Columbus, OH

El Paso, TX

Reuters

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a pot-smoking gun owner in Texas cannot be prosecuted for violating a federal ban on users of illegal drugs owning firearms, saying it is unconstitutional to disarm her based on her past drug habits.

Marijuana user cannot be banned from gun ownership, US court rules

California State

A resurfaced video shows that Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris supported police going door-to-door and seizing firearms from individuals on state lists of prohibited gun owners and people considered a danger to themselves and to others. According to The Washington Times, Harris outlined her position on...

Video: VP Harris supported sending cops to seize guns from ‘lists’ of gun owners

Maryland State

Fox News

Second Amendment groups are calling on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland's semiautomatic rifle ban, after a circuit court upheld it this month.

Gun rights groups ask Supreme Court to rule on sweeping Maryland firearm ban lower bench upheld

HuffPost

Gun rights groups have repeatedly challenged the constitutionality of assault weapons bans. They keep losing.

Gun Rights Groups Keep Challenging A Blue State Phenomenon — And They Keep Losing

Kansas State

On Wednesday, a Trump judge in Kansas ruled that the Second Amendment invalidates criminal charges against a defendant charged with illegally possessing a machine gun. The case is United States v. Morgan. Judge John Broomes’s decision in Morgan is obviously wrong, even under the Supreme Court’s most aggressively pro-gun opinion,...

A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns

Iowa State

Nebraska State

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Nine states have filed a lawsuit this week to stop President Joe Biden's executive order concerning federal workers and voter registration.
                The states say that the federal bureaucracy is inserting itself into state electoral systems and the voter registration process without the scrutiny of a public comment period.
                Mississippi, Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota filed a complaint in the...

Nine states file lawsuit to stop Biden voter registration executive order

NewsNation

The nation’s highest court is always a hot-button issue, but it is taking on added importance as Harris has become the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

Supreme Court injected into Trump-Harris race

Maine State

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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Georgia State

Floyd County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), three former officers from the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), one GDC investigator, and a former Floyd County deputy have been charged for the aggravated assault of an inmate at the Floyd County Jail.

Five Former Georgia Law Enforcement Officers Charged With Aggravated Assault Against Inmate

A pro-gun group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to weigh a challenge to Maryland‘s ban on assault-style firearms, commonly referred to as “assault weapons,” after lower courts rejected efforts to overturn the state’s 2013 law. The Firearms Policy Coalition is fighting against the 2013 law...

Pro-gun group seeks Supreme Court review of Maryland ‘assault weapons’ ban

Douglas, GA

A local Walmart employee was recently arrested on a misdemeanor charge after allegedly stealing over $60 worth of merchandise from the store. Additionally, she faced a felony charge after officers discovered suspected methamphetamine in her locker during the arrest.

Douglas Walmart Employee Arrested for Methamphetamine Possession and Shoplifting

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Monroe County, GA

Since the beginning of August, ten individuals who worked in law enforcement in Georgia counties have been arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, primarily on charges related to offenses against inmates. The GBI's most recent case of this kind resulted in the arrest of a 39-year-old jailer from Monroe County.

GBI Arrests Former Georgia County Jailer on Charges of Aggravated Battery and More

Minnesota State

Snopes

Throughout her career, Kamala Harris has supported the reinstatement of the 1994 assault weapons ban.

Fact Check: Harris and Walz Announced Assault Weapons Ban, Not Gun Ban, During Rally

New Jersey State

Jersey City, NJ

Morristown Minute

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Two members of a Jersey City gang associated with the Marion Gardens Housing Complex were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in multiple shootings and other gang-related crimes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

Gang Members Sentenced: 31 Years for Violent Crimes

The Current GA

A state Supreme Court’s decision reversing a lower court’s ruling that a private contractor was exempt from the Georgia Open Records Act is being hailed as a win for open government.

State Supreme Court rules Open Records Act applies to private contractors working for governments

Wyoming State

WyoFile

Don Hall is an avid snowmobiler, but instead of heading for the hills each winter in search of deep powder, he takes an older snowmachine to lower elevations nearer the snow line. There’s a reason the Riverton resident prefers the lower zones despite the rocks, fences and sage most riders avoid: That’s where the coyotes are.

Wyoming allows snowmobilers to run down wildlife. Despite global outrage, it may stay legal.

Wichita, KS

The Associated Press

A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, including homemade automatic weapons that many police and prosecutors blame for fueling gun violence. Broomes, an appointee of President Donald Trump, on Wednesday dismissed two machine gun possession counts against Tamori Morgan, who was indicted last year. Morgan was accused of possessing a model AM-15 .300-caliber machine gun and a machine gun conversion device known as a “Glock switch” that can make a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun. “The court finds that the Second Amendment applies to the weapons charged because they are ‘bearable arms’ within the original meaning of the amendment,” Broomes wrote. He added that the government “has the burden to show that the regulation is consistent with this nation’s historical firearm regulation tradition.”

Kansas judge throws out machine gun possession charge, cites Second Amendment

Montana State

West Virginia and Montana led 27 states in filing an amicus brief opposing the ATF's new rule expanding the definition of what a gun is.

27 states press SCOTUS to halt Biden ATF’s 'blatant attack' on gun owners, claiming end-run around Congress

(Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for possessing a machine gun, saying prosecutors failed to establish that a federal ban on owning such weapons is constitutional.

US judge tosses machine gun possession case, calls ban unconstitutional

NewsBreak

Two Years and a Major Ruling Later, Bruen Continues to Turn Gun Law Into ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’

Last week, a federal judge in Kansas issued an unprecedented ruling: U.S. District Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, held that a longtime ban on possessing...

Two Years and a Major Ruling Later, Bruen Continues to Turn Gun Law Into ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’

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