Jeff Pittman

2A News: February 3, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Statements on Judge Gorsuch’s SCOTUS nomination: NRA Applauds Neil Gorsuch’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court Tracing Judge Gorsuch’s Paper Trail On The Second Amendment “He is an ardent textualist (like Scalia); he believes criminal laws should be clear and interpreted in favor of defendants even if that hurts government prosecutions […]

2A News: January 27, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman SCOTUS A top candidate for the empty SCOTUS seat has “a devotion to deciding cases based on the original meaning of the Constitution and the text of statutes, as did the late Justice Antonin Scalia.” Some say the field is down to three, and no longer includes Diane Sykes of Wisconsin.

2A News: January 13, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Election President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Republican Indiana Senator Dan Coats to be Director of National Intelligence. Coats has supported gun control legislation on multiple occasions, including expanded background checks, waiting periods, and bans of semiautomatic weapons and standard capacity magazines. Senate confirmation hearings of Trump’s cabinet nominations are already

2A News: December 30, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Threats You’ve probably heard that federal authorities warned local law enforcement agencies across the US that Islamic State sympathizers were continuing to call for attacks on churches and other holiday gathering sites, after a publicly available list of US churches was posted on a militant social media site. This dovetails with

2A News: December 22, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Snopes lies about guns “Snopes Labels Mauser and Kates’ Classic Work “Urban Myths” The Daily Caller has also recently exposed Snopes’ errors, omissions and lies in some of its work. Litigation The Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled that it is not a criminal offense for CCW holders to carry a

2A News: December 16, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Housekeeping Production and delivery of the 2A News may be sporadic until next year due to holiday goings-on. Y’all have a Merry Christmas! Guns in schools Aptly-named Liberty University, a Christian school in Lynchburg, VA, is planning to construct a new state of the art outdoor shooting complex near Camp Hideaway.