NYT Discovers ‘Professional Citizens’ Training for ‘Uncertain and Polarized Times’
They are known as prepared or professional citizens, part of a growing number of gun owners who are adapting their mind-set to uncertain and polarized times.
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It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Define ‘Proximate Cause’ in Firearm Advertising Liability Claims
The purpose of such lawsuits, orchestrated by Everytown for Gun Safety, is to destroy America’s lawful firearm industry. Making a mockery of PLCAA, not to mention the Second Amendment, is the game that’s being played.
Sarah Palin Will Get Another Chance to Prove the New York Times Defamed Her After the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting
The lawsuit stemmed from a June 14, 2017 editorial, “America’s Lethal Politics,” that wrongly suggested Palin may have incited a January 2011 mass shooting in an Arizona parking lot.
Daddy Bloombucks’ Gun Control Operation Goes All-In on the #Resistance
Everytown for Gun Safety will back Democratic candidates in 10 competitive states, including Virginia this fall and Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin, among others, next year, according to John Feinblatt, the organization’s president.
Media: Fighting ‘Gun Violence’ Through More ‘Empathetic, Ethical and Impactful News Reporting’
The program maintains a database that enables journalists to connect with “hundreds of community members with lived experience of gun violence” to broaden the narrative on firearm violence beyond the usual police reporting.
Based on Ninth Circuit ‘Logic,’ No Semi-Auto Gun Needs a Magazine That Holds More Than Two Rounds
While claiming that a magazine that holds over ten rounds is not an arm, the majority asserts that a magazine that holds ten or less is an arm because it “is necessary to the ordinary operation” of the firearm “as intended.”
We’re About to Find Out if People Are Willing to Pay More for American-Made 9mm Ammunition
We can laugh at the people who are about to be paying $300 for a pair of Jordans, but some of those people will also be the ones bitching when they have to pay a little more for American-made 9mm.
Lawsuit Challenges Colorado’s Gun and Ammo Excise Tax Arguing it Fails the Bruen Test
The lawsuit was filed on the basis that the tax is unconstitutional because it does not pass a “means-end” test handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2022 Bruen decision.
In Their VanDerStok Ruling, the Supreme Court Majority Used a ‘Know-It-When-You See-It’ Approach
Back in the day, the Court would determine whether a film was obscene by watching it. Here too, the Court adopts a “know-it-when-you-see-it” approach to determine whether a kit qualifies as a “weapon.” Justice Stewart would be proud.
What Today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Means for Gun Rights
Susan Crawford’s record as a judge and as a prosecutor aligns with the incongruous position of the most ardent of anti-gun radicals: soft on criminals, yet all too ready to penalize law-abiding gun owners.