Newsbits

Thursday’s Newsbits:

Elections:

• The 2024 GOP Platform Barely Mentions Gun Rights

Jurisprudence:

• US Supreme Court Justice warns lower court’s “nonsensical” application of rule banning “assault weapons” & other recent decisions
• Local attorney helps change NY’s concealed carry rules…for now

NRA:

• The N.R.A. Is Facing a Court Fight for Control of Its Future
• NRA gears up for ‘Phase Two’ of New York legal battle
• NRA Membership Dropped to 3.8 Million in 2023
• The return of Wayne LaPierre: in 2nd NY trial, NRA’s former ‘king’ fights for the right to resume some role at gun lobby
• Expert calls NRA’s spending policies a ‘dumpster fire’ as gun group’s civil trial begins a new phase

Politics:

• A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia?
• New York joins cities questioning ShotSpotter costs, benefits
• Pace professor weighs political rhetoric, gun control in wake of Trump rally shooting