"For the second time in <checks notes> three days, Texas is filing a nationwide lawsuit challenging a Biden administration policy in the Amarillo Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas—where it has a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Kacsmaryk."
-S Vladeck
"ABHORRENT: Against the will of the people—including survivors of The Covenant School shooting in Nashville—Tennessee lawmakers just passed a dangerous bill to allow teachers to carry guns in schools. What’s worse: Parents will not be notified if their child’s teacher is armed."
-Moms Demand Action
"Tennessee remains the arena of one of the fiercest debates over gun policy nationwide."
#TFG & Republicans attract abhorrent people to their party:
"A Trump county chair in New Hampshire is a former cop who threatened to kill his colleagues in shooting spree, murder his chief and rape the chief's wife because the department suspended him 5 days for his relationship with a high school girl."
Profits off the "sick gun🔫culture" & promotes racism:
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped"
the media misses the story of cos. seeking profits by keeping traumatized vets armed & enraged.
Black Rifle: infamous when investigators sought to ID the #J6 fugitive: “Zip Tie Guy" -ID'ed by his Black Rifle cap. Rittenhouse was photographed in a Black Rifle tee after bailing out of jail for fatally shooting a BLM demonstrator & they sell a coffee called “Thin Blue Line.”
SC Gov. signed the "permitless carry" bill into law. A Senate proposal to provide millions$ for free gun training across the state needed to get a concealed weapons permit was part of what cleared the way.
🚨Some LE leaders were lukewarm or against the bill, saying -worried about their officers encountering armed people at shooting scenes having to make a split-second assessment about who's a threat & who is trying to help & a lack of required training-.
R HSE bill is likely dead in the Senate, Sen Murphy:
"I have some bad news -buried in the appr. bill being voted on this week is a terrible new gun policy rider -significantly rolls back the firearms background✔️system -bad enough that I'll vote agst: entire bill. Rs (+1 or 2 Ds) pushed for the new rider that allows, for the 1st time in 30 yrs, vets judged by the VA to be mentally incompetent to buy guns. These are very mentally ill veterans -those at the highest risk of suicide." #ItsTheGuns
The "good" guys with guns🔫 imperil the public. If they're not responsible, then...
Texas🚨: 2 security guards have been let go from their contracted positions with Fort Bend ISD after incidents where they left firearms unattended at elementary schools. 1 guard left their handgun in a staff bathroom at Sullivan Elem. in Jan -another left their gun holstered in a “duty belt” in an empty classroom... Employees intervened before any students handled the weapons.
"The Hawaii Supreme Court says its state constitution does NOT protect an individual right to bear arms.
Justice Eddins' majority opinion also sharply criticizes SCOTUS' decisions in Heller and Bruen as calamitously wrong from top to bottom."
-Mark J Stern
FL's GOP leaders are competing with other red🩸state officials as to who's more evil:
"Every single FL Republican in this state HSE CMTE voted to give 18-yr-olds AR-15s & repeal the law they passed after Parkland. Every Democrat OPPOSED.
That's what the FL GOP is now-- a bunch of hard-right extremists following DeSantis off a cliff."
-CG Smith
HSE Bill 1223, if passed, would reverse part of a law enacted after the mass shooting at MSD HS.
US gun companies may finally be held liable for the carnage they've wreaked:
"The Mexican government wins their appeal in US court & is able to proceed with the lawsuit against US gun companies for supplying weapons to cartels that fuels the bloodshed south of the border.
Impt. legal step, but more court battles to come. For background on the Iron River of guns being trafficked over the US border & the MX govt lawsuit agst. US gun cos."
-I Grillo
As long as Republicans are in charge of much of the nation, gun reform won't be addressed. More innocents will die, their loved ones will suffer, & America loses. Another tragedy because of gun violence:
An active shooter at another one of America's schools today. Multiple victims have been reported at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa.
Republicans will kill us by any means possible to achieve their end. GOP appointed judges are doing a lot of their dirty work:
Fed court blocks most of CA's new sensitive place law: The #2A doesn't allow keeping guns out of hospitals, playgrounds...
"Congratulations, Californians: A federal judge says you can finally bring your guns to playgrounds, banks, zoos, & the parking lots of nuclear sites—just as the Framers intended."
-Mark J Stern
House Republicans’ solution to curtail gun violence: “If democrats have their way, we will live in a world where 18, 19 and 20 year-olds can be drafted to defend the country but cannot legally acquire the means to defend themselves or their families.
This is immoral and unconstitutional. I've introduced HR 6782 to repeal this law.” -Rep Thomas Massie
Illinois families can sleep a little better tonight:
SCOTUS refuses to halt Illinois's assault weapons ban from being enforced during litigation. The are no noted dissents. The Seventh Circuit upheld the law last month, as reported at Law Dork.
-Chris Geidner
There's no guarantee employees check if the customer returned/rules for how long to keep those notes or for maintaining what to “be on the lookout” list/system to spot problem customers.
>60K retail stores/pawn shops sell firearms in the US. There's weakness in the govt safeguards designed to keep guns from slipping into illicit markets & into the hands of criminals. ATF oversees gun retailers, expects licensed owners to act as the 1st line of defense-.
There’s a firearms dealer within a 10-minute drive of 88% of the U.S. pop., & layers of regs have not stemmed the flow of guns to criminals. For 10 yrs., the# of guns recovered & traced annually has steadily⬆️-moving more quickly from store shelves to crime scenes. UT: “It’s easier for a teenager to get a gun than alcohol in this state." Rep Crow reintroduced a bill: require firearms dealers to undergo training every 2 yrs -stalled for 3 yrs.
Republicans are largely responsible for the record mass shootings. They won't do anything to thwart gun violence, that'd save lives💔. They've indoctrinated their voters to believe that Dems want to take away their guns, lie about💙cities...
The US just set a grim record for mass shootings & deaths in a single year. Fatal shootings this weekend in TX & WA pushed the nation to 38 mass killings with a gun this year -highest since at least 2006.