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TX: Robert Kinney’s attorney says July shooting was self-defense
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Robert Kinney’s attorney says Kinney’s wife woke him around 2 a.m. on July 25 to tell him there was a disturbance in their front yard, where several people had gathered.
According to his attorney, Kinney retrieved his legally-owned firearm, went outside and fired a warning shot.
Kinney’s attorney says Kinney then saw his adult son unconscious in one of the vehicles in the yard. While Kinney was attempting to help his son, Stephon Jones punched Kinney in the face, according to his attorney. Kinney fired one shot, killing Jones. |
ID: Twin Falls Shooting Underlines the Need for Taking Self-Defense Seriously
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I recently wrote that more Americans than ever before are carrying firearms for protection, with about 30 percent of the population toting a gun in public at least some of the time. The reason for that growing commitment to armed self defense was underlined last Saturday when a gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, only to be driven off by people at the spot who were willing to fight back. |
OK: Armed Resident Halts Night Intruder During Forced Bedroom Break-In
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A terrifying forced entry attempt ended safely for a local resident after he successfully deployed a personal firearm to halt an intruder forcing open a bedroom window during early morning hours.
According to local police reports, the resident was awakened around two in the morning by loud physical impacts against his bedroom window frame. Observing an unfamiliar suspect attempting to pry open the sash locks, the resident immediately retrieved a defensive firearm from a quick access safe. |
WI: Prosecutors still weighing charges more than 2 weeks after Fond du Lac shooting
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After two weeks in custody for a fatal shooting without charges being filed, Ryan Tennies will be released on a signature bond while the investigation continues and prosecutors decide what, if any, charges should be filed in the case with self-defense claims.
Ryan Tennies was arrested after allegedly shooting Christopher Ramthun during a disturbance on S. Main Street. He was booked into the jail that day on a possible charge of second-degree intentional homicide. No charges have been filed, and a $1 million cash bond was set on July 28. Tennies has not posted the bond, and remained in custody. |
FL: Teen arrested in Miami Gardens food delivery robbery that left 1 man dead, police say
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Police said the shooter, only identified as a 28-year-old black male delivery driver, stayed at the scene and told officers he had come to deliver food when he was robbed at gunpoint by two men. According to police, the driver said he shot one of the suspects in self-defense.
Witnesses told police they saw a second suspect, described as a tall, slim man with dreads and orange slides, running west from the scene toward a white vehicle with front-end damage. Investigators issued a be-on-the-lookout for the vehicle, and a license plate reader picked up a matching car nearby soon after. |
NY: Blue state gives Supreme Court silent treatment in case involving stun gun ban
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Attorneys representing New York City declined to respond to a petition to the Supreme Court in a case involving the city’s ban on stun guns on Thursday.
In a form filed with the Supreme Court of the United States, the New York City Law Department waived its right to respond to the petition of Nunzio Calce for a writ of certiorari, in which the court would agree to hear the case. In July, the Second Amendment Foundation asked the high court to hear the case, citing Caetano v. Massachusetts, in which a unanimous Supreme Court shot down Massachusetts’ ban on stun guns. |
WI: Wisconsin foster parents no longer have to follow stricter gun rules
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Two Germantown parents who filed a lawsuit saying their right to bear arms was violated by becoming foster parents have scored an appeals court victory.
Prior to the July 31 ruling, Wisconsin foster parents were required to store their firearms unloaded, according to John Monroe, the Georgia-based attorney specializing in gun laws who represented the couple. Foster parents had to provide to the state and county the makes and the models of all their firearms in order to be foster parents.
With the ruling, that's no longer the case — which Monroe said will put the foster parents on the same footing as other parents. "This will better protect the foster children from unlawful attacks," he said. |
SD: Did Gov. Larry Rhoden increase fees to obtain a concealed carry permit?
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South Dakota does not charge fees for residents to get a concealed firearm permit, after former Gov. Kristi Noem signed Senate Bill 212 into law in 2022.
The bill removed state and county permit fees. The Secretary of State’s office reimburses counties for the lost revenue based on the number of permits issued each year.
Gov. Larry Rhoden, who succeeded Noem in 2025, has been supportive of the Second Amendment right to carry, passing multiple laws that lowered gun restrictions. In March 2025, he signed three of those bills.
SB 100 made South Dakota the 12th state to allow concealed carry on college campuses. House Bill 1222 released the ban of carrying a concealed pistol in vehicles in school parking lots. |
CA: SAF Announces Settlement in Major California Carry Rights Lawsuit
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"This case was ambitious from the start, tackling several different obstacles Californians and visitors faced when trying to exercise their Second Amendment right to carry," said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros. "While we settled the remaining claims against LASD once they demonstrated compliance with the statutory timelines, the broader impact of the litigation is clear: California residents and nonresidents alike now have more Second Amendment freedoms thanks to the diligent work of SAF and its partners. We will continue monitoring to ensure these gains are not rolled back." |
NC: Case at top NC court tackles felon’s 2nd Amendment claim
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The United States Supreme Court has made significant pronouncements in recent years about Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Now a North Carolina criminal defendant hopes those rulings in the nation’s capital will help him beat a gun-related conviction in state court.
Eric James Ducker has the state’s leading gun-rights group, a major civil liberties organization and a prominent libertarian think tank in his corner. North Carolina’s sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and Gov. Josh Stein have lined up against him. |
How to prevent ATF from targeting innocent Americans … again
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Deep inside the hills near Martinsburg, West Virginia, on a government base with incredible security, lies what may be one of the most impressive firearm collections in the entire world. It contains more than 17,000 individual firearms of nearly every type—from Oerlikon cannons, cane guns, internally-suppressed pistols, gold-plated AKs and thousands of machineguns to one or more examples of nearly every model of rifle, pistol and shotgun ever produced. This base houses ATF’s National Tracing Center, and the collection is called the National Reference Gun Vault or simply “The Vault.” |
Second Amendment Foundation Submits Comments Backing Proposed ATF Final Rules
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ proposed new reforms have drawn strong support from gun-rights groups and sharp rebuke from gun-ban proponents.
Most recently, the Second Amendment Foundation jumped into the fray, becoming involved in the public comment procedure. Recently, SAF submitted a series of formal comment letters to the ATF on multiple proposed rules, urging the agency to modernize regulations in ways that better respect the Second Amendment, gun-owner privacy, and the right to interstate travel with firearms. |
SAF Files Reply Brief in Unlawful Search Lawsuit
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"The school's knowledge that Jack was a lawful gun owner outside of school did not justify their search of his truck," said SAF Senior Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. "They had no information to indicate he had ever brought the gun to school or had done anything illegal or against school policy whatsoever. The search they conducted could not have been supported by probable cause or even reasonable suspicion. Administrators ignored repeated insistent refusals by Jack to provide consent and now rest their hat on the fact that after telling him the search was going to happen regardless, he replied 'okay.' That is not consent in the eyes of the law. Jack's Fourth Amendment rights were violated here." |
MD: Trump DOJ Sues Montgomery County
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Now, the federal government has jumped into the battle. On August 3, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Montgomery County alleging that the county’s newly enacted Bill 23-26 violates the Second Amendment by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from possessing firearms in daily life.
As the DOJ explained in a news release announcing the lawsuit, the new law prohibits carrying firearms at thousands of locations, and also creates an arbitrary 100-yard exclusion zone around each location. The law applies even if the person carrying a firearm is duly licensed and has the express consent of the property owner. |
CA: LA Sheriff Settles Carry Rights Lawsuit After Years of Permit Delays
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The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have reached a settlement resolving the remaining claims against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in a major lawsuit challenging California’s obstruction of the right to bear arms.
The agreement in California Rifle & Pistol Association v. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department follows LASD’s representation that it is now processing concealed carry weapon applications within the 120-day period required under California law. |
Here’s why you should chime in when ATF wants comments
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed during an April 29 press conference that at least 34 proposed rule changes would be published by ATF, including repeal of the “stabilizing brace” and “Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ as a Dealer in Firearms” rules imposed by the Biden administration, as well as altering a third regulation that the Biden administration used to target so-called “bump stocks.” Gun Owners of America Director of Federal Affairs Aidan Johnston noted that rulemaking – like the package Blanche announced – is covered under the Administrative Procedures Act, which led to one proposed rule being pulled, then resubmitted by a different process. |
TX: A federal judge just tore a hole in the National Firearms Act without mentioning the Second Amendment one time
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A federal judge in Texas has dealt a significant blow to part of the National Firearms Act, ruling that once Congress reduced the federal tax on suppressors and certain short-barreled firearms to zero, the registration system historically tied to collecting that tax could no longer be justified under Congress’s taxing power.
Gun-rights activist Colion Noir described the decision as a major legal breakthrough because U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix reached it without deciding the challengers’ separate Second Amendment claims, instead focusing on the constitutional authority Congress originally relied upon when it enacted the NFA.
“The whole thing came down to a tax that doesn’t exist anymore,” Noir said. |
Trump Administration Proposes Expanding Remote Firearm Transfers
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A recent Congressional Research Service report on the Trump administration's proposed changes to remote firearm purchases and transfers highlights a potential shift in how firearms could be mailed and sold without buyers appearing in person at a dealer's premises. The administration has proposed two major regulatory changes, one through the U.S. Postal Service and another through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that would dramatically expand the channels through which Americans can buy and receive guns without visiting a dealer's storefront. |
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