New Coalition Claims It’s Found Common Ground on Gun Laws

Not every gun owner is a Second Amendment advocate; a fact that major anti-gun groups like Giffords, Brady, Everytown and smaller outfits like 97 Percent know very well. The gun control lobby doesn’t approve of too many gun owners, but those who are willing to endorse restrictions on their right to keep and bear arms are what the Communist Party used to call “useful idiots”; naive people working against their own interests while believing they are fighting for a righteous cause.

Now there’s a new group on the scene claiming to have found common ground between gun owners, Second Amendment advocates, and gun control activists… and they’re viewing Wisconsin as a laboratory for their experiment.

 The result is a package of eight proposals that, when taken together, would reduce firearms injuries and deaths while protecting gun owners’ rights, the group asserts.

“We are here to deliver a message of hope,” said Dr. Michael Siegel of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, who launched the coalition, during an online news conference on Feb. 26.

“It is possible to break through polarization and achieve a consensus on contentious policy issues,” he said.

The group’s policies include extreme risk protection orders, also called ‘Red Flag Laws,’ gun storage laws, background checks, firearms education in schools, gun dealer oversight, and suicide prevention.

It’s noteworthy what’s not included. There’s no effort to limit the sale of certain guns, such as assault-style rifles or higher-capacity ammunition magazines.

Well, gee, how big of them. Is there anything that actually strengthens the right to keep and bear arms in their proposals, other than perhaps firearms education in schools? It doesn’t sound like it. Instead, the group seems to be offering a smattering of non-objectionable ideas (at least in theory) along with a much longer list of restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.

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BLUF (Again, how many times do you hear this?)
Other neighbors shared the sentiment: This is not the area where things like this happen.

Man reportedly killed in self defense in Springfield ID’d; neighbors shocked it happened

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) — Police are investigating after an early morning shooting in Springfield Friday.

Officers were sent to a home in the 1700 block of Maiden Lane at 12:56 a.m. on a report of a shooting.

Upon arrival, they located a man, later identified as Anthony Walker Jr., 28, who had been shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead by Springfield Fire Rescue Division medics.

Authorities say the shooting was in self-defense, and that there are no threats to the public.

Neighbors in the area who say incidents like these are rare for this neighborhood.

They said that this area is typically quiet and that fireworks were the loudest disturbances they were used to.

One person said the fireworks they thought they’d heard early in the morning turned out to be gunshots.

“We heard about five pops and thought someone’s shooting fireworks again,” said a neighbor, who says she has lived nearby for years. “They started roping off the area so we knew something was up.

“It’s just like a quiet small town.”

The neighbor says they were stunned learning someone had been killed.

“We were pretty shocked that kind of excitement unfortunately coming around here,” she says. “It’s not normal. Not at all.”

Other neighbors shared the sentiment: This is not the area where things like this happen.

Ayatollah Khamenei, reported killed by US-Israeli airstrikes, embodied fearsome anti-Western rule

Feb 28 (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, has been an inveterate foe of the West, crushing internal opposition while supporting proxy forces across the region in the hope of making his country respected and feared.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday declared that Khamenei died in the conflict that had defined his rule of Iran, and a senior Israeli official told Reuters his body had ‌been found following U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

Iranian authorities had not confirmed his death but satellite images showed significant damage to the leader’s Tehran compound, one of the first targets of the bombing campaign.

Khamenei’s death would represent a ‌massive blow to the Islamic Republic that he had led since 1989, a decade after rising to prominence in the theocratic revolution that toppled Iran’s monarchy and rocked the Middle East.

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Senator Eric Schmitt Urges ATF to Repeal Three Biden-Era Gun Regulations

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wrote to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Deputy Director Robert Cekada to congratulate him on his nomination to lead the Bureau and follow-up on their discussion during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee urging him to repeal three major Biden-era gun rules that infringed law-abiding gunowners’ Second Amendment rights and exceeded ATF’s statutory authority.

“In the past, ATF often relied on Chevron Deference to expand its regulatory remit and restrict the liberties of law-abiding Americans. But, thankfully, the era of deference to the administrative state is over. It is time for the ATF to adjust its regulations accordingly. I therefore strongly encourage the ATF to repeal the Biden-era Frame or Receiver Rule, Stabilizing Brace Rule, and ‘Engaged in the Business’ Rule. As I explained during the hearing, these rules exceeded the ATF’s statutory authority, threatened to turn law-abiding gunowners into felons overnight, and contained such vague standards that even those who tried to comply with them in good faith were left without sufficient notice of the scope of ATF’s mandates,” Senator Schmitt wrote.

Senator Schmitt is calling for the repeal of the following rules:

  1. Frame or Receiver Rule: Biden’s ATF re-interpreted the Gun Control Act to cover weapons parts kits as well as any “partially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional” “frame” or “receiver.” That re-interpretation usurped Congress’s legislative power and threatened to turn legal gunowners into felons overnight.
  2. Stabilizing Brace Rule: Biden’s ATF re-interpreted “rifle” and “short-barreled” rifle under the National Firearms Act to include some pistols with stabilizing braces. Because possession of a non-compliant short-barreled rifle bears significant regulatory consequences, this rule imposed a significant burden on American gunowners. A federal court previously held that this rule was illegal because it was “arbitrary and capricious.”
  3. “Engaged in the Business” Rule: Biden’s ATF drastically expanded when an individual is “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms, and thus subject to the Gun Control Act’s regulations for licensed dealers. In this rule, the ATF violated Congress’ clear statutory instructions and imposed an unlawful burden on gunowners through a vague, difficult-to-comply-with regulation.

Read the full letter HERE.

Remember:
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman…” ?
He was bald-faced lying then.
Why would anyone think he’s not lying now?

Kentucky HB 749 Follows West Virginia in Expanding Citizens’ Access to Modern Machine Guns

In a decisive move that reaffirms Kentucky’s proud heritage as a constitutional carry state and a bulwark for unalienable rights, Rep. TJ Roberts (R-Burlington) introduced House Bill 749 on February 25, 2026. This landmark legislation establishes an Office of Public Defense within the Kentucky State Police, tasked with acquiring and transferring modern, select-fire machine guns directly to law-abiding citizens. HB 749 is nothing short of revolutionary: it weaponizes a clear federal exemption to dismantle the artificial, unconstitutional barriers erected by the 1986 Hughes Amendment, restoring to Kentuckians the very arms the Founding Fathers intended for a well-regulated militia and the security of a free state.

Rep. Roberts, a steadfast defender of the Second Amendment who just days ago voted against HB 299, the GOP-backed bill criminalizing Glock switches, has long argued that law-abiding citizens deserve parity with the very tools carried by law enforcement and the military. “Federal law explicitly allows states to sell machine guns to their citizens,” Roberts declared upon filing the measure. His bill does exactly that, sidestepping the Hughes Amendment’s post-1986 registration ban through 18 U.S.C. § 922(o)(2)(A), which carves out transfers “to or by” a state or under its authority. No more overpaying for pre-1986 “transferables” that now fetch $25,000 to $60,000 on the collector market.

Kentucky residents who pass a standard background check may soon be able to purchase true military-pattern full-auto firearms at reasonable prices, AR-15/M16 platforms, squad automatic weapons (SAW), submachine guns, and the arms “in common use” for militia purposes.

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BFA joins federal lawsuit challenging ATF tax stamp requirement on suppressors, short-barreled rifles

On Feb. 26, 2026, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) joined plaintiffs in filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).

The case, Roberts v. ATF (2:26-CV-91-SCM), was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Until the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the NFA had imposed a $200 excise tax (“tax stamp”) on suppressors and on short-barreled rifles and required a tax-enforcement registration requirement on those items.

Trump’s bill included both the SHORT Act and the Hearing Protection Act and would have eliminated the NFA tax and registration. At the time, BFA joined a long list of organizations nationwide in signing an open letter to two U.S. House of Representatives committees, insisting that Congress eliminate unjust restrictions imposed by the NFA.

The bill passed the House, but Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a Democrat appointed during the Harry Reid era, on July 3 stripped both pro-gun measures from the legislation, asserting that they exceeded the provisions of the Byrd rule, which governs reconciliation measures, because they weren’t directly tax related. All that remained was a reduction of the tax stamp from $200 to $0, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

The good news is that MacDonough’s actions have resulted in lawsuits challenging the remaining registration requirements for the affected arms under the NFA as unconstitutional because Congress passed the NFA in 1934, specifically premised on its enumerated power to “lay and collect taxes.”

This Roberts complaint, which BFA has signed onto as a plaintiff, argues that because the tax has been eliminated, the NFA’s tax-stamp requirement is no longer justified under Congress’ taxing power or under any other authority granted under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.

The complaint also asserts that the NFA registration requirement for suppressors and short-barreled rifles violates the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court has established that any regulation on arms-bearing conduct must be consistent with our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. As the complaint argues, there is no tradition that supports the NFA’s registration requirement for protected arms such as suppressors and short-barreled rifles.

The plaintiffs in the case include Buckeye Firearms Association, American Suppressor Association Foundation, Center for Human Liberty, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Meridian Ordnance, and two individuals. The case represents the third lawsuit supported by the NRA, ASA, Firearms Policy Coalition, and Second Amendment Foundation challenging the NFA since the Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the tax for NFA items.

Dean Rieck, BFA executive director, said, “This has the potential to be another landmark case for Buckeye Firearms Association.

“BFA has been directly involved in a variety of crucial Second Amendment cases,” said Rieck, “including Heller (2008), McDonald (2010), and Bruen (2022), all game-changing decisions for gun rights in America. If we win the Roberts case, it will yet another major victory, not just for Ohioans, but for all U.S. citizens who value and respect the Constitution.”

Roberts builds upon Brown v. ATF, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in August 2025, and Jensen v. ATF, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in October 2025.

Yeah, another instance of
“Things Like This Just Don’t Happen Around Here!“™

Neighbors stunned after burglary suspect was shot by homeowner in New Castle

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — “It’s just crazy to know that that was just right next door.”

That’s how one neighbor on South Jefferson Street in New Castle was feeling Tuesday.

Early Monday morning, police said a neighbor on her street shot a man in the leg after they said the man broke into the home.

The neighbor didn’t want to be on camera, but said her street is always quiet.

“I’ve been here for four years, and this is a very quiet street,” she told Channel 11’s Andrew Havranek. “The kids go out and play every day, I mean, they’re always nonstop running around outside. It’s very quiet, nobody bothers you, I mean, the kids go to church right up the street, so that was just very alarming when I heard that. It was just like…Wow.”

Lt. Steven Brooks with the New Castle Police told Channel 11 the suspect is still in a Youngstown hospital and might be for some time. Charges have not been filed and he said the investigation is still ongoing.

Brooks said the man and the homeowner did not know each other. Right now, police do not expect charges to be filed against the homeowner.

“I’m so thankful he was able to protect his family,” the neighbor said. “I mean, luckily, he had that on him and he was able to do that. Sorry, it had to go to those lengths, but luckily he was there at that time to make sure his family was safe.”

That neighbor said she has cameras, but they didn’t catch anything.

“I definitely think I’ll be way more alert, definitely on high alert as of right now, just until everything’s under wraps and they figure out why they did it,” she said.