“A federal judge halted key provisions Thursday of New York’s latest attempt to restrict who can carry a handgun in public and where firearms can be brought, saying multiple parts of a law the state passed this year are unconstitutional,” the AP reports.

“The rules were part of a sweeping gun law that went into effect Sept. 1 designed to protect public safety while adhering to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated New York’s old system for granting permits to carry handguns outside the home.”

“The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a pair of challenges to a federal ban on bump stocks, a device that lets a shooter fire a semi-automatic rifle more like a machine gun – avoiding a chance to put guns on the high court’s docket for the second time in as many years,” USA Today reports.

“While the ban is opposed by gun rights advocates, the legal question in the cases dealt not with the Second Amendment but rather with whether the Trump administration exceeded its authority under a 1986 law. In that sense, the case could have had broad implications for decisions made by federal agencies on a host of other issues.”

“I would not want to chance that if I were you — given that we’re a Second Amendment state.”

— Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), quoted by Fox News, publicly warning potential looters after the hurricane.

Jezebel: “Ted Budd, North Carolina’s Republican nominee for Senate, is one of two sitting U.S. congressmen to own a gun store, and his advertises on its website an insurance provider that supports gun owners who face domestic violence charges.”

“Some advocates and family members of gun violence victims have called insurance plans like this—which have also been advertised by the NRA—‘murder insurance.’”

“The Democratic break from the National Rifle Association is complete: For the first time in at least 25 years, not a single Democrat running for Congress anywhere in the country received an A in the group’s candidate ratings, which were once a powerful influence in U.S. elections,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “So far this year, TSA officers have already discovered more than 4,600 guns at airport checkpoints, and about 87 percent of them were loaded.”

“A federal law barring people under felony indictment from purchasing guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Texas ruled Monday in an early test of a watershed decision by the Supreme Court expanding firearm access,” the Washington Post reports.

CNN: “The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals.”

“A federal judge in Texas threw out the state’s ban on people between 18 and 20 years old from carrying handguns on Thursday in what appears to be the first major judicial decision since a landmark ruling on weapons rights by the U.S. Supreme Court in June,” NBC News reports.

The New York Times interviewed Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY)

NEW YORK TIMES: Do you own a gun?

MALONEY: No.

NEW YORK TIMES: Have you ever fired a gun?

MALONEY: Excuse me, I do own a gun. I inherited an old 22 rifle from my dad, which sits in a closet somewhere in a house we don’t use very much.

NEW YORK TIMES: Have you ever fired it?

MALONEY: Yes, of course.

The Economist: “In 2020, even though the number of passengers flying in America fell by 60% compared with 2019, the number of guns found decreased by only 27%. This might suggest that quieter airports enabled agents to catch a higher share—so in normal times, a worrying number of guns may be making it onto planes. In 2021 the number of guns caught at airport checks hit a record just shy of 6,000, more than twice as many as in 2015.”

“House Democrats passed an assault weapons ban for the first time in roughly 30 years Friday, a legislative feat on a politically fraught issue that tested the unity of the caucus,” the Washington Post reports.

“The historic legislation passed along party lines with a razor-thin majority and with only two Republicans voting in support. The bill faces virtually no chance of passage in an evenly-split Senate.”

“The passage of an assault weapons ban is a significant feat for any chamber of Congress. Multiple attempts for the legislation to even be considered in committees were jettisoned. But the rise of mass shootings that have touched every corner of American life since the previous assault weapon ban expired in 2004 has catapulted the issue to a top priority for Democrats, who have long pushed for reforms to gun laws.”

“Major gun manufacturers have made over $1 billion in the last decade selling military-style assault weapons, according to an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform,” CNBC reports.

“Somebody said, ‘Chris, it’s a profile in courage.’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s also a profile in unemployment.’”

— Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY), quoted by the Washington Post, after his outspoken stance on guns abruptly ended his political career.

“In a sign of growing political activism, more than 300 people have registered to vote in Uvalde since the shooting—more than double the number in the same period during the last midterm election season,” the AP reports.