Jeff Pittman

August 25, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Enhanced MS carry permit class Brookhaven, MS, TOMORROW Operation Chokepoint Terminated Other legislative updates Litigation Uber Driver Sues Uber Over Its No-Guns-In-Private-Vehicles Policy The policy was enacted in an apparent response to a legally armed Uber driver who stopped a massacre in Chicago.  So I suppose one could legitimately conclude that Uber is […]

August 18, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Czechs File Suit Challenging EU Gun Controls Enemies Head Demanding Mommy Shannon Watts tweeted this week that the NRA is responsible for the violence (with a car, not a gun) in Charlottesville, VA, this week. Markos Moulitsas, of The Dialy Kos, tweeted that the NRA are Nazis, literally. List of gun-banning companies

August 11, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman More loose ammo Last week we reported on a loose round of ammo going off in the console of a vehicle (https://guntalk.com/news/extras/loose-rounds-your-vehicle-safety issue). This week we have a report and video of a round going off in a pants pocket. Maybe your ammo should be in some sort of carrier or magazine. Should

July 28, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation A 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of such a requirement in Washington, D.C. The majority opinion, written by Judge Thomas Beall Griffith, said “At the Second Amendment’s core lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms

July 21, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the head of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) on behalf of four Michigan residents, alleging civil rights violations under color of law for enforcing restrictions on the Second

July 14, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Attorneys for a man arrested in 2012 in Florida have asked the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a longstanding Florida law prohibiting people from openly carrying firearms in public. The Florida Supreme Court previously upheld the law. The SCOTUS petition contends the law violates the Second

July 7, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Royal Navy An unspecified number of British Royal Navy Special Boat Service sailors were surrounded and ambushed by about 50 ISIS fighters in Iraq when the sailors found that they were out of ammo after killing about 20 of their attackers. So they “went off” on the enemy, vowing to go out fighting