Action Item
- The NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS, NBA and NASCAR have been recruited by Chuckie Schumer to lobby for the Undetectable Firearms Act’s reauthorization. You can add your name to GOA’s pre-written letter to sports league officials to tell them to keep their hands off of our Second Amendment rights, here.
Event
- The 2024 BamaCarry ninth annual “Firearms Freedom Conference” will be on Saturday, February 24, at the Doster Center in Prattville.
Litigation
“The Supreme Court has the ability to find lower courts in contempt. Following a contempt ruling, the SCOTUS has the power to remove offending parties – including the officers of a lower court. It also has the ability to order imprisonment for ‘disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command.’ At that point, federal marshals would be ordered to arrest non-compliant judges. That’s in keeping with the U.S. Constitution, which states: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Well what are they waiting for? And if SCOTUS doesn’t act on this, isn’t that grounds for impeachment of the Supreme Court Justices?
- The United States Government has filed for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court challenging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold a District Court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the ATF from enforcing the final rule on frames and receivers (Final Rule 2021R-05F). That rule reclassified unfinished frames as firearms subject to federal firearms law and ATF regulation. A gun made from a partially machined frame at home by the owner/end user is not required to have a serial number or “paperwork.” You know, just like guns made at the time of adoption of the Second Amendment.
- U.S. gun manufacturers plan to ask the US Supreme Court to consider their case to throw out Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the US-Mexico border. The appeal will focus on whether Mexico’s claims are barred by a federal law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which gives legally-acting gun manufacturers broad protection from lawsuits over the misuse of their products by others. The 1st Circuit ruled last month that while PLCAA can be applied to lawsuits by foreign governments, Mexico’s lawsuit “plausibly alleges a type of claim (illegal activity) that is statutorily exempt from the PLCAA’s general prohibition.” The court said that was because the law was only designed to protect lawful firearms-related commerce, yet Mexico had accused the companies of aiding and abetting illegal gun sales by facilitating the trafficking of firearms into the country. However, we have heard of NO actual evidence of any of the alleged illegal activity by the manufacturers. Perhaps a countersuit is in order.
- Kaysville, Utah, Police Officer Lacy Turner, who accidentally shot herself while doing firearms training, has filed a lawsuit against the company that manufactured her Blackhawk SERPA holster, claiming there is a history of accidental discharges involving police officers using the same holster but the company continues to sell it. The interesting thing is that part of the allegations include evidence that the cop community knew the SERPA design was “problematic” at least 10 years before the incident in question. So perhaps she made her own mistake.
Legislation
- Apparently there is a loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 allowing federal law enforcement to buy lists of gun owners and concealed carry permit holders without a warrant or regard for the Second and Fourth Amendments.
- Coming soon: Mississippi legislative report.
Miscellaneous facts and figures
- Major credit card companies are moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers in order to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track “suspicious” gun purchases and report them to law enforcement.
- Chicago plans to stop using the controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection system later this year. The system, which relies on an artificial intelligence algorithm and network of microphones to identify and located gunshots, has been criticized for inaccuracy, racial bias and law enforcement misuse.
- Just a reminder about those evil black rifles.
- A reminder that gun control laws don’t work.
- 84% of states have a lower violent crime rate in 2022 than they did before permitless concealed carry.
Administration Antics
- President Joe Biden’s White House will be holding several events focused on combating their so-called “gun violence” in black communities. It appears the planned virtual meetings and round table discussion invitations are limited to black leaders and black elected officials only, to be followed up by a workshop where local and state leaders can learn how to obtain federal resources for New “Community Safety Programs” (read “gun control for minority communities”).
ATF lawbreaking
NRA
More on the NRA Board election and the corruption trial. By the time you get this, the case likely will have gone to the jury for deliberation.
- NRA Board Elections: Support the Four for Reform Candidates
- More Thoughts On NRA EVP Search Committee
- NY Vs NRA: Unbelievable Expenses and Receipts
- NRA Trial Day 21: The NRA’s Parade of Experts Continues
- LaPierre admits graft, implicates Ackerman McQueen and Tony Makris in fraud
Enemies
- Gun-Banners New “Shotline” Resorts to Ghoulish AI Voices of “the Dead” to Haunt Lawmakers. Presented without my comments. Make your own zombie jokes.
The Only Ones
- A San Diego college student living with her grandmother fortunately survived being shot (grazed) in the head after her next-door neighbor, Marine Corps Cpl. Samuel C. Hernandez, 22, fired a bullet through her bedroom wall while he was “practicing” with his Glock 19 pistol. Hernandez – who admitted “being stupid” – was arrested on suspicion of negligently discharging a firearm, according to a police report.
- Not even a blind pig…
Back in November, former rookie Okaloosa County (FL) Sheriff’s Deputy Jesse Hernandez and his partner, Sergeant Beth Roberts, both opened fire with multiple shots into their own patrol car, trying to hit a detained theft suspect, after Hernandez heard a falling acorn boinking onto the car and mistook it for a gunshot by the unarmed and previously searched suspect. Hernandez also falsely claimed he had been shot. You read that right (pdf link to report).
- Meanwhile over in the Department of the Navy, the tiara is reinstated as an optional Navy uniform component for all female Sailors (E-1 through O-10) when wearing Dinner Dress Blue and White Jacket Uniforms. I thought the Navy was in the Department of Defense, not the Department of Debutantes.
DGUs
- You probably heard that a mentally disturbed woman in a trench coat opened fire with a rifle between services Sunday afternoon inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Texas. Two security officers who were off-duty police officers confronted and killed the attacker, who fired about 30 rounds. Two other people were shot and injured, including the woman’s 7-year-old son who was in critical condition with a head wound, apparently caught in the officers’ crossfire. The attacker also had an extensive history of misdemeanor offenses, including an “illegal weapons” charge.
- Armed citizen fatally shoots man who fatally stabbed a police officer.
- BEFORE DEPUTIES COULD ARRIVE, the offender kicked in the homeowner’s door and entered the residence unlawfully, where he was met with fatal gunfire from the homeowner. The criminal’s obituary states he “never wavered with his relationship with God.” Doubtful.
- The Armed Citizen
GFZs
- For the second time in less than a week, shots rang out in one of New York City’s “gun-free zones,” this time leaving one person dead and five others injured at a subway station in the Bronx on Monday evening. New York’s gun laws disarm the victims and leave the criminals free to attack with impunity. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old accused of shooting and injuring a tourist while shoplifting last week in Times Square is facing no additional charges for bringing a gun into a “gun free” so-called “sensitive location.” At least one other person accused of opening fire in Times Square since the law took effect in September 2022 was also not charged with violating the new law.
Buford Pusser update
Tactics & Stuff
- 14 Things Everyone Should Understand About Guns
- “Calling 9-1-1 and waiting is the worst possible way to deal with a murderous attack at a church (or anywhere else)…”
- Why you don’t pocket carry without a holster, and why I don’t like .25s.
- CCW cover garments. My biggest problem is that I insist on having a shirt tail inside my pants and between me and an IWB holster. This of course necessitates an additional cover layer on the outside. That can be uncomfortable down here in Mississippi where 100 degrees and 90% humidity is not uncommon.
- 1911 Pistol Carry Conditions Explained. I don’t care what label or number you put on it.
- The Definitive Guide To Flying With Guns
B&C Record Roosevelt Elk
Products
- Chiappa Firearms has expanded its Badger family with the new slightly larger Big Badger in .350 Legend, .30-30, or .410 Bore.
- Aero Precision/Stag Arms has new lever action rifles in .30/30 or .45-70. $1,300-$1,900.
- Glock has expanded its 5th Generation line with the G29 Gen5 chambered in 10mm and the G30 Gen5 chambered in .45 ACP.
- Lipsey’s has a Ruger Model 77 African Hawkeye in .35 Whelen and a 77/22 African Hawkeye in .22 Hornet.
- Charles Daly‘s new Hydra 902 is a semi-automatic combo shotgun that comes complete with one serialized upper, a bullpup lower, and an ATF approved AR lower, giving you the ability to convert between these two platforms. The upper is chambered in 3″ 12-gauge, has an 18.7″ barrel covered by an aluminum barrel shroud with adjustable flip-up sights, top and bottom picatinny rails and an angled fore grip. It uses the Beretta/Benelli® Mobil choke system with 3 included tubes and comes with two 5-round box magazines. $530. Charles Daly has a ton of shotguns, I believe mostly made in Turkey.
- RTS Tactical Bulletproof Memory Foam Pillow