Guns: how much longer will it take ....

In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to have a handgun at home for self-defense. Two years later, the justices made clear that this right also applies against state and local governments. Since then the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to say anything more about how far states and cities can go in restricting gun rights, but today it granted a plea to weigh in, this time in a case from New York City.

The request for review came from the New York State Pistol and Rifle Association and a group of gun owners who live in the city. They were challenging the city's ban on transferring even licensed, unloaded guns anywhere outside the city limits -- including to a weekend home or shooting range for target practice -- restrictions they describe as "draconian." After the lower courts rejected their challenge and upheld the restrictions, the NYSPRA and gun owners went to the Supreme Court.

Today the justices granted review in the case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York. The Supreme Court's calendar for April was already full before last week's conference, so the new grant likely won't be argued until the fall. The justices' eventual ruling in the case could stick to the relatively narrow question of whether the city's law is constitutional, or it might shed light on a broader and more consequential question: whether the right to have a gun extends outside the home. Either way, the court's opinion in the case probably won't come until the spring of 2020.

They say officers responded after a man called police from inside the SunTrust bank in the town of Sebring and said: "I have shot five people".

The gunman - named as Zephen Xaver, 21 - had barricaded himself in the branch, forced people to lie on the floor and began shooting, according to police.

He surrendered after officers stormed the bank. The motive for the shooting remains unclear.

The incident took place just after 12:30 (17:30 GMT) at SunTrust Bank in Sebring, about 80 miles (130km) south of Orlando. Police say they were the only five people in the bank at the time.

"This horrific incident shocks and angers me more than anything I have encountered in my career," said local sheriff Paul Blackman.

SunTrust CEO Bill Rogers said in a statement the company was "deeply saddened by the tragic shooting".

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the suspect is "an individual who needs to face very swift and exacting justice".

The SunTrust Foundation has given to Urban League, a member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, an anti-NRA organization. According to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, “The insurrectionist ideology promoted by the NRA and other pro-gun groups is corrosive to the democratic values and institutions that protect the freedoms we enjoy as Americans.”

There is no place in a democracy for a far right terrorist group

In Washington state, a freshly implemented ballot initiative and a raft of new bills may produce some of the tightest firearms regulations in the US. But standing in the way is a group of rural law enforcement officers who say point blank that they won’t enforce any of it.

The Klickitat county sheriff, Bob Songer, is one of them. He told the Guardian that the initiative passed last November “is unconstitutional on several grounds. I’ve taken the position that as an elected official, I am not going to enforce that law”.

Songer also cited ongoing litigation by the National Rife Association gun industry lobby and others which aims to demonstrate the laws violate both the second amendment and the state’s constitution. He also said that if other agencies attempted to seize weapons from county residents under the auspices of the new laws, he would consider preventively “standing in their doorway”.
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At least five people have been killed in separate shootings in two parishes in the US state of Louisiana, officials say.

Police are searching for the suspect, 21-year-old Dakota Theriot, who fled in a gray and silver Dodge pick-up truck.

He is said to be armed and believed to be heading to the neighbouring state of Mississippi.

Authorities believe the two shootings are connected. Two of the victims were the suspect's parents.

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On Saturday morning local time, police were called to a trailer park in the city of Gonzales, 25 miles (40km) south of Baton Rouge, for a "domestic incident", Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said.

When they arrived, they found two people who had been shot but were still alive. They have been identified as Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 51 years old.

They told the officers that their son was the shooter. The suspect had been told recently to leave their house.

The couple were taken to a hospital in Baton Rouge where they later died.

Reports suggest the gunman first killed three other people in neighbouring Livingston Parish.

The victims were not relatives of the suspect but appeared to know him. They have been identified as Billy Ernest, 43; Summer Ernest, 20; and Tanner Ernest, 17.

The suspect is wanted for first-degree murder, illegal use of weapons and home invasion.

If the FBI (or whoever) isn't standing there beside them while they are doing their job, when they happen to come across ###, how is the FBI ever going to know, or ever going to prove it even if someone did tell them?

Re: izzythepush (Post 6781034)

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There is no place in a democracy for a far right terrorist group

What do you think Islam is? You saying anything like that is laughable.

I don't want my brother commin outta there with just his dick in his hand...

Oh? Who is going to do that?

The legitimate legal authority (You know, the law)

I know that Oral is keen on the 2nd amendment.......

.......but so is all of the rest of the country.

It's a little sad that she thinks that elected people will swear to protect and serve the American people then violate the law they have sworn to uphold.