Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A new plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against the ATF over the Hughes Amendment (federal machine gun ban). In the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Ryan S. Watson and his family Trust is suing the ATF for enforcing the federal law, and administering “statutory and regulatory provisions [that] generally act as an unlawful de facto ban […]
Lawsuit against the ATF over the federal machine gun ban Read More »
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1 “Arrest”) Read More »
Pretty cool homemade cannon. The Winchester Pattern Board. An online electronic shotshell patterning system to see how Winchester turkey loads perform. Remington Arms Company, LLC has announced that it is now making available certain Remington Defense products for the civilian consumer market. Remington’s Defense Division designs and builds weapon systems heretofore exclusively for the US Military and law enforcement, and
March 13, 2015 product highlights Read More »
On February 13, the ATF announced that it was seeking comments on its proposal to removed the “sporting purposes” exemption of M855 and SS109 ammunition, meaning that it would ban production and sale of these popular 5.56mm loads. The same day the proposal was released, on a Friday of a three day holiday weekend, ATF opened up a shortened 30-day
5.56 ammo ban update Read More »
Just a reminder that the NRA election is coming to a close on March 22. I have endorsed the following candidates this year: Ronnie Barrett (Murfreesboro, TN) Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown (Boulder, CO) Joe Debergalis, Jr. (West Seneca, NY).
NRA Board of Directors election endorsements Read More »
[From my email newsletter sent February 20, 2015] Last Friday, the ATF issued a notice proposing to rescind the exemption of so-called M855 “Green Tip” 5.56 x 45 ammunition from the federal armor piercing ammo ban, saying that since “5.56 mm projectiles loaded into the SS109 and M855 cartridges are commonly used … in both ‘AR-type’ rifles and ‘AR-type’ handguns…
The linked article in last week’s item about US Marines surrendering their arms in Yemen apparently was partially erroneous. The USMC says the weapons were destroyed, not surrendered to Yemenis. (H/T Lisa Williams) That’s not a lot better. Your tax dollars at work. Do you miss Teddy Roosevelt, George Patton and Chesty Puller? Marines also upgrading rifles and moving to
More Mississippi judges and supervisors circumventing the law on courthouse carry. Note that judges have no authority to make law, and there should be no punishment for violating a court order which is itself contrary to law. But I’m not an attorney. I do hope to be a juror at certain judges’ criminal trials.
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