Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
You’ve seen the news reports of the biker brawl at a Waco, TX restaurant over the weekend, resulting in nine dead and police saying it was the worst Waco massacre in memory. Apparently they don’t remember the Branch Davidian massacre, or just don’t claim it. Oh, and we also have a report that all nine dead were killed by police. […]
(Also see the Jackson kidnapping item and Waco.) Oklahoma City, OK police officer Cecil Duane Moss, 52, was charged in OK County District Court with one felony count of pointing a firearm at another, after he allegedly pulled a pistol on the father of his grandchildren during a visit to the man’s house. Jackson, MS police officer Aaron Allen has
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The Boy Scouts of America, an organization with semi-military origins which has been racing to the bottom in recent years (and has now arrived), has now banned water gun fights. Pointing simulated firearms at people is not allowed. Biodegradable water balloons no larger than a ping pong ball are still allowed. Also prohibited are rubber band fights and marshmallow shooters.
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News reports this week indicate that UPS will no longer ship registered firearms suppressors, even between licensees. Suppressors are legal (or soon will be) in 41 states. UPS says that there has been no policy change, and that suppressors have always been excluded, but that “UPS will [continue to] engage in discussions with licensed entities about compliance with all applicable
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“Defending yourself is the American way.” — JPD Chief Lee Vance. He has certainly changed his tune recently. (As little as two years ago Vance spoke in favor of gun control laws.) See the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70WPOaWZQZI
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Early last Saturday morning a local punk named Edwin (Gutta Life Dee) Robinson and another hood accosted, robbed and kidnapped a local man, a doctor who was loading gear into his truck in his driveway. They took the victim captive at gunpoint and forced him to open his safe, and then to drive his truck to an ATM and withdraw
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Under the “Protect Our Military Families’ Second Amendment Rights Act” introduced in the US House by Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA), military spouses would be allowed to buy a handgun outside their home states of record. Right now, only the military member can make such a purchase. The 1968 Gun Control Act does not allow others the same right. Here’s an
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The US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 this week in Henderson v. United States that convicted felons may be able to transfer their guns to someone else rather than surrendering them to authorities, siding with a former US Border Patrol agent from Florida convicted on marijuana charges, and overturning the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The court said
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