• B.L.U.F. A win in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Case challenging the MA handgun roster.

    The FPC scored a win in a notoriously anti-gun rights First Circuit Court of Appeals. They heard oral arguments on the Tuesday the 4th and vacated the district court’s opinion yesterday, Friday 2023-04-07.

    The case was first decided in May of 2022, before Bruen and we see the same standard path. The court first said that it assumed without deciding that the conduct was protected by the Second Amendment.

    At that point the District Court moved on to decide the level of scrutiny required. Being the district court of Massachusetts of course the court decided to use intermediate scrutiny which of course allowed them to find the infringement “constitutional”

    The date of dismissal is sort of interesting, it looks almost as if the court was rushing to get its decision out before the Bruen decision was published.

    The FPC appealed to the First Circuit Court on June 15th, 2022. This was still before Bruen.

    The Circuit Court had all of the documents in place by middle of July, less than a month after the District Court’s decision.
    It wasn’t until August that a briefing schedule was set.

    Another interesting case to follow because it shows just how many cases are being overturned due to Bruen

            

  • Welcome to another Friday!

    This has been a week of finding interesting 2A cases that are all moving in the right direction. It has been a week of listening to the left scream about banning guns for reasons. It has been a week of accomplishing new things with a new project.

    I’ve started to put pictures on the postings, I’m working with Hagar to get slightly different. Anything you don’t like about those images, blame me. If you like it, praise her. If you want to send in your own article headers for me to use, please send it to our email and include a statement that you own the copyright and that you give us permission to use it on this blog.

    If you have any feedback on the formatting of the long articles, let me know. If you have suggestions for article formatting, let us know.

    Don’t forget to give praise to J.Kb. if you liked his Sci-Fi writings.

    The Firearms Policy Coalition has a list of cases they are following. I am not interested in going through that entire list to figure out what is interesting or not. If you are interested, please look it over and let me know what cases you would like my to look at.

    If you don’t get around to it on today’s feedback, send me email at AWA(at)troglodite.com. When identifying a case please give me the name and the court.

    Gun Case Tracker by FPC & 2Aupdates

    I have another picture article I’m working on for next week. Hagar is working articles. I’m looking forward to a productive weekend and coming week.

    Let us know what you are thinking about or topics you would like us to cover.

            

  • B.L.U.F. Those scary ammosexuals want to go bang fast but that’s scary because going bang fast is scary. So let’s ban scary bump stocks and get taken to the Supreme Court for infringing on the core civil rights of The People

    The question

    This case is not a second amendment case though it is a constitutional case that impacts us. Mr. Cargill (good guy) is sueing to overturn the ATF’s bump stock ban. He is asking the court to determine if:

    1. Did the ATF violate Article I, §§ 1,7 and Article II §3 by amending congressionally approved statutes
    2. Did the ATF violate Article I §1 and Article II § 3 non-divestment
    3. Did the ATF violate Article I §1 and Article II § 3 separation of powers
    4. Did the ATF violate Article I §1 because they did not have the constitutional authority to ban bump stocks
    5. Did the ATF violate the Administrative Procedure ACT 5 U.S.C. §§ 706(2)(A),(C) by exceeding their statutory authority
    6. Did the ATF violate the Administrative Procedure ACT, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A) by making an arbitrary and capricious rule

    This was case was filed on March 25, 2019.

    What this comes down to is that Mr. Cargill is asking to court to find the final rule banning bump stocks to be enjoined because the ATF did not have the authority to make that rule the way they did.

    Cargill demanded a trial by jury but it looks like only a bench trial was granted.

    District Court Findings

    (more…)

            


  • Last year the people of Oregon, by a bare majority, voted in a truck load of infringements. These included permit to purchase, gun registries, magazine bans, and many other Bruen FU’s.

    This was Measure 114. The measure was so bad that even the political class didn’t want it to go into effect immediately.

    It did.

    Having gone into effect, it was challenged. Because it was a direct infringement case the suit was filed in the federal district court of Oregon. In one of the first cases, Oregon Firearms Federation, Inc. v. Brown (2:22-cv-01815) the district court first denied the motion for a TRO and for a Preliminary Injunction.

    The plaintiffs(Good Guys) appealed the District Court’s decision to the Ninth Circus court. This appeal was withdrawn by the plaintiffs.

    A number of other cases where joined with this as the lead case.

    While all of this was going on in the district court, another case was filed in state court. That state court found FOR the plaintiffs(good guys) and enjoined part of Measure 114. The state appealed to the state supreme court which declined to hear the case.

    What this means is that all or part of Measure 114 is enjoined from being enforced. It is stopped.

    Of course the state can’t have a lose on any infringement.

    They decided to “moot” the cases currently in district court. There are things that the legislature can do which will allow them to claim that the dispute before the court no longer exists.

    If the cases reference Measure 114 then if it becomes a bill/regulation it might moot. If some of the wording changes, it might moot the cases.

    This is exactly what the legislature in Oregon is doing:

    SB 348 sets out a procedure to apply for a permit to buy a gun and requires state police to complete a background check before a gun can be sold or transferred to a permit holder, starting July 1, 2024. It also would ban the sale or purchase of magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition, except for use by military or law enforcement officers. The large-capacity ammunition ban would become effective on the date the bill is signed into law if approved.

    The bill goes further than Measure 114 by also raising the age for gun buyers, increasing the waiting period to obtain a gun and increasing the fees to obtain a gun permit.
    — Legal challenges to state gun control bill would be restricted to Marion County, new amendment says

    There are more infringements but they threw in this kicker:

    A last-minute amendment to a state gun control bill that largely mimics voter-approved Measure 114 would restrict future legal challenges to the bill to Marion County Circuit Court.

    The move is aimed at avoiding so-called “forum shopping,” the practice of pursuing a legal claim in a court that is likely to treat it most favorably.
    — Id.

    The state calls it “forum shopping” if you are filing the case in your home county. The state isn’t “forum” shopping when they pick the state court where challenges must be filed.

    There are a number of things going on in these cases, hopefully we’ll see some good progress soon.

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  • Watching the lies coming out of all of the infringers made me think of “that song about liars”

    Not about lying but still.

            

  • It has been a long week of reading lots and lots of court documents. Hopefully useful to you all. Managed to find a bug in the site I used. Sent in an error report and made sure the documents I had paid for were properly uploaded. Made an off hand request for a feature and the lead developer said “Feel free to add it”. It was very nicely done.

    So I’ve completed my first contribution to his project. I have more to do but it is a start.

    Regardless, I just don’t have the energy to read and analyze another case right now so you all get a link dump. Enjoy.

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    This is what real “gun safety” looks like.  Encouraging people to buy and use gun safes.

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    The state legislature has gone as far as inserting language into the bill to require that any suit filed must be brought in Marion County.  This is to keep anybody from challenging in red counties.  Marion County is very very left leaning.

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    Amazing how they took that photo designed to show just how small the protest is.  Compared to watching them bunch Moms Demand into a tight tight cluster to make it look like a larger protest.

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  • We were asked “Why don’t we see juries involved in all of these Second Amendment cases? The simple answer is “they are not needed”. Read on for why.

    Court cases are decided in two different ways, on the merits of the case, and procedurally.

    Consider the question “Does the District of Columbia’s restriction on having a functional firearm within the home violate the Second Amendment?”

    Prior to 2008 many courts were using the collective right interpretation of the Second Amendment. With this in mind the most of these cases were dismissed for procedural reason. I.e. if you were not the militia challenging the restriction you did not have standing. Standing is a procedural issue.

    Cases that are decided on a procedural basis can be brought up again once the procedural issue is corrected.
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  • Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the United States District Court Southern District of California has granted a Preliminary Injunction against California’s Unsafe Handgun act.

    He enjoined the chamber loaded indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, microstamping, and three-for-one removal provisions.

    The judge then stayed the injunction pending appeal or further hearing on the matter.

    It is highly likely that this case and Boland will be combined at the Ninth Circuit Court.

    We keep winning. The infringers are losing ground constantly. We are going to win, it just takes time.

    Case 3:20-cv-02190-DMS-DEB

            

  • On 2023-03-31 United States District Judge Katherine Menendez issued summary judgement for the plaintiffs(good guys) allowing young adults to receive government permission to carry handguns in Minnesota.

    The State of Minnesota requires a person to obtain a permit to lawfully carry a handgun in public, but does not issue permits to anyone under the age of twenty-one. The Plaintiffs, who are 18-to-20-year-old individuals and firearms advocacy organizations with members in that age range, argue that the minimum age requirement in Minnesota’s permit-to-carry law violates their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The parties have filed cross-motions for summary judgment. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), compels the conclusion that Minnesota’s permitting age restriction is unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
    — Summary Judgement and Opinion 0:21-cv-01348 District Court of Minnesota

    The state claimed Minnesota’s permit to carry statute is facially constitutional as a matter of law. — Memorandum in support for Summary Judgement for the defendants at P. 14. They get their claim by contending that the Supreme Court has approved infringing on the rights of 18-20 year olds.
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  • The Ninth Circus Court three judge panel has again displayed its dislike for the rights of The People by staying the district courts preliminary injunction against the state.

    The District Court found that the plaintiffs(good guys) were likely to succeed on the merits and had all the other requirements to be granted a preliminary injunction. In order to keep things from yo-yoing the court put a 14 day stay in order for the state to appeal to the Ninth Circus Court.

    The preliminary injunction is stayed as to the chamber load indicator and magazine disconnect mechanism requirements of California’s Unsafe Handgun Act. — Order of the Ninth Circuit Court

    The Ninth Circus Court is ordering opening brief by April 28, 2023 (bad guys). Answering brief by May 26, 2023 from the good guys. And the reply from the bad guys within 21 days of the answering brief being filed.

    This means that the Ninth Circus will not hear the case until at least June, likely longer. In the meantime only the microstamp requirement is enjoined.

    Hagar says I shouldn’t call people names, it makes me smaller. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has earned the title “Ninth Circus Court”. At one point I read that by percentages or absolutes, I don’t remember which, more of the Ninth’s cases have been overturned at the Supreme Court than any other Appellate Court.

    Normally I just let one “circus” slip through, the these three dunces have earned not only dunce caps, but clown noses as well.