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2A News: July 15, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Election Indiana Governor Mike Pence has reportedly been chosen as Donald Trump’s VP running mate. How is Pence on guns? Can we have a Pence/Trump ticket, instead of a Trump/Pence ticket? Enemies “We will expand background checks and close dangerous loopholes in our current laws, hold irresponsible dealers and manufacturers accountable, […] Read More
Litigation, Legislation, Antics, Activism, Knife vs Gun, Misc.
2A News: July 8, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation A 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit unanimously rejected the plaintiff’s arguments in Hollis v. Lynch, which sued the Justice Dept. to try to overturn the legal ban on new machine guns. The panel (led by Mississippi’s Judge Leslie H. Southwick) said that “machine […] Read More
ATF vs Paris, Nightclub, TN Law, Zones, Bracken Essay
2A News: July 1, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman The Gift That Keeps On Giving Remember the Paris terrorist massacre (130 dead, 368 wounded)? Remember the ATF’s felonious Fast & Furious gun running scheme (body count still rising)? Well, guess what? Judicial Watch has learned that apparently one of the guns (an AK-style rifle) used in the November 13, 2015 […] Read More
Armed Feds, No-Fly, Heroes, NRA Memberships
2A News: June 24, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation The US Supreme Court denied certiorari in Shew v. Malloy and Kampfer v. Cuomo, the cases that challenged gun bans in CT and NY, respectively, passed after the 2012 Newtown massacre. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals previously upheld the laws prohibiting semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines in the two states, […] Read More
Orlando, Correction, Judges, A Vet’s Reply
2A News: June 17, 2016 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Orlando You’ve seen the news about 49 victims being fatally shot and another 53 being wounded during a mass shooting by a lone perpetrator in a homosexual nightclub in Orlando, FL, early last Sunday morning. Apparently the terrorist was shot at without effect, by at least three Orlando police officers after […] Read More
Thank you for your service: a ‘Nam vet’s candid reply
“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 […] Read More
Litigation, Enemies, Bans, Liars, Paris, Pearl, Bracken Essays
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 […] Read More
Crime, Enemies, Election, DGU, Army, Indian Country
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 […] Read More
Laws, Suits, States, Enemies, Idiots, Liars…
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 […] Read More
Litigation, legislation, massacres, enemies, spork
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” […] Read More
