Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A second machine gun suit has been filed in Pennsylvania. The previous one was reported from Texas. This complaint for declarative and injunctive relief was filed last week in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiff Ryan S. Watson, acting individually and as trustee of the Watson Family Gun Trust, is suing Attorney General Eric H. […]
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A brief filed last Wednesday by 21 state attorneys general in the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Kolbe v. O’Malley correctly asserts that Maryland’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 violates citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment by imposing a ban on the possession of commonly-used weapons. The attorneys general
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US District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. issued a ruling last week in the District of Columbia, denying a motion by the District to reconsider his July ruling that the District ban on carry outside of the home is unconstitutional “under any level of scrutiny.” —————————————— You may remember that the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the
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Updates on Hollis v. Holder, a case we previously mentioned which was finally filed last week in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. The suit challenges the post-1986 machine gun ban (the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act) for legal entities such as trusts and corporations. Representing Hollis is Mississippi attorney Stephen
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