Public Defense, Crim/ConLaw Nerd | Law & Policy Communicator | Volunteer EMT/SAR Cmdr. | Pres.: MN Gun Owners Law Center | General Counsel: @mnguncaucus

Joined April 2025
🚨NFA GUIDANCE UPDATE🚨 From the Trump Administration’s latest filing in GOA’s case Silencer Shop v. ATF: “@TheJusticeDept has determined not to file an appeal” in this case. Separately, @ATFHQ is currently working to finalize public guidance regarding the NFA.”
🚨BREAKING🚨

Solicitor General John Sauer just notified Congress “that @TheJusticeDept [will not] file an appeal” in GOA’s victory against the NFA, Silencer Shop v. ATF.

ATF cannot force GOA members to register suppressors or short barrels EVER AGAIN. This is PERMANENT! 🇺🇸
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Alan Beck wearing a lei and speaking about his fight for gun rights is the REAL Spirit of Aloha.
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BREAKING: In a 2-1 vote, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment.
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🚨 Lindsay Clancy jury says it is deadlocked Judge: “Go back out … and resume your deliberations at this time” Prediction: there will be a mistrial by the end of the day
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Rob Doar retweeted
Replying to @robdoar
Inmate exchange? We send you ICE dude, yall send us Lang? Jk… my governor would never do something that reasonable.
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Phil Parrish's bullshit lawsuit to overturn and recount the Republican primary is going well. Parrish didn't even cite the right statutes in his suit.
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MN Gun Owners Caucus
@mnguncaucusAug 20
Suppressors without a Form 4? Mostly true right now, but there are limits. A federal judge blocked NFA enforcement on $0-tax items like suppressors, effective August 13. It's not nationwide. It only covers members of certain organizations and customers of certain retailers, like Silencer Shop, which is treating Minnesota as covered. And Minnesota gun owners face a real risk: if the injunction falls, state law makes unregistered possession a felony, and there's no way to register after the fact. Get the full breakdown in this video from Rob Doar, President of the MN Gun Owners Law Center.
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KSTP/SurveyUSA: Full results at KSTP – at St Paul, MN
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Former Assistant Anoka County Attorney Andrea Leigh Sampson, 35, has been arrested and charged with 26 felony counts for her alleged role in a major Twin Cities sex trafficking and prostitution ring. The charges against her include 13 counts of promoting prostitution and 13 counts of receiving profits from prostitution. Sampson is accused of securing and providing specific locations where commercial sex transactions occurred. She allegedly used her properties to take photographs of victims for commercial sex ads and created multiple LLC shell companies to hide the operation's profits. Law enforcement identified at least 13 victims. Victims reported being forced to pay the organization $100 per transaction. Some victims noted that an armed male would show up to keep them "in line" when management was displeased. Sampson is charged alongside three others, including Frank Reeves, 57, and Viktoriya Komonash, 30. Phone records revealed that Sampson and the other female suspects all believed they were in a romantic relationship with Reeves. Investigators also discovered the group was running assisted living and autism facilities to collect additional revenue.
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I think the policy is silly. Equally silly is claiming that vouching is a major source of election fraud.
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BREAKING: A district court in Texas just granted our summary judgment motion finding that the NFA exceeds congressional authority for the untaxed items, without reaching the Second Amendment question. More to follow soon as we read the ruling.
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FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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KSTP/SurveyUSA: All of our detailed election poll results are at KSTP.com – at St Paul, MN
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NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein politico.com/news/2026/07/18…
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The suspense continues. Guess what just got relisted to...today. That's right - all five hardware ban cases.
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LEGAL ALERT: A Missouri federal judge just cited our win against Minnesota's age-based carry ban to rule that a former Jackson County ordinance banning the transfer of handguns to 18-20-year-olds violated the Second Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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United States v. Hemani (June 18, 2026) Concurrence in the Judgment: Alito*, Kagan No SCOTUSgami. The last time an opinion was joined by these 2 justices was in a concurrence in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. on March 19, 2013.
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Federal charges against St. Paul resident Nasra Ahmed have been dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled. Ahmed, a U.S. citizen, had been accused of assaulting federal agents during an ICE operation earlier this year. Read more: fox9.com/news/federal-case-d… #Minnesota #StPaul #ICE #BreakingNews
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NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price. It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.
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