Shira
@shiralauren.bsky.social
Gun violence prevention lawyer at Brady. Opinions my own. Red Sox and Celtics fan. Hat, cat, and cocktail enthusiast. Bad at trivia; reasonably good at crossword puzzles.
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While the world focused on the Epstein files, Congress took up a dangerous bill that sponsors say is to help law enforcement get greater access to “less-than-lethal” weapons.
In reality, it deregulates dangerous weapons to help a billion-dollar weapons industry make more money.
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In reality, it deregulates dangerous weapons to help a billion-dollar weapons industry make more money.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
While the world focused on the Epstein files, Congress took up a dangerous bill that sponsors say is to help law enforcement get greater access to “less-than-lethal” weapons.
In reality, it deregulates dangerous weapons to help a billion-dollar weapons industry make more money.
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In reality, it deregulates dangerous weapons to help a billion-dollar weapons industry make more money.
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
I’m delighted to share that my colleague Tess Fardon and I have an essay in the Buffalo Law Review: “The Meaning of Lawful Self-Defense: State Criminal Law and the Scope of the Second Amendment.” You can read it here: digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcont...
digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m delighted to share that my colleague Tess Fardon and I have an essay in the Buffalo Law Review: “The Meaning of Lawful Self-Defense: State Criminal Law and the Scope of the Second Amendment.” You can read it here: digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Tremendously grateful for the dedicated and tireless work of @mainegunsafety.bsky.social when Maine’s elected officials fell short.
Two years ago, 18 Mainers were robbed of their lives when an individual known to be dangerous had access to firearms.
This measure WILL save lives.
Two years ago, 18 Mainers were robbed of their lives when an individual known to be dangerous had access to firearms.
This measure WILL save lives.
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Tremendously grateful for the dedicated and tireless work of @mainegunsafety.bsky.social when Maine’s elected officials fell short.
Two years ago, 18 Mainers were robbed of their lives when an individual known to be dangerous had access to firearms.
This measure WILL save lives.
Two years ago, 18 Mainers were robbed of their lives when an individual known to be dangerous had access to firearms.
This measure WILL save lives.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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🚨The Supreme Court just granted review in a new Seocnd Amendment case out of Hawaii, asking whether the state can flip the property default rule for carrying guns on private property.
Here’s the petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Here’s the petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
October 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨The Supreme Court just granted review in a new Seocnd Amendment case out of Hawaii, asking whether the state can flip the property default rule for carrying guns on private property.
Here’s the petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Here’s the petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
The world may be on fire, but I still really love beating the Yankees. #dirtywater
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The world may be on fire, but I still really love beating the Yankees. #dirtywater
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September 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.
Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states
September 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I always think about Heidi Heitkamp and Mark Pryor voting no and Joe Manchin and John Tester voting yes on the 2013 Background check bill. Being "moderate" didn't help Pryor and Heitkamp, they immediately got smoked, while Tester and Manchin stayed in office another decade.
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Checkpoint Georgia Ave and New Hampshire Ave NW
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Checkpoint Georgia Ave and New Hampshire Ave NW
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” W Va Bd Edu v Barnette (1943)
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” W Va Bd Edu v Barnette (1943)
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In the wake of the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, multiple school shootings, and the July attack on MN elected officials, @JosephSakran shares his experience as a gun violence survivor & trauma surgeon, calling for action and cultural change. http://bit.ly/4mf514O
I was shot in the neck. Charlie Kirk's shooting shows danger of normalizing violence. | Opinion
As a trauma surgeon, I see bodies broken by bullets. More guns don't make us safer. They make anger more lethal – for Democrats and Republicans alike.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the wake of the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, multiple school shootings, and the July attack on MN elected officials, @JosephSakran shares his experience as a gun violence survivor & trauma surgeon, calling for action and cultural change. http://bit.ly/4mf514O
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With all the horrific news of today we're thankful for some good news:
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has found much of New Jersey's sensitive places law constitutional, keeping firearms out of schools, daycares, hospitals, and other public spaces.
Gun laws save lives.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has found much of New Jersey's sensitive places law constitutional, keeping firearms out of schools, daycares, hospitals, and other public spaces.
Gun laws save lives.
Federal court upholds New Jersey gun restrictions in split decision
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld most of the sweeping gun restrictions enacted in New Jersey since a 2022 Supreme Court decision prompted the state to ban firearms in most public spaces. Th...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
With all the horrific news of today we're thankful for some good news:
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has found much of New Jersey's sensitive places law constitutional, keeping firearms out of schools, daycares, hospitals, and other public spaces.
Gun laws save lives.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has found much of New Jersey's sensitive places law constitutional, keeping firearms out of schools, daycares, hospitals, and other public spaces.
Gun laws save lives.
Maybe now some current member of our federal government could consider actually reading it.
"For the first time in history, the entire United States Constitution will go on display, to celebrate 250 years of American Freedom."
The display at the National Archives in occupied downtown DC opens Tuesday, Sept. 16 and runs through Oct. 1.
The display at the National Archives in occupied downtown DC opens Tuesday, Sept. 16 and runs through Oct. 1.
Constitution Day: The Full U.S. Constitution
For the first time in history, the entire United States Constitution will go on display, to celebrate 250 years of American Freedom.
visit.archives.gov
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Maybe now some current member of our federal government could consider actually reading it.
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The national guard was carrying rifles outside Union Station today.
September 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The national guard was carrying rifles outside Union Station today.
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Congrats to Brady's Phil Bangle and the rest of the trial team that represented the City of Baltimore against Hanover Armory for being named Law.com's Litigators of the Week!
The team successfully argued the case resulting in a $62 million verdict — the largest ever dealt against a gun dealer.
The team successfully argued the case resulting in a $62 million verdict — the largest ever dealt against a gun dealer.
Litigators of the Week: $62M Verdict For the City of Baltimore In Public Nuisance Suit Against Ghost Gun Kit Seller
A trial team led by Saba Bireda of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, James Hannaway of Berger Montague and Phil Bangle of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence convinced jurors in Baltimore that Hanover...
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September 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Congrats to Brady's Phil Bangle and the rest of the trial team that represented the City of Baltimore against Hanover Armory for being named Law.com's Litigators of the Week!
The team successfully argued the case resulting in a $62 million verdict — the largest ever dealt against a gun dealer.
The team successfully argued the case resulting in a $62 million verdict — the largest ever dealt against a gun dealer.
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I'm renaming it back to Department of Defense with equivalent authority. Your move, Mr. President.
September 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm renaming it back to Department of Defense with equivalent authority. Your move, Mr. President.
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Today on Minnesota Now: Megan Walsh, the director of the Gun Violence Prevention Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins host Nina Moini after Twin Cities-area mayors gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to call for more authority to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Minnesota law professor on the debate over assault weapon bans
A group of Twin Cities-area mayors gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to call for more authority to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines if the Legislature refuses to do it at the state level....
www.mprnews.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Today on Minnesota Now: Megan Walsh, the director of the Gun Violence Prevention Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins host Nina Moini after Twin Cities-area mayors gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to call for more authority to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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Make no mistake, refusing to prosecute those who violate gun laws in DC will have real-world consequences: exposing to unnecessary risk some of our most sensitive federal institutions and threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents and millions of D.C. visitors.
Opinion | Of course you shouldn’t be able to carry a shotgun around D.C.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision not to prosecute gun-toting individuals is reckless.
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September 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Make no mistake, refusing to prosecute those who violate gun laws in DC will have real-world consequences: exposing to unnecessary risk some of our most sensitive federal institutions and threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents and millions of D.C. visitors.
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If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
There is what appears to be an ICE/MPD checkpoint on the ramp to 395 coming off South Capitol Street from Nationals Park.
August 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
There is what appears to be an ICE/MPD checkpoint on the ramp to 395 coming off South Capitol Street from Nationals Park.
Today is an extremely difficult day, but this is some much-needed good news. We can hold irresponsible gun dealers accountable for the harms they cause to communities — and today we did. I am so proud of my Brady legal colleagues who litigated this case, and so grateful to work with them.
BREAKING NEWS: We just won the largest ever verdict against a gun dealer in American history.
Today’s $62 million verdict will make the city of Baltimore exponentially safer from the scourge of gun violence.
This is the kind of action we need to reduce violent crime in our country.
Today’s $62 million verdict will make the city of Baltimore exponentially safer from the scourge of gun violence.
This is the kind of action we need to reduce violent crime in our country.
Largest Ever Verdict Dealt Against Gun Dealer Rendered for the City…
Brady is uniting Americans against gun violence. We invite everyone who wants to end our epidemic of gun violence to take action, not sides.
www.bradyunited.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Today is an extremely difficult day, but this is some much-needed good news. We can hold irresponsible gun dealers accountable for the harms they cause to communities — and today we did. I am so proud of my Brady legal colleagues who litigated this case, and so grateful to work with them.
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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No one should base their views solely on thinking the opposite of what someone else says...
... but it's telling that these people and Politico are pushing so hard for Dems to hide from this. They're afraid Dems will utilize public discontent against deploying troops for domestic purposes.
... but it's telling that these people and Politico are pushing so hard for Dems to hide from this. They're afraid Dems will utilize public discontent against deploying troops for domestic purposes.
Democrats could be in deep trouble on the crime issue, according to Karl Rove; an unnamed White House official; an unnamed GOP official; a poll by Mark Penn; and a former Dem operative who does a podcast w/ Sean Spicer and Mark Halperin.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump Is Leaning in on Crime. Democrats Need a Better Response — and Fast.
If the president's recent escalation was an attempt to goad Democrats into declaring that crime isn’t a problem, they did not disappoint him.
www.politico.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
No one should base their views solely on thinking the opposite of what someone else says...
... but it's telling that these people and Politico are pushing so hard for Dems to hide from this. They're afraid Dems will utilize public discontent against deploying troops for domestic purposes.
... but it's telling that these people and Politico are pushing so hard for Dems to hide from this. They're afraid Dems will utilize public discontent against deploying troops for domestic purposes.