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A Pennsylvania judge ruled this week that Pittsburgh’s anti-gun laws are “void and unenforceable” because state preemption statues prohibit local governments from restricting firearm possession and use.

Update 11/4/2019: Local media is now reporting that the woman, who is eight months pregnant, used an “AR-style rifle” to defend her home and her family from the home invaders. A Florida woman fatally shot one of two home invaders this week, reports local media. The incident happened around 9 p.m. Wednesday night when the [...]

“They’re taking up a fight against me on something the Legislature has to do, and they think I have the authority not to follow the law,” Allen said last Wednesday. “I do oppose this law. However, it’s not my job to oppose a law; my job is to enforce the law.”

The rifle that fired the first shot at the Battle of Bunker Hill sold at the Morphy’s Auction House in Denver, Penn. for $492,000.

Gun-control advocates are targeting Jersey Mike’s Subs for a boycott.

“An individual right to gun ownership offers one path, deputizing all people to defend themselves with a firearm at their side. Gun regulation offers another such path to self-defense, one vastly more efficacious and preferred by the American public. It represents a mode of preemptive self-defense, whereby the state is tasked by its citizens with limiting access to deadly force,” they write.

“The law is different in this case because the government, as the sovereign, has the power to take property that is dangerous, diseased, or used in criminal activities without compensation,” Smith wrote in a nine-page ruling.

A high school football coach in Oregon is once again being hailed as a hero after a video emerged this week capturing the moment he disarmed and embraced a student wielding a shotgun.

The nonpartisan think tank conducted a survey in September finding that the number of respondents who support banning “high capacity magazines” has increased from 65 percent in 2017 to 71 percent in 2019.