Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Trump Administration We have reports that FBI/ATF Director Kash Patel is reassigning up to 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI. That’s more than a third of the entire ATF agent workforce and would presumably reduce ATF’s illicit harassment of legitimate FFLs and gun owners. But Patel himself denounced the story as “fake news” in an internal memo to ATF staff, […] Read More

Trumped Robert Leider, a Scalia Law professor & Second Amendment legal expert, has officially replaced Pamela Hicks as ATF’s new Chief Counsel and is listed as Assistant Director. This looks outstanding. The Trump administration removed a ludicrous Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the alleged public health effects of “gun violence” and a similar webpage from the Department of Health and […] Read More

Litigation The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously ruled this week in United States v. Rush that short-barreled rifles can still be restricted under the National Firearms Act. Fifth Circuit Gives Trump Opportunity to Act on Suppressors. Firearms Policy Coalition has asked the US Supreme Court to hear its Worth v. Jacobson case, agreeing with the State of Minnesota […] Read More

Housekeeping My unavoidable circumstances fortunately went away (no defendants showed up), so here’s your 2A newsletter. ************************* ************************* Litigation SCOTUS case: Mexico v. US gunmakers. Mexico claims that because gun makers know that some percentage of their products will likely be used illegally, the gun makers are guilty of “aiding and abetting” their own Mexican criminal elements. One commenter noted […] Read More

Housekeeping Due to unavoidable circumstances, there MAY not be a 2A newsletter next week. Trumped Civic Lesson The Department of Commerce stopped issuing gun export licenses around the beginning of the month, according to multiple sources. The department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees firearms exporting, issued a hold without action order for all export licenses on February 5th. […] Read More

Trumped 2/14/25 New York Post: “After Trump’s election victory in November, the US Army announced it shattered previous recruiting records when the service said it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers per day in December 2024, the most productive December in 15 years. The surge in recruitment comes after two consecutive years of missing recruitment targets.” Get Real I see that a […] Read More

NRA Board Election I have now received my ballot. Ballots must be received by April 6.   Reminders: SIGN YOUR ballot and ENVELOPE. Vote only for reform candidates and not the old guard Bob Barr slate: Ammoland – NRA Board Election 2025 Endorsements: Future of NRA is in Members’ Hands The Outdoor Wire – Decision Time for NRA Members Trumped […] Read More

Trumped Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been confirmed as US Attorney General by a 54-46 Senate vote, in spite of complaints from some gun-rights advocates. The US Senate also confirmed N.D. Gov. Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior by a vote of 79-18. Burgum enjoys wide support from sportsmen. Less than two weeks into the new Trump […] Read More

Trumped A reminder that Mr. Trump promised “Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated on my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day,” but as far as we know since taking office he has not done anything about it. But there’s hope. We note that talking isn’t doing. Litigation The US District […] Read More