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WA: Edmonds City Council votes to appeal gun storage law ruling
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The debate over whether the city of Edmonds can tell its residents how to store their guns isn’t over.
The City Council narrowly passed a resolution Tuesday night to appeal a decision made by a Snohomish County Superior Court judge that ruled the city’s mandate on gun storage violated state law.
In a 4-3 vote, the motion to appeal passed, but members were split on whether the city has the authority to enforce the law that requires gun owners to keep their firearms locked up and inaccessible to others, especially children.
Shortly after the gun storage law was passed in July 2018, three Edmonds residents, with the help of the National Rifle Association and Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, filed a lawsuit against the city. |
PA: Amend Stand Your Ground law, don't repeal it
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Florida law clearly states SYG may be invoked upon a reasonable belief that “such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.” Florida’s SYG law conforms to traditional common law notions of self-defense that it is a “reasonable” not “actual” belief that deadly force is required. In contrast, Pennsylvania’s SYG law, as written, essentially requires an “actual” belief since the defender must see the weapon before acting.
Despite Sen. Santarsiero’s inapt comparison to Florida, Pennsylvania’s SYG law does not need to be repealed. It needs to be amended so that the statutory language includes a reasonable belief of an imminent display or use of a deadly weapon. |
Gun Sales Spike as Major Gun Company Splits Into Two
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Two gun-industry organizations report that October 2019’s gun sales spiked 10 percent compared to October 2018’s firearm sales. This also marks the third month in a row of an increase in gun sales, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) used data gathered from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The FBI’s system processes the background checks needed to buy guns from federally licensed dealers and includes information on every sale of a new gun made in America. The researchers filtered out checks that didn’t result in a gun purchase. |
IL: Guns make it easy to kill
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Threats are real. Far too many will kill (or steal) to get what they want. But guns and wars tend to cause more problems than they solve.
Self-defense is a right that must have strict conditions and limits. The concept of a preemptive strike must not be used as an excuse for aggression.
One should not let fear govern. More guns being carried compound the problem. |
CA: How California Got Tough On Guns
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That soon changed. The Panthers' efforts to "police the police" already had led Republican Assemblyman Don Mulford to propose legislation to ban the "open carry" of loaded firearms within California cities and towns. After the Panthers showed up in the Capitol, his bill sailed through and was signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan. (Yes, that Reagan). It's hard to say which now seems more unlikely: that two dozen revolutionaries could legally stroll into the state Assembly chamber with semi-automatic rifles, or that a Republican governor would champion stricter gun control. |
IL: Gun Control Adds to the Death Toll in Illinois
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Democrat legislators in Illinois make it hard for honest citizens to protect themselves. Illinois government is controlled by Chicago politicians, and, sadly, those politicians like gun-prohibition. They say their laws makes all of us safer. Facts say otherwise. Illinois politicians claim gun-control is “for the children” but we can count the bodies of the dead and injured who are the real victims of gun control. |
VA: More Craziness: Now “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” Are a Thing
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The Campbell County Board of Supervisors has voted to declare the county a “second amendment sanctuary.” It’s not clear from this WDBJ article exactly what that entails, but Wikipedia defines a second-amendment sanctuary as a jurisdiction that does not expend resources to enforce gun control measures perceived to violate the Second Amendment. The movement, which is particularly widespread in the West, is analogous to the “sanctuary city” movement in which local law enforcement refuses cooperate with federal authorities in detaining illegal immigrants.
Ed.: A nice graphic of the geographic extent of US sanctuaries. |
WA: Seattle Judge Rules Against State Department, Free Speech in 3D code
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On 12 November, 2019, another semi-retired District Judge, in the Western District of Washington (Seattle), continued the judicial resistance against the Trump administration and the rule of law. Senior Judge Lasnik was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
The Judge, Robert S. Lasnik, ruled the Department of State violated administrative procedure by deciding the ability of individuals to make simple small arms, already widely available, was not a “critical defense item” in the expansive International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) regulations. |
WY: U.S. Senate candidate hopes to be Wyoming's voice in D.C.
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Gun control. "I am pro Second Amendment. I fish and hunt but the Second Amendment is not about hunting it is a God-given right for self-defense. It is not a government right. They don't get to infringe upon it," Armstrong said.
He added that owning a gun saved his life one day when four people followed him home and broke into his home but he had been able to retrieve his handgun with laser pointer and pointed it at one of the criminals. The three fled and the one he held until police arrived. |
OK: Clarity on Oklahoma permitless carry law following ‘Second Amendment auditor’s’ arrest
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“If he would have just had the pistol alone, that’s fine, but you cannot take a rifle or a shotgun into an establishment like that where they’re selling low-point beer or alcohol,” said MSgt. Gary Knight.
That’s a law Knight said didn’t change once permitless carry went into effect November 1.
But Oklahoma City attorney Robert Robles said by his reading of the new law, Harper is innocent.
“He is allowed to carry a pistol under the old law, under the new law he is allowed to carry a rifle or a shotgun, loaded or unloaded,” Robles said.
It’s an argument Harper and his attorneys plan to take to court. |
Arguments Concluded in Two FPC and FPF-Supported Second Amendment Cases
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Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) announced that two FPC- and FPF-backed Second Amendment challenges are fully briefed, argued, and submitted at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Key briefs, appellate documents, and audio of the oral arguments for the two cases, Folajtar v. Attorney General Barr, et al. and Holloway v. Attorney General Barr, et al., can be found online at FPClegal.org. A third FPC- and FPF-supported appeal is currently stayed pending the court’s decision in Holloway. |
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