Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

NRA Article on NRA debacle and the man behind the movement to save it. Ackerman McQueen’s court-filed answer and counterclaim to NRA & Wayne LaPierre. 55 pages. MS election (Nov. 5) Mississippi gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Jim Hood (D) said during a debate that he supports state-mandated “universal” background checks (which require gun registration), talked about closing the fictitious […] Read More

Litigation FPC Supreme Court Brief: Non-Violent Felons Have Second Amendment Rights. They’re right. The US Supreme Court issued an order this week denying New York City’s 11th-hour attempt to have the NYSRPA v. City of New York case dismissed as moot. This is the case challenging NYC’s law which essentially prohibited most transport (not “carry”) of legal, locked, unloaded guns […] Read More

MS election The Tate Reeves (R) for governor campaign reminds us that his opponent, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood (D), opposed Mississippi’s Castle Doctrine law. We also noticed that he also calls himself the chief law enforcement officer in the state. But it’s ATTORNEY general, Jim. The last I heard, attorneys are officers of the courts. That’s the judicial branch. […] Read More

FBI Warning Based on social media threats, the FBI and the US Army have issued a warning of possible mass shootings at theaters showing the upcoming new Batman-themed movie “Joker.” Army Criminal Investigation Division officials said it received “credible” intelligence from law enforcement in Texas about “disturbing and very specific chatter” on the dark Web regarding “the targeting of an […] Read More

GRPC Live Stream This weekend’s entire 34th annual SAF Gun Rights Policy Conference in Phoenix, AZ will be live streamed on their official Facebook page. Why Facebook, I can’t answer. Gun confiscation I noticed recently that today in Christian churches in the US, folks are discussing, in church, the proposals by some of our evil socialist politicians to come and […] Read More

Action item. StopTrumpGunControl.com: Oppose Pres. Trump’s Plan to Enact New Gun Control Litigation First person charged for violating unconstitutional bump stock ban. Of course out of the thousands of “criminals” out there, the government picked a prohibited schizophrenic person to make their case. Bad cases make bad law. ………. NRA sues San Francisco over “terrorist” allegation. But not based on […] Read More

Action item Congressman Steven Palazzo’s (R-MS) “yes or no” survey on gun control. Litigation A three-judge panel of the Fourth US Court of Appeals ruled last week that survivors and family members of victims from the 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, can sue the federal government after the national background check system failed to […] Read More

The Racism of Gun Control Fast & Furious update History lesson In 1777, Congress ordered 100 examples of Joseph Belton’s new form of flintlock musket that was claimed to be capable of firing as many as sixteen consecutive shots in as little as twenty seconds. In 1789, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution was proposed, and it was ratified […] Read More

Knife Day Tomorrow (Saturday, 8/24) is National Knife Day. Cut something. Election Gun rights champion and MS Commissioner of Agriculture Andy Gipson has endorsed Tate Reeves for Mississippi governor in the Republican Primary.  The runoff is Tuesday. Philly & Dayton follow-ups So it turns out that guy who was barricaded in and shooting up cops in Philadelphia, PA, has been […] Read More

Action item Tell US Senators & Reps to oppose new gun control Election If you don’t think Democrat MS gubernatorial candidate Jim Hood is on the left, think again. Outdoor writer Jack Ballard has launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination for a US Senate seat in Montana. But in a Gun Talk interview with Tom Gresham, Ballard went full-Fudd […] Read More