As opening arguments in his murder trial were set to begin, Highland Park parade shooter Robert Crimo III changed his plea to guilty in a Waukegan, Illinois courtroom today. Crimo opened fire on a crowd of people at an Independence Day parade through the Illinois town in 2022.
A few weeks into the new Trump administration, it seemed appropriate to spend some time with the NSSF’s SVP for Government & Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel Larry Keane.
If the Trump administration doesn’t make this a top priority, it risks a decision that is uninformed by the Executive Branch’s position on a constitutional right exercised by millions of Americans.
What the complaint failed to acknowledge is the oversized role that one of the plaintiff governments played in these “illegal sales,” a fact later highlighted by the court in dismissing the case.
Mexico President Sheinbaum threatened, “If they declare these criminal groups as terrorists, then we’ll have to expand our U.S. lawsuit,” to claim that U.S. firearm manufacturers are complicit in aiding narco-terrorist drug cartels.
Homicide increases were caused by the Mexican government’s military offensive against its own citizens, the militarization of public security forces, government corruption…and the Mexican government’s human rights violations
“Franklin Armory presented a square peg, and ATF shoved it into a round hole. If Congress wanted ‘shotgun’ to be a catch-all category for anything that doesn’t fit ‘rifle,’ it could have done so.”
“I reload all my own ammo. I gunsmith on my stuff. Some people watch football on Sunday, I’m usually at my reloading bench. We, my wife and I, we eat, sleep and breathe this stuff – big defenders of the Second Amendment and this industry.”
Adamiak had no idea how badly the ATF would lie about this completely legal purchase. The STEN toy became the most tested and most written about gun of all the legal firearms parts seized by the ATF during their raids.
Mexico’s lawfare attack was petitioned to the Supreme Court by Smith & Wesson after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit revived the case after it was dismissed by a lower federal court.
