Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Words A thought: If they’re rioting, don’t call them “protesters.” Action item on federal “red flag” nonsense House Votes to “Red Flag” Military Personnel in Veto-Proof Majority Shotgun Joe’s gun confiscation plan https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/ (You’ll have to click through the contribution request.) Flying with guns We have word that the TSA has modified its rules for transport of guns in checked baggage […] Read More

NRA meeting postponed again? We have a report that the NRA Annual Meeting of Members and Board Meeting scheduled for the first weekend in September in Springfield, MO, is being rescheduled, probably for November, due to COVID-19 attendance limitations. We understand that the NRA membership sale runs until the end of this month. Litigation Dick Heller Weighing Another D.C. Gun […] Read More

Mississippi local gun bans Mississippi’s new attorney general seems to have finally found her website. There is now a page for complaints about local governments violating state law concerning gun ban signs. Churches Attackers don’t always use guns. This example was last Sunday in Florida. Election. Less than 4 months away. All 435 seats in the United States House of […] Read More

Mississippi’s whining and clueless liberals THIRTY years ago this summer, in 1990, the State of Mississippi enacted its concealed carry license law, making it legal for a person with the license (also called a permit in the law) to carry a handgun in most places. Before that (and since then without the license), it was generally illegal to carry a […] Read More

Independence Day is this weekend. Y’all go be responsibly independent. Why do you want to be an American? When asked of “Ank” (Hank), a French-Moroccan paratrooper, his reply was: “You kee-deeng me? More free! Very big, purple mountain majesty, wave of grain, cool! ‘Ot dogs at baze-ball game! Yankees, Indians of Cleve-land! Cruising in Chevy Camaro! More pretty chick-ladies, all […] Read More

Action item Work to defeat the unconstitutional and catastrophic proposal for Washington, D.C. statehood. Judiciary This week the U.S. Senate confirmed President Trump’s nomination of Cory Wilson of Mississippi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. This is Mr. Trump’s 200th judicial nominee, and his 53rd circuit court judge. For the first time in more than four […] Read More

Litigation Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi issued a consent decree last week in the case filed by MS Rep. Dana Criswell (R-Olive Branch) against the City of Jackson and its mayor, ordering the City to never again act on its own to restrict the right to […] Read More

NRA meeting The NRA has officially announced that the 149th Annual Meeting of Members, previously scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2020 in Nashville, TN, has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 5, at the Springfield Expo Center located at 635 E. Saint Louis Street, Springfield, Missouri. The Meeting with take place in Halls A/B/C of the Expo Center and commence at […] Read More

MS federal gun case The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an employee of a company contracted to do work at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi who was fired for having a firearm in his car at work has no legal protection, even under the state’s law that allows for some legal gun owners to lawfully […] Read More

Watching a murder Rioting is breaking out in various cities around the country, including the torching of an occupied police precinct building in Minneapolis, from which the cops fled. Be careful out there; better yet, don’t be out there. I’m no lawyer, but my understanding is that a person(s) in the act of committing arson on an occupied building is […] Read More