The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review in Beckwith v. Frey, a challenge to Maine’s 72-hour waiting period requirement for firearm purchases.
On September 17, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a memorandum opinion to answer the question “whether restricting young adults from buying firearms comports with the Second Amendment as the Supreme Court has authoritatively construed it.”
Do you know the way to San Jose? Dionne Warwick famously asked in her 1968 hit song. Well, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon certainly does, and she recently made sure the city was served with a civil rights lawsuit over its $1,600 fee for a concealed carry permit (firearm and ammunition not included).
The Trace, the “newsroom” funded by anti-gun extremist Michael Bloomberg, reported in June on the extent to which the NRA-backed NYSRPA v. Bruen case has, to date, rebuilt the modern Second Amendment landscape.
The irony is nothing short of comedy. Multiple outlets are having a field day with the Michael Bloomberg-backed Everytown organization, which has spent years and millions of dollars supporting extreme restrictions on lawful gun ownership, now purporting to offer hunter education courses.
The political lawfare campaign to dismantle the lawful firearms industry by holding it liable for the criminal misuse of its constitutionally protected products should have never started. U.S. tort law has long held that a person or entity cannot be held responsible for a third party’s criminal acts.
While it likely comes as no surprise to most readers, a recent study suggests that government-mandates that law-abiding gun owners always secure their firearms when “not in use”—usually unloaded, separate from ammunition, and either in a safe or with a device like a trigger lock—appears to do little to increase storing firearms safely.