It seems the subsequent raid by EPA, FBI and others was conducted to teach USA Brass a lesson about federal power and proper cooperation…
Gary Marbut
Advisory – Video Recording of Police
Generally, the courts reviewing these situations in other states have held that when police are doing their public job in public places they have no expectation of privacy…
Montana Shooting Sports Association Annual Meeting After Action Report
Also Montana Shooting Sports Association finalized its legislative agenda for the 2015 Montana Legislative Session…
US Supreme Court Declines to Hear MSSA v. Holder aka ‘Firearms Freedom Act’
The US Supreme Court has declined to accept the State of Montana’s separate petition to validate the principles of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. We’re now at the end of this particular road…
Montana’s Right to Keep & Bear Arms Celebration Week Coming Soon
Montana’s official week to celebrate our right to keep and bear arms begins Monday, March 3rd. I urge you to plan some club, group or personal celebration for that week…
Mental Health & The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
This Thursday the Montana Legislature’s Law & Justice Interim Committee will hold a hearing to consider whether or not Montana should do more to capture mental health records & feed those into federal electronic systems, such as the NICS…
Montana AG submits cert petition in MSSA v. Holder
Attorneys say that this separate cert petition by the State of Montana will significantly improve the chances that the Supreme Court will accept and rule on MSSA v. Holder…
New Idea: The ‘Constitutional Settlements Commission of the States’ Proposed
The Commission provides a way for the states to collectively define the powers the states have surrendered to the federal government in the Constitution…
Montana Plaintiffs Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Validating the Firearms Freedom Act
The Montana Shooting Sports Association, the Second Amendment Foundation and Gary Marbut have appealed MSSA v. Holder to the U.S. Supreme Court…
MT Gun Owners Health Care Privacy, Effective Oct 1st, Providers May NOT Ask About Guns
HB 459, now Montana law at 50-16-108, M.C.A., prohibits health care providers from asking patients questions about firearm ownership, possession or use…
Ninth Circuit Rules in Firearms Freedom Act Case
This was about as good of a ruling as we could have expected from the Ninth Circuit. We must get to the U.S. Supreme Court to accomplish our goal of overturning 70 years of flawed Supreme Court rulings…
TSA’s Ammo Purchase By The Numbers
Suddenly were up to a low-ball estimate of 1.5 million rounds of ammunition expended in one shooting season in just one shooting discipline…
Join Free Montanans to Protest the Bloomberg Anti-Gun Show Bus Tour
Here’s our tentative Plan for the Bloomberg Anti-Gun Show protest at the University of Montana, Thursday July 25th 2013…
Montana Prepares ‘Special Welcome’ for Bloomberg’s No Names Bus Tour
Mayors Against Illegal Guns is doing a bus tour of the US trying to drum up support for state-level and national gun control and Montana gun rights supporters are looking forward to his arrival….
MSSA Firearm Safety & Self Defense Class – June 23rd 2013, Missoula MT
A course entitled “Gun Safety for Personal Protection and Concealed Weapon Permits” will be hosted in Missoula by the Montana Shooting Sports Association on Sunday, June 23rd 2013…
My Take on the Ammunition Shortage
The only thing that would turn this around in the near future is if conditions change to remove or moderate the perception of economic and political uncertainty in the U.S…
Progressives Supporting ‘Mayors For Illegal Guns’ is a Great Joke
Anti freedom haters are so clueless they selected a photo for the ad of a man carrying a tripod, thinking it’s a rifle, bawh haha….
To Senators Baucus & Tester Re Gun Powder Control Amendment
Senator Lautenberg’s amendment will be the camel’s nose in the tent to invoke similar federal control over manufacture, distribution and sale of the components of ammunition, and eventually ammunition itself…
Montana Shooting Sports Association Legislative Update for Friday March 22nd 2013
A lot of action is happening on MSSA bills right now. The full rundown is below, so I’ll only cite bill numbers for the ones which need your action…
Montana Shooters to Challenge AG Holder in Court March 4th 2013
The nation seems to be in the mood to challenge federal power on many fronts. The Supreme Court is certainly aware of these winds of change blowing across America…
What The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause Really Means
Gregg Re repeats the all-too-common miss-understanding that the overrated Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution makes the federal government supreme in virtually anything it wishes to do…
Montana Pro Gun Bills Up For Second Reading Today
We are near the legislative “transmittal” date, February 29th, the date by which all House bills must be transmitted to the Senate, and Senate bills to the House. Any bills which don’t make “Transmittal” are lost…
Just Say No to ‘Universal Background Checks’
If you wish to weigh in on this, send something similar yourself, or just send an email, fax or phone message saying “I agree with the MSSA position against “universal background checks.”…
Game Time Montana – Support A Batch Of Pro-Gun Bills Next Week
This coming week in Montana, we will have THREE “gun bills” days, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday! in which two committees will consider about 12 PRO-GUN bills…
Letter Requesting Montana Sheriffs Stand Their Ground Against Obama’s Gun Grab
Many individual sheriffs taking this position, the Utah Sheriffs Association has recently declared such a position…
Montana Firearms Freedom Act Suit on the Move
FINALLY the Ninth Circuit has scheduled MSSA v. Holder for oral argument on March 4th, in Portland, Oregon…
Lessons, Themes Rise From Tragedy In Connecticut
In lieu of magic and simple emoting, we can rationally examine how these incidents happen, and how they can be interdicted, even if we are still at a loss to understand why any person would do such a terrible thing…
Montana Shooting Sports Association 2012 Candidate Grades & Endorsements
MSSA evaluates candidates based on voting records of incumbents, on returned MSSA Candidate Questionnaires, and on other information known about candidates.
Idiotic Theories Crumble in Wake of Colorado Shooting
Police simply cannot be depended on to save you. You are on your own. Admitting that is the first step towards personal responsibility and self-defense.
My Take on the SCOTUS’s Anti-Gun Obamacare Ruling
Roberts availed himself of a great opportunity to educate the voters of America. Warning voters that it is not the job of the Supreme Court to protect voters from the folly of electing bad people.