Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

2A News: May 13, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Training for citizen gunfights, by Tom Givens. Read this. Litigation The full US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit met en banc this week to rehear the case challenging the legality of Maryland’s ban on certain semiautomatic firearms after a three-judge panel of the Court previously cast doubt on the […] Read More

2A News: May 6, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman (click to enlarge image — source: Gunmart) CCW What about carrying where it’s legal, but not “allowed” by the venue? Make sure you know with certainly about the actual legality in your specific area.

2A News: April 29, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Gunwalker Recently released Justice Dept. documents concerning the ATF’s deadly Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal have revealed that the Administration, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and his subordinates: Deliberately claimed the charges of gun-walking by the Fast and Furious operation in Arizona were false and refused to adjust the official position […] Read More

2A News: April 22, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS legislation update SB 2515 has passed the legislature and been signed by the governor. It takes effect July 1. Exempts the records of the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks relating to applications for and holders of hunting licenses from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983, […] Read More

2A News: April 15, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS legislation update SB 2515 has passed the House and Senate — goes to governor Exempts the records of the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks relating to applications for and holders of hunting licenses from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983, AND records shall be released […] Read More

2A News: April 8, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS Church Protection Act, HB 786 The House has concurred in the Senate amendment and the bill now goes to the governor, who I think will sign it. It retains the open carry provision that allows unlicensed carry “upon the person in a sheath, belt holster or shoulder holster…” (”…or carried […] Read More

2A News: April 1, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Fairy tales The NRA partnered with an author to clean up some of Grimm’s fairy tales so that they now have happy endings. Now the anti-gunners are losing their minds over story changes such as Hansel and Gretel rescuing two kids from the witch and having the witch captured by the […] Read More

2A News: March 25, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Be prepared At the 2016 ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) Convention, attendees were advised in several high-end professional lecture classes that there will be “exciting” events (terrorism) this summer and fall on the international scene, and that we are all thus well advised to (1) stay alert and […] Read More