BLUF: Across the country; in CA, the 9th Circuit revived California’s ammunition background-check law, flare guns were classified as firearms with age and possession restrictions, and the FBI arrested members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front for plotting coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings targeting logistics facilities, with a related arrest in LA; in NC, changes to the Public Safety Act altered how sheriffs return firearms surrendered under domestic-violence protective orders; in NY, a state bill was introduced to regulate how public agencies purchase firearms; in RI, a mass shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others; in WY, the University of Wyoming received federal funding to develop a nonpartisan Second Amendment curriculum for secondary schools. On a national level, the Department of Justice opened a dedicated Second Amendment Section within its Civil Rights Division, the Department of War launched the GenAI platform for military and civilian personnel, Customs and Border Protection proposed social-media checks at airports for Visa Waiver Program travelers, advocacy groups reported increased LGBT content in children’s programming on major streaming platforms. Globally, in Syria, two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an ISIS-linked ambush, while in Australia, ISIS linked terrorists conducted a mass shooting at a Bondi Hanukkah event with the recent Brown University and Bondi attacks prompted renewed political pressure for gun-control measures and firearm policy changes.

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