Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Litigation Two survivors and the son of a man who died in the 2021 mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility filed a lawsuit last week against American Tactical, Inc., the distributor of the magazine used in the incident that left eight people dead. The lawsuit alleges that ATI intentionally used “reckless marketing tactics” targeting young men at risk for […]

Patriots Day is April 19. Commemorate and celebrate. Litigation More Bruen fallout. U.S. v. Paola Connelly. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division. Pretty good read. “In sum, § 922(d)(3) does not withstand Second Amendment scrutiny for much the same reasons that § 922(g)(3) does not. The law’s broad prohibition on the sale or transfer […]

Today is Good Friday. Thank you Jesus. Litigation Remember how last June my first impression of the Bruen case was that it was “golden?” I was right. There have been 31 successful Second Amendment claims since Bruen was decided. There were zero successful claims in the year after District of Columbia v. Heller. That’s because Bruen is primarily an explicit […]

Legislation Action item: The House Judiciary Committee vote on the bill (H.J. Res. 44), to repeal President Biden’s unconstitutional pistol brace rule, was postponed after Democrats plotted to hijack the process to politicize the recent tragic shooting in Nashville. You can take action here. Litigation We previously reported that a panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had […]

Litigation After the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to ban a person under a domestic violence protection order from possessing firearms (see this post), the Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision and reinstate the federal ban. Five gun cases out of New York’s federal […]