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MI: Michigan hunters and anglers lose powerful voice as historic organization closes
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A 90-year-old Michigan conservation group that helped shape state hunting and fishing policies is shutting down after running out of money, its leaders announced this week.
The Michigan United Conservation Clubs is dissolving after years of declining membership and mounting costs, President Steve Dey said.
The closure is expected to be finalized by mid-June.
It marks the loss of one of Michigan’s most influential grassroots conservation organizations.
Dey said the organization struggled with high fixed costs and failed to adapt as membership declined, leaving it unable to sustain a $1.1 million budget. Efforts to raise stop-gap funding or expand membership to broader environmental groups didn’t succeed. |
TX: Garland police identify man killed in carjacking attempt as Mexican national
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The incident unfolded around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3, near Highway 66 and Dairy Road. Ramirez first crashed his green car into two other vehicles on the highway, then fled to a nearby gas station where he tried to steal several cars by force.
Surveillance video captured him approaching a white sedan occupied by a family of eight, including children and a baby. He yanked the father from the driver’s seat in an attempt to take the vehicle. The father, acting in self-defense, drew a handgun and shot Ramirez during the struggle.
Ramirez was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Police say he was unarmed. No one in the family was injured. |
AZ: ASU grad bridges disciplines and perspectives with his Second Amendment research
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By tracing the logic of the Bruen decision back to Thomas’ early commitments to Black radical politics and free market economic principles, McGee’s thesis aimed to shed light on the future of Second Amendment jurisprudence and the intellectual influences of Thomas.
McGee has been awarded the Barrett Outstanding Researcher Award and Barrett Downtown’s Gold Standard Award for Best Thesis in acknowledgement of the originality and depth of his research.
McGee found the perfect home for his innovative research at the Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society (BRIDGS) initiative. |
Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history
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The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater.
Once an outlier on the nation’s highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the conservative legal movement over the last decade as he helped secure landmark rulings on abortion, voting and Second Amendment rights. |
Speakers Announced, Registration Open for 41st GRPC in Dallas
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Registration is now open for the 41st Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC), and the planning committee is pleased to announce the first set of confirmed speakers! GRPC is slated for Sept. 25 – 27 in Dallas at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport hotel.
For more than four decades, GRPC has been the go-to event for Second Amendment advocates, bringing together the nation's top 2A attorneys, activists and industry leaders to strategize and strengthen our fight for freedom.
The event is co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and confirmed speakers for this year's event to date include: |
CO: Trump admin drops hammer on blue state’s biggest city over gun ban
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The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it was suing Denver, Colorado, over a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, citing its inclusion of the AR-15.
Denver passed the ban in 1989, shortly after a gunman with a lengthy arrest record used a semiautomatic rifle that bore a superficial resemblance to the AK-47 to kill multiple children at a Stockton, California, day care center. In court documents, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said the ordnance targeting so-called “assault weapons” should not be enforced against those who owned AR-15s with 30-round magazines, the standard capacity for the rifle. |
DOJ Is Finally Fighting Hardware Bans. Now SCOTUS Needs To Step In.
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Politicians and advocates for gun control have tried repeatedly to turn the Second Amendment into a second-class right. Carry rights, magazine bans, “assault weapon” bans, pistol-brace traps, registration schemes — the strategy is always the same. Criminalize ordinary gun owners first, then force them to spend years in court to recognize rights the Constitution already protects.
That is what makes Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s latest comments so important.
In a new interview highlighted by Just the News, Dhillon said she believes the Supreme Court will eventually rule that AR-15s are legal for law-abiding citizens nationwide. |
AK: Guns within Mat-Su Borough Schools? What a change in policy could mean
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On Thursday, Mat-Su Borough School District (MSBSD) school board heard public testimony regarding a proposal that would allow qualified staff members to have a concealed-carry handgun at school. The proposed change would also allow certain authorized non-lethal security devices.
The MSBSD school board is considering a change to its board policy 3515 that would establish a “a voluntary program authorizing certain qualified individuals to carry a concealed handgun (including other authorized non-lethal security device) on school property.”
According to the district, the program would have an ongoing cost of $562,474, with a one-time cost of $696,224. |
WV: Chairman of the WV Freedom Caucus offers to buy guns at Shepherdstown gun buyback event organized by local church
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West Virginia Freedom Caucus Chairman S. Chris Anders led a grassroots effort on Saturday, May 2, to preserve privately owned firearms that were being collected and destroyed at a Shepherdstown buyback event hosted by the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church.
In coordination with local business owner Dave of DS Gunworks in Martinsburg, WV, Anders helped organize a group of more than 40 local citizens who offered lawful private purchases as an alternative to surrender and destruction.
Participants stood adjacent to the event and offered cash to willing sellers, providing a free market option in place of gift cards. |
CA: SAF Files Amicus with Ninth Circuit in Open Carry Case
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging the Court to strike down California's ban on the open carry of firearms.
The case, Baird v. Bonta, mostly prevailed before a three-judge panel, but that victory was vacated and the case will be reheard en banc. SAF is joined in the amicus filing by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. |
RI: Pro-Second Amendment orgs to fight blue state over ‘terrifying’ anti-gun bill
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Pro-Second Amendment organizations said they would launch court challenges against a bill in Rhode Island that would give owners of modern semiautomatic firearms six months to dispose of them.
Democratic Rhode Island state Sen. Tiara Mack introduced S2710 on Feb. 27 with eight co-sponsors, legislation that tightens the state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” by prohibiting possession of the firearms. Under the terms of the legislation, those who own prohibited firearms would have until Dec. 31 to either sell them to a licensed dealer or transfer them to an out-of-state resident who could legally own them, something pro-Second Amendment organizations say would violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights. |
CO: 'The Constitution Is Not a Suggestion': DOJ Takes Aim at Denver's Assault Rifle Ban
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As the complaint explains, the City enforces an ordinance that makes it a crime to possess so-called “assault weapons.” But the City’s ban includes AR-15-style rifles, which are the most popular in America.
Law-abiding Americans own tens of millions of rifles like those banned by the City.
“The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Denver's ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens nationwide.” |
SC: Woman recalls using hatchet in self-defense during Union attack
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Two people were arrested Monday after a woman used a hatchet to defend herself from an attack that occurred in a Union parking lot.
The Union Public Safety Department said the assault happened outside Tan Hut and Salon on S. Duncan Bypass.
Police said 28-year-old Anna Reynolds was attacked by 24-year-old Molli Nichole Butler and a 16-year-old as she walked out of the salon.
“They saw when I got back in my car,” she recalled. “When I walked out, they were waiting on me.”
Reynolds said the attack stemmed from a past friendship that soured. |
TX: Texas father shoots, kills man attempting to carjack sedan with family inside
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On Sunday afternoon, the father and his relatives were sitting in a parking lot in Garland, Texas, near a gas station off Highway 66, when a man approached the driver's side door and attempted to get in, according to surveillance video obtained by Fox 4.
The unidentified father got out of the sedan and attempted to keep the man from entering it, while the rest of his family fled the vehicle.
The father and the man struggled as the alleged carjacker managed to get inside the driver's seat. Eventually, the father went around to the passenger's side front door, where he allegedly fired more than ten rounds at the alleged carjacker. |
MO: Prosecutors call for ‘Stand Your Ground’ reform
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Since Missouri expanded its self-defense law in 2016, Kansas City homicides hit a 20-year high and have stayed there for the past decade. Now, Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson worries the trend will climb even higher.
“When people do not feel like they have a duty to retreat or they have a duty to protect the safety of others, more people lose their lives, and that’s just the harsh reality. That’s what the data shows,” Johnson said. |
ME: Constitutional – Second Amendment – Immigration status
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Where a defendant was charged with violating 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(5)(A)., which makes it unlawful for a person who is an alien “illegally or unlawfully in the United States” to possess a firearm, the dismissal of the indictment must be reversed because the government met its burden to show that §922(g)(5)(A) fits comfortably within the tradition of firearm regulation.
“In this case, we must resolve the government’s challenge to the dismissal of an indictment that charged Alberto Rebollar Osorio (‘Rebollar Osorio’) with possessing a firearm as an ‘alien’ ‘illegally or unlawfully in the United States’ in violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(5)(A). |
CO: Trump administration challenges Colorado large-capacity magazine ban in court
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The Trump administration sued Colorado over its law restricting large-capacity magazines for rifles a day after it sued Denver over its assault weapons ban.
The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday in the Denver-based U.S. district court, says the state’s restrictions on magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds violate the Second Amendment rights of Coloradans.
“Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at the expense of Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement. |
CO: DOJ Takes Aim at Colorado Gun Laws in New Second Amendment Fight
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“Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at the expense of Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Under my direction, the Division’s Second Amendment Section will continue to defend law-abiding Americans’ rights against unconstitutional restrictions on their right to possess arms which are owned by tens of millions of their fellow citizens.”
The lawsuit alleges the Colorado law that is more than a decade old uses “politically charged rhetoric” in referring to magazines that can hold more than 15 rounds as “large capacity.” |
CO: DOJ sued Denver to overturn the city's assault weapons ban
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In announcing the lawsuit, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused Denver of infringing on constitutional rights through its ban on some firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.
“The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Blanche said in a statement. “Denver’s ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens nationwide.”
The lawsuit escalates a growing clash between the Trump administration and Democratic leaders in Colorado over gun control policies enacted after decades of high-profile mass shootings in the state. |
MI: Michigan attorney general fights Postal Service rule on mailing guns
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a multi-state comment letter signed by 22 states opposing a proposal by the U.S. Postal Service to allow certain concealable firearms to be mailed across state borders.
Federal law has barred the Postal Service from mailing certain concealable firearms since 1927.
"The U.S. Postal Service should not be used as a loophole for criminals to bypass Michigan law and flood our streets with untraceable firearms," Nessel said.
In January, the U.S. Department of Justice issued an opinion, saying the statute is unconstitutional and saying it will no longer enforce the law. The opinion instructed the Postal Service to issue new regulations allowing the change. |
FL: Publix reverses course, again banning open carry of guns in Florida stores
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Publix has reversed its policy on open carry firearms in Florida stores, now permitting only law enforcement officers to openly carry firearms while shopping.
When Florida became an open carry state, Publix was one of the first companies to allow customers to openly carry firearms inside its stores. However, the policy has now changed, and customers have expressed mixed reactions.
Julio Gonzalez of Cape Coral said, "Basically, I don't feel safe with that decision. We need to protect, and that is the only reason we carry a gun, not to intimidate, not to do anything wrong, it's just to protect the family." |
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