Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
“THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE” A well-meaning phrase, appreciated and deserved by our military men and women, but one heard with mixed feelings by some, perhaps most, Vietnam veterans. October, 1969, Travis Air Force Base, California. Down the steps of the “Freedom Bird” that brought us back to the US. Picked up my duffel bag and carried it outside the […]
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2A News: June 10, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Presidential election The International Defensive Pistol Association has endorsed Donald Trump for president. A Washington D.C. lobbying firm closely linked to Hillary Clinton was paid handsomely by Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd., a sharia-compliant Bengali bank tied to terrorism, according to government records. Also making the rounds again this week is the
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2A News: June 3, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Let’s get guns off the streets. Or not. What happens to crime when the NRA is in town. Enemies We have a rumor that Hillary and Bill Clinton will be the targets of racketeering charges soon to be brought by the FBI, with formal charges supposedly to be be brought against
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2A News: May 27, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Monday is Memorial Day. Remember all the service members who never knew you. Many of them saved the world. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — Santayana’s “Soliloquies in England” (Scribners, 1924, p. 102), Soliloquy #25, “Tipperary” From The Washington Post: “After 70 years of waiting, WWII B-17
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2A News: May 20, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation Gun Stores Have A Second Amendment Right To Do Business A three-judge panel of the usually liberal and much-overturned Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that “the right to purchase and sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and bear arms”
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2A News: May 13, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Training for citizen gunfights, by Tom Givens. Read this. Litigation The full US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit met en banc this week to rehear the case challenging the legality of Maryland’s ban on certain semiautomatic firearms after a three-judge panel of the Court previously cast doubt on the
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2A News: May 6, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman (click to enlarge image — source: Gunmart) CCW What about carrying where it’s legal, but not “allowed” by the venue? Make sure you know with certainly about the actual legality in your specific area.
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2A News: April 29, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Gunwalker Recently released Justice Dept. documents concerning the ATF’s deadly Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal have revealed that the Administration, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and his subordinates: Deliberately claimed the charges of gun-walking by the Fast and Furious operation in Arizona were false and refused to adjust the official position
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