Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Litigation A three judge panel from the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said a lower court was right to reject a request from Clark Aposhian to temporarily block last year’s Trump Administration bump stock ban, because he did not show he was likely to win his case. The appeals court also said he failed to show that […] Read More

The US Supreme Court considered nearly a dozen different Second Amendment-related cases in conference last week, but has not yet accepted or dismissed any of the cases. Instead, the Court carried all of them over, so they will again be heard in conference in May. The Court is now hearing arguments by phone. GOA sues ATF over revocation of NICS […] Read More

Jackson, MS mayor appoints himself king of the state, gets sued, runs away Jackson, MS, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who is a protégé of Michael Bloomberg’s Harvard City Leadership Initiative and a Bernie supporter, says he “suspended” the state “open carry” law by executive order. (I find no “open carry” statute in the state code.) He cited the wrong authorizing […] Read More

The FBI is violating your civil rights. Again. Still. Litigation It looks like the US Solicitor General is running away from challenges to unconstitutional gun control laws. In the case Rhode v. Becerra (S.D. Cal. 2020), U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled this week in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association and issued a preliminary […] Read More

Patriots Day Sunday is Patriots Day. Celebrate appropriately and ballistically. Virus Guidelines for FFLs during the pandemic. Don’t count on the police being there, especially now. Have you noticed? Since the Coronavirus pandemic, pretty much all the home schools have guns in them. Yet, ZERO school shootings. Therefore, it must not be the guns. CBS reports that March 2020 was […] Read More

Virus Mexico murder rate reaches new high as violence rages amid COVID-19 spread It seems that business burglaries are up significantly in some US jurisdictions, due to business neighborhoods being emptied out during the COVID-19 epidemic. Islamic terrorists have reportedly NOT “isolated at home.” In other news, US gun shop shelves are reportedly looking like supermarket TP aisles, with both […] Read More

Virus President Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revised its guidance of critical infrastructure (.pdf link) to include the firearms industry as part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure. The advisory specifically includes “[w]orkers supporting the operation of firearm or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers, distributors, and shooting ranges” as part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure. (page 6) Prisoners being […] Read More

Let’s start out with a little good news The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that unintentional firearm fatalities reached their lowest level ever, according to the latest data from the National Safety Council’s just-released Injury Facts Report 2018. The data showed that for 2018 there were 458 accidental firearm fatalities, accounting for less than 1% of unintentional fatalities from all […] Read More

MS bills The Mississippi Legislature has adjourned the current session until at least April Fools Day (go figure) and will adjust the remaining legislative deadlines. A number of other state legislatures have also closed up shop. Now if we can shut down Congress… Election Last chance to “bullet” vote for NRA Board candidates and get your ballot in before March […] Read More