Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Trumped The Revisions of Firearms License Requirements Final Rule posted in the Federal Register by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security rolls back the export restrictions for firearms and related ammunition and components. The BIS determined that the Interim Final Rule, published by the Biden administration, should – and will – be rescinded in its entirety. The US […] Read More

“Cogito, ergo armatum sum: I think, therefore I am armed.” Live News The 40th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference this weekend will be live streamed. More news. The US Department of War, dissolved in 1947, has been reinstated by President Trump. ‘Bout time. Litigation Hawaii’s subjective denial of a permit to acquire a gun was defeated. The US Ninth Circuit […] Read More

“Mingle eau de #9 with the scent of oiled steel and freshly empty Long Rifle cases, and the world could begin again.” – John Barsness   *************************   This is Constitution Week, for those who remember that we have one.   ************************* Litigation The US Department of Justice has filed a motion in the District of Columbia US Court of […] Read More

************************* Assassination update. Mauser .30-06? ************************* Litigation In the cases Barnett v. Raoul, the US Department of Justice in June filed an amicus brief with the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, not in support of the state, but of the plaintiffs suing to have Illinois’s “assault weapon” ban overturned. You read that right – the DOJ is asking the […] Read More

Litigation A unanimous three-judge panel on the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court ruling in the case US v. Morgan and decided that possession of machine guns is not protected by the Second Amendment, because the defendant didn’t prove that they are “in common use today for self-defense,” an erroneous standard set in the Supreme Court’s […] Read More

Trumped GOA says the US Department of Justice is still actively defending former President Biden’s “zero tolerance” firearm dealer license revocation scheme, even after President Trump canceled the rule. Meanwhile the FPC says the Trump DOJ is fighting to overturn the gun rights of all Americans. Litigation “Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no legislation […] Read More

Trumped The concealed carry permitting process and firearm registration process in Washington, D.C. have been slashed from months down to days via President Trump’s Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which was established via an executive order in March to revitalize the nation’s capital. “No law-abiding citizen should have to wait months before he or she can register their […] Read More

‘Merica! Trumped President Donald Trump last week signed the Executive Order Guaranteeing Free and Fair Banking for All Americans, which ends legal banking discrimination against individuals and entities based on political beliefs, such as “guns are bad.” Trump nominated two Mississippi Supreme Court justices to federal bench. Litigation California direct-to-home ammo sales without background checks now on hold after state […] Read More

Litigation Despite the July US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Rhode v. Bonta that California’s law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases is unconstitutional, and affirming a district court’s order granting a permanent injunction against enforcement of the law, anti-gun state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced he plans to continue enforcing the law until the Ninth Circuit issues […] Read More

Litigation A divided Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel last week upheld by a 2-1 vote a lower court ruling that declared California’s voter-approved Proposition 63 background check scheme for ammunition purchases is unconstitutional because the law “meaningfully constrains” people’s right to keep and bear arms and “infringes on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.” The court […] Read More