Jeff Pittman

June 15, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Follow-ups on the Mississippi State Supreme Court courthouse carry case. Analysis: Gun ruling includes Mississippi history lesson [Mississippi Business Journal] Harrison County courthouses adjusting to conceal carry decision [WLOX] Oh, and nobody gives a flying flip what Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson “likes.” You weren’t hired to like abiding by the law […]

June 8, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation The Mississippi State Supreme Court (MSSC) has ruled that judges in the 14th Chancery District (NE MS) were wrong (duh) to ban people with enhanced concealed-carry licenses from taking guns into courthouses (not courtrooms). The local judges had filed an administrative order banning firearms within 200 feet of a courtroom door. Judges

June 1, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS Elections This Tuesday, June 5th is Mississippi’s Primary Election Day for US Senate and US House of Representatives. There are two elections for the US Senate in Mississippi in 2018. The first is the regularly scheduled election on November 6, 2018, to fill the state’s Class I seat held by Sen. Roger

May 25, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Texas We note that not only was the attacked Santa Fe, TX high school a “gun-free” zone with an “active shooter” (sic) plan and training, it had two armed deputies stationed at the school, who responded within about 4 minutes. But the killer still reportedly lingered for about 25 minutes in a warren

May 18, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Open Your Eyes The Quickest Thing You Can Do To Shoot Better – But You Shouldn’t Do It [The Daily Caller] Exhaustive Study: Murder Rates Rise Every Place that Bans Guns Again. Litigation NRA sues state of New York. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by three men who

May 11, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman NRA Dallas — I told you so. Look at last week’s newsletter item about the NRA meeting and the predicted protesters in Dallas. I predicted only a few. Turns out the lamestream media reported that “hundreds of people turned out to protest for and against gun rights.” Actually, we have word from the

May 4, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Six-time Olympic medal winner and NRA board member Kim Rhode, gun rights groups, and others have filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court for the Southern District of California challenging California’s new regulations on ammo sales. Proposition 63 outlaws direct mail order ammunition sales and requires ammo sales to be made

April 27, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman The NRA Annual Meetings 2018 will be held in Dallas May 4-6. Fun and mostly free. Virulently anti-gun CDC Agrees with DGU Stats, Declines to Publish Study Results In fact, there were three separate studies, the largest ever conducted, and each one was suppressed. “In an average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S.