Interesting legal developments in this post-BRUEN era. The first one is a real surprise, the second one maybe not so much in light of the insults from the Left toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg sentenced a Florida man to fifteen months in Federal Prison for sending threatening Tweets to Colorado U.S. Congresswoman in 2021. Matthew Lee Comiskey sent five threatening tweets to Rep. Lauren Boebert mentioning firearms and encouraging others to do her harm. Comiskey originally faced five counts of making an interstate threat but pleaded guilty last year to one count. In my previous life as a corporate pilot, I had the pleasure of meeting Rep. Boebert and dining at Shooter’s Grill, her Rifle, Colorado restaurant where nearly every member of the staff is armed.
Not surprisingly the anti-gun, and now-convicted felon’s mother, told the court that her son’s actions were “out of character”. Sure they were. Thanks to Ammoland.com for bringing this story to our attention.
In another news story this week, with a nine-to-zero decision, SCOTUS eases prison sentences for some gun crimes. It has to do with concurrent vs consecutive sentences. But the interesting thing in the ruling was that the Court returned to the Judiciary some discretion in sentencing. You might be wondering why it’s important. It appears to be another step toward reigning in federal agencies, limiting them to only exercising the power Congress has allocated them.
Finally this week, we are getting more information about twenty (yes, twenty!), IRS Agents raiding a gun store in Montana, seizing AFT 4473 forms as part of an alleged tax case. We had something similar happen years ago in Des Moines, Iowa. The gun dealer here was told by the IRS that his business was far more profitable based on the number of firearms sales, despite an audit showing that it was not. (Clearly, federal employees with no business experience assume that the markup on new guns is the amount between the jobber wholesale price and MSRP, not some other number as dictated by the local market). He did not have the money to fight the IRS assessment, despite them being sure he had millions in an unidentified account somewhere. But don’t worry, 87,000 new IRS agents won’t be bothering everyday Americans. Biden says they are only going after the super-rich.
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This week’s President’s Message “Bruen Strikes Again”, is about the recent case out of Philadelphia by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled a non-violent felon by the name of Bryan Range, who was denied his Second Amendment Rights for over thirty years, had been wrongly disarmed.
This case is significant in that it starts to reign in State Legislatures and the US Congress from whittling away at all of our Constitutional rights by legislative fiat.
Having filed and argued an amicus brief on behalf of Mr. Range, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the FPC Action Foundation released a statement on this case. Here is part of the FPC and FPCAF statement:
“In 1995, Bryan Range was convicted in a Pennsylvania state court for making a false statement to obtain food stamps assistance, a class one misdemeanor. Because of that conviction twenty-eight years ago, he was forever banned from possessing firearms, a fundamental right protected by the Second Amendment. Today, the en banc Third Circuit held that ban unconstitutional.
“At root, the Government’s claim that only ‘law-abiding, responsible citizens’ are protected by the Second Amendment devolves authority to legislators to decide whom to exclude from ‘the people,’” wrote Judge Hardiman in the majority opinion. “We reject that approach because such ‘extreme deference gives legislatures unreviewable power to manipulate the Second Amendment by choosing a label.’”
FPC and FPCAF filed amicus briefs in this case at both the3-judge anden banc panel stages, and FPCAF’s Director of Constitutional Studies, Joseph Greenlee, argued the case as an amicus curiae before the 3-judge panel. Greenlee’s authoritativescholarship on the issue, an article published by the Wyoming Law Review in 2020, was cited in both a concurring and dissenting opinion, as it had been by the 3-judge panel opinion. His newestarticle on the issue argues for a result consistent with today’s ruling by the en banc majority.
“For nearly three decades, Mr. Range has been unjustly denied his Second Amendment rights,” said Greenlee. “We’re thrilled that Mr. Range’s rights have been restored, and about the decision’s potential implications for countless others who have been wrongfully disarmed.””
I cannot emphasize how significant this ruling is not just because of the Bruen Decision, but also the passage of the Freedom Amendment in Iowa, last Fall.
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