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FL: Worrell changes course, drops murder charge in self-defense road rage case after pushback from state
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The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office has dropped a second-degree murder charge against a woman accused of a fatally shooting a man in a road rage incident, a reversal that followed public pressure from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who argued the woman acted in justifiable self-defense.
Uthmeier celebrated the decision Thursday on his X account, where he shared a previous video clip of himself criticizing State Attorney Monique Worrell for initially bringing the charge against the woman who fired the gun.
“We’re glad to see that Orlando State Attorney Worrell took our advice and dropped the unjust murder charge against Tina Allgeo this morning,” Uthmeier said. “Ms. Allgeo clearly acted in self-defense.”
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SAF, Partners File Amicus In Case Challenging Firearm Possession Ban By Marijuana Users
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging the court to grant certiorari in Harris v. United States, a case challenging the federal ban on firearm possession by individuals who use marijuana.
SAF is joined in the amicus filing by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Operation Blazing Sword–Pink Pistols, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center. |
AK: NRA Seeks Field Representative for Alaska
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pleased to announce the opening for a Field Representative in Alaska. This pivotal role is designed for an enthusiastic individual committed to promoting the Friends of NRA’s mission through volunteer management and community engagement.
The Field Representative will spearhead Friends of NRA fundraising activities, including banquets, special events, and raffles, aimed at achieving annual fundraising goals. This position will also promote The NRA Foundation’s grant program, ensuring compliance with all operational and financial policies. |
FL: Judges rule some Florida gun laws are unconstitutional. Here’s what to know
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A pair of court rulings declaring some of Florida’s gun restrictions unconstitutional are creating some confusion in the notoriously firearm-friendly state — and fueling activists’ calls for Republican legislators to take action to update state statutes so they abide by the new legal landscape.
Despite Florida’s history of being a gun-supporting climate, Florida’s GOP-dominated state Legislature took steps to restrict gun laws in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Since the day the measure was signed into law, gun rights advocates have been pushing to unravel it. |
WI: Check Out The State-of-the-art Shooting Experience In Superior
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Guardian Indoor Shooting Range and Training Facility has recently opened in Superior, Wisconsin. I swung by to take a look inside the facility, and I was blown away by how much this place had to offer.
Guardian is located at 619 Ogden Avenue in Superior, Wisconsin. The building has gone through an expensive and extensive remodel. They have a full showroom, classroom, simulator training room, customer lounge, and indoor shooting range.
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MI: State Representatives host ‘Michigan Defenders of the 2nd Amendment’ event at state capitol
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State Reps. James DeSana (R-Carleton), Joseph Fox (R-Fremont), Mike Hoadley (R-Au Gres), and Steve Carra (R-Three Rivers) hosted the “Michigan Defenders of the 2nd Amendment” event on the east steps of the Michigan State Capitol.
The gathering featured remarks from the lawmakers alongside representatives from Women for Gun Rights, Michigan Open Carry, and Great Lakes Gun Rights. Together, they reaffirmed their shared commitment to protecting and defending the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners across Michigan.
“Today we launched an effort to help restore rights protected by the Constitution,” said DeSana. |
Trump bent on denying Second Amendment rights to nonviolent drug users
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A few weeks after taking office, President Donald Trump called the Second Amendment “an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty,” declaring that “the right to keep and bear arms must not be infringed.” But in a case that the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear, the Trump administration is urging the justices to uphold one of the federal government’s most constitutionally dubious restrictions on that right.
Since 1968, Congress has prohibited gun possession by illegal drug users, a provision that affects millions of peaceful Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety.
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NY: NYC Mayoral Race Shocker: Gun-Ban Crusader Mamdani Exposed Waving Pistol In Violent Rap Video
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As far-left Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor nears next Tuesday’s election, a controversial rap video from his past has resurfaced, drawing sharp criticism from a prominent gun-rights organization.
The video, made several years ago while Mamdani performed under the alias “Young Cardamom,” depicts the now-mayoral candidate waving a pistol, and includes a graphic scene showing a man being shot in the head at point-blank range.
The video’s emergence has provided potent ammunition for critics, particularly the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), who argue it exposes a profound hypocrisy given Mamdani’s vocal platform advocating for a ban on all gun ownership. |
‘In Guns We Trust’ challenges white evangelicals to rethink their alliance with firearms
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“There’s nothing in it, praise the Lord,” Thornton told worshippers. “So, fear not, everybody. Praise the Lord if that was your concern.”
Thornton was using the unloaded weapon as a sermon illustration. At points, he hoisted it up and pointed it at his congregation.
Veteran reporter William J. Kole called the incident alarming, but not surprising. He’s spent the last year researching some Christians’ embrace of gun rights for his new book, In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms, released Oct. 14 by Broadleaf Books. |
Wall Street Journal’s Misrepresentation of Stand Your Ground Laws Great for Prosecutors
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Stand Your Ground laws get a lot of press, and most of it is based on absolute nonsense. They repeat a lot of pathetic talking points with no bearing on reality, but we haven’t seen much lately about them.
But then the Wall Street Journal stepped up and unleashed the stupid.
It starts with their headline, proclaiming, “Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer’.”
In theory, it’s an exploration of the increase in justified homicides that has happened since such laws became the norm.
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Marijuana, Guns, and the Implications of the Supreme Court’s Hemani Case
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Since 1968, federal law has prohibited gun possession by illegal drug users, which is currently a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Judging from survey data, something like 20 million Americans, mostly cannabis consumers, are committing that felony right now, although only a tiny percentage of gun-owning drug users are prosecuted each year.
One of those extremely unlucky defendants is Ali Hemani, whose Supreme Court case highlights the interaction between gun regulation and drug prohibition. Both of those policies aim to promote public safety by targeting inanimate objects, and both send peaceful people to prison for conduct that violates no one’s rights. |
VA: Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation Successful in Overturning Virginia’s Universal Background Check Law; Judge Halts Enforcement
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In a landmark decision affirming Second Amendment protections, a Virginia circuit court struck down the state’s universal background check law for private firearm sales, granting a permanent injunction that bars the law’s enforcement statewide. The ruling in Wilson, et al. v. Colonel Matthew D. Hanley, highlights fatal constitutional flaws in the statute, rendering it completely unenforceable.
The Court declared Virginia Code § 18.2-308.2:5 unconstitutional, particularly due to its discriminatory impact on law-abiding adults aged 18-20. The Court then granted our request to enjoin the administration and enforcement of the law across the entire Commonwealth of Virginia. |
FL: Uthmeier: Open carry ruling doesn’t impact regs for private investigators, security officers
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However, in a footnote in his advisory opinion, Uthmeier, a Second Amendment enthusiast, said he was not addressing the constitutionality of the ban in Florida law only the impact of the McDaniel’s decision.
“In truth, I harbor doubts whether these two statutory regulations—and particularly the carry prohibition for recovery agents—would pass constitutional muster under the Bruen framework,” he said, referencing the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
The Bruen decision significantly expanded the scope of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. |
OR: ‘Activist’ Oregon Court Issues Absurd Ruling Banning the Historic Tradition of Home Gunsmithing
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Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today confirmed the filing of its Second Amended Complaint (SAC) in Montgomery v. Rosenblum, the federal challenge to Oregon’s unconstitutional ban on personally manufactured firearms (PMFs), enacted through House Bill 2005 (HB 2005).
This filing follows the District Court’s September dismissal of the case in an absurdly activist decision that flipped Supreme Court Second Amendment precedent on its head and allowed the State to evade historical scrutiny. |
Risch Introduces Bill to Protect Second Amendment Rights During Government Shutdowns
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U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today introduced legislation to ensure law-abiding gun owners can exercise their Second Amendment rights during government shutdowns. The Firearm Access During Shutdowns Act would require federal agencies to continue processing firearm applications and licenses despite a lapse in appropriations.
“The government shutdown has real impacts on real people, but it certainly should not compromise our constitutional rights. While Democrats pander to their far-Left base, federal agencies have stopped processing firearm applications, unjustly restricting law-abiding Idahoans’ Second Amendment rights,” said Risch. |
Gun Rights Groups Urge Supreme Court To Combine Cases On Marijuana Consumers’ Second Amendment Rights To Reach Fairer Ruling
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A coalition of gun rights organizations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to expand its examination of the constitutionality of a federal ban on firearm ownership by people who use marijuana—telling justices that a recent case on the issue it accepted would not properly settle the question of the current law’s constitutionality.
After the Supreme Court granted cert in the case U.S. v. Hemani earlier this month—which the Trump administration had pushed for—the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and five other gun rights advocacy groups filed an amici brief on Wednesday in a separate case pending before the justices. |
Gun Rights Groups Urge SCOTUS to Grant Cert in 2nd Marijuana Case
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A coalition of gun rights organizations has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the justices to grant certiorari in a case known as Harris v. United States, which challenges the federal ban on firearms possession by marijuana users,
The 24-page brief, submitted by the Second Amendment Foundation, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Operation Blazing Sword–Pink Pistols, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center, asks the high court to take the Harris case and hear it in tandem with the case of United States v. Hemani, which was granted review earlier this month. |
HI: Wolford v. Lopez: Flipping the Default on Gun Carry Bans, Alan Beck Thinks SCOTUS Will Stop It
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Hawaii changed the rules after Bruen. Instead of allowing concealed carry on public-facing private property—think stores, restaurants, and their parking lots—unless the owner says “no,” Hawaii did the opposite. Now it’s banned unless the owner explicitly says “yes.”
Gun-rights attorney Alan Beck is asking the Supreme Court to put that genie back in the bottle.
This isn’t a niche fight. If almost no businesses post “guns allowed,” then a carry permit becomes a sidewalk-only pass. You can walk armed down the block, but you’re disarmed the moment you step into normal life.
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Anti-Gun TRACE’s Article Proves No More Gun Laws Necessary
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A remarkably candid article in The Trace, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun news publication, titled “A Trace Analysis of 150 U.S. Cities Shows One of the Greatest Drops in Gun Violence“, declares “gun violence” is trending downward, a scenario which tells the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that no further gun control laws are necessary.
“Look at the information provided in this article, and it leads to only one conclusion,” stated CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
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DE: Delaware’s Handgun Permit to Purchase Law Challenged as Deadline Approaches
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When Delaware’s controversial handgun permit law takes effect on November 16, 2025, anyone seeking to purchase a handgun in the state will face an extensive gauntlet of requirements that gun rights advocates warn could temporarily block all legal handgun sales and violate fundamental constitutional protections.
The Permit to Purchase Law, signed by then Governor John Carney in May 2024 and passed entirely along party lines by Democratic legislators, requires prospective handgun buyers to complete an 11 component firearms training course, submit to fingerprinting at a cost of $85, undergo state and federal background checks, and wait up to 30 additional days for approval from a single state official. |
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