Jeff Pittman

Action item Use this GOA page to urge your U.S. Senators to support the Senate filibuster, which is the only thing stopping passage of a lot of gun control these days. Takes 1 minute. Both Mississippi senators are already on board. Judiciary Democrats seek to ram through Biden judicial nominee despite criminal record. Defense Distributed vs. ATF Defense Distributed has

More ATF overreach The Justice Department has published a new federal gun control rule requiring FFLs to have gun storage or safety devices available onsite for potential buyers. According to the department, a secure gun storage device is defined as “a safe, gun safe, gun case, lock box or other device that is designed to be or can be used

Litigation Unconstitutional trespassing and searches The Firearms Policy Coalition is asking the United States Supreme Court to strike down Maryland’s unconstitutional ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Courts President Biden has made more judicial nominations in his first year in office (73) than did Donald Trump (72). The Senate has so far confirmed forty of these, which is double what Trump

Reminder: No newsletter next week. Merry Christmas, yawl. NRA updates Directors put on notice. New York AG’s Suit To Dissolve NRA Highlights Critical Reminders for Nonprofit Boards Document List In NY Case Litigation We wrote last week about the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals letting stand the Trump administration’s bump stock ban, and this week a panel of the

Litigation The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed – by a tie 8-8 vote – the ruling of a lower court judge who upheld the Trump administration’s federal ban on “bump stock” devices in 2019. The court sided with the administration’s argument that the ban falls within the scope of alleged authority Congress gave federal agencies to regulate

Housekeeping I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday. Due to the holiday, therapy days, and mostly due to AT&T’s dismal failure to provide basic internet and phone service for a week, this newsletter is shorter than it would have been. Litigation The families of most of those killed and wounded in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have reached

Litigation City of Washington, D.C., backs down in face of legal challenge to its “ghost gun” ban. Appeals court hears challenge to school ban on gun T-shirts Fibbies FBI Admits It Is Often Wrong On Gun Related Background Check Denials The Only Ones Back in August, when two teenage boys exchanged gunfire in a grudge match outside a high school