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The legality of so-called assault weapons is sitting in the scales of justice with the U.S. Supreme Court. An amicus shoots through the “dangerous and unusual” defense of bans. Viramontes v. Cook County, consolidated with Grant v. Higgins, are cases challenging local and state prohibitions respectively on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms. The cases will likely put an end to categorical bans on so-called assault weapons. 46 amicus briefs have been filed in these cases. One brief submitted by the Hawaii Rifle Association takes a novel approach to language used in Heller.The 79-page brief authored by…

By the time most Americans understood that the country was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, the military’s air defense network had already been improvising for nearly an hour, working with a fraction of the information it needed and, in at least one case, chasing a hijacked airplane that had already crashed. The 9/11 Commission spent years reconstructing what happened inside that network that morning, and its findings, laid out in detail by Air & Space Forces Magazine’s minute-by-minute account of the commission’s report, describe a military response defined less by failure than by an air defense architecture unsuited to…

The Second Amendment Foundation is one of the premier organizations litigating Second Amendment issues in the courts. During an interview, Executive Director Adam Kraut discussed what they’ve been up to. While attending the 2026 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting, Kraut stopped by to discuss the Second Amendment Foundation and their past and present legal battles. This interview was made possible by Beretta Holding, the sponsor of the Voices of the Second Amendment at the NRAAM.Kraut is SAF’s executive director, a role he took on about four years ago. SAF was founded in 1974 by Alan…

American Airlines Flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001, killing 184 people — 125 inside the building and 59 aboard the aircraft, according to the Department of Defense’s account published for the 2008 dedication of the Pentagon Memorial. Unfinished construction work saved an untold number of lives that morning in 2001, and the people who ran back into a burning building to pull colleagues out were, in many cases, service members. The Renovation That Saved Lives The section of the Pentagon that Flight 77 struck had just emerged from a three-year, $258…

Leela Gray has come a long way since working at Golden Corral to support her higher education efforts, eventually serving decades as a military leader who is now vying for a legislative seat in Washington. Gray is a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, a small business owner and 20-year Tampa Bay resident vying for a bigger seat at the table. She threw her hat into politics and so far has experienced great results, winning her Democratic primary in resounding fashion earlier this year. She’s facing off against Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in the competitive 13th Congressional District…

The Supreme Court has received dozens of amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs who are hoping to undo the bans on so-called assault weapons in Cook County, Illinois and the State of Connecticut, including one filed by the Department of Justice that urges the justices to recognize that the arms in question are in “common use” for lawful purposes.  This isn’t the first time the DOJ has taken on a semi-auto ban. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon previously participated in oral arguments before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to buttress the position of…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un put his second naval destroyer into service and called for building a more reliable nuclear deterrent, state media reported Monday, as the United States, South Korea and Japan began a trilateral military exercise he views as a security threat. The ship’s commissioning comes as North Korea is dialing up pressure on the U.S. after rebuffing President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back a major military drill with South Korea in a conciliatory step toward Kim. Observers say North Korea wants to wrest bigger U.S. concessions. The destroyer Kang Kon…

The U.S. military denied that Iran struck an uncrewed American military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the claim a “total lie.” A top Iranian official said Tehran plans to announce an “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels it believes are attempting to transit the waterway. Meanwhile, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed seven people and leveled a vacant hospital, according to Lebanese authorities, near an area that has become a flash point in fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full…

Jules and Gédéon Naudet were making a documentary about a rookie New York firefighter when the Sept. 11 attacks happened. Their project became a record of the rescue effort inside the World Trade Center, filmed by people who had no way of knowing what would happen next. Twenty-five years later, footage like theirs still has something to tell us. So do the accounts of Pentagon survivors and families who have spent the years since living with a loss the rest of the country remembers each September. For veterans of the wars that followed, that history can be deeply personal. These…

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