A 43-year-old California business owner was arrested after an alleged murder plot against one of his own employees was foiled by a gun jam. The incident occurred in Half Moon Bay, a small coastal city just south of San Francisco. Authorities say Thomas Azevedo, owner of Azevedo Feed, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder … Read more
CRPA is supporting a lawsuit challenging California’s ban on suppressors, Sanchez v. Bonta. The lawsuit, started by a pro se litigant and is now in the Ninth Circuit will decide the critical question of whether suppressors are “arms” and thus subject to the full historical analysis laid out in Heller and Bruen. This case has far-reaching implications to several … Read more
A U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has issued a preliminary injunction requiring California to accept concealed carry permit applications from nonresidents. The decision marks a notable breakthrough in the neverending legal battles over the state’s restrictive concealed carry and other antigun policies. The case, CRPA v. LASD, was spearheaded by the … Read more
Colorado has joined California in taxing Americans’ Second Amendment rights with its new voter-approved gun initiative. While proposals for similar taxes have ignorantly claimed they mean to reduce gun violence, this new Centennial State measure is unique in that it confesses upfront to being a revenue-generating scheme, using victim services as an “ends justify the … Read more
Have you ever been so “hangry” that, even with food in hand, you’d threaten lethal force over some missing french fries? Most of us haven’t, but in a land of fruits and nuts, anything is possible. That’s exactly what happened in a Northern California McDonald’s earlier this month as a mother put on a poor … Read more
California became the first state to enact medical marijuana legislation in 1996 with the Compassionate Use Act, followed in the next four years by Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Maine, Hawaii, Nevada and Colorado. Ultimately, this led to Colorado being the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2014. Since then, many states have shifted … Read more
How on earth does a 2-year-old get a hold of a loaded gun? Ask 18-year-old Andrew Sanchez of Fresno, California, whose firearm somehow ended up in the hands of a child, resulting in the death of a 22-year-old mother. Sanchez was arrested inside the couple’s apartment after the toddler discharged the unsecured firearm, fatally wounding … Read more
The United States Department of Justice has announced the arrest of an illegal Chinese National on a criminal complaint alleging that he exported shipments of firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea. According to the DOJ, the items were concealed inside shipping containers bound from Long Beach. Shenghua Wen, 41, a Chinese national illegally … Read more
The battle against California’s oppressive gun show laws might just be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court—that is if the pro-freedom Second Amendment Foundation has anything to do with it. The case revolves around the California law prohibiting gun shows on public property, which SAF argues violates both the First and Second Amendment rights of … Read more
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