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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
4 Men NOT Guilty in Bogus Gun Charges Case in Gloucester County, VA - Ammoland.com
Gloucester County, VA – In a case that many believe should never have been prosecuted, a jury in Gloucester County found four men NOT GUILTY of carrying firearms on school property. This verdict highlights what some see as an unjust legal battle driven by political motivations and demonstrates how “the process is the punishment.”
The four men, Trevor Herrin, Derek Coblentz, Christopher Cordasco, and Antonio Hernandez, were charged after attending a school board meeting at the T.C. Walker Education Center on July 11, 2023. They carried concealed firearms into the meeting, which was held off school grounds as defined by Virginia law.
Despite this, they were prosecuted under the accusation of carrying guns onto school property.
Gloucester County Commonwealth’s Attorney John T. Dusewicz, a Republican, pushed forward with the charges, asserting the importance of keeping guns out of schools.
However, the jury saw it differently, taking just over an hour to acquit the men. The quick verdict underscored the weak basis of the prosecution’s case.
Trevor Herrin, who faced an additional misdemeanor charge for carrying a concealed weapon with an expired permit, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for that offense. His defense and that of his co-defendants rested on the fact that the meeting was not held during the operational hours of the Head Start program located in the building, which was closed for the summer.
Click the link to read the whole article: 4 Men NOT Guilty in Bogus Gun Charges
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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Sunday, July 28, 2024
This WWII Veteran Needs Your Help! - Guitar Max
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Jul 28, 2024
I know... I'm not talking about guitars today, but I am instead talking about something even more important! My friend, and World War 2 veteran Ethel Margolin will be celebrating her 102nd birthday coming up in September. Unfortunately, she is in need of some expensive medical care and her family is asking for donations to help cover the costs of the in-home care that this hero needs and deserves. Please help if you can.
Gofundme link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-beloved-wwii-veteran-grandma-get-care
Article about Ethel: https://www.dailynews.com/2023/07/28/never-lose-your-humor-or-your-pitching-arm-says-101-year-old-ethel-margolin/
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Treasury Dept. Claims Florida’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Law A Threat to National Security - Ammoland.com
The Treasury Department’s latest accusation against laws protecting Americans and American businesses against “woke” discrimination would be absurd if it wasn’t so serious.
Treasury officials – the same ones that illegally spied-and-lied on law-abiding Americans purchasing firearms and ammunition – are warning that laws like Florida’s HB 3 are a threat to national security. That’s the law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed that prevents “woke” corporations with discriminatory policies against firearm industry members and other businesses from collecting taxpayer dollars through state contracts and pensions. He followed that up by signing HB 989, that creates a complaint process for customers who feel they’ve been politically discriminated against by financial institutions.
Now, Treasury officials are warning that it could limit their efforts to track and prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. The Treasury Department didn’t make mention of other states with similar laws, including Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana or South Dakota.
Financial Discrimination
These are efforts NSSF has backed through the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination (FIND) Act. Those are a series of state laws that say corporations that discriminate against firearm-related businesses solely because they are in the business of selling firearms, ammunition or firearm accessories are ineligible to receive taxpayer funded contracts. There is pending legislation in Congress too. U.S. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced the NSSF-supported FIND Act as S. 428 and U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) introduced similar legislation, H.R. 53, under the same name.
The Treasury Department’s warning claimed that Florida’s law increases “the risk that international drug traffickers, transnational organized criminals, terrorists, and corrupt foreign officials will use the U.S. financial system to launder money, evade sanctions, and threaten our national security.”
Click the link to read the whole article: Treasury Claims Fla’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Law Threat to National Security
Wisconsin DNR Agrees To Repeal Unconstitutional Gun Ban Near Water - Ammoland.com
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has secured repeal of the unconstitutional law banning possession of firearms near almost all waters in Wisconsin.
In 1999, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) created a rule banning the possession of firearms near “waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.” The regulation was created with virtually no oversight shortly after Wisconsin passed Section 25, Wisconsin’s constitutional protection for the right to keep and bear arms. The regulation was seldom, if ever, enforced.
Due to a quirk in Wisconsin statutes, no one had to be arrested to challenge the regulation. Wisconsin statutes require a legal challenge to a regulation’s legitimacy to be filed before a person is arrested under the challenged rule. This seems an inversion of ordinary procedure for “standing” under the law. However, the Wisconsin statutory procedure is clear. In this case it facilitated the challenge to the unconstitutional regulation.
On June 6, 2024, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit demanding the Court permanently enjoin enforcement of the offending code, § NR 20.05(2). The Acting Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had 45 days to respond to the summons created as part of the legal challenge. By this correspondent’s count, the deadline was July 22, 2024.
Click the link to read the whole article: Wisconsin DNR To Repeal Unconstitutional Ban
Friday, July 26, 2024
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Loses in Court Over It Delaying Gun Purchases - Ammoland.com
Florida Carry’s recent legal victory will benefit every law-abiding Floridian seeking to purchase a firearm.
The Florida Carry, Inc., is proud to announce a major court victory against the administrative state in Florida. This victory will benefit every law-abiding Floridian who wants to purchase a gun. The case, Pretzer v. FDLE, was decided last week by the First District Court of Appeals.
Florida Carry General Counsel Eric J. Friday of Kingry & Friday, PLLC, in Jacksonville, with substantial assistance from U.S. Law Shield, brought the lawsuit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and director Rick Swearingen, who Mark Glass later succeeded.
“The case was filed to challenge their creation of a decision-pending response,” Friday said. “People had been waiting months to have a decision rendered by FDLE on a firearm purchase.”
When the case was originally filed, five plaintiffs had waited from one to eight months. Once FDLE was served, Friday said, the plaintiffs were all cleared within 48 hours of being named in the suit.
“They had the ability to clear them,” Friday said. “They just weren’t doing it.”
Click the link to read the whole article: Florida Department of Law Enforcement Loses
FOIA Request Issued to USPS to Determine Cause of Special AR-15 Delivery Delay - Ammoland.com
A Freedom of Information Act Request was sent to the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General Tuesday by this correspondent via Return Receipt mail. The purpose is “to request information about a presumed investigation conducted after the U.S. Postal Inspector Service was notified about a shipment delayed in transit.”
Regular readers will recall remember the time Len Savage, president of Historic Arms LLC, sent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) unassembled parts for an evaluation and they assembled it into an unmarked Short Barrel Rifle (SBR) with a brace in what looked suspiciously like an entrapment – after a four and ½ year wait. It took the Bureau so long to respond that the return postage Savage had originally included was no longer sufficient, as it had been raised twice.
We’ve been friends for a long time and in gratitude for my support over the years, including on AmmoLand and Firearms News, and much to my delighted surprise, Savage decided I should have the gun. It’s important to make this disclosure lest anyone challenges my motives or journalistic ethics. If they were compromised, I wouldn’t have mentioned this.
Savage shipped the rifle (now with a 16″ barrel) to my local Federal Firearms Licensee on July 2. It was estimated on the receipt to be delivered July 6. It was not. Every day thereafter I checked the tracking number, a couple times a day, and it was always still “in transit.”
Click the link to read the whole article: FOIA Request Issued to USPS
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Shooting an original M1841 Mississippi rifle with its original cartridges - capandball
Headpins - Head Over Heels
This album, man I just found this album again after YEARS of looking. I had forgotten about it until I found "You're Still the One" earlier. So a little more searching and here is the album. I hope you enjoy it. I know I am going to be enjoying it immensely.
Headpins - You're Still The One
A band from my youth in the 1980's. Until I was looking for something completely different and rediscovered their music on YouTube, which I had never thought would have a small band from Canada.