Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

Litigation USPS on its unconstitutional gun ban policy. (The district court’s ruling (pdf link) only applies to the defendant in the case, and did not include an injunction against enforcement of the law against other Americans.) The “Chevron defense” cases now being heard at SCOTUS. Very important. A 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Pennsylvania ruled 2-1 last […] Read More

Action Item In order to stop the permanent reauthorization of the Plastic Gun Ban and defund the anti-gunners at the ATF, GOA has changed its grassroots strategy by sending separate letters to Republican and Democrat members of Congress, based on their support of or opposition to the effort. You can add your name here. There are several letters to scroll […] Read More

Action Item Both the U.S. House and Senate passed bipartisan amendments to H.R. 4366 to repeal the Veteran Gun Ban, but anti-gun extremists are plotting to remove that amendment as Congress negotiates the final passage of the bill. The provision in question lists honorable veterans as prohibited persons simply because they appointed a fiduciary to handle their veteran’s benefits for […] Read More

Happy New Year and Happy Shooting! Litigation A 9th U.S. Circus Court of Appeals panel suspended a Dec. 20 injunction issued by a federal district judge who concluded California’s law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places unconstitutionally violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment. The circuit’s three-judge panel issued […] Read More

Housekeeping. A fellow blogger said this week that the online blog world is dying and not many people visit internet blog pages anymore. Apparently people prefer to be spoon-fed information pushed out to their cell phones, which of course is heavily filtered. That blogger is moving to a paid Patreon service which somehow magically fixes the problem. His problem is […] Read More

Housekeeping No newsletter next week due to Christmas holidays. Merry Christmas y’all! Remember why. Litigation A three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a New York state law provision requiring private property owners to post signs allowing concealed carry on property open to the public. The court also rejected the New York’s unconstitutional attempt […] Read More

Litigation U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas S. Kleeh of the Northern District of West Virginia has ruled that a federal law prohibiting FFL handgun sales to 18-20-year-olds is “facially unconstitutional,” and granted a summary judgment in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation, saying, “(B)ecause Plaintiffs’ conduct – the purchase of handguns – ‘fall[s] [within] the Second Amendment’s ‘unqualified […] Read More

Litigation SCOTUS has granted review of Garland v. Cargill, 22-976. Whether bump stocks are machine guns. U.S. District Court for District of Columbia (decision here – pdf link): “The otherwise illegal possession of a firearm may be justified, so as not to be criminal, if the weapon is held in lawful self-defense. This case presents the question of when precisely […] Read More

No newsletter next week due to the Thanksgiving holidays. We will be giving thanks. Unlikely Heroes In late 1943, the Navy listed over 14,000 vessels in its inventory. Ninety-two percent of them, some 12,964 units, were designed by that fierce, stout bayou boatman, and most were built at his own assembly yard. Litigation Last week, a unanimous U.S. Fifth Circuit […] Read More

Tomorrow is Veterans Day Thank you, veterans. “Remembering Ernie” Litigation The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the legality of the Trump administration’s ban on “bump stocks” in the case Garland v. Cargill. This is not really a gun case, but is one said to be challenging the Chevron deference principle under which federal agencies are allowed to administratively […] Read More