Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Litigation US District Court Judge Robert Summerhays of the Western District of Louisiana Lafayette Division has vacated the court’s order mandating the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition provide the government with lists of their members after the groups and the US Department of Justice filed a joint motion to amend the judgment late last week. The case, Reese […] Read More

A Right Denied The federal government shutdown has halted the processing of NFA firearms approvals, such as those for suppressors and short-barreled rifles, and left law-abiding gun owners across the country facing potential delays. I understand that the NICS check system for regular gun purchases is still operational, but have no firsthand experience since our CCW license circumvents that particular […] Read More

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 The BIS determined that the Interim Final Rule, published by the Biden administration, should – and will – be rescinded in its entirety.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