Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
High school senior wins fight to have portrait of her holding a rifle included in school yearbook: A student in upstate New York has won the right to have a photo of her posing with a rifle included as her senior portrait in the yearbook. Rebekah Rorick, who attends Broadalbin-Perth High School, said she wanted to cry when the yearbook […]
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A longtime Osceola County, FL, eighth-grade teacher has been reassigned after taking a toy rifle to Neptune Middle School in Kissimmee. The toy musket was used during the history teacher’s lesson on the American Revolutionary War. The Osceola County School District said several students complained that they were frightened by the replica. Boy I can’t wait until they get to
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14-year-old kills home invader, protects sick grandmother in Charlotte, NC. Works for me. Also note that the teenager is the son of a mechanic who was murdered when the boy was eight. The teen’s father was killed in 2008 at his auto repair business. A relative said, “He had the hood open in his car. He was a mechanic. It
Masked men kicked in the door to an apartment on Houston’s (TX) east side this week and yelled “police” as they stormed the house and shot a man inside the residence, leaving him in critical condition. They weren’t police. Cops, here’s the drill: Forget about no-knock warrants. Knock on the door, announce yourselves and wait for the occupant to come
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Hours after a 40-year-old mother had obtained the order on Monday, the man she’d feared the most — Stephen Rozniakowski, an enraged Delaware County cop with a history of harassment — grabbed a gun, strapped on a bulletproof vest, kicked down the door to her Glenolden home, ran up the stairs and shot her and her 15-year-old daughter, killing the
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Rabid gun banner Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) described as “mythology” the proved true assertion that good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns, and then suggested the Sydney hostage incident reminds us that we have to a “conversation here in this country” about the legality of “assault weapons.” You have a conversation. I’ll take defensive action. For instance, in
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An East Baton Rouge Parish (LA) grand jury has indicted former “Sons of Guns” star and former Red Jacket Firearms owner William Hayden with two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape. As reported by The Baton Rouge Advocate, Hayden, the focus of the now-canceled Discovery Channel show, is facing charges that could end up with multiple
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Last week’s item concerning NRA supporting gun control in Ohio was based on a report of the NRA-ILA Ohio State Liaison “promoting firearms provisions which tie Ohio law to the federal government.” Apparently this is a pattern with the rep, who is also unpopular in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
NRA clarification (from last week) Read More »