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Harrisburg tries to shoot down lawsuit that threatens city gun ordinances :: 02/06/2015

Attorneys representing Harrisburg will face a gun rights group in Dauphin County Court Friday in an effort to shoot down a lawsuit that threatens the city's finances and gun ordinances.

Pro Tip: Call an Ambulance After a Defensive Gun Use :: 02/06/2015

Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. Do bring a gun to knife fight. No matter what happens, you still have to deal with the one rule of a knife fight: you’re going to get cut. And here’s the thing: you stand a pretty good chance of after-the-fact exsanguination. Thanks to the psychological effects of adrenalin, you could suffer a lethal injury and be bleeding to death without feeling a thing. Until you don’t feel a thing ever again. We’re not talking about arterial spray. We’re talking about invisible internal bleeding which can take 20 minutes or longer to kill you dead. In fact, after any defensive gun use . . .

2 former Phila. police officers sentenced to prison :: 02/05/2015

DARBY, Pa. (WPVI) -- Two former Philadelphia police officers are going to prison stealing money and drugs while on duty.

Judge Unhappy with Remington Recall. Sorry, "Settlement" :: 02/05/2015

“The federal judge considering a proposed class-action settlement involving millions of allegedly defective Remington rifles is raising new questions about the accord, warning a plaintiff’s attorney in court that the agreement as it currently stands risks more people being injured by the guns,” cnbc.com reports. U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith’s main beef with the not-a-recall recall?

(PA Atty. Gen.) Kane challenges special prosecutor's authority in leak case :: 02/05/2015

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane said in legal papers Wednesday that the special prosecutor who built a criminal case against her lacked any legal authority and that his work should be discarded as unlawful.

In Lawsuit, Gun Owners Say New D.C. Concealed Carry Law Is Unconstitutional :: 02/04/2015

Another lawsuit has been filed against the District over its gun laws, this time over a new measure allowing individuals to apply for permits to carry concealed handguns — a measure that itself was the product of another lawsuit.

Justices Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia disagree about many issues. But not duck hunting. :: 02/04/2015

Washington (CNN)This week Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan sat down with David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's former top adviser, for a wide ranging conversation on important constitutional issues. And then they talked about duck hunting. With Justice Antonin Scalia.

SAF Officially Files Lawsuit Against Washington DC Over Restrictive Carry Permit Laws :: 02/04/2015

The Second Amendment Foundation has officially sued Washington DC over their restrictive new “may issue” concealed carry permit. The following is a press release with details.

7th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear 'Assault Weapon' Ban Case :: 02/02/2015

Arizona - -(Ammoland.com)- The 7th Circuit federal court of appeals will hear a case against a local ban on some common rifles, handguns, shotguns, and magazines. The city of Highland Park, notorious for its anti-second amendment laws, passed an ordinance that requires residents to turn in, modify or remove the banned items from the city. Ordinance 136(pdf) deals with “Assault Weapons”. The ordinance includes very broad boilerplate language. Some claim that the ordinance was lifted from the City of Chicago.

Vindictive prosecution subjects self-defense to community standards :: 02/02/2015

A Marin County doctor who had charges dismissed against him earlier this month is still facing a grand jury indictment obtained by a prosecutor determined to see him convicted, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday. Dr. James Stephen Simon, a surgeon and occupational medicine and aerospace medicine practitioner with no criminal history, had more than 50 registered firearms, the majority being sporting weapons and collector’s items, and 200 boxes of ammunition, seized by police following a self-defense shooting in 2014. Simon had already been acquitted of” attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm” on January 7, when Marin County Judge Kelly Simmons “dismissed charges against [the] 71-year-old doctor accused of shooting a 70-year-old man who followed him to his Corte Madera home in a road-rage confrontation.” The ruling, following a two-day preliminary hearing, appeared to be the end of a “case [that] had been prosecuted personally by Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian.”

Dobyns prepares '21 questions' for indifferent-to-date legislators :: 01/31/2015

Determined not to let a thus-far deliberately indifferent Congress ignore the wider implications of “fraud upon the court” by Department of Justice lawyers in his case, retired ATF Agent Jay Dobyns has prepared a list of 21 questions lawmakers should ask of Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Director B. Todd Jones. He posted the queries, along with links to media accounts, on his website Friday, and mirrored it to elicit support from forum members on CleanUpATF, the site that first posted allegations of “walked” guns from Operation Fast and Furious being found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Firearms Dealer to Sue Everytown for Gun Safety For Defamation In Bogus Report :: 01/31/2015

Crossfire Arms, LLC, of Mount Holly, Vermont, says through counsel that it intends to sue Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety for defamation after Everytown suggested that Crossfire Arms was an unlicensed dealer selling firearms to criminals.

Do not talk to Reporters after a Shooting :: 01/30/2015

Thomas Greer gained fame in July of this year by making some imprudent statements to reporters.

Disabled 9/11 firefighter sues over confiscation of firearms collection :: 01/29/2015

A retired firefighter is taking the Nassau County police to federal court to try to get his $100,000 firearms collection, confiscated after a call to his home last February, returned.

Judge alleges 'fraud on the court' by government attorneys in Dobyns case :: 01/26/2015

Commenting on revelations about Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Department of Justice (DOJ) actions in the case of retired agent Jay Dobyns against his former employer, attorney David Hardy equated them with “a BATF and DOJ Watergate... or worse,” Friday.

Shouting match leads to gun confiscation, forfeiture :: 01/26/2015

Andrew Cuomo’s New York appears to be a Constitution-free gulag, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment.

2 injured when gun falls out of man's fanny pack at Giant Eagle store :: 01/24/2015

A man was arrested and is facing charges after two people were injured when his gun discharged inside the Richland Township Giant Eagle Friday, police said.

N.M. court upholds ban on switchblades, suggests broader knife bans might be constitutional, too :: 01/24/2015

From State v. Murillo (N.M. Ct. App. Jan. 21, 2015) (paragraph break added):

7th Circuit to Weigh in on Assault Weapons Ban :: 01/23/2015

CHICAGO (CN) - The 7th Circuit appeared skeptical of both sides Thursday as it heard arguments over an affluent Chicago suburb's ban on assault weapons, with one judge bemoaning the Supreme Court's failure to provide guidance on how to legally distinguish bazookas from pistols.

Gun Maker Gets Newtown Lawsuit Moved to Federal Court :: 01/23/2015

Gun maker Remington has moved a lawsuit filed against it by families of those shot in the Sandy Hook school massacre from state to federal court, where at least one expert says it has less chance of succeeding.

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