Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

May 18, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Open Your Eyes The Quickest Thing You Can Do To Shoot Better – But You Shouldn’t Do It [The Daily Caller] Exhaustive Study: Murder Rates Rise Every Place that Bans Guns Again. Litigation NRA sues state of New York. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by three men who […] Read More

May 11, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman NRA Dallas — I told you so. Look at last week’s newsletter item about the NRA meeting and the predicted protesters in Dallas. I predicted only a few. Turns out the lamestream media reported that “hundreds of people turned out to protest for and against gun rights.” Actually, we have word from the […] Read More

May 4, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Six-time Olympic medal winner and NRA board member Kim Rhode, gun rights groups, and others have filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court for the Southern District of California challenging California’s new regulations on ammo sales. Proposition 63 outlaws direct mail order ammunition sales and requires ammo sales to be made […] Read More

April 27, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman The NRA Annual Meetings 2018 will be held in Dallas May 4-6. Fun and mostly free. Virulently anti-gun CDC Agrees with DGU Stats, Declines to Publish Study Results In fact, there were three separate studies, the largest ever conducted, and each one was suppressed. “In an average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S. […] Read More

April 20, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Gun Control Gun Control Logical Fallacy: Ignoring Lives Saved [Gun Watch] So You Want Gun Control? Choke On It. Lonegan wants Menendez charged for holding a rifle during press conference [Politico] Litigation Kystie Jaehnen was hailed as a hero after she saved the life of an off-duty Indiana conservation officer under attack by an assailant […] Read More

April 13, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman The March The “student-led” “March for Our Lives” groups which were formed after the Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida had a bunch of concurrent marches across the country on March 14. But somehow the permit for the march was issued by the D.C. Metropolitan Police in response to an application received MONTHS […] Read More

March 30, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Housekeeping Due to my schedule, there may not be a newsletter next week. The Cause Walter Williams nails it.

March 23, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Florida Follow-Up We have gun control and other preemptive laws which presumably might have worked to prevent the Florida school massacre last month, if only the authorities had done their jobs. Coulter nails it — and prints names. First Amendment Protection of Second Amendment Issues A commenter notes that the school “walkouts” supporting […] Read More

#105 — March 16, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation The NRA filed a lawsuit against Florida in federal court last week the same day that Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation raising the minimum age to buy long guns from 18 to 21. The NRA seeks declaratory and injunctive relief: a declaration that the 18-20 age restriction is unconstitutional under […] Read More

March 9, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS Legislation Mississippi HB1083, which has passed the House and was amended in a Senate committee (see previous newsletter discussion), was again amended on the Senate floor. If I understood the discussion correctly, the floor amendment would provide that armed enhanced CCW license holders would be allowed at school athletic events only if […] Read More