- What is new in the 2A legal zoo?
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It has been a circus of events with the President feeling the pressure of not being able to deliver on many of his long-term "gun control" actions so he has relied on Executive Branch moves. For example, using the ATF to redefine and make rules that "act as laws" while the ATF is not a legislative body, to rein-in control. While his son, Hunter, has been charged with and found guilty of three firearms related issues. And, while that news continues to provide a storyline, we have the following to highlight:
- The Supreme Court on Thursday [05/30/24] reinstated a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, alleging that a New York official violated the group’s First Amendment rights when she urged banks and insurance companies not to do business with it in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a Florida high school. In a unanimous decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices agreed that the NRA had made out a case that Maria Vullo, then the head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, had gone too far in her efforts to get companies and banks to cut ties with the NRA, crossing over the line from efforts to persuade the companies and banks – which would be permitted – to attempts to coerce them, which are not.
- [In an 9-0 ruling, Justice] Sotomayor explained that the NRA is not immune from government investigations and regulations. And, she observed, Vullo was “free to criticize the NRA and pursue the conceded violations of New York insurance law.” What she could not do, however, was use her power as the head of the Department of Financial Services to “threaten enforcement actions” against entities that the department regulated “to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion advocacy.”
There is also the ATF pistol brace ruling:
The Biden Administration was also held to task concerning Veteran's Rights and this continues to be a "hot topic":
- In March, we reported on an appropriations rider that corrected a longstanding and shameful practice by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of reporting beneficiaries to NICS as “mental defectives” prohibited from having guns, merely because they had been determined to need financial oversight. President Biden grudgingly signed that provision into law, enraging his anti-gun supporters, who immediately began a misinformation campaign that leveraged harmful and inaccurate stereotypes about the beneficiaries and misrepresented the meaning of the law. Meanwhile, the VA was forced to stop its reporting, sparking demands from anti-gunners that it find a new way to ban its beneficiaries from having guns.
- Now a new military appropriations bill is making its way towards Joe Biden’s desk, and this time he is insisting that he will veto the package because, among other things, it continues to protect veterans’ Second Amendment rights. Pro-gun members of Congress, however, have called his bluff and made the protections for veterans in this version of the bill even stronger.
Added after the net but pertinent:
- [The] NRA filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit in support of the plaintiffs and in affirmation of the district court’s ruling. The brief argues that California’s law violates the Second Amendment because the right to keep and bear arms includes the right to acquire firearms. In this vein, multiple gun purchases per month were common in early America, and there were no historical limitations on the number of firearms that law-abiding citizens could purchase.
The California Rifle and Pistol Association has this to report as of 06/07/24:
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