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view the web version of this email DAILY ALERT FOR Friday, March 29, 2019   LEGAL & LEGISLATION NEWS  Breaking! Federal Court Finds California Magazine Ban Violates the Second Amendment In one of the strongest judicial statements in favor of the Second Amendment to date, Judge Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California determined on Friday that California's ban on commonly possessed firearm magazines violates the Second Amendment. The case is Duncan v. Becerra. The NRA-supported case had already been up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on the question of whether the law's enforcement should be suspended during proceedings on its constitutionality. Last July, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld Judge Benitez's suspension of enforcement and sent the case back to him for further proceedings on the merits of the law itself.   NRA ANNUAL MEETINGS Get Your Tickets Today to the 2019 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum! NRA-ILA's annual Leadership Forum is one of the most politically significant and popular events in the country, featuring our nation's top Second Amendment leaders in government, the media, and the entertainment industry.   REAL CLEAR POLITICS CNN's Parkland Townhall Sought to Inflame, Not Inform When I was told over a year ago that I would be attending CNN's "townhall" on the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I knew it would neither be a journalistic endeavor nor a genuine townhall meeting where anyone would be permitted to speak. CNN's own title said it all: "Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action." So this was an advocacy event, not a journalistic undertaking, which makes the Walter Cronkite Award the news channel received last week for the program utterly undeserved.    NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION  Complaint Filed in NRA-supported Challenge to Hawaii Concealed Carry Law FAIRFAX, Va. – The Hawaii Rifle Association (HRA), with the support of the National Rifle Association, today filed a lawsuit challenging Hawaii's extreme requirement that a concealed carry license can only be issued in "urgent" or "exceptional" instances.  "This law is so extreme that regular, law-abiding Americans cannot obtain concealed carry licenses, and that is a clear violation of their right to keep and bear arms," said Chris W. Cox, executive director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.      NEWS Ocasio-Cortez Joins Effort to Pressure Banks into Adopting the Far Left's Anti-gun Agenda The battle over politics in the financial marketplace continues to intensify. The combatants include anti-gun politicians who insist that banks have a social responsibility to sign onto the far left's political agenda. Opposing them are patriotic Americans of all stripes who believe that federally chartered banks should serve the law-abiding public without ideological or political discrimination.   CLEVELAND.COM Ohio is closer than ever to allowing concealed weapons without a permit, supporters say For the first time in more than 20 years of trying, gun-rights advocates in Ohio say they're optimistic that the state will soon no longer require a license to carry a hidden handgun or other deadly weapons. Nearly half of all Ohio House Republicans are co-sponsoring new legislation to abolish the state's conceal-carry license and training requirements. The legislation, House Bill 174, would also expand the list of allowable concealed weapons to include rifles and shotguns, instead of just handguns. In addition, the bill would repeal an Ohio law requiring motorists stopped by law enforcement to notify the officer if they are carrying a gun.   NEWS Dick's Sporting Goods Loses $150 million on Gun Control Crusade For the last year we've been reporting on the bizarre saga of Dick's Sporting Goods' transformation from a relatively functional purveyor of mainstream sporting goods to a groveling symbol of modern corporate virtue signaling. On Friday, new evidence emerged of just how much that crusade has cost the retailer.   LEGAL & LEGISLATION Vermont: House to Hold Public Hearing on Gun Bill Tuesday Night Last month, Vermont gun owners flooded Vermont Technical College for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on proposed gun legislation.   NEWS Questionable Metrics in New Study A Columbia University doctoral student in epidemiology and professors from the NYU School of Public Health, the BU School of Public Health, and the Penn School of Medicine published a study last week in The BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal) that purports to have found that "states with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states."   HUNTING ESPN Sportscaster Attacks Sportsman Perhaps jealous of all of the negative coverage his MSNBC protégé has received in recent days, this week ESPN host Keith Olbermann launched an unhinged Twitter attack against a Mississippi hunter that earned the political commentator widespread scorn.   LEGAL & LEGISLATION Kentucky: Legislature Adjourned Sine Die On Thursday, March 28th, the Kentucky Legislature adjourned sine die from its 2019 Legislative Session having passed and enacted legislation that fully recognizes the constitutional right of law-abiding gun owners to carry a concealed firearm.    LEGAL & LEGISLATION Oregon: Language Released For Gun Control Bill, Additional Hearing Scheduled On April 2nd, the Oregon state Senate Committee on Judiciary will be holding a public hearing for Senate Bill 978.  The -1 amendment for SB 978 is an omnibus gun control package that includes numerous anti-gun provisions pulled from previously introduced legislation. 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