Jeff Pittman

Kids, school, guns…. not what you think

Craver (CO) Middle School students went to the Avondale Clay and Gun Club range last week as part of a week-long course about the Revolutionary War. The gun safety class showed the 6th to 8th graders how important marksmanship was to winning a war against the world-class British army. 30 students participated and were able to shoot down “redcoat” targets

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FBI and media misleading about mass shootings (again)

The FBI and the media apparently teamed up (again) to mislead us about mass shootings. But also this week, FBI director and former veteran federal prosecutor James Comey testified on the agency’s budget in front of a House panel. At the end of the two-hour budget hearing, US Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Justice, asked

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News on new ATF Acting Director Thomas Brandon

It seems that ATF’s announced new Acting Director, the current Deputy Director, Thomas Brandon, has a shady past (see also here). That doesn’t surprise me. Meanwhile we learn that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, said that departing ATF director B. Todd Jones will be the league’s new chief disciplinary officer. The new special counsel would allow Goodell to no longer have to

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Litigation in the 4th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapons” and magazine ban law. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an en banc rehearing of the Peruta v. San Diego and the related Richards v. (Yolo County Sheriff Ed) Prieto decisions (made by 3-judge panels). We understand that now a larger panel

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