A Few Things

The Arkansas state Senate passed Act 229, (also known as House Bill 1117), which would require public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools to annually provide students with age appropriate instruction on firearm safety.  The bill would have to also pass the state House of Representatives and be signed by the Governor to become law.

Under the bill, the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission would work with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to create and approve age-appropriate firearm safety courses. 

Although just an option being discussed at this time, the bill does state that if an option of live-fire training is approved, it would require parent’s consent.

As part of the rationale, Representative Scott Richardson said: “All of our children play together and invade whatever home happens to be the play of the day. And in that process, they may go into a neighbor's home and discover that unsecured firearm, and how would they react."

Can you imagine such a bill in New York State?  The liberals running the state Education Department would be peeing their pants!

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HB 2187, passed the West Virginia House Education Committee.  It is next scheduled for the House Judiciary Committee.

HB 2187 authorizes teachers, administrators, or support personnel in elementary or secondary schools to carry concealed firearms and be designated as a school protection officer (SPO).

Yep. Definitely diapers for the NYS Education Department.

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In a case involving Pennsylvania’s law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from carrying firearms during a state of emergency, a three-judge panel of the federal Third Circuit had held the ban unconstitutional.  It based its finding on that 18-to-20-years-olds are part of “the people” whom the Second Amendment protects.

The state then petitioned for rehearing en banc where it would have then been reconsidered by all the judges of the Third Circuit, rather than a three-judge panel.

The court denied the petition.  The state remains barred from enforcing the ban and the 3 judge panel decision remains binding precedent in the Third Circuit.

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The Federal Third Circuit also denied a petition for a rehearing en banc in Lara v. Paris.

The court determined that the original understanding of the Second Amendment goes from when it was ratified in 1791 and that date controls any Second Amendment analysis.

In order to sneak in and undermine the Bruen guidelines, it has been a common strategy of the anti-gun left to say the understanding of the 2nd Amendment starts with the approval of the 14th Amendment, in 1868.  This would have opened the door for the left to try to use racist, post-Civil War, southern state laws aimed at prohibiting gun ownership of blacks as an historical rationale for current gun control.

That’s right, the anti-gun left tries to use racist laws to justify their gun control positions.

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NICS checks dropped in February but were still over 1 million for the 67th consecutive month.