Weekly Newsletters

Reminder: No newsletter next week and possibly the week after. A Christmas Story (Nobody shot his eye out.) Litigation The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold a judge’s order from last month that barred New York officials from enforcing part of the new law making it a felony to carry a gun on private property without the […]

My apologies for the extra missed newsletter last week. AT&T’s DSL internet in this area was down ALL WEEK. AT&T refused to say how widespread the outage was. Our AT&T internet goes down over 1000 times a year, every year. NOT recommended. Be sure to tell your friends. The newsletter may be intermittent over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays

Housekeeping No newsletter next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. I will be giving thanks for you good folks with whom I figuratively share a tent. Election So, did I miss all of the predicted right-wing violence following the election? Litigation More on the unconstitutional gun serial number requirement In Wade v Univ. of Michigan, the Michigan Supreme Court last

Veterans Day A very sincere Thank You. Litigation U.S. District Judge John Sinatra, Jr. has again issued a preliminary injunction against New York’s ban on guns in churches. The order in the case Hardaway v. Nigrelli is effective immediately and comes two weeks after a temporary restraining order was issued in this case. Read the judge’s comments. Another federal judge

Tuesday Don’t forget to vote. “They call people like me one-issue voters. No, we are litmus test voters. We take an issue we know both sides of very well, and use the candidate’s position on it to rate their judgment on other issues we trust them and their advisors to decide correctly for us.” – Mas Ayoob Litigation U.S. District

Litigation Last Thursday U.S. District Judge John A. Sinatra, Jr. granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting law enforcement agencies in the state of New York from enforcing the ban on concealed carry in churches and other places of worship in the case Hardaway v. Nigrelli (formerly Hardaway v. Bruen), saying the law is clearly unconstitutional and impermissibly infringes on Second

Litigation The Second Amendment Foundation, joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc. and two Baptist church ministers, filed a new suit in federal court challenging the new concealed carry statute in New York State that among other things prohibits concealed carry in churches. The case is Hardaway v. Bruen. Also in New York, officials are advising crime victims not to

Disparity of force chart Chances of survival (see pdf document below). The real importance here is that if you are involved on the small side of a disparity of force incident and have to resort to use of a weapon to survive the encounter, if you can prove that you knew about this information at the time of the incident,