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How Long Will Armed Defenders be Second Class Citizens in Chicago?
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Compare Chicago to the rest of Illinois and we see honest citizens disarmed by regulations and taxes on gun ownership. When compared to the rest of the country, we haven�t seen discrimination this extreme since schools were segregated seven decades ago.
As we saw seven decades ago with school desegregation, justice for the bottom of society will make the elites and their spokesmen very uncomfortable. |
More Self-Defense Gun Stories
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This week, self-Defense instructor Amanda Suffecool brings us four new stories of armed defense. These honest gun owners defended themselves and their families. They saved lives by shooting, and by not shooting.
What would you do in their place?
Text and original news sources on the episode webpage. 19 minute audio. |
SD: Trap shooting state tournament showcases the sport�s growing popularity
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Over 900 high school athletes will travel to Aberdeen this weekend to take aim at a state tournament title.
The 2023 South Dakota State High School Clay Target League State Tournament will be held June 8-11 at the Aberdeen Gun Club.
Aberdeen Gun Club President Jerry Brick said the popularity of the sport was dwindling just a decade ago, but that all changed once schools began sanctioning the activity.
�Back five or six years ago, when we started this, I think we only had maybe 40 competitors. Now, we�re going to have close to 1,000. So, it has really grown,� said Brick.
The reason might be because of the openness of the sport.
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OR: Federal Trial Rolls On.
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At the trial we face a number of challenges. As you may know the Judge has declared that she will not hear arguments about the constitutionality of Measure 114 as applied. Her position is that the issue is �not ripe� because no one has yet been harmed by the measure. Of course, the only reason no one has been harmed yet is because a state judge in Harney County, in a separate decision, placed an injunction on the measure. So it cannot go into effect until after a full trial in State Court which we expect to happen in September. |
Why We Carry: Man With Knife Runs Around Playground Stabbing Children
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A horrifying incident occurred at a lakeside park in Annecy, French Alps, where a man armed with a knife attacked and severely injured four young children, all between 22 months and 3 years old, and two adults.
The suspect, a 31-year-old Syrian with refugee status in Sweden, was taken into custody shortly after. The chilling scene was captured in a video posted on social media, which shows the assailant wielding a knife and assaulting the victims, one in a stroller, despite desperate cries for help.
The attack was not believed to be terrorism-related. |
Federal Judges Agree Not All Felons Lose Second Amendment Rights
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On June 6, 2023, The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the case Range v Lombardo, issued an opinion:
Some felony convictions are not sufficiently based on the historical record to take away rights protected by the Second Amendment.
The opinion was agreed to by nine of the fifteen judges in the circuit. Readers are urged to read the entire 107 pages. Excerpts of the main opinion are included below. From the en banc decision: |
California Governor Proposes Partial Repeal of Second Amendment
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California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) announced a plan Thursday to amend the U.S. Constitution to add gun-control measures.
Newsom tweeted out his proposal to ban so-called assault weapons and enact universal background checks, a minimum firearm-purchasing age of 21, and a mandatory waiting period. He also said states could enact further gun control on top of what his amendment would require nationwide.
�The 28th Amendment permanently enshrines four additions to the laws of our land,� Newsom said in the video. �This will guarantee states as well the ability to enact common-sense gun safety laws while leaving the Second Amendment intact and respecting America�s gun-owning tradition.� |
Kennedy, Moran introduce bill to protect veterans� Second Amendment rights
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Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today introduced the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act, which would prevent veterans from losing their Second Amendment right to purchase or own firearms when they receive help managing their Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits.
�Every veteran who bravely serves our country has earned VA benefits, and it�s wrong for the government to punish veterans who get a helping hand to manage those benefits. Veterans who sacrificed to defend our Constitution shouldn�t see their own rights rest on the judgment of unelected bureaucrats�but right now, they do. |
Court Rules Individuals Convicted of Nonviolent Crime Cannot be Barred from Owning Guns
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A federal appeals court has ruled that individuals convicted of non-violent crimes cannot be barred from owning firearms.
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in the lawsuit of Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania man who sued the government after being banned from purchasing a shotgun. Range, who was convicted of welfare fraud in 1995, was unable to purchase a gun due to federal law that prohibits certain convicted criminals from purchasing and possessing firearms. |
Biden and ATF just created 29 million felons
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In a national revolt that rivals the Boston Tea Party, all but a handful of gun owners targeted by President Joe Biden have decided to protest the administration�s sweeping rule to regulate one of the most popular and freely owned firearms ever made.
The owners of just 0.6% to 1% of AR-15-style pistols have complied with a May 31 deadline set by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to register their firearms. By failing to do so, the owners of an estimated 20 million-40 million guns could face 10 years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both. |
VA: Firearms should be banned from county parks
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As it stands, firearms are allowed in parks and public places where families and children gather. The Board of County Supervisors has the power to change this and improve the safety for Prince William County residents.
Banning firearms from park property (other than law enforcement officers) is essential to protecting the people who use county parks, is constitutionally sound and needs the support of the community. |
IL: Maag seeks new weapons ban ruling
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Attorney Thomas Maag of Wood River is seeking to have Illinois' weapons ban declared unconstitutionally vague.
The effort comes as consolidated court challenges against the gun ban are being briefed and will soon be heard in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal. earlier this year Illinois enacted a ban on more than 170 semi-automatic firearms, attachments and magazines over certain capacities. |
Gov. Newsom proposes amending U.S. Constitution �to help end our nation�s gun violence�
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He proposed a 28th Amendment to the constitution � in a tweet accompanied by a campaign-style video � that would enact four �widely supported gun safety freedoms � while leaving the 2nd Amendment intact.�
He called for raising the minimum age to purchase any gun to 21, universal background checks on all gun transfers, a �reasonable� waiting period for gun buyers to pick up their weapon, and banning the civilian purchase of assault weapons � all part of California�s toughest-in-the nation gun laws. The proposal, he said, �will guarantee states, as well, the ability to enact common-sense gun safety laws.� |
NFL superstars, celebs show love and support for ex-NFL player acquitted of murder
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NFL superstars and celebrities are showing much love and support for ex-NFL player Travis Rudolph after his murder acquittal.
It took the jury less than four hours Wednesday to decide Rudolph�s fate in the self-defense case. But it took his supporters far less time to start flooding social media with their reactions.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson showed his support of Rudolph on Twitter shortly after the trial started with a post reading: �Free Travis Rudolph�. |
MA: SJC agrees to hear constitutional challenge to switchblade carry ban
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First the stun gun, now the switchblade?
By agreeing to hear the case Commonwealth v. Canjura, the Supreme Judicial Court has signaled that it is interested in reviewing the constitutionality of G.L.c. 269, �10(b), the state�s absolute ban on carrying switchblade knives.
To the petitioner and others, it is even clearer now that such a blanket ban cannot stand, given last year�s U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass�n v. Bruen.
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LA: Can the next governor actually do something about crime?
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For more than a month now, Attorney General Jeff Landry, a former sheriff�s deputy and the leading candidate for governor of Louisiana, has been airing television commercials about his experience fighting crime. Not to be outdone, a political action committee supporting gubernatorial candidate Steve Waguespack, the former head of the state�s business lobby and a previous aide to Gov. Bobby Jindal, has counter-claimed that Landry has done little to solve the problem as the state�s top law enforcement official. |
MN: Potheads also have rights under the 2nd Amendment
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After Minnesota became the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana last week, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a familiar warning. Minnesotans who might be inclined to consume cannabis supplied by state-licensed stores, the ATF office in St. Paul said, should recognize that doing so means sacrificing the constitutional right to armed self-defense.
That puzzling predicament, the result of restrictions imposed by the Gun Control Act of 1968, is untenable in a country where most states allow medical or recreational marijuana use and two-thirds of adults support full legalization. |
Why �Stand Your Ground� Killings Matter to the 2024 Election
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In 2005, Florida became the first state in the country to enact a �stand your ground� law. The law states that a person has the right to meet force with force if they believe their life is at risk. The �I feared for my life� mantra would become the consistent refrain.
But what happens though when the act of self-protection is simply a veil for racism and hatred? What happens when just the appearance of Black or Brown skin is seen as a threat? This is the same law that helped George Zimmerman walk free after killing teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Martin�s murder and Zimmerman�s acquittal sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. It also contributed to the spread of �stand your ground� laws across the country. |
CT: Gun Advocates Quick to Sue Over Connecticut�s New Gun Safety Law
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday signed the most wide-ranging state gun control bill since a 2013 law passed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, sparking an immediate lawsuit by gun rights supporters seeking to block a ban on open carrying and other parts of the new law.
It�s the latest legal fight over Connecticut�s gun laws, which are some of the strictest in the country, since the U.S. Supreme Court last year expanded gun rights and opened several states� laws to challenges. The landmark 2013 gun law and others also are being contested in court. |
CA: Apparently You Can Kill Trans People In San Francisco Now
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Banko Brown was a community activist that had worked with the nonprofit Young Women�s Freedom Center in San Francisco since he was 12 years old. He was also a trans man and was the 11th trans or gender non-conforming individual reported by the HRC to have died by violence in 2023. Towards the end of April, Brown was accused of shoplifting at a San Francisco Walgreens. The security guard on duty, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony shot Banko, who later died of his injuries. As an isolated incident, this would be abhorrent, but the context of the legal response around it makes it significantly worse. |
Biden Brace Ban Sees Massive Non-Compliance, Drives Gun Group Signups
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The President�s marque gun policy is now in full effect, and the results are underwhelming.
A huge majority of pistol-brace owners did not register their guns, as required. And the injunctions issued against the ban have driven more Americans into the arms of gun-rights groups. I detail how the failure of the ban casts further doubt on all gun registration and/or confiscation schemes. |
Gun Group Membership Surges in Wake of Pistol-Brace Ban Injunctions
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...four separate injunctions were issued by Fifth Circuit courts blocking enforcement of it against three different groups. Members of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), and Gun Owners of America (GOA) all fell under the umbrella of the injunctions. That has generated new interest in joining those groups in the week since the grace period for registering brace-equipped guns with the ATF ran out.
SAF said it has seen unprecedented growth since District Judge Jane J. Boyle�s ruling in SAF v. ATF. The group told The Reload Thursday approximately 20,000 new members have joined since the injunction was introduced, with more than 1,000 buying a lifetime membership. |
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