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SAF Joins Amicus Urging Supreme Court To Grant Cert In Rights Restoration Case
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the court to grant certiorari in Duarte v. United States, a case challenging the federal ban on firearm possession by nonviolent felons.
SAF is joined in the filing by the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition and FPC Action Foundation.
“The Ninth Circuit’s ruling defies Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi by upholding a lifetime disarmament of someone who committed nonviolent offenses, ignoring that our historical tradition only supports disarming ‘dangerous’ persons – those with a proven proclivity for violence or threats to government,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros. |
DE: Lawsuit filed against pending handgun permit law
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Delaware’s handgun permit law, slated to go into effect Sunday, Nov. 16, now faces a court challenge on its constitutionality, with plaintiffs asking for both permanent and preliminary injunctions.
The complaint filed Nov. 3 in Delaware District Court questions the Delaware law passed last session and signed by Gov. Matt Meyer, calling the law requiring a permit to purchase a handgun a permitting scheme that violates the Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment. |
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will become a national anti-gun force
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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election victory as “the biggest win for socialism and the biggest loss for the American people.”
Speaker Johnson understands how badly the New York City mayor-elect can harm our civil rights, especially our Second Amendment rights.
The mainstream media looks at Mamdani with damn-near lust in their eyes. He’s 34, good-looking, well spoken, Muslim and even more leftist than the reporters who cover his every single word. |
Trump DOJ Continues to Support the Second Amendment in the Courts
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, announced a critical change to policies affecting gun rights in Washington D.C.
Acknowledging the District’s restrictive firearm statutes infringed the Second Amendment rights of residents, Pirro announced – after consultation with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Solicitor General’s Office – federal prosecutors had been instructed not to seek felony charges for those carrying registered shotguns or rifles. Pirro made clear that D.C.’s blanket prohibition on this activity is in violation of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in District of Columbia v. Heller and N.Y. State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. |
WA: Felons with Guns: Recent Arrests Should Provide Lesson to Lawmakers
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Recent arrests in Washington state, and elsewhere, of felons with guns should provide a valuable lesson to Evergreen State Democrats in the Legislature, because these incidents underscore what Second Amendment activists contend is the abject failure of their gun control agenda.
The challenge to firearms owners is to get anti-gun Democrats to listen, which so far, they have been unable to accomplish. Activists suggest it’s not because Democrats are deaf or cannot read, they simply don’t want to be bothered by facts. |
Circle USDC Policy Change Allows Legal Firearm Purchases
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Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has updated its terms of service to permit the use of its digital dollar token for lawful firearm purchases, reversing a previous restriction that had drawn criticism from gun rights advocates and U.S. lawmakers.
The company confirmed the change to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a trade group representing gun manufacturers and retailers. The move comes after several weeks of political debate over the role of private financial companies in restricting access to lawful commerce. |
IL: Friends with Guns
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You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why. The time of easy answers regarding this issue is long gone. In the wake of current events, we are all forced to reexamine our strongly held beliefs about gun ownership. Friends With Guns explores the question of what we can compartmentalize…and what we can’t. It examines what happens when guns enter the conversation. It pulls the curtain back on liberals with guns. |
FL: Seeing people walk around with guns makes me uncomfortable
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In regards to open carry of guns: For those of us who don’t want a gun, aren’t particularly comfortable around guns, and are worried about today’s atmosphere, seeing people walk around with guns, especially when more than a pistol, makes us very uncomfortable.
People are so angry today that I am concerned that if you do something as minor as, for example, cut someone off with your grocery cart in Publix, they might pull a gun on you.
Many people have lost that basic control recently and it outright scares the hell out of me to see so many guns out in the open. Yes, they have rights, but don’t I? |
OR: Measure 114 case in Oregon Supreme Court pits gun ownership tradition against public safety concerns
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The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday questioned whether the historical presence of guns in the state could usurp the public safety concerns justifying a voter-approved law that prevents sale or transfer of magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The hearing marked the culmination of arguments over Measure 114, which a narrow majority of Oregon voters approved in 2022. Advocates from both sides of the ongoing fight to implement one of the nation’s most stringent gun control provisions filled the courtroom in Salem. |
MD: Montgomery County gun buyback targets firearms, ghost guns
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Montgomery County will host its fourth annual Gun Buyback Event Saturday, Nov. 15, at RedGate Park in Rockville, aiming to reduce the number of firearms on community streets.
The event, held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., is a partnership between the Rockville City Police Department and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Participants will receive a $100 Visa gift card for each functioning handgun, rifle or shotgun. A $200 Visa gift card will be offered for assault-style weapons and privately made firearms, also known as ghost guns. |
OH: Bath shooting shows it's too easy for young people to access guns
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The recent mass shooting in Bath Township is yet another heartbreaking reminder that gun violence has no boundaries.
This isn’t about a ZIP code because guns travel.
The problem isn’t where it happened; the problem is kids with guns.
We can’t keep ignoring the fact that too many of our young people have easy access to firearms and are being pulled into a culture that normalizes violence. Whether it’s in Bath, Akron or anywhere else, the issue remains the same – our children are picking up guns instead of opportunities. |
OR: Measure 114 case in Oregon Supreme Court pits gun ownership tradition against public safety concerns
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The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday questioned whether the historical presence of guns in the state could usurp the public safety concerns justifying a voter-approved law that prevents sale or transfer of magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The hearing marked the culmination of arguments over Measure 114, which a narrow majority of Oregon voters approved in 2022. Advocates from both sides of the ongoing fight to implement one of the nation’s most stringent gun control provisions filled the courtroom in Salem. |
Transgender rights to Trump’s tariffs – here’s what’s on the Supreme Court docket
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Hawaii gun law: The justices took up a challenge to a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property that is open to the public such as most businesses, giving the court a chance to further expand gun rights. Three Hawaii residents with concealed carry licenses and a Honolulu-based gun rights advocacy group appealed a lower court's determination that Hawaii's measure likely complies with the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The Hawaii law requires concealed carry licensees to get an owner's consent before bringing a handgun onto private property open to the public. No date has been set for the arguments. |
Argentina: Libertarian Agentine President Milei Expands Gun Rights
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There is a problem here in the United States, and that's if liberty were to fall here, there's nowhere to go. There's no escape route for those of us who don't want the government to take everything from us, up to and including our guns, which is why so many of us have a line in the sand that cannot be crossed.
And I don't see there being anywhere to go anytime soon. Too many other nations that are supposedly free really aren't, and the trend internationally is for more regulation of everything and a complete and total lack of gun rights. |
MI: Oakland County homeowner charged in shooting death of fleeing burglary suspect
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A homeowner “crossed the line” when he fatally shot a burglary suspect in a detached garage, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has said. His attorney argues charges against the homeowner are what truly cross the line.
Dayton Knapton, 24, of White Lake, now faces a manslaughter charge in the death of Sivan Wilson, 17.
Knapton was arraigned on Friday, Nov. 7, on that charge along with charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and two counts of carrying a firearm in the commission of a felony tied to the reported break-in and shooting at his home, online court records show. |
Bill proposes safe guards for letter carriers after recent attacks
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With robberies, assaults, and even attempted homicide, postal workers in Rochester are facing more threats today than ever before. Congressman Joe Morelle visited Rochester Friday to discuss a bill he’s co-sponsoring he says will help to better protect our mail carriers.
The recent attacks and robberies on letter carriers have them, and their loved ones, concerned and fearful to return to the job. Investigations into these attacks are still ongoing, but Congressman Morelle, along with others, is working to prevent future attacks from happening in the first place. |
More stand your ground lies
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Since the Trayvon Martin case—my home blog Martin case archive is here--the racial grievance industry has endlessly claimed “stand your ground”—SYG—laws allow white racists to murder innocent blacks at will. Never mind that SYG was not implicated in that case and that neither the prosecution nor the defense raised it. An unmistakable case of self-defense, the local prosecutor refused to prosecute. So racially charged was the political atmosphere, then Florida AG Pam Bondi appointed a corrupt special prosecutor who lost the case.
The anti-liberty/gun industry continues to lie about SYG laws, and the Wall Street Journal has jumped on the creaky bandwagon: |
First Principles: Second Amendment returns to the Supreme Court
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen authoritatively declared that “the constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” The Supreme Court now has the opportunity to once again make that clear to states that impose burdensome restrictions on law-abiding citizens’ constitutionally-protected means of self-defense. |
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