetime federal firearms ban for nonviolent felons.
Joseph Frederick Johnson is challenging 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) as applied to a peaceable person. The Tenth Circuit treated Heller’s reference to “presumptively lawful” felon prohibitions as conclusive and foreclosed an as-applied challenge. The brief argues that Bruen and Rahimi require every arms regulation – including those Heller called “presumptively lawful” – to be justified by historical tradition. |
NRA Files Amicus Brief Urging SCOTUS to Hear Challenge to Ban on Firearms Possession by Nonviolent Felons
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Today, the National Rifle Association, joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the federal lifetime prohibition on firearms possession by nonviolent felons.
A firearm regulation is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's Second Amendment test unless the government proves that it is consistent with America's historical tradition of firearm regulation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, however, has never applied the Supreme Court's test to the federal prohibition on firearm possession by felons and precludes any challenge to the law—regardless of the nature of the offense or how long ago it occurred. |
FL: Byron Donalds faces FAMU students over gun safety
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“As governor, would you support legislation that allows firearms on Florida’s colleges and universities, campuses, and what is your overall strategy for student safety?” asked a student.
Donalds who used to attend the university, said campus safety is best achieved through law enforcement and security measures.
“You’re told a 19-year-old in our state that you can go to jail as an adult, you can go to war in our military, but in Florida you’re not allowed to buy a rifle or a shotgun. That’s the law in Florida today. I voted against that because the Second Amendment is non-negotiable.”
The event was led by FAMU students and at times turned tense, so much so that the fire alarm even went off. |
Gun Rights Groups Ask Supreme Court to End Lifetime Gun Bans for Nonviolent Felons
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Joseph Frederick Johnson has never been convicted of a violent offense. According to Firearms Policy Coalition, his sole predicate conviction is a 2015 state marijuana-cultivation offense. Yet federal law permanently bars him from possessing firearms or ammunition.
Now the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, and Second Amendment Foundation are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his challenge, and confront whether a nonviolent conviction can justify stripping a peaceable American of his Second Amendment rights for life. |
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| We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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