Weekly Newsletters

March 24, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Legislation As promised, President Donald Trump signed legislation which reversed the Obama executive order to the Social Security Administration (SSA) that would have placed the names of those SS disability beneficiaries with a conservator on the NICS no sale list, thus denying Second Amendment rights without constitutionally-required due process. It looks like the […]

March 17, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman 2A EMAIL UPDATE IF you are getting this note in your email, it is only because you are one of the few folks for whom I had email addresses stored in a location besides Juno, after Juno shut down my email account for no reason. Note this is sent from a new email

March 3, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MSFOA We have received word that the annual Mississippi State Firearm Owners Association meeting will be held March 11 at the Pearl, MS Bass Pro Shops at 100 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl, MS. The meeting will be in the downstairs in the back room of the restaurant and will start promptly at 1

2A News: February 24, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MSFOA Having heard nothing from the Mississippi State Firearm Owners Association, I’m assuming that this year’s annual meeting has been canceled or delayed. Litigation In an egregious and torturous en banc decision this week the full US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circus in Richmond, Virginia, reconsidered a divided ruling

2A News: February 17, 2017 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman You DID vote in the NRA election, right? Litigation In 2011, the Florida state legislature passed a law called the Firearms Owners’ Privacy Act, which prohibited Florida doctors from asking routine questions about their patients’ gun ownership, unless that information was deemed relevant to patient care or the safety of others.

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