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The value proposition for every straight-wall cartridge I can name is that it mates well with a lever gun. The venerable 45/70? Give it to me in a Henry Big Boy or maybe a Winchester Model 1886. How do I want to shoot the .444 Marlin? In a Marlin Model 336 lever gun, of course. A .357 Magnum? Give me The Gun That Won The West, the Winchester 1873 carbine.
So when Winchester debuted its hot new 350 Legend as a modern, spiffier version of the .30/30, I fully expected it to be chambered in a profusion of lever guns, maybe even Winchester�s own Model 1885 Low Wall or that classic Model 94 that�s sent downrange more .30/30s than any other model. |
TX: Armed Austin Man Fatally Shoots Knife-Wielding Attacker in Self-Defense Outside Restaurant
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On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, an attempted robbery outside a local restaurant in North Austin led to a fatal shooting. The incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. at the Taste of Home Handmade Dumpling Restaurant, located at 10901 N Lamar Boulevard.
Hao Li, 51, a Mandarin-speaking man, had just exited the restaurant when he encountered 57-year-old Chup Prum, who was on a bicycle. According to the Austin Police Department (APD), Prum brandished a knife and approached Li in a threatening manner. In response, Li drew a firearm and shot Prum. Despite being injured, Prum fled the scene on his bicycle and returned to his home. |
TX: Waco man no-billed in May shooting death, weapons charge
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A McLennan County grand jury cleared a convicted felon Thursday in the May shooting death of another man in an apparent case of self-defense.
The grand jury no-billed David Rudy Monroe, 45, in the May 19 shooting death of 47-year-old Darrell Scott Davis. While grand jurors cleared Monroe of murder, they also no-billed him on a second count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, apparently deciding that Monroe�s self-defense claim overruled the gun charge.
Monroe was never arrested in Davis� death and Waco police presented it to the DA�s office as a screening case. The DA�s office presented the case for grand jury consideration Thursday. |
FL: UFC Fighter Ramon Taveras Survives Attempted Shooting, Returns Fire in Self-Defense
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UFC bantamweight fighter Ramon Taveras faced a harrowing situation on the night of July 29, 2024, when he was ambushed outside his mother�s home in Jacksonville. A group of armed men attempted to take his life as he walked out to his car. Fortunately, Taveras was able to defend himself, returning fire with his own firearm after coming under attack.
The incident, which was captured on a Ring doorbell camera, shows Taveras exiting the house and being suddenly fired upon. Without hesitation, Taveras retrieved his own gun and returned fire, successfully driving off his assailants. Remarkably, Taveras emerged from the encounter uninjured.
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Personal Defense Top Reason for Gun Ownership
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Injury Journal published the results of a study in late May that found protecting themselves and their loved ones was the overwhelming reason Americans own a gun. According to the researchers, in 1999 only 26 percent of firearm owners cited fear of criminal attack as the primary motivation, but by 2023�the year the survey was conducted�the figure was up to 78.8 percent.
According to the study. firearms are present in more than 60 percent of households. Also according to the study, approximately 65 million people consider their gun�s primary mission to be personal defense. �Women, black and Hispanic people were more likely to own firearms for protection than for other reasons,� they wrote.
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WV: Woman Shoots Boyfriend Who Was Stomping And Punching Her
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A West Virginia woman was able to save her life with a firearm during a violent attack by her boyfriend.
According to a report at usacarry.com, the couple was visiting an acquaintance in Charleston, West Virginia, when the violence started. The boyfriend, 32-year-old Chrishawn Perkins, allegedly accused his 19-year-old girlfriend of stealing and then began physically assaulted her. |
How Second Amendment Radicals Are Attacking Laws Meant to Keep Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands
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When the judge ruled in her favor, it seemed the story might end. But Willey was a lifetime member of the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun-rights group that filed lawsuits around the country to overturn gun restrictions. The SAF sued Webb, the county sheriff, and the attorney general of Maryland on Willey�s behalf.
The organization had already reshaped America once. More than a decade earlier, it brought a case to the Supreme Court about individual gun rights, and the majority ruled, for the first time, that states could not ban a law-abiding citizen from owning a firearm. |
MI: Michigan joins coalition of states supporting regulation of gun sales
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in support of state and federal laws that regulate the sale of firearms to keep communities safe.
The coalition filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Steven Perez arguing that federal laws preventing individuals from transporting or receiving firearms from outside the state in which they reside, except through a federally licensed firearms dealer, are essential to protecting public safety. The amicus brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, explains that state and federal regulation of firearms dealers helps reduce violent crime and supports law enforcement investigations.
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CA: California Attorney General Bonta Defends Commonsense Gun Law that Prevents Illegal Gun Purchases Across State Lines
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, joined an Bonta firearms amicus brief in the Second Circuit in United States v. Perez, in support of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968�s provision that prohibits anyone other than a licensed firearms dealer from transporting or receiving firearms from out of state. The brief argues that 18 U.S. Code section 922(a)(3) plays an essential role in supporting States� efforts to curb gun violence by ensuring residents purchase firearms from licensed in-state dealers through lawful, recorded transactions, rather than from the black market.
Ed.: Not from the black market, but from a licensed & regulated FFL in another state. |
NSSF Government Relations Team Profile: Salam Fatohi
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NSSF�s Government Relations Team is working hard on behalf of the entire firearm and ammunition industry, both at the federal level and at state capitals across the country. To give our members a better understanding of who is fighting for their businesses and Second Amendment rights every day, NSSF will periodically publish a Government Relations Team member profile. August�s NSSF GR Team profile is for Salam Fatohi, NSSF Director of Research. |
CA: Kamala Harris Wants Your Guns � Help Tell Her NO!
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Since her anointing a few weeks back, Kamala Harris has criss-crossed the country leading rallies, but she�s given no press interviews and has not published the policy positions on which she intends to run. Perhaps that�s not terribly surprising under the circumstances, surely American voters will eventually like to know what she stands for (other than being Donald Trump�s opponent).
Unfortunately, California gun owners know exactly where she stands on the Second Amendment. At her recent campaign stops, Harris continues to support a gun control agenda that includes red flag laws and bans on so-called �assault� weapons. |
TX: After shooting, Texas State Fair bans guns. Republicans want them back
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After an assailant wounded three people at the Texas State Fair last year, organizers took the unusual step of prohibiting firearms at the annual celebration.
The new policy, announced last week, has already sparked a powerful reaction from gun groups and many Republican state officials. The state attorney general, Ken Paxton, has threatened to sue the city of Dallas, which owns the fairgrounds, if the policy is not reversed.
The dispute cuts to the heart of what has been a difficult balance between state laws that increasingly allow people to carry guns in public and the need to protect large public events from devastating outbreaks of gun violence.
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This Day in History: Joan Little Acquitted in Landmark 1975 Self-Defense Case
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Joan Little was initially charged with the 1974 murder of a white jailer but was acquitted on August 15, 1975. Her defense argued that Little, who was incarcerated at the time, acted in self-defense when she fatally stabbed the jailer with an ice pick during a sexual assault.
Little�s case made history as she became the first woman in the United States, regardless of race, to be acquitted on the grounds of using deadly force to prevent sexual assault.
Her trial spotlighted crucial issues, including a woman�s right to defend herself against rape, the use of capital punishment, and the racial inequalities within the criminal justice system. |
A Fly in Originalism�s Ointment
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Indeed they do. It is sobering to realize that it may just be in the nature of the exercise of judicial power for this sort of thing to happen. The Court�s Second Amendment cases, far from being the jewel in the crown of originalism, are nothing more than gross judicial overreaching, patently reminiscent of Warren Court adventurism, for conservative political ends. Flintlock history is being manipulated to subvert contemporary legislative attempts to regulate an out-of-control AR-15 world.
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Will This Be the Year SCOTUS Takes an �Assault Weapons� Ban Case
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In a recent ruling upholding Maryland�s ban on so-called assault weapons, a federal appeals court gave gun-rights advocates their best opportunity yet to entice the Supreme Court to strike down those bans nationwide. Whether the Justices are prepared to oblige them is another matter entirely.
In a divided opinion last week, the en banc Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered its long-awaited judgment of Maryland�s ban on AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons. By a ten-to-five margin, the court�s majority upheld the ban.
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MD: Maryland Attorney General Brown Joins Multistate Coalition to Protect Regulations on Gun Sales
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On Thursday, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in backing commonsense state and federal gun laws aimed at keeping communities safe.
Per the Maryland Attorney General�s Office: �The coalition filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Steven Perez arguing that federal laws preventing individuals from transporting or receiving firearms
from outside the state in which they reside, except through a federally licensed firearms dealer, are essential to protecting public safety. The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, explains that state and federal regulations of firearms dealers help reduce violent crime and support law enforcement investigations. |
NM: Pro-gun group takes on Lujan Grisham�s unconstitutional gun ban
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The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has filed a critical brief with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in its ongoing lawsuit, Fort v. Grisham, challenging New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham�s prohibition on carrying firearms in public parks and playgrounds. The detailed brief is available for review here.
This legal action follows a July 24th Order from the Tenth Circuit, which required the parties involved to submit supplemental briefs addressing three specific questions regarding the appeal�s posture. |
FL: Guns, Guns, Guns
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We will have to live with this American violent history as long as any idiot can get a gun at will. Since the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Americans have the right to walk around carrying concealed weapons, anyone might be armed. 40 percent of households have a gun and 16 million Americans own what are referred to as assault weapons.
I dutifully took the training and passed the exams to receive my concealed handgun license in Texas. Texas responded to the American �killing fields� by doing away with that requirement recently and aligned with Florida. Now at a store�s checkout line any brain-dead idiot could be standing behind you �packing.�
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OR: Gun rights groups urge federal judge to block Oregon�s new law banning ghost guns
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Two gun rights advocacy groups urged a judge Thursday to temporarily block Oregon�s ghost gun ban from taking effect on Sept. 1.
They went back to the nation�s founding era to make their arguments, saying gun manufacturing was �entirely unregulated� then and that the federal government has never restricted law-abiding citizens from making guns for personal use.
Attorney Stephen Duvernay, on behalf of the Oregon Firearms Federation and the Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., argued that self-made guns without serial numbers are in common use in the United States and that requiring his clients to add serial numbers to their guns or gun parts is impractical. |
DC: Rep. Spartz: Congress members should probably be allowed to carry guns because Washington D.C. is a �very dangerous place�
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After a recent charge for bringing a gun into a D.C. airport terminal, U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is now arguing Congress members should be allowed to carry guns in the nation�s capital because they �have no security� in a �very dangerous place� with �not good people.�
Spartz, the Republican U.S. Representative from Indiana�s fifth district who is currently running for reelection, made a stop Thursday morning in Noblesville as part of a fiscal town hall tour.
After the event, Spartz spoke with FOX59/CBS4 about her recent comments regarding crime in D.C. and whether or not members of Congress should be allowed to openly carry firearms. |
Voters Trust Trump Over Harris on Guns
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The value proposition for every straight-wall cartridge I can name is that it mates well with a lever gun. The venerable 45/70? Give it to me in a Henry Big Boy or maybe a Winchester Model 1886. How do I want to shoot the .444 Marlin? In a Marlin Model 336 lever gun, of course. A .357 Magnum? Give me The Gun That Won The West, the Winchester 1873 carbine.
So when Winchester debuted its hot new 350 Legend as a modern, spiffier version of the .30/30, I fully expected it to be chambered in a profusion of lever guns, maybe even Winchester�s own Model 1885 Low Wall or that classic Model 94 that�s sent downrange more .30/30s than any other model. |
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