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NJ: New Jersey Continues its Battle Against the Second Amendment
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In a parallel move, the Attorney General’s Office has introduced “Gun Free Zone” decals. These decals are offered to New Jersey businesses wishing to explicitly declare their premises as firearm-free areas. Provided free of charge, these decals symbolize the property owners’ commitment to maintaining a gun-free environment.
Governor Phil Murphy expressed support for these measures, emphasizing New Jersey’s dedication to pioneering gun safety regulations. These initiatives serve as a testament to the state’s proactive stance on gun control, especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, which has led to a significant increase in carry permit applications.
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RI: Appeals Court Ruling Poses Danger of Confiscation of All Firearms
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An Obama-appointed judge in Rhode Island authored an exceedingly dangerous opinion last week, rejecting arguments that the state’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds was unconstitutional. Instead, Judge William Kayatta, a graduate of Harvard Law School, built the case cleverly, declaring that LCMs (large capacity magazines) weren’t protected under the Second Amendment and, by implication, neither are the firearms they feed. |
Second Amendment Roundup: Delaware's "Assault Weapon" Ban Argued in 3rd Circuit
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The Third Circuit heard oral argument on March 11 in a challenge to Delaware's ban on so-called "assault weapons" and ammunition magazines that hold over 17 rounds. Three overlapping cases were consolidated for argument on appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction. Before the Court got into the meat of the Second Amendment dispute, Judge Stephanos Bibas raised a question about the preliminary injunction standard as it applies in Second Amendment cases: do the plaintiffs need to show that every preliminary injunction factor weighs in their favor, or is it enough to show they are likely to succeed on the merits? |
NBA YoungBoy’s gun trial paused pending Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment rights
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A federal judge has ordered a pause in the criminal case against Baton Rouge chart-topping rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, also known as Kentrell Gaulden, over federal gun charges.
The decision comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to make a ruling on Second Amendment rights later this spring, a decision that could impact YoungBoy’s case.
YoungBoy’s legal team has argued that the law he’s accused of violating, which prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment because it was “inconsistent with our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” They believe that a ruling against similar federal gun restrictions by the Supreme Court could benefit YoungBoy’s defense. |
ME: Second amendment rights
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Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are under attack. Right now in Maine, anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and his deep-pocketed gun-grabbing advocacy groups are attempting to pass some of the most extreme gun control in the country. And our current 2nd District Congressman, Jared Golden, is doing the same.
I’m writing to ask that you join me in fighting back.
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Far-Left Pentagon Official Outs Himself: ‘Repeal the Second Amendment’
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Undercover journalist James O’Keefe caught a high-ranking official in the Biden administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) saying on video that he supports open borders and repealing the Second Amendment.
Jason Beck serves as an Associate Director of Total Force Requirements & Sourcing Policy at the Office of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
“Why not just have an open border?” Beck said in a video captured by O’Keefe. “[L]ike tear down the wall.”
“You know, just lots of that talk about like ‘border security,’” Beck told O’Keefe. Beck gestured to indicate quotation marks around the term “border security.” |
MD: Locke joins SCOTUS brief in Maryland gun case
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The John Locke Foundation has helped file a friend-of-the-court brief at the nation’s highest court in a case challenging Maryland gun restrictions.
Second Amendment supporters filed a petition on Feb. 8 asking the US Supreme Court to take the case, Bianchi v. Brown, before the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals could issue a ruling.
The full 4th Circuit agreed to consider the case in a rare “en banc” hearing involving all active members. The court made that decision after a three-judge 4th Circuit panel heard arguments in the case but before that panel issued a decision. |
Gun Ban for Non-Violent Illegal Immigrant Found Unconstitutional
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“The Court also determined that based on the government’s historical analogue, where exceptions were made that allowed formerly ‘untrustworthy’ British loyalists to possess weapons, the individuals who fell within the exception were determined to be non-violent during their individual assessments, permitting them to carry firearms,” she wrote. “Thus, to the extent the exception shows that some British loyalists were permitted to carry firearms despite the general prohibition, the Court interprets this history as supporting an individualized assessment for Section 922(g)(5) as this Court previously found with Section 922(g)(1).”
She said there was no reason to think Carbajal-Flores was dangerous. |
WY: Recent Wyoming Transplant And Gun Lobbyist To Run For Barry Crago’s Seat
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Warning shots have already been fired in Wyoming House District 40 in Buffalo, where there isn’t even an official race yet for the 2024 election.
Those warning shots are coming from a new Johnson County resident and Second Amendment lobbyist Mark Jones, who announced Monday he’s seeking the Republican nomination for the seat held by incumbent Barry Crago.
Crago could not confirm he’ll run for reelection when speaking to Cowboy State Daily on Thursday, but did say he’s leaning toward doing so.
Jones, who moved to Wyoming from North Carolina in 2021, said he believes there are a number of challenges facing Wyoming and America that have not been effectively addressed. |
SC: New SC gun law way too restrictive
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As we said before in this space, the Second Amendment makes no provision for age requirements to have a gun, so our lawmakers and governor should have ensured the rights of any person to carry, regardless of age. Heck, we have teenagers running around right here in Greenwood exercising their open-carry and permitless rights. So why not let them get started sooner? And, again noted in this space before, how can it be our right to possess and openly carry our sidearms with any restrictions whatsoever? Why do our rights end when it comes to schools? When it comes to government buildings, including those where our legislators gather? Seems a tad hypocritical, doesn’t it? Especially when they who make the rules do not have to play by them.
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VA: 2024 Legislative Session Adjourns
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On Saturday, March 9th, the Virginia 2024 legislation session adjourned sine die. This means the legislative session is completed.
With the Democrats taking control of the Senate and House of Delegates, they jammed through and sent several gun control bills of serious concern to sportsmen to Governor Glenn Youngkin.
The following bills are waiting for Governor Youngkin’s consideration.
Senate Bill 2/House Bill 2 bans the import, sale, transfer, manufacture, and purchase of “assault firearms,” and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. This bill is nothing more than an anti-gun grab-bag, with modern hunting rifles and accessories pulled into the ban, once again, with no material benefit to public safety. |
NC: Mark Robinson is model of a new type of Republican politician
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In April 2018, a furniture worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, spoke at a meeting of the City Council to oppose an effort to cancel a gun show and defending the right to bear arms. A video of his four-minute unscripted speech went viral, garnering millions of views and exciting Second Amendment activists across the country. Less than two years later, that factory worker, Mark Robinson, won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of North Carolina and went on to become the first African American to hold the office. Now, he’s the GOP nominee for governor of a state with more than 10 million people and a $30 billion budget. |
Gun-Rights Activists Lose Another Hardware Ban Case
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Opponents of magazine limits suffered a new setback in court this week after a federal appeals court upheld Rhode Island’s ban.
The loss is just one in a series where gun-rights activists have tried to undo restrictions on popular guns, ammo magazines, or even knives in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. While there have been some court successes on that front, there have been even more failures. And, as Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman explains in a piece for members, those losses are likely to continue for the foreseeable future due to a simple fact of geography.
But that wasn’t all the action in the courts this week. |
AZ: Debate fiery over expansion of self-defense law
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A Senate committee approved an expansion of Arizona’s “castle doctrine” self-defense law to make it apply not just in someone’s home and yard but on any property they own or control after a fiery debate on Thursday.
Republicans back what the sponsor of HB2843 originally framed as a needed protection for farmers and ranchers. Democrats said it targeted migrants.
But in debate at the Judiciary Committee that lasted an hour, Rep. Justin Heap, R-Mesa, the sponsor of the measure, said it had nothing to do with migrants and only makes a minor change to the existing law. |
NE: Man was shot in self-defense during pry bar attack in York County, court docs say
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A fight in Waco this month escalated from belly bumping to felony assault, authorities say.
About 7 p.m. on March 2, deputies with the York County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting.
They found 60-year-old Brian Mulder with a gunshot wound in his right arm.
A deputy used a tourniquet to stop the bleeding before Mulder was taken to a hospital in York.
During the investigation, deputies determined that another man shot Mulder in self-defense during a fight. |
OH: Columbus man found not guilty of murder in shootout at South Side motorcycle clubhouse
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The president of a Columbus motorcycle club testified this week he killed a man during a 2020 shootout inside their after-hours clubhouse to protect himself, his wife and the crowd of members present.
A jury in Franklin County Common Pleas Court accepted that David Bullock, 36, of the West Side, acted in self-defense and found him not guilty on Thursday of murder and two counts of felonious assault connected to two others who were shot at the club.
Bullock's lead defense attorney, Sam Shamansky, told The Dispatch he and his client are grateful for a "highly intelligent Franklin County jury that doesn't get the wool pulled over their eyes." |
Why Gun-Rights Litigants Keep Losing Hardware Ban Challenges
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It’s also likely to remain that way based on a simple fact of political geography.
Bans on AR-15s and magazine capacity are currently concentrated among just a dozen or so progressive-leaning states. Those states, in turn, fall within just a few federal appeals court circuits—primarily the First, Second, Third, and Ninth—which have a track record of being more prone to uphold gun restrictions than other circuits.
There have only been three federal appeals court decisions dealing with hardware bans since Bruen. Two out of the First and Seventh Circuits have upheld bans, while a lone Ninth Circuit panel struck down Hawaii’s butterfly knife ban. |
OH: Stepfather Shoots Stepson In Self-Defense, Suffers Heart Attack Immediately After
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In Columbus on Wednesday morning, a domestic dispute escalated into violence when a stepfather shot his stepson in what police described as self-defense. The altercation occurred before 9:30 a.m. on South 5th Street.
Following the incident, the stepfather suffered a possible heart attack and was taken to Grant Medical Center; he is expected to recover.
The scene was described as chaotic, with significant damage to the family’s property. The stepson, who had left rehab and demanded money for drugs, was involved in the confrontation and will face charges of domestic violence and assault.
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OH: Ohio Supreme Court Looks to Upend Historic View of Warning Shots
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Maybe it’s because the current president, one Joe Biden, has advocated “taking the ol’ double barrel out and firing it in the air to scare away” intruders or maybe it’s because they simply don’t fully grasp the ramifications of sending unaimed shots into the air or other directions, but the liberal judges sitting on the Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of a gun owner, saying “firing warning shots can be considered ‘self-defense.’”
WEWS News reported on last week’s ruling that was made possible by the liberal justices on the state’s Supreme Court and provides what is technically a win, albeit a little bit of a confusing one, for gun rights advocates. |
AZ: Controversy Surrounds Phoenix Park Dog Shooting
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One of the most enduring scenes in movie history to anyone over 40 at least is the one of young Texas frontier boy Travis Coates tearfully having to put his dog, Old Yeller, down due to rabies. As the dog, who got rabies after saving the family from being attacked by a rabid wolf and being bitten in the process, sits growling and foaming at the mouth in a shed. Young Travis takes the rifle from his mother saying, “He was my dog. I’ll do it.” |
CA: Gun control law ruled unconstitutional
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A California gun law that banned residents from purchasing more than one gun in a 30-day period was ruled unconstitutional Monday by U.S. District Judge William Hayes.
The ruling issued by Hayes follows the Supreme Court’s decision in the recent “New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen” case, which expanded Second Amendment protections by requiring the courts to consider gun laws in light of the original framework of the Constitution. |
House Committee Investigates Government’s Spying on Those Who Exercise Second Amendment Rights
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The U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government asked pointed questions to several Biden administration officials to get answers to why the federal government is working against the American people instead of for them.
The Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government delved into questions of why the federal government spied, and lied, about the lawful purchases by Americans by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The U.S. Treasury admitted that it collected information on Americans’ purchases of firearms and ammunition, shopping at several sporting retailers, including Cabelas, ... |
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