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LA: First Circuit reverses Ascension court decision that blocked man from claiming self-defense in murder case
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Lilly, 40, is accused of second-degree murder in connection with the July 2022 shooting of Tarrence Williams, another Prairieville resident. Lilly is being held in the Ascension Parish jail with bail set at $500,000, according to the inmate database.
The appellate court sent the case back to the 23rd Judicial District Court, stating in the order that a “criminal defendant has the constitutional right to present a defense.”
A spokesperson for the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office did not respond to a request for comment on the decision. |
CA: DA: No charges for fisherman in deadly Moss Landing boat fight
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The Monterey County District Attorney's Office will not pursue criminal charges against a man who was initially booked for voluntary manslaughter after a fight between two fishermen in Moss Landing turned deadly in June.
The district attorney's office says that Joshua Holtzclaw acted in self-defense in the death of 26-year-old Trenton Black of Aptos on June 11, 2025.
On that date, Holtzclaw was fishing in Monterey Bay south of the harbor, and at around 8:30 a.m., Black came from Santa Cruz in his fishing boat to the same area. |
CO: Victim stabbed suspect with his own knife in self-defense during unprovoked Loveland hammer attack: Affidavit
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A Loveland tanning salon employee was able to stab the suspect with his own knife to defend herself and a customer during an unprovoked attack that left her with life-threatening injuries, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by Denver7 Thursday.
The 21-year-old employee was hit at least 15 times on the top of the head with a framing hammer during the violent attack that moved throughout the salon, the affidavit states.
According to the document, 20-year-old Kyle Mathew Behrens entered the Endless Summer Tanning Salon and Boutique just after 6:40 p.m. and immediately started striking an employee standing behind the counter, who told police she had never met the suspect. |
MS: Coroner identifies Gulfport man shot and killed in alleged home invasion
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Gulfport police are investigating a homicide that occurred Thursday morning during an alleged home invasion at a residence in the 1700 block of 21st Street, authorities said. Police received a 911 call about the break-in around 7:04 a.m., Lt. Jason Ducré said. The shooting happened after a man, identified by Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer as Dangelo Rayjvon Murphy, 29, forced his way inside with a hammer and a knife and attacked two women who live in the home in an alleged act of domestic violence. |
MD: SAF Files Amicus In Maryland Carry Reciprocity Lawsuit
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to grant certiorari in Gardner v. Maryland, a case challenging Maryland’s refusal to honor firearm carry permits issued by other states.
The case involves Eva Marie Gardner, who was arrested for carrying a firearm without a permit after defending herself in Maryland. Ms. Gardner had a Virginia carry permit, but Maryland refuses to honor permits originating from any other state. SAF is joined in the amicus filing by the National Rifle Association, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. |
LA: CDC report finds Louisiana gun violence one of worst in nation. See rank
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In total, approximately 46,728 people died in the U.S. as a result of gun-related injuries, and this includes murders, suicides, as well as accidental deaths and deaths involving law enforcement, according to the Pew Research Center.
Louisiana has the second highest rate of gun deaths in the U.S. according to U.S. News & World Report
In 2023, there were approximately 17.2 murders by gun per 100,000 people in Louisiana, according to the Pew Research Center. In comparison, Mississippi had the highest rates of murders by gun, with approximately 17.6 deaths per 100,000 people. |
FL: 'Any kid could have picked those up': Bag of guns found abandoned on Florida roadside
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Robin Pisciotta was driving through the 1400 block of Norbert Road in Palm Bay when she noticed a child near a police officer searching through a suspicious bag on Thursday.
"That's when the kid explained to me that a bag of rifles had been thrown out of a vehicle, so I pulled out my phone and started recording," Pisciotta said.
She said the bag was black and orange and it was very large. By the time she had gotten there, it looked like the cop was sifting through ammo boxes.
Palm Bay police confirmed they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the bag of guns left on the side of the road. |
FL: Bag of guns found along Palm Bay residential street, police say
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Palm Bay police are searching for the person who apparently tossed a bag of guns out of a vehicle in a residential area early Thursday, Dec. 11.
The bag of firearms, including rifles, was spotted by residents, possibly children, along Norbert Road in northeast Palm Bay. The suspicious incident took place not far from another incident along the Grapefruit Bike Trails where swastikas were left behind by vandals, police reported. |
IL: New laws: Gun storage, police background check changes take effect in 2026
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Gun owners in Illinois must take new steps in 2026 to secure their firearms in their homes, particularly when children are present.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 8, known as the Safe Gun Storage Act, in late July, which prohibits gun owners from storing their weapons in an unsecured way at any location where they know that the gun could be accessed by a minor, a person at risk of harming themselves or others, or by a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Under the law, gun owners will be required to keep them in a locked container so that they are inaccessible or unusable by anyone other than the owner. Owners who violate the law could be subject to fines as high as $10,000. |
MA: Trade in your unwanted guns for gift cards this weekend in Central Mass.
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Central Massachusetts residents will be able to exchange their unwanted firearms for gift cards Saturday, Dec. 13, as a part of Guns 2 Gardens annual buyback program.
There will be six collection sites across Worcester County: From 10 a.m. to noon the Charlton, Fitchburg, Milford and Northborough police departments will collect unwanted firearms; and the Worcester Police Department will accept unwanted firearms from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the police station and a second drop-off location at 10 Ararat St. |
Blaming Firearm Retailers for Crime Guns is Bad Policy – and ATF’s Data Proves it
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New Mexico lawmakers are publicizing a new national report from Everytown for Gun Safety to justify new burdensome and suffocating licensing, training and fee requirements onto already heavily regulated firearm retailers. Their claim is that “three out of four guns found at New Mexico crime scenes were originally sold by a firearm dealer,” and that in nearly 90 percent of cases, someone other than the original purchaser actually possessed the gun — which they frame as evidence of rampant straw purchasing and lax gun retailers.
It’s a textbook example of how gun control groups and sympathetic policymakers misuse firearm trace data and gun control advocacy “reports” to smear lawful businesses while doing nothing to confront the criminals. |
WA: Guns to Gardens: Spokane group transforms firearms into garden tools
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Last month the community was invited to the Covenant United Methodist Church to participate in the third “Guns to Gardens” event. This event is a way to advance a message of non-violence in a “tangible way,” by taking donated guns and forging them into garden tools, explained Tom Robinson, a retired attorney and professor of American politics from Gonzaga University. He is a co-founder of the non-profit organization New Story Spokane.
In past events, they turned a revolver and a pump-action shotgun into garden tools such as a trowel or a garden hoe, according to the Rev. Roger Hudson, a retired United Methodist minister and a co-founder of New Story Spokane. The first guns forged were donated by Hudson and Robinson themselves. |
Supreme Court confronts gun rights pileup
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An unusually large pileup of Second Amendment challenges has landed at the Supreme Court, which will consider taking up the cases behind closed doors Friday.
It would add to what is already a major term for gun rights. The justices previously agreed to hear two cases early next year that involve whether unlawful drug users can carry firearms and Hawaii’s gun permitting regime.
As those cases move ahead, the new petitions present additional opportunities for the conservative majority to make clear the bounds of their recent gun rights expansion. |
Appeals Court Orders Rehearing of Case Against NJ Carry Ban
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The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday voted for a rehearing in a legal challenge of New Jersey's sweeping new gun carry ban.
The order came in the combined cases of Siegel v. Platkin-- backed by the NRA and seven individual plaintiffs-- and Koons v. Platkin, the latter backed by the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, Firearms Policy Coalition, New Jersey Second Amendment Society, and the Second Amendment Foundation.
The cases came after New Jersey's Democrat-controlled state legislature in 2022 rushed a bill into law, which restricted legal concealed carry over what the NRA described as "nearly every square inch of public space throughout the state." |
If Elon Musk Supports the Second Amendment, Why Is X Still Banning Gun Ads?
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Elon Musk has championed the First and Second Amendments in the United States Bill of Rights. However, X, formerly Twitter, has a policy that prohibits the promotion of weapons and weapon accessories worldwide. In effect, this bans paid advertising for all weapons and weapon accessories, even so far as to include airsoft guns, air guns, paintball guns, and imitation guns. From business.x.com:
This policy applies to monetization on X and X’s paid advertising products. |
SK Guns Reveals Its 2025 Gun of The Year: The ‘Jesús Malverde’ Colt 1911
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SK Guns’ 2025 Gun of the Year, a limited-run Colt 1911, doesn’t just wink at Mexican folklore; it dives straight into it with the conviction of a legend retold around late-night campfires. Only 300 pistols will be produced, each chambered in .38 Super and built to echo the life and myth of Jesús Malverde, the folk figure often described as a Robin Hood–like presence in Sinaloa’s collective memory.
Malverde’s story has always lived in that hazy space between history and myth. Said to have worked the land before turning to banditry in the late 1800s, he became a symbol for the poor who saw him as a renegade protector. SK Guns leaned into that cultural gravity, packing the pistol with imagery steeped in memorial symbolism and national pride |
Controversial figure returns to social media with surprising marriage announcement
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who became a national figure after a highly publicized 2020 shooting and subsequent acquittal, has reactivated his social media accounts to share that he is married, according to his official X account.
Rittenhouse, now 22, posted that he tied the knot with his partner, Bella Rittenhouse, about six months ago, calling it “the best decision of my life” and referring to her as his “best friend.” One of the photos accompanying the announcement shows Bella in a wedding dress holding an AR-style rifle. |
New Study: American Teens Distrust ‘Mainstream’ Media More Than Adults Do
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When it comes to reporting on important issues like guns, gun ownership and violent crime, the so-called “mainstream” media nearly always comes down on the wrong side of the issue. In fact, you will seldom hear CNN or MSNBC say anything positive about guns or gun ownership, but they’ll blast coverage of the latest mass shooting wall-to-wall for 24 hours straight.
That’s why it was heartening to see a recent report from NRA-ILA detailing a recent study that found 13- to 18-year-old Americans distrust the so-called “mainstream” media even more than adults do—and that’s saying a lot! |
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