Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
NYC cop killings Tax-evading gun-banning “reverend” Al Sharpton refused to be upstaged by a cop killer who assassinated two New York City police officers on a Saturday, and held a press conference on that Sunday to tell the members of the compliant news media that he’s receiving death threats and hate emails. Gee, I wonder why? Protesters at a Sharpton-led […]
Anti-gun US Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), who pleaded guilty last week to a single federal felony tax evasion charge stemming from his falsified business tax return, will resign his Congressional seat on Jan. 5 “because he does not feel he can be completely effective in Congress.” Grimm had said earlier that he would not resign. As part of a plea
Anti-gun comedian Bill Engvall is scheduled to be the featured entertainer at the 2015 SHOT Show State of the Industry dinner by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Not smart. The NSSF is made up of gun industry companies (as opposed to the NRA, which represents individual gun owners). Gun companies make guns. Engvall wants to ban a bunch of them.
Enemies: Bill Engvall, Mommies, Rejina Sincic & Bloomberg Read More »
Litigation by the Only Ones Some retired Washington, D.C. corrections officers are suing the Dept. of Corrections for refusing to issue the necessary approvals to qualify them to carry firearms nationwide under the 2004 federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. But the Act itself is a farce. All law-abiding citizens have the right to bear arms, regardless of what job
For the ‘Only Ones’ Read More »
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a 31-page lawsuit in federal district court in Tacoma, WA, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of portions of that state’s Initiative 594, the 18-page gun control measure that took effect Dec. 4, alleging that “portions of I-594…are so vague that a person of ordinary intelligence cannot understand their scope,” and that other parts
Lawsuit filed seeking injunction against Washington’s I-594 Read More »
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week upheld the dismissal of the latest lawsuit brought by anti-hunting groups petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue regulations banning traditional ammunition with lead components. The refusal by the EPA to consider the petition was challenged by the anti-hunting petitioners in federal court in 2013. The National
Appeals Court decides for the EPA & lead ammo Read More »
The Department of Justice improperly withheld public documents related to Fast and Furious after the first Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for them several years ago. Now that the agency has been forced by a court to produce some of the illicitly-withheld materials, they reveal clues as to why President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder kept the public documents
Fast & Furious update Read More »
In Louisiana, it’s a felony (2 years at hard labor) to illegally fire a gun into the air, for instance on New Year’s Eve. It’s probably illegal in most places, but probably not felony stupid everywhere. Don’t be one.
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