Jeff Pittman

Housekeeping Due to unavoidable circumstances, there MAY not be a 2A newsletter next week. Trumped Civic Lesson The Department of Commerce stopped issuing gun export licenses around the beginning of the month, according to multiple sources. The department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees firearms exporting, issued a hold without action order for all export licenses on February 5th. […]

Trumped 2/14/25 New York Post: “After Trump’s election victory in November, the US Army announced it shattered previous recruiting records when the service said it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers per day in December 2024, the most productive December in 15 years. The surge in recruitment comes after two consecutive years of missing recruitment targets.” Get Real I see that a

NRA Board Election I have now received my ballot. Ballots must be received by April 6.   Reminders: SIGN YOUR ballot and ENVELOPE. Vote only for reform candidates and not the old guard Bob Barr slate: Ammoland – NRA Board Election 2025 Endorsements: Future of NRA is in Members’ Hands The Outdoor Wire – Decision Time for NRA Members Trumped

Trumped Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been confirmed as US Attorney General by a 54-46 Senate vote, in spite of complaints from some gun-rights advocates. The US Senate also confirmed N.D. Gov. Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior by a vote of 79-18. Burgum enjoys wide support from sportsmen. Less than two weeks into the new Trump

Trumped A reminder that Mr. Trump promised “Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated on my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day,” but as far as we know since taking office he has not done anything about it. But there’s hope. We note that talking isn’t doing. Litigation The US District

Trumped Commenter David Codrea notes that because now-President Trump’s convictions involved crimes that were notionally punishable by more than a year of incarceration, they made him subject to a federal law that bars him from possessing firearms. But not the nuclear football. President Trump shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was a Biden administration gun

Litigation The US Supreme Court has denied cert in the cases Maryland Shall Issue v. Moore and Gray v. Jennings, which challenged Maryland’s handgun-purchase licensing requirements and the preliminary injunction standard set in the case against Delaware’s sales ban on popular guns and magazines, but relisted two other closely watched Second Amendment cases, Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical