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Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador leads nation in fight against California’s newest gun ban

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2 years ago

January 3, 2024

Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador leads nation in fight against California’s newest gun ban

BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Attorney General Raúl Labrador led a coalition of 27 states in filing an Amicus Curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Second Amendment, asking the Court to affirm the lower court’s decision to enjoin California’s unconstitutional Assault Weapons Control Act (AWCA) in Miller v. Bonta.

For 34 years, the AWCA has deprived Californians of their Second Amendment rights through arbitrary and often cosmetic-based bans on the ownership, possession, sale, and transfer of hundreds of firearm types. These firearms were legal before the ban, and are still in lawful, common use across the nation. The Supreme Court’s decisions in Bruen and Heller have confirmed that every American has a pre-existing right to keep and bear arms, and the plain text of the Second Amendment protects weapons California bans.

The impact of California’s ACWA has also extended beyond its borders—unjustly impacting citizens and firearm businesses in Amici states and across the nation who are barred from exercising their rights to engage in lawful related commerce with California.”

For decades, California has failed its people in the state’s duty to protect—not infringe on—its citizens’ Constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” said Attorney General Labrador. “This is a fundamental liberty and right of the individual. It is not granted or tolerated by the whim or benevolence of the government, and it must be respected and defended at every turn. “Shall not be infringed” is some of the clearest language in our Constitution, and we look forward to seeing the AWCA overturned by the courts.”

The State coalition, led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen was joined by Attorneys General from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the Arizona State Legislature.

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Looking forward to another year of East Idaho Sports – East Idaho News

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4 hours ago

January 4, 2026

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Looking forward to another year of East Idaho Sports – East Idaho News

Note: As a bonus to our readers who have followed us into Year 2, the East Idaho Sports staff will post a special story on Sundays – Could be a column, opinion, feature, or just something fun and goofy. Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for coming along on this journey.

EASTERN IDAHO — Dec. 31 marked the end of the first full calendar year of East Idaho Sports. It has been a pleasure to bring our readers coverage of local youth, high school, college and semi-pro sports.

Over the last 12 months, we have covered state champions, national champions, junior hockey league champions, record-breaking performances and so much more. Those of you who have followed along since we launched in August 2024 have seen how we have expanded our coverage to include some interactive features like this Sunday Special series, Game Balls and the Photo of the Week voting.

We look forward to the completion of the winter sports seasons — including some Winter Olympics stories — spring sports, the summer sports schedule and returning next fall to start it all over again.

But we also hope to continue adding to our coverage, and shine spotlights on even more of the great athletes and sports programs in eastern Idaho.

In order to do that, we would like some help.

With just two full-time reporters and one freelance photographer we will regrettably miss things. And while we try to fill those gaps ourselves, we are always open to tips.

If there was a sporting event or sports story that deserved coverage it didn’t receive, please email us at sports@eastidahonews.com. If there is an upcoming event that should be spotlighted, please email us.

Also, our Photo of the Week stories will continue to be posted midday every Monday. If you have photos from a local sporting event that you want to enter in the running, email those to us by Sunday morning. For those who follow the voting — on our public Facebook group East Idaho News – Sports — a reader-contributed photo was recently selected our Photo of the YEAR, and we would love to continue adding those on the weekly ballot.

This photo of West Jefferson’s Justus Burtenshaw during the first round of the state tournament, taken by reader Julie Hall, was selected out East Idaho Sports Photo of the Year.

Finally, we recently added a regular feature we are calling the “Whip-around”: A quick rundown of local high school sports action. In order to expand these stories to include more teams, we would love for coaches, players or parents to send us photos of game scorebooks. If you are linked to a local team and would like your team to be added to these stories, please email us, and we can let you know how to do so.

It has been a pleasure to highlight the many local athletes for their successes and hard work, and we look forward to another year of precisely that.

We will see you at a field, court, course, pool, etc., near you in 2026.