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  • Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource CenterHi

    03/23/2024 7:31:18 AM PDT · by ottersnot · 20 replies
    DOJ ^ | Office of Public Affairs
    Office of Public Affairs The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
  • Bryan Malinowski, the Little Rock airport executive shot by ATF agents, dies from injuries

    03/21/2024 12:41:08 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 70 replies
    KARK via MSN ^ | 03 21 2024 | Bill Smith
    The executive director of the Little Rock airport who was shot by federal agents serving a search warrant at his home earlier this week has died. A statement from the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport announced the death of Bryan Malinowski at noon Thursday. The statement from Bill Walker, chair of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission, noted that under Malinowski’s leadership the airport saw “significant growth and success” and offered condolences to Malinowski’s family. “With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of our executive director Bryan Malinowski. Bryan was a 16-year employee of the airport. Under his...
  • Airport director involved in shootout previously at center of property dispute

    03/21/2024 3:39:19 PM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 30 replies
    NPR ^ | 3/20/24 | Josie Lenora
    Bryan Malinowski, who was involved in a shootout with federal agents Tuesday, was also involved in a legal fight with a neighbor over the placement of a mailbox, claiming it was placed illegally on his property. A judge would go on to side with Malinowski’s neighbor, years before the 53-year-old director of Little Rock's Clinton National Airport was involved in the Tuesday shooting with agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In August 2018, Malinowski sued Eric and Victoria Pinter, who lived next to a property he owned. He said the year before they “without consultation or...
  • Released search warrant affidavit shows details of ATF case against Little Rock airport executive Bryan Malinowski

    03/21/2024 6:04:36 PM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 110 replies
    KARK.com ^ | March 21, 2024 | Alex Kienlen
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The affidavit detailing the ATF case against the Little Rock airport executive who was shot and killed by federal agents serving a search warrant at his home was released Thursday. In the heavily redacted warrant affidavit, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claims that Bryan Malinowski purchased numerous firearms that he resold without a firearm dealer’s license. Bryan Malinowski, the Little Rock airport executive shot by ATF agents, dies from injuries According to the warrant, Malinowski purchased more than 150 guns between May 2021 and Feb. 27, 2024, which he then resold.
  • WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Humiliates Another Biden Judicial Nominee

    03/21/2024 2:08:07 PM PDT · by george76 · 29 replies
    PJ Media ^ | MARCH 21, 2024 | Matt Margolis
    Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) gave us another amusing demonstration of his ability to humiliate Joe Biden’s unqualified judicial nominees during Wednesday's confirmation hearing. United States District Judge Nancy Maldonado of the Northern District of Illinois, who has been nominated by Joe Biden for a spot on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, had previously signed a brief supporting a ban on "assault weapons" in Illinois state courts in the 2010s, yet, when he asked her to define "assault weapons,” she couldn’t. “You said, ‘assault weapons may be banned because they’re extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate...
  • Supreme Court Considers Claim That New York Regulators Violated NRA's First Amendment Rights - State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights group.

    03/21/2024 4:12:38 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    Reason ^ | 20 Mar, 2024 | J.D. TUCCILLE
    For good reason, much attention was devoted to the Supreme Court's oral arguments on Monday, over government pressure on social media companies to suppress speech that officialdom doesn't like. The same day, though, justices heard arguments in another important case involving free speech principles violated when New York officials leaned on financial institutions to deny services to the National Rifle Association. Importantly, both cases involved "jawboning," the use by government of threats to improperly coerce compliance. When Communication Becomes CoercionAs Reason's Jacob Sullum ably summarizes, arguments in Murthy v. Missouri involve "dueling interpretations of the Biden administration's interactions with social...
  • Excessive free speech is a breeding ground for more Trumps

    03/21/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT · by packagingguy · 81 replies
    The Globe and Mail ^ | March 21, 2024 | LAWRENCE MARTIN
    There was a bit of good news about the future of public discourse this week. The United States Supreme Court, even though stacked with right-wingers, sounded like it was ready to give the Biden administration the go-ahead to try to persuade social-media platforms not to put out content promoting nonsense about the presidential election, conspiracy theories about the pandemic and other assorted bilge and crackpottery... When other communications revolutions like the printing press, radio, and television came along, they were still largely controlled by the elites. But when the internet came along, regulatory bodies like Canada’s CRTC backed off. It...
  • Top exec at Bill and Hillary Clinton airport in Arkansas shot as federal agents serve search warrant

    03/20/2024 3:27:12 AM PDT · by Bonemaker · 18 replies
    NYPOST ^ | 03/20/2024 | Louis Casiano
    The executive director of an Arkansas airport bearing the names of former President Bill Clinton and former first lady and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was shot Tuesday, when federal agents attempted to serve a search warrant. Arkansas State Police said the shooting occurred at 6 a.m. local time at a home on Durance Court in Little Rock, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was serving a search warrant at the home of airport Executive Director Bryan Malinowski.
  • NRA lawyer tells SCOTUS that NY official made 'explicit requests' to companies to blacklist rights group

    03/19/2024 12:41:44 PM PDT · by Twotone · 6 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | March 18, 2024 | Hannah Nightingale
    The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case brought forth by the National Rifle Association against former New York Department of Financial Services superintendent Maria Vullo, who the NRA said used her regulatory powers to punish the organization for its pro-gun stance in violation of the First Amendment. According to ABC News, the NRA is represented in the case by the American Civil Liberties Union, which said that despite opposing the group’s views, the case could be a "playbook" for government officials to target other groups such as pro-abortion ones. "Government officials are free to urge people not...
  • Groundswell of Second Amendment Cases Seems Destined for the Supreme Court

    03/18/2024 5:42:25 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 17 Mar, 2024 | James Nault
    Federal courts in blue states seem to be upholding the majority of gun control laws, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right to keep and bear arms. We recently posted about the New York Second Amendment case challenging New York’s concealed carry permit law that requires that a permit applicant prove to a local official that he or she is of “good moral character.” Not only is this an absurd requirement (how exactly are you supposed to prove that you have “good moral character”), but even after doing so, said local official then has complete discretion on...
  • Apparently, Alameda County bans asexual people from getting a concealed carry permit.

    03/18/2024 3:17:56 PM PDT · by grundle · 19 replies
    Twitter ^ | March 18, 2024 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
    Apparently, Alameda County bans asexual people from getting a concealed carry permit. https://alamedaca.permitium.com/ccw/start#:~:text=The%20administrative%20cost%20for%20a%20New%20Concealed%20Carry%20Weapon%20license%20is%20%24195.00. #AlamedaCounty #Alameda #Oakland #OaklandCA #OaklandCalifornia #Asexual #LGBTQIA #Guns #GunRights #SelfDefense #Democrats #Liberals #Conservative #Politics
  • One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics?

    03/18/2024 10:59:57 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 19 replies
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-16/shasta-voters-oust-far-right-leader ^ | MARCH 16, 2024 | BY HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS, JESSICA GARRISON
    ...It was a stunning turn for Jones, a gun store manager who in his one term in office has emerged as a leading voice in an ultraconservative insurgence that transformed this largely rural Northern California county into a national symbol of hard-right governance and election denialism \
  • Murthy v. Missouri followed by NRA v Vullo Supreme Court Oral Arguments [3/18/24]

    03/18/2024 6:10:10 AM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    CSPAN ^ | 3/18/24 | SCOTUS
    Today at 10:00 a.m. the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri, a case on federal government officials communicating with social media companies about content moderation policies and whether it amounts to government suppression or speech censorship. At 11:00 (or after Murthy) The Supreme Court hears oral argument in NRA v. Vullo, a case concerning the First amendment and whether a New York State regulator violated it by threatening its regulated entities with regulatory action if they do business with the NRA.
  • Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge

    03/18/2024 10:18:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 90 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/18/2024 | Zachary Steiber
    An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling.A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.”U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman rejected two motions to dismiss, but the third motion, based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, triggered the dismissal of the case on March 8.“The noncitizen possession statute, 18...
  • Four for Reform | Vote These Nominees to the NRA Board

    03/15/2024 7:17:08 AM PDT · by marktwain · 12 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | March 12, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    The NRA is in serious trouble, the worst crisis in the history of the organization. There is no point in sugarcoating the reality. Many of the problems are self-inflicted by the current administration of the organization.It is this writer’s considered opinion the fight to restore the Second Amendment can best be served by voting for the following four nominees for NRA Board Directors:Phil Journey Denis FusaroRocky MarshallJeff KnoxVote only for those four nominees. Voting only for those four magnifies your vote.In addition, vote Yes on the proposed bylaw change to create a Chief Compliance Officer. It is a position that...
  • An Open Letter From Author Alan Korwin

    03/13/2024 5:47:45 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 3 replies
    Dear Reader, It's important to keep in mind everything conceivably wrong or criminal about firearms is already illegal. So, when new laws are proposed, they typically only impact the innocent. It's precisely why we, the people, object so strenuously to new laws: They affect us and don't impact crime and violence. Because new proposals omit the criminal problem, new rules raise the real specter of actual conspiracy within some halls of government to wrest control and disarm the public. Many in government furiously deny this, but it's supported by evidence and countless public statements. I'm a Utopian Pacifist. I support...
  • Rapper Says to Carry Guns Amid Migrant Crisis: 'Extremely Dangerous'

    03/08/2024 2:20:34 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 17 replies
    Newsweek ^ | March 6, 2024
    Rapper Meek Mill is encouraging Americans to "strap up" with guns due to danger on the streets resulting from illegal immigration. The 36-year-old Philadelphia native, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, ranted about migrants, drugs and a mental health crisis in a new social media post. The platinum-selling artist went to jail in 2009 on gun and drug charges, was paroled after five months and given a 10-year probation period. In 2017, he was sent back to prison temporarily for technical violations. "Make sure you strap up in America it's extremely dangerous on the streets!" Mill wrote on March...
  • Gun Owners of America speaks out against John Cornyn's bid to replace McConnell as Senate GOP leader

    03/03/2024 2:05:56 PM PST · by chickenlips · 21 replies
    Just the News ^ | March 3, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard
    Gun Owners of America, a conservative firearm rights group, spoke out against Texas Sen. John Cornyn's bid to replace Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as Senate Republican leader. "The Senate deserves a conservative pro-gun leader, and John Cornyn is not that person," Gun Owners of America Federal Affairs Director Aidan Johnston said last week in a statement posted by the group on X, formerly Twitter. "Every time a gun issue comes up, he’s right there with a compromise. And that’s not leadership. That’s just capitulation to gun control." Johnston reiterated his group's opposition in comments to Fox News Digital on Saturday....
  • Louisiana Constitutional Carry Bill Passes State Senate

    03/01/2024 5:09:46 AM PST · by marktwain · 8 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | February 26, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    Louisiana will likely become the twenty-eighth state to restore Constitutional Carry (permitless carry). South Carolina is in the process of rectifying versions of a (permitless) Constitutional Carry bill in a conference committee. There is a good chance South Carolina will pass a bill acceptable to both the South Carolina House and Senate. Louisiana already passed a Constitutional Carry bill in 2021. The bill passed with veto-proof majorities, but Governor Bel Edwards (D) was able to sustain a veto with a combination of arm-twisting and promises.In 2023, Louisiana voters elected Governor Jeff Landry (R). Governor Landry has promised to sign a...
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson, we know your were born stupid and on the down side of the Bell Curve. But Elena Kagan, what's your excuse? Do you two bimbos really believe that any commercial firearm can file 800 rounds per second? (Vanity - Opinion)

    02/29/2024 10:41:14 PM PST · by Enterprise · 31 replies
    https://freerepublic.com ^ | 2/29/24 | Enterprise
    It is assumed that on some issues, judges are obviously not experts and get advice from their clerks or seek expert testimony. This does not appear to be the case with Jackson and Kagan. Perhaps their staffs let them down. Perhaps they're too lazy to do some basic research on the internet. Maybe they actually are so stupid to believe that there might be a firearm commercially available that can fire 800 rounds per second. If so, both need to resign due to terminal ignorance. However, don't resign until Trump wins the election and is sworn in.