Litigation City of Washington, D.C., backs down in face of legal challenge to its “ghost gun” ban. Appeals court hears challenge to school ban on gun T-shirts Fibbies FBI Admits It Is Often Wrong On Gun Related Background Check Denials The Only Ones Back in August, when two teenage boys exchanged gunfire in a grudge match outside a high school …
Housekeeping I am planning to skip the 2A Newsletter on Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks. F-Troop Update on comments about stabilizing braces and unfinished receivers Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said this week that ATF’s failure to properly secure a federal firearms destruction facility allowed a contracted security guard to steal guns, thousands of gun parts and ammunition from …
Veterans Day is Thursday. Don’t forget. Thank you, veterans. The Invisible Veterans: Dickens, Tapley & Lieutenant Dan Fast & Furious: the gift that keeps on giving Mexican Journalists are Asking ATF “Gunwalker” Questions Litigation SCOTUS heard oral arguments in the big New York gun carry rights case NYSRPA v. Bruen this week. Reports indicate the court (including liberal Chief Justice …
Housekeeping We skipped the 2A Newsletter last week, due to a schedule conflict. It’s also possible that next week’s newsletter may be abbreviated, off schedule, or missed, due to a surgery in the family. Hey, if you don’t like it ask for a refund. Litigation SCOTUS gun cases discussion In an interesting aside, Tom Gresham informs us that if SCOTUS …
GRPC Did you miss the Gun Rights Policy Conference? Here ya go. NRA NRA Executive Vice President/CEO Wayne LaPierre was re-elected 44-2 (with 3 abstentions) by secret ballot of the NRA Board of Directors at their meeting last weekend. LaPierre acolytes Charles Cotton, Lt. Col. Willes K. Lee (ret.), and David Coy were elected President, First Vice President, and Second …
Correction It turns out that the person pictured in a widely-circulated (including here) photo of an alleged David Chipman standing in the fresh Branch Davidian Waco ruins is not actually Chipman, but is instead an “unidentified” FBI HRT member. Chipman was working for ATF at the time and was sent to Waco as part of the cover-up about a month …
GRPC TOMORROW – FREE The Second Amendment Foundation’s FREE 36th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2021) will be held virtually online on September 25th & 26th, 2021. Register here. Litigation Write-up on the SAF’s federal lawsuit against Cook County, Illinois’ semiautomatic firearms ban. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a July ruling it had made that found …
GRPC The Second Amendment Foundation’s FREE 36th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2021) will be held virtually online on September 25th & 26th, 2021. Register here. NRA The 2021 NRA Annual Meeting and fall board meeting is now scheduled to be held Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. in Charlotte, North Carolina in the Symphony Ballroom at the …
