Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
The Sherman Hill Shooting Center at Morton, MS has changed its name to Precision Shooting Center. Same owner, Clyde Morgan. “Tell him I sent you.” — Jeff Pittman Update — April 3, 2015 CORRECTION: I erroneously reported the location as Morton, MS. The correct location is just down I-20 at Forest, MS.
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Click for details on how the U.S. State Department snares traveling American hunters in bureaucratic red tape.
State Dept. rule change for traveling hunters Read More »
The FBI and the media apparently teamed up (again) to mislead us about mass shootings. But also this week, FBI director and former veteran federal prosecutor James Comey testified on the agency’s budget in front of a House panel. At the end of the two-hour budget hearing, US Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Justice, asked
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It seems that ATF’s announced new Acting Director, the current Deputy Director, Thomas Brandon, has a shady past (see also here). That doesn’t surprise me. Meanwhile we learn that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, said that departing ATF director B. Todd Jones will be the league’s new chief disciplinary officer. The new special counsel would allow Goodell to no longer have to
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The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapons” and magazine ban law. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an en banc rehearing of the Peruta v. San Diego and the related Richards v. (Yolo County Sheriff Ed) Prieto decisions (made by 3-judge panels). We understand that now a larger panel
Litigation in the 4th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Read More »
Anti-gun US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), 75, is announcing he will not seek reelection to another term. Reid was first elected to the US Senate in 1986. Liberal anti-gun MS state representative and AFL-CIO organizer Jim Evans (D-Jackson) says he is withdrawing his name for reelection. He was elected in 1991 and his current term ends in January,
Good riddance to anti-gun Senator Harry Reid Read More »
Kansas is poised to become the fifth US state to allow CCW everywhere without a permit (see MS legislation below). You haven’t heard much out of the other four states (Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming, plus unincorporated areas of Montana [and Idaho — April 3, 2015 correction]) because the predicted bloodbath didn’t happen. Again. In the green states in the
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“We aren’t wards of the university, we are citizens of the United States.” — Rebecca Hargrove, a member of Students for Concealed Carry at Florida State University (Florida Carry, Students for Concealed Carry, the Unified Sportsmen of Florida, and the NRA learned this week that Florida’s University Police are using public funds [tax dollars] to lobby the legislature against the
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