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The Best 5.56 Ammo of 2023
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It’s arguable that the 5.56x45mm NATO and .223 Remington are the most popular centerfire cartridges, by volume, in the United States today. The best 5.56 ammo is accurate and can fill multiple roles. It also depends on your application. A precision match load might be best for you, or maybe just dependable, cheap 5.56 ammo. Among centerfire cartridges, it dominates as the plinker-in-chief, and has been our standard military issue cartridge for decades. But it also excels in competition, hunting, training, and self defense applications. In-fact, there may not be a more generally useful cartridge on the books or in our gun cabinets. |
HI: Hawaii allows more concealed carry after US Supreme Court ruling, but bans guns in most places
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Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Friday signed legislation that will allow more people to carry concealed firearms but at the same time prohibit people from taking guns to a wide range of places, including beaches, hospitals, stadiums, bars that serve alcohol and movie theaters. Private businesses allowing guns will have to post a sign to that effect.
The legal overhaul comes in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year that expanded gun rights by saying Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
New York and New Jersey adopted similar laws last year that quickly met legalchallenges which are making their way through federal courts. |
CA: California Wants Gun Mag BAN Case to Go Away, Not So Fast Freedom Haters
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Attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a long-running legal challenge of California’s magazine ban statute have filed a memorandum in support of their motion for summary judgment and opposition to the state’s counter-motion for a summary judgment. The case is known as Wiese v. Bonta, originally filed in 2017.
SAF is joined by the Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation, and several private citizens. They are represented by attorneys George M. Lee at Seiler Epstein LLP in San Francisco and Raymond M. DiGuiseppe at DiGuiseppe Law Firm in Southport, N.C. The case is in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. |
OK: Second Amendment rights go ‘hand-in-hand’ with gun reform
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Mayor G.T. Bynum issued a proclamation saying supporting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens “goes hand-in-hand with keeping guns away from people with dangerous histories.”
The proclamation says that 120 Americans die by gun violence every day, with 49 Tulsans dead in 2022.
“As a city, we renew our commitment to encourage responsible gun ownership to help keep our families and communities safe,” reads the document.
Kay Malan with gun safety group Moms Demand Action said the family of Saint Francis mass shooting victim Dr. Stephanie Husen encouraged Bynum to make the designation. |
Is Self-Defense Legal in New York?
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Yesterday, a 65-year-old New York man was charged with illegally possessing a firearm after shooting and killing a would-be mugger in a dark alley. Charles Foehner of Queens killed Cody Gonzalez, a 32-year-old with a long rap sheet, after the latter approached him demanding money and cigarettes and wielding what Foehner thought was a knife. Gonzalez was holding a pen, but watching his erratic behavior and steady approach of the retreating Foehner, it is clear, barring some unforeseen information, that Foehner acted reasonably in pulling the trigger given the circumstances. Foehner is a licensed gun owner, but the specific firearm he used to kill Gonzalez was unregistered. |
VT: Legal expert believes 72-hour firearm waiting period can hold up in court
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On Thursday, Gov. Phil Scott allowed H.230 into law without his signature. The legislation is intended to reduce suicides across the state and updates red flag provisions and storage laws.
However, it creates a 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchasers, which has struck a nerve with gun advocates.
"To put it succinctly, we’re disappointed, we’re severely disappointed,' said Chris Bradley, president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsman Clubs Inc. "The core of the 2nd Amendment is self-defense. That’s an unalienable right preexisting our constitution," he said. |
OH: Man dies at hospital after line-cutting argument leads to shooting in Kroger parking lot
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Investigators spent the overnight hours gathering evidence and interviewing several witnesses.
Columbus Police Homicide Det. Chris Journey said a private security guard intervened during the line-cutting dispute, but a short time later a man retaliated against a customer involved in that incident by attempting to rob that person in the parking lot.
The man fired shots, Journey said, which led the security guard to shoot and kill the man. The guard, who has not been publicly identified, told detectives he acted in self-defense, Journey said. |
NC: Video shows wild shootout between driver, passenger on North Carolina bus
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Tobias then steps back over the line, holding the gun in one hand. Fullard turns and sees Tobias, and the two men start shooting at each other. Fullard gets out of the driver’s seat and the confrontation continues outside the bus.
Fullard fires one more shot outside of the CATS bus as Tobias runs away. Fullard has been terminated from CATS, according to WJZY, and no criminal charges have been filed against him.
Tobias was issued a $250,000 bond in this case and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, serious injury, carrying a concealed weapon and communicating threats.
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NE: Nebraska Adjourned Sine Die from the 2023 Legislative Session
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Yesterday, Nebraska adjourned sine die from the 2023 legislative session. This session was a historic one with significant victories for the people of Nebraska. Nebraska embraced the principles of constitutional carry and statewide preemption when Legislative Bill 77 passed and became law. It will go into effect later this year. This momentous achievement ensures that law-abiding citizens can exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms for self-defense without unnecessary government interference and can also exercise their rights freely across the state without having to navigate a patchwork of local gun control ordinances. |
TX: Beloved cartoon 'Winnie The Pooh' teaches school students to 'run, hide, fight' during shootings
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A Dallas elementary school teacher expressed her deep concern about the book, calling it "terribly disturbing" and saying, "The fact that people think it's a better idea to put out this book to a child rather than actually take any actions to stop shootings from happening in our schools, that really bothers me. It makes me feel so angry, so disappointed. It's a year since Uvalde, and nothing has been done other than this book. That is putting it on the kids."
Ed.: TX just passed a law requiring armed security in all schools. |
Smith & Wesson M&P 10 mm Performance Center Edition
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Rest assured, the 10 mm Auto cartridge is not only here to stay, but it's experiencing a bit of a renaissance these days. Most major manufacturers now offer a handgun chambered in 10 mm (and several offer a rifle). Last year, Smith & Wesson added the 10 mm to its M&P handgun line-up. New for 2023, the company is giving its 10 mm-chambered M&P the Performance Center treatment. |
PA: Activists and leaders deliver impassioned speeches during gun violence awareness event on the North Side
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A coalition of local advocacy and community-based organizations, including Pennsylvania Moms Demand Action and CeaseFire PA, marked their annual “Wear Orange Weekend” in Pittsburgh and kicked off June as National Gun Violence Awareness Month. The event was one of hundreds taking place nationwide this weekend to honor survivors and victims.
It was a sea of orange in Allegheny Commons Park as dozens of people wore shirts with the message, “Taking a stand against gun violence,” on the back. Speakers demanded “common sense” reform as well as better community safety nets to prevent violence from occurring in the first place. |
CA: Time to heed Roberts’ and Kavanaugh’s hints on how to get gun laws past the Supreme Court
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Their concurring opinions in the 2022 New York case that broadened gun rights undermined to some degree the most far-reaching argument made by Justice Clarence Thomas in the majority opinion: that modern gun restrictions are “presumptively” unconstitutional unless they can be shown to have a basis in “historical tradition.” Roberts and Kavanaugh plainly do not believe, for example, that a lack of tradition blocks laws that bar people who are subject to restraining orders because of histories of domestic violence from owning firearms. |
NJ: Livingston Declares June 2023 as Gun Violence Awareness Month
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“New Jerseyans should be aware that as the law stands now, it is completely possible that when they take their children to the zoo, the movie theater, or the local library, there may be people there with loaded firearms hidden from view,” said Kahn.
In a Letter to the Editor earlier this week, NCJW/Essex Gun Violence Prevention Chairperson Diane Dresdale shared specific details of the Supreme Court’s June decision in “New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen,” noting that the decision “dramatically raises the stakes for gun violence throughout the country.” |
Clarence "Private Jet" Thomas Is Getting People Killed
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Hardly a day or a week goes by without another mass shooting. But the opinion authored by Thomas (and joined by the other five extreme right-wing justices) in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) has made most commons sense gun control regulations illegal and will lead to more people being killed and maimed by weapons of war that have no business in the hands of civilians. It also imposed a cramped, extremist version of right-wing “originalism” on Supreme Court interpretation. |
Why Hunter Biden may embrace the Second Amendment
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To be sure, the courts haven’t all been siding with defendants on the issue. In a Texas case also involving a cannabis user, another Trump-appointed judge, Alan Albright, cited Bruen to reason that such a person isn’t even worthy of Second Amendment protection, because the right to bear arms is limited to the “law-abiding.” As Politico and the Times both noted, litigation pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which covers Delaware, where Hunter Biden is being investigated — could become quite relevant if the president’s son is charged. |
CT: Senate passes update of Connecticut’s strong gun laws
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The Senate voted 24-11 early Saturday for final passage of the first comprehensive update of Connecticut’s gun laws since the sweeping reforms enacted a decade ago in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The bill proposed by Gov. Ned Lamont would ban the open carry of firearms, strengthen rules for gun storage and reporting stolen firearms, and expand a ban on AR-15s and other so-called assault weapons passed in 1993 and updated in 2013. |
'Reckless incompetence': Tennessee congressman proposes defunding the ATF
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Despite these pleas, one Nashville Congressman is calling for less oversight on guns.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is calling for a hiring freeze at the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, known as the ATF. The agency investigates federal offenses involving illegal use of guns.
The agency is charged in part with curbing illegal gun use and gun trafficking. Federal data shows the agency helped track more than 15,000 guns to Tennessee in 2021. It also helps investigate federal crimes, and was on scene the day of the Covenant School shooting.
Ogles said the ATF is one of three “woke” government agencies that he wants to defund. |
OH: As bad as it gets
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The same is true for Ohio's "Stand Your Ground" law these same lawmakers approved under cover as an amendment to another bill a few years ago. It changed the very definition of self-defense, and more accurately is called the "Chase and Kill" law. The inevitable result of it — as has been shown in other states in which the same copycat legislation was approved years earlier — will be homicides that in the past were crimes now being categorized as "justified." |
CO: Colorado bans the manufacture, possession and sale of “ghost guns”
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The manufacture, possession and sale of unserialized firearms and firearm parts, colloquially known as ghost guns, is now banned in Colorado under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.
Senate Bill 279, which went into effect as soon as it was signed, makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by up to 364 days in jail, to violate the ban. Subsequent offenses are a Class 5 felony, punishable by up to three years in prison.
Polis called ghost guns a “deadly loophole” to all of the state’s other gun laws. |
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