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Fighting the Good Fight
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Guess what? All of those court battles take buckets — and more buckets — of bucks as well because good attorneys aren’t cheap. And, once a legal challenge is launched against a blatantly unconstitutional law, it will take months and maybe even years for the case to make its way through the courts.
Based on years of experience in this arena, I’m convinced anti-gun lawmakers realize some of the garbage they push will never pass the constitutional smell test. But they do it anyway for really sinister reasons.
Passing laws to impede, impair and infringe upon the right to keep and bear arms is aimed at discouraging people from exercising our rights. |
DC: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Ban on High-Capacity Gun Magazines
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The Supreme Court on June 6 turned away a legal challenge targeting the District of Columbia’s ban on magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The court denied the petition in Hanson v. District of Columbia in an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision.
The District enacted the Firearms Registration Amendment Act of 2008 after the Supreme Court invalidated the city’s sweeping restrictions on gun ownership in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008). |
Barrasso: Republicans are Defending Americans’ Second Amendment Rights
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U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senate Majority Whip, spoke on the Senate Floor recently about how Republicans are defending Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.
Senator Barrasso, during his floor speech, said Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to protect Americans’ God-given rights, and one of those rights is the right to keep and bear arms. The Senator added that every day, people across Wyoming use this right responsibly. |
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Md. assault weapons ban
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A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons, a term referring to semiautomatic rifles that are popular among gun owners and that have also been used in mass shootings.
The majority did not explain its reasoning in turning down the case over weapons like the AR-15, as is typical. But three conservative justices on the nine-member court publicly noted their disagreement, and a fourth said he is skeptical that such bans are constitutional. |
I Shot the Tariff (But I Swear It Was in Self-Defense)
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Nearly 150 years ago, as the nation’s Civil War dragged on, President Lincoln grew increasingly frustrated with the Union Army’s generals. Lincoln viewed America’s military leaders as too passive and too reluctant to use force properly and effectively. From Lincoln’s perspective, the Union troops typically engaged in brief skirmishes and retreats that resolved little or nothing.
Ed.: Off-topic, yes. But with that headline, I couldn't resist. Cheers, friends! |
NV: Gunman in road rage incident claimed self-defense after knife attack
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Police reported that the initial driver rear-ended a second vehicle. After exiting his vehicle to assess the situation, the first driver was confronted by the second driver, who brandished a knife.
The knife-wielding driver chased the initial driver around his vehicle, prompting the first driver to retrieve a gun from his car, according to police. The second driver then began attacking he initial driver's vehicle.
"The individual with a knife began stabbing the car and the tires,” Lt. Robert Price said. “The driver with the firearm came out of his car, told the individual to get away. At which time, he (the man with the knife) lunged forward, causing the driver to fire his firearm, and that individual was struck." |
SC: Deputies investigating whether South Carolina shooting was self defense
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The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office says the investigation into a Wednesday afternoon shooting is still underway as deputies work to determine whether the shooting was a crime or self-defense.
Sheriff Lee Boan shared new details on Friday afternoon regarding the shooting that happened in the 2400 block of Haile Street near Camden, as deputies work through additional details. The sheriff said the two people involved in the shooting incident, a visitor and a homeowner, had a longstanding friendship leading up to the shooting.
"They've gone back for years, and their families have gone back for years," the sheriff said. "Really good friendship; really long-term friendship between both people involved." |
OK: 1 dead after midtown Tulsa shooting, police investigating possible self-defense
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Around 11:30 a.m. on June 6, officers found the man dead in his home. They found the other man nearby and questioned him.
TPD said the other man "may have been" invited in by someone else living at the home. After stopping by, a verbal fight happened between the two parties.
Officers said the fight escalated, and both men pulled out guns and fired shots at each other.
"Due to the complexity of this case, all the evidentiary details and investigative findings will be submitted to the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office," TPD said. "The DA’s Office will thoroughly review the details and determine if charges are warranted." |
DC: US Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to Washington, DC’s high-capacity gun magazine ban
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to hear a challenge to the legality of a restriction imposed by Washington, D.C., on large-capacity ammunition magazines in a case that gives the justices a chance to further expand gun rights.
The justices turned away the challengers’ appeal of a lower court’s ruling that upheld the Democratic-governed city’s ban on virtually all ammunition-feeding devices holding more than 10 rounds. The lower court rejected arguments that the measure violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.” |
KS: How Decades of Gun Control Created a Legal Trap – And One Judge Called It Out with Nationwide Implications
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In a surprising decision that’s now under appeal, a federal district judge ruled that the ban on civilian-owned machine guns may actually violate the Second Amendment. The case, United States v. Morgan, comes out of Kansas and challenges the 1986 Hughes Amendment – a law that bans civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. Attorney and YouTuber Tom Grieve broke down the case in a recent video, calling it “potentially the most important gun case in decades.”
According to Grieve, this is the first time in a long while that a federal trial court has directly stated that machine guns – yes, actual automatic weapons – are protected “arms” under the Second Amendment. |
Gun club alerts Secretary of Defense of their 2A fight against Fort Devens
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The Ft. Devens Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc., warned Fort Devens officials multiple times that if they didn’t let the civilian club shoot, they would take official action.
Act they did.
On Tuesday, the gun club sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, notifying him of the five-year history of problems that the gun club has had with Fort officials. The letter was written by the club’s treasurer, James Gettens, an attorney and Iraq War veteran.
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Suppressors are Arms Covered by the Second Amendment
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In the USA v. Peterson case in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Attorney, under the Biden administration, claimed silencers/suppressors were not protected by the Second Amendment, because they were accessories, not arms.
A holdover assistant U.S. Attorney made the same argument during the early days of the Trump Administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ) caught the error and asked for time to reassess the case. The new brief in the case was submitted on May 23, 2025. What a difference a month makes. The DOJ now explicitly states silencers are protected under the Second Amendment. The DOJ makes a weak argument the Second Amendment allows silencers to be taxed and regulated. |
‘Toss Loss’ for Antis as SCOTUS Hands Win to Gun Makers
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When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to toss out Mexico’s lawsuit against Smith & Wesson and other American gun makers, it handed a “significant and severe setback” to the gun prohibition lobby, which had been “supporting and rooting for Mexico.”
That was the analysis from Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), and he had a lot of company. |
AZ: Arizona Man Shoots Mountain Lion After Dog Attack in Buckeye
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A late-night walk turned dangerous for a Buckeye man when a mountain lion attacked his dog and returned to stalk them again, prompting the man to fatally shoot the animal in self-defense.
The incident happened around 10 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, in the Verrado neighborhood, roughly 30 miles west of Phoenix, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Officials say the man was walking his dog when a mountain lion appeared and attacked. He managed to fight the animal off by kicking it and started heading home, but the mountain lion wasn’t done. |
Citibank reverses course, drops anti- Second Amendment policy
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Citibank this week dropped a policy it implemented in 2018 restricting the Second Amendment rights of clients.
While claiming it “has always been fully committed to treating all current and potential clients fairly,” it said concerns were raised “regarding ‘fair access’ to banking services.” Six years later, under a second Trump administration, it’s now changing its policy to comply with “regulatory developments, recent Executive Orders and federal legislation that impact this area,” it announced. |
Second Amendment Advocates Ask SCOTUS To End Nearly 100-Year-Old Gun Restriction
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A new petition filed with the Supreme Court on Friday asks the justices to find a nearly 100-year-old firearm regulation unconstitutional.
Under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA), rifles with a barrel shorter than 16 inches face tax and registration requirements that can cost violators up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $250,00.
“Jamond Rush has been convicted of a felony and sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment for possessing a firearm that is in common use for lawful purposes,” the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action’s (NRA-ILA) petition states. “The Seventh Circuit upheld that conviction while continuing to flout this Court’s Second Amendment precedents.” |
CO: Federal judge approves Colorado law banning people under 21 from buying a gun
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A federal judge upheld Colorado’s restriction on firearms sales requiring buyers to be 21 or older after Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and two people looking to purchase firearms sued Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
Chief U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer agreed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit’s decision that age-based requirements for purchase do not fall under the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms. The 10th Circuit and Brimmer agree that the issue falls under a “safe harbor” exclusion, placing it outside the scope of the Constitution. |
TV Guns vs. Real Guns: What Hollywood Gets Wrong
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Television, movies and whatever you call the in-between streaming content on Netflix, Hulu, et. al. will show you all sorts of gunplay—and all sorts of firearms mistakes. Sit down and watch a shoot-em-up show with any sort of gun nerd, and you’ll start to hear whining about how they messed up something as soon as they bring a firearm out. While we could probably complain all day long about Hollyweird’s inability to get their gun details straight, here are a few particularly egregious errors that should be stamped out. |
The Worst Part of the Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Blocking a Lawsuit Against Gunmakers
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What’s worse, Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson each wrote separate concurrences in which they wade into the substantive law of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, offering unprecedented interpretations that would make it harder for victims of gun violence to try to hold firearms-makers and sellers responsible for their part in the harms they cause. All in all, Thursday’s intervention from the Supreme Court means expanded impunity for the firearms industry—and thus the likelihood of more death and injury due to gun violence. |
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