Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
Guns and schools For the children… college student says she’s glad her dad gave her the gun she used to fight off armed home invaders (video). A gun in the house will only be used….. To keep that intruder from cutting your throat. Again. Still. Or just call 911 and die. You know you married well when… …your wife unloads […]
Guns and schools, 911, intruders, more Read More »
We have a report that the Nikon Camera Division is anti-hunting and will not allow dealers to carry any item considered a “hunting/shooting” item (including Nikon’s own riflescopes, rangefinders, spotting scopes or hunting binoculars).
Nikon becoming anti-hunting? Read More »
The latest issue (5th Edition) of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Apparently the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as: […]
Dissenters are insane, and other psychobabble Read More »
MS AG opinion There is a new Mississippi AG’s opinion on municipalities regulating carry of guns. Read it carefully. He’s crawfishing on some previous opinions. Most interesting is the notion that there are places he (and state law) says you can CCW with the enhanced permit, but cannot open carry, in spite of the state constitution’s prohibition of restrictions of
MS AG Opinion, MSFOA, Litigation, “Accidents,” Grandma, Products Read More »
News headlines this week revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration “abandoned an internal proposal” to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the US to investigate “gun trafficking.” The automated license plate scanners take pictures of every vehicle that passes their field of view and record the information in a database that can be used
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US Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) has filed the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA), HR 419, in the 2015 session of Congress. KOPA would extend to knives the protections afforded to firearm owners in the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. If a person may legally own a knife where he started and ended his travel, he would be protected
Federal Legislation: Knives, Concealed Carry, EPA Guns & DC CCW Read More »
MS Politics Rick Ward, who is a gun rights activist, trainer, and writer for Mississippi Gun News, is a candidate for State Representative, presumably in Covington County. Although a gun rights activist, I was shocked to find that a page on his website also indicates that he proposes to make shooting animals a felony crime. That probably won’t sit well
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You should have your ballot already in your February NRA magazine. If you receive your magazine electronically, the ballot should have been sent via USPS around the same time frame. At this time, I am endorsing only: Ronnie Barrett (Murfreesboro, TN) Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown (Boulder, CO) Joe Debergalis, Jr. (West Seneca, NY). This is not to say that
NRA Board Elections and Endorcements Read More »