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Rob Romano
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Updates on 2A cases, groups, news, bills, etc. Powered by @gunpolicy. Litigation & Intelligence Coordinator @FPCAction. Views expressed are mine alone
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Sep 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: NAGR v. Grisham (D. NM): NOTICE of Hearing on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order: Motion Hearing set for 9/13/2023 at 01:00 PM in Albuquerque - 420 Mimbres Courtroom before District Judge David H. Urias. courtlistener.com/docket/6777918… Donk v. Grisham (D. NM): NOTICE of Hearing on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order: Motion Hearing set for 9/13/2023 at 01:00 PM in Albuquerque - 420 Mimbres Courtroom before District Judge David H. Urias. courtlistener.com/docket/6777944…
Sep 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Update: Everytown's lawyers are trying to join this lawsuit. civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail/Pub…
Everytown wants to amend the complaint to claim that Ruger violated the NFA by selling guns with pistol braces: civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/DocumentInquir…
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May 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"On cross-examination, he acknowledged that he stuck his phone about six inches (15 centimeters) from Colie's face while the translate app repeated the phrase 'Hey dips---, stop thinking about my sparkle' in English and Spanish." apnews.com/article/youtub… "Colie backed away from the 6-foot-5 Cook (196 cm), who kept advancing toward Colie even as Colie said 'no' and 'stop' and pushed Cook's arm away. Then, Cook said, when the two were separated by a small distance, Colie pulled out an handgun and shot him in the abdomen."
May 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Wiese v. Bonta (E.D. CA): Ryan Busse's newest declaration in support of gun control is for CA's magazine ban (again). At $150/hr, it's almost identical to yesterday's filing in WA (without the part recommending bolt-action rifles for self-defense). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImageImageImage This section was in the Washington filing but not in the California one, probably because most (if not all) of those handguns aren't on the roster: Image
Apr 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The committee chair said the choice to make this testimony only was "after extensive conversation with the author" and "to allow time for more stakeholder conversations and to help her get to a better place with the bill": senate.ca.gov/media/senate-t… A rep from the American Property Casualty Insurance Association is speaking in opposition to the bill, saying it "would require insurance to cover intentional criminal acts." Image
Apr 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thinking about it, it's interesting how anti-gun politicians seem hell-bent on keeping their fellow Democrats from being armed. For example:

1) They set high permit fees, preventing poor people from being able to afford them 2) They require permits to be submitted and interviews to be conducted during office hours, preventing people who can't take off work from getting them

3) They ban guns on public transportation, preventing people without cars from carrying anywhere past walking distance
Apr 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Viramontes v. Cook County (N.D. IL, assault weapons ban): Plaintiffs' response in opposition to defendants' motion for summary judgment
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImageImageImage "If that were the test, and the County were right about the statistics, then no firearms would be protected. And that cannot be the case." Image
Apr 15, 2023 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
Judge: "Well, I mean, today presently standard issued to military personnel is a Mossberg shotgun, a 9-millimeter pistol, a .40 caliber pistol, so just the fact that military people might find it useful doesn't mean that law-abiding citizens can't also find it useful." Image The plaintiffs say that the state's picture of a banned grenade launcher is actually showing a flare launcher: ImageImage
Apr 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Rupp v. Bonta (C.D. CA, assault weapon ban): Plaintiffs' combined reply to defendant's combined opposition to motions to exclude testimony
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImageImageImage "The State also exposes its shocking ignorance about the very firearms it regulates... It is not Plaintiffs' 'view' that .223 Remington is one of the weaker centerfire cartridges. It is an indisputable fact that it is." ImageImage
Apr 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
How the lawsuit starts: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image The lawsuit clams that magazines over 10 rounds are "useful only to engage in mass assaults on other civilians or law enforcement—that is, mass shootings." Image
Apr 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: SDNY Magistrate Judge recommends granting summary judgment for Sig Sauer in P320 handgun lawsuit, saying "there is insufficient evidence to support critical elements" of the plaintiff's claims. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImageImageImage "Jinn asserts that any testing would have put his experts' lives at risk. That proposition is somewhat belied by the testing performed by Sig's expert, who used a cartridge loaded with putty..." Image
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"According to the court, the Act merely prohibits the use of property for certain purposes. That would be news to Appellants and the many thousands of other Rhode Islanders who must get rid of their property or become felons." "Saying that a cartridge box is analogous to modern ammunition feeding device because both hold ammunition is like saying that a gas can is analogous to a combustion engine because they both hold fuel."
Apr 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
When Hawaii told S&W that its public records requests would cost $23,124 to process, S&W asked for help determining why it cost so much. The state gave unhelpful one-sentence answers while hiding the fact that it did a fee analysis that explained the costs: S&W responded by breaking up the requests, hoping that it would help it figure out which part is estimated to cost so much. Hawaii responded by combining the requests anyway, saying it would now cost $27,000, and hiding the fact that it did a second fee analysis:
Apr 1, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
"Rather, [the state] argues Plaintiffs have failed to show that these handguns are 'in common use' and therefore Plaintiffs' conduct is not covered by the Amendment. This argument is a stretch under any reasonable assessment." "Thus, Defendants' argument that it is constitutionally permissible to prohibit commercial sales of state-of-the-art semiautomatic pistols, so long as Plaintiffs can purchase single shot handguns, revolvers and older grandfathered models...runs headlong into Heller’s admonition."
Mar 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"But, in this Court's view, Bondi declined to follow rather clear signs that the Supreme Court favors 1791 as the date for determining the historical snapshot of 'the people' whose understanding of the Second Amendment matters." "The Court cannot agree that these rules and regulations [in Saul Cornell's report] demonstrate a relevantly similar historical tradition of restrictions on 18-to-20-year-olds possessing or carrying firearms."
Mar 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"Since Bruen, state defendants have stubbornly tried to flout it and shield gun control laws from historical scrutiny by arguing that the challenged law at issue does not implicate the plain Second Amendment text, no matter how fanciful and tenuous that argument may be." "Appellees are sure that the Jim Crow jurisdictions of the past felt the same way when forced to process voter registrations... But then, as now, the State cannot cite the burden that its own unconstitutional law created as a reason to let it keep enforcing it."
Mar 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Crudup v. DC (D. DC): Judge denies motion to dismiss in lawsuit that claims the Washington DC Police's Gun Recovery Unit "unlawfully targets predominately Black neighborhoods and young Black males specifically." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ImageImageImageImage "Defendants argue that they were justified in stopping and searching Bell because of his unprovoked flight up the stairs..." Image
Mar 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: DSSA v. DSHS (D. DE): Judge denies motions for preliminary injunction against Delaware's "assault weapon" and magazine bans, says they can be banned despite being "in common use for self-defense." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… "Consequently, I do not think it matters, for the purposes of this analysis, that assault weapons are seldom fired in self-defense. What matters is that they are commonly owned for the purpose of self-defense, which, as explained, Plaintiff has sufficiently shown."
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
United States v. Daniels (5th Circuit, 922(g)(3)): Reply brief for appellant

"First, every single statute that the Government cites applied to disarm people only while they were actually under the influence of alcohol." assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicy… "Third, the Government cites to laws prohibiting Catholics and 'tramps' from owning firearms. This 19th-century trend to limit Second Amendment rights was largely discriminatory and included bans on enslaved people and freedmen owning guns."
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
No anti-gun article is complete without quoting Ryan Busse Image Man who "had been raised around guns" says he "couldn't believe how loud" .223 was Image
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Without magazines, modern semiautomatic firearms are little more than overengineered clubs. It should therefore come as no surprise that, when responding to this Court's order to catalogue all the rifles that HB 5471 bans, the AG depicted them all with magazines attached." "The AG does not contest the ubiquity of the arms HB 5471 bans. Instead, he argues that they are 'not commonly used for self-defense,' by which he means literally emptying an entire magazine when confronted by an assailant."