Well, we’re staying on some potentially phenomenal ground here. When it comes to legal challenges against the infringements on the Second Amendment, by certain states that just don’t get it. I mean, they get it. They know what they’re doing. But five, not one, not two, but five challenges to assault weapon bans in some states have been distributed by the Supreme Court for their May 16th conference. I’m going to tell you the five cases, but first, I want to give an opportunity for us to raise some money for the groups that are doing these cases, at least three of them.

GOA, Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Finance Policy Coalition. At Blackout Coffee, we send $2 for each one of those product lines. If you buy five bags of GOA, then we send $2 for each bag, $10 right back to them. Cake cups as well, whole bean or ground. And for right now, for a very short period of time, we’re going to give you 25% off of these three product lines so that you can get them for cheaper.

We’ll still make our full donation. And it’s a way for us to help GOA, FPC, SAF for what they do for us in the Second Amendment. So head over to blackoutcoffee. com slash G&G and use code FREEDOM25. FREEDOM25 is not going to last long, so jump on it while you can. It was something we just came up with as I was getting ready to come film. It’s our way of helping.

And we thank you for your support of Blackout Coffee as well as SAF, GOA, FPC. So five cases were distributed yesterday by the Supreme Court to be for their conference on May 16th. What is a conference? Well, the justices get together in a room and they talk about cases and they decide whether they’re going to take them up or not. There are three different outcomes when a case is brought before the Supreme Court in a conference.

They need four justices to agree to take up a case. That’s called certiorari. These are all writs for certiorari. They’re asking the Supreme Court to take up the case or their petitions for writ of certiorari. So one of three things will happen. Either the court will have four justices agree that they need to hear these cases and finally address assault weapon bans at the state level, and they will issue a writ of certiorari.

And in that case, in that scenario, whatever case they issue a writ to will be heard in the next term in the fall-ish. And that’s the first outcome. That’s the one we’re hoping for. The second of the possible three outcomes is they issue a writ of certiorari, meaning we’re going to take the case but only for a short period of time because then they, it’s called GVR. They grant certiorari, then they vacate the previous court’s decision, the lower court’s decision, and they remand it back to them with certain instructions on how to fix whatever the Supreme Court said they did wrong.

For instance, let’s go back to the Bruin decision. Remember May, May. It was June of 2022. I remember this like it was yesterday because I was at Guncon at Brownells. There’s still a couple tickets available if you’re interested. I went live right then and there to tell you that this happened. And then right after they gave us the Bruin decision, the Supreme Court, GVR, grant this certiorari, vacated judgment, lower court, and remanded back to the lower courts the cases.

And those cases are still working their way through the Ninth Circuit. So we hope that does, I hope that doesn’t happen. I’d rather them just hear the case. And then the third option is they deny to hear the case, and that’s that. Sometimes they say why, but very rarely they do. And those are the three options. So May 16th is the first time it’ll be before the justices to consider.

I will say, just so those of you who will check back with me on the 16th, sometimes they will have these cases pushed back to the next conference so they can actually consider more whether they want to take the case up or not. So here are the five cases now that you know what the procedure is. Here are the five cases. There’s Harrell versus Raul, which is a challenge by Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition.

Let me give you everybody who is involved in each of these cases, so I don’t want to skip somebody. So it’s Dane Harrell, the C4 Gunstore LLC, an Illinois company, a Morango gun store. Morango Guns, Inc. , the Illinois State Rifle Association, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and Second Amendment Foundation. Suing Kwame Raul, however the hell he says his name, challenging the assault weapon ban and the magazine ban in Illinois.

Of these five cases, four of them are Illinois cases. So that lets you know that. The second one is Bianchi v. Frosh, which is now Bianchi v. Brown, I think. But that’s Maryland’s assault weapon ban case. That’s been around for a minute. That is brought by Dominic Bianchi, who is an individual resident of Baltimore County. David Snope, an individual resident of Baltimore County. Micah Shafer, an individual resident of Anne Arundel County.

Field Traders LLC, Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, and the Citizens Committee for the right to keep and bear arms. That was filed against Brian Frosh, who is the Attorney General of Maryland. I believe his name is Brown now. But that is the assault weapon ban, mag ban in Maryland. The next case is Gun Owners of America v. Kwame Raul. Again, these cases all have to do with these states deciding after the Bruin decision on banning commonly owned firearms, which the court has said they can’t do, and just increasing limitations on the Second Amendment after they were given marching orders by the Supreme Court.

Text history tradition, that’s it. Nothing else. Yet the lower courts are still doing their hop, skip, and jump trying to get away with banning things because feelings. Feelings should supersede rights. So the GOA case is the third one. The fourth case is Javier Herrera v. Kwame Raul. And it’s been a while since I read this case, but Mr. Herrera is a medic and a SWAT member. And same thing, challenging the assault weapon ban and magazine ban in Illinois.

And the last one is Barnett v. Raul. That’s Caleb Barnett, Brian Norman, Hoods Guns and More, Pro Gun and Indoor Range, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation and SSF. Versus Kwame Raul, the AG of Illinois, and Brendan Kelly, who is the director of the Illinois State Police. So this could be very, very good. Now I want to give you a quick quote by my buddy Adam Kraut, who is the executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation.

And this is what he said after the Supreme Court said we’re going to put these out for conference. Adam said, today the Supreme Court’s docket reflected that both of our cases challenging Illinois and Maryland’s ban on so-called assault weapons were distributed for conference. We are hopeful that the court will discuss these cases during their next conference in mid-May and ultimately grant cert so that millions of Americans can enjoy the same Second Amendment rights their counterparts do throughout the country.

It is time for the Supreme Court to confirm that these modern firearms are in fact protected by the Second Amendment. Give you another quote from Alan Gottlieb, who is the executive vice president at SAF. He said, we’re encouraged that these five cases, all essentially dealing with the same issue in two different federal court circuits, were distributed for Supreme Court conference at the same time. This could be the signal for which we have been waiting for, that the Supreme Court may be ready to consider cases challenging bans on the most popular firearm in America today and their magazines.

These firearms are owned by millions of peaceable citizens and because they are in common use, they certainly qualify for Second Amendment protection. Again, I want to go out again publicly and thank Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition. I want you all to help us send money to them to help with these lawsuits at blackoutcoffee. com slash G&G, 25% off these items only, these three, well, bags or K-cups, whole bean, ground and K-cup, with code FREEDOM25.

Again, $2 of each item that you buy of these groups will be sent to those groups. So thank you for your consideration and your support. I will let you know what the Supreme Court does with this conference on the 16th. You want to stay in the know, subscribe down below. It’s free, doesn’t cost you anything. Help me get to my goal for my birthday of 700,000 subscribers. My birthday is July 25th.

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