Category Archives: Second Amendment

MAN WHO PUNCHED & STABBED INNOCENT STRANGER IN SUBWAY SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN BROOKLYN D.A. ERIC GONZALEZ ANNOUNCED Tuesday that Roland Henegan, 35, formerly of the Kingsborough Mens Shelter in Brooklyn, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for punching and stabbing a 55-year-old man at the Jay Street Subway Station in Downtown Brooklyn. The defendant pleaded guilty to assault for the unprovoked attack in July last year. The victim had been walking down a staircase at the station when Henegan grabbed him, punched him, and then stabbed him in the face and back.

Henegan was sentenced Tuesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Kitsis.

ADA ELEVATORS AT 59TH ST. STATION TO UNDERGO UPGRADES THIS WEEKEND

SUNSET PARK COMMUTERS WHO RELY ON THE ADA ELEVATORS AT THE 59TH STREET N AND R STATION in Sunset Park will need to plan alternate routes for the weekend of Aug. 25-27, announced the MTA via Community Board 7. The ADA elevators at this station will undergo periods of non-service during the weekend while the MTA makes mechanical upgrades to two of them. The elevator serving street to mezzanine levels will be out of service from 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 until 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26. The elevator from the mezzanine to the southbound platform will remain out of service until noon on Sunday, Aug. 27.

Starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, customers will be able to use the ADA elevators to access the northbound platform. (Please note the mezzanine to northbound platform elevator will remain in service all weekend.)

ELECTEDS ANNOUNCE MORE FREQUENT SUBWAY SERVICE ON N AND R LINES

BAY RIDGE AND BENSONHURST SERVICE WILL INCREASE ON THE N AND R SUBWAY LINES starting later this month, announced State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-26/Western Brooklyn) and Councilmember Justin Brannan (D-43/Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights) on Tuesday, Aug. 22. The MTA will increase midday weekday service along these two lines serving Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, with trains running every 8 minutes during the midday periods on weekdays. The current interval is 10 minutes between trains. These significant improvements in subway service in Brooklyn and the other boroughs are a direct result of funds allocated to the MTA in this years New York State budget.

Earlier in August, service enhancements were announced on the G, J, M, and C lines. Improvements were added to the 1 and 6 local trains, neither of which serve Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN CONGRESSMAN PRESENTS BILL TO REDEFINE GHOST GUNS, BAN THEIR SALES

CAPITOL HILL A NEW BILL THAT BROOKLYN CONGRESSMAN DAN GOLDMAN HAS CO-INTRODUCED WOULD BAN the sale of ghost guns and permanently define their core components. Rep. Goldman (D-10/Western Brooklyn-Lower Manhattan) joined two of his colleagues in the House and Senate in presenting the legislation, which would ban the sale of unserialized and untraceable firearms that can be bought online and easily assembled at home, thus circumventing any background check. The Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act would permanently define the core building blocks of ghost guns (unfinished frames and receivers, as firearms) and would require online sellers, gun kit manufacturers and distributors to comply with the same federal regulations that govern the production and distribution of completed firearms.

The U.S. has witnessed a dramatic, thousand-fold increase in the use of ghost guns since 2016, reports the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The number of ghost guns recovered and traced by law enforcement rose from 1,629 in 2016 to 19,273 in 2021.

MAIMONIDES EXPANDS ITS ROBOTIC SURGERY PROGRAM

BOROUGH PARK MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER NOW HAS THE BOROUGHS LARGEST ROBOTIC-ASSISTED surgery program, with the addition of three new robots. Maimonides has more than 25 surgeons in several specialties who utilize robotic technology in almost a thousand minimally invasive procedures each year, from abdominal, urologic and colorectal procedures to orthopedic surgeries. The additional robots will allow the hospital to perform 600-800 more surgical cases a year.

The Maimonides Urologic Surgery team in 2001 became the first in Brooklyn to offer robotic surgery. Maimonides Bone & Joint Center was the first hospital in Brooklyn to pioneer robotic joint replacement. Maimonides Childrens Hospital was the first hospital to offer robot-assisted surgery to the boroughs kids.

NY STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL FIGHTS RULING THAT 2ND AMENDMENT PROTECTS DOMESTIC ABUSERS

STATEWIDE THE ISSUE OF WHETHER A DOMESTIC ABUSER IS COVERED BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO OWN A GUN is at the heart of an action that New York Attorney General Letitia James is taking to defend a federal law that protects the victims. Attorney General James on Tuesday, Aug. 22, led a 25-state coalition in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, in defense of a federal law that prevents persons under a domestic violence restraining order from accessing guns, as part of the case, United States v. Rahimi. The coalitions amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to overrule a lower courts ruling that the Second Amendment prohibits disarming persons even when they are under orders of protection.

Rahimi, who is under a domestic violence restraining order and has reportedly been involved in multiple shootings, has challenged, on Second Amendment grounds, the federal law barring him from possessing a firearm.

S.I. MAN CHARGED IN DEATH OF BROOKLYN CYCLIST ADAM USTER

CLINTON HILL POLICE HAVE CHARGED Angel Mejia, 19, in the tragic death of cycling advocate and father Adam Uster, killed while cycling home with groceries from Wegmans in May. Mejia, a resident of Staten Island, had turned his 2021 Isuzu Flat-bed truck to the right at the intersection of Franklin and Lexington avenues in Clinton Hill, striking Uster, who was traveling on his bicycle to the trucks right. Uster was brought by first responders to NY Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. Mejia was charged with two counts of Motor Vehicle Failure to Yield to Pedestrian/Bicycle, according to Tuesdays release from NYPD.

Franklin Avenue where Uster was killed is a known dangerous corridor, Streetsblog reports. In the less-than-a-mile stretch between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street, there have been 111 reported crashes since 2020.

LAWSUIT, ACRIMONY CLOSES CELEBRATED CHEFS TABLE AT BROOKLYN FARE

HELLS KITCHEN THE CHEFS TABLE AT BROOKLYN FARE, one of Americas most renowned restaurants (a date will cost you well over $1,000 with wine, according to Eater) moved from Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Hells Kitchen in 2016. Now the restaurants celebrated chef, Csar Ramirez, has been fired and the Michelin three-star restaurant has closed temporarily while a lawsuit winds its way through the courts, according to the Robb Report.

Ramirez filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in July alleging that he had been arbitrarily terminatedwithout cause, notice, or justification. Meanwhile, the owner claims the famous chef stole both restaurant equipment and employees to start a new venue.

GAINS IN BROOKLYN LUXURY HOUSING SALES

BROOKLYN THE LUXURY HOUSING MARKET IN BROOKLYN PERKED UP last week, with 16 contracts inked for homes asking $2 million or more between Aug. 14 and Aug. 20, according to The Real Deal. This is up from 10 in the previous period. The most expensive home to enter into a contract was 227 Clinton Street in Cobble Hill, with an asking price of just under $10 million. The 5,700-square-foot townhouse has six bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Earlier this year, a home on Pacific Street in Cobble Hill sold for $12 million; a townhouse on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights sold with an asking price of $7.8 million, TRD reports.

BROOKLYN ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE WORKERS FILE TO UNIONIZE: BARBENHEIMER LAST STRAW

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN WORKERS AT BROOKLYN ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE FILED A PETITION on Monday to unionize. Employees at the popular movie theater at the City Point complex petitioned the National Labor Relations Board on Monday for an election to join United Auto Workers Local 2179, concierge worker Jordan Baruch told Patch.

Workers have long had safety and scheduling concerns, but the record-breaking dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer known as Barbenheimer finally pushed them to the limit, Baruch said.

FATHER ARRESTED, CHILDREN CRITICAL AFTER BROWNSVILLE FIRE

BROWNSVILLE THREE CHILDREN ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION after a fire broke out in their Brownsville apartment on Sunday, and their father, Anthony Halliburton, 37, has been arrested. While their mother was at work, Halliburton locked the young kids inside and stepped out to get groceries, and their apartment on Livonia Avenue went up in flames, PIX11 reports. Firefighters found 8-year-old Naomi, 5-year-old Tonya and 4-year-old Anthony passed out on the floor. Halliburton was charged with the abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child.

A gofundme has been set up for donations to the family.

VIRTUAL MEETING ON BQE OVERNIGHT WORK SET FOR FRIDAY

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS A VIRTUAL MEETING UPDATING THE ONGOING OVERNIGHT WORK on the Triple Cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be held via Zoom on Friday, Aug. 25, from noon to 12:45 p.m., according to NYCDOTs Community Liaison Anita Navalurkar. The interim repair work, which began Aug. 18, will continue for the next four to six weeks. During working hours, only one lane will be available in the Queens-bound direction. The Queens-bound Atlantic Ave. BQE entrance ramp will also be closed when the right Queens-bound lane is closed.

To be added to the Community Liaisons BQE notification list or to obtain a link to the Zoom meeting, contact Navalurkar at (347) 647-0876 or [emailprotected].

ALL ABOARD!: TRANSIT MUSEUMS PARADE OF SUBWAY TRAINS, FEATURES RATTAN SEATS, CEILING FANS

KINGS HIGHWAY NEW YORK COMMUTERS AND TRANSIT AFICIONADOS CAN TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME during the New York Transit Museums Parade of Trains, approaching the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 9-10. Straphangers can step aboard different vintage trains from the museums collection from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Brighton Beach B/Q platforms or the Kings Highway Manhattan-bound B/Q platform. This years Parade of Trains will include a number of train cars from the New York Transit Museums collection, including the BU Gate Cars, BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated Cars (in use 1903-1969) and the oldest cars in the Transit Museums vintage fleet. Shuttle rides are free with a MetroCard swipe or OMNY tap.

Although slightly older, the R1 through R9 cars (which were in use from 1930-1977), feature rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, incandescent light bulbs, and roll signs for passenger information all pre-World War II subway standards.

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO HOUSE MIGRANTS AT FLOYD BENNETT FIELD

FLATLANDS GOV. KATHY HOCHUL ON MONDAY ANNOUNCED that the Biden Administration has tentatively agreed to allow the state to use Floyd Bennett Field in Flatlands as a shelter for asylum seekers. Once the final agreement is signed, we will work with Mayor Adams and his team to set up a Humanitarian Emergency Relief and Response Center at Floyd Bennett Field with the capacity to shelter more than 2,000 asylum seekers, Hochul said in a release.

Over its 92-year history, Floyd Bennett field has contained a commercial airport, U.S. Navy air base, police helicopter base, aviation museum, drone and model airplane space, gymnasium and one of the citys largest community gardens. The only way to reach it by public transportation is the Q-35 bus.

DISBARRED ATTORNEY CHARGED IN IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE FRAUD, PRACTICING WITHOUT A LICENSE

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN A DISBARRED CROWN HEIGHTS ATTORNEY who specialized in immigration cases has been charged with stealing from nine of his clients while continuing to practice law without a license. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez identified the defendant as Owolabi Salis, 60, of Crown Heights, who was arraigned today before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Heidi Cesare, and charged with multiple indictments, including first-degree scheme to defraud, first-degree immigrant assistance services fraud and unlawful practice of the law. After his Nov. 29, 2022 disbarment, at which he was ordered to cease practicing law and to advise his clients to seek new counsel, Salis violated the order and continued to operate a law office at 1179 Eastern Parkway and to advertise as Salis Law P.C. online.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations assisted with the case. The defendant was released without bail and ordered to return to court on Oct. 11.

VERNIKOV KISSED BY RANDOM STRANGER IN CREEPY MOMENT

BRIGHTON BEACH SOUTHERN BROOKLYN COUNCILMEMBER INNA VERNIKOV WAS KISSED ON CAMERA AGAINST HER WILL by a stranger during an interview with CBS on Thursday, reports NBC News, eliciting a stunned response of What the f*ck?! from the councilmember. Vernikov later on X, formerly Twitter, wrote Not the kind of love I expect from constituents! Very creepy moment, and thanked other area politicians for speaking out against the man on her behalf.

NBC says that no report has yet been filed with police over the incident.

SUSPECTS IN NIGHTCLUB KIDNAPPING RELEASED WITHOUT BAIL

WILLIAMSBURG THE SUSPECTS IN THE KIDNAPPING OF A YOUNG CONNECTICUT DOCTOR from the Brooklyn Mirage nightclub at the Avant Gardner event venue in Williamsburg were released without bail by the Connecticut courts last week, reports the New York Post, despite earlier bail amounts set at $1 million and $250,000 for the two men, who were charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, respectively. The Post reports that its efforts to contact suspect Anthony Benjamin, 42, at an address given to Connecticut authorities were unsuccessful, with a resident saying theyd never heard of him; Benjamin is accused of threatening ophthalmologist Michael Bautista, 32, into footing the bill for a $6,100 spending spree through the Bronx after tricking him into a fake taxi outside the nightclub along with alleged accomplice Steve Daley.

The kidnapping is one of several disturbing events associated with the Mirage this summer; two other young professionals, 27-year-old psychologist Karl Clemente and 27-year-old financial analyst John Castic were discovered dead in the Newtown Creek in July after being last seen leaving the club.

NAVAL CULINARY OFFICER FROM BROOKLYN CO-PRESENTS BACK-TO-SCHOOL MONTH CAKE

BROOKLYN TO ITALY A NAVAL CHEF FROM BROOKLYN HELPS CELEBRATE BACK-TO-SCHOOL MONTH, all the way from Italy. Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Al-Vaughn Moe, from Brooklyn, New York (at right), and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joe Mattia, Food Service Officer, aboard at the Naval Air Station Sigonella, from Dallas, pose in front of the national back-to-school month cake at the galley on board Naval Air Station Sigonella, on Aug. 17. NAS Sigonellas strategic location enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to deploy and respond as required, ensuring security and stability in Europe, Africa and Central Command.

MISSING SENIOR IN SUNSET PARK

SUNSET PARK POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR MISSING SENIOR Yun Zhang, age 73, who was last seen leaving her residence near the Fort Hamilton Parkway D train station and heading in the direction of the Fort Hamilton Parkway and New Utrecht Avenue on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 16. Zhang is described as female, 54 and 150 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a purple shirt, blue jeans and a red hat.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPDs Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org.

POLICE SEEK MAN WHO GRABBED AND PUNCHED WOMAN ON SUBWAY

BUSHWICK POLICE ARE SEEKING AN UNKNOWN MAN WHO HARASSED AND ASSAULTED A YOUNG WOMAN on the southbound platform of the Broadway and Myrtle Avenue J train station on the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 17, and are investigating the incident as a hate crime. The suspect first grabbed the buttocks of the victim while standing on the platform, then followed her onto the train and engaged her in a dispute; the suspect then threatened the victim, made anti-LGBTQIA+ remarks and punched her about the face and body causing a fracture to her nose before fleeing from the train at the Delancey and Essex stop.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPDs Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org.

CITY LAUNCHES BACK-TO-SCHOOL VACCINE CAMPAIGN

CITYWIDE A NEW, MONTHLONG BACK-TO-SCHOOL CAMPAIGN that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene launched on Monday, Aug. 21, reminds New Yorkers particularly the parents of school children to make sure they are caught up on their routine vaccinations. Specific vaccine requirements vary based on a childs age, grade and medical history. All students are required to receive the DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis); poliovirus; MMR (measles-mumps-rubella); varicella and hepatitis B vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccine was not listed as being mandatory. The material will appear for the next month in multiple languages on radio, TV, online and social media, newspapers and subway and Staten Island Ferry digital screens.

In the past, separate shots were required for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). The chickenpox vaccine became available in 1995, as did the hepatitis B vaccine.

RENT-STABILIZED VACANCIES AVERAGED ONLY 5% SAYS CITYS INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE

CITYWIDE AFTER NEWS AGENCIES BROK STORIES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS ABOUT THE VACANCY RATE of rent-stabilized apartments, the NYC New York City Independent Budget Office has released a study showing that actually fewer than 5% of rent-stabilized apartments around 40,000 were vacant at a given point in time. The study, made public on Monday, Aug. 21, was conducted utilizing data from the New York State Homes and Community Renewal from 2017 through 2022. It showed that on average, the majority of vacant apartments were rented within a year.

Property owners register an average of 880,000 rent-stabilized units annually with the state. IBO found that the vacancy rate has remained steady until it peaked at around 7%, or nearly 60,000 apartments, during 2021, with the pandemic likely driving the turnover. But two-thirds of these apartments had been rented by 2022.

EX-SEALS, FIRST RESPONDERS COMPLETE GRUELING 9/11 MEMORIAL SWIM

BATTERY PARK A GROUP OF MORE THAN 260 FIRST RESPONDERS, VETERANS AND FORMER NAVY SEALS joined a grueling charity swim-a-thon in honor of the upcoming anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and other service members in support of the Navy SEAL Foundation on Saturday, plunging into the Hudson River from Liberty Park in New Jersey, then swimming a total of 3.5 miles to Battery Park City. The muscled-up swimmers exited the water at four stations along the way, including at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and performed 100 pushups and 22 pull-ups at each, for a total of 400 pushups and 88 pull-ups by the end, then grabbed flags for a ceremonial run to the finish line at the World Trade Center Memorial.

The Navy SEAL Foundation provides educational, professional and health support services to active and veteran Navy special forces soldiers, as well as to their families; more information about programs offered by the nonprofit can be found on their website.

ASYLUM CASEWORK PROCESS GETS $2M FROM GOVERNOR

STATEWIDE GOV. KATHY HOCHUL ON MONDAY, AUG. 21, IMPLEMENTED A NEW $20 million investment to speed the casework filing process for more than 30,000 asylum seekers. This investment, which adds to the $1.5 billion that the State has already allocated to addressing the crisis, will connect asylum seekers with case management services to speed the process of exiting shelter and, when necessary, filing asylum claims. Utilizing a framework that the global NGO International Rescue Committee developed, asylum seekers in the Citys shelters will be triaged using a new color-coded scale: green indicates no significant barriers to exiting shelter; yellow indicates barriers to exit that have a path to resolution; and, red indicates more complex barriers to exit that require extensive resources.

The ultimate goal of these social services is to support asylum seekers as they attain legal work status, exit the shelter system and begin independent living.

JUDGE HALTS MARIJUANA LICENSES AFTER VETERANS LAWSUIT

STATEWIDE A JUDGE ON FRIDAY ONCE AGAIN HALTED THE ISSUANCE OF NEW LICENSES FOR RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA dispensaries in New York, reports the AP, after a veterans rights group filed a lawsuit last week alleging that the state had unfairly restricted its first round of licenses to people formerly jailed for drug offenses, excluding other disadvantaged groups that the 2021 legalization law had defined as social and economic equity applicants, including disabled veterans as well as women- and minority-owned businesses. Current licensees who have yet to open their storefronts will be able to proceed, while other licenses may still be granted on a case-by-case basis; Justice Kevin Bryant wrote in his injunction that any losses suffered by provisional licensees are the fault of state regulators.

It feels like we were used to getting a law passed a good law, one that helps a lot of people, as well as the state. Then, once it was passed, we were cast aside for another agenda, said veteran plaintiff Carmine Fiore in a press release announcing the lawsuit.

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Around 100 people braved the relentless Michigan summer sun Wednesday for a rally in defense of gun rights in Michigan following months of new gun control bills being signed into law and ahead of a full ban on firearms at the state Capitol.

The event, held on a farm in Ionia, 40 minutes northwest from the state Capitol, took the place of the annual Second Amendment March thats been held on the Capitol lawn for the last decade, as the Advance previously reported.

So far this legislative session, in which Democrats have control of both the state House and Senate for the first time in almost 40 years, lawmakers have passed and gotten Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to sign laws instituting universal background checks for firearm sales in Michigan and require firearms and ammunition to be safely stored away from minors.

In May, alongside gun control advocates, including Michigan State University student Troy Forbush, who survived the Feb. 13 campus shooting, Whitmer signed red flag legislation into law that allows judges to order the removal of firearms from individuals that pose a threat to themselves or others.

Now, ahead of the Michigan State Capitol Commissions plans to implement a full firearms ban on Capitol grounds, there is no Second Amendment gathering scheduled to protest the measure.

The question is, OK, would anyone even show up if they had to go unarmed? Second Amendment March, the organization that plans the Capitol march, Founder Skip Coryell said on Wednesday.

Open carry is popular at The Second Amendment March at the Capitol with many attendees bringing long guns each year.

Coryell said its not out of the question that the group might try and have an event in September, when the rally typically takes place, but looking around at the turnout for Wednesdays event, he said hes not optimistic for the future of gun rights in Michigan.

When you talk to people, conservatives, theyre tired, and theyre worn out, Coryell said. Theyre sick of fighting. And its like, they just want to be left alone and relax. I dont know if theyre just recharging their batteries and theyre gonna pick up the fight later on or if theyve just surrendered? I dont know. I hope they havent just surrendered.

But turnout at the Capitol event has not been good in recent years, Coryell said, with attendance plummeting from up to 1,400 in years past to 100 or 200 in recent years.

Ken Hauser of Lapeer, Michigan stands by his signs at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Lucas Gerhard speaks to attendees at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

American Revival Band at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

The Trump Unity Bridge at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

An Urn Ken Hauser of Lapeer, Michigan brought to a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Attendee at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

The Magnum Sports tent at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Attendee at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Attendees at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Jon Rocha of Sons of Liberty PAC speaks to attendees at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Signs Ken Hauser of Lapeer, Michigan brought to a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Patricia and Mark McCloskey wave at attendees at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Second Amendment March Founder Skip Coryell sits at a Second Amendment rally in Ionia, Michigan July 19, 2023. (photo: Anna Liz Nichols)

Not even big-name speakers could draw a larger crowd Wednesday, including Kyle Rittenhouse, who at 17 years old in 2020 shot and killed two men, wounding a third during the civil unrest in summer 2020 in Kenosha, Wisc.. He asserted he acted in self-defense and was acquitted on homicide charges in 2021.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her anti-freedom cohorts are hellbent on shredding Second Amendment rights for law-abiding Michiganders, Rittenhouse told attendees, advising them to work on a local level to change things in Michigan and work against any other gun reforms coming down the pipeline.

Other speakers included Mark McCloskey, joined by his wife, Patricia, who as a couple yelled and pointed guns at protesters during the George Floyd protests in St. Louis, Mo. Mark McCloskey, who unsuccessfully ran in the GOP U.S. Senate primary in Missouri in 2022, told attendees about that day, saying he was defending his home and the whole experience has ruined he and his wifes lives.

Michigan GOP Co-Chair Malinda Pego was also in attendance, along with several gun rights activists and groups.

Things are looking bleak for movement in Michigan, according to Coryell.

Im not optimistic. What I see in the Legislature is they have the seat of power. Theres really nothing that can stop them right now. And theyre not willing to compromise, Coryell said. Longterm, 10 to 15 years down the road. Things are like a pendulum. They swing back and forth. Its all the way to the left right now. It will swing back. Maybe for my kids, but not necessarily for me.

Jon Rocha of Sons of Liberty PAC, which hosted and organized the event, told the crowd hes grateful for everyone who came, he saw a lot of familiar faces, notably in militia members who also showed up during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown protests at the Capitol. However, Rocha, a former GOP state House candidate, said the fight for Second Amendment rights needs new people.

Things have been happening so fast in Lansing and weve got to be on top of them, Rocha told the Advance. Things are what they are and Im hoping we get a new governor that will overturn a lot of this legislation and thats not going to come until 2026 so weve got a large fight and we got to keep letting people know about whats going on as more gun control laws get out there.

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(National Archives | The Associated Press) This photo made available by the U.S. National Archives shows a portion of the first page of the United States Constitution.

By Tom Huckin | For The Salt Lake Tribune

| July 18, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

In the first half of this year, there were more than 330 mass shootings in the United States. (We Utahns are fortunate in that only one of them has occurred in our state.) Over the recent Fourth of July weekend, there were 22 mass shootings, resulting in 20 deaths and 126 wounded.

The U.S. has the highest number of civilian guns per capita in the world, and its not even close. As a consequence, we have more mass shootings, by far, than any other developed nation.

This is a trend that has been getting worse ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), that the Second Amendment right to bear arms extends to all citizens with few exceptions. That ruling was based on a dubious judicial theory known as originalism. The theory posits that modern-day judges should defer to the meaning of a statute as it was likely understood at the time of its enactment.

The Second Amendment reads as follows: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

But according to those five conservative justices, only the last nine words mattered. They chose to simply ignore the first thirteen words. According to them, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed meant that most every American citizen had the right to carry a gun wherever and whenever, with few exceptions. That ruling has become virtually sacrosanct, which is why we now lead the industrialized world in gun deaths.

In recent years, however, linguists have done massive historical research to determine exactly what the wording of the amendment likely did mean back in the day. Their main resource has been the 400-million-word Corpus of Historical American English created at Brigham Young University, where they have identified some 1,500 uses of the phrase bear arms as it was understood back when the amendment was written.

In virtually every case, bear arms was used not in a civilian context but in a military one. So the Second Amendment right to bear arms was accorded only to citizens performing some military role, and the Founders made that clear by including the first part of the amendment, A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State . . .

It was hardly irrelevant, as those five conservative justices claimed. The Second Amendment right to bear arms refers only to military uses, not to civilian ones.

Its tragic how a misinterpretation of the Constitution by five powerful men in robes including three (Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John Roberts) still on the court can have such disastrous consequences. And with a partisan court and a polarized Congress, theres virtually no practical way to change it for a long time to come.

Tom Huckin, professor emeritus at the University of Utah and longtime resident of Salt Lake City, likes to challenge conventional wisdom.

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I was delighted to see at least two thoughtful responses to my op-ed on the Second Amendment.

Opponents to altering the Second Amendment frequently point to the Heller case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. I cited it as well. I agree that the Heller case is essential reading because both sides of the gun debate rely upon the writings of the Founders of this country. At the time the Second Amendment was adopted, there was much discussion and debate over what it was about and what it meant. Was the purpose of the Second Amendment to assure a government organized militia or to permit future citizens to own and utilize assault weapons not known at the time of the adoption of the Second Amendment?

The other letter brought up the frequent refrain of the European Holocaust which murdered 6 million Jews. It is true that the Jews of Europe were denied weapons when they most needed them, whether it was the Warsaw ghetto uprising or other attempts by Jews to escape the German-led extermination of European Jews. There may be few who know that Harry Truman imposed an arms embargo against the Jews fighting in Palestine to save other Jews from Europe and to protect themselves against Nazi-inspired Arabs in the Middle East.

However, it would be a terrible error to believe that the lack of guns alone killed Jews. It was plain and simply milennia of inbred anti-Semitism. The best proof of the fact that guns were not the only thing necessary to save Jews were the heroic actions of church leaders in Bulgaria, Italy, a small island off Greece and Denmark. In any country that resisted the Germans during World War II, Jews were saved. It was moral conscience that saved Jewish lives.

The allies refused to bomb the rail links leading to Auschwitz and other death camps. Clearly, lack of weapons and military support helped the Germans, Polish and Arabs murder Jews. However, an emphasis on guns and weapons alone would be a terrible distortion of history.

I am a proponent of the view that Jews should all learn self-defense, Krav Maga, and legally carry weapons after proper training and compliance with legal limitations, However, the salvation of the Jewish people today will be neither personal training nor guns, but rather a robust response to anti-Semitism, ancient and modern.

Respectful Second Amendment debate is a good thing and clearly, much more ink will be spilled before we get a handle on the carnage being caused by improper and illegal use of guns.

CLIFFORD A. RIEDERS

Williamsport

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Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled hisproposal for a 28th Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution, which the Democrat says would enshrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law while leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.

Although the Second Amendment protects individual liberty by telling the government what it cant do with respect to gun control regulations, Newsoms proposed constitutional amendment would tell the government what it must do to restrict individual liberty through gun control.

The California governors proposal would ban civilian sales for semiautomatic firearmscommonly owned by millions of Americans, strip law-abiding young adults of their right to keep and bear arms, and (in the form of waiting periods and universal background checks) impose many layers of bureaucratic red tape between peaceable citizens and the exercise of their natural right to self-defense.

The notion that this idea would do anything other than gut the Second Amendment is, of course, laughable. And despite Newsoms insistence that these measures are popular, theyve been passed only by a small minority of states. His amendment has no chance whatsoever of being passed by a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress, much less of being ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures.

The reality is that more than 230 years after Congress ratified it, the Second Amendment continues toplay an integral rolein preserving Americans natural rights, particularly from criminals who would harm them.

Almost every major study has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between500,000 and 3 milliontimesannually, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged. In 2021, the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the issue concluded thatroughly 1.6 million defensive gun usesoccur in the United States every year.

For this reason,The Daily Signalpublishes a monthly article highlighting some of the previous months many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missedor that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accountsherefrom past months and years. You also may follow@DailyDGUon Twitter for daily highlights of recent defensive gun uses.)

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in June. You may explore more using The Heritage Foundations interactiveDefensive Gun Use Database.(The Daily Signal is Heritages multimedia news organization.)

As these examples help demonstrate, the Second Amendment doesnt need amending, and peaceable citizens dont need more barriers to the exercise of their natural right of self-defense.

They need a government that doesnt resort to Orwellian doublespeak about its goals, pretending to enshrine freedom by restricting those rights that already are enumerated in our Constitution.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

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The legality of a Texas law exempting firearm suppressors made and kept in the state from federal regulations will not be determined by the federal judiciary after a challenge defending the law by the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on behalf of several Texas residents was dismissed.

The Texas Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 957 by Rep. Tom Oliverson (R-Cypress), known as the Texas Suppressor Freedom Act, into law in 2021. It allows Texans to ask the OAG to obtain a federal court order on their behalf granting them permission to manufacture and keep homemade suppressors without having to register them with the federal government.

The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has warned Texans that all federal laws requiring an application for a tax stamp, as well as the registration tax, still apply. Violations of the law can result in hefty fines and imprisonment.

Several residents asked the OAG to seek a court order on their behalf. Now impeached and suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit, prevailing against the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the first motion to dismiss brought in October of last year. The DOJ had argued the Second Amendment does not apply to suppressors, but Judge Mark Pittmann disagreed.

However, this week Pittman ruled against the state, dismissing the lawsuit for lack of standing.

In his ruling, Pittman took issue with both the situation in which the individual residents who wanted to make suppressors sought relief, and the ability of the state to intervene on their behalf.

Pittman explained that the plaintiffs neither attempted to make a suppressor and demonstrate a legitimate fear of being prosecuted by the federal government by doing so, nor did they fill out an application for a suppressor and demonstrate a burden on their constitutional right by being made to pay a tax.

While he acknowledged that the federal government has a history of prosecuting people for possessing unregistered suppressors, because the plaintiffs didnt claim to have an unregistered suppressor, there was no fear of being prosecuted for having one.

Individual Plaintiffs are correct that the government has a history of prosecuting the illegal possession of unregistered silencers. But these Plaintiffs have adduced no evidence that they, in fact, possess any illegal silencers or otherwise attempted any prohibited conduct. Nor have they shown that they have been threatened with prosecution or that it is likely. And our doctrines of criminal law forbid convicting persons for mere thoughts, desires, or motives, Pittman wrote.

The ruling does leave the door open for a challenge if a plaintiff shows standing, Pittman explained.

However, any future challenge will not be brought by the state on behalf of its citizens under Pittmans ruling, which determined the state doesnt have standing under the Constitution to intervene.

By its own words, Texas seeks to protect the ability of its individual residents to make firearm silencers at home, he wrote, adding, The only purported link between the State of Texas and the (Gun Control Act) regime is Texass state statute exempting silencers from the operation of federal law. And the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution determines the winner of that duel.

While Pittmans ruling has no bearing on whether the Second Amendment protects the right of Texans to make and keep a firearm suppressor in the state outside of federal regulations, any future court challenge will need to be brought by the citizens themselves, who have sufficient standing.

For now, those wanting a suppressor must pay the $200 tax, fill out an application, undergo a background check, and wait roughly 10 months for the tax stamp to be approved by the ATF.

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All seven pardons Gov. Maura Healey recommended won approval from the Governor's Council on Wednesday, cementing the first pardons awarded by a Massachusetts governor during their first elected year in office in three decades.

Healey in Juneproposed the pardons, which had earned the support of the Parole Board before Gov. Charlie Baker left office in January, when she also announced that she is planning to reform the clemency process to make it fairer, more timely and minimize racial disparities.

The Governor's Council, which reviews and approves the governor's clemency recommendations and judicial nominations, voted unanimously in favor of all seven pardons.

"I think our next seven items are pretty exciting for all of us," Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, who chairs the Governor's Council, said to councilors ahead of the pardon votes on Wednesday. "The opportunity to move forward with affirming pardons proposed by the administration an administration that in its first year of office, this is the first time in any recent memory that an administration has moved forward with pardons."

The pardons are aimed at people convicted on a variety of charges, one dating back more than half a century: Edem Amet, who was convicted in 1995 on drug charges; Xavier Delvalle, who was convicted in 2006 on breaking and entering and larceny charges; Glendon King, who was convicted in 1992 on drug charges; John Latter, who was convicted of arson in 1966; Deborah Pickard, who was convicted on several charges between 1982 and 1987; Gerald Waloewandja, who was convicted of drug charges in 2003; and Terrance Williams, who was convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in 1984.

All seven pardons were recommended by the Parole Board during Baker's tenure, but Baker did not act on them before he left office in January, according to a Healey administration official.

"I just want to thank you and the governor," Councilor Marilyn Petitto Devaney told Driscoll during Wednesday's meeting. "I tried to hard to get the former governor to bring these forward, and you've started off so early with this, that we're going to have a wonderful administration and I look forward to more pardons."

Other councilors echoed Devaney's statements, saying they looked forward to approving more pardons, which forgive offenses, and commutations, which reduce sentences.

When Healey recommended the pardons in June, she said some of the individuals on the list face "barriers and uncertainties" in their lives today as a result of their criminal records.

Latter, who was convicted about 57 years ago, is unable to obtain a nursing license in Florida because of his record, while Williams has been denied a position at a private security company six times due to his conviction, according to Healey's office.

Williams who had long wanted to become a police officer joked in June that he is "too old for the academy" but said he's "not too old to help our community out." He called the process of securing a pardon recommendation a "long journey."

"We really need to look at people who are out there just like me, who just made a mistake years ago who just want that opportunity to come back to society," Williams said. "I never gave up."

King is a U.S. Army veteran who has worked for the Boston Fire Department for more than two decades. He told reporters that the pardon would lift a weight from his shoulders and also allow him to exercise his Second Amendment firearms rights.

"For a gentleman that's got a good head on his shoulders to be labeled a convicted felon for years is not a good thing," King said. "I've done everything by the book, everything right. I just want to get rid of that label."

Healey's office has said she is the first governor to issue pardons during her first year in office since former Gov. Bill Weld did so in 1991.

Despite the initial flurry, the Parole Boardannounced Mondaythat it will not continue advancing any pardon requests to Healey's desk until the governor finishes a promised review of the clemency process.

"In the Governor's first announcement of executive clemency, she indicated that the Administration is currently working to modernize the state's clemency guidelines to center fairness and racial and gender equity," Timothy McGuirk of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security told the News Service. "That process requires meaningful engagement with a broad range of stakeholders before issuing new guidelines later this year. To ensure current and future petitioners participate in a clemency process guided by the new framework, the Parole Board, functioning as Advisory Board of Pardons, will not schedule new clemency hearings until the update is complete."

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Perhaps T.S. Elliot was wrong. July, not April, is the cruelest month, at least for GOP presidential contenders trying to supplant Donald Trump.

Before July, the campaigns have excuses for why the momentum hasnt kicked in yet. They can say theyre just in exploratory-committee mode, or theyre just getting the campaign stood up. Hey, we havent had a chance to meet the voters yet at an Iowa Pizza Ranch or chat with the gang at Manchesters Red Arrow Diner.

The ides of July is when the excuses evaporate in the summer heat as campaigns have to reveal their second quarter fundraising numbers. For Trumps challengers, those numbers vary in ugliness, but none are pretty. Mike Pence, a former vice president with enormous name ID, raised a paltry $1.2 million and may not reach the 40,000 small donors required to make the first GOP debate. Chris Christie, who has the highest negatives of any of the declared candidates, raised $1.6 million and has enough small donors to make the debate.

The most significant disclosures came from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. He raised a lot of money $20 million but he maxed out 70% of his donors, meaning he cant go back to them again. And hes burning through an enormous amount of cash.

But its the polling numbers that should depress everybody but Trump, who leads the field by over 30 points. DeSantis, whose team insisted in the spring that everyone should wait until he actually gets in the race, has actually lost a few points since he got in the race in May. The rest of the field is jockeying to stay out of single digits.

The one thing all of the challengers to Trump agree on is that none of this bad news really matters yet and they have a point. National polls at this stage are stupid. A surprise victory in Iowa or New Hampshire by any of them would completely recalibrate the race.

This is part of the cruelty. Every campaign except the one in the lead thinks its way too early to rule out anybody. Its a marathon not a sprint, as DeSantis says. But the only measures of progress are how much money theyve raised and from whom and those infernal polls.

The political press follows both as if theyre tangible points on the scoreboard and so does the donor class, which now includes tens of thousands of small donors. Its a vicious feedback loop: Failure to raise money or show momentum in the polls leads to negative press coverage, which in turn negatively affects your standing in the polls and how much money you can raise.

Indeed, you have to go back to 2000 to find an open GOP primary where the clear front-runner in mid-summer went on to win the nomination. At the beginning of July 2015, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump were neck and neck (though by the end of the month, Trumps surge had begun). In 2007, Rudy Giuliani led Sen. John McCain 2 to 1. Heck, most recent winners of the Iowa caucus didnt go on to win the nomination.

The problem is that this is an open primary in name only. Donald Trump is effectively running as an incumbent. Of course, he isnt one. He lost in 2020.

But GOP primary voters are acting like they dont know or dont accept that. Perhaps its because Trump refuses to admit defeat. Perhaps DeSantis is right that the criminal indictments of Trump have caused voters to rally around him in an act of defiance or sympathy. (If DeSantis is right, Trump might be looking at another boost: Trump says he received a letter from special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the January 6 grand jury investigation.) And maybe having so many Republican challengers praising or ignoring Trump has signaled to voters that Trump is the de facto incumbent until further notice.

Whatever the reason, pretending that this primary is normal when voters have an abnormal attachment to the front-runner is a recipe for the front-runner to glide to the nomination. With the exception of Christie, the other candidates are running as if Trump is not a candidate they are working to defeat, but just an idea. If you think of Trump as if he were, say, the personification of a political concept, like the Second Amendment, the way these GOP candidates talk about him makes a bit more sense. But the Second Amendment isnt running for president. Trump is.

If he werent running, it would make complete sense for GOP candidates to avoid offending Trump voters Republicans in 1976 certainly didnt routinely denounce Richard Nixon on the hustings. But unless they decide to run directly against the guy beating them now, the next six months are going to look a lot like July.

Jonah Goldbergs column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency.

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Federal law prohibits nine categories of persons from receipt and possession of a firearm. As the Supreme Court continues to develop its Second Amendment jurisprudence, which ones of those types are most significant in regard to representativeness and numerosity?

Felons in possession of firearms have been the leading type of prosecution under the federal Gun Control Act since its enactment in 1968. There were 7,454 such convictions in 2021.

The ban on felon possession is found in 18 U.S.C. 922(g), which also includes eight other categories of prohibited persons all of which pale into insignificance compared to the felon ban. One of the more minor categories is a person subject to a domestic restraining order. While the feds aren't too good at posting current data, in the years 2013 to 2017, there were 26,717 such convictions based on felon status, and only 121 for restraining order status. The proportions can't be much different today.

Given that disparity, why is Attorney General Merrick Garland so keen in having the Supreme Court decide whether the restraining order folks, instead of the felons, are protected by the Second Amendment? The felon issue is ubiquitous, and not just because of the sheer numbers. It involves not only the violent felony vs. non-violent felony issue, but also whether any limits exist in this day-and-age in which almost anything can be a felony. Why has Martha Stewart forfeited her right to have a gun for self-defense?

So why would the government try to convince the Supreme Court to take up the atypical issue regarding persons with a restraining order? Here's my take.

The Biden Administration is salivating at the prospect of United States v. Rahimi, about which I've written previously, being the next Second Amendment case to be decided by the Supreme Court. That's because the defendant in the case appears to be such an odious character. Arrested by police following multiple shooting sprees, Rahimi was prohibited from gun possession because he was subject to a prior agreed-upon civil protective order. The Fifth Circuit found the ban to be facially unconstitutional because no historical analogue allowed disarming a person based on a civil protective order rather than a criminal proceeding.

The government didn't bother to file a petition for rehearing en banc, and rushed straight to the Supreme Court with a cert petition. There is a reason for the adage that bad facts make bad law, and the Administration is angling to take full advantage of that.

So do the amici that have filed briefs urging the Court to grant cert. One of them is California Governor Gavin Newsom, who argues that the Court's "intervention is needed immediately," given that the Fifth's Circuit's decision "is just one example of lower courts misreading Bruen."

It then lists some of the other decisions that take the Second Amendment seriously, an obviously unacceptable outcome to those who wish to re-designate the right to bear arms to a second-class status.

As the cert petition states, "the government is filing this petition for a writ of certiorari on a highly expedited schedule . . . in order to allow the Court to consider the petition before it recesses for the summer." Nothing like rushing to the front of the line and insisting to the Court, "Pick me!"

And the government recently opposed the full length of an extension requested by Rahimi's counsel to respond to the petition. In its response the government indicated that it would only agree to cutting in half counsel's normal reply time "given the substantial disruption caused by the court of appeals' decision," in order "to allow the petition to be distributed on June 6 for consideration at the June 22 conference." The extension was granted only in part, to May 30.

To be clear, whether the Court considers the petition now or in the fall, it will not hear the case until next term. An apparent aim of the Administration is to ensure that Rahimi is the next Second Amendment case the Court hears. If there are other meritorious prohibited-person petitions that are filed after cert is granted in Rahimi, under typical Court practice those petitions likely would be held pending resolution of Rahimi. After that, the Court would grant cert, vacate, and remand (GVR) the pending cases for reconsideration in light of whatever it would decide in Rahimi.

A better approach would be for the Court not to act too quickly and to wait until it returns from its summer recess to decide whether to take Rahimi or another case for plenary review. The Court likely will at that time have a fuller menu of options from which to choose. For example, the Third Circuit is poised to decide the Range v. Garland case en banc. Range presents an as-applied civil challenge to the federal felon prohibition on behalf of an individual who was convicted for excluding lawn-mowing income from his food stamp application nearly thirty years ago. The three-judge panel upheld his conviction based on improper historical analogues such as the disarming of slaves.

In addition, the Second Circuit recently held argument in Zherka v. Garland, a challenge similar to Range's on behalf of an individual convicted of conspiring to commit bank and tax fraud. The district court upheld his legal disability under the "two-step" framework that Justice Thomas characterized in Bruen as "one step too many." These cases present more typical challengers than the one in Rahimi, and the facts of the cases are less likely to have a skewing effect on the law.

Rather than precipitously granting the Rahimi petition and then holding cases like Range and Zherka if they come before the Court, the Court should consider the full array of petitions that are filed when it comes back from recess and grant the one, or ones, most representative of the challenges that typically are brought in this area. The Court could then hold Rahimi pending the outcome of that case or at a minimum grant another petition alongside Rahimi.

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