By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press Six men who were living in DeLand, Florida have been sentenced for illegally straw purchasing and then trafficking 33 semi-automatic firearms that they sold to a violent Mexican drug cartel, the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG, which is located in […]
Gun Rights Groups File Fed. Challenge to Nat’l Firearms Act
A coalition of Second Amendment groups and two private citizens have filed a long-awaited federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) in a case known as Brown v. ATF. The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs are the Second Amendment Foundation […]
SAF Petitions Supreme Court for Review in Handgun Law Challenge
The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Brown v. ATF, SAF’s challenge to the federal ban that prevents adults aged 18 to 20 from purchasing handguns from licensed dealers. SAF’s Petition for Certiorari highlights the circuit split that has emerged on the issue, with the Fifth Circuit striking down […]
Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak asks President Trump for Pardon
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been behind bars in a New Jersey federal prison for almost three years, but he still has 17 years left of his 20-year sentence even though he says he did absolutely nothing illegal or even wrong. Adamiak recently sent […]
First Poll: WA Governor Lowest Job Approval Rating in Three Decades
A new Elway poll on Washington politics led off with bad news for Governor Bob Ferguson, leaving him with the lowest job rating for his first six months in office since 1992, when then-Democrat Mike Lowry was governor. Washington has had a string of Democrat governors for four decades, dating back to the late Booth […]
Traverse City Triumph: Armed Citizen Hailed for Stopping Knife Attack
After dramatic video showing how an armed private citizen intervened to stop a madman’s knife attack at a Traverse City, Mich., Walmart on Saturday, a leading national gun rights organization is hailing the Samaritan as a hero, and recognizing the man’s “remarkable control of the situation.” Michigan resident Derrick Perry is seen on the video, […]