Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

The Unashamed American Litigation The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Jones v. Hendrix, 21-857, that people who have used up their appeals don’t get another day in court “based solely on a more favorable interpretation of statutory law adopted after his conviction became final.” In this case, the convicted man, Hendrix, who was given a 27-year prison sentence for […] Read More

Litigation The Supreme Court ruled last Friday that judges can be more lenient in delivering punishment for some gun crimes, finding that those sentences can run concurrently alongside sentences for other crimes, due to conflicting federal laws on the matter. The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week in Atkinson v. Garland that the U.S. District Court for […] Read More

Litigation The NRA has requested to join in the federal lawsuit filed by SAF and its associates in a challenge of the BATF’s new “arm brace rule,” hoping to have the existing injunction against the rule also apply relief to NRA members. Meanwhile, the National Association for Gun Rights filed a new suit in federal court in Texas against the […] Read More

Litigation The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled en banc Tuesday that nonviolent misdemeanor offenders should not be subject to lifetime gun bans. Well, duh. In this case, Range v. Garland, it was a food stamp fraud to feed his needy family for which the defendant received only probation and paid restitution. This ruling is significant and a good […] Read More

Patting myself on the back. The 2A News website blog has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 60 Tactical Blogs on the web. Thank you, readers/subscribers, and a special thanks to Mike Allen of Businesswright Consulting LLC, who does all the website work and sends out the emails, all for nothing. All I do is regurgitate content. […] Read More

Hero’s FINAL ACTIONS…should be shared with future generations Litigation A three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction against Joe Biden’s administrative pistol brace ban in the FPC-supported case Mock v. Garland, but the scope of the order appears to be limited to the named plaintiffs in the case, and of course only in […] Read More

Litigation Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Payne of the District Court for Eastern Virginia has ruled that the federal law banning FFL sales of handguns to otherwise qualified adults aged 18-20 is unconstitutional.  I haven’t yet read the whole 71-page decision, but it looks like Judge Payne really put the screws to the ATF and to gun banners […] Read More

Housekeeping We are still having issues with getting our emails out to everyone and keeping them from your spam folders. If you aren’t reliably getting our emailed 2A Newsletter on Fridays, check your email spam folder, or read it online at 2ANews.net. We apologize for the problems. Litigation A novel idea: Shaping a better judiciary through firearms instruction in law […] Read More

Litigation Judge Holly A. Brady of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied a request to have a felon’s gun possession charge tossed on constitutional grounds. She found the Second Amendment does not protect a convicted felon’s ability to own a firearm. She further ruled that barring felons from owning guns is consistent with historical gun […] Read More

Litigation Involuntary manslaughter charges filed against anti-gun “actor” Alexander “Alec” Rae Baldwin, III in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie Rust have been dismissed “without prejudice” and pending further investigation, apparently mostly over confusion about the physical condition and potential modifications of the old, worn revolver used. If memory serves, […] Read More