By Mirya Holman, Tulane University and Emily Farris, Texas Christian University A gun control law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois in January 2023 immediately faced opposition from a group key to the law’s enforcement: sheriffs. They are county-level, locally elected public officials who run jails, provide courthouse security, and, in many counties, are … Read more
Call it the newest “defund the police” movement. Much like the White House is now “keeping an eye” on the outbreak of free speech on Twitter, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy — one of the loudest opponents of Second Amendment rights in the federal government — announced that Democrats will have to “have a conversation” about … Read more
The Alabama Legislature Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would attempt to nullify executive presidential orders on guns. The bill, SB 2, sponsored by Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, passed the Alabama House of Representatives 68 to 28 after it amended the bill on the floor. The Senate concurred in the changes on a 23 … Read more
As Democrats in Washington, D.C. continue to push their anti-gun legislation, states and counties have been fighting back. Local and state officials throughout the nation have passed Second Amendment sanctuary legislation, effectively declaring that state and federal gun control laws would not be enforced in their jurisdiction. Two counties in Oregon – Harney and Yamhill … Read more
By Emily Taylor The number of states declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries is on the rise. This means a question asked with increasing frequency is coming to the forefront: Is the decision to make states “sanctuaries” legally binding, or does it only lip service to the gun rights community at large? Before we get into … Read more
By Lee Williams The allegations in the press release were damning: “The Department of Justice today announced that six men have been arrested and charged federally with conspiring to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.” “These alleged extremists undertook a plot to kidnap a sitting governor,” Assistant Special Agent in Charge Josh P. Hauxhurst … Read more
By the Associated Press Officials in the city of Tucson plan to ignore Arizona’s new “Second Amendment sanctuary” law that bars state and local governments from enforcing certain federal gun regulations, possibly setting up a court fight as a growing number of cities and counties in the United States declare themselves similar firearm havens. The … Read more
When state and local officials decline to help enforce federal firearm rules they view as unconstitutional, The ‘New York Times’ says, they are adopting “a legally shaky but politically potent strategy” with racist roots. But when state and local officials decline to help enforce federal immigration rules they view as “unjust, self-defeating and harmful to public safety,” … Read more
By Lee Williams All it takes is the stroke of a pen – one pen to be precise. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs HB 2622 into law, which he’s expected to do any moment, more than half of the country will become a Second Amendment sanctuary. According to Noah Davis of sanctuarycounties.com and its … Read more
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