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SCOTUS Declines to Hear Navy Vet's Gun Rights Appeal
Justice Blindfolded is Good ... but Always? Jefferson Schrader just wanted to buy a gun. The government wouldn't let him. Schrader, an honorably discharged Navy veteran, went to a dealer to buy a...
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"I Didn't Know the Gun ... !" SCOTUS to Hear Rosemond v. US
Dealing drugs is one thing. Dealing drugs with a gun on the scene becomes something very different. For decades, state and Federal criminal laws have imposed heavier penalties on crimes where a firearm...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform at Work in Appalachia
Check out health care reform on "this side of the hill" in Breathitt County, Kentucky.Much as we Kossacks like to bang on the Washington Post, it's had the good editorial sense to run Stephanie...
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Is Justus Rosemond Done For ... or Will He Get a New Trial?
The justices have spoken in Justus Rosemond’s case, some of them quite a lot. Arguments were held on the morning of Tuesday, November 12. What did they ask? What did they say? What does it...
View ArticleGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
What a portmanteau name for a place that delivers irreplaceable community benefits!Its mission is straightforward:WE HAVE 1 GOAL, 1 MISSION. TO FIGHT HUNGER, 1 DOLLAR, 1 MEAL, 1 PERSON AT A TIME. UNTIL...
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What? Straw Purchase a Gun? Abramski v. US
Bruce James Abramski Jr. Courtesy Franklin (VA) News-Post In the Monty Python Pantheon of Silly, this case takes the prize. It is a lawsuit against a question on a Federal form. When he went to buy a...
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Firearms Law & Policy Open Thread - Buying a Gun for Someone Else: What...
The issue of the evening is a "straw purchase" from a commercial gun dealer. In this case, a gun bought by one person for another person whose identity is not disclosed to the retail gun dealer....
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Abramski v. US: The Justices Asked, Counsel Answered.
This case tests the legality of the ATF's ban on straw purchasing guns. These nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on the morning of January 22, 2014.QUESTION...
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NRA Takes Aim at the Federal Courts: NRA v. BATFE and NRA v. McCraw
Do 18 year olds have a constitutional right to buy a handgun from a Federal dealer? Not according to Congress. (NRA v. BATFE) To carry a handgun in public? Not according to the Texas legislature. (NRA...
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Three Big Defeats Today for the Gun Rights Crowd
At its conference on February 21, SCOTUS had petitions for certiorari - requests for the Court to accept appeals from Federal court decisions - in three significant gun rights cases. This morning,...
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Rosemond v. US – A SMALL SECOND CHANCE IN A GUN TRIAL
In Rosemond v. United States, by a 7-2 vote (Justice Elena Kagan for the Court, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting in part and J. Antonin Scalia dissenting on two footnotes), the US...
View ArticleUPDATED: Breaking News ... A New Gun Case Goes to SCOTUS
BREAKING LATE WEDNESDAY ...According to Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog:Justice Kennedy on Wednesday afternoon denied, in a brief order without explanation, the request to block enforcement of the...
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Taking Justice into Your Own Hands: Part 1 - Self-Defense
What warrants the use of deadly force for self-defense?Any person with a loaded firearm can shoot to kill. We have the ability to do that with very little effort. I think that's the point - and also...
View ArticleHow Much Domestic Violence Gets You Banned from Having a Gun? US v. Castleman
Being convicted of a felony gets you banned by Federal law from having a gun. So does conviction on a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. But how violent must the physical contact be to qualify as...
View ArticleTaking Justice Into Your Own Hands: Part 2 - Stand Your Ground
Stand Your Ground statutes have been enacted in more than two dozen states in the last ten years, the product of intense lobbying from ALEC fueled by the fervor of state pro-gun groups.This is Part 2...
View ArticleTaking Justice Into Your Own Hands: Part 3 - Cases that Prove the Rules ......
Cases where deadly force has been used - and self-defense is claimed - are drawing publicity and intense public reaction.Florida is the epicenter of controversy. The Tampa Bay Times is analyzing cases...
View ArticleWhen you think you've seen it all, Georgia enacts Shall Not Enforce gun law.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has just signed the Safe Carry Protection Act, HB 60, the most liberal gun law in the nation.The legislators who passed it by overwhelming margins (37-18 in the GA Senate,...
View ArticleIt's Spring! Gun Violence in Chicago Wasn't Far Behind
Easter weekend was the bloodiest weekend of the year.Chicago has recorded 90 gun deaths - a total of 465 victims of violence by gun, deaths and serious injuries - since the beginning of 2014. Of these,...
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Is SCOTUS Ready to Rule on Carrying Guns in Public? Drake v. Jerejian
For gun enthusiasts, the Second Amendment is the Holy Grail, a constitutional right to, to ... to WHAT, exactly?... and there's the rub. Despite having dozens of opportunities in the six years since...
View ArticleSCOTUS declines to review Drake v. Jerejian, the NJ case that limits gun...
NEWSWIREMoments ago, SCOTUS denied cert in the Drake case. This means it chose not to accept the case for briefs and argument. (As is typical, the Court gave no explanation.) The Third Circuit's...
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