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Inside the Trump Administration’s Rapid Rollback of Gun Regulations

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:56:53 +0000

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inside-the-trump-administrations-rapid-rollback-of-gun-regulations/ar-AA25Fp4I

From the article:

In the last 17 months, the Trump administration has delivered win after win for the nation’s most ardent gun-rights advocacy groups, chipping away at dozens of federal regulations. While many of these efforts target regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the law enforcement agency within the Justice Department tasked with regulating the nation’s millions of firearms — the administration’s work stretches across the executive branch.

My summary of the anti-2A groups’ view of recent actions = “doom… DOOM”

Harmeet Dhillon Discusses Trump DOJ’s Strategy For Taking Down Democrat Gun Bans

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:58:41 +0000

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/06/10/harmeet-dhillon-discusses-trump-dojs-strategy-for-taking-down-democrat-gun-bans/

Harmeet Dhillon Discusses Trump DOJ’s Strategy For Taking Down Democrat Gun Bans

Harold Hutchison
June 10, 2026
6:02 PM ET

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to force Second Amendment cases to the Supreme Court, a top official told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday.

Under Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, the Second Amendment Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was established on Dec. 4, 2025. While lawsuits against Denver, the District of Columbia and Colorado over gun and magazine bans have generated headlines, Dhillon told the DCNF there was a strategy behind the cases the Civil Rights Division brought.

“We’re identifying places where we can help make new law or create a circuit split for purposes of ultimate Supreme Court determination,” Dhillon said.

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Dhillon admitted that there were far more potentially unconstitutional gun control laws than the Second Amendment Section could tackle right away.

“I think it’s safe to say that we have many, many targets throughout the United States,” Dhillon said. “We’re familiar with all of these developments. We attend gun shows regularly and gun events. We have an open-door policy here vis-a-vis people who wanna bring things to our attention, but we have to prioritize based on our resources and our other enforcement priorities at the Department of Justice.”

“Every time I announce new action, I get a bunch of people criticizing us for ‘Now do this, now do that,’” Dhillon added. “I mean, that’s not how we do impact civil rights litigation. We don’t necessarily go after every single target. We have to pick and choose the ones that are gonna make the biggest impact and that there should be a trickle-down effect from that.”

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While Dhillon refused to specify cases the Second Amendment Section would investigate or pursue in the future, she also said that private parties were welcome to “take our work” for use in litigation against similar legislation in “other jurisdictions.” Dhillon also said that the objective of the Second Amendment Section was clear.

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“We’d like to see, I’d love to see the Supreme Court make it clear that AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles that are popular and sought for use by law-abiding citizens… see a definitive ruling on that, making it very clear and striking down contrary laws around the country,” Dhillon added.

Colion Noir interviews ATF director

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:21:25 +0000

Not thrilled with all I heard but there are some good bits and he at least explains some of the “why” for people to agree or disagree with. This still seems to beat the alternate of another ultra-infringer from a antigun administration and he is willing to talk to the pro-2A side after the previous administration shut it out.

The last 10 minutes or so where he mentions the technical ability to ID up to 4 different peoples’ DNA on cartridge cases and dropped guns was something I had never heard of.

DOJ is doing something...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:11:10 +0000

Justice Department Opens Investigation of Philadelphia Police Department’s Allegedly Unconstitutional Permit Revocation Practices

Today, the Justice Department opened an investigation to determine whether Philadelphia Police use a vague “good cause” standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects the civil right keep and bear legal firearms — including the right to legally carry firearms where allowed. The investigation focuses on the Philadelphia Police’s permitting system; the investigation does not support any armed obstruction of federal or local law enforcement.

“I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe the right to safely carry legal firearms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Law-abiding Americans, regardless of where they live, should not have to worry that their city will revoke their means of self-defense.”

It is a violation of the Second Amendment for government officials to use vague, personal discretion when determining whether to issue or revoke permits to carry firearms. In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller, held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes. In 2022, the Supreme Court held, in another case, that permitting officials may not base licensing decisions merely on their personal discretion. Here, it is alleged that Philadelphia Police use just such a discretionary standard to improperly limit Second Amendment rights.

The Civil Rights Division’s Second Amendment Section enforces the Second Amendment. If you believe your right to keep and bear arms is being infringed, please submit a complaint through www.justice.gov/crt/second-amendment-section.

Acting US Attorney General on the 2A

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:48:33 +0000

Here’s a short interview. He’s part of a gun industry related family and discusses changes, with some coming related to FFLs

https://www.guntalk.com/video-post/acting-u-s-attorney-general-talks-2a-changes-doj-plans

ATF Director asked what 2nd amendment says

Tue, 19 May 2026 01:04:46 +0000

MSM still don't get it: "Can a pro-hunting Democrat lead a blue wave in Iowa?"

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:34:35 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/rob-sand-iowa-democrat-midterm-election

‘Our democracy is run by two private clubs’: can a pro-hunting Democrat lead a blue wave in Iowa?

As Trump’s approval ratings dip and gas prices rise, Democrats see an opening with Rob Sand

Rob Sand, the best-known Democrat in Iowa, appears on podcasts to discuss his love of hunting, begins rallies by having the audience sing America the Beautiful and has a tendency to criticize the country’s two-party political system.

OP: The article is kind of a tease, "hunting" appears in the title, and once in the text, nowhere else does it say "gun" or "firearm", The UK press forgets history and that hunting has nothing to does with freedom.

For those who hate the Trump Administration...

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:06:44 +0000

I am not a Trump fanboy and do not agree with everything he and his team say and do but, since this is a Second Amendment related forum, can you please tell me which administration has ever given us something like this for the 2A? Or-- for those already taking a stand that they won't vote for any current Trump administration member in the future-- which candidate will demonstrate that the 2A is a civil right as much as this (as discussed by Harmeet Dhillon at the Shot Show in this interesting video)?

While I am perpetually disappointed with how much the 2A has been historically abused and by the slow pace of reclamation of our 2A rights, letting "perfect get in the way of good" is not how politics work in a Democratic Republic. If you believe that to be incorrect, who has done more for the 2A in your lifetime at a federal level or who is electable that will definitely do more?

We don't want to take the guns you use for hunting....

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:33:20 +0000

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6397200738112

We all knew this was BS, but here we are now and they want to ban all hunting and fishing, well then, no need to have guns to hunt with right? They added fishing on to that, but that'd just a BS narrative.

The gloves are off folks, and they have been for years, time to wake up and protect defend.

The quest for a firearm in NJ

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:34:38 +0000

Slate said:→
I don't think I actually wanted a gun. I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, where there was this saying: People with knives get stabbed. People with guns get shot. The conventional wisdom was that it was safer to be unarmed. If someone mugged you, just give them what you've got.

... I'm Arab. Muslim. ...

... But as I wrote about gun culture for Slate and thought about my own relationship with guns, I became curious to own one of my own.

So in 2020, I applied for a Firearm Purchaser Identification, a permit to purchase a firearm that is required in New Jersey. After fingerprints, references, application fees, and months of waiting, I was told over the phone that I had no choice but to withdraw my application. The issue was a misdemeanor trespassing charge in New York from my street-photographer days. Under New Jersey law, that should not have disqualified me from owning a gun. I had never been convicted of a felony. No domestic violence charges. No mental health issues. It didn't matter. The Newark Police Department's firearm permitting office told me my application was being withdrawn. They insisted they were doing me a favor, and that a denial would bar me from reapplying if I got my record expunged.

... An Afro-Cuban neighborhood friend I went to high school with in Newark told me he had applied for his own permit and received it in just two weeks. When I explained that I tried multiple times and was still waiting months after my latest application, he looked genuinely confused. Then he asked what race I'd listed on the paperwork. "Other," I told him. He burst out laughing. "You idiot," he said. "You're supposed to put white."
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The suspicion that race is factored into applications ... is difficult to prove from a single application. A long wait can always be explained away. With a system built out of individual decisions, each one becomes small enough to fall through any number of administrative cracks.
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Ben Shore, the co-founder and director of Rise Against Hate, a nonprofit that uses data to investigate racial disparities, wanted to know what those decisions looked like in aggregate. The problem was that when he began looking at New Jersey's public dashboard of firearm permit approvals and denials, he told me the dashboard did not make it easy to see race. ...

So Shore and volunteers at Rise Against Hate rebuilt the data themselves. "We had to actually take all the numbers from all the dashboards and create our own dashboards just to get down to the bottom of it," he said. What they found, he says, was alarming. In Ocean County, he told me, "a Black person is about 50 times more likely to be denied a permit to carry versus a white person." Statewide, he said, the disparity was roughly 10-to-1.
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These weren't people who were legitimately disqualified, either. "We're not talking about people who are committing criminal acts. We're talking about a law-abiding citizen, somebody with a clean criminal record, somebody who's never been convicted of a crime, someone who applies for their firearm ID card," he said. ...
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And even Shore's study, he said, did not fully capture the issue. It counted formal denials, not withdrawals, like mine in Newark. "We did not count the withdrawals in the study," he said, "but we do know that there are many withdrawals." Indeed, my own application had not been officially denied. It had been withdrawn after a police officer told me I could not proceed unless I first expunged a misdemeanor that should not have disqualified me.
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Earlier this year, lawmakers reintroduced legislation in Trenton that would require the state to publicly report firearm permit approvals and denials by race, ethnicity, and gender. Supporters argue the measure is necessary because existing public dashboards obscure patterns that civil-rights advocates and researchers say have become increasingly difficult to ignore.
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... Joe LoPorto, a libertarian journalist who has spent years around Second Amendment litigation, drafted the bill that was introduced by New Jersey state Rep. Dawn Fantasia [R] that would have local agencies track the racial makeup of approvals and denials for firearm permits.
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LoPorto's argument begins with the very first gun laws. "If we were to go back in time and we look at firearms regulation in 1791, or in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was passed, we don't really have a long history of regulating firearms, except for in 1791," he said. "If you were Black, you couldn't own a firearm. If you were a Catholic, you couldn't own a firearm. If you were a Native American, you couldn't own a firearm." ...

This, he says, is precisely why the modern Supreme Court cases that remade American gun law are so dangerous. He pointed to the Bruen case in 2022 that required modern gun regulations to be justified through the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. "By creating a system where the government has to go back and link its current regulation to some heritage of regulation," he said, "all we've got is racism."
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I should say that not everyone thinks the history here is so clear. Chris Rasmussen, a historian at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey who studies crime and punishment in America, was less willing to draw one straight line for every modern gun restriction back to racist intent. ...
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Still, he did not erase the racial question. Rasmussen compared the way gun laws are enforced to the war on drugs. "You couldn't write the law to say people of color should receive longer sentences for possessing drugs. But you could enforce the law very selectively. You could arrest more Black men, and you could have judges give harsher sentences to Black men," he said.

That felt closer to what happened to me in Newark. The statute did not explicitly forbid me from buying a gun. But in the space between the law and the person reviewing your permit application, everything is subject to one human's impression of another. My friend in Newark said he didn't think twice about listing himself as white on his application. "It's 2026," he joked. "Good luck telling anybody what race they are."

That leads me to a twist that unfolded as I reported this story. Six years after I first applied for a firearm permit in New Jersey, I finally received one a few weeks ago. (I didn't even have to check "white.") The application that succeeded was submitted in January. Four months later, an approval arrived digitally in my inbox, without explanation. I can now legally purchase as many rifles as I want, and a handgun.
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Maybe gun ownership will remain something symbolic for me, and I'll keep putting off actually buying one. For now, having the permit feels like enough. I waited six years for the state to decide if I was allowed to be the type of person who owns guns. I can wait a little longer before deciding whether I am.

LoPorto's assertion that Bruen ensconces racism as justification for gun control is disturbing. If anything, it does the opposite. The assertion echoes Jackson's misguided questioning during Wolford oral arguments.

ATF Registry of Guns and Owners?

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:56:28 +0000

Gun and owner registry? And we just thought Illinoisistan was violating that law.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/congress-suspects-atf-has-gun-registry-11-billion-records

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Authored by Aidan Johnston, Federal Affairs Director for Gun Owners of America,

A group of 27 members of Congress, led by Representative Michael Cloud of Texas are sounding the alarm on the expansion of ATF’s illegal registry of guns and gun owners.

According to a recently released letter, addressed to ATF Deputy Director Robert Cedaka, ATF has not responded to a previous inquiry regarding the expansion of the registry. These Congressmen are concerned that ATF may now have over a billion records in their registry.

Originally, in 2021, Gun Owners of America revealed that the ATF was “processing” over 54.7 million “out-of-business records” per year.

Following this revelation, a Congressional investigation was started. This investigation uncovered the shocking reality that ATF had over 920 million gunregistration records in a centralized, searchable, digital database- in total violation of federal law.

In 1986, Congress passed the Firearm Owners Protection Act, or FOPA. A portion of this act bans the federal government from ever keeping a searchable database of gun owners.

2A hope/trend in the Republican party

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:14:47 +0000

Like him or not, Mark Smith points out a positive by noting that most of 15 Republican U.S. Senator who were 2A traitors and voted with Democrats for gun control in 2022 are going or gone. Hopefully some others will see the light!

NY Times article may be cited in every legal challenge to semi-auto bans

Tue, 19 May 2026 15:35:04 +0000

https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/18/analysis-new-york-times-article-may-be-cited-legal-challenge-semi-auto-bans/

“The problem is that the Times article creates a few new hurdles for Schumer and other would-be gun banners. For starters, it acknowledges that the semiautomatic AK-style rifles were once “ubiquitous” – that’s a fancy Acela Corridor word for “common” – until the AR-15 established its dominance among the American civilian market, which creates a big problem for those who want to ban them.”

PLCAA Clarification Act

Wed, 13 May 2026 14:09:29 +0000

Yesterday, the Kentucky Secretary of State was at the ceremonial signing of the PLCAA Clarification Act. This video explains it in detail, but this bill is designed to prevent lawfare against gun companies just because their products were used in a crime. Kentucky is the third state to pass it after West Virginia and Montana. It would be great to get this passed in Illinois. Do we have a gun-friendly legislators we could talk to about passing this law here?

Airgun Ownership threats in NY, IL, and WA

Fri, 01 May 2026 16:38:02 +0000

They never quit coming after freedom, with similar language proposed to bills in all three states:

Airgun Ownership Threats In NY, IL And WA - Hard Air Magazine

As part of this bill, there is a definition of “imitation firearm”. That definition includes airguns and BB guns. Amazingly, this definition – and it’s exemption, bright colors, plugged barrels etc. – is remarkably similar to the wording used in the New York State.

Surely that must be a coincidence? Not…

The NRA is trying to help:

NRA-ILA | Running Out of Targets: New York Bills Go After Air, Pellet and BB Guns

ATF - (2026) Changes Rules, for the better?

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:59:42 +0000

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/major-victory-gun-owners-atf-unleashes-34-rule-reform-package-brace-rule-dead

Brace rule is dead?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-and-atf-announce-regulatory-reforms-reduce-burdens-law-abiding-gun-owners-and-businesses

I wonder if any of this will effect the centralized Iron fist of Illinoisistan?

Judge Roger "Saint" Benitez has retired.

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:02:46 +0000

EDIT: Reading the X thread. It looks like he retired a few days ago. This may be old news.

Trump’s 2027 Budget Proposal Seeks to End Biden-Era Gun Controls

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:25:17 +0000

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/04/03/president-trumps-2027-budget-proposal-seeks-end-biden-era-gun-controls/

Note that although the Breitbart article cites the document on Page 44, I find the text cited on Page 38.

President Trump’s 2027 Budget Proposal Seeks to End Biden-Era Gun Controls

AWR Hawkins 3 Apr 2026

President Donald J. Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal seeks to end numerous gun controls implemented by ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) during Joe Biden’s term in office.

Page 44 of the budget proposal contains the heading, “Protects the Constitutional Rights of American Citizens.”

Immediately after the heading, it says, “The Budget affirms the President’s commitment to definitively protect the Second Amendment and other constitutional rights of citizens.”

It states that protection of Second Amendment rights “includes investing $1.4 million for a new office within the Civil Rights Division solely dedicated to protecting Second Amendment rights from unlawful infringement on the right to bear arms and pursuing cases to definitively enshrine those rights in perpetuity…”

The Biden-era gun controls come into view about halfway through the paragraph, where it says:

The Budget continues to support the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) efforts to reverse regulations imposed by prior administrations that have effectively criminalized law-abiding gun ownership. The previous administration used the ATF to attack gun-owning Americans and undermine the Second Amendment by: requiring near-universal background checks; subjecting otherwise lawful gun owners to up to 10 years in prison for failing to register pistol braces that make it possible for disabled veterans to use firearms; the imposition of excessive restrictions on homemade firearms; and the revocation of Federal Firearms Licenses.

Gun Owners of America said the budget “affirms Trump’s pro-2A agenda.”

Trump budget_fy2027.pdf

War Dept to allow soldiers to carry personal weapons on post !!

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:36:20 +0000

Love this Administration !!

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6392467041112

USPS Handgun Shipping Allowed

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:03:15 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/live/aQF7rk000UY?si=JSU5uD80PqxBAGdG

AZ Women GOP Legislators are GO

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:30:02 +0000

https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/article_a6a5e6ec-8bbe-402e-bb03-df82e2f57595.html

Arizona legislators promote new gun rights and safety bills

(The Center Square) - Women supporting gun rights and safety - self-described “warrior women” - spoke in favor of three new Arizona bills Thursday morning during a news conference in Phoenix.

“I want to be very, very clear. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a promise carved in stone: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” state Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, told reporters as she discussed Senate Bill 1012, her legislation to remove unnecessary notification requirements for gun owners.

Virginia modern firearm ban - copy of Illinoistan’s?

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:32:42 +0000

Democrats unable to come up with their own original thoughts, unless it’s party line clap trap, appear to be enacting the Illinoisistan modern firearms ban.
I don’t think they went full Retardant and called for a gun registry, yet.

https://www.ammoland.com/2026/03/virginia-assault-firearms-ban-sb749-passes-legislature/

the bill.

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB749

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/03/10/virginia-democrats-approve-assault-firearm-ban-n1231816

(where have we heard this before…. Kinda like “If you like firearms, you can keep your firearms.)

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"We are simply saying, if you had it, you can keep it, but going forward, you simply cannot purchase them," said state Sen. Saddam Salim (D-Fairfax), the bill's sponsor.

Salim said the bill allows for owners of those transfer the weapons if they no longer want them, such as selling them to a licensed firearms dealer or someone outside of Virginia who is legally allowed to possess one. It will also allow those firearms to be inherited by an immediate family member (which is described in the legislation as "a spouse, children, parents, grandparents, and siblings").

The bill also exempts certain groups from the restrictions including groups like law enforcement and security at federal facilities.

Murder and manslaughter conviction for parent of 2024 school shooter

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:39:07 +0000

CNN said:→
The father of the teenager who allegedly killed four people at his Georgia high school in 2024 is set to stand trial on murder and manslaughter charges in the latest case testing the limits of who is responsible for a school shooting.

Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, has pleaded not guilty to nearly 30 charges, including two counts each of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

The case stems from the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, when then-14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly used an AR15-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers and injure nine¹ others. He ultimately surrendered to police and has admitted to the shooting, according to authorities.

More than a year earlier, law enforcement had questioned the teen and father about "online threats to commit a school shooting," though no charges were filed, authorities said. Even so, Colin Gray bought a firearm for his son as a Christmas present in December 2023 -- the same firearm he used in the mass shooting, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The indictment alleges Gray allowed his teenage son access to a firearm and ammunition after receiving "sufficient warning" that his son would harm and endanger others, actions that constitute "criminal negligence" by "consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk."
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Colin Gray has remained behind bars since his arrest a day after the shooting. If convicted, he faces 10 to 30 years in prison on each murder charge and 1 to 10 years on each manslaughter charge.

The trial is set to begin with jury selection [February 9] and is expected to last about three weeks.

Colt Gray, now 16, has been indicted on 55 felony counts, including four counts of malice murder, and will be tried as an adult, according to court documents. He has pleaded not guilty, although a defense attorney last year raised the possibility he may change his plea. A trial date has not been set.
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Colt Gray had been questioned by law enforcement in May 2023 regarding "several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time," according to a joint statement from FBI Atlanta and the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. The online threats included photographs of guns, according to the statement.

The teen and his father were interviewed by the county sheriff's office, and Colt Gray denied making the threats online, the statement said. Jackson County alerted local schools to continue monitoring the issue, but law enforcement did not have probable cause to arrest or take other actions, according to the statement.
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¹actually seven others wounded, 11 total shot

AP News said:→
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Colin Gray faces 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter and numerous counts of second-degree cruelty to children related to the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. ....

An indictment says Gray committed cruelty to children by giving his son, Colt, access to a gun and ammunition "after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily safety of another." Second-degree murder, an unusual charge under Georgia law, is defined as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children.
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Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors have said. A GBI agent testified that the teen's parents had discussed their son's fascination with school shooters but decided that it was in a joking context and not a serious issue.

Colin Gray was also aware his son's mental health had deteriorated, investigators testified. Seeking help from a counseling service weeks before the shooting, he wrote about his son: "We have had a very difficult past couple of years and he needs help. Anger, anxiety, quick to be volatile. I don't know what to do."
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"Cruelty to children" seems more like a political statement than an accurate charge.

New Bill for National Permitless Conceal Carry

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:23:23 +0000

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is pushing nationwide constitutional carry for firearms, a move that would eliminate concealed carry permits, fees and criminal penalties for people who want to carry a firearm in public.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-lee-unveils-national-constitutional-carry-bill-override-hostile-state-gun-laws

West Virginia bill to transfer machine guns to citizens.

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:01:31 +0000

This is an interesting concept.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/west-virginia-introduces-bill-sell-machine-guns-american-citizens

We need more states making antis throw themselves on the floor and throwing tantrums..

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State Legislators in West Virginia have just introduced a bill, authored by Gun Owners of America, that would authorize the State to sell machineguns to citizens.

Currently, newly manufactured machineguns are banned for civilian ownership thanks to an amendment slipped into the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act.
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Interestingly, though, the language of the Hughes Amendment specifies that the machinegun ban doesn’t apply to the government, which includes state and local governments.

Specifically, 18 USC Section 922(o) reads:

This subsection does not apply with respect to—

a transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of, the United States or any department or agency thereof or a State, or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof.

Well, we at Gun Owners of America had a thought. What if the States wanted to sell machineguns to their citizens—that is, what if they were to engage in a “transfer ... by ... a State”?

That certainly would comport with the historical tradition in the United States, where governments have sold military arms to the civilian populace since the Founding. And, of course, arming civilians with machineguns aligns with the prefatory clause of the Second Amendment, which reads:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.”

What could be a better and more of a “well regulated Militia” than a citizenry armed with machineguns?

According to 922(o), a state government may lawfully “transfer”—that is, sell, give, loan, etc.—machineguns to ordinary citizens. And after the transfer is complete, those citizens may lawfully possess them, so long as the transfer was made by the State government.