Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
The black church shooting you didn’t hear about — TX pastor shoots, prays with church robber The same pastor made national headlines last year when he held another suspected thief at gunpoint. No charges are expected against the pastor. “We have classes for all of our [church] members that are interested whether they have a gun or not.” MS man […]
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Man charged for shooting down drone A private organization operating a public park in Tennessee can’t stop licensed handgun permit holders from carrying their weapons into an event, according to a new opinion from the Tennessee attorney general. http://attorneygeneral.tn.gov/op/2015/op15-063.pdf ATF “grenade” ban We have a report that the ATF is in the process of banning parachute flares and chalk practice
Drone shot down. ATF ‘grenade’ ban. Magazine ban. More. Read More »
Last year, CA State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) was arrested and charged for multiple acts of corruption. The allegations against him ranged from public corruption to running guns, including offering to broker a major weapons sale between a gun dealer and an undercover agent claiming to be a member of the New Jersey mob in exchange for campaign donations.
How about this headline: “Most Anti-Gun Senator in the US Pleads Guilty to Gun Running”? Read More »
For the second time in little more than a year, a federal appeals court has upheld the Florida law that restricts doctors from asking irrelevant questions and recording information about patients’ gun ownership. The 2-1 decision was made by a panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Wollschlaeger v. Governor. Writing for panel majority US
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Chattanooga, Military updates — John McCain comes home to roost Meanwhile this week, personnel from the Manchester, TN, police department and other city employees delivered “approximately 300” sandbags to the city’s Army recruitment center that were used to line the bottom third of their front windows to stop potential incoming rounds. In lieu of being able to arm themselves for
Chattanooga military update. Lafayette theater followup. More. Read More »
Remember the party primaries are Tuesday. You may want to think about voting in the “opposite” primary if you are in a district where there are folks you need to vote against. In some races, the primary is the only chance to do this. For instance in Hinds County, we have a change to fire incumbent anti-gun District Attorney Robert
MS Primary Election: August 4, 2015 Read More »