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FL: Court upholds Florida gun law that bars people under 21 from buying rifles
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Saying the restriction is “consistent with our historical tradition of firearm regulation,” a federal appeals court on Friday upheld the constitutionality of a Florida law that raised the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 18 to 21.
The 8-4 ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came after seven years of legal wrangling in the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a 2018 law passed after a mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and faculty members. |
OR: Oregon Court Decision Sides Against Second Amendment and with Tyranny
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“A controversial gun control law has been deemed constitutional in the Oregon Court of Appeals, effectively lifting the hold on gun safety protections in the state,” Portland’s CBS affiliate KOIN 6 reported Wednesday. “Measure 114, also known as the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, requires that someone must have a permit as well as a completed criminal background check before buying a gun. In order to receive a permit, one must complete a gun safety course and prove that they are not a danger to themselves or others.” |
Washington Post Pivot to “Personal Liberties & Free Markets” Sparks Skepticism
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Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, recently announced to the staff of the newspaper that the publication’s opinion section would henceforth be advocating for “personal liberties and free markets” without contradiction.
“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said, according to a New York Times account of the announcement. Views that dissented from those principles could be left to “the Internet,” the Hill reported Bezos as telling his staff. |
FL: U.S. appeals court upholds Florida ban on purchase of long guns by under 21-year-olds
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A U.S. appeals court has once again upheld Florida’s 2018 law barring people under age 21 from buying long guns, rejecting a challenge by the National Rifle Association. But Florida’s attorney general says that if the case is appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, his office won’t defend it.
The entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied the legal challenge by the gun rights organization on Friday, two years after a three-judge panel similarly rejected the legal challenge. The Florida Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott signed the law shortly after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people. |
OR: Bend church again offers gun owners chance to turn firearms into garden tools
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A Bend church is holding another event that gives firearm owners a chance have their guns cut into pieces and turned into garden tools.
The Guns to Gardens event happens this Saturday, March 15, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at Antioch Church, 566 NE Clay Avenue in Bend. The church has hosted several of these in recent years and says it decommissioned more than 100 guns over its last three events.
The event is part of a larger movement aimed at reducing gun violence — including suicide and accidental shootings — by reducing the number of guns in homes and communities. At a previous event, a woman brought in five guns owned by her late husband. The church said she wasn't aware that the guns were loaded when she arrived. |
OR: Suspect stabbed, hospitalized after unprovoked attack on electrician in Eagle Point
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Jackson County sheriff’s deputies are investigating an assault that led to a stabbing in self defense around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning in Eagle Point. The victim, an electrician with Medford company Precision Electric, allegedly acted in self defense after the suspect assaulted them, according to detectives’ preliminary investigation. Dispatch received a call at 8:31 a.m. Friday for a stabbing in the 2100 block of Rogue River Drive in Eagle Point, and Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies, Jackson County Fire District 3 and Mercy Flights arrived on scene.
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CA: Zbur withdraws home defense bill that would have redefined allowable homicide
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Assemblymember and Democratic Caucus Chair Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) has withdrawn his bill to redefine allowable homicide in self defense saying fear and confusion has created a false impression of the bill.
The proposed legislation, Bill 1333, would implement a "duty to retreat" provision requiring individuals to attempt withdrawal from dangerous situations before using deadly force outside their homes. It would also limit self-defense claims for those who initiated confrontations and prohibit homicide justification solely for property or habitation defense. |
TX: Federal appeals court reverses conviction of Texas woman on death row after 27 years
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In 1998, Brittany Marlowe Holberg was found guilty by an Amarillo jury of murdering 80-year-old A.B. Towery, a former client of the sex worker. Holberg said during the trial that she was acting out of self-defense, but Randall County prosecutors successfully argued against it, including through testimony of her jail cellmate.
On Friday, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided 2-1 to send her case back to the district court, saying that the prosecution violated her right to due process by failing to disclose that its “critical” trial witness was a paid informant. |
OR: Gun Control’s Racist Past and Measure 114’s Future: Disarming the People Who Need It Most
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Gun control in the United States has never truly been about public safety—it has been about control. Throughout history, firearm restrictions have been disproportionately used to disarm Black Americans, marginalized communities, and anyone deemed a "threat" to the government’s power.
One of the most glaring examples of this was the disarming of the Black Panther Party in 1967 through the Mulford Act, signed into law by then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. This law was not about stopping crime—it was a direct response to Black Americans exercising their legal right to bear arms in self-defense against state violence. |
IL: FOID Cards and the Second Amendment at the Illinois Supreme Court
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On September 19, 2024, the Supreme Court of Illinois decided Davis v. Yenchko,[1] a case challenging the constitutionality of section 8(n) of the Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) Card Act.[2] Under the FOID Card Act, an Illinois resident wishing to buy firearms or ammunition needs to have a FOID card. Several categories of persons are “firearms prohibitors,” those who are ineligible for FOID cards. These include minors, those with felony convictions, persons with mental or developmental disabilities, those addicted to controlled substances, or those subject to a Protection Order.[3] |
CO: Understanding Colorado's New Anti-Second Amendment Legislation
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Anti-Second Amendment legislation can be confusing and convoluted, perhaps intentionally but more likely due to the inept nature of those who draft it. Just ask the average gun owner in any of the highly restrictive oblasts still masquerading as American states. It’s hard to know what’s legal and what will send you to prison and wreck your family forever. Nice places to live, right? While I can’t bring sense to lawmakers who have chosen totalitarianism to let their constituents know where they stand, or I should say kneel, I was able to speak with attorneys from the Richards Carrington law firm located in Denver to see if I could shed some light on Colorado’s latest round of seditious gun laws. |
IL: 7th Circuit Rules SBRs Not Second Amendment Arms
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in United States v. Rush that restrictions on short-barreled rifles (SBRs) under the National Firearms Act (NFA) remain constitutional. This decision reinforces decades-old legal precedent that many gun rights advocates argue is outdated and incompatible with the modern understanding of the Second Amendment. The ruling is particularly significant in the post-Bruen legal landscape, where courts are supposed to evaluate firearm regulations based on historical tradition. |
Obscure Object Of Desire – Norinco TU-90
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The gun world has a particular set of guys. There are 1911 ‘guys,’ Glock ‘guys,’ AK ‘guys,’ and more. Guys who like guns but have a particular love for one platform.
I know they have to exist, but I’ve never met a Tokarev guy. Every serious enthusiast knows what a TT-33 is, often just called a Tokarev or a Tok, but I’ve never met a hardcore Tok guy.
That was frustrating because I found it a bit difficult to find information on one of my latest acquisitions, the Norinco TU-90. |
Trump’s Lawyers Fired Me After I Refused to Let Mel Gibson Have Guns
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Throughout American history and regardless of presidential politics, the mission of the Department of Justice has been to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights. All Americans should be concerned that the politically appointed leaders of the Department are now waging an aggressive campaign to rid the institution of nonpartisan experts in favor of political loyalists willing to place the president’s personal interests ahead of these shared values. My recent firing by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is just one example, but it bears examination if we are going to reverse this dangerous and destructive trajectory before it is too late. |
Linda McMahon became ed secretary without discussing schools’ scariest issue: guns
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For almost three hours, Linda McMahon sat through a confirmation hearing last month in which senators pressed her on everything from teacher pay to transgender athletes. But none from either party asked her about school shootings.
That’s a glaring oversight, according to some leaders working to reduce youth gun violence, while others say that fears about the Department of Education’s possible closure so dominated the hearing that there was little time to question McMahon about the full spectrum of education topics. |
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