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 Headline USA: Judge Cannon Denies Alleged Failed Trump Assassin’s Motion to Dismiss Charges on 2nd Amendment Grounds 'A categorical ban on Defendant’s possession of a firearm—as a convicted felon—does not offend the Second Amendment...' Trying to kill the president has consequences, and Cannon is right to restrict an attempted assassin's opportunity for another try.

  11:04 PM · Apr 30, 2025 · 21.3K Views Hamas is a threat to the freedom of religion. It is made up of Islamic religious bigots who have no place in the US.

 Bearing Arms: A sheriff in Georgia is praising the actions of an armed homeowner who stopped a would-be intruder from gaining access to a child's bedroom, while also issuing a warning to other criminals in the county. Butts County Sheriff Gary Long says a man named Abdul Aquil is in custody in connection with the break-in, and is lucky to be alive after his encounter with the armed citizen. Aquil allegedly first tried to gain entry to the home through a bedroom window with a child on the other side, but the child's father heard the commotion and interrupted the burglar as he was crawling inside. Long said the father of the child "challenged the intruder and the suspect exited the window." According to Long, the father then went to his room and got a gun as Aquil busted the living room window, trying to get inside. The father fired his gun, missing the suspect, but causing the suspect to run away. Long said in a Facebook post, "The shot fired by the homeowner wa...

 Headline USA: Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin Wants Charges Dropped on Second Amendment Grounds Routh’s motion may sound like a stretch to some, but last year an illegal immigrant successfully made similar arguments to successfully dismiss a charge for possessing a firearm... The accused in this case has a prior conviction of a felony, and the law he is charged under makes the possession of a weapon illegal.  It is a novel idea, but I doubt it has much chance of success. See also: Disturbing New Details Emerge About the Second Plot to Assassinate Trump The left has become so radicalized by its hatred of Donald Trump that it is beyond the point of differentiating between right and wrong. As we previously reported, a recent study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found that roughly half of those on the political left think that assassinating Donald Trump or Elon Musk is morally justifiable . ... This looks like more evidence of Trump and Musk derangement synd...

 Newsmax: US Ban on Gun Sales to Adults Under Age 21 Is Unconstitutional, Court Rules A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Thursday, citing recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings expanding gun rights. The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time a federal appeals court has held that the prohibition violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. The appeals court had previously upheld that same ban in 2012. But that was before the 6-3 conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in 2022 that established a new test for assessing modern firearms laws. ... The U.S. Department of Justice during Democratic former President Joe Biden's tenure had defended the ban. But Jones said it put forth "scant" evidence to show that the gun ...

 Blaze: Smith & Wesson thanks Elon Musk for X platform after Facebook suspends its account indefinitely  Musk has said that X will protect free speech despite calls for censorship. The right to keep arms is guaranteed in the Constitution along with the right to free speech.  Too often some social media has been arbitrary and capricious when it comes to those rights.  Musk has been a champion of those rights.

 Streiff: A group of eleven former Republican prosecutors and elected officials have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to  open an investigation  into Elon Musk for paying registered voters in seven states to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. See  Elon Musk Giving Away Millions to Promote Petition Supporting First and Second Amendments . ... So far, the Department of Justice hasn't commented, but it is hard to believe that someone in Garland's Sicherheitsdienst won't seize the opportunity to launch a pre-dawn raid on one of Musk's homes just for the photo-op. The whole issue is rather nuts, so it is no great shock that UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen is up to his unibrow in this lawfare.   ... Hasen dishonestly tries to bootstrap gifting registered voters of either party, whether or not they have ever voted, for signing a petition into "vote buying" or paying people to register to vote. I suppose if you tie any law to the rack and ...

 Bearing Arms: It was a typical Tuesday evening at Will's Food Store in Mount Holly, North Carolina, at least until Victor Almodovar Jr walked in. Armed with a handgun, Almodovar demanded cash from the store clerk. What he didn't realize is that one of the customers inside the store was armed as well. Authorities say the armed citizen drew his own handgun and fired at the would-be robber, wounding Almodovar and ending the threa t to employees and customers. ... The robber later died from his injuries.  

  Federalist Wire: ... In a recent move that has raised eyebrows and frustrated many, NBC has attempted to link a Supreme Court ruling on bump stocks to mass shootings. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear cases challenging the federal ban on bump stocks has reignited debate over gun control, but NBC’s breathless reporting has been criticized for its lack of evidence tying bump stocks to recent mass shootings. The Supreme Court agreed to hear cases that challenge the federal government’s ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly. This ban was implemented by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) following the tragic 2017 Las Vegas shooting, where the shooter used bump stocks to kill 58 people. However, since that incident, there has been no significant evidence linking bump stocks to other mass shootings. NBC’s report seemed intent on sensationalizing the issue by drawing connections between the Supreme Court’s decisio...

 Fox News: Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Saturday where she will tout a Biden administration effort to provide "training and technical assistance" to individuals "responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others." The new program drew immediate backlash from some Republicans who called the effort a "massive Red Flag Operation." The National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, according to a Saturday Department of Justice press release , will specifically provide assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations and behavioral health professionals. "ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other...

 American Action News: Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed one of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws in 2023, and now highway shootings are surging in the state. Over 50 models of guns are banned under the legislation , including popular rifles such as AR-15s and M-16s, and the Democratic Legislature wants to crack down further with several more gun control bills in the body. The state is now seeing a surge in highway shootings, with more than a dozen reported on state highways since the beginning of the year, according to KOMO News. There have been over 190 reported “shooting incidents” in the state year to date as of Friday, Washington State Police (WSP) told the DCNF. Of these, nine are freeway shooting incidents from the Seattle area that are actively under investigation. The number of reported shooting incidents in 2023 was similar, at 199 by this time last year, WSP told the DCNF. At least seven shootings were reported on freeways near King County, Washington, ...

 Fox News: Every republican attorney general in the country blasted their Democrat counterparts for attempting to shutter an ammunition factory in Missouri, a letter sent to the White Hous e Wednesday revealed. In a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, all 28 GOP attorneys general asked President Biden and White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention director Stefanie Feldman to disregard their Democrat colleagues' request to end commercial sales from Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, one of the country’s largest ammo manufacturers. Democrats had previously asked the administration to investigate the contracting and manufacturing practices of the plant after a New York Times report alleged that "military-grade rounds" were sold commercially and were connected to mass shootings. But the Republicans say the Democrats’ letter contained a "litany of errors." "Perhaps those States should focus more on prosecuting crime to stop mass shootings—rather t...

 National Review: New Mexico’s Democratic attorney general notified the governor, a fellow Democrat , on Tuesday that he will not defend her in litigation challenging her public health order temporarily banning firearms in certain counties and imposing other gun restrictions. The prohibition applies to Albuquerque and Bernalillo counties. “Though I recognize my statutory obligation as New Mexico’s chief legal officer to defend state officials when they are sued in their official capacity, my duty to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of every citizen takes precedence,” New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez wrote to fellow Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in a letter . “Simply put, I do not believe that the Emergency Order will have any meaningful impact on public safety but, more importantly, I do not believe it passes constitutional muster.” ... Multiple plaintiffs — the National Association for Gun Rights, We the Patriots USA, residents of the affected counti...

  Amy Swearer @AmySwearer · Sep 8 This is completely unconstitutional. It's also just logically nuts. Concealed carry permit holders aren't the ones driving gun crime, and now you're telling actual criminals that they have free reign because their victims can't be armed. kob.com Open and concealed carry privileges suspended in Albuquerque for 30 days New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she is suspending open and concealed carry privileges in Albuquerque for the next 30 days. 234 797 2,940 109.6K Does the governor actually think that criminals are going to follow her ridiculous order?