Trumped
- The concealed carry permitting process and firearm registration process in Washington, D.C. have been slashed from months down to days via President Trump’s Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which was established via an executive order in March to revitalize the nation’s capital. “No law-abiding citizen should have to wait months before he or she can register their firearms, or obtain a concealed carry permit.” Actually no citizen should be required to do either. Baby steps.
- Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. have been instructed not to seek felony charges against people who are carrying rifles or shotguns in the nation’s capital, regardless of the strength of the evidence that they are breaking D.C. law, because the city’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings” in two landmark cases protecting the right to bear arms: Heller and Bruen. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office would continue charging crimes of violence or firearms trafficking that involved shotguns or rifles.
Litigation
- In a first-ever occurrence, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its final judgment mandate disposing of California’s “one-gun-per-month” gun ban law, striking down the law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. You can go to church more than once a month too.
- California standard capacity magazine ban headed to SCOTUS?
- A divided US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday that New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period law for gun purchases by folks without CCW permits likely (sic) infringes on citizens’ Second Amendment rights. The court distinguished between “cooling-off” periods and waiting for a background check (which is also unconstitutional). Writing for the majority, Judge Timothy Tymkovich stated: “Cooling-off periods infringe on the Second Amendment by preventing the lawful acquisition of firearms. Cooling-off periods do not fit into any historically grounded exceptions to the right to keep and bear arms, and burden conduct within the Second Amendment’s scope.” The case, Ortega v. Grisham, now returns to the US District Court for the District of New Mexico for the entry of a preliminary injunction, halting enforcement of the law.
- US District Judge John W. Broomes of the District of Kansas dismissed machine gun possession charges against a defendant, finding that prosecutors hadn’t proven the weapons can be banned under the Second Amendment.
- In the case US v. Ayala (11th Cir. 2025) the trial judge ruled that the prohibition on carrying a gun in a post office violated the Second Amendment, finding no sufficient historical precedent for banning firearms in post offices, distinguishing them from “sensitive places” (sic) like courthouses or schools. (In fact, the precedent is that the USPS actually armed postal workers.) The Biden DOJ appealed. Now the Trump DOJ just withdrew the appeal, letting the ruling stand.
- More here.
- The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court judge’s decision and revived a challenge to the federal laws barring “unlawful” users of drugs from purchasing and possessing guns.
- US District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino of New York has ruled that the State of New York must offer lawful gun owners a way to keep and bear arms in the state, no matter where they live, but declined to reach the conclusion that New York should recognize valid carry permits issued by other states under the Privileges and Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- US District Judge Trevor N. McFadden of Washington, D.C. has declared that the Israeli flag – with the Star of David at its center – is not a political symbol at all, but a racial one, and that tearing it, grabbing it, desecrating it, even in the heat of protest, is not free expression but racial discrimination. Reportedly that’s the only national flag with such protection in the USA. One now wonders about the Confederate flag.
- Grassroots Judicial Report.
Legislation
Enemies
- We still need to clean house at the ATF. It can’t be too soon.
- And the FBI. Still.
- Gun ban group Everytown for Gun Safety is getting into the gun training business to “teach gun owners how to be safe and responsible with the firearms they’re bringing into their homes.” I’m not making this up.
- In the UK, a man was arrested for gardening with a trowel.
Friends
Department of Idiocy
DGUs
- Mother with baby fatally shoots suspected home invader in Joliet, police say
- The Armed Citizen:
- More guns, more justified homicides. Double. Or said another way, more victims saved.
The Only Ones
- A Minneapolis Park Police officer was struck in the arm when a suspect pulled the trigger on the officer’s holstered weapon during a ground struggle. We don’t know how a holstered gun got pointed at the wearer’s arm nor how the trigger was pulled while the gun was still in the holster. But the real point here is that the officer is 71 years old.
- Democrats insist Washington, D.C., doesn’t have a serious crime problem. On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader and chief gun-banner Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed, “I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … And I feel perfectly safe.” He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as “full of it,” but, of course, Schumer doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail.
Tactics & Stuff
- The Persistent Myth of the “Shoot-Me-First” Vest.
- Defensive Shotgun 00 Buckshot Shootout.
- Thoughts About Shoulder Holsters.
- Ukrainian sniper claims longest ever kill shot, and it’s a double. 2.5 miles. 14.5mm. Maybe this guy could just pop Putin and be done with it.
Second Amendment Tax Free Holidays Coming Up:
- Mississippi – Annual 2nd Amendment Sales Tax Holiday: August 29–31
- Louisiana – Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday: September 5–7
- Florida – Hunting, Fishing & Camping Sales Tax Holiday: September 8–December 31