Subtopics:
News media bias related to gun control issues.
If you think you get both sides of any story — or the whole truth about any story — on any
television station, you are sadly mistaken. This is especially true when the topic is gun control.
Airline security, especially the debate over arming pilots.
The federal government apparently cannot stand the idea that anyone should be allowed to
carry a gun who does not also carry a badge. This debate has little to do with the
protection of airline passengers' lives and much to do with government control.
Legitimate concerns about Constitutional issues - 2nd Amendment debates.
The Second Amendment, ratified in 1787, does not refer to the National Guard, which
was created 130 years later, in 1917.•
Cases in which guns saved lives
There are approximately two million defensive gun uses per year by law abiding
citizens, according to a recent national
survey.•
Notable Gun Control Failures, for example, "Gun Free Zones".
Leftist lies, misconceptions and disingenuousness
Leftist use of astroturf
Zero Tolerance: Gun Regulation Taken to its Extremes
Civil Litigation, Boycotts and Other Organized Action
The United Nations efforts to disarm the U.S.
President Obama's efforts to disarm the U.S.
Gun seizures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Obama is the Gun Salesman of the Year
Recommended reading; book reviews.
Web sites about gun control and gun ownership
President Obama's stealthy moves toward gun control
Operation Choke Point and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Background, overview and recap articles:
Why Should
We Keep Our Guns? In the last century, scores of millions of defenseless civilians were slaughtered by
totalitarian regimes that first disarmed them. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Communist China, the Ottoman Turks, and
several dozen other despotic regimes committed mass murder of millions upon millions. Historically, genocide follows
confiscation of arms as surely as day follows night. In order to foster the deterrence of tyranny in American
government, the Founders ratified the Second Amendment, acknowledging the unalienable right of the people to bear arms.
The published statements of the Founders clarify their points of view with regard to their purpose for acknowledging that
right. They clearly meant for the people not to be impeded from owning weapons similar to the ones used by government
forces, so that any future despots might be deposed by an armed populace.
Liberals
Want to Grab Guns...but Who Will Do the Grabbing? I don't think I'm alone when I say it's frustrating having
the same conversation over and over and over again. I'm frustrated trying to explain the difference between a
semi-automatic and a "military-style assault" weapon, parrying asinine retorts of how our Founding Fathers "only had
muskets," and being told by strangers what weapons I "don't need." I'm frustrated with citing statistical evidence showing
that the vast majority of gun violence in America is the result of suicides and of criminals who have obtained their guns
illegally. I'm frustrated with trying to justify my personal choices to people who are completely ignorant about guns
and who are completely unwilling to learn. I'm frustrated because it's an exercise in futility. They return the
very next day to push their very same debunked talking points that I've spent the last conversation refuting. Deploying
factual evidence works only when dealing with people for whom factual evidence is valued, acknowledged, and conceded.
Here are Eight Stubborn Facts
on Gun Violence in America:
[#1] Violent crime is down and has been on the decline for decades.
[#2] The principal public safety concerns with respect to guns are suicides and illegally owned handguns, not mass shootings.
[#3] A small number of factors significantly increase the likelihood that a person will be a victim of a gun-related homicide.
[#4] Gun-related murders are carried out by a predictable pool of people.
[#5] Higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with higher rates of violent crime.
[#6] There is no clear relationship between strict gun control legislation and homicide or violent crime rates.
[#7] Legally owned firearms are used for lawful purposes much more often than they are used to commit crimes or suicide.
[#8] Concealed carry permit holders are not the problem, but they may be part of the solution.
Each of these facts is firmly based on empirical data.
Draconian
Gun Control Does not Reduce Gun Numbers or Homicide Rates. Guns are a 700 to 1000 year old technology.
Guns can and are being made, in homes and small shops around the world, that are beyond state control. Firearms have
had extreme legal restrictions imposed over most of the planet. The United States is exceptional, with the Second
Amendment. Most governments allow only small numbers of their people to legally have firearms. People under those
governments actively resist those laws. In spite of a century and a half of stringent restrictions on gun ownership,
the number of guns in private hands has risen significantly.
Gun control fact sheet: Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves
against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year — or
about 6,850 times a day.
A Primer on the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
When
the Nazis Came for the Guns. The Nazis had in their possession a national registry of gun-owners. When they
came to power in 1933, they knew exactly who had what kind of gun and how many. And they didn't even have to compile the
registry themselves. A few years earlier, the Interior Minister of the German Weimar government had started the gun
ownership registry as a way of keeping tabs on extremist groups in Germany, such as the communists... and the Nazis.
The national registry was thorough, precise, and extensive. But not public.
Yes,
They Are Coming for Your Guns. Today we have a multitude of reasons to have a high concern about a government
that has become far too large, too invasive in too many issues and operated by people who are almost impervious to being
fired for normal matters that citizens have to face in their own lives. When I have discussions with people wanting to
shrink the rights of gun owners, they discount this essential aspect of why citizens should be allowed to own guns.
When I ask them to explain the explosion of armed representatives of the government in non-military agencies, they are
universally ignorant of that fact. Here are just a few:
[#1] The IRS has 2,300 Special Agents armed
with AR-15s, P90 tactical rifles and other heavy weaponry. The IRS recently spent $12 million on ammo and weapons.
[#2] The Small Business Administration (SBA) spent tens of thousands on Glock hand guns.
[#3]
In 1996 the Veterans Administration had no armed employees. Today they have 3,700 officers armed with millions of
dollars worth of guns.
The list goes on. As a Jew, I have a problem with any government having all the
guns. The last time we allowed that to happen, it ended with millions of dead Jews. I believe any Jew who denies
that reality puts their own political naiveté above the survival of the Jewish people.
Scammed
by a Black, a Woman, and Now a 17-Year-Old. Exploiting the Florida school shooting, wacko leftist retired
justice John Paul Stevens and other leftist nuts have called for the repeal of our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
Leftists also flood the media with deception and lies. Parroting fake news media, my relative ranted that you don't
need an assault weapon for hunting and home protection. She thinks current gun law allows nutcases to purchase a
machine gun (assault weapon). Civilians cannot casually purchase machine guns. The AR-15, which is hated by leftists,
requires the trigger to be pulled for each round fired. The AR-15 is not a machine gun and has saved numerous homeowners'
lives. Women defend themselves with guns against sexual abuse 200,000 times per year. Guns are used 80 times more
often to save a life than to take a life. Of the 2,581,268 gun-related incidents each year, 2,549,596 are self-defense.
Only 31,000 are assaults. American gun-owners kill 1,500 criminals each year. Police kill 600 criminals annually.
The term "assault weapon" is a made-up political term by gun-haters to deceive people into thinking bad guys are legally buying
machine guns. Everything leftists try to sell us is always rooted in misdirected hate, irrational emotion, deception, and lies.
Some
Thoughts on Banning 'Assault' Rifles. Let's begin with a few basic facts: More people are killed every
year with blunt objects, or are simply beaten to death, than are murdered using "assault" rifles. Only about 3-4% of
murders using firearms (out of about 11,000 annually) in the US involve rifles (including bolt & lever action rifles, .22LR
and semi-automatic rifles of all types). A person's chances of being murdered with an "assault" rifle in any given year
are literally about one in a million. The average number of people killed per year in all types of public mass
shootings (3+ killed, not including shooter) over the last 38 years was 25. Fewer than 1/3 of these were killed using
semi-automatic rifles. The average number of people wounded per year was 35. The average number of people killed at
schools in mass (3+ killed) school shootings, adult and child, over the same 38-year period was 4 per year, or roughly 1 in
ten million. Meanwhile 815 students die annually and 152,250 are injured during regular travel between school and home.
From
ancient Athens to modern America: Thank the right to 'bear arms' for freedom. Former Supreme Court
Justice John Paul Stevens' recent opinion piece in the New York Times advocating the repeal of the Second Amendment appears
to have surprised many, but it shouldn't have. In 2008, while considering the District of Columbia v. Heller
case, Stevens and three of his "progressive" colleagues on the United States Supreme Court attempted to effectively repeal
the Second Amendment by judicial fiat. Their failure to do so was a victory for our republic and its inheritance of
ordered liberty that predates the ancient societies of Athens and Rome. Owning and bearing arms for a variety of
legitimate purposes (such as collecting, hunting, and defense of self, family, and state) has been a vital part of the
Western tradition for millennia and is our birthright as a free people. This right (or the lack thereof) has separated
the free and the enslaved since before the rise of Athenian democracy.
There
Is Only One Sure Way to Stop School Shootings. There are over 300 million guns in America, 200 million of them
legal. They are easy to buy anywhere for anyone who wants one. Most gun-owners are law-abiding citizens who purchase
them legally and own them for self-defense purposes. They are used for protection far more often than reported by the
anti-gun lobbies. The horrific murder rates in Chicago and Baltimore are not committed with legally owned firearms; both
of those cities have the strictest gun laws in the nation. Most deaths by guns are self-inflicted. The anti-Second
Amendment posture of the Obama administration was anathema to American citizens who revere the Constitution. Gun control,
as Tucker Carlson reminded, is really people control. The first thing tyrants do is disarm their citizenry so they are
defenseless. Which is why the proliferation of "gun-free zones" is suicidal on its face.
Parkland
Shooting: Questions the Left Can't Answer. What has Big Education done for school safety, other than
making schools "gun free zones," turning them into target-rich environments? Not only are they not protecting their
students, but they are also leaving their union dues-paying teachers vulnerable in school shootings. Why doesn't Big
Education care about teachers and students? Why do these shootings almost always happen in "gun free zones"? Would a
bank or jewelry store ever declare itself a "gun-free zone"? What about any government building in the country? Does
this make sense? Members of Congress bray about the evils of guns and how arming teachers is a bad thing. Yet their
workplace is surrounded by armed guards and metal-detectors. Many of them travel with armed escorts. Governors and
big-city mayors surround themselves with armed security, at work and at home. Why won't they protect children with the
same zeal?
Abortion
Causes 25% of All Deaths in United States, Guns Just 1.5%. This year's Academy Awards took place this past
Sunday with a show full of political symbolism and the pushing of the progressive agenda. One performance was even an
attack on the National Rifle Association by a pair of rappers. Of course, the NRA has come under increasing attack from
the Hollywood crowd because of the NRA's support of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. You know,
the right to bear arms. The wailing cry of those who think that the Second Amendment needs to be abridged is that gun
violence causes too many deaths. The national statistics show that there are approximately 15,000 deaths a year from
gun related violence. Unfortunately, that number has slowly risen in recent years. In an effort to put some
significance to that number, the CDC reports that there are 2,712,630 deaths annually in the United States. Gun related
deaths from all sources (violent acts, accidental discharge, suicides, etc.) total 38,000 and account for about 1.5 percent
of all deaths.
Timely news and commentary:
Democrats
Are Pushing America Into Civil War. Make no mistake, Virginia is a test. Unable to depose the president,
they will proceed on a state-by-state basis to create the nation they long for. And disarming Americans is crucial for
the Democrats as a first and necessary step, because an armed populace can say, "No!" Will Virginians willingly give
up their guns to the Democrats? Some might. After all, Virginia is proximate to D.C. and many will obey.
Yet, many will not. Virginia will be the future, because the Democrats will brook no dissent. They will come
heavy and hard and it won't be long before there is gunfire, and someone is hurt or killed.
Bloomberg
unveils gun control plan to stop massacres. Michael Bloomberg vowed Thursday [12/5/2019] to re-institute a
federal assault weapons ban and require more rigorous background checks and licensing to obtain firearms if he's elected
president. [...] In addition to the assault weapons ban, Bloomberg called for raising the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21, the
same for purchasing booze. He would also require every gun buyer to obtain a permit before making a purchase and
require a 48-hour waiting period. Background checks would cover private sales and gun shows, and domestic abusers also
would be denied access to firearms, according to Bloomberg.
Gun
Buyers on Cusp of Breaking All-Time Background Check Record. Gun buyers are currently on the cusp of breaking
the record for the highest number of background checks conducted in one year's time. Breitbart News reported the record
for the most background checks in a single year is 27.5 million, and we are fast approaching that number.
ATF:
423 million guns in America, 1.2 per person, 8.1 billion rounds of ammo a year. New federal data shows that
there are 422.9 million firearms in circulation, or about 1.2 guns for every person in the country. What's more,
despite years of criticism of modern "assault-style" rifles such as the AR-15 and AK-47, there are a record 17.7 million in
private hands, proving that it is the most popular gun around. And last year alone, the arms industry produced 8.1 billion
rounds of ammunition. The figures are from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and were crunched by
the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry trade group.
Black
Friday records second highest gun sales in history: FBI reveals it initiated more than 200,000 background checks.
Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are climbing toward a record high this year, reflecting what the industry says is a
rush by people to buy weapons in reaction to the Democratic presidential candidates' calls for tighter restrictions.
NYT
Begs SCOTUS: Throw out Case Instead of Ruling Against Gun Control. The New York Times editorial board is
asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to toss out a challenge against New York City gun control rather than
rule against the controls at the center of the challenge. Breitbart News reported that SCOTUS was hearing a challenge
to the NYC gun control on Monday, December 1, 2019. The gun control prohibited licensed firearm owners from
transporting their firearms to all but seven city-approved gun ranges.
African
Americans Aren't The Only People Democrats Want To Disarm. In the post-bellum South, Democrats prohibited
blacks from possessing guns outright or imposed gun prohibitions selectively enforced against blacks, leaving them vulnerable
to the Democrats' Ku Klux Klan. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court noted that
"Blacks were routinely disarmed by Southern States after the Civil War." In U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), the
court considered the convictions of white Democrats who had participated in the disarming and cold-blooded murder of at least
60 black Republicans in the infamous Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish, Louisiana. In 1911 in New York, Democrats began requiring
a selectively granted license to own a handgun, so the police could deny handguns to Italian immigrants in New York City.
Black
Friday gun background checks second-highest in recorded history. The FBI ran the second-highest number of gun
background checks on Black Friday 2019, which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year and an indication that firearm
sales are on the rise, officials said. The agency conducted 202,465 gun background checks on Nov. 29, 2019, which is
the second-highest number seen since the bureau implemented the checks in 1998. This year's big-shopping day is second only
to Black Friday 2017, when the FBI ran 203,086 checks, records show.
Virginia
Dems Aim to Criminalize "Tactical Training." A Trap for Gun Owners? Virginia Democrats have put forth a bill
that would strengthen current state law against "paramilitary" activity by criminalizing assemblies of persons with
firearms. The vague wording of Senate Bill No. 64 establishes that a person is "guilty of unlawful paramilitary
activity, punishable as a Class 5 felony" if he so much as has the "intent" of intimidating a person or group. The
threat of SB 64 to defenders of the Second Amendment is the uncertainty of how "intent" would be decided.
More discussion of SB 64 can be
found here.
Gun Confiscation Comes to
Virginia. Next year, Democrats will control both houses of Virginia's state Legislature as well as its
governorship. On November 18, State Sen. Dick Saslaw introduced a bill that he will sponsor in the 2020
legislative session. That bill will outlaw not only the sale or transfer but also the possession of certain
firearms. Saslaw's bill — SB 16 — provides that "It is unlawful for any person to import, sell,
manufacture, purchase, possess or transport an assault firearm" and makes such actions a Class 6 felony. (In
Virginia, Class 6 felonies are punishable by imprisonment for between one and five years.)
WhiskeyWarrior556
falls victim to New York's red flag laws. On Friday [11/22/2019], police showed up to a young man's workplace
and tried to arrest him over social media posts reported to them by an old army buddy of the 28-year-old Afghanistan
veteran. This man, known as Alex and popular on Instagram under the handle of WhiskeyWarrior556, slipped out of the
back door, hurried home to check on his family where he found out police had already forced themselves into his home and
confiscated his legal firearms after threatening his wife with calling child protective services to remove her newborn child.
[...] If the current legal landscape allows for citizens to have their Second Amendment rights stripped from them without any
legal opportunity to dissent, what are the next rights to be taken?
More
Virginia Counties Declare 'Second Amendment Sanctuary' Status. More Virginia counties declared "Second
Amendment Sanctuary" status this week in an effort to get ahead of the gun control promises from Gov. Ralph Northam (D)
and newly-elected Democrats. On November 19, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Appomattox County Board of
Commissioners passed a "Second Amendment Sanctuary" resolution, with the goal of opposing any efforts that would
"unconstitutionally restrict gun rights."
Another
Texas county designates itself as Second Amendment sanctuary county. While Democrat lawmakers continue to push
for stricter gun laws, certain U.S. counties are taking a stronger stance to protect Second Amendment rights. One of
communities is Wood County, Texas where commissioners have officially declared the county as a "Second Amendment sanctuary."
The new status was approved unanimously in a meeting Tuesday. Under this status, the county's money and resources will
no longer be spent on laws which infringe on a person's right to own a gun. According to Wood County Sheriff Tom
Castloo, officials do not want to confiscate guns from citizens when they have the right to own them.
The
Downfall of the Million Mom March. Some of our readers who are now old enough to vote might not have even been
alive in 2000 when the Million Mom March, a project of the Brady Campaign, declared war on the Second Amendment. [...] On
May 10 2000, columnist J.R. Labbe exposed the Million Mom March for promoting House candidates on its web site
using 501(c)(3) tax exempt money. The group was also proven to have lied to its donors and volunteers about gun violence
killing 12 or 13 children a day, which is true only if you redefine 18- and 19-year-old legal adults in a very violence-prone age
cohort as "children." Asking for money while lying never goes over very well even if prospective donors agree with your
cause. The same goes for trying to influence an election with tax exempt money. The MMM was so badly discredited
that it liquidated in October 2001 and transferred its assets to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Ohio
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Gun Owners Can Drink At Home. The idea of alcohol prohibition was settled
almost a century ago when the Volstead Act was repealed by yet another constitutional amendment. It's the only
amendment that's been passed, then repealed a short time later. In truth, prohibition was a complete and total
disaster. Luckily, we've left that behind. While some faiths take issue with alcohol consumption, that's
generally left to each individual to decide for themselves. Though, admittedly, there's something to be said about
using alcohol to combat some anti-gun arguments. However, in Ohio, arguments are gearing up to determine whether
drinking at home should make use of a firearm illegal.
Big dope: how
marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history. When Jared Loughner shot Arizona
congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head, on January 8, 2011, an appalled America sought some sort of reason for this
cruel action, and for some remedy. Giffords, though gravely hurt, survived. But in a brief and terrible frenzy in
the parking lot of a suburban Tucson supermarket, Loughner killed six people and wounded several others. When
post-arrest pictures were released, showing him smirking and vague, I had little doubt what I was seeing. It did not
take long to find out that my suspicions — that he was a user of mind-altering drugs — were
justified. But in all the years since, this aspect of his past has been noted but not in any way acted upon.
Those who see gun control as a solution to such woes used the event as an argument for their cause. Why shouldn't
they? Loughner used a legally obtained gun. But guns have been easily available in the United States from the
beginning. Wild mass killings of this sort are a post-1960 phenomenon. So, applying the rules of logic, the
availability of guns simply cannot be the significant variable.
Natural
Rights Versus Political Rights. A headline I read this weekend proclaimed that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam,
the Klan-hood-wearing gent formerly known at VMI as "Coonman," was "working on" possible gun confiscation in Virginia now
that money on the Left has successfully buried his racism and bought the legislature for their party. Aside from the
obvious commentary about what happens when Democrats obtain power, the headline suggests a far deeper problem confronting our
country. It is only a matter of time before anti-constitutional forces seize control of the Senate, or perhaps the
White House, and when they do, what historically American citizens consider to be unalienable rights will suddenly
disappear. The coming purge of natural rights is inevitable.
It's the epitome of left-wing politics: race-based
gun control. For your own good, of course.
Michael
Bloomberg suggests disarming minorities to 'keep them alive'. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly argued
Friday [11/8/2019] that guns need to be kept out of the hands of minorities in order to keep them alive. While speaking at the
Aspen Institute, Mr. Bloomberg, 72, said 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: a male minority between
the ages of 15 and 25, The Aspen Times reported. Cities need to get guns out of this group's hands and keep them alive, the
former three-term mayor said, according to The Times.
The Editor says...
The people who cooked up this idea seem to have a poor understanding of human nature. They assume that if you take
guns away from criminals, the criminals won't be able to get another gun. Liberals think criminals are stupid.
Liberals think you're stupid enough to vote for a candidate with ideas that are this transparently futile.
The
Nazism of Democrat Gun Control. November 9 marks the 81st anniversary of the first day of Kristallnacht,
also known as the "night of broken glass." For nearly a week, the Nazi Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces carried
out a pogrom against Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues and properties across Germany and related territories; 267
synagogues and 7,000 businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated in concentration camps.
There was another sinister motive equal to the anti-Semitism: gun control. What many don't know is, weeks before,
the Nazis had disarmed the Jews whom they terrorized; they knew who had firearms because of a compulsory, pre-Nazi gun registry
created a decade earlier. The Nazis were so precise that businesses adjacent to Jewish-owned businesses were untouched;
we suspect that many non-Jews wanted to help, but they knew that assisting would likely mean death or imprisonment.
Virginia's
Democratic Government Announced It Will Begin Confiscating Guns from Law-Abiding Gun Owners. Virginia's gun
owners will now be forced to stay on their toes as its Democratic government has announced it's going to take the war on guns
into overdrive within the state. According to the Washington Post, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced during a
Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that now that Virginia's state government is under complete Democrat control for the first time in a
generation, they're going to take the heavy stick they were just given and begin beating gun owners over the head with it.
Texas
Counties Are Declaring Themselves 'Second Amendment Sanctuaries.' But What Does That Mean, Exactly? Hood County
is one of seven Texas counties — mostly Republican and rural — to officially establish themselves as
gun sanctuaries in the past year and a half, three of them after O'Rourke announced his support for a mandatory buy-back of
assault weapons in the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso and Midland/Odessa. Like resolutions in several other
counties, Hood County's measure affirms support for any decision the sheriff makes "to not enforce unconstitutional firearms
restrictions against any citizen," and it shields county funds, employees, and buildings from being used in service of any
law "that unconstitutionally infringes on the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Before voting on the measure,
Commissioner Dave Eagle pointedly noted that the sheriff is the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the county.
"What does that mean?" Eagle asked rhetorically.
The Editor says...
The word rural, as in, "mostly Republican and rural," is a code word meaning stupid.
Orwellian
Fear Reigns in Vermont. Vermont is the national Petri dish for the Orwellian fear-mongers. Visceral
quaking by overwrought Vermont "progressives" over firearms was well funded by out-of state interests, and Vermont swiftly
shifted from one of the least restrictive Second Amendment havens to one of the most oppressive, employing a "thoughtcrime"
that was perfectly timed (post-Sandy Hook) to dupe the electorate: a student was charged with an "attempted" attack on a
public school, when there had never been any attempt.
Andrew
Pollack: Guns Don't Create School Shootings, Leftist Policies Do. Andrew Pollack is using speaking
engagements and video opportunities to tell audiences that guns do not cause school shootings, leftist policies do. [...] He
noted that people who call for more background checks either ignore or do not know that the Parkland attacker passed a
background check to get the gun he used. Pollack said the big problem is that school districts are crippled by leftist
policies that prevent them from recognizing and/or reporting criminality among certain students. Pollack said these
"politically correct policies to decrease juvenile arrests" spare individuals with criminal tendencies from compiling a
record, thereby leaving a clean history with which they pass a background check when they attempt to buy a gun.
Permitless gun carry in Oklahoma
takes effect. A "constitutional carry" gun law in Oklahoma took effect Friday. Also known as permitless
carry, the law lets some Oklahomans carry a firearm in public without a license. Most Oklahomans 21 and older can now
carry concealed or unconcealed firearms without having gone through a background check or training requirements, with
exceptions for those illegally in the country or who have been convicted of certain crimes.
On
Laws, Guns, And Freedom, Bureaucrats Fight To Overrule The People. With just over a month left before the
Supreme Court's scheduled December sitting, Second Amendment activists are eagerly anticipating the first major hearing on
gun rights since the high court struck down Chicago's handgun ban in 2010. [...] Red flag laws, currently on the books in 15
states, allow police, family members, and others (e.g., cranky neighbors) who fear (or say they fear) that a gun owner has
become dangerous, to file a seizure warrant for that person's weapons, reversing the burden of proof: the gun owner is
presumed dangerous and has to prove he is not — making a travesty of both the Sixth and Second Amendments.
As of now, there is no national gun registry, but Democrats dream of creating one so officials can confiscate the firearms of
dangerous people. Like you. Not a good idea in a country where people aspire to be free.
How
Democrats' Gun Control Plans Would Wreck Wildlife Conservation. People seeking public office should do homework
before embracing bad policy. If they don't have the time, at minimum they should require their staff to be informed.
Every current Democratic presidential candidate is advocating an assault on wildlife and habitat conservation in America.
It's fair to assume they don't know. They, like most Americans, are likely unaware that the bulk of wildlife conservation
funding in this country comes from a healthy firearms industry.

BATFE Drops
80% Receiver Case in California; Fears Precedent. In 2014, Joseph Roh had a business that dealt in firearms
parts. As part of the business, he facilitated the production of lower receivers for AR-15 type firearms, from 80%
receivers, in California. In the business, he or his employees would set up the 80% receiver in a Computer Numerical
Control (CNC) milling machine. Then, they required the customer to "push the green button". ATF believed this made the
business one that was manufacturing firearms without a license. Roh was arrested in 2014. [...] Joseph Roh had
assets. He hired a competent attorney, Gregory Nicolaysen.
Washington
Parish Sheriff Cites Second Amendment, Leaves Democrat Party. Washington Parish is a rural parish of about
47,000 population in Louisiana. The rural parish elections have been trending conservative; they have been gradually
moving from traditional Democrat to Republican. [...] Sheriff Randy Seal was correct when he said the Democrat party left
him. There is no issue where this is more clear than on support for the Second Amendment.
Florida
Police Using FINDER System to Create Lists of Gun Owners. Pawnbrokers are required to enter information on
firearms transactions into the FINDER system. The system transmits the serial number of the firearm along with the make
and model to the local sheriffs' department to make sure that the person pawning the gun, did not steal it. A bug
in the system also transmitted the names and addresses of the transfers to local law enforcement. The Charlotte County
Sheriff's Department used the information to create a list of gun owners.
Beto
O'Rourke: We will use 'criminal code' against people who refuse to turn in AR-15s. Beto O'Rourke said he
would use the criminal code to back up his proposal to confiscate AR-15s and other "weapons of war" from Americans. "If
we're able to pass mandatory buybacks and I'm able to sign that into law, then I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in
their AR-15s and their AK-47s," the former Texas congressman said in a Thursday CBS News interview when asked if his policy
was "too retroactive." O'Rourke continued his answer by saying there would be criminal consequences if people were to
"persist" in holding onto their weapons.
Gun
Owners: Here's Why You Should Think Twice Before Posting Pictures of Your Firearms on Social Media. It's
no secret that technology plays an important role in our lives. Almost every single aspect of our life is ruled by
technology, from smart phones to computers and the internet. That's why it's not surprising to know that Google and
Facebook are keeping tabs on gun owners' firearms. According to The Firearms Blog (TFB), the two tech giants are
scanning users' pictures to look for serial numbers. They're then creating an index of every person's firearms based on
the image scans. If you've posted a picture of your firearm on a social networking site and didn't smear out the serial
number, chances are it's indexed on Google images. Simply type in the serial number in quotes and search images.
What comes up?
Police
Groups Slam Beto's Plan to Send Cops to Collect Americans' Guns. National law enforcement organizations harshly
criticized Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's plan to send police officers to collect AR-15s and AK-47s from
those who refuse to turn them in under his mandatory buyback scheme. In interviews with the Washington Free
Beacon, leaders from groups representing hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers described Beto's gun
confiscation plan as "ridiculous," "asinine," and likely unconstitutional.
The Editor says...
LIKELY unconstitutional? Please explain the loopholes and legal contortions that would be needed to
justify a decree that the Second Amendment permits door-to-door gun confiscation.
Raising
Taxes On Guns And Ammo Is About Punishing Gun Owners. City council members in Tacoma, Washington could soon
approve a massive increase in taxes on firearms and ammunition sales in the city, and local reporter and columnist Matt
Driscoll loves the idea. In a column for the Tacoma News-Tribune, Driscoll says he's ready for the city to "do
something" to try to make streets safer.
Sheriffs
Send Beto to the Burn Ward Over His Threat to Send Law Enforcement to Gun Owner's Homes. While on MSNBC's
Morning Joe, Democratic 2020 candidate and wannabe tyrant Robert "Beto" O'Rourke made it clear that in an America where he's
president, he will send law enforcement to the homes of people who choose not to participate in the mandatory buyback program
and take their gun by force. O'Rourke told "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough that in the instance of a gun owner
keeping his AR-15 to himself, then he can count on a visit by someone with a badge and a gun. [...] It would appear that law
enforcement has some things to say about that, and O'Rourke may not like what they have to say.
The
ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist. [Scroll down] However, it's generally legal to sell
firearm parts without following those rules. The exception is the "receiver." Federal law treats this
part — the frame that holds the gun's guts, basically — the same way it treats an entire firearm.
It needs to have a serial number and so on even when it's sold by itself, preventing people from evading the law by simply
buying and selling firearms piece by piece. But this creates an issue for AR-15s, whose receivers themselves are
divided into two parts. For these guns, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives treats the bottom
part — the "lower receiver" — as the firearm for regulatory purposes. The only way to skirt the
law is to sell "80 percent lowers," hunks of metal mostly made into lowers but still requiring some machining. [... But]
Is it actually flat-out legal to sell a completed lower with no serial number and no background check? That's the issue
raised by the recent case.
Beto
Would Risk Another Waco. In an interview with "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC on Wednesday
[10/16/2019], presidential candidate Peter Francis O'Rourke admitted that, yes, he was willing to pry your AR-15 from your
cold dead hands. [...] Which part of "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" in the Second Amendment do you
not understand? [...] Of course, Beto expects the law-abiding citizen, perhaps a veteran, protecting his family will simply
answer the door and respond to the demand that he surrender his legally owned firearm along with his constitutional rights by
saying, "Excuse me, officer, I know I fought for my country and have threatened no one, but since some politician who is
protected by armed security thinks I'm a danger to my community, well, here they are.
Beto
Admits Non-Compliant AR-15 Owners Would Receive a 'Visit from a Law-Enforcement Officer' under His Plan.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke admitted on Wednesday [10/16/2019] that under his federal gun "buyback"
plan, police officers would go to the homes of those gun owners who refused to sell their weapons to the government in order
to "recover" the banned semi-automatic rifles. "What's the next step for the federal government there?" Joe Scarborough
asked O'Rourke on MSNBC, giving the example of a "rancher in Texas" who refuses to give up his AR-15. "I think just as
in any law that is not followed or flagrantly abused there have to be consequences or else there is no respect for the law,"
O'Rourke responded. "So in that case I think there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm and make
sure that it is purchased, bought back, so that it cannot be potentially used against somebody else."
Meet
The Police Officer Who Told Congress She 'Would Not Comply' With a Gun Ban. Last week, a retired Tulsa,
Oklahoma law enforcement officer testified in a Congressional hearing that she "would not comply" if Congress passes a ban on
firearms. Her bold assertion earned her national media attention and viral status on social media. Dianna Muller,
who is the founder of a non-partisan Second Amendment advocacy group called the DC Project, is also a proud NRA Member.
We caught up with Dianna after the hearing. [Video clip]
Retired
cop's guns confiscated, license revoked, based on word of waitress. A gun seizure in Massachusetts raises
serious questions about the state law on guns and the notion of red flag laws in general. Stephen Nichols, an
84-year-old retired Tisbury police officer and Korean War Army veteran, was conversing with a friend over a meal at a local
restaurant. The waitress who was serving them reported the conversation she overheard to authorities. As a result
Nichols's guns were confiscated and his gun license was revoked. To add insult to injury, it turns out the server heard
only heard part of the conversation.
Beto
O'Rourke: If You Don't Hand over Your AR-15 We'll Take It. During the October 15, Democrat debate Robert
"Beto" O'Rourke made clear that AR-15 owners who refuse to hand over their guns will have them taken away. O'Rourke
reiterated his plan to use a government-mandated buyback to confiscate privately-owned AR-15s and AK-47s. In so doing,
he claimed that each AR-15 and AK-47 in private hands is a "potential instrument of terror." CNN's Anderson Cooper then
asked O'Rourke how he plans to get people to hand over their rifles. O'Rourke responded by explaining that he expects
complains [sic - compliance?] with the mandatory buybacks.
California
man mysteriously freed after selling illegal AR-15s. Here's an odd story out of California that dates back
nearly a decade but I'm only just hearing about it now. It deals with a man named Joseph Roh who lived in a suburb of
Los Angeles. After a lengthy BATFE investigation, it was determined that Roh had been illegally manufacturing AR-15
style, semiautomatic rifles (without serial numbers) in his own warehouse. What's more, he had been selling them for
$1,000 a pop to people, many of whom were not legally allowed to purchase a firearm due to having a criminal record. In
fact, one of his customers turned out to be John Zawahri, who you may recall from a mass shooting in Santa Monica in 2013.
Simple enough, right? Lock the guy up. Even the most strident Second Amendment supporters don't want freelance
gunsmiths circumventing the law and arming criminals. And yet, after years of investigation and legal gymnastics,
California decided to quietly let the guy go earlier this year. How [...] did that happen?
How
the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings. The American media currently has no industry
standard practices for how to cover either suicides or mass shootings. However, one can easily see the difference
between how mass shootings and suicides are covered. Whereas suicides are treated as sombre tragedies, mass shootings
often have the sensationalism turned up to 11. There's a detailed discussion of the shooter's life story, motives and
methods. Strong evidence suggests that this both encourages and instructs potential mass shooters. Statistically
speaking, mass shootings represent a tiny portion of all deaths in the United States. [...] Despite the low frequency of
these tragedies, the media pays outsized attention to them for self-serving reasons, which are both political and economic:
There's a demonstrated anti-gun agenda amongst America's media. And there's the ongoing shift in the media's business
model to attention-based revenue that results in ever-more sensational news coverage and "clickbait" headlines.
Gavin
Newsom Signs Bill Restricting Rifle Purchases by Californians. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed
legislation Friday to limit rifle purchases by Californians. The Sacramento Bee reports the legislation limiting
rifle purchases was sponsored by Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge). The Bee also reports similar
legislation was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on three different occasions. But Newsom signed it, thereby
expanding California's one-handgun-a-month rule to include semiautomatic centerfire long guns as well.
California
Governor Approves Broadest Gun Seizure Laws In US. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved some
of the strictest gun laws and gun seizure powers in the U.S. Friday [10/11/2019], signing into law 15 different pieces of gun
legislation. Newsom has reinforced a "red flag" law that enables educators, employers and co-workers to inform on gun
owners and request that a restraining order be placed on them — if they are believed to be a danger to themselves
or society, according to the Associated Press.
California adopts
nation's broadest gun seizure laws. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 15 gun-related bills
into law Friday, tightening the state's already-stringent Second Amendment restrictions. One of the bills, which
expands a so-called "red flag" law to allow co-workers, employers and educators to seek gun violence restraining orders
against firearms owners they fear are a danger to themselves and others, was vetoed twice by Newsom's predecessor, Jerry
Brown. Newsom also signed a companion bill allowing the gun violence restraining orders to last one and five years,
although the gun owners could petition to end those restrictions earlier. The bill also allows judges to issue search
warrants at the same time as they grant the orders. The warrants can be used immediately if the gun owners are served
with the relinquishment orders but fail to turn over the firearms or ammunition.
"THAT is why law-abiding citizens buy millions
of these firearms". Amy Swearer To House Judiciary. [Video clip]
Guns
and Cannabis: The Insidious Creep of Tyranny. In 2004, Vermont implemented a medical marijuana registry,
promising patient confidentiality on its state website. Then, in 2018, Vermont legalized recreational marijuana use and
imposed a universal background check on gun-purchasers. Here's the rub: the federal government was not consulted, and
the ATF maintains that anyone using marijuana will be denied clearance to purchase any gun. This was already the case
prior to Vermont's recreational cannabis legalization — those who were on the state's marijuana registry were not
allowed to buy guns from federally licensed dealers, as the state of Vermont provided the list of registrants surreptitiously
to the federal government. Yet those on the cannabis registry could still purchase guns from neighbors —
that is, until the vaulted "universal background check" closed that "loophole" for sick people to defend themselves.
All without public discussion, or even awareness. This is how government steals liberties.
Supreme
Court Refuses to Drop 2A Case, Despite NYC Pleas. The Supreme Court on Monday [10/7/2019] signaled their
willingness to hear the first Second Amendment case in a decade, known as New York State Rifle and Pistol Association
v. New York City. The High Court denied a motion, filed by the City, asking for the case to be dropped because
of its mootness. NYC filed the motion because they changed the law in question since the case was first brought about.
In their mind, the law changes addresses any concerns the plaintiffs have. The justices scheduled oral arguments for December,
telling both sides the "question of mootness will be subject to further consideration, and the parties should be prepared to
discuss it."
Dick's
Sporting Goods CEO says company destroyed $5 million in guns. Ed Stack, the chairman and CEO of Dick's Sporting
Goods, said in a new interview that his company destroyed $5 million worth of semi-automatic rifles after removing them from
store shelves last year. Dick's stopped selling AR-15s after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 but took
it a step further after the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, raising the gun purchase age to 21 and banning the sale of
high-capacity magazines and assault-style rifles. It was a highly controversial move that Mr. Stack said cost the
company "pretty close" to $250 million.
Violent
Crime Drops As Concealed Carry Numbers Increase. We learned from the FBI this week that violent crime and
homicides declined in 2018. Now a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows while crime is down, the number
of Americans who possess a concealed carry license is growing. In fact, the number of concealed carry license holders
grew by 1.4 million people to 18.66 million, and at this pace, will eclipse 20-million concealed carry holders in 2020.
Latest
FBI Stats: AR-15s Were Used in Less Than 3% of All Homicides. If they come for our steak knives it's OK
because knives were used in roughly 5 times as many homicides as ALL rifles COMBINED, not just AR-15s. Whatever makes
America safer.
Red
Flag Laws and the Misguided Worship of Due Process. For gun-owners, the pattern is all too familiar: a
mass shooting, such as those in El Paso and Dayton, followed by massive amounts of publicity by the anti-gun media and
posturing politicians, accompanied by a demand that Congress "do something," such as red flag laws. [...] When questioned,
most congressional Republicans say they will support police seizing guns only if rigorous due process is provided.
Don't buy it. Red flag laws violate the Second Amendment, and "due process" is not a magic wand to be waved to make the
infringement go away. Due process is the idea that the government must follow the procedural rules under our system of
justice. These guarantees protect Americans against arbitrary decisions by the government to take away life, liberty,
and property. The Supreme Court has described due process circularly as "what process is due." There is no one set
of rules for all situations. Typically, the greater the liberty interest at stake, the more extensive the due process
protections must be.
Beto
was honest about taking guns, and that's why Joe Biden's gun plan is dead on arrival. Former Vice President Joe
Biden has a plan for gun control. It certainly isn't the most radical plan out there. He wants to expand the list
of crimes for which convicts can be deprived of their gun rights to include misdemeanor hate crimes. He also wants to
create a new voluntary gun purchase program. (Such programs are often mistakenly referred to as "buy-backs," but that syntax
falsely implies that the government ever owned any of the guns in the first place.) These programs are usually a harmless
waste of money so long as they remain voluntary. But they are a waste. Most importantly, Biden wants to create a
national gun registry. This is where he is sure to meet the most resistance, and rightly so. The reason is that no
sane gun owner will want his or her name on a gun registry after listening to this year's Democratic candidates on the trail.
According
To Democrats, Everything Is A 'Right!' Except Owning A Firearm. Top Democratic 2020 White House hopefuls
gathered in Las Vegas Wednesday [10/2/2019] for a forum on gun control held on the 2nd anniversary of the deadliest mass
shooting in American history. At the forum, sponsored by MSNBC with the gun control groups March for Our Lives and
Giffords, Democrats pushed for far stricter federal gun laws than Democrats have ever supported in the past, including
several candidates openly endorsing a gun confiscation program. While Democrats running for president push to roll back
gun rights, however, the far-left field of candidates is pushing everything else on their wish list as a "right" all
individuals are entitled to. Of course, none of the "rights" below are constitutionally protected.
God,
Guns, and Grit: Why America Needs The Reliant. The Reliant, an action film coming to select
theaters on October 24, is not a typical faith-based film and the secular community is taking notice. It was made
apparent when the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating. Although it had no foul language or sex
scenes, and less violence than Disney movies given a PG-13 rating, the screenwriter and producer of the film,
Dr. J. P. Johnston, had to appeal to the MPAA to get it changed. The hate mail the producers have received
and the trash articles written by those opposed to the film's nod to the right-to-keep-and-bear-arms is a hint of the size of the
stronghold The Reliant is trying to tackle.
NRA 1,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors 0. Remember last month when San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a
resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization and ordered city employees to "take
every reasonable step to limit" business interactions with the NRA and its supporters? The one that our David French
labeled "a retaliatory public attack on constitutionally protected speech"? The NRA sued, and lo and behold, San
Francisco is backing down, before the suit even went to court.
San
Francisco backs down after NRA challenges its designation as 'terrorist organization'. Derangement is in the
air as progressives, driven to distraction by not just Trump's election and successes but their own failures, act out their
rage with no consideration of the downsides. An excellent example of Non-Trump Progressive Derangement Syndrome (NTPDS)
is offered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, embarrassed by their city's descent into filth and squalor, lashed out
of the National Rifle Association instead of doing anything about the homeless population that is making sidewalks dangerous
to traverse and spreading disease and crime.
Michael
Bloomberg: O'Rourke's Confiscation Talk Just Strengthens Opposition. Gun control proponent Michael
Bloomberg [...] gave an interview to the Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, where he intimated O'Rourke's approach is a,
"rallying cry for people that say they are overstepping their bounds." Town Hall quoted Bloomberg describing O'Rourke's
confiscatory plan as "so impractical." Bloomberg made clear his opposition to civilian ownership of many commonly-owned
semiautomatic rifles, but added that O'Rourke's approach, "is not the way to win this issue."
The
Death of American Citizenship. We still have a Bill of Rights, but many of our constitutional protections are
being rendered impotent. If a rural family cannot find ammunition at the local Walmart or gun store due to organized
boycotts and threats to such establishments, then the constitutional right to bear arms is not always exercisable in a
practical sense.
Sparks fly
at assault-weapons ban hearing on Capitol Hill, ex-cop vows she would 'not comply'. A former police officer
made a bold proclamation during a congressional hearing Wednesday regarding a proposed assault-weapons ban: she would not
comply. Dianna Muller, who served in the Tulsa Police Department for 22 years and is the founder of gun advocacy group
The DC Project, was among the witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing. The session on an otherwise contentious
issue flew largely under the radar amid the Trump-Ukraine controversy and Democrats' impeachment push. But reflecting the
gun control divide in the country — amid a spate of deadly mass shootings that prompted renewed calls for strict
laws — Muller said that such a ban would force lawful gun owners to either give up their arms or become criminals.
The
Case Against Universal Background Checks. On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers got a visit from Attorney
General Bill Barr and White House Legislative Affairs Director Eric Ueland, looking to sell them on a gun control
proposal. The proposal, an outline of which was released by the Daily Caller's Amber Athey, parallels legislation
proposed by Senators Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) in expanding federal background check requirements.
Why
Barr's Expanded Background Checks Would Pave The Way For Gun Grabs. As long as there is a background check
system for gun purchases, Democrats will try to transform it into a firearm registry they can use to confiscate guns.
Breitbart's
AWR Hawkins Wins 2019 Journalist of Year. Breitbart News's AWR Hawkins won the 2019 Journalist of the Year
award at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. The conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is sponsored by the
Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb commented on Hawkins' winning the award by saying, "AWR
Hawkins winning this award was truly validated by applause from the more than 1,100 gun rights activists and supporters in
the room."
Pro-Second
Amendment Columbine Survivor Gets Beto to Admit: I'm Open to Banning All Guns. During an event in
Colorado Thursday night [9/19/2019], 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Beto O'Rourke was asked if he is open to a
ban on all semi-automatic firearms.
Dem
gun control backers are trying to distance themselves from Beto's pledge. Gun control talk continues on Capitol
Hill, and Democrats are distancing their legislative efforts from the brazen gun confiscation pledge made by one of the
presidential candidates last week. In response to 2020 presidential candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's "[...] yes,
we're going to take your AR-15" comment at the third Democratic debate, and President Donald Trump's complaints that it's
made working on gun control more difficult, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "I don't know of any other Democrat
who agrees with Beto O'Rourke, but it's no excuse not to go forward" with new gun control.
Dems
Veto Red Flag Law For Gangbangers. If Democrats were serious about using red flag laws to keep guns out if the
hands of people who might use them to senselessly murder others and therefore are danger to society, and not just as a
gun-control tool to disarm law-abiding citizens, then why did they kill an attempt to use compiled lists of known gang
members, which many police departments and law enforcement agencies possess? Why did they kill a measure to red flag
gang members? And if Beto O'Rourke is going to come and take our guns, particularly our AR-15s, is he going to start on
the south side of Chicago?
Colt
Suspends Manufacture Of Controversial AR-15 For Civilian Market. Firearms manufacturer Colt says it is
suspending production of its popular AR-15 semi-automatic assault-style rifle for the civilian market, saying it will
concentrate instead on fulfilling contracts from the military and law enforcement. "The fact of the matter is that over
the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity," Colt
Defense LLC president and CEO Dennis Veilleux said in a statement on Thursday. "Given this level of manufacturing
capacity, we believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future."
NRA
crowns Beto O'Rourke AR-15 salesman of the month: 'Possibly even of the year'. The National Rifle Association
labeled presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke the "AR-15 salesman of the month" after he called for the confiscation of AR-15s
and AK-47s. The gun rights group suggested the former Texas congressman could even be the AR-15 salesman of the year.
They're not alarmed, they're embarrassed.
O'Rourke
gun confiscation talk alarms Democrats. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke's (D-Texas) full-throated endorsement of
a mandatory gun buyback proposal has raised alarms among Democrats. They see the presidential candidate's proposal as
playing into Republican hands and putting Democratic candidates on the back foot. They also say it could be used by the
National Rifle Association (NRA) to raise money and members, and to fight efforts to impose tougher background checks and
other measures that might reduce gun violence. "I think we should be focused on the stuff that we can get across the
finish line and I think that was a bit of a gift to the NRA," Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told The Hill.
Beto
O'Rourke: Fines will 'compel' AR-15 owners to turn their guns. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke provided
insight into how police would enforce his proposal for a government confiscation of AR-15s and AK-47s. The Democratic
presidential candidate told reporters he would impose a fine on AR-15 owners to "compel" them to follow the law and turn in
their banned firearms. Owners who turn in the guns will then be compensated. "We expect our fellow Americans to
follow the law. If they do not, there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law," O'Rourke said. "We've
seen this implemented successfully in Australia, where you've seen a near 50% reduction in gun violence deaths in that country."
Beto
O'Rourke Thinks that Fines Will 'Compel' AR-15 Owners to Give Up their Guns. To claim that there was a 50
percent decline in gun violence because of a government gun confiscation program is an outright lie. There were about a
dozen other gun control laws passed at the same time that made it damn near impossible to buy or own a gun of any kind.
O'Rourke knows this — or at least he should.
'Live
Free or Die' and Government Gun 'Buybacks'. Today, in astounding fashion, we see a majority of the Democrats
and even quite a large number of Republicans bowing to their feelings and the communists and statists within the House and
the Senate, as the whine over the scourge of "gun violence" reaches a fever pitch. These gun-grabbers personify
firearms, as if these inanimate firearms are chaotically running about America slaughtering innocent citizens. And we
now hear many Democrats and television network host and pundits asserting "assault weapons ownership is not synonymous with
gun ownership." A brick or a hammer is an "assault weapon", and if anything, the AR-15 is simply a tool for the
defense of home and person. It is no different than the 1905 Remington .308 semi-automatic, from the days when mass
shootings were unheard of and an unthinkable and evil act and the good morals of society prevented such things, through the
people's own self-restraint and will to only act for each other's well-being. Firearms are harmless left at rest, and
the damage they do, the good or evil, lies with the intent of the man holding one.
How
to Bend the News. This, from ABC, is a nice example of a news organization deliberately bending the truth in
order to advance a narrative that it wishes were true but is not: ["]Venerable gun manufacturer Colt says it will
stop producing the AR-15, among other rifles, for the consumer market in the wake of many recent mass shootings in which
suspects used the weapon.["] Wow. Sounds dramatic. [...] So the story is that, although it still respects
the Second Amendment, Colt is going to stop producing AR-15s after a series of mass shootings in which they were used.
Right? Wrong. That's actually not the story at all, as ABC notes further down: ["]The company
did not mention mass shootings in its statement about stopping production and instead blamed the indefinite pause in
making the weapon on a 'significant excess manufacturing capacity.'["]
In
Aurora, Beto O'Rourke says he's open to broadening gun buyback proposal. Democratic presidential candidate Beto
O'Rourke says he's open to broadening his proposal to require owners of AK-47s and AR-15s to sell them to the
government. During an emotional town hall Thursday in Aurora, a man who identified himself as a survivor of the 1999
Columbine massacre noted that the shooters there didn't use the military-style weapons O'Rourke wants to take. They
instead used regular semi-automatic weapons. He challenged O'Rourke to confiscate those arms as well. O'Rourke
told reporters afterward: "If there's a way to improve what we proposed, I want to make sure we're reflecting that."
Red
Flag Laws: Too Good to Be True. Reasonable Americans can agree that no one who shouldn't have a gun
should have one. Red flag laws, though, are peaceful slavery disguised as bipartisan utopianism, with even President
Trump publicly supporting them. Bipartisanship is often sold as doing what's right, but warm and fuzzy bipartisan
agreements don't necessarily mean something good for the American people. Doing what's constitutional is what's right
and correct, irrespective of whether it's bipartisan. It's almost the equivalent of legislating based on polls.
In my home state of Florida, both our U.S. senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, support red flag laws. Rubio may be
the most vocal cheerleader among Republican senators.
Beto
O'Rourke: AR-15 Salesman of the Month, Perhaps the Year. In a Democrat presidential field where the front runners are
drawing 30 to 34 percent support, Robert "Beto" Rourke is only drawing 4 percent, but he sure can sell some AR-15s.
The price just went up.
Colt
suspends production of AR-15 for civilian market. Colt's chief executive officer, Dennis Veilleux, says it is
not permanently ending production but believes there is already an adequate supply of sporting rifles on the market. He
said in a statement Thursday [9/19/2019] the company will concentrate on fulfilling military and law enforcement contracts with
its rifle manufacturing.
Gunmaker
Colt to Stop Producing AR-15s for Civilian Market. Gunmaker Colt Firearms is stopping production of its AR-15
semi-automatic rifles for the civilian market amid a major gun control push led by Democrats, according to a new
report. Colt's AR-15s are among the most popular sporting rifles in America and considered a go-to AR for
consumers. According to a report by Guns.com, however, Colt senior VP Paul Spitale indicated the company is shifting
production toward the class 1911, Colt revolvers, and other guns Americans want for concealed carry, and away from ARs.
Why
Soft-on-Crime Democrats Are Tough on 'Gun Violence'. At their third primary debate, nearly all of the
Democratic presidential contenders offered full-throated support for gun control. In the very recent past, gun control
measures bowed to prudence by respecting the rights and expectations of law-abiding gun owners — even the Clinton
"assault weapons ban" grandfathered weapons and magazines manufactured and purchased before the ban took effect. Now,
however, the rhetoric has shifted and become even more radical and uncompromising.
Dear San Francisco.
The City of San Francisco recently adopted a resolution labeling the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist
organization" and threatening to boycott anyone who does business with the NRA. In response to this despicable act, the NRA,
the nation's largest and most effective civil rights organization, has produced this video. [Video clip]
Gun
Control: Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem. The actual problem is the growth of mental illness in
American society. So the real question that must be answered before any realistic solution can be proposed is
why mental illness is trending so noticeably upward. One measure that shows this increase in mental illness is
the significant rise in the number of suicides, which have been steadily climbing for the last couple decades. There
were over 47,000 U.S. suicides in 2017, and it is only getting worse. The explosion in mental illness is a
manifestation of cultural rot. Liberals gleefully turned America's culture into a death-celebrating cesspool and, in
Saul Alinsky-like fashion, indicated that the only solution is the shredding of the Second Amendment, something they have
always wanted to do.
Violate
Your Oath And Turn On American Citizens At Your Legal Peril, Gun-Grabbers. There has been a lot of talk about
whether our law enforcement (and our military) would follow the orders of those like that furry fascist Beto to unleash a
reign of terror upon innocent American citizens who the liberal elite's unconstitutional gun decrees would turn into
felons. Most of our heroic cops and warriors would hold true to their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But some pathetic worms would willingly, even eagerly
betray their oaths and make war upon their own people. They need to know there will be consequences. [...] This is
about the other consequences of abandoning one's oath. It is about the consequences that would come when the rule of
law returns and justice demands to be done. Because there will be an accounting before the law for anyone who swore to
defend the Constitution and then willingly does the opposite.
Frivolous
Lawsuits Once Again Threaten the Gun Industry. In 2005, a wave of lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the gun
industry. These suits were based on — pick your adjective — "creative," "novel," "inventive," and
"imaginative" legal theories that rarely held up in court, and they did their damage primarily by forcing gun companies to
incur the costs of defending against them. Congress, seeing the problem, stepped in to put a stop to it — or
at least tried to — by passing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). A decade and a half
later, anti-gun activists have responded with yet more new legal theories, and the Connecticut courts have bought one of them.
Arizona
Gun Store Offers 'Beto Special' On AR15s And AK47s — Sells Out In One Day. When Obama was president,
people called him America's greatest gun salesman because every time he talked about gun control, sales would go through the
roof. Now Beto O'Rourke is getting in on that action. After Beto declared his intentions to confiscate guns at
the last Democrat debate, one Arizona gun store decided to do a sale in his name. It worked out pretty well for them.
Related topic:
Barack H. Obama: Gun Salesman of the Year.
It's
Not The NRA Stopping Gun Control, It's America's 100 Million Gun Owners. Tens of millions of Americans own
handguns, which anti-gun activists tried to get banned in the 1970s and 1980s. Seventeen and a half million Americans
have permits to carry handguns for protection away from home. A comparable number own semi-automatic rifles that
Democrats in Congress have been trying to ban since 1989. Since the 1990s, every time Democrats inside the Beltway
have acted against the right to keep and bear arms, or threatened to do so, purchases of guns, particularly those that
Democrats want most to ban, have soared. For example, in August, the first month of Democrats' new push against guns,
gun purchases increased roughly 16 percent, compared to the number in August 2018. Yet Democrats believe they have
reason to hope. Polls show support for some of the gun laws they are demanding, though support for gun control
typically falls once the public becomes informed about the details and it has fallen this year.
Trump:
Democrats Want to Eliminate 'God-Given Right to Self-Defense'. During his September 16, 2019, rally in New
Mexico, President Donald Trump called out "radical" Democrats for trying to take Americans' guns. Trump warned citizens
of "radical left Democrats" pushing regulations, higher taxes, and constraints on free speech.
On
ABC, Ted Cruz Schools Stephanopoulos on Dem Push for Gun Control and Confiscations. In an appearance on
Sunday's This Week, Senator Ted Cruz (R) schooled Clinton lackey and ABC chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on the
ineffectiveness of Democratic gun control legislation. In the process, Senator Cruz called out Democrats for working on
plans to confiscate the firearms of law-abiding Americans. Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos was trying to get Cruz to sign
onto Democratic proposals. After rehashing the dubious smears of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Stephanopoulos tried to use
the recent mass shootings in Texas to box Cruz into a corner and get him to support pervasive gun control measures:
The
13 Republicans needed to pass gun-control legislation. If President Trump endorses gun-control legislation, it
will take 13 Senate Republican votes to pass the measure, assuming the entire 47-member caucus of Democrats and Independents
backs it. Conservatives such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) say any proposal that goes as far as the 2013 amendment
sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) will face a backlash from the right, meaning 60 votes
will be necessary to break a filibuster. The Manchin-Toomey proposal, which is basis of current Senate negotiations,
would expand back to include all sales over the Internet and at gun shows but exempt sales between family, friends and coworkers.
Beto's
Gun Grab And Constitution Day. September 17 is Constitution Day and Peter Francis O'Rourke plans on celebrating
it by gutting the document's Second Amendment, infringing on the right to bear arms that the Constitution says shall not be
infringed. Of course, O'Rourke also shares the Democrat belief that the Constitution's "penumbras and emanations"
confers a right to privacy allowing unborn children to be aborted until the moment of birth. There he was on Sunday's
[9/15/2019] "Meet the Press," his dental work complete and ear hair properly trimmed, to claim his plan to confiscate from
law-abiding citizens by force and under penalty of law their AR-15s was in fact constitutional under the Constitution's
Commerce clause.
'Through
the Commerce Clause': Beto O'Rourke insists his gun confiscation plan is 'constitutionally sound'. Presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke defended his plan to confiscate AR-15s and AK-47s and said it would not run counter to the Second
Amendment to the Constitution. "This is something that we're able to do through the Commerce Clause and this is
something that is not prevented from — wouldn't prevent the United States from doing by the Second
Amendment. So this is constitutionally sound," O'Rourke told NBC's Meet the Press. "This is absolutely necessary
if we care about the lives of our fellow Americans." O'Rourke claimed he has had owners of AR-15s come up to him and
say, "I own one of these guns, don't need it to hunt, don't need it for self-defense. This is the right thing to do, I
would gladly give it up.'"
The Editor says...
I find it difficult to fully express my skepticism of Beto's dubious anecdote about AR-15 owners telling him they'd be glad to forfeit
their guns. If they don't need such a weapon for hunting or for self-defense, why did they purchase them? Did they not
deliberate their (plural) purchases? If they had buyer's remorse, why didn't they just sell the guns and forego the political
grandstanding? Guns aren't cheap, and as the likelihood increases that we will see a gun-grabbing commie in the White House,
the more expensive guns and ammo will become.
Leftists
Won't Be Going 'Door-To-Door' To Take Your Guns, Because They Won't Have To. The imagined apocalyptic
door-to-door weapons seizures that either lead to a totalitarian state or a hot revolution/civil war is unlikely to ever
happen. That's not, however, because leftists are good people and would never want gun owners to be harmed. Quite
the contrary on all counts - Leftists are NOT good people and they DO want responsible gun owners to come to harm. They
just know that, Eric Swalwell's nukes notwithstanding, such an overreach too soon has a significant chance of going bad for them,
and they're more than willing to settle for the long game. Make no mistake, the totalitarian state WILL happen, if Robert
Frances and his ilk get their way, but it won't happen with jackboots kicking in doors, at least not at first and not in
significant enough numbers to overly alarm the rest of a sleeping populace.
Why not
call Democrats communists? Thursday night's presidential debate on ABC made that clear. Democrats made it
clear that they are for gun confiscation, wealth redistribution (reparations), a government-run medical system (Medicare For
All), and an end to citizenship through open borders with special privileges for non-citizens, especially the ones here
illegally. Beto O'Rourke said, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We're not going to allow them to
be used against fellow Americans anymore." No one challenged him. No one said look, you little twerp son-in-law
of a billionaire, you cannot do that because it is unconstitutional. The other 9 presidential candidates on that stage did not
call him out because he said publicly what they all believe. That is the plan, or at least part of it. Eventually
they will get there. They banned assault weapons once before.
Beto
The Furry Is Less Amusing When He Calls For Violence Against American Citizens. The clownish antics of Tex
Kennedy, that drunk driving furry and El Paso punchline, are much less funny now that he is promising to convert millions of
Americans into felons and send armed government agents to their homes to steal their constitutionally-guaranteed
property. Maybe he doesn't know — whether due to pharmaceuticals or simply because he's stupid —
that two Democratic administrations ago, right up the road, the feds sent a bunch of armed men to take the forbidden guns of
some people who were minding their own business and it turned out poorly. That debacle resulted in four dead ATF agents
and over 70 dead civilians — including dozens of kids the feds burned alive. Too bad that ridiculous dwarf
George Stephoplatypus didn't query The Waco Kid on how many Waco reruns he and his fascist friends are willing to accept to
show us rubes who's boss. After all, that's what this AR-15 immoral panic is all about.
America's
Exclusive, Math-Challenged Party. Math is apparently very hard for Democrats, judging from the apparatchiks'
comments on who can run for office on their party's ticket or contribute to that effort. [...] The notion of the federal
government going door to door to confiscate something like 8.5 to 15 million weapons, especially since the definition
of "assault weapon" is so fluid and unclear, is both unconstitutional and politically and practically preposterous.
Democratic
senator warns O'Rourke AR-15 pledge could haunt party for years. Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) on Friday
warned that Beto O'Rourke's pledge that the government will confiscate semiautomatic AR-15 rifles will become a rallying cry
for gun rights groups for years to come and haunt the Democratic Party far into the future. "I frankly think that that
clip will be played for years at Second Amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying that
Democrats are coming for your guns," Coons, an ally of former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic race, told CNN's
Poppy Harlow in an interview.
Beto
Blows Lid Off 'No One Wants to Take Your Guns'. Democrats and media members have pledged for years some version
of "nobody wants to take your guns away" when gun control laws come up for debate. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D.,
Texas), in a reversal of a position he held last year, has called for mandatory buybacks of semi-automatic rifles like the
AR-15 and AK-47. [...] Going back to 2012, the Free Beacon found clips of numerous left-leaning figures who promised that
such a position wasn't part of any gun control platform.
Texas
State Rep. Briscoe Cain Doubles Down On Beto O'Rourke: 'Come And Take It'. Texas State Rep. Briscoe
Cain doubled down on his insistence that a government conceivably led by Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke will
not be taking his guns. Appearing with guest host Brian Kilmeade on Friday night's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight,"
Cain reiterated that his Thursday debate-night "My AR is ready for you Robert Francis" tweet at O'Rourke wasn't a physical
threat, but rather a version of the oft-repeated gun rights phrase, "come and take it."
Yes, They
Are Coming for Your Guns. Prohibition has never been well received in America, and guns have proven no
exception to that rule. In New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, attempts at the confiscation of "high capacity"
magazines and the registration of "assault weapons" have both fallen embarrassingly flat — to the point that the
police have simply refused to aid enforcement or to prosecute the dissenters. Does Beto, who must know this, expect the
result to be different in Texas, Wyoming, or Florida? Earlier this week, the Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives was unable to marshal enough votes to pass a ban on the sale of "assault weapons" — let alone to
mount a confiscation drive. Sorry, Robert Francis. That dog ain't gonna hunt.
Democrats
Finally Fly Their Gun-Control Fascist Freak Flag in the Open. In all of the decades that the modern version of
the contentious debate in America over guns, freedom, and the Second Amendment has been going on, the gun-control advocates
have repeatedly assured gun owners of one thing: they don't want to take our guns away from us. My, what a difference
one presidential primary full of unabashed Democratic statists makes. After years of being told that we are paranoid
for saying that the anti-gun Left wants to confiscate our weapons, the anti-gun Left is letting us know in no uncertain terms
that they want to confiscate our weapons.
Dana Loesch Blasts
Beto Campaign For Selling T-Shirt With 'Threat' To 'Forcibly Steal' Americans' Property. Former NRA spokeswoman
Dana Loesch blasted Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke for "trying to raise money money off of a threat to the
public." Appearing on Friday night's [9/13/2019] edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" with guest-host Brian Kilmeade,
Loesch called a message on a T-shirt being sold by O'Rourke's campaign that says "hell yeah, we're going to take your AR-15"
a threat to "forcibly steal" someone's "lawfully owned and responsibly used property."
Beto
Is a Disaster for the Gun-Control Movement. He almost certainly doesn't realize it, but Beto O'Rourke is likely
to be the worst thing to happen to the gun-control movement in decades — and, if he continues in this mode, he may
turn out to be the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party in a long time, too. In Houston last night, O'Rourke
abandoned his cloying euphemisms ("mandatory buybacks") and delivered a deliberate, carefully scripted endorsement of gun
confiscation, which, within minutes, his campaign began to sell on t-shirts. "Hell yes," Beto said, "we're going to
take your AR-15." Thus, upon the instant, did two decades' worth of Democratic rhetoric go up in a puff of smoke.
Cory
Booker: It's 'fear mongering' to say armed police will show up and confiscate weapons. Sen. Cory
Booker endorsed the proposal set by former Rep. Beto O'Rourke for mandatory confiscation of AR-15s and similar rifles,
but said "demagogues" are using fear in describing how it would be carried out. [...] When Berman asked how the idea would be
put into motion, Booker said he would use the same method applied after machine guns were banned following the passage of the
1986 National Firearms Act. "You have to set up a system. Yeah, that is mandatory. You have to set up a
system to pull them off. But this idea, this imagery that the fear mongers and demagogues try to say of somehow armed
police officers showing up and confiscating weapons, that's the fear mongering," Booker said.
What Do You Mean, 'We'?
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, the former congressman from Texas who couldn't beat Ted Cruz in a U.S. Senate race but who
nevertheless believes he can win the presidency, said a curious thing at the Democrats' third primary debate in Houston on
Thursday night. "Hell yes," he said, "we'll take your AR-15 and your AK-47 ..." As I say, curious. Who
exactly, I wonder, does Beto mean by "we"? A legion of overgrown adolescent 6-foot-4 rich-kids like him, collecting rifles
on skateboards? Or does he mean the United States government, under his command? If he intended the latter, then a
little history lesson might be in order.
ADL, Dems Push 'Disarm Hate Act' to Seize
Guns of Those Convicted of a 'Misdemeanor Hate Crime'. The Anti-Defamation League and the Democrats in congress
want to ban Americans convicted of "misdemeanor hate crimes" from owning guns, outlaw so-called "high capacity" magazines and
pass "red flag" gun laws nationwide to seize people's guns at the slightest whim of a government bureaucrat.
NJ gun owners [defy] the governor who
banned high-capacity magazines. To date, ZERO have been turned in. The governor of New Jersey signed a
law in 2018 banning high-capacity magazines. Gun owners in the Garden State didn't exactly pay attention or behave like
obedient subjects and turn in their high-capacity magazines to the government. Can you guess how many high-capacity
magazines have been turned into the government? How about none!
Conservatives
offer stark warning to Trump, GOP on background checks. Senate conservatives are warning President Trump and
their own leaders to tread carefully in the gun-control debate and caution they risk a political backlash by striking a deal
with Democrats to expand background checks for firearms sales. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday [9/12/2019] said if
Republicans strike a deal with Democrats to require all firearms sales over the Internet or at gun shows to go through background
checks, they would demoralize their conservative base ahead of next year's presidential election.
Beto
Asks Banks to Boycott Gun Industry. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Thursday called on big
banks and other financial institutions to cut off business with gun companies in an effort to bankrupt them. "Credit
cards have enabled many of America's mass shootings in the last decade — and with Washington unwilling to act,
they need to cut off the sales of weapons of war today," O'Rourke tweeted.
Democrats
take aim at gun owners in Houston debate. Gun control featured prominently in the third Democratic debate in
Houston, with most of the 10 candidates trying to one-up each other on the issue while also jabbing repeatedly at President
Trump. [...] New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who describes himself as the only senator "who goes home to a low-income
inner-city community," in an impassioned monologue vowed to "bring a fight to the NRA and corporate gun lobby like they have
never seen before."
Gallup:
83% Blame 'Failure of Mental Health System' for Contributing to Mass Shootings. Despite calls for more gun
control laws in the wake of mass shootings, a new survey shows that the number one factor cited by Americans as contributing
to mass shootings is the "failure of the mental health system to identify individuals who are a danger to others," reported
Gallup. Eighty-three percent of adults see that as the factor contributing "a great deal" and "a fair amount" to the
problem. "Easy access to guns" was cited by 48% of American adults as contributing "a great deal" to mass shootings and
another 21% saw it as contributing "a fair amount" to the problem.
Wokemart. Do we really have to listen
to Walmart's attempts to lecture us on the morality of our consumer purchases? Has American consumer culture hit the
skids that badly? Last week the retail giant actually crossed the Rubicon with Middle America. Walmart announced
that it was requesting its customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in its stores. Additionally, the retailer
said it plans to stop selling some types of ammunition. Walmart will also end handgun sales in Alaska, the only state
where it still sells them. Walmart discontinued the sale of "assault-style" weapons, otherwise known as scary-looking
rifles, in 2015. Last year, Walmart raised the age at which it would sell guns and ammunition to customers from 18
to 21. Walmart hasn't sold handguns since 1993, other than in Alaska.
The Editor says...
What's so special about Alaska? What conditions exist in Alaska that don't exist in rural New Mexico or Montana?
NJ
to terminate contracts with gun manufacturers, financiers if they don't pledge support for responsible gun
control. New Jersey officials says they're done doing business with any gun manufacturers that don't play by
their rules. Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order Tuesday demanding gun makers turn over their practices to
the state, and this applies to banks that do business with New Jersey, too. Moms Demand Action and other major gun
safety advocacy were on hand to watch Murphy sign the order in Morristown. "We will not waste any time ensuring the
people we do business with, and who do business with the State of New Jersey, share our concerns and share our State's
values," said Murphy.
28%
Of Democrats Say Joining the NRA Should Be Illegal, 32% Agree With "Terrorist Organization" Designation. Fresh
off the San Francisco board of Supervisors labeling the NRA a "terrorist organization," a new poll from Rasmussen Reports
shows that 28% of democrats want to throw people in jail for joining the NRA, and 32% of democrats "favor declaring the gun
rights group a terrorist organization in the community where they live."
Here we
go. NRA sues San Francisco. Last week we discussed the embarrassing decision by the San Francisco City
Council to label the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization." While that was bad enough to start with,
they went several steps further, declaring that they would "limit business interactions with the NRA and its
supporters." This was clearly a bridge too far for the NRA. They initially released a statement calling this
action "a reckless assault on a law-abiding organization, it's members, and the freedoms they all stand for." But
they aren't stopping there. Now the case may be heading to court.
NRA
Sues San Francisco for Declaring It a "Domestic Terrorist Organization". The National Rifle Association filed
suit against the city of San Francisco Monday after the city declared the gun rights group a "domestic terrorist organization."
The city's board of supervisors unanimously approved the resolution that was introduced six weeks ago after three people were
shot and killed at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif. After its passage last week, the board acknowledged the non[-]binding
resolution had little practical effect beyond its portrayal of the NRA, which the board hopes will spur the city to curtail
relationships with companies that do business with the NRA.
NRA
sues San Francisco over city declaring it a domestic terrorist organization. The National Rifle Association on
Monday sued the city of San Francisco over a declaration deeming the lobbying group a "domestic terrorist organization,"
according to The Associated Press. The city Board of Supervisors passed the resolution last week, with Supervisor
Catherine Stefani saying she was moved to draft it following August's shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. In the
lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, the NRA accused the city of maintaining a blacklist, asking the court
to "instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree."
Guns, Bernie, Liz, and Joe.
As the $90-plus million release of IT: Chapter Two proved last weekend, America loves scary clowns. But when you
consider that four of them — Bernie Sanders, Lizzie Warren, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris — all beat
President Trump in the latest polls, it's not fun: it's just scary. All four, and the others still in the race
competing for the Dems' vice-presidential nomination, are obsessed with making it much harder — and in some cases
impossible — for Americans to lawfully possess and use firearms. All four would revive the federal ban on
sale of "assault weapons" — whatever they are — and impose universal background checks on gun
sales. And it goes downhill from there.
Feds
Demand Apple And Google Hand Over Names Of 10,000+ Users Of A Gun Scope App. Own a rifle? Got a scope to
go with it? The U.S. government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you. That's because
the government wants Apple and Google to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users
of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered.
Red
flag laws to fight mass shootings? Fine for an ideal world, but we don't live in one. In the world we
actually inhabit, state-level experiments with "red flag" laws should give all Americans pause before handing over this kind
of power to Washington. First of all, the bedrock of America's legal system is all citizens' guarantee to "due process"
before the government infringes on any of their legal rights. Red flag laws around the country skirt or even trample
due process.
What
San Francisco's Declaration Of The NRA As A Terrorist Group Says About America Today. On Tuesday [9/3/2019],
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously declared the National Rifle Association to be a "domestic terrorist
organization" and urged the city to re-evaluate its financial commitments to organizations that conduct business with the
interest group. City leaders labeled the gun rights group that represents nearly five million members a "terrorist"
group in response to several mass shootings that took place this summer, including one that took place at a food festival in
Gilroy, California killing three people just south of San Francisco.
Lies the Left Tells
About Guns. Here's the thing about guns. The Constitution — that handy little
document — guarantees our rights to them, and that guarantee is a profound reflection of the nature and character
of our freedoms. As Ben Domenech of The Federalist wrote recently, "the right to bear arms is not about hunting." [...]
The simple fact that we have a right to own guns doesn't mean individuals must own them, use them, or even like them.
But what it does mean is that people advocating further regulation of firearms at least should have a baseline understanding
of how firearms actually work, as well as the current statutory environment that regulates their purchase, handling, and use.
Democrat Beto O'Rourke:
Americans Will Gladly Turn Over their Guns. This past weekend Beto told Democrats at the New Hampshire
Democratic Party Convention that he will buy back guns from Americans and they will gladly turn them over.
Natural Disasters
and the AR-15. While there may be power outages and other wind-caused damage from the storm, unpredictable
storms like [Hurricane] Dorian stretch the ability of government entities, including public utilities, to accommodate the
needs of people who are in harm's way. If government cannot protect us at all times and in all places — and
that is never feasible or desirable, much less possible — how are individuals supposed to protect themselves in
the wake of a disaster absent law enforcement? [...] Consider that when London banned guns, knife attacks increased, which
led the mayor to call for knife control and the regulation of knives. [...] [C]ountless others on the Left do not want to
protect life; they want us to be unable to defend ourselves from the violence of the stronger and, therefore, become more
dependent on them.
Crossing
the Street, Riding a Bicycle, Kills More Americans than Rifles Do. The left's relentless push to ban
commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles under the guise of safety overlooks the fact that Americans face numerous things that
cause exponentially more death than rifles on a daily basis. Consider Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
statistics from 2017, the most recent year of complete data. The total number of firearm-related deaths was 39,773.
Roughly two-thirds of that figure, 23,854, were firearm-related suicides, with the remaining 15,919 being a combination of
the approximately 500 accidental gun deaths that occur annually coupled with just over 15,000 firearm-related homicides.
Why
'Mandatory Buybacks' Are A Non-Starter. Right now, there's a lot of talk about mandatory buybacks. It's
being mentioned more often than the primary champion for them, presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke. The idea is
alluring for a lot of anti-gun voters, the idea of not just banning so-called assault rifles, but also taking those already
in circulation off the streets. And hey, since there's a buyback, that's totally different than just taking the guns
away, right? Right? Well, no, actually. It's just a slightly more polite version of the same mentality that
would have jackbooted thugs kicking in people's doors to search for guns and hauling people off to prison. Doing so,
even with a mandatory buyback, is likely to spark trouble. There is an upside, though. That upside is that no
such thing is likely to happen.
New
Jersey Gun Owners Aren't Turning In Their Magazines Despite New Law. New Jersey is a hostile place for gun
owners. The progressive state is a big fan of gun control and continually works to pass more and more restrictive
measures, even if those restrictions make no sense at all. One of its most recent moves was to further restrict the
magazine capacity of firearms. There are a few ways to hold onto your magazines, but the idea is to make it so people
will turn them in to authorities. Well, that's not happening. Instead, gun owners are getting creative.
Mo
Brooks: 'The Long-Term Strategy of the Democratic Party Is to Eliminate the Second Amendment'. Thursday
[9/5/2019] during an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio's WVNN, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) argued that although House
Democrats will likely pass a number of gun control bills that will not make it through the U.S. Senate, the long-term
strategy was to get at the Second Amendment's right to bear arms.
The
Left's determination to destroy us from within. Democrats, who have long led their hostage cities and states to
inevitable decline, are absolutely to blame for the destruction of their disintegrating realms. [...] They support the
abrogation of the Second Amendment. In their view, only criminals should and will have guns. And indeed, they
will — like the man who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas, but who failed the background check but still
acquired a gun. Of course he did. That is what criminals do: break laws for which they have no respect.
Despite that essential truth, the Left wants to prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves. The
Left wants law-abiding citizens to be sitting ducks, defenseless against the likes of each and every one of the recent mass
shooters. [...] (Chicago and Baltimore are the murder capitals of the nation. Both have among the strictest gun control
laws in the nation.)
National
Democrats Dodge Questions on Whether NRA Is a 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'. National Democrats in Congress
and on the presidential campaign field have dodged questions of whether they agree with the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors' decision to declare the National Rifle Association (NRA) a "domestic terrorist organization."
Gov.
Bevin on Gun Violence: 'What Has Changed? We, As a Culture... We Don't Value Human Life'. "If we think
that a part of what we are seeing is not a cultural problem, we're kidding ourselves," Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) says
in a video addressing his stance on gun violence in America. In a video posted on the governor's YouTube page, Bevin
responds during a 2018 appearance to a woman asking why he doesn't support stricter gun control laws to address gun
violence. Bevin explains that gun violence has increased in recent decades because American society has undergone a
fundamental cultural shift that has desensitized people to the destruction of human life. Gov. Bevin notes that,
when he was a child, kids brought guns to school — on the school bus and in their cars — but, they
didn't shoot each other with them. What has changed, he says, is the culture, which now devalues and degrades human
life through entertainment, pornography, abortion and the rejection of morality.
Your
Apple Watch May Be Used to Decide Whether You Can Own a Gun. The Trump administration is reportedly considering
a proposal that would see the federal government partnering with Google, Amazon, and Apple in order to use their smart home
devices to capture data on users — and then use that information to determine whether users exhibit signs of
mental illness and a potential for violent behavior. The Washington Post published the report, citing sources
within the administration. Although it did not specify whether the president himself approves of the proposal, it was
apparently brought to the White House by the Suzanne Wright Foundation.
CVS,
Wegmans, Walgreens Ask Customers Not to Bring Firearms into Stores. If someone is prepared to slaughter 10, 20
or more innocent civilians shopping in a drug store, do you think they are inclined to respect the "wishes" of a retail
outlet that doesn't want firearms in its establishment? CVS and Walgreens think so. CVS and Walgreens joined the
woke corporation crowd of Walmart and Kroger and announce they request customers do not bring firearms into their stores.
Walmart's
New Guns and Ammo Policy Caves to People Who Will Never Shop at Walmart. On Tuesday [9/3/2019], Walmart made a
grandstanding announcement signaling a change in its policy on the sales of certain ammunition and legal open carry in it
stores. This was a change the company originally said it was not going to make. [...] When it comes to the leftists'
biggest pet issues, there is never a satisfactory partial response. They want total surrender and nothing less.
They're zealots, not rational people who just happen to think differently. You don't have to take my word on this, the
Left is always more than eager to make the point. Just one day after Walmart made its announcement, San Francisco
branded the responsible, legal gun owners of the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization."
Walgreens
Joins Kroger, Walmart, Bans Open Carry in Stores. On Thursday [9/5/2019], Walgreens joined Kroger and Walmart in banning
open carry in their stores. Walgreens posted a short statement on the issue, which says, "We are joining other
retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement
officials." The announcement comes two days after Kroger and Walmart both banned open carry in their stores.
Satire:
Walmart
Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents. In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths
from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday. According
to shocking reports, people have purchased car parts at Walmart and then those cars have been involved in accidents, proving
a direct correlation between selling auto parts and causing deaths. "We can no longer be complicit in an industry that
kills over 3,000 people a day," said a spokesperson for Walmart.
Demonization
of Gun Owners: Philadelphia "Wellness Check" Results in Hysteria, Propaganda. On 28 August, 2019,
relatives of a former gun dealer called police because, they said, they were concerned the 72-Year-Old man might be depressed
and/or suicidal. I do not know if the man was suicidal or not, but old white men commit the largest percentages of
suicides. They tend to use guns to do the deed. The police raided the house, on the authorization of the
relatives. It appears to be a nice home in a nice neighborhood. Bustleton is home to many of Philadelphia's
police officers and firefighters. The wellness check turned into a full blown media circus. Swat was called "to
assist in clearing weapons". The bomb squad was called. Hazmat was called. Why? Because the man
involved, who had been a gun dealer, according to relatives, had a modest gun collection, some inert grenade bodies (easily
and legally purchased), a smoke grenade (totally legal), some mercury (totally legal), and about a thousand rounds of ammunition.
Texas
Governor Issues Spate of Executive Orders Designed to Prevent Mass Shootings. Texas governor Greg Abbott on
Thursday [9/5/2019] issued eight executive orders aimed at preventing mass shootings after two massacres last month left the
Lone Star State shaken. "Mental instability, racial hatred, extremist ideology, a desire to sow domestic terror, and
other factors have contributed to these horrific mass shootings in varying degrees," the executive orders said. They
also pointed out that police had been alerted to both shooters before they carried out their attacks.
Group seeking to overturn Oklahoma
gun law falls short. A group seeking to stop a new law that would allow people in Oklahoma to openly carry
firearms without training or a background check is acknowledging they fell short of the number of signatures needed for a
statewide vote on the issue.
Dems
Propose First Gun Grab Since Lexington And Concord. The media should stop using absurdly lazy phrases like
"mandatory gun buybacks." Unless the politician they're talking about is in the business of selling firearms, it's impossible
for him to "buy back" anything. No government official — not Joe Biden, not Beto O'Rourke, not any of the
candidates who now support "buyback" programs — has ever sold firearms. What Democrats propose can be more
accurately described as "the first American gun confiscation effort since Lexington and Concord," or some variation on that
theme. Although tax dollars will be meted out in an effort to incentivize volunteers, the policy is to confiscate
AR-15s, the vast majority of which have been legally purchased by Americans who have undergone background checks and never
used a gun for a criminal purpose.
Four
years after allowing universal 'concealed carry' law, Maine rated the safest state in the nation for crime.
Since 2015, residents of the state of Maine have been allowed to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit, and
now the results are in: crime has fallen to the point where the state is now rated the safest in the nation from the threat
of crime. [...] As the Maine Examiner noted, second-ranking Vermont also has a constitutional carry law. Guns in the
hands of honest citizens decrease crime.
The
Firearms of the American Founders' Era. The Framers of the U.S. Constitution lived in a generation that saw
more advancements for firearms than any other, arguably even more than the era of WWII. They understood the importance of a
well armed civilian population being "necessary to the free state," often pointing out themselves that a tyrant has never been
able to take over an armed population. Their Pennsylvania rifles were supreme to the British Brown Bess muskets, and that
is what secured our independence and the birth of America. Pretending that these very intelligent men could never foresee
the invention of the AR-15 (or similar weaponry) is ignorant. These five weapon types held the technology and laid the
foundation for the modern firearms we see today. Each was conceived and used before the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791.
Confirmed:
NICS Check Denied Odessa TX Shooter a Legal Weapon. I surmised as much yesterday, but it's now confirmed:
Additional gun control laws would not have done anything to stop this deranged man. Texas Governor Greg Abott confirms
the gunman used an illegally obtained semi-auto rifle during his drive-by rampage last Saturday that left 7 dead and 22
wounded. The gunman was eventually shot and killed Saturday by law enforcement at Cinergy theater in Odessa, TX.
No red flag law would have stopped this guy. Criminals don't care about gun-control laws!
West
Texas shooter was already barred from purchasing firearms because of court ruling on his mental state: Report. The man
behind this past weekend's deadly shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas, was not legally allowed to purchase or posses a firearm due to a
court's decision that he was mentally unfit to do so, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday afternoon [9/3/2019]. Law
enforcement officials told the newspaper that the 36-year-old shooter had been deemed mentally unfit by a court and when he tried to
purchase a firearm, he also failed the background check because of the adjudication. Under federal law, people who have been
"adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution" are prohibited from purchasing, possessing, shipping, or
transporting firearms.
Red Flag Laws Are Lethal
Leftist Weapons. A real gun fight is underway in America today, and it doesn't target criminals or gang members
who possess guns. It's a fight waged against law-abiding citizens and their right to own and use firearms of their
choice for self-defense or other lawful purposes. Red flag laws are a classic example of how the anti-gun lobby wants
to choke off the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. These laws slowly erode our rights by creating a
judicial mechanism that allows law enforcement to come to a gun owner's home and seize lawfully owned firearms, based on mere
accusations about the gun owner's mental health or his potential dangerous future behavior. [...] Red flag laws attack
the liberties of American gun owners, one person at a time. Not a fan of your firearm-owning ex-spouse, sister-in-law,
or neighbor? All you need do is fabricate an accusation that she is a danger to herself or others.
This sounds like
low-level SWATting.
Texas
gunman had been ruled 'mentally unfit' to buy firearms, used loophole on background check. The gunman who killed 7
and injured at least 22 others in a West Texas shooting rampage Labor Day weekend before he was shot and killed by police
was federally banned from owning or buying firearms after a court previously ruled he was mentally unfit to do so, authorities
said. The suspected mass shooter, Seth Aaron Ator, 36, appeared to have taken advantage of a loophole in federal gun law by
purchasing the AR-type assault rifle used in the rampage at a private person-to-person gun sale, effectively bypassing a background
check. Under Texas state law, background checks are not required in private sales, according to the Texas Tribune.
Under
Media, Democrat Pressure, Walmart To Pull Handguns And Ammunition From Stores. The country's largest retailer announced Tuesday
[9/3/2019] that it will pull all handguns, handgun ammunition, and some rifle ammunition from stores following several mass shootings last month
including one at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas that killed 22 people. Walmart is also asking customers not to openly carry their
firearms in the retail giant's U.S. stores or in Sam's Club, another retail chain owned and operated by Walmart. Walmart will still continue
to allow guests who have concealed carry permits to carry their firearms in stores, a policy that saved lives last month at one of its stores in
Arkansas when an off-duty firefighter carrying a gun held a 20-year-old suspected shooter with tactical weapons and body armor at gunpoint until
police arrived.
Did
Walmart's CEO Forget About These Armed Heroes Who Stopped Massacres at His Stores? Earlier today Walmart CEO
Doug McMillon officially announced a number of firearms and ammunition will no longer be sold at stores nationwide. [...]
Just last month an armed citizen became a hero after stopping a mass shooting at a Walmart in Missouri. [...] Last year, an
armed citizen stopped a shooting spree in Washington state.
Former
Walmart CEO reluctant to say if store's gun policy will prevent mass violence. Former Walmart CEO Bill Simon
said he is unsure if the retail giant's new gun policies will put a damper on the country's mass shootings. Walmart
announced Tuesday [9/3/2019] they will no longer sell handgun ammunition, as well as some rifle ammunition. They will
also stop selling handguns, which they stopped selling in the continental U.S. prior to 2019, in Alaska. The store also
asked customers no longer to openly carry guns in its stores or in Sam's Clubs, where open carry is allowed under state law.
Walmart
to stop selling handgun ammunition, requests no open carry of guns. Walmart says it will discontinue the sale
of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where
state laws allow it.
The Editor says...
Uh-oh. If Wal-Mart turns into a "Gun Free Zone," it will be the most dangerous place in town. The very atmosphere of
firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference, as George Washington once said. Just keep it under your
shirt. Wal-Mart is asking you to keep your gun out of sight, but I doubt if they will turn away customers just for
carrying a legal weapon.
Biden
Vows to Destroy Most Guns and Limit Magazines to 1 Round. Joe Biden just became the most extreme anti-gun
candidate in the democratic party field. Not only did he vow to "eliminate" all semi-automatic guns, but he would also
limit magazine capacity to 1 round. [...] Biden was on the campaign trail in Iowa and his handlers were crossing their
fingers that he could get through one single appearance without saying something insane or stupid. He let them down in
a big way by doing both.
Washington
Police Chief Who Refused to Enforce Gun Control [is] Running for Governor. A Washington state police chief who
took a stand in refusing to enforce elements of the state's widely encompassing new gun control package is now running for
Governor of the state. He's making a pledge to restore the gun rights of Washingtonians a central message of his
campaign. Loren Culp is the police chief of Republic, Washington. He was praised by gun owners and vilified by
liberal prosecutors for his constitutional refusal to enforce parts of a massive gun control law enacted in 2018.
Democrats'
Gun Buy-Back Plan Would Backfire Horrifically. [W]hile such plans might be politically profitable in a
left-wing primary, in practice they could end in catastrophe. When Australia and New Zealand initially mandated
buy-backs of assault weapons, most gun owners ignored the decrees. Similar non-compliance over laws to surrender or
register guns has since occurred in California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and elsewhere. Nor is there a clear,
consistent definition of "assault weapon": automatic weapons are already effectively banned by federal law. Depending
on how the term is defined — like if you include semi-automatic rifles built on the AR-15 design —
there could be as many as 10 million "assault weapons" in private hands. What would happen if the feds decided to
vigorously enforce confiscation of all of those firearms?
Milano
Wants To Know Why Self-Defense Is God-Given Right. Cruz Educates Her. [Quoting Senator Cruz] "The right
to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bible, eg Exodus 22:2: 'If a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck
a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.' (Note, though, verse 3 says it IS murder if during daylight (ie,
not self-defense)," Cruz continued. "The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our rights thusly: 'We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'" "And, for that reason, the Second Amendment provides 'the right
of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed.' It wasn't to protect people's ability to hunt, or to shoot
target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their families," Cruz continued.
Beto
O'Rourke reaffirms dark gun control plan — and says it won't be voluntary. Democratic presidential
contender Beto O'Rourke reaffirmed his vision for gun control Sunday in the wake of another shooting tragedy in Texas that
left seven people murdered and nearly two dozen others injured. "What we've been saying, the rhetoric we've been using,
the policies and practices and politics of this country has not been as urgent enough as needed. Doesn't meet this
crisis," O'Rourke said on MSNBC. "So let's speak clearly and bluntly and then take decisive action: Universal
background checks, red flag laws, ending the sales of weapons of war, but also importantly, and politically difficult to say,
buy those weapons of war back. Mandate that. Not voluntarily," O'Rourke continued
Biden:
Constitution Doesn't Say 'Anyone Can Own a Weapon,' Each Amendment Has a 'Limitation'. Former Vice President
Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that U.S. Constitution does not allow "anyone" to
own a weapon and does not give citizens the right to buy "any kind of weapon" they want because every amendment has
limitations. Biden positioned himself as the only Democratic candidate who took on the National Rifle Association
nationally and won, citing the temporary assault weapons ban that was passed when former President Bill Clinton was in
office. It expired under former President George W. Bush and Congress did not renew it when former President
Barack Obama was in office.
O'Rourke
Assures Everyone: Yes, I Will Take Your Guns Away. Fortunately, he's not going to be president.
Texas
Lawmaker Delivers Blistering Rebuke To Anti-Gun Democrats, Media. Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) delivered a
blistering rebuke to Second Amendment-hating forces in the media and Democratic Party on Saturday [8/31/2019] in response to the
tragedy in Odessa, Texas, saying that he will not cave and surrender the rights of law-abiding Americans.
When
Obama Tried To 'Red Flag' Vets And Seniors. We saw the presumption of innocence under assault during the
confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and it is once again under assault with the consideration of
so-called "red flag" laws after the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. These laws would allow authorities to disarm
law-abiding citizens on the basis that it had been somehow determined that they are an "unstable threat" to themselves and to
society. This determination can be made based on reports from vengeful former spouses, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends,
former coworkers, hostile neighbors, just about anybody with a grievance, even by government agencies pushing a gun-control
agenda. We are assured that the gun owner guilty of no crime can pursue what is laughingly called "due process" and
petition the judge to have his legally purchased firearm returned to him by proving to a judge he is not crazy or
dangerous. Just how do you do that, pray tell?
Beto
O'Rourke says AK-47 and AR-15 owners will 'have to sell them to the government' if he becomes president. Beto
O'Rourke said he would implement a sweeping government buy-back policy for two types of assault rifles, including one
commonly used in mass shootings across the US, if he were elected president in 2020. The Texas Democrat responded to
questions on the campaign trail Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, about concerns the government would take assault
weapons away from gun owners. According to a Buzzfeed News reporter, he said: "I want to be really clear that
that's exactly what we are going to do." The candidate later shared that quote on Twitter, adding: "We need to
buy back every single assault weapon."
The Editor says...
If the government "buys back" your gun for a dollar, is that still a buy-back, or just an outright confiscation?
Even if the government pays you more than you paid for your gun, you should not be compelled or obliged to sell your
private property, whether it's a gun or anything else.
Former
Marine said he'd 'slaughter' antifa. The FBI, using Oregon's new red flag law, took his guns away.
[Scroll down] Using a loudspeaker, he warned the right-wing activists who turned out to condemn the city's handling of
recent violent demonstrations that they needed to protect themselves against their anti-fascist, or antifa, rivals. "If
antifa gets to the point where they start killing us, I'm going to kill them next," Kohfield, 32, said. "I'd slaughter
them and I have a detailed plan on how I would wipe out antifa." That threat pushed the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task to
take a series of extraordinary steps against Kohfield, including temporary seizure of a cache of his firearms under Oregon's
new "red flag" law aimed at preventing gun violence, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned.
CNN's
Brian Stelter raises the real red flags of gun control. This month's shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,
Ohio have spurred politicians to demand (for perhaps the thousandth time) strict new gun control measures. Using
shootings as a club to beat "sense" into gun control opponents hasn't worked well in the past, so politicians have changed
tactics. They're pushing so-called "red flag" laws. Red flag laws, they think, will work where other gun control
measures won't because no one wants lunatics to have a guns. So, who decides who is sane enough to have a gun?
Mental health professionals? Perhaps psychiatrists who believe that the desire to own a gun is a sign of a deranged
mind? Are there only some categories in the DSM that should proscribe gun ownership, or should all of them? The
DSM-5 pays more careful attention to the gender and cultural factors that might affect a mental health diagnosis. Will,
say, being male help raise the red flag?
Giffords
Looks to Split Gun Owners to Enact Confiscation. For millennia political actors have understood that one of the
most effective means of defeating your enemy is to divide them and set the component parts against each other. For what
seems nearly as long, gun control supporters have sought to separate gun owners from their rights by using this strategy.
The civilian disarmament industry's latest attempt to split gun owners comes courtesy of Giffords. In recent weeks, the
group has been promoting its newly-concocted and misleadingly-named state "Gun Owners for Safety" groups. For those
unfamiliar with the gun control movement's perpetual rebranding schemes, Giffords is a combination of the gun control groups
Americans for Responsible Solutions and the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which was previously named
the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV).
Among
Democrats, 'Mandatory Gun Buyback' Plan Gains Traction. Liberal Democrats, frustrated by inaction in Congress
on gun control, appear ready to embrace a radical proposal that wouldn't stop one single mass shooting, but would make them
feel good about not solving the problem. "Mandatory gun buybacks" is an imported idea that Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O'Rourke supported after the mass shooting in El Paso. The idea comes from Australia where the
government instituted a mandatory buyback program following a mass shooting in 1996. Liberals swoon at the results:
suicides and homicides plummeted. But in addition to the mandatory buyback program, there was radical gun control
legislation, making it much more difficult to own any kind of firearm. Nevertheless, gun confiscation is no longer a
scare tactic used by Republicans to get elected. It's here. And it's real.
RED FLAG Gun Laws: Connecticut
Man's Firearms Seized Because His SON Shared a Meme on Facebook. Due to the recent mass shootings, there is a
major push for so-called "red flag" gun laws at both the state and federal levels. These laws are the latest tool for
gun control advocates to confiscate guns from people based upon only tips and suspicion. No crime has to be committed
to trigger an investigation or confiscation. Red flag laws violate multiple rights protected by our constitution.
Underlying
Reality in All of America's Violent Incidents — Spiritual Malaise. [Scroll down] As usual,
whenever we experience this kind of national trauma, our political leaders come up with "plans" by which the problem will be
solved and such terrible things will never happen again. And so we are once more hearing proposals to restrict sales of
certain firearm types and strengthen safeguards to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people who are mentally or
emotionally unstable. "Red flag laws" are the latest big idea. These are regulations which would permit local
authorities to remove guns from individuals who exhibit behavior suggesting they could present a danger, to themselves or
others. This idea gains popularity whenever a horrific act is committed by someone who "seemed so quiet" or who "seemed
like just an ordinary guy."
California
City Council Votes to Become 2A Sanctuary. The City Council of Needles unanimously voted for the California
city to be a sanctuary for the Second Amendment. Needles, a small city of 4,844, has yet to write the actual
legislation and subsequently survive the inevitable onslaught of legal action opposing the vote. Needles Mayor Jeff
Williams told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday his town is ready to move on the legislation and fight the court challenges.
What
the Elites Think Americans 'Need' Has Nothing to Do with Individual Rights. We might point out, for example,
the data showing that there is absolutely no evidence that "assault weapon" bans and gun confiscation programs (like the
much-touted Australian "buyback") do anything at all to reduce homicide rates. We might mention that violent crime and
murder rates have fallen sharply since the National Assault Weapons Ban was lifted in 2004 (as I did in 2013), despite the
number of firearms owned by individuals in this country growing dramatically in the years since, and the prevalence and
expansion of concealed and open carry laws in many states. We might also point out that the CDC has observed that guns
are used as a means of self-defense in "about 500,000 to more than 3 million" instances annually, clearly signifying the
value of gun rights in protecting Americans' lives and preserving their liberty.
The
Role of Gun Control in Dictatorship. Eventually, there will be conflict, which brings us to the Second
Amendment. The fate of everything the Left intends depends in the end on whether normal, non-communist Americans have
the power to make the price of dictatorship so high that the Left will be unwilling to force it to completion. If
Americans can be disarmed and neutralized, they can be imprisoned without trials. If they can be made powerless, they
can be shot at without fear that they'll shoot back. If they can be conquered, they can be subjugated and made to serve
their totalitarian masters. The Second Amendment was always about exactly this scenario. The Founders did not
insist on the Second Amendment so that they could hunt in perpetuity but because they feared a large, authoritarian
government controlled by unethical and immoral politicians and their mobs.
The
enforcement problems with gun-grabbing 'red flag' laws are even worse than you think. Everyone is debating "red
flag" laws like they're some new thing, but California has had variations of them for decades. We call them domestic
violence restraining orders, civil harassment restraining orders, workplace restraining orders, elder abuse restraining
orders, mental health seizures and prohibition orders, and, more recently, gun violence restraining orders. They're all
meant to disarm dangerous people — but they're all fundamentally flawed. None of these red flag laws would
have prevented recent mass shootings. And in my 23 years practicing law in the heart of Silicon Valley, I have
litigated dozens of these cases. I've seen firsthand the practical enforcement problems that emerge in real-life cases.
O'Rourke
gun plan calls for mandatory buybacks, universal sale checks. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke,
having resumed his campaign, detailed a plan Friday to curb gun violence by imposing a national gun licensing system and
registry, and a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons.
The
Democrat Party Is A Joke That Would Cease To Exist Without The Media's Support. Consider the wide open secret
that Democrats have to lie about literally every policy aspiration they have. [...] On "gun control" they claim they want to
reduce violence, but every single one of them ultimately wants to abolish the Second Amendment and confiscate all guns.
They think the masses are idiots who would be much better off if we were all defenseless and relied on them to "protect"
us — whether we like it or not.
Trump
Must Not Break His Promises to Gun-Rights Supporters. Following the model of George H. W. Bush, Donald Trump is
taking a major step toward becoming a one-term president. Bush thought he could become more popular by betraying his
promises to defend the Second Amendment. Trump now feels the same; according to the New York Times, he has ordered his
staff to work with Senate Republicans to pass a major gun-control package that would set the stage for gun confiscation.
Missing
the Point of Gun Ownership. If there were ever a survey asking gun owners why they buy guns, I'd wager the
majority of them would say that it basically is for protection. The Second Amendment was not written for hunters but
for the people's self-protection, including protection from tyranny. The first thing smart dictators do is remove guns
from registered owners. [...] There have always been guns in the country but mass shootings of innocents were rare until the
1960's. [...] Would there have been a Columbine massacre if God had not been removed from the schools? Most of the mass
shooters fit the same profile. Most are single males and come from broken homes. Nearly all have been under the
influence of marijuana or psych drugs. Not sure if any of these murderers were regular church goers but I doubt it.
Five
Democrats Warn Supreme Court It Could be 'Restructured;' Urge It to Drop 2nd Amendment Case. Five Democrat
senators have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging it to stay out of a pending Second Amendment case and warning
it that a majority of Americans now believe the "Supreme Court should be restructured in order to reduce the influence of
politics." The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, is the first major
challenge to gun laws since 2010, the senators said. According to SCOTUS blog, the New York State Pistol and Rifle
Association, representing gun owners who live in the city, are challenging the city's ban on transferring licensed, unloaded
guns anywhere outside city limits — including to a weekend home or to a shooting range.
El
Paso Gun Store's Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets. Following the recent mass shooting
at an El Paso, Texas Walmart, gun purchases doubled and the number of people seeking certification to carry a concealed
weapon surged, the general manager of one of El Paso's largest gun shops reports.
Kamala
Harris slammed for 'politicizing' Philadelphia standoff. Sen. Kamala Harris faced criticism Wednesday
[8/14/2019] for promoting her campaign's gun control plan during an appearance on CNN that coincided with breaking news about
the police standoff in Philadelphia in which six officers were shot. "When will it stop?" the 2020 Democratic
presidential candidate from California asked CNN's Wolf Blitzer when he asked for her reaction to the initial reports of the
shooting. "And I stress initial reports," Blitzer added. As Harris related details of her plan,
information about the ongoing standoff was still sketchy. Social media was quick to deride the presidential candidate
for "politicizing" the developing situation before most of the relevant facts were known.
The Editor says...
One of the relevant facts was that the shooter was a black man with a long criminal history who should have been locked up
long ago. That's probably not the kind of politicization Ms. Harris had in mind.
How
The Federal Government Nullified the Second Amendment to 'Ban' Automatic firearms. [Scroll down] In
truth, automatic weapons were not actually "banned" in this country until 1986. It wasn't until the farcical passage of the
Hughes Amendment as an addendum to the National Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 that ownership of any such
firearm was truly "banned" by the federal government. If you ever imagined that our elected betters are actively
working toward the preservation of our constitutionally protected rights, watch this video of Charlie Rangel leading the House
in a "voice vote" to allow the Hughes Amendment, and allowing only two minutes of raucous "deliberation." It is among
the lowest and most ridiculous moments in the history of our American Congress — and that's saying something.
The
Promise and Pitfalls of Universal Background Checks. Much as we did after Sandy Hook, we find ourselves
debating background checks in the wake of killings that would not have been prevented by one. More than 60,000
Americans died by gun homicide between 2013 and 2017, but our attention is drawn only to the rarest, most spectacular, and
most unusual incidents, those where a half-day or so's worth of fatalities happen all in one place — and in those,
it is usually the case that the deranged killer bought his guns legally or took them from someone else who did.
Can
the Democratic Party Govern America? Currently 235 million Americans either own or could see themselves owning
a gun. How will the Democrats in power go about confiscating guns in a nation of 3.8 million square miles?
Utilize a national registry of all gun owners? Outlaw all semi-automatic weapons? Impose onerous taxes and
insurance requirements making gun ownership unaffordable? Pass open-ended red flag laws allowing virtually anyone to
file a complaint against someone, ostensibly based in their suspicions, thus allowing the police to seize the guns of the
accused? As for speech, will certain words, phrases and organizations, as determined by the Left, be considered
inciteful and dangerous and thus outlawed? How will the Democrats deal with the inevitable resistance and potential
violent pushback from upwards of 72% of the nation's citizenry?
There
is No Actual Law or Justice in the B.E.A.S.T. System. In the aftermath of the Sandyhook shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut, President Obama issued 23 executive actions and proposed 19 legislative actions on guns. After the
Virginia Tech shooting, new rules were passed that allowed the Social Security Administration to provide information to the
gun background check system of people with "mental disabilities". After Vegas and Parkland, it was bump-stocks. Now, in
the wake of the recent Gilroy Garlic Festival, El Paso, and Dayton mass shootings — all committed by crazed
individuals and right on schedule, the politicians have announced bipartisan support for Red Flag Laws. Do you see a
pattern? Unfortunately, the proposed "Red Flag" legislation has the support of President Trump according to his
previous comments, and would allow just one of your neighbors to see something before saying something that would enable law
enforcement to confiscate all of your guns and with no legal hearing whatsoever.
Raising
a Black Flag Against Red Flag Laws. In a state of emotion, citizens are easily hoodwinked into giving away
liberties and giving the government expanded powers. Bad Idea. We did that after 9-11. We are still paying for
that emotion-based policy. We ended up handing the government more power to spy — not only on suspected
terrorists — but on American citizens without a warrant. That brings me to the latest emotion-based idea to
stop mass shootings: Red Flag Laws. Let's strip away the good intentions part of this right away. This law
would allow the government to violate our Fourteenth Amendment due process rights along with Fourth and Fifth Amendment
rights to the Constitution and confiscate our property (guns) on an unsubstantiated citizen complaint about something a
person might do.
Liz
Warren Vows to Tax Gun Owners Back to the Stone Age with Radical Anti-Second Amendment Agenda. U.S. Senator and
Democratic presidential contender Liz Warren wants to tax us gun owners back to the Stone Age, as a part of her radical gun
control agenda, revealed this weekend. If elected, Warren promises to raise taxes on firearms and ammo purchases by 30%
and 50%, respectively. That's on top of her plan for federal licensing for gun ownership — presumably with a
federal database of who owns what — expanded background checks, and a renewed ban on "assault-style" weapons.
Master
Plan on Radical Side Is to Incrementally Outlaw All Privately-Owned Firearms. Nobody with enough gray matter to tie
their shoes really believes that the proponents of the Second Amendment want to see gun violence, and the kind of gross incendiary
dialogue that suggests otherwise is totally counterproductive to doing anything about sensible gun laws or the insanity on our streets.
Actually, the first thing to do, and what would make a world of difference, would be to enforce existing gun laws. The cities with
the most stringent firearm laws have the highest murder rates. Unscrupulous gun dealers and black-market gun dealers need to be
taken off the streets and face serious jail time.
Biden
Urges 'Assault Weapons' Ban, Says Anyone Who Disagrees Should Not Be President. "We have a huge problem with
guns," former Vice President Joe Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed published on Sunday [8/11/2019]. "Assault
weapons — military-style firearms designed to fire rapidly — are a threat to our national security, and
we should treat them as such. Anyone who pretends there's nothing we can do is lying," he said, "and holding that view
should be disqualifying for anyone seeking to lead our country." Biden took partial credit for enacting the 1994 law
that banned a variety of semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines for 10 years.
Liberty,
If Not Already Annihilated, Is On The Brink Of Destruction. The road to victory in the next election is
narrow. But it's like that when you have no principles and undercut the very base you used to put you in office.
We are where we are because enough people didn't ask Trump the hard questions on his core belief in gun rights (or enough
people didn't listen when I asked the hard questions on core beliefs). It appears he doesn't have any.
Sununu
vetoes gun control bills, says current laws are 'well-crafted and fit our culture'. Gov. Chris Sununu
dashed the hopes of gun control advocates Friday, vetoing all three pending bills by concluding current laws were
"well-crafted and fit our culture of responsible gun ownership and individual freedom." "New Hampshire is one of the
safest states in the nation, and we have a long and proud tradition of responsible firearm stewardship. Our laws are
well-crafted and fit our culture of responsible gun ownership and individual freedom," Sununu wrote in his veto message.
We
Don't Need Red Flag Laws, We Need More Good Americans To Get Guns. Name the civil liberty that has ever been
returned to the citizens after government took it away. Let me save you some time: It does not exist.
Governments take away liberties and never return them outside of a political revolution. The American people are not
the ones in need of a "cooling off" period when they purchase weapons. It is the U.S. government that should be
restricted from passing knee-jerk laws in the wake of tragedy to satiate media cries of "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!" That
includes the fresh call for "red flag laws" that allow for confiscating people's guns if someone else tags them as mentally
ill or a danger to others. I don't care who is calling for these laws. I don't care about their motivations.
These calls for new "red flag laws" are horrid, and Americans of every political persuasion should stand firmly against them.
[...] Government employees are not your betters, and they do not have your best interests at heart.
Proposed
Gun Laws Would Do Nothing to Prevent Mass Killings, and Everyone Knows It. The country is again in an uproar
following the latest mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In response to the hysterical clamor in the media to "do
something," politicians in both the Democratic and Republican Parties want (yet again!) more gun laws. Republicans,
including President Trump, are proposing a "red flag" confiscation law that would enable police to summarily seize an
individual's guns based on hearsay. Such a law would blatantly violate the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Amendments. In practice, these laws would have no significant effect on actual shooters, but would ensnare people like
Donald Montgomery, a retired police officer from Long Island who sought insomnia treatment — and was declared
"mentally ill" and had his guns permanently seized under Andrew Cuomo's notorious "SAFE" Act. Republicans should know
better, but apparently, they don't.
When
a Mass Shooting Begat Gun Control. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a consequence of Prohibition,
which had inspired the formation of gangs to satisfy the nation's demand for beer and whiskey. It helped convince
Americans that lawlessness was a greater evil than liquor and contributed to the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
repealing Prohibition. The fact that the victims had been murdered with Thompson submachine guns — so
associated with local mobsters they were nicknamed the Chicago Typewriter — led to the passage of the National
Firearms Act of 1934, which levied a then-prohibitive $200 tax on the sale of "machine guns," defined as "any weapon
which shoots, or is designed to shoot, automatically or semiautomatically, more than one shot, without manual reloading,
by a single function of the trigger."
Against
Universal Background Checks. Mitch McConnell has confirmed that when the Senate reconvenes in September to
discuss new federal gun-control measures, "universal background checks" will "lead the discussion." If that is the case, the
Senate should listen carefully to the proposals on offer, and then politely decline to assent. Absent further examination,
"universal background checks" appear to represent the inoffensive extension of an already existing principle. At present,
the federal government mandates that an instant background check be run prior to the completion of all commercial and interstate
firearms transactions. This being so, the argument runs, there can be nothing wrong with Washington extending that rule to
private transfers, to non-commercial transfers, and to purely intrastate transfers.
Civil
War Over 2nd Amendment? Pay Attention. This is the time when a good government can go bad, when the laws
of freedom that have governed us for over 200 years are in jeopardy. It could easily lead to civil war to have everyone
who owns a semi-automatic rifle instantly become a criminal. It's what happens when people run on emotion rather than
rational thought on the consequences of their actions.
If
Gun Controllers Followed Their Own Logic, They'd Support Banning Alcohol And Cigarettes, Too. Numbers are
powerful persuasive tools. But numbers without perspective and scale can be used to mislead, manipulate, and
distract. Surprisingly, Neil deGrasse Tyson made this point in response to the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and
Dayton, Ohio. The backlash was predictable, but Tyson isn't wrong. Let's look at some more numbers.
Firearms of all kinds played a role in nearly 40,000 deaths in 2017. By itself, that sounds like a lot. At the
same time, however, 88,000 people died from alcohol-related causes and 480,000 from the effects of cigarette smoking.
After
Shootings, 2020 Democrats Race Further To The Left On Gun Confiscation. 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls
were quick to call for new gun laws this week in the aftermath of back-to-back shootings in Ohio and Texas over the weekend
that left 31 dead. Several candidates, including current front-runner Joe Biden, have called for Australian-style gun
buyback programs where owners of firearms would sell back their weapons to the government at government-determined prices.
The Editor says...
"Government-determined prices" obviously means they will buy the guns for next-to-nothing.
Mass
Shootings: The Elephant in the Room. Sometime in the last few decades, Americans have lost [the] ability to
think rationally about mass killings. We are collectively trying to blame some other factor besides the individuals
themselves. However, access to guns has never been cited as a reason for a mass shooting and mass killings share no
correlation in ideology. No one political party, no one race or ethnicity, no one religion, etc. is a constant factor,
but there are specific commonalities between mass shooters that are never widely discussed over the calls for gun control and
party reform.
They
Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm. It was quite a surprise to find out that we Trump voters were
personally responsible for the savage murder sprees of a creep who dug single-payer and a satanist fan of Big Chief
Warren. The El Paso scumbag decided he wanted to murder Hispanics because migration would somehow destroy the
environment, which falls right in line with classical progressive eugenics balderdash. The Democrat from Dayton was
full-on #Resistance. But apparently we conservatives were to blame for their actions because we refuse to give up our rights.
Everything
They're Telling You About Mass Shootings Is Wrong. What are the facts? Fact: There were
387 deaths from mass shootings in the United States in 2018 (defined as four or more shot — not necessarily
killed — at one time). Of those, most were regular criminals as we expect to see in gang-related drive-bys,
bar fights, and a strangely large number of shootings at parties. About 100 deaths were the result of the random,
psycho-killer shootings that dominated news coverage for days and weeks at a time. Mercifully, those are quite
rare. But that's not the impression we are given by the news coverage. Fact: There are more
privately owned guns in the United States than ever before and the number of murders has been declining for decades and has
been at or near a multigenerational low for several years. More guns, less crime. Fact: There were
660 murders in Chicago in 2017. That's nearly twice the number from mass shootings in the whole country and six or
seven times the number murdered by random psychos mass-shooters. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control in the
country. Maybe it's not the guns.
Kamala
Harris Says She's Willing To Have Police Forcibly Take "Banned" Guns From Your Home. They're not coming for
your guns, we're told. No, they are, and at least California Senator Kamala Harris is fully willing to send police to
your home to take your guns from you. According to the Washington Examiner, when asked if Harris would send law
enforcement to homes to seize banned firearms, Harris answered in the affirmative.
Firearm
Advocate Turns Tables On CNN Town Hall: 'Do You Believe A Woman Has A Right To Choose' Method Of Self-Defense?
"Proud firearm owner" Theresa Inacker drew a straight line from a woman's reproductive rights to her right to defend her body
"in a manner she chooses" during CNN's gun violence town hall Wednesday [8/7/2019]. [...] Referencing the argument made by
many abortion-rights advocates, Inacker continued, "My question is do you believe a woman has a right to choose whether or
not to defend her own body? And in the manner she chooses? And the government should not interfere with that decision?"
NRA
donor files class action suit; claims VP LaPierre blew $275K on suits, $243K on 'luxury travel'. A major
National Rifle Association donor sued the gun-rights organization this week for fraud, saying its leaders have misspent money
over the last four years, ignoring the group's core mission while paying for expensive clothing and trips for CEO Wayne LaPierre.
David Dell'Aquila filed a federal class-action lawsuit in Tennessee and fired off letters to the attorneys general in New York and
Washington on Wednesday, urging them to complete investigations into the NRA well before the 2020 election.
NRA
planned to buy a $6 million mansion in Dallas for chief Wayne LaPierre last year, leaked records from the New York Attorney
General's office show. The National Rifle Association planned to purchase a $6million mansion in Dallas for its
chief executive Wayne LaPierre last year, newly leaked records have revealed. Discussions about the property
acquisition, which ultimately did not happen, are reportedly under scrutiny by New York officials conducting an ongoing
investigation into the gun-lobby's tax exempt status and allegations of financial misconduct. Two people familiar with
the records told The Washington Post that the NRA wired tens of thousands of dollars to a corporate entity that was going to
be making the purchase in 2018.
Texas
to loosen firearm laws, allowing guns in churches and on school grounds. A series of new firearm laws will go
into effect in Texas next month — further loosening gun restrictions in a state that's had four of the 10
deadliest mass shootings in modern US history. The laws — passed before a gunman massacred 22 people and
injured dozens in El Paso last weekend — will make it easier to have guns in a state with some of the most lax
weapons restrictions in the nation.
Obama:
24 Mass Shootings. Trump: 4 Mass Shootings. There have been eight mass shootings under Clinton, eight
under Bush, and 24 under Obama.Ten Mass Shootings out of 24 since 1966 have happened under the Obama Administration.
Four under Donald Trump. One would never know the statistics with the pounding drum beat blaming Donald Trump.
Did anyone blame Obama for all of the mayhem under his watch? Johnson? Reagan, Bush, Obama? Let's step
through the fog of mass shootings. Republicans are responsible for the violence?
Biden
Says As President He Would Come For 'Assault Weapons'. Democrats want to come for your guns and they aren't
hiding it anymore. Former Vice President Joe Biden said as much on CNN Monday with Anderson Cooper. Discussing
his support for a national buyback program of "assault weapons," the Democratic presidential candidate said that if elected,
he is "going to come" for them. "So to gun owners out there who say well, a Biden administration means they're going to
come for my guns," Cooper said to Biden, who interjected: "Bingo. You're right if you have an assault weapon."
Open
Carry Texas Activists Are Pretty Upset With Walmart Right Now. After open carry went into effect in Texas on
January 1, some businesses were inconvenienced by the size of the signs they had to put up, and other businesses were
inconvenienced by the fact that they were forced to choose a side in a culture war when they mostly just wanted to sell
hamburgers. But one corporation decided to punt the inconvenience over to a particular subset: its store
employees. At Walmart, the official company policy regarding open carry is that customers are allowed to bring visible
handguns into the store, but that store staff are responsible for verifying that the customer has a proper license for the
weapon. If you're curious just how that works out for everybody involved, check out this video, posted by Open Carry
Texas, of an encounter at the Walmart in Devine between an openly carrying patron and an employee who requests his license.
[Video clip]
Kamala
Harris [is] willing to send [police] to people's homes to confiscate banned firearms. California Democratic Sen. Kamala
Harris gave details about her gun control proposals in the wake of the deadly El Paso, Texas shooting after she addressed union members at
the AFSCME forum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Saturday [8/3/2019]. When asked by the Washington Examiner if her
plan would include legal gun owner databases or gun confiscation via law enforcement visits to residents who own banned firearms, she replied,
"I'm actually prepared to take executive action to put in place rules that improve this situation."
How
'Secret Obsession' Exposes California's Dumb Gun Laws. Unfortunately, California's current gun laws prevent any
sort of meaningful self-defense for the state's most vulnerable populations. Pursuant to California penal codes, it is
illegal for citizens to open carry firearms in any instance and concealed carry laws are extremely restrictive.
Currently, a county sheriff or municipal police chief may issue a concealed weapons permit (CCW), provided a citizen can
prove he is of "good moral character," is a resident in the county or city, has completed an eight-hour training course, and
has a "good cause to justify the permit." As a matter of precedent, California law enforcement, such as the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department, have maintained that carrying a concealed weapon is a privilege rather than a constitutional
right guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
Betcha'
Didn't Know: Firearm Homicides Plummeted over Last 25 Years. Despite endless gun violence reports put
forward by the establishment media, the dirty little secret is firearm homicides have plummeted over the past 25 years. [...]
Washington Post analysis shows Democrats, followed closely by independents, are more apt to believe firearm murders have
increased. And this feeds the Democrat psyche which is already more prone to support an expansion of gun control laws.
This
Man Did Nothing Wrong, But He Faces 49 Years In Prison. The weaklings and fools in the California state legislature decided
that guns are bad, bad, bad, so they passed some stupid 'gun control' laws to fight crime. But Mr [Girard Damian] Saenz was never
charged with any crime other than having weapons the state didn't think he should have. He didn't rob anyone, he committed no crimes
using the firearms in his possession. This is the natural result of the left's insanity when it comes to our Second Amendment rights:
the state legislature made simple possession of firearms it didn't like a crime in itself, but the crime they said that they were preventing
never occurred; Mr Saenz was not even suspected of using the firearms illegally. The Pyrite State created a crime where no crime
existed, infringed a man's rights when he had infringed on no one else's.
Things
Haven't Always Been This Way. Here's a suggestion. How about setting up some high school rifle
clubs? Students would bring their own rifles to school, store them with the team coach and, after classes, collect them
for practice. You say: "Williams, you must be crazy! To prevent gun violence, we must do all we can to keep
guns out of the hands of kids." There's a problem with this reasoning. Prior to the 1960s, many public high
schools had shooting clubs. In New York City, shooting clubs were started at Boys, Curtis, Commercial, Manual Training
and Stuyvesant high schools. Students carried their rifles to school on the subway and turned them over to their
homeroom or gym teacher. Rifles were retrieved after school for target practice. In some rural areas across the
nation, there was a long tradition of high school students hunting before classes and storing their rifles in the trunks of
their cars, parked on school grounds, during the school day. Today, any school principal permitting rifles clubs or
allowing rifles on school grounds would be fired, possibly imprisoned.
Driving
140 Miles To Buy Ammo Isn't "Common Sense". As it turns out, Needles [California] is having a hard time
competing with its Arizona neighbors like Fort Mojave, Bullhead City, and Lake Havasu City when it comes to things like tax
revenues from retail. Not surprisingly, Arizona gun owners would rather shop in Arizona (a constitutional carry state
that also recognizes every other state's concealed handgun licenses) instead of California, where Arizonans can't legally
carry a firearm. But gun owners in Needles are also being harmed by California's gun laws. It's important to note
that there are no gun stores in Needles, California, so it's not like Arizonans are crossing state lines to buy their guns
and ammo in Needles. As it turns out, there are plenty of gun stores in Arizona for residents to choose from. In
Needles, however, gun owners have to do something mind-bogglingly idiotic, all because of a "common sense gun law" approved
by California voters back in 2016.
First Arrest
for 3D Printed Gun in London, England, 2019. [Scroll down] Homemade guns and small shop guns are found
all around the world. In the United States, it has been the right of the people to make their own guns for the entire
history of the Republic. Only in the last few years has the right been challenged. There are so many unregistered
and untraceable guns in the United States that the right to make your own has little effect. Its primary utility is to
convince the uneducated of the futility of gun control schemes. 3D printed guns seem to do that more effectively than
most other homemade guns.
They Called Our
Industry The 'Enemy'. Last week, from the Democratic primary debate stage, former Vice President Joe Biden said
we were the enemy. "Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers," Biden said. Not a
single candidate on stage that night, or the night before, condemned the remark. Their silence is tacit agreement.
Not a single candidate had the courage to name the violent criminals as the problem or the fortitude to stand up to those
who prey upon the vulnerable in our society. Instead, they are blaming us as an industry and the law-abiding gun owners
we serve.
2020
Democrat Candidates' 21 Most Insanely Scary Proposals. [#1] Government Gun Confiscation: Joe Biden:
"Folks, look, and I would buy back [assault] weapons. We already started talking about that. We tried to get it
done. I think it can be done. And it should be demanded that we do it. And that's a good expenditure of
money." As soon as Biden said, "it should be demanded that we do it," his "buy back" program was revealed as a mandatory
confiscation of the guns we law abiding Americans already own. And can you imagine how far the government will stretch
the definition of an "assault weapon" to justify this confiscation?
Are
Gun Control Advocates Committing Treason? The California progressive socialists have finally gone totalitarian
on the aspect of gun control. As of yesterday [7/1/2019], [the purchase of] ammunition in this state requires a
background check. I have yet to hear anyone explain how this would stop mass shootings or even affect anyone but the
lawful gun owner. [...] But it may get worse, much worse on a national level. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her
cohorts in the progressive socialist party are attempting to pass H.R. 8 which looks to make law-abiding criminals by
attempting to register all guns and make private transfers, even among family members a criminal offense.
The
Left's Endgame Is Not Chaos. It's Worse. Imagine the Yellow Vest movement in France with American-level
private gun ownership. Civilian gun-owners can't hope to defeat a modern military intent on simply destroying them, but
if the objective is control and enslavement, that complicates matters (just ask the governor of Oregon). A bunch of corpses
can't create wealth for the parasite globalist elite class to feed on. That is why the Left wants our guns so, so badly.
Biden
Proposes Ban on Gun Sales Other Than Theoretical 'Smart Guns'. During the first Democratic debate on Thursday
night, front runner Joe Biden proposed banning the sale of any firearm that doesn't include theoretical biometric
locks. "We should have smart guns," Biden said. "No gun should be able to be sold unless your biometric measure
could pull that trigger. It's within our right to do that. We can do that. Our enemy is the gun manufacturers,
not the NRA." While prototypes of guns with integrated biometric locks exist, none are currently for sale on the American
market. Biden's proposal would effectively outlaw the sale of every firearm on store shelves in the United States.
'God, Guns and Freedom':
A rural Alabama Ford dealership's Fourth of July promotion is a viral sensation. A Ford dealership in rural
Alabama is promising a Bible, a shotgun and an American flag with the purchase of a new or pre-owned vehicle.
The Editor says...
That was the extent of the article above.
Ford
asks Alabama car dealer to end shotgun giveaway after California shooting. Ford Motor Co. has asked a Ford
dealership in Alabama to stop giving out certificates for free 12-gauge shotguns to anyone who buys a new or used
vehicle. The automaker told the dealership late Wednesday [6/26/2019] that the promotion was inappropriate after three people
died Tuesday evening during a mass shooting at a California Ford dealership. There, a man who had been fired from his job
at the dealership in the San Francisco Bay Area fatally shot two employees, then himself, according to local media reports.
Study:
Crime Guns Obtained Illegally Shortly Before Shootings. The study, funded by an award from the National
Institute of Justice, looked at the final sale or transfer of firearms to individuals who then used them to commit
crimes. It relied on data from the Chicago Inmate Survey (CIS), which interviewed 221 people convicted of gun crimes
serving time at seven Illinois state prisons. The researchers, from the University of Chicago and Duke University, note
that while a great deal of research has examined the "time to crime" for firearms — often finding guns take
decades to make their way from legal purchases into the criminal market — little research exists on the last
transfer to the people who use firearms in a crime. "We know a lot about the first sale of that gun, and we know a lot
about the last person caught with that gun," Harold Pollack, the Helen Ross Professor in the University of Chicago's School
of Social Service Administration, told UChicago News. "We just don't know a lot about what's in between."
Leftist Outcry: Let No Tragedy
Go to Waste. Two weeks ago, a disgruntled city employee, DeWayne Craddock, fatally shot twelve people and
wounded four more when he open-fired at a municipal building. Socialist Senator and presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders took to twitter less than two hours after the horrible tragedy blasting the NRA and calling for more gun control.
[...] Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) and Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) both took to twitter within hours of the shooting
too. Both Democrat members of the House of Representative claimed we need more gun control laws. Before anyone
knew anything about the shooter, before anyone knew how the shooter obtained the weapon, progressives were jumping at the
opportunity to blame the gun.
Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals has just handed down a refresher on suspicion. Police officers thought an anonymous
tip about a man carrying a gun and someone running away from them created enough suspicion to chase down Daniel Brown, stop
him at gunpoint, and search him for contraband. Contraband was found, leading to Brown's motion to suppress. The
lower court said this combination — an anonymous report of a gun and Brown's decision to run when he saw the
police cruiser — was reasonable enough. Not so, says the Ninth Circuit, pointing out the obvious fact that a
person carrying a gun can't be inherently suspicious in a state where carrying a gun in public is permitted.
Florida
assault weapons ban amendment heads to Supreme Court for review — could be on 2020 ballot.
Gun-control advocates say they've collected more than 103,000 signatures, enough to trigger the next critical step before a
proposed ban on the sale of assault weapons could go before Florida voters in 2020. Leaders of the political committee
Ban Assault Weapons Now gathered in Orlando on Monday [6/10/2019] to announce that its draft constitutional amendment met the
signature threshold to go before the state Supreme Court for review.
Elderly
Man Who Shot Two Burglars In His Home Charged With Felony Over Inherited Gun. An elderly man in New York was
arrested for shooting two burglars in his house, not for murdering the intruders, but for shooting them with an unregistered gun.
Elderly
NY man kills repeat burglars, is charged for using inherited gun, loses his home. Imagine being arrested
and losing your home after two repeat burglars break into your house again and rush toward you with the
possible intention of murdering you. This exact scenario played out in New York late last month thanks to the far-left
state's draconian gun control laws. A 64-year-old Deerfield homeowner was charged with illegal firearm possession and
arrested after he used a gun he'd inherited from his deceased father to kill two repeat burglars. Then upon his release
from a jail a couple of days later, he found himself homeless because his house had been condemned.
Trump
Plans to Nominate Known Gun-grabber to Head ATF. President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate as the
head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) a man with a record of supporting restrictions on the
right to keep and bear arms. As posted on the White House website, President Trump, according to his authority under
Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, has tapped Charles Canterbury, Jr. to be the ATF Director.
After Virginia
Beach shooting, Dems seek ban on 'silencers' that don't make guns silent. Despite what you might believe from
watching television shows or movies, suppressors (commonly known as "silencers") do not make guns "silent" —
unless you consider an ambulance siren or a jackhammer to be silent. However, as soon as it was clear that the Virginia
Beach killer used a noise suppressor on one of his guns last Friday when he killed 12 people, Democrats called for
suppressors to be banned. Virginia's Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam called for a special legislative session to
pass a ban.
Rights Abridged:
The Flawed Model for Red Flag Laws. In fifteen states and the District of Columbia, new Red Flag laws allow
judges to take licensed firearms away from individuals even if they have not committed or even threatened to commit a
crime. A simple petition from a third party triggers a court proceeding that could eliminate a person's Second
Amendment rights and cause a cascade of consequences. Florida is a good example of one of those states. Some
civil rights organizations have expressed concern about constitutional principles being violated by such laws, such as the
right to due process and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Red Flag laws seem intended to bypass
processes that already exist to have someone adjudicated as mentally ill or guilty of a crime. Initial Red Flag
hearings, like other restraining order hearings, often do not allow the accused time to retain an attorney or present a full
defense before having their rights abridged.
A Win for
Gun Rights in Pennsylvania. Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a message that the
United States Supreme Court desperately needs to hear: The lawful exercise of your Second Amendment rights does not
make you a second-class citizen. Here's the context. For the last two years, federal courts —
including, sadly, the Supreme Court — have endorsed a legal regime where police can use even the lawful exercise
of gun rights as a pretext for the violation of other constitutional rights, principally our Fourth Amendment right against
unreasonable search and seizure.
Pennsylvania amusement
park pulls bullet souvenir after controversy. A Pennsylvania theme park found itself caught in the middle of an
online debate over a gift shop item. A mother visiting Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa, discovered
that the park was selling personalized bullets at one of their gift shops. Customers could purchase a single rifle
bullet with a key-ring attachment and their name emblazoned on the side of a leather holder.
Biden
Declares War On Second Amendment Rights, Pushes Semi-Auto Ban. 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden announced on
his campaign website his intentions to wage war against guns as part of his "education" plan for America. Biden said
that the National Rifle Association (NRA) must be defeated "in order to make our schools safer," with a ban on semi-autos,
Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins noted.The former Vice President argued that arming school faculty members do not make
schools safer, insisting the only solution is more gun policies, the opposite to what experts across the country are finding.
Democrats
Politicize Virginia Beach Shooting to Push Gun Control, Second Amendment Supporters Push Back. Many Democrats,
including most 2020 presidential candidates, were quick to politicize the tragic mass shooting in Virginia Beach to push
their gun control agenda, but Second Amendment supporters weren't about to take any of it lying down. News broke Friday
[5/31/2019] that public utilities department engineer DeWayne Craddock, 40, allegedly used a .45-caliber handgun with a sound
suppressor to murder 12 of his former colleagues, but all Democrats needed was news of a mass shooting to echo their calls
for gun control.
Is
Red Dawn Really Just Ridiculous? If Not, Who Would Citizen Disarmament Help? When Red Dawn was
released in 1984, film critics seemed like they were trying to outdo each other to convince the movie-going public that the
film was not only bad, but also ludicrously improbable. "As it stands, the film is simply too ridiculous for words,"
wrote one. [...] Unsurprisingly, those laughing the loudest have failed to make their case, and some questions are in
order. Is the United States invulnerable from foreign attack? Will it forever be so? And would upwards of
100 million armed Americans embedded throughout the Republic make it more or less difficult for invaders to advance
through, conquer and occupy territory?
Fingerprinting
gun owners approved by Illinois lawmakers. A bill passed on Wednesday [5/29/2019] by the Illinois House would require gun
owners to be fingerprinted and pay more for identification cards. The state Senate still must approve the bill before it could be
signed into law. Democratic Rep. Kathleen Willis of Addison, citing deficiencies in the state's current Firearm Owner's
Identification system, said the bill comes in response to a shooting at a factory in Aurora where six people, including the gunman,
were killed, according to The Associated Press.
Bill
allowing Texans to carry guns during natural disasters goes to Gov. Abbott's desk. Hurricane Katrina
taught us many things, like how the media tailors its coverage of natural disasters based on political implications.
But it also taught us that there will be times when residents cannot count on law enforcement and other government agencies
to be there when needed. A scenario that has now been addressed to some extent by the Texas Senate, which passed a bill
Sunday that would allow residents there who can legally own a firearm to be able to carry the weapon either open or concealed
up to seven days after the state declares a natural disaster.
Hypocrite
Alert: Gillibrand Admits She Never Truly Believed In The 2A. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) recently came
out with a proposal to "end gun violence." In her plan, she called for the typical points ant-gunners love to cling to.
She wants to establish universal background checks; create a federal law against trafficking guns; reestablish an assault
weapons ban; ban bump stocks (hello, that's already been done) and "large-capacity" magazines.
Massachusetts
school teacher plants live ammunition at school then calls 911. A Southbridge, Massachusetts, school teacher
has been busted planting live ammunition at his school then calling 911 to report having found the ammo. According to
WCVB, 57-year-old Alfred Purcell, reported finding "9 mm ammunition in the rear stairwell" of Southbridge High School.
His report led to a lockdown, during which the police examined surveillance footage and saw that Purcell himself had taken
ammo out of his own pocket, "dropping it on the floor and quickly leaving the area."
Kamala
Harris Wants To Ban AR-15s With Executive Order. Before she was a United States Senator, Kamala Harris was the
attorney general for the state of California. She's an attorney, like so many other legislators. She studied and
worked in the profession people approach for clarification on the laws of this great nation of ours. Apparently, she
managed to get to that point without ever attending a single civics class. In the presidential hopeful's latest effort,
she's decided that in her quest to dictate gun control by fiat, she'll also go after AR-15s and other so-called "assault rifles."
YouTube
[is] Demonetizing More Gun Channels. Firearm YouTubers have had to take the blame for mass shooting after mass
shooting, all despite the fact that no evidence has been presented that any of these people had anything to do with gun
YouTubers. Doesn't matter. The platform's cracking down.
NRA
board member: 'Imperative' to clean house, move on from CEO Wayne LaPierre. A prominent board member of the
National Rifle Association urged the organization to clean "its own house" and move on from CEO Wayne LaPierre's leadership
on Tuesday in a stunning escalation of the internal crisis that has plagued the organization in recent months. Retired
Lt. Col. Allen West, a former Republican congressman from Florida serving his second term on the board, announced
in a blog post that he was withdrawing his support from LaPierre, citing concerns about alleged financial mismanagement
within the organization and what he called "outright lies" told by Carolyn Meadows, the group's new president, and Charles
Cotton, chairman of the NRA's audit committee, in LaPierre's defense.
Ammo Stockpiling:
Why it makes Sense. In a recent article on Ammoland, a case was presented as to why stockpiling of more than a
few hundred rounds of ammunition was unnecessary. It was an interesting take, but much too limited, in my
experience. At the end, the authors put in a disclaimer: stockpile as much as you want.
John
Paul Stevens: Heller gun control decision the worst in 35-year Supreme Court tenure. Retired Justice John
Paul Stevens is lambasting the Supreme Court's 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision broadening gun rights,
calling it the "most clearly incorrect" ruling of his 35-year career on the high court. "Heller is unquestionably
the most clearly incorrect decision that the court announced during my tenure on the bench," Stevens, 99, wrote in his new
memoir, The Making of a Justice.
Does
having teachers carry guns at schools pose a danger? Does it deter attacks? There has yet to be a single
case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6 AM and midnight at a
school that lets teachers carry guns. Fears of teachers carrying guns in terms of such problems as students obtaining
teachers guns have not occurred at all, and there was only one accidental discharge outside of school hours with no one
was really harmed. While there have not been any problems at schools with armed teachers, the number of people killed
at other schools has increased significantly — doubling between 2001 and 2008 versus 2009 and 2018.
Life
if the Democrats take control. If the Democrats had their way the Second Amendment would be gone. Their
goal is to be like Australia where the Government confiscated all the weapons. If they allowed hunting rifles at all it
would be single shot or single load rifles. If that were to happen, only the criminals would have weapons. Look
at the statistics on gun violence in cities having the strongest gun control laws, their murder/crime rates are through the
roof. In fact a study released in October 2018 by Harvard Journal of Law, not exactly a bastion of Conservatism, found
Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The
study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000
population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun
ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population). Another Leftist fantasy exposed as a fraud.
This is important:
Kamala
Harris Pledges to Criminalize Private Gun Sales via Executive Action. Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala
Harris says she will use executive action to criminalize selling more than five guns a year without a background check.
This follows a consistent Democrat-led push to criminalize all private gun sales via universal background checks. On
February 27, Breitbart News reported that the Democrat-run House passed legislation to require a background check for every
gun sale, thus criminalizing someone who sells a gun to a decades-long neighbor without government approval. It also
criminalizes a friend who sells a gun to a lifelong friend without asking for government approval.
This is less important:
Leaked
letters reveal details of NRA chief's alleged spending. National Rifle Association Chief Executive Wayne
LaPierre billed the group's ad agency $39,000 for one day of shopping at a Beverly Hills clothing boutique, $18,300 for a car
and driver in Europe and had the agency cover $13,800 in rent for a summer intern, according to newly revealed NRA internal
documents. The documents, posted anonymously on the internet, provide new details of the clothing, travel and other
expenses totaling more than $542,000 that Ackerman McQueen Inc. alleges Mr. LaPierre billed to it.
Student
walkout at Colorado shooting vigil is a good sign. The very public scene of hundreds of Colorado students and
their parents walking out of a vigil that was turned into political theater by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence was
so embarrassing that the gun control group actually issued an apology. Before leaving the Wednesday night event, students
shouted, in front of journalists who the Brady Campaign invited: "this is not for us," "political stunt" and "we are
people, not a statement." The Brady Campaign had portrayed the event as a vigil in memory of Kendrick Castillo, a
student hero who died from gunshot wounds after he and two other students charged one of the attackers Tuesday at the
Highlands Ranch STEM School in Colorado.
Colorado
Students Walk Out Of School Shooting Vigil After It Turns Political. Colorado students walked out of an event
billed as a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old killed in a shooting at his school on Tuesday, when prominent
speakers attempted to turn it into a rally for gun control. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) and Rep. Jason
Crow (D-Colorado) each took a turn calling for gun control at the Douglas County event before students streamed out in
protest. Two students at STEM Highlands Ranch, a K-12 charter school focused on science, technology, engineering, and
math, shot nine students, one fatally. The accused students, who were arrested, are an adult male and a juvenile female
who identifies as male. The accused male had written anti-Christian social media messages.
Gun
control groups press DeSantis for veto of arming teachers bill. About a dozen activists with two gun-control
advocacy groups dropped off a stack of papers with 13,000 signatures at Gov. Ron DeSantis' office Tuesday as they urged
him to veto a bill that would allow armed classroom teachers. Emma Hanley, a Tallahassee high-school junior who
volunteers with Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, asked a DeSantis employee to tell the governor to veto the
bill (SB 7070) because of a "dangerous provision" that would expand the school "guardian" program.
Cory Booker Proposes National Gun-Licensing Program.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who recently promised to "bring a fight to the NRA like they have never ever seen before," on
Monday morning introduced a sweeping gun-violence prevention plan that centers around a national gun-licensing program, the
most comprehensive and far-reaching of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field. "My plan to address gun
violence is simple — we will make it harder for people who should not have a gun to get one," Booker said in a
statement, pledging to take executive action on the first day of his desired presidency.
Bushmaster Gets Stay
of Sandy Hook Lawsuit Ahead of Supreme Court Appeal. The Connecticut Supreme Court granted gun-maker Bushmaster
Firearms a stay in the Sandy Hook victims' lawsuit, as the manufacturer readies its appeal to the nation's highest judicial
tribunal. Bushmaster produced the XM15 rifle shooter Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. The Thursday [5/2/2019] stay delays the start of the evidence-gathering
phase of the litigation, called discovery, which will give the plaintiffs an intimate view of Bushmaster's internal
operations. The stay will remain in effect until the U.S. Supreme Court takes action on Bushmaster's forthcoming
petition.
Two
Iowa School Districts Offer Gun Training/Safety Class in 7th Grade. The North Butler and Clarksville school
districts in Iowa are now offering a mandatory gun training/safety class ("Hunters Safety Course") to 7th and 8th grade
students and a voluntary class for high schoolers in the evenings. The classes started this semester and realistic but
non-firing guns and replica ammunition are used, not actual guns. "Please understand that we do not believe that all
students will be hunting, nor do we expect them to," said school Superintendent Joel Foster in a blog post about the
class. "The expectation is that through this all students will be exposed to firearm safety, and as such learn to
respect and how to manage and control firearms."
Florida
lawmakers pass bill allowing more armed teachers. More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school
under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass shooting at a Parkland high school.
Red
Flag Laws and Individual Rights. A citizen's right to own and bear arms is guaranteed by the Second
Amendment. The left infringes upon this basic right using the tactic of incrementalism. Each time the tactic is
employed, it is accompanied by the deceitful narrative of protecting people's lives. The left's goal isn't protecting
lives, it is controlling lives — subjugating them. As long as Americans are armed, subjugating them requires
taking the incremental road while leftists prefer the expressway. Owning a firearm is a basic right of a free society
the left would prefer to see you without. The Second Amendment states, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms,
shall not be infringed." Look up the word infringe and you'll find it means "to limit, undermine or encroach upon."
Yet 'red flag' laws do exactly that — undermine your right to keep and bear arms.
MSNBC
contributor admits a hard truth: In Venezuela, arms ownership matters. Socialist Venezuela is spiraling
into chaos and violence, according to news reports. What we are really seeing is defenseless citizens trying to fight a
dictatorship not with firepower, but with their hands. Venezuela's democrats have no guns. The dictatorship
they're fighting, however, is armed to the teeth, and it's using those arms with little to fear from the citizens.
Venezuela Banned
Private Gun Ownership Less Than A Decade Ago. Venezuela banned private citizens from owning guns seven years
ago, leaving firearms solely in the hands of the army and the police. Now, as the country's opposition attempts to oust
the oppressive Maduro regime from power, it is a decision some have come to regret. Interim President Juan Guaido
called for a military uprising, dubbed Operacion Libertad, against socialist dictator Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday.
Venezuelans have been protesting for months against Maduro's "re-election," which the United States has declared to be
illegitimate in light of Maduro's jailing of political dissidents and protesters.
Venezuelans
against Maduro hindered by 2012 gun ban. Videos emerging from Venezuela Tuesday show anti-Nicolás Maduro
protesters being reportedly shot at and run over by military members while civilians are unable to use conventional weapons
to defend themselves following a private gun ownership ban in 2012. Videos circulating on social media show an
unidentified helicopter reportedly shooting at protesters and armored military vehicles running over groups of citizens
protesting the continuing reign of Maduro, who refuses to yield control of the country to Juan Guaidó, who multiple
countries, including the United States, recognize as the legitimate president of the country.
As Democrats
Use San Diego Synagogue Shooting to Push Gun Control, Conservatives Push Back. Conservatives pushed back hard
on Twitter against Democrats who used Saturday's tragic synagogue shooting in San Diego to push their gun control
agenda. "Spare us your thoughts and prayers," wrote Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. "It's an alibi for
inaction. You told the NRA yesterday you'd keep dangerous guns in the hands of dangerous people. We will take it
from here with action."
Democrats
are still lost on gun control and presidential power. In Monday's [4/22/2019] Democratic presidential town
hall, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., [...] promised that if elected president, after giving Congress 100 days to "get
their act together" and move gun control legislation, she will "take executive action" that slightly expands the universe of
gun sales covered by background checks. It is worth mentioning here, just briefly, that Congress' job includes frustrating
presidential ambitions like this one, just like its job includes preventing bad wars from being fought or border walls from being
funded. How incredible that Democrats still haven't learned, not even with Trump in office, that it's unhealthy for
presidents to circumvent Congress in such matters.
Florida
Senate passes bill that allows classroom teachers to be armed. More than a year after last year's Valentine's Day shooting in
Parkland that shocked the state and blurred party lines in the state Capitol, the Florida Senate passed a follow-up bill that has become
increasingly partisan because of its expansion of a program that would allow classroom teachers to be armed. It succeeded on a 22-17
vote. Although the vote count isn't far off from last year's 20-18 vote, Tuesday's [4/23/2019] vote fell much more along party lines.
New
Jersey governor wants to increase price for buying and carrying a gun by 2,000%. New Jersey Gov. Philip
Murphy, a Democrat, wants to dramatically increase the permits and licenses needed to buy and carry a firearm in his
state. The New York Times reports it costs $5 to get a firearm identification card, $2 for the permit to own a firearm,
and $20 for the permit to carry. Under Murphy's budget proposal, the firearm identification card will jump from $5 to
$100, the owner's permit will go up from $2 to $40, and the permit to carry, the largest increase, will go from $20 to
$400. For all three licenses and permits, the price would increase by 2,000%.
Swalwell:
You'll Sell Me Your Gun, or You'll Go to Jail. Representative Eric Swalwell, a hard-leftist from California,
has about as much chance of winning the Democratic nomination for president as Bill Weld has of winning the GOP nomination.
Be that it as it may, Swalwell's proposal to jail Americans who refuse to surrender legally purchased and owned firearms to a
federal gun Gestapo not only demonstrates how the Left has moved the Overton Window in the gun-control debate, but also how
Democrats have given in to the totalitarian impulse. Outright gun confiscation is something only the craziest Democrat
would have suggested 30 years ago, and the suggestion certainly would not have come from one who wished to be considered
a serious contender for the presidency.
"Second
Amendment Sanctuary" Movement Explodes. It's unlikely that Joe Thoele, a member of the board of Effingham
County, Illinois, had any idea that his unhappiness over Springfield's anti-gun measures would spark a national resistance
movement. A year ago all he wanted to do was send a message to the anti-gun politicians in his state's capitol:
"I would just like to send a statement to Springfield that I don't want them to be infringing on our Second Amendment rights
as legal gun owners." Thoele persuaded six of the seven other members of the board to pass a resolution declaring his
county (population 34,000) a "sanctuary" county. After all, if political entities such as counties and states could
declare themselves sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, why couldn't they declare themselves sanctuaries for legal gun owners?
Colorado
Gov. Jared Polis Signs Democrat-Sponsored Gun Confiscation Bill. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed
into law on Friday the Democrats' gun confiscatory Red Flag legislation. The legislation allows courts to issue orders
for the confiscation of individuals' guns. Tribune Ledger News reported that the legislation, House Bill 1177, did
not garner a single Republican vote. And more than half of Colorado's county governments have voiced opposition to the
bill, making clear they have no plans to enforce it.
Swalwell:
'Second Amendment Is Not an Absolute Right'. Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Rep. Eric Swalwell
(D-CA) and 2020 presidential hopeful said the Second Amendment was not an absolute right. Discussing his proposal to
"ban possession of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons," Swalwell said, "You know, keep your pistols, keep your
long rifles, keep your shotguns. I want the most dangerous weapons, these weapons of war, out of the hands of the most
dangerous people. But when it comes to what else we can do, because I don't even suggest this is all we can do, I also
want background checks. So do 73% of NRA members."
Some
Colorado sheriffs in open rebellion over 'Red Flag' gun law. Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed
the controversial "Red Flag" gun bill into law on Friday [4/12/2019] and several county sheriffs have indicated they won't enforce
it. Some are even willing to go to jail for their beliefs. [...] What we've seen in recent years is that if a crazy person
wants to go on a shooting spree, they will find a way to get a gun. Meanwhile, guns will be seized from innocent people who
may or may not be a threat to themselves or others.
Gun
Rights Demonstrators Square Off With Gun Grabbers In Delaware. A contentious set of gun control proposals has
hit the floor in Delaware, and now activists on both sides are digging in for the coming fight. That digging in started
with rallies in Dover. [...] You can only push the law-abiding citizen so far. At some point, they won't go any
further. They'll gladly break the law because the law is demanding far too much of them. To be clear, that's what
sparked the American Revolution. Had old King George not pushed so hard, the colonists would have gladly gone on being
loyal British subjects.
Pittsburgh
Residents Challenge Ban on Standard Capacity Magazines. With assistance from the NRA, Pittsburgh residents filed a
lawsuit today [4/11/2019] challenging the city's ban on publicly carrying loaded magazines that accept more than 10 rounds of
ammunition. Pittsburgh's recently enacted ordinance misleadingly describes these magazines as "large capacity" even though
they come standard with many of the nation's most popular firearms and are commonly used in handguns carried for self-defense.
Column
Proves Some Folks Are Anti-Gun Because They're Idiots. Now, some I understand. They're emotional over
it. Maybe they lost someone. Either way, they're not able to think clearly on the topic of guns, so emotion
drives them. However, after reading this column this morning, I also had to remember that apparently, some are anti-gun
because they're just stupid.
New
Zealand's new gun laws get final assent to take effect. New Zealand's governor general on Thursday [4/11/2019] formally
signed into effect sweeping gun laws outlawing military style weapons, less than a month after a man used such guns to kill
50 people and wound dozens at two mosques in Christchurch.
It
Begins: The Police Start To Bully Gun Owners In New Zealand. One never knows exactly what to think of some of
the sources on reddit, this may be legitimate and it may not be. But the weight of evidence is on the side of legitimacy.
New
Zealand Police Confiscate Airsoft Pellet Guns, Crossbow from Man Because He Supports Trump. Now that police in
New Zealand are going door-to-door to confiscate firearms, which involves bird-dogging people at work and monitoring their
online activity, one man who has gotten caught up in the covfefe was recently stripped of his airsoft BB guns and his crossbow.
Eric
Swalwell Doesn't Like It When You Criticize His Impossible Gun Control Scheme. This week, Rep. Eric
Swalwell (D-CA), the latest Democrat to jump into their already-jammed clown car of presidential candidates, launched his
campaign with a proposal to "ban and buy back every single assault weapon in this nation," bragging he was the "only
candidate" who was "bold" enough to suggest it.
Sheriff
on gun law: I'll go to jail to protect the Constitution. A hard review of Colorado's version of the "red
flag" bill immediately caused tremendous concern, as it was an obvious attack on the Second Amendment rights of citizens
disguised as a mental health bill, but it also had obvious violations of the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The law was advertised as a mental health bill that would give law enforcement a tool to help people in need. Yet, a
true read of the bill exposes that it appears to be unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.
Swalwell
running for White House on gun control: report. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) will reportedly announce
next week that he is running for president in 2020 and will center his campaign around gun control. The Atlantic
reported Thursday [4/4/2019] that Swalwell will announce his plans during an appearance on CBS's "The Late Show With Stephen
Colbert," where he will be joined by Cameron Kasky, a survivor of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Fla. Swalwell, who is hosting a town hall on gun control next week in Florida, did not confirm his plans
to The Atlantic, but said he thinks gun control should be a top issue in 2020.
House
Democrats sneak gun control measures into Violence Against Women Act reauthorization. The House of
Representatives voted 263 to 158 on a Democrat-led bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday
[4/4/2019]. Only 33 Republicans voted for the legislation. However, anybody who tries to cast those numbers as
Republican indifference to violence against women isn't telling the whole story. Rather than simply reauthorize the
law, Democrats used the opportunity to add more federal gun control to legislation originally aimed at combating domestic
violence and sexual assault. "Republicans are committed to reauthorizing VAWA, however, Democrats have refused to
engage on the issue in a meaningful, bipartisan manner and instead rushed a partisan bill to the floor," reads a statement to
Blaze Media from the office of Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. In a Wednesday [4/3/2019] speech on the House floor,
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the current bill is nearly "unrecognizable from the legislation originally passed in 1994."
Texas
House Speaker drops a gun rights bill, because a gun rights activist showed up at his house. A bill sponsored
by state Rep. Jonathan Stickand (R) sought to allow Texans to carry a gun without a permit or a license. That bill
had been pending in committee for about four months, so one gun rights advocate decided to apply some pressure to House
Speaker Dennis Bonnen (R) and other two other legislators. Chris McNutt, the executive director of Texas Gun Rights
showed up at the homes of Bonnen and Republican state Reps. Dustin Burrows and Four Price earlier this week.
None of the lawmakers were home — since the Legislature is in session, they were in at the state capitol in Austin.
New
Zealand's Gun Owners Have So Far Voluntarily Surrendered 37 Firearms — Of An Estimated 1.2 Million —
Since The Mosque Shootings. A few New Zealand gun owners have begun voluntarily surrendering their firearms to
local police in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings last week that left at least 50 people dead. New Zealand
police said that as of Tuesday night [4/2/2019], 37 firearms had been surrendered to police nationwide. They did not provide a
breakdown of how many people owned those guns, the types of firearms, or the districts where the guns were surrendered.
In New
Zealand, a Democracy Turns Against Itself. One of the oldest criticisms of democracy is that it's prone to
degenerating into little more than mob rule, driven by the latest panic, hatred, or revulsion to consume people's
attention. When it comes to stoking such strong emotions, it's difficult to top the effect of the brutal mass murders
committed at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the wake of that crime, the country's government has
succumbed to blind reaction by restricting speech, depriving innocent people of arms, and heightening domestic
surveillance — intrusions into individual rights that are inherent whether or not governments and majorities
formally respect them. It's a grim illustration of just how vulnerable the "liberal" element of liberal democracy can
be — as our own country has itself demonstrated in the past.
Here Is
Why a Federal Judge Nixed California's Ban on 'Large Capacity Magazines'. On Friday evening [3/29/2019], a
federal judge in San Diego blocked enforcement of California's ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, deeming it
inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to keep arms for self-defense. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez concluded
that "California's law prohibiting acquisition and possession of magazines able to hold any more than 10 rounds places a
severe restriction on the core right of self-defense of the home such that it amounts to a destruction of the right and is
unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny." Benitez, who in 2017 issued a stay that prevented the law from taking effect,
also agreed with the plaintiffs that the ban amounts to an unconstitutional taking of property without compensation.
Salon:
Now No One Needs Bolt Action Rifles Either. Now someone at Salon — a sixth generation grandson of Thomas
Jefferson — is falling on his fainting couch after learning that some Americans like to shoot at long distances.
The
Latest Scheme to Turn Gun Owners into Criminals. Gun-owners, they are coming: on March 21, a Fredericksburg man
was prosecuted and convicted of the misdemeanor crime of merely holding a B.B. gun in public. I know because I was in the trial,
as the attorney defending Mr. Wolff. The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. However,
gun control activists are trying to criminalize gun ownership. Their next step is that you are a criminal if you take a gun out in
public. If they have to let you own a gun, you can't ever take it out of its case.
Federal judge strikes down
California ban on firearm magazines. A federal judge struck down a California ban on magazines that are capable
of housing more than 10 rounds because he said the law violated the Second Amendment. Judge Roger T. Benitez of
the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California issued the judgement on Friday [3/29/2019] afternoon and totally
invalidated the ban. "Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts," said Judge Benitez in the ruling.
Lindsey
Graham on Gun Confiscation Laws: 'Every Right Has Limits'. During Tuesday's [3/26/2019] hearing on confiscatory
red flag laws, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, "every right has limits." Graham supports
red flag laws, and in early March, he told CNN the confiscatory laws represent a place Republicans and Democrats can "come
together" on gun control. Ironically, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was able to use the hearing as a venue in which
to promote her "Extreme Risk Protection Order of 2019."
Dick's
Sporting Goods Lost an Astounding $150 Million. Dick's Sporting Goods lost an estimated $150 million in sales
last year after the company heavily restricted firearm purchases and began advocating anti-gun propaganda. Let's bring
the number up and shop at one of the many other retailers available to sportsmen/women/kids. They are now doubling down
under the leadership of Edward Stack, an anti-Second Amendment activist. He will widen the net to 125 stores that won't
sell guns. After that, he's hoping to make it every store.
Last-Minute
Order Partially Blocks Enforcement of Bump-Stock Ban. A federal court on Monday [3/26/2019] ordered that the
bump-stock ban set to go into effect on Tuesday cannot be enforced against members of the gun-rights groups currently suing
to overturn the ban. The D.C. Circuit Court issued an order staying enforcement of the bump-stock ban on Saturday but
only for the plaintiffs in the case. The plaintiffs then filed an emergency request to expand that stay to include the
general public. The court denied that request but did issue a clarification on Monday stating that all members of the
gun-rights groups involved in the suit are covered by the stay.
In New Zealand, Terrorism
Is Winning. Terrorists, it seems, hate lots of things. And most of those things are either rooted in or
expressions of freedom. Some hate speech that contradicts their beliefs; others clothing that goes against their own
religious or cultural norms; and yet others societies in which different races and classes of people are free to live
side-by-side. In fact, one of the more popular theories regarding why Muslim extremists so despise the West relies
on their resentment of the freedom enabled by Western ideals. Those who hate freedom naturally gravitate toward its
opposite, control, which is at its root the motivation behind any terrorist act, including the horrific attack in
Christchurch, New Zealand that took the lives of 50 innocent Muslims attending mosque.

Head
of Alaska "Human Rights Commission" Under Investigation for 1st/2nd Amendment Violations. A scandal is developing in Alaska,
as the head of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) has been implicated in directly chilling the exercise of the First and Second Amendments
of the Constitution. Governor Dunleavy has ordered an investigation of the scandal. The head of the HRC, Marti Buscaglia,
became upset over a bumper sticker on a contractor's work truck. The bumper sticker showed the silhouette of an AR15 type rifle,
along with the words "Black Rifles Matter." It is a pretty standard call to support the Second Amendment. Brenton
Linegar owns Sage Mechanical, the small plumbing and air conditioning company that owns the truck. Sage Mechanical's client is
the owner of the building where the truck was parked. The HRC rents space in the building. Somehow, the Executive Director
of the HRC in Alaska interpreted the Second Amendment sticker as being offensive.
Update:
Alaskan
Human Rights Commissioners Resign over First and Second Amendment Scandal. Marti Buscaglia, the head of the
Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, became embroiled in a scandal involving a contractor, Brad Linegar, because of a
political sticker. She and two Commissioners have resigned as a result. On 14 March, 2019, she left a note on the
windshield of Brad Linegar's work truck, using her business card, calling a pro-Second Amendment sticker "offensive". The
note was buttressed by the business card of the Chief Probation Officer for Region III in Alaska, Kendall Rhyne. Then
Buscaglia indicated the contractor should not park his truck in the parking lot. It has been reported she sent an email
to the owner of the building, who had contracted with Linegar's business, Sage Mechanical, and asked the owner to "do
something" about the company.
The
Left is Not Letting the New Zealand Crisis Go to Waste. "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And
what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." These are the words of Rahm
Emanuel, advisor and fixer in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, as well as the current Mayor of Chicago. His
words are also an important part of the playbook of the left, which takes every advantage of natural or man-made catastrophes
to advance their agenda.
New
Zealand's knee-jerk gun ban is EXACTLY why we have the Second Amendment. Less than a week after the mosque
shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand has moved to ban and confiscate semi-automatic long guns. The bill bans
so-called "military style semi-automatic firearms," which according to the bill are any rifle or shotgun that accepts a
detachable magazine that holds more than five rounds. But .22 and smaller-caliber arms are exempt, so everybody's
varmint guns are safe. And, according to reports, the legal owners of now-illegal hardware will be entitled to "fair
and reasonable" compensation through a buyback program that's expected to cost a couple hundred million dollars. How
generous. Naturally, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says that we "must follow New
Zealand's lead."
FOID (Firearm Owners Identification Card) Ruled Unconstitutional
In Illinois. Well, this should be interesting! Apparently a judge doesn't think that it is appropriate
for the state to tax and regulate our rights protected by the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. Of
course Illinois is appealing, and I assume that some judge or judges will eventually find in the state's favor, but if this
goes to the United States Supreme Court we have a shot at winning.
"Never let a crisis go to waste."
New
Zealand bans semi-automatics after Christchurch shooting. New Zealand has banned military-style semi-automatic
rifles, with the government announcing a buyback after a shooting at two mosques killed 50 people. There will also be a
ban on assault rifles, high capacity magazines, and certain modification parts. Speaking on Thursday [3/21/2019], Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern said 'in short, every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in
this country'.
Legislation
In Missouri Moves To Ban All Federal Gun Control Laws From State. Can a state create legislation that could
please even the most anti-gun law American? Missouri is going to try to find out. According to The Sentinel, a
bill is expected to pass the Missouri Senate that would nullify every Federal gun law and regulations. Additionally, it
would make enforcement of those laws by federal officers within the State of Missouri a criminal offense.
The Bogus
Lawsuit against Remington. Rule No. 1 of tort law: The bad guy is the one with the most money to pay
you. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people, 20 of them schoolchildren ages six and seven. Lanza
killed himself, too. Can't sue him. Lanza had a history of mental illness — a long one. He'd
been treated under the New Hampshire "Birth to Three" program and later by the Yale Child Study Center. But it would be
hard to make a case against those institutions, which enjoy a great deal more sympathy than gun manufacturers do. The
schools couldn't handle Lanza, either, and he was left to the care of his mother, Nancy, who seems to have been a bit of an
oddball herself and an enabler. But he murdered her, too, so she's not around to sue.
Bruce
Ohr Revealed Political Operatives Got The FBI To Investigate The NRA. Friday's [3/15/2019] release of a
transcript of Bruce Ohr's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee revealed several new tidbits. It also raised
serious concerns that fake claims of collusion pushed by Glenn Simpson and Democratic opposition research shop Fusion GPS
prompted the launch of not one, but two federal investigations: the Russia collusion investigation and investigations into
the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Gun
Controllers Don't Really Want that 'Conversation'. Time and again, we hear from those advocating for more gun
control laws who intone with a sense of moral superiority that we need to have a "conversation" on guns. The goal, they
say, is to reduce violence, suggesting that they are somehow more evolved. Yet, just this week, some anti-gun activists
and politicians were caught red-handed fantasizing about wanting to shoot politicians and gun rights advocates as well as
suggesting the "doxing," or publicly posting private information, on gun owners.
Parkland
parents push for background checks on ammunition. Last month, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a plan
to expand background checks on gun purchases. Now, Parkland parent Fred Guttenberg and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
are offering a new plan to require universal background checks on ammunition purchases.
Where
can you buy guns if Dick's stops selling them? Almost anywhere. Scott Weber, 63, has seen department
stores enter and exit the firearms market over the years, and remembers poring over pages of gun ads in the Sears catalog
while growing up on a farm. Big retail chains such as Sears "have them and then they don't," said Weber, who owns
Gunrunner Firearms & Auction. That's why he thinks the decision by Dick's Sporting Goods to pull guns out of nearly
one-fifth of its 700-plus stores will probably make no more difference than similar shifts in the past. In an interview
with the Washington Examiner, Weber also predicted the move won't necessarily boost sales for independent dealers such as
himself unless they happen to be located near one of the affected stores. Instead, the gun sales Dick's might have made
will be absorbed by rival chains such as Bass Pro Shops or its subsidiary, Cabela's, which together comprise 200 stores.
Connecticut
Supreme Court Rules Remington Can Be Sued For Sandy Hook Shooting. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza
walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut and opened fire. Before it was all over, Lanza had
killed 20 children aged 6 and 7 and six adult staff. Lanza had killed his own mother before the shooting and committed
suicide afterward. Perhaps more than any other school shooting, the Sandy Hook affair has been clouded in
controversy. There have been claims that the shooting did not happen. There have been claims that Lanza was a
pawn and part of a "false flag" operation conducted by the US government. The fact set allowed it to become the darling
of the gun control set. When it was discovered that Lanza played "violent" video games there were calls for regulation.
Obama demagogued the hell out of the issue, presenting and signing 23 gun related Executive Orders and recommending 12 laws for passage.
Sandy
Hook lawsuit against gun maker Remington can proceed: Court. The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday [3/14/2019]
said a lawsuit challenging how Remington Arms marketed the rifle used in the December 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting can proceed,
overturning a lower court's dismissal of the case. In a 4-3 opinion, the court ruled that families of victims of the Newtown
massacre can challenge whether Remington violated state trade practices in how it marketed the AR-15-style rifle used in the
shooting. "The regulation of advertising that threatens the public's health, safety, and morals has long been considered a
core exercise of the states' police powers," Justice Richard Palmer wrote for the majority.
California
Saw Huge Increase in Gun Ownership Over Last Decade Despite Strict Gun Laws. Californians are smart. They
know that government refuses to protect them. For instance, law enforcement in California is used to protect criminals
from foreign nations from being arrested and deported. So, innocent folks become the victims of government
policy. That is why folks are buying guns. Even Dianne Feinstein, who does not want YOU to have a gun, has a
permit to carry a gun. "What those data show is that, as of 2019, there are more than 2.5 million gun owners in
California, compared to fewer than a million in 2008. That figure translates to about 8 percent of Californian adults
owning guns, compared to 3.4 percent in 2008 — a more than two-fold increase, even when adjusting for population.
Dick's
Sporting Goods to Remove Guns From 125 Stores. Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. said Tuesday [3/12/2019] it will stop
selling firearms at 125 of its stores, further pulling back from the business after the retailer decided last year to tighten
its policies around gun sales. Dick's has struggled with declining sales since its CEO Ed Stack made a public decision
to stop selling guns to buyers under 21 and take assault-style weapons out of all stores after a fatal school shooting in
Parkland, Fla. Dick's is also working to stem sluggish sales as more shoppers buy sporting goods online.
Hawaii
Tells Congress to Seriously Change or Repeal the 2nd Amendment. Hawaiian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to urge the
U.S. Congress to amend, seriously change or repeal the Second Amendment. They say it doesn't guarantee the right of
individuals to own guns. The resolution was sponsored by State Senator Stanley Chang, a freshman whose claim to fame is
having beaten the last Republican in the Hawaii State Senate, according to Guns.com. [...] He said the Framers never meant
guns were an individual right and, despite the Supreme Court ruling in the Heller decision that determined otherwise, he
claims it only applies to militias, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) reported.
Maryland
Democratic official takes heat for calls to 'dox' gun rights activists. A Democratic Party leader in Maryland
is facing criticism for last month posting on Facebook a call to "dox" gun rights activists. Maryland Democratic Party
Secretary Robbie Leonard took to social media to post photos from a Maryland House Judiciary Committee meeting in late
February, where gun rights activists wore "We Will Not Comply" shirts during the hearing on additional gun control measures,
along with a message calling the advocates "homegrown terrorists" and calling on his followers to "dox" them.
Popular
Defiance Will Kneecap Gun Laws in New Mexico, As It Has in Other States. New Mexico is the battleground for the
latest confrontation between politicians determined to impose legal restrictions on the right to acquire and own the means of
self-defense and people unwilling to obey such laws. The state's governor is publicly feuding with county-level
officials who, responding to grassroots anger at the proposed gun measures, vow noncompliance if they become law. The
evidence from similar spats in other states suggests that government officials are once again poised to have their impotence
demonstrated by people eager to disobey dictates from above.
Lindsey
Graham: Democrats, GOP Can 'Come Together' for Gun Confiscation Law. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says firearm confiscation laws portend a way that Democrats and Republicans can "come together."
CNN reported that Graham has long supported red flag laws, which allow a court to issue firearm confiscation orders for
individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others. House Democrats have already passed legislation during this
Congress to criminalize private gun sales and extend the instant background check for firearm purchases. They are now
pressing for $50 million in annual funding to bring academia into the gun control push.
New
Mexico's Democrat Governor Signs Bill to Criminalize Private Gun Sales. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan
Grisham (D) signed legislation Friday to criminalize private gun sales in the state. The Santa Fe New Mexican
reported that there has been a great divide over the bill, with state-level Democrats pushing it while gun rights groups, the
vast majority of New Mexico Sheriffs, and New Mexico county governments oppose it.
Oops:
Hypothesis for Latest Gun Control Study 'Has Not Been Validated'. Researchers behind a recent gun control study
admit that the hypothesis for the study "has not been validated." The study, which appeared in the British Medical
Journal, claims that states with less restrictive gun laws witness higher levels of mass shootings. The researchers
behind the study included Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Paul Reeping.
County
sheriffs across four states declare gun sanctuaries. County officials across four states have adopted
"sanctuary jurisdiction" strategies to thwart gun-control laws, according to Reuters Monday [3/4/2019]. The Trump
administration's tough stance on immigration led many cities across the country to pass resolutions resolving not to defend
current U.S. Immigration Law. Anti-gun control organizers have started to use the same tactic. Counties in
Illinois, Washington, Oregon and New Mexico have declared gun sanctuaries, according to Reuters, in response to legislation
they believe is an infringement on the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right to keep and bear
arms. All four states have Democratic majorities and governorships.
2020
Dems make it clear if Supreme Court upholds Trump emergency declaration, they'll go after guns. Democrats are
pulling out all the stops to prevent President Donald Trump from any success is stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into
the United States, regardless of the negative impact, it has on the lives of U.S. citizens or the public treasury. Even
threatening to encroach on the U.S. Constitution if the Supreme Court upholds Trump's emergency declaration on the porous
southern border.
Trump
at CPAC: Democrat Gun Control Will Not Get Past My Desk. President Donald Trump stressed during his speech at
the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the Democrats' myriad gun control plans will not make all come to an
end once they reach his desk. Trump expressed the agreement between his administration and the mindset of CPAC
attendees by saying, "We believe strongly in the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms." He then contrasted
the pro-gun view with that of the Democrats' view by warning CPAC attendees that the Second Amendment was "under siege."
Liberals
and Moderates Rage at Each Other at Closed-Door Meeting of House Democrats. Earlier this week, House
Republicans scored a second surprise victory on a 'motion to recommit,' one of the lower chamber minority's few procedural
tactics. During a legislative battle over gun control legislation, more than two dozen Democrats backed a GOP proposal
to require that ICE be notified whenever an illegal immigrant is flagged attempting to purchase a firearm. Republicans
succeeded in another MTR gambit several weeks ago, adding language condemning anti-semitism to a foreign policy vote, a move
clearly designed to isolate and shame Rep. Ilhan Omar. Following these losses, Democratic leadership is reeling,
leading to a fiery closed-door party meeting, during which various factions of the party reportedly sniped at each other.
House
Dems all in for universal background checks on firearms — until GOP includes illegal immigrants.
Democrats were all in when they decided to push through universal background checks on all firearms purchases, but they
quickly recoiled when Republicans amended the legislation. As House Democrats were poised to vote on "The Bipartisan
Background Checks Act of 2019," their Republican colleagues asked to add an amendment that would use the same law to alert
federal authorities when an illegal immigrant tries to purchase a firearm illegally as well.
US
House passes sweeping gun legislation. The Democrat-led House on Wednesday broke a years-long stalemate over
gun control legislation, approving a bill to expand background checks to nearly all firearms sales and transfers. The
measure is unlikely to survive the Senate, but House Democrats said at least they made good on vows to aggressively push the
issue in the wake of a spate of high-profile mass shootings.
Dems
Lose 'Embarrassing' Gun Control Amendment Vote After Multiple Defections. In a rare move, a Republican amendment
to gun legislation brought to House floor by Democratic leadership was adopted after multiple defections from moderate
Democrats. The House voted Wednesday on H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. The bill would
expand background checks to include all gun sales, rather than just sales by licensed gun dealers as under current law.
Republicans in the minority countered with an amendment to require that federal officials notify Immigration and Customs
Enforcement whenever a lawful or unlawful immigrant tried to illegally purchase a firearm. That measure, opposed by
most Democrats, was voted down when the bill was still in the House Judiciary Committee.
Democrats
Are Just Getting Rolling On Gun Control Hits. For better or worse, House Democrats believe their wins in
November are because of their stance on gun control. They don't want to listen to the idea that they might have had
bigger wins if they hadn't attacked the Second Amendment so vehemently. Nope. They're going to push gun control
no matter what.
NRA
assails Hollywood, AOC, CNN's Acosta over gun rights. In a message timed for tonight's Oscars, the National
Rifle Association is rolling out its biggest gun to call on the country to focus on teaching children their Constitutional
rights, including the Second Amendment, instead of tearing those rights down in a drive to socialism. Featuring
historical footage from the late Charlton Heston, the former NRA president and two-time Academy Award winner, the new video
from the pro-gun group juxtaposes his words on American rights with the anti-gun messages and images from Hollywood,
Washington, and media critics. [Video clip]
Maryland
Democrats Push Rationing of Rifle Purchases, 7-Day Waiting Period. Maryland Democrats are pushing rationing of
rifle purchases, a 7-day waiting period on all gun purchases, and a licensing requirement for rifle and shotgun owners.
Leap Forward lists over 50 Democrats who are pushing HB 786, the legislation limiting the number of rifle purchases each
month, enacting the waiting period, and putting the licensing requirement in place.
Connecticut
Democrats Push Confiscation of Homemade Guns. City legislators Jeffrey Stella (D-9) and Rodney Pratt (D-9) in
Stamford, Connecticut, are pushing an ordinance to empower police to confiscate homemade firearms from city residents.
Democrats
Don't Want ICE Notified When Illegal Aliens Try to Purchase Guns. As the debate over illegal immigration
continues to rage, Democrats continue to prove they are proponents of open borders and lawlessness. The latest example
comes from Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is berating Democrats for protecting illegal aliens who attempt to purchase
firearms and fail a background check.
Democrats
Express Openness to Federal Gun Registry. Democratic House Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries defended his party's
push for a universal background check bill Wednesday, claiming that any enforcement of the legislation — including
federal firearm registration — will be left to the Department of Justice to decide. Efforts to expand
federal firearm background checks to all private sales could eventually lead to federal firearms registration, a potential
that worries some Second Amendment advocates and sympathetic Republicans.
Knowing Exactly
Nothing about the Aurora Shooting, Chelsea Clinton and Others Call for Gun Control. A gunman opened fire inside
a manufacturer in Aurora, Illinois, Friday and before the news was a day old, pundits and famous personalities began calling
for collective action on gun violence.
Tolerating
Republican Betrayals on Guns Only Encourages More Turncoats. "[T]here is a push to pass an 'assault weapons'
ban via a ballot initiative to amend the State Constitution," a Monday Florida Shooters Network report warns. "This is
being spearheaded by Ban Assault Weapons NOW (BAWN), a bipartisan group of gun-grabbers made up of Republican and Democrat
authoritarians that want to see Floridians disarmed." "BAWN has partnered with the prominent Republican donor Al Hoffman
and his gun-control-advocacy organization, Americans for Gun Safety Now!, which is made up almost entirely of Republicans
who support an assault-weapons ban," a cited advocacy puff piece masked as political reporting from The Atlantic notes.
Pelosi
Warns That A Future Democratic President Could Declare National Emergency To Push Gun Control. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi warned President Donald Trump on Thursday [2/14/2019] that a future Democratic president could declare a
national emergency to achieve an agenda, such as gun control policy. Responding to the president's announcement that he
will declare a national emergency related to the U.S. southern border, Pelosi maintained that "Democratic presidents can
declare emergencies as well. So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with
great unease and dismay by the Republicans."
The Editor says...
If ever there was a Democrat president who wanted to outlaw guns by issuing an executive order, it
was Barack
Obama.
Facing
Costly New Regulations, Some Gun Shops Close. Several gun dealers in Central and Southern Illinois are closing
their businesses rather than pay what they're saying is thousands of dollars in costs to comply with a law enacted last
month. When he signed the bill into law last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Gun Dealer Licensing Act was about
stopping straw buyers. "The reason for it is to deter straw purchases so that we can prevent someone from buying a gun
for someone else who is not legally allowed to own a gun," he said at the signing ceremony in Chicago.
New Mexico Sheriffs Rebel Against New Oppressive
Gun Control Laws. More and more states have passed "red flag" laws making it easier to take guns away from
people who others claim to be suicidal or bent on violence against others, and courts are issuing an unprecedented number of
seizure orders across the country. The New Mexico legislature is considering such a bill along with three others.
All of them are opposed by twenty-nine out of the thirty-three county sheriffs in New Mexico. The twenty-nine signed a
public statement saying the new laws would not be effective.
Smith
& Wesson Rejects Push By Anti-Second Amendment Shareholders. The latest strategy of gun control activists is to
force gun manufacturers "to consider their social impact" by buying stock in those companies and mobilizing shareholders to
demand they study the concept. The group called Adrian Dominican Sisters, led by a nun named Sister Judy Byron, is part
of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investments, an anti-Second Amendment activist group. Their latest target
was American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), which owns Smith & Wesson. The company was forced to do a study, which
was released late Friday, but the results likely won't make the nuns happy.
CA
Newspaper: Our State's Gun Control Laws Are In Jeopardy. The last time the Supreme Court heard a gun-related case was
back in 2008 when they ruled "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a
militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home" in the landmark Heller
decision. What's interesting is the San Francisco Chronicle, a rather liberal newspaper in California, published an
editorial admitting that the state's gun control laws may be in danger. While the Supreme Court was reluctant to hear Second
Amendment-related cases, the Court now has more conservative justices. Now that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are on the
Court, gun rights activists are expecting landslide victories that can and will protect the right to keep and bear arms for years to come.
Facing
Costly New Regulations, Some Gun Shops Close. Several gun dealers in Central and Southern Illinois are closing
their businesses rather than pay what they're saying is thousands of dollars in costs to comply with a law enacted last
month. When he signed the bill into law last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Gun Dealer Licensing Act was about
stopping straw buyers. "The reason for it is to deter straw purchases so that we can prevent someone from buying a gun
for someone else who is not legally allowed to own a gun," he said at the signing ceremony in Chicago. Jim Barnard, 69,
couldn't see a way to afford the cost of compliance with the new law. After more than four decades of operation, the
owner of Fishman's Sporting Goods in Girard had to make a tough decision. "I'm just going to retire, I guess," he said.
Gun-seizure laws grow in popularity
since Parkland shooting. Supporters say these "red flag" laws are among the most promising tools to reduce the
nearly 40,000 suicides and homicides by firearm each year in the U.S. Gun advocates, though, say such measures undermine
their constitutional rights and can result in people being stripped of their weapons on false or vindictive accusations.
Democrats
don't want you to hear what I have to say about guns and the Second Amendment. Democrats on the House Judiciary
Committee held a hearing Wednesday on new gun control legislation Democrats plan to push on the American people. The
top Republican on the committee, Doug Collins, R-Ga., asked committee Democrats if I could testify about this legislation in
an appropriate setting to offer another perspective as both a survivor of a shooting attack and strong supporter of our
Second Amendment rights. But the Democrats said no. While liberals may try to silence conservative voices, I will
not be silenced. The American people deserve to hear all perspectives.
Illinois
Dems introduce bill requiring gun buyers to reveal social media accounts before getting firearm license.
Illinois Democrats are introducing a bill forcing gun buyers to reveal their public social media accounts to police before
they are given permission to get a firearm license. The new legislation is sponsored by two state Democratic lawmakers,
in an effort to block people from acquiring guns if they have made some troubling comments on social media.
Dems
Blocked Steve Scalise From Testifying on Gun Violence. House Democrats blocked Republican Whip Steve Scalise
from testifying at a hearing on "gun violence" this week despite being a victim of a shooting. The reason? He
doesn't support new gun control measures Democrats are hoping to pass with their new majority. "It was pretty bizarre.
Historically when Republicans were in charge, even when Democrats were in charge prior to this more radical leftist majority, if
a member of Congress wanted to testify on a committee, they always provided a venue for that to happen," Scalise said. "In
this case they were holding a hearing in the Judiciary on reducing gun violence and I've got a perspective clearly mine dealt with
something that happened to me and I saw how guns were used to save people's lives. It should have been able to be part of
the testimony. They wanted to focus on taking away the rights of law abiding citizens which their bill ultimately does."
Rep.
Scalise: Democrat Anti-Gun Bill Makes It Illegal to Loan Shotgun to Friend for Hunting — With One Year
in. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) joined Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle on Wednesday night [2/6/2019] to
discuss the latest Democrat legislation to restrict gun rights. Scalise told Laura the latest plan by Democrats will
make it illegal to loan a shotgun to a friend for hunting.
FL
Bill to Ban Lending or Sharing of Firearms, HB-135 by Rep. Margaret Good (D). HB 135 — Transfers of
Firearms by Rep. Margaret Good (D) prohibits the TRANSFER of a firearm from one law-abiding citizen to another without first
having a background check performed by a licensed firearms dealer. [...] In other words, you must go to a licensed firearms dealer
to have a background check done on your best friend just to lend him a hunting rifle to go on a hunting trip.
Virginia
School District Sues State AG to Allow Staff to Carry Guns. A Virginia school district filed suit against state
attorney general Mark Herring (D.) late last month over his office's refusal to allow their staff to carry firearms on school
property despite meeting standards for a specialized law enforcement position. In July, Lee County School Board
unanimously approved a plan for certain staff to become special conservators of the peace. That would allow them to
legally carry firearms on school property in order to supplement the presence of armed school resource officers. The
district currently only has officers at 5 of their 11 schools.
Harris:
No Reason to Have Assault Weapons in a Civil Society. During a CNN-sponsored town hall in Iowa Monday night,
Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) said there is "no reason" to have assault weapons in a civil society. "We have got
to have smart gun safety laws in this country, and we've got to stop buying this false choice. You can be in favor of
the Second Amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around
communities that can kill babies and police officers," Harris said. Harris, one of the many Democrats running in the
2020 presidential primary, held a town hall in Iowa where a pastor asked what she would do to tackle gun violence.
NRA
seeks to topple 2 strict California gun laws. More than two years after California voters made it illegal to
possess high-capacity gun magazines commonly used in mass shootings, the National Rifle Association has tied the measure up
in court. Now the gun lobby has set its sights on a nearly 2-decade-old law that banned the sale of those devices in
the state. That law, which took effect in 2000, has made it illegal to buy or sell magazines that can hold more than 10
cartridges. Proposition 63, sponsored by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and approved by the voters in 2016,
would require anyone who owns the magazines to turn them in, send them out of state or remake them to comply with the law.
Second
Amendment supporters rejoice as Supreme Court decides to hear a critical case. The case, New York State Rifle &
Pistol Association Inc. v. New York City, at a minimum will decide whether or not a New York City law that limits
residents' ability to transport their guns outside of their homes is constitutional. Currently, residents in that city
can carry a licensed (if they can get one), locked and unloaded handgun to one of seven shooting ranges within city limits,
but nowhere else, including homes or shooting ranges outside of the city. [Larry] Keane is worked up because lower
courts have been disagreeing with each other over basic gun rights questions for years. Some courts have even ruled
that a local government can ban the most popular firearm design sold today — semiautomatic firearms —
just because some are cosmetically different than others.
Supreme Court Takes
Up First Gun Rights Case In A Decade. The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday [1/22/2019] to hear its first gun rights
case in almost a decade. The justices will decide whether a New York City ordinance which strictly regulates the
possession and transportation of handguns outside the home is constitutional. Tuesday's grant marks the first time that
the Supreme Court has engaged with the Second Amendment since it issued a pair of landmark decisions in 2008 and 2010 which
affirmed the constitutional right to keep guns in the home for self-defense.
State
sued for suspending 2nd Amendment for foster parents. In a battle that is erupting more and more these days, a
couple has been joined by the Second Amendment Foundation in a lawsuit against Missouri officials for their attempt to
suspend the Second Amendment rights of foster parents. The complaint is on behalf of SAF and James and Julie Attaway
and names as a defendant Steve Corsi, the director of the Missouri social services agency. There have been at least
three or four identical disputes that already have been brought to the attention of courts in other states. The
Missouri case asks for injunctive relief to Missouri's firearms prohibition on state residents who are or wish to be foster
parents.
Kyrsten
Sinema Running for Senate in Gun-Friendly Arizona, Co-Sponsored Gun Control Just Last Year. Democrat Kyrsten
Sinema is running for Senate in gun-friendly Arizona but staying mum on the fact that she backed a gun control bill just last
year. The bill, known as the Public Safety and Second Amendment Protection Act of 2017, was little more than a
reconfigured — and regurgitated — version of the gun control bill Barack Obama unsuccessfully pushed
following the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. (The bill pushed in response to Sandy Hook
was also called the Public Safety and Second Amendment Protection Act.)
Credit
Card Companies Have No Business Playing Second Amendment Censors. Do we want to live in an America where credit
card companies watch our buying habits and then block purchases for ideological reasons? Not long ago, the left side of
the American electorate would have shouted "[...] no" the loudest. Not anymore. Today, many on the left are
cheering on, even pushing censorship in social media and more, as long as the suppression of ideas protects their political
goals. They even want big business to restrict gun sales, as they don't see firearms as tools of freedom.
Anti-Gun
Democrat's Purchase Of 'MeatEater' Could Pose Big Problems For Hunter-Focused Company. MeatEater, a popular
hunter-focused entertainment company started by outdoorsman and writer Steven Rinella, was purchased by a rabidly anti-gun
Democrat financier late last year in a move that has raised alarms among hunters and gun-rights activists. The Chernin
Group, a California-based investment fund run by wealthy Democratic activist and Hollywood producer Peter Chernin, purchased
a controlling stake in Rinella's MeatEater in 2018. The left-wing, anti-gun political activism of MeatEater's largest
investor, as well as political commentary and activity from some of its key partners and sponsors, complicates the company's
expansion plans given that such a large percentage of hunters in the United States — who comprise MeatEater's core
audience — staunchly support both gun rights and Republican political candidates.
DA
calls Pittsburgh Gun-Control Plan Illegal, City Council Moves Forward Anyway. A Pittsburgh City Council member
told a local radio show on Tuesday [1/15/2019] the city would move forward with passing new gun-control legislation despite a
warning from a local district attorney that it would violate state law. "We believe we're on the right side of
history," Pittsburgh City Council member Corey O'Connor told KDKA. "We're doing what's right for not only our city but we
think it's what's right across the country and nobody's going to stop us from doing that." The City Council is currently
considering legislation that would ban certain kinds of firearms like the AR-15, bump stocks, and magazines capable of
holding more than 10 rounds, and so-called armor-piercing bullets within city limits, as well as implement Extreme Risk
Protection Orders allowing law enforcement to seize firearms from individual residents in certain circumstances.
Gun-rights groups have already vowed to fight the proposed legislation in court because they believe it violates a state law
forbidding localities in Pennsylvania from creating their own gun-control ordinances.
DA
Warns Pittsburgh City Council That They Can't Make Gun Laws. Pennsylvania has a preemption law on the
books. That means individual communities can't pass gun control laws. As a result, the state has a unified
framework of gun regulations so that those traveling within it know them wherever they go. It keeps people from being
arrested for complying with the rules in 99 percent of the state, but crossing the wrong line somewhere and now suddenly
being criminals. That hasn't stopped the Pittsburgh City Council from wanting to pass gun laws in the wake of the Tree
of Life Synagogue shooting, though.
The
Democrat Who Banned Guns in Chicago Had 23 Guns. "Bullets and booze don't mix," Alderman Edward Burke growled.
Then the Chairman of the Finance Committee vowed to fight the NRA. He had spent much of his 50 years in power
fighting for gun control. And the man dubbed "Alderman-for-Life", whose wife who sat on the Illinois Supreme Court, had
the heft. [...] Burke, an Obama and Blagojevich ally, and the godfather of Chicago politics (dubbed its real mayor), hated
and loved guns at the same time. He had nearly as many guns as he had gun control bills. When the FBI raided the
offices of the powerful Chicago Democrat, they found 23 guns. That's a lot of guns for one man. Especially
for a man who had worked hard to ban handguns in Chicago.
On
January 1, I became a criminal in my hometown of Boulder. I remember a time when, for public safety of course,
some conservatives wanted AIDS patients to self-identify, to present themselves to the governmental authority, and be
counted. There was an epidemic erupting after all, and "something had to be done." In Boulder, if your core beliefs
include dressing as the opposite gender or following the teachings of the Koran our city government will bend over backwards
to protect you from those who wish to separate you from your community. You'd never be forced to self-identify to
government authorities, to submit to inspection, to be registered and made to pay fees to keep your core beliefs. My
strong belief in my Second Amendment rights is core to who I am. I know that is not understood by many today, however I
am not asking to be understood. I'm asking to be left alone. I am asking for progressives who run city government
to live up to their assertion of tolerance and just let me be.
Va.
Governor's Gun-Confiscation Proposal Could Affect Millions of Residents. The plan to ban the sale and
possession of certain kinds of firearms proposed by Virginia governor Ralph Northam (D.) could affect millions of gun owners,
an industry group said on Friday [1/11/2019]. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which represents gun
manufacturers and dealers, said the vague description of the legislation released by Northam on Jan. 4 would apply to most
firearms currently on sale in the commonwealth.
Heartwarming
Stories of Civil Disobedience. I'm proud to be American in part because of the cantankerous view that my fellow
citizens have about government. A good example is the guy who knocked over a D.C. revenue camera. Or the entire
state of Arizona for ignoring notices generated by revenue cameras. And this is why I applaud jurors who deliberately
disregard bad laws. One of my favorite examples of civil disobedience comes from Connecticut, where more than 80 percent
of owners flouted a state law to register so-called assault weapons. [...] It's likely that the noncompliance rate isn't actually
100 percent, but it is very heartwarming to see such widespread disobedience. Especially since magazine limits are a
truly inane and useless policy.
Supreme Court To
Review Illegal Immigrant's Gun Possession Conviction. The Supreme Court will decide whether an illegal alien
from the United Arab Emirates was wrongfully convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm. The case was occasioned in
December 2015, when Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif was arrested in Florida after renting a gun at a shooting range and
purchasing ammunition. Federal law prohibits certain classes of people from possessing guns, including illegal aliens.
Boston
Mayor's Office to Force Doctors to Identify and Document Patients Who Own Guns. Joseph Stalin's firearms
registration and confiscation was a tremendous success for the Socialist state. Under the Tsar, Russia was one of the
most heavily armed societies on earth. That all changed when Stalin and the communists took control. Stalin was
able to control, starve, punish and imprison a defenseless people, after he took their guns. [...] It's no secret that
Democrats are hoping to repeat this history here in the United States.
Dianne
Feinstein Pushes Ban on Commonly Owned Semiautomatics, 'High Capacity' Mags. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
is pushing a ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles and high capacity magazines. She announced the push via Twitter
where she wrote: "Americans across the nation are asking Congress to reinstate the federal ban on military-style assault
weapons and high-capacity magazines. If we're going to put a stop to mass shootings and protect our children, we need
to get these weapons of war off our streets." Feinstein wants to ban any assault weapon which accepts a detachable
magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded
barrel or a folding or telescoping stock.
California
now confiscating ammunition, gun magazines under 'red flag' law. On Jan. 7, California will say goodbye to
their Governor, Jerry Brown, who leaves behind a legacy of gun control measures. Brown has passed a series of gun
confiscation laws that were extended at the start of the new year to include the seizure of ammunition and some magazines
when guns are confiscated. He approved Senate Bill 1200, which "adds ammunition and bullet drums to the list of items
related to firearms that can be confiscated," according to KCRA News. During the execution of a Gun Violence
Restraining Order (GVRO), authorities have the legal right to seize "the owner's gun, accessories, and ammunition."
It also eliminates any fees incurred for obtaining the GVRO.
First,
Corporations Targeted Your Speech — Now, They're Targeting Your Guns. First, corporate giants like
Facebook and Twitter targeted your speech. Now corporate banks are targeting your guns. You may recall when the
criminal Obama administration put into effect the unconstitutional pressure on banks to not provide money to "risky" ventures
such as gun dealers. You may also recall overpriced sporting goods store Dick's eliminating semi-automatic rifles,
discriminating sales of guns and destroying their inventory while their stocks plummeted, but now, it looks like after
corporations have targeted your speech online, they may be aiming for your guns next.
'Gun-toting
hippies' greet Boulder 'assault weapons' ban with mass non-compliance. Boulder's newly enacted "assault
weapons" ban is meeting with stiff resistance from its "gun-toting hippies," staunch liberals who also happen to be devoted
firearms owners. Only 342 "assault weapons," or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the
Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could be thousands of residents in the scenic university town of 107,000 in violation of
the sweeping gun-control ordinance. "I would say the majority of people I've talked to just aren't complying because
most people see this as a registry," said Lesley Hollywood, executive director of the Colorado Second Amendment group Rally
for Our Rights. "Boulder actually has a very strong firearms community."
Parkland
shooting commission recommends teachers should be armed. The commission investigating a shooting massacre at a
Florida high school have unanimously approved its initial findings and recommendations, including a controversial proposal
that teachers who volunteer and undergo training be allowed to carry guns.
Toy gun
buyback for pansies. Hempstead, New York, officials, citing concerns for the safety of children, not only
warned parents off buying toy guns as gifts this Christmas — but also took the over-the-top step of hosting a toy
gun buyback event. Welcome to the new USA, home of the pansies. Summer camps, for crying out loud, used to
provide BB guns to kids to fire at mounted balloons. Now we're confiscating squirt guns and foam-firing plastic
rifles?
Ohio
Lawmakers Override Gun-Grabber Kasich's Veto. I've been hammering Ohio Governor John Kasich and his fondness
for stomping all over Ohioans' constitutional rights. Frankly, it's warranted. The man has turned his back on
principles and is instead trying to set up another presidential run by catering to the NeverTrumpers and Democrats, which
isn't going to be a winning strategy. Especially since "NeverTrump" doesn't necessarily mean they're anti-Second
Amendment. Recently, Kasich vetoed a bill that would benefit gun owners involved in self-defense shootings. The
bill was watered down from the Stand Your Ground bill originally proposed, but even that was too much for Kasich's liberal
sensibilities.
Court Says NY Cops Can't Search Cars Over
Out Of State Gun Permit. In a small win for gun owners, a New York court has ruled that owning an out of state
gun permit is not enough "cause" for a New York cop to search a vehicle. The incident that sparked the case was when a
man who had recently moved to New York was pulled over by a Rye City, New York, police officer and when handing over his ID
also handed the officer his Colorado concealed gun permit.
Former
NYPD Officer Creates Program To Turn In Toy Guns. When my son was still little, he reached the age when it was
time for him to have some toy guns. My father used my toy guns to help teach me the rules of gun safety. I was
required to follow those same Four Rules we've all heard time and time again. It was pretty smart of him to do that,
too. [...] Now, my daughter has a cap pistol herself. She, too, has to follow the rules. However, a former
officer with the NYPD seems to disagree with my stance on toy guns. He thinks they're uncool and wants kids to think
they're uncool too. So much so that he's created a kiddy version of a gun buyback program.
This may or may not be off-topic:
Texas
Lawmaker Seeks To Remove State's Ban On 'Brass Knuckles'. This comes on the heels of a federal court ruling New
York's ban of nunchucks as unconstitutional. The argument in that case was that the Second Amendment protects the right
to keep and bear arms, saying it shall not be infringed. It doesn't specify any particular arms, which means all arms
are covered. This includes brass knuckles. I suspect [Representative Joe] Moody and I disagree on a great deal,
but on this, we are in total agreement. Bans like these need to be overturned.
New
York Times Wants To Have Credit Card Companies Monitor Sales Of Guns And Ammo. The New York Times ran an article
today [12/24/2018] that opens a new front in the progressive dream of restricting and eventually banning gun ownership.
New
York Times Pressures Credit Card Giants to Blacklist Gun Purchasers. The New York Times is pressuring
credit card giants to monitor customers' buying habits and blacklist gun purchases. The Times suggests banks are
"unwittingly financing mass shootings" by allowing individuals to use their cards to buy firearms and related accessories.
Man
Tries to Rob Pizza Guy With Only a Rifle Magazine. There's not much to this story, but it's so absurd that it
needs to be on the record. Wednesday night in Rockford, Illinois, a man ordered a pizza from an unnamed
restaurant. The non-customer then intercepted the delivery man in the parking lot, attempting to rob him, while
pointing a loaded rifle magazine at him. Needless to say, this tactic was ineffective. [...] The suspect is described
as a 155-pound 5'8" black man in his 20s or 30s, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
Gun-Rights
Groups Threaten Lawsuit if Pittsburgh Passes New Gun Control. Gun-rights groups announced on Monday [12/17/2018] they would
file suit against any new gun-control measures the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., passes that violate the state's preemption law. The
Allegheny County Sportsmen's League (ACSL) and Firearm Owners Against Crime (FOAC) said they would take immediate action against the
gun-control proposals Mayor William Peduto (D) announced support for on Friday and which the city council is currently considering.
The groups said Pennsylvania law prohibits local municipalities from passing laws stricter than what the state has authorized.
They decried the potential action as dangerous and an assault on gun owners.
Incoming
House Democrats Ready Bill to Criminalize Private Gun Sales. The incoming Democrat House majority is readying
legislation to criminalize private gun sales. Ironically, the push comes nearly 227 years to the day after private gun
ownership was hedged in by the Founding Fathers via the Second Amendment, which was ratified on December 15, 1791.
Politico reports that Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) is spearheading the current gun control push through "universal
background" legislation. Such checks criminalize private gun sales, making it illegal for a neighbor to sell a firearm
to his neighbor, a friend to his lifelong friend, and even a father to his son.
Trump
DOJ Announces Bump-Stock Ban, Confiscation. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday it will effectively
ban the possession of all bump-fire stocks through a new regulatory rule. Senior DOJ officials told reporters it would
become a felony to own a bump-stock within 90 days of the new rule's publication. They estimated March 21,
2019, would be the deadline for the public to turn in or destroy their bump stocks. The officials said they would
prosecute those who do not comply with that deadline.
Venezuela's
Gun Ban Is Working Out Perfectly For The Socialist Agenda. While it may seem hard to believe, there was a time
when the citizens of Venezuela were allowed to keep and bear arms. This wasn't the distant past we're talking about
either. It was only in 2012 that the socialist government of Hugo Chavez enacted the "Control of Arms, Munitions and
Disarmament Law." When it was passed, the authors of the legislation pulled no punches, saying that the explicit
purpose of the law was to "disarm all citizens." That bill was spectacularly successful, massively reducing the
volume of privately owned firearms. Then, when the new tyrant, Nicolas Maduro took power and sent his swarms of federal
troops and government "militias" out into the streets to crush any opposition to his regime, the unarmed populace had little
recourse in the face of government guns.
Gun
Confiscation Begins in New Jersey. President Obama and President Trump were both right, Obama when he told us
elections have consequences and Trump in his 2018 stump speech that a consequence of Democrat victories would be renewed
attacks on the Second Amendment. New Jersey's ban on high-capacity magazines has been upheld by a federal court,
opening the door to door knock gun confiscation and making off-duty police officers subject to criminal prosecution.
The inmates are officially running the asylum.
Million Plus
NJ Gun Owners Defy State Law, Refuse to Turn Over Banned Gun Mags. New Jersey's standard capacity magazine ban
is now in effect making New Jersey's one million gun owners criminals in the eyes of the state. But in an act of mass
definace, New Jersey residents refuse to comply. Any magazine holding more than ten rounds is now illegal in the Garden
State. The standard magazine for an AR-15 holds 30 rounds. Glock 19s, which is the most popular pistol in the
United States, holds 15 rounds. Anyone who is possession of larger magazine is committing a fourth-degree felony.
Gun
Control — Do Facts Matter To Politicians & Judges? The people with the greatest need for self-protection
are denied the tools they need to keep their family safe. That is the real face of gun-control, but that isn't what we were
sold by politicians. That isn't what judges tell us. We're told that disarming you and leaving guns in the hands of
criminals is acceptable as long as politicians meant well. Do facts matter anymore?
Venezuelans
regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population'. As Venezuela continues to crumble under
the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning — and
resentment — against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons. "Guns would
have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight," Javier Vanegas, 28, a
Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. "The government security forces, at the beginning
of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration
of war against an unarmed population."
The Deep State Wants Your Guns.
The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) is the pillar of all background check systems for firearms purchases and
was a part of the 1994 Brady Act. Any time a prospective gun owner wants to buy a gun from a federally licensed
firearms dealer (FFL), they must go through a background check. Under this system, the FBI looks at certain factors
such as criminal history and mental health to determine if an individual presents too much of a risk to own a firearm.
Although NICS is marketed as a speedy background check system, it comes with its own set of problems. NICS has gained
notoriety for producing false positives. In other words, law-abiding citizens are mixed and matched with criminals who
have the same name. In turn, these individuals are prevented from acquiring guns due to bureaucratic errors.
Particularly worrisome is the rate of initial NICS denials that turn out as false positives. Some estimates from the
Crime Prevention Research Center indicate that in 2009 alone, 93 percent of initial NICS denials were false positives.
Boulder's
AR-15 Certification Ordinance Sure Sounds Like A Test Run For A Gun Registry. Remember when Boulder, Colorado
banned the ownership of AR-15 rifles? They also banned high-capacity magazines and bump stocks, giving gun owners with
such magazines until July 15, 2018 to either sell them or dispose of them — whatever that means. Most
likely, you'll have to turn them over to the authorities. Now, there is a grandfather clause allowing residents who
already owned AR-15s to keep them as long as they get a certificate by the local sheriff's office. Well, that date is
rapidly approaching. AR-15 owners have until December 27 to certify their weapons. If owners fail to do this,
they won't be allowed to own their rifles within city limits. So far, only 85 rifles have been certified.
New Jersey Targets Their Own Police
Officers With Threat. New Jersey is making it clear that they don't trust their officers by threatening to
prosecute off-duty police officers in possession of standard capacity magazines in their firearms. Modern firearms
issued to patrol officers generally hold 12 or more rounds of ammunition, but the new law limits gun magazines to
10 rounds.
New Jersey forcing off-duty
cops to use LOW-capacity magazines. Last June New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a ban on
high-capacity gun magazines, meaning that anyone with a magazine that holds over 10 rounds would be guilty of a
fourth-degree crime. The new and incredibly ridiculous law went into effect this week and it even applies
to off-duty law enforcement officers.
Florida
school massacre panel recommends arming teachers. The panel investigating the Florida high school massacre
recommended Wednesday that teachers who volunteer and undergo extensive background checks and training be allowed to carry
concealed guns on campus to stop future shootings.
It's
Official: Dick's Sporting Goods Says They're Falling Apart Because Of Their Pro-Gun Control Nonsense. Our
good friend Stephen Gutowski mentioned this on Triggered last week. Dick's Sporting Goods had finally admitted that
their gun control antics have hurt their business. They're not concerned; they're going to re-conceptualize and take
firearms out of ten of their locations despite sales dropping nearly four percent. Nevertheless, they admitted that
catering to the Everytown crowd has hurt foot traffic, but insist profitability is still up.
Dick's
Sporting Goods Says Gun-Control Stance Hurt Business, May Close Field & Stream. Dick's Sporting Goods told
investors during the Goldman Sachs Retailing Conference that its gun-control stance hurt sales of its hunting business,
outdoors business, and that it may close its outdoor-focused Field & Stream stores. Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of
Dick's, said during the event that the sporting goods chain's recent 3.9 percent drop in same-store sales was the result of a
mix of factors beyond their control as well as some he called "self-imposed." Specifically, he said, "the decisions we made
on firearms" negatively affected their bottom line but the drop in sales was something they expected. They did not,
however, regret their decision to change a number of their gun-sales policies and back new gun-control legislation.
DA
Gascón carried guns on planes, then whistle-blower was fired, suit says. A former senior investigator says
he was fired for blowing the whistle on his boss, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who he alleged carried
a gun while flying — in violation of federal law. Gascón reacted with a "pattern of retaliation and
harassment" that culminated in the termination of senior investigator Henry G. McKenzie on Oct. 30, 2017, according
to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
The Editor says...
If you see something, say something. Unless you see a Democrat D.A. violating the law.
NJ
Doesn't Say How It Will Enforce Magazine Confiscation After Court Upholds Law. New Jersey law enforcement officials refused
to say on Thursday [12/6/2018] how they planned to go about enforcing the state's ban on the possession of any magazine capable of holding
more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which goes into effect on Monday [12/10/2018]. Neither the state police nor the attorney
general's office elaborated on how they plan to enforce the law. Nor did they provide any guidance for those currently in possession
of the magazines.
Boulder
Residents Given Just Days To 'Certify' Rifles Or Face Consequences. Colorado used to be a fairly pro-gun state,
but all that changed shortly after a shooting in an Aurora, CO movie theater. While the killer was caught and isn't a
risk to the public anymore, that didn't mean anti-gun forces didn't seize on the opportunity. Since then, the state has
seen a progression of anti-gun incrementalism. Unfortunately, the stupid doesn't just stop with the state legislature.
It seems the People's Republic of Boulder wants to get in on the action and is now giving people who own so-called assault rifles
just days to "certify" their weapons or face repercussions.
Countless
Americans carry guns. Police are killing too many of them. Certainly, if a man holds a gun at the scene
of a shooting, police are more likely to zero in on him than on others. Officers arrive in the midst of extremely
tense, life-threatening and fast-moving situations and must think quickly. Yet guns are ubiquitous in this nation,
whether we like it or not. Many people carry them legally, and for just this kind of situation — to be the
"good guy with a gun" who stops the armed bad guy. No less than the president of the United States has called for more
armed citizens, so that in the midst of an altercation, many guns might be wielded by good guys and bad guys alike.
Officers should expect it. They should be trained for it.
How
Much Blood Would Leftists Be Willing To Shed To Disarm Patriotic Americans? My question for Congressjerk Eric
Swalwell is pretty simple: "How many Americans would you murder to achieve your goal of disarming us?" It's a fair
question. Swalwell is the MSNBC stalwart who recently wrote an op-ed advocating that the government confiscate the guns
that make people like him wet themselves and imprison those of us who decline to surrender them. Millions of Americans
own these basic tools of freedom, which the ignorant call "assault weapons," and these loyal citizens keep and bear them to
protect themselves, their families, their communities and their Constitution. But Rep. Swalwell would make these
citizens felons, though these patriots are only a threat to criminals and aspiring tyrants. Of course, he wants to make
these patriots felons because they are a threat to criminals and aspiring tyrants. After all, that's what leftist
Democrats like him are.
Detroit
Just Declared War On Gun Rights With So-Called 'Bullet Bill'. Detroit has decided to follow its deep blue
brethren in another assault on law-abiding citizens. They want to limit the amount of ammunition that can be purchased,
while undergoing a mental health background check. The bill is straight trash, folks — you already knew that
though. It never ceases to amaze me how liberals are just total garbage in their policy prescriptions concerning gun
politics. It was passed by unanimous voice vote earlier this month.
Dick's
Sporting Goods Decision On Guns "Costing Them Dearly". You likely recall the brouhaha that erupted after Dick's
Sporting Goods decided to "take action on gun violence" by ending sales of certain types of rifles and raising the minimum
age for gun purchases to 21. They didn't just get rid of their "assault rifles" either... they destroyed them. At the
time, I noted that such a decision didn't sound like it was particularly conducive to profitable operations and happy
stockholders. Turns out that those chickens may have come home to roost. As the Daily Wire reports, sales are
lagging at their Field & Stream stores and the company is admitting that their poor numbers are at least in part related to
their decisions regarding firearms sales.
Reveal
your passwords? Gun bill threatens more than 2nd Amendment. [Scroll down] The ink wasn't even dry
on vote totals putting Democrats in charge of the State Senate when Brooklyn's Kevin Parker introduced a chilling bill.
It would require anyone applying for a handgun permit or for the mandated recertification every five years to provide the
State Police with their log-in and password so troopers can search their social media accounts for the prior three years and
review their Google or Yahoo search history for the prior year. Police would look for everything from "commonly known
profane slurs or biased language" to posts "threatening ... another person" to the ridiculously vague "any other issue deemed
necessary by the New York state police." One hardly need be a constitutional scholar to recognize this blanket permission
slip constitutes a blatant assault on free speech and an intrusion on privacy rights with no semblance of due process or
judicial review.
Female
Harvard student, 24, is ordered to move out of her apartment after her roommates searched her room and found legally-owned
guns. A Harvard student was advised to move out of her Massachusetts accommodation after her roommates
complained they felt uncomfortable with her legally owning two guns that she kept in her bedroom. Leyla Pirnie, 24, is
currently in a battle with her peers and landlord, claiming she should not have to incur additional expenses as a result of
being asked to leave, when she is fully within her right to bear firearms.
Landlord
Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns. A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University
graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her
roommates uncomfortable. "Since it's clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if
she finds another place to live," Dave Lewis, president of Avid Management, said in an email to the household obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon. The request that the student, Leyla Pirnie, move out came after her roommates searched her
room while she was not home and found her firearms. That prompted one of the roommates to email Lewis requesting he
verify that Pirnie was in compliance with applicable firearms laws.
New
York considers bill that would not only deny, but revoke, gun licenses over 'slurs' and 'biased language'. A
bill introduced by a Democratic New York state senator proposes existing gun licenses be revoked and license applications be
denied for anyone using hate speech. The New York State Senate is reportedly considering a bill from Sen. Kevin
Parker which will allow a search of an applicant's social media or search engine history to decide on a gun license
application, according to WKBW.
Brilliant idea!
University
distributes hockey pucks to protect against active shooters. How do you stop a bad guy with a gun when there's
no good guy with a gun around? Maybe throw a hockey puck at him. A university in suburban Detroit is distributing
hockey pucks as a form of self-defense against potential active shooters, according to reports. Because Oakland University
has a no-weapons policy, university Police Chief Mark Gordon suggested using a hockey puck to distract a shooter.
The Editor says...
The school has a no weapons policy. But here they are distributing weapons (of the school's choice) for use against potential
shooters. Is it wise to bring a hockey puck to a gunfight? Is it impossible to imagine an unpopular professor being pelted with
hockey pucks on the last day of the semester?
PSA
encourages kids to steal parents' guns, hand over to teachers. Sleeper 13 Productions released the controversial
video on Dec. 13. It shows a pouty, young boy wandering into his parents' bedroom, stealing a handgun out of their
dresser drawer and then shoving it into his backpack. The boy then carries what is presumably a loaded weapon into his
classroom. After class, he approaches the teacher, takes the gun out of his backpack and slams it onto her desk.
The Right to Bear Nukes.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has an annoying habit of reminding people that we don't live in the 18th century
anymore. He seems to think that the Second Amendment was written to protect the right to own muskets, but that the
Founding Fathers couldn't have anticipated the alleged horrors wrought by private ownership of assault weapons.
Strangely, though, he finds hidden somewhere deep within the US Constitution the right for the government to own nuclear
weapons in order to terrorize the public into obedience. Back in May he wrote an OpEd for USA Today urging the US
government to "buy back" all assault weapons from private citizens, blithely sidestepping the fact that none of the weapons
were bought from the feds in the first place. The piece was titled "Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters."
Democrat
Congressman: We Should Confiscate Guns and If You Fight Back, the Government Has Nukes to Deal With It.
California Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell is calling for government confiscation of all semi-automatic rifles. In
other words, every rifle in America. [Tweets] Further, he's warning citizens of nuclear annihilation should people
refuse to comply. [More tweets] When he was confronted, Swalwell tried to backtrack with some context and
further explanation.
Dem
Rep. Eric Swalwell: If We Confiscate Your Guns And You Fight Back, We Will Nuke You. I know he's running
for president in a [very] crowded field and has to strain to get noticed. But between this and shrugging off death threats
aimed at Susan Collins, it seems like there must be a better way. [...] "Find common ground with us or risk incineration by your
own government" is a top-ten all-time tweet by a federal elected official.
Dem
congressman: Government can always nuke resistant gun-owners. [Scroll down] It's worth noting just
how radical [House Democrat Eric] Swalwell's suggestion is. He isn't arguing for a "ban" of sales or imports, in the
vein of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, for example. He is arguing for federal confiscation of millions
of weapons that the federal government may arbitrarily deem too deadly for individual Americans to own. As should be
clear to anyone, the prospect of such legislation implies two distinct outcomes. Federal agents would be forced to
physically visit Americans' homes to seize their weapons if they choose not to surrender or "sell" them to the government,
and there will be a penalty of violence for a failure to comply.
Newsweek
Reporter: Almost Everyone I've Ever Heard Of Who Owns An AR-15 Is A Mass Murderer. What she said is a
smear (a highly paranoid one too, ironically) but in her case it's probably the truth. She's a professional journalist
who lives in New York City. She writes on feminism, Washington politics, and the Middle East. How many people
could she possibly know who own an AR-15? The only time she's apt to run across one is on the printed newspaper page, in
stories about lunatics living out their revenge fantasies by reaching for something powerful that resembles an M-16.
Florida
Election Fraud's Hidden Gun-control Agenda. We've all seen those lists of objects, names, or places on tests
along with the question of which one doesn't belong or is out of place. Apply that test to the three Florida races
affected by the vote fraud/incompetence in Broward and Palm Beach counties: senator, governor, and agricultural
commissioner. Uh, agricultural commissioner? Why is anyone trying to steal that election, one lost under the
radar among the seemingly more important national impact offices at stake? The answer is that capturing the Florida
agricultural commissioner's post would be a key victory in liberal and progressive push for gun control. As the Tampa
Bay Times notes, Florida is unusual in that the Florida agricultural commissioner, rather than the courts or other law
enforcement, is the entity that regulates and controls things like concealed carry permits.
Yes, Doctors Should
'Stay In Their Lane' On Gun Policy. For one thing, neither internists nor radiologists, by virtue of their
career choice, have special expertise in public policy, gun ownership, or the relationship between firearms and the rights
associated with them. Speaking about these issues with the authority of an expert is a transparent appeal to authority.
For another thing, the ACP uses its position to create the perception that "doctors" — virtually all of
them — believe in one set of policy prescriptions. I have a feeling this isn't true. Even if it
were, though, doctors — physicists, engineers, teachers, business owners, truck drivers, and any other smart
human being — are just as susceptible to partisan biases and agendas as anyone else is.
Survey:
Majority of Americans Oppose Ban on 'Assault Rifles'. A recent survey shows that a strong majority of
Americans, 57%, oppose banning semi-automatic guns, specifically semi-automatic rifles that the media often label "assault
rifles." A semi-automatic rifle (or pistol) is a gun that fires one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. In the
poll, Gallup asked, "Are you for or against a law which would make it illegal to manufacture, sell or possess semi-automatic
guns, known as assault rifles?" Forty percent said they were "for" a ban and 57% said they were "against" a ban.
Dems
Priority List Includes Attacks On Free Speech And Gun Rights. After having safely won the House majority,
Democrats revealed their two top legislative priorities for next year: Limits on free speech and gun control. In
other words, assaults on rights protected by the First Amendment and Second Amendment. The Democratic leader in the
House, Nancy Pelosi, promises that the first bill voted on by the new Congress will focus on campaign finance and ethics
reforms. According to news accounts, H.R. 1 would, among other things, establish automatic voter registration
and "reinvigorate" the Voting Rights Act. In other words, make it harder to root out voter fraud.
Mental
illness is the common denominator in virtually all mass shooting murders. The signs are almost always there and
no one takes them seriously enough. [...] Keeping weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill is really not arguable and it
might be the most doable. A mental health screening has to part of the process to obtain a weapon and that has to
include PTSD. Chris Kyle was killed by a vet with PTSD. If we want to stop the mass murders, this has to
happen. It's not the weapons. It's who is allowed to have them.
Maryland's
"Red Flag Law" Claims Its First Victim As Police Kill Gun Owner. While most of us were focused on the upcoming
election, there was a tragic story unfolding on Monday [11/5/2018] in Ferndale, Maryland, a suburb to the south of
Baltimore. Maryland has enacted a new "red flag" law which allows people to call in reports of gun owners who are
acting erratically and may present a danger to themselves or others. Under this new law, that gives the police the
right to show up and confiscate their firearms. (The law has only been in effect for a month.) That's what
happened to 61-year-old Gary J. Willis. Unfortunately, when the police rolled up at his house before six in
the morning, Mr. Willis answered the door holding his handgun. Then everything went wrong.
Keyword: opportunism.
Democrats
aim to pass the most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades after winning the House. Democrats could
make the biggest changes to gun legislation the United States has seen in 25 years when the new term begins January but
Republicans are unlikely to make it easy for them. A fresh wave of politicians will enter the House next year, after
the Democratic party took it back in Tuesday's elections. But the GOP still control the Senate which passes federal
laws. However with the Thousand Oaks, California mass shooting where 12 people died just the day after the
midterms, politicians have suggested they'll be aggressively pursuing action to enforce tougher gun control.
The Slaughter in Sleepy
Thousand Oaks. [Scroll down] The shooter lived with his mom in Newbury Park, which is part of Thousand
Oaks. Little mention is made of his father. [...] The media should have told us more about his family life by now, but
of course it treats such basic biographical matters gingerly, as that probing might imply mass shootings reflect cultural
rather than legislative changes. The media also likes to medicalize tragedies, attributing the shooter's behavior to
PTSD. But surely the explanation is more complicated than that. The media's game is to make everyone think that gun
violence is due to the absence of laws and pills. But in fact the two spiked as gun violence soared. Pols pass
new gun laws with the same regularity pharmaceutical companies manufacture new medicines for new syndromes. Could it be
that mental problems originate in moral problems? Could it be that new laws are useless on a citizenry stripped of the
capacity to follow them?
First
Circuit Rules there is no Right to Bear Arms Outside the Home. The Court specifically said the decision applies
to both open and concealed carry of handguns. They reserved the power to infringe on concealed carry more than open
carry. Judge Selya wrote the decision for the unanimous three judge panel. They held that allowing police to
decide if a citizen has a "need" to carry a gun outside the home allows sufficient exercise of Second Amendment rights.
A right that can be arbitrarily denied by the government is no right at all. It is effectively just another activity
that may be allowed by the government, if a bureaucrat decides to allow it.
Democrat
Proposes A $200 Million Tax On Montana Gun Owners. On August 29th, 2018, candidate for Congress Kathleen
Williams told a Kalispell audience that she wants to levy a $200 million tax on Montana gun owners. Really!
Although that's not the way she put it. She said that "high capacity magazines" (over 10 rounds of ammunition) need
to be treated legally the same as "sawed off shotguns" and "machine guns." These items, you may know, require an application
to the BATFE, a nine-month wait, and a $200 tax for each item registered, in order to legally possess them.
NY
Dems: Police Should View Web/Social Media History Before Letting People Buy Guns. Two New York City area Democrats
have a real 'genius' (horrible) idea: let police look at social media and Internet search history before authorizing gun sales.
The Editor says...
Hmmm. What happens then? Would my ability to buy a gun be inhibited or eliminated because I said, "I Hope Trump Is Assassinated,"
like this
Missouri state Senator? Would I still be able to buy a gun if
I threatened
to kill the FCC Chairman's family over something like net neutrality? What if I had a page on my web site that said, "I've thought a lot
about blowing up
the White House"? Would I be able to buy ammo if I put out a call on Twitter for someone
to kill
a Supreme Court Justice? Yes, I would probably have trouble buying a gun, under this proposed thought crime system.
But what if the cops go to my social media page and find the whole thing is encrypted, or only open to specific visitors?
What if the cops go to my social media page and find that it says derogatory things about cops in general?
What else might I be prohibited from doing, in addition to buying guns?
This is not just an enormous can of worms, it's the fast track to tyranny.
Democrat
Stacey Abrams Admits Her Plans May Require Georgians to 'Turn Their Guns In'. During a November 4 appearance on
CNN's State of the Union Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) admitted that a possible outcome of her gun
control plans could be that "people would turn their guns in." She said other options might include "buybacks" and/or
"grandfathering in" certain firearms, so current owners could keep them but be barred from selling them or transferring them
to other individuals.
North
Dakota Dems Threaten Hunters with Loss of License for Voting. The North Dakota Democratic-Non-Partisan League
recently paid for a Facebook ad threatening the state's hunters with the loss of their out-of-state hunting license if they
vote in the upcoming congressional elections. "ATTENTION HUNTERS: If you vote in North Dakota, you may forfeit hunting
licenses you have in other states. If you want to keep your out-of-state hunting licenses, you may not want to vote in North
Dakota," the ad reads.
The Editor says...
These are the same people who claim that voter ID laws are all about voter suppression.
Heitkamp
endorses state Dems' false claim that ND's hunters could lose licenses if they vote. In the latest gaffe in her
bid for re-election, U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., endorsed false claims made in a Facebook ad paid for by her
state's Democratic Party that say the state's hunters could lose their hunting licenses in nearby states if they vote Tuesday
[11/6/2018]. Heitkamp, who's trailing Republican challenger Kevin Cramer on average by 11 points, hasn't backpedaled
from the endorsement, telling reporters that it is "really important that people understand the consequences of voting."
War
on Red State Values: Claire McCaskill Coming After Gun Shows, Semiautomatic Rifles. Sen. Claire
McCaskill's (D-MO) staff already admitted she is open to a semiautomatic rifle ban, and on Thursday night [10/18/2018],
McCaskill made clear that she, too, is coming after gun shows. She also called for other gun controls and maligned the
NRA for standing against infringement of Second Amendment rights. On October 16, 2018, Breitbart News reported an
undercover Project Veritas video that showed McCaskill field organizer Carson Pope discussing McCaskill's openness to a
"semiautomatic rifle ban." Other members of McCaskill's office laughed at how the Senator was hiding the full extent
of her gun control support from Missouri voters in order to get elected.
Boston
Cop Files Suit Against Site He Blames For Being Shot. The firearm industry is an unusual place. After
all, if a car is used to run over someone, even if it's an intentional act, no one thinks to sue Toyota or the dealership
that sold the car. The idea of doing so is ridiculous. But with guns, it happens. In fact, it happens
despite federal law protecting companies that sell firearms. One of the latest examples is a police officer in Boston
who is suing Armslist for supposedly being responsible for him being shot.
Poll:
Support for Gun Control Drops Ahead of Midterm Elections. A new poll released on Wednesday [10/17/2018] shows
support for new gun-control laws dropped significantly over the last seven months. The Gallup poll of 1,019 adults, conducted
between Oct. 1 and 10, found 61 percent of respondents support making gun laws stricter. That's down 6 points
from when Gallup asked the same question between March 1 and 8. At the same time support for the idea that gun laws
should be kept the same increased from 28 percent to 30 percent and support for the idea they should be made less strict
doubled from 4 percent to 8 percent.
Vietnam
War hero sentenced to 7 years for decades-old rifle purchase: report. A decorated Vietnam veteran and firearms
collector was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for a decades-old purchase of a rifle. Alfred Pick,
70, purchased the M14 — a fully automatic weapon illegal to own — at a Ft. Worth gun show in the
early 1980s, the Dallas Morning News reported. The rifle, which had a scratched-off serial number, was similar to the
one Pick used as an Army lieutenant in Vietnam, where he earned a Silver Star after participating in more than 100 combat
missions and his brief time as a POW. "The man is a Silver Star winner, he saved lives, he took care of his wife, he's
been in custody for a year, I would think that when a man turned 70 and is an American hero you don't destroy the rest of his
life for one mistake," Mark Shackelford, a friend, told KDFW-TV.
Gun
Control: Six Ways Nancy Pelosi Aims to Take Away Firearm Freedoms. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA) believes securing gun control is more important than continuing to win elections and she supports numerous controls
that will she undoubtedly pursue if Democrats gain control of the House. The Washington Times reported that Pelosi
reacted to the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting by stressing that securing more gun control is a "higher
[priority] than winning the next election." In other words, she expressed willingness to trade her political career for the
opportunity to restrict Americans' Second Amendment rights. Here are six gun controls Pelosi is certain to pursue if
Democrats take control of Congress: [...]
Los
Angeles Considers Ordinance That Will Force City Contractors To Disclose Any NRA Ties. It's California.
It's a garbage deep-blue state, but it's alarming nonetheless. Los Angeles city hall is moving forward with an
ordinance that would force contractors to disclose any ties to the National Rifle Association. They also have a similar
regulation concerning contractors that are involved in the construction of President Trump's much-anticipated border
wall. It doesn't bar these contractors from working within the city limits.
McCaskill,
Staff Exposed In Undercover Sting Video. James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a new undercover video Monday night
[10/15/2018] showing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her staffers expressing support for radical gun control measures that
they admit she can't state publicly. The video shows McCaskill and her staff admitting that she supports banning
semi-automatic weapons, bump stocks, high-capacity magazines, along with supporting other far-left policies. Rob Mills,
who works on McCaskill's campaign, says in the video that McCaskill can't be open about her policies because "she has a bunch
of Republican voters" and "that could hurt her ability to get elected."
Police
warn people against buying gun-shaped phone case. A California police department is warning people about a
phone case that resembles a gun, saying that they should encourage others to avoid buying it or using it because it could
potentially get someone shot. Aaron P. Sheehan, who identified himself as a police officer on his Facebook page, posted
a few photos of the incognito phone case on Sept. 24. When tucked into a person's back pocket, the black phone cover
looks just like the handle of a weapon, with no indication that it isn't the real thing.
Michael
Bloomberg suggests disarming minorities to 'keep them alive'. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
reportedly argued Friday that guns need to be kept out of the hands of minorities in order to keep them alive. While
speaking at the Aspen Institute, Mr. Bloomberg, 72, said 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: a male
minority between the ages of 15 and 25, The Aspen Times reported. Cities need to get guns out of this group's hands and
keep them alive, the former three-term mayor said, according to The Times. "These kids think they're going to get
killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed," said Mr. Bloomberg, who funds the gun-control advocacy
group Everytown for Gun Safety.
Smith
& Wesson loses out to nuns, religious groups on gun safety plan. American Outdoor Brands, the parent company of
U.S. gun-maker Smith & Wesson, lost its bid to block a proposal from a group of nuns and religious educators to increase
efforts to promote gun safety. At its shareholder meeting this week, investors sided with the resolution put forth by
the Ontario-based Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in the wake of multiple high-profile mass shootings.
The
Number of AR-15s In America Will Shock Anti-Gunners. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation
(NSSF), the firearms trade industry association, modern sporting rifles, like AR-15-style rifles, are the most common firearm
in the country. The NSSF's research shows that there are over 16 million AR-15 and AKs in America today. That
number might actually be higher because firearms built from 80 percent lowers are not tracked by the firearms industry.
Part of the reason the AR-15 is popular has to do with the customization factor.
Feinstein
distorted facts about AR-15, aka 'America's rifle,' NRA says. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has drawn the ire
of the National Rifle Association over claims that the AR-15 — which the group calls "America's rifle" —
is not "in common use." In a statement Friday [9/21/2018], the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action called into question
the California Democrat's assertions about the weapon and said the rifle has gained popularity in recent years.
The
Las Vegas Massacre's Missing Data. [#1] Where is the muzzle flash? While the report discusses weapons fired during the event,
it does not mention recorded imagery of muzzle flash from the 32nd-floor window where Paddock was determined to have carried out his killing spree.
Muzzle flash from weapons such as the AR-15 is one of the key indicators of shooter location, particularly in the thermal infrared, a region of the
electromagnetic spectrum extending beyond the range that the human eye can see. According to the report, Paddock used a total of 13 weapons
during the shooting (not including the pistol with which he killed himself). Even if some weapons were flash-suppressed, the incessant,
continuous, violent barrage from one location should have produced some flashes whose signatures were captured on video — even on the cell
phone camera videos taken by many individuals on the ground. Moreover, FBI forensic experts determined that some of the weapons had been
loaded with tracer ammunition, making a signature more likely to be seen on imagery. No discussion of flash or tracer signatures appears
in the document, and no explanation for the omission is provided.
Medical
Malpractice Deaths over 500 Times Higher than Accidental Gun Deaths. A Johns Hopkins University study covering
eight years of data found there are at least 250,000 malpractice deaths in the U.S. annually. CNBC reports the Johns
Hopkins University study presents malpractice deaths on the low end, since other studies show malpractice deaths exceeding
400,000 a year. On the other hand, accidental gun deaths hover around 500 a year.
Gun
stores in California can display handguns in shop windows, judge rules. A 95-year-old California law
prohibiting gun shops from displaying handguns or handgun ads in shop windows violates freedom of speech, a federal judge has
ruled. State lawyers contended the law removes an inducement for people with suicidal impulses, or impulses to commit
crimes, from buying lethal weapons. But U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley of Sacramento noted on Tuesday that the shops
were selling a legal product and said the state had failed to show that the ban was either effective or necessary to promote
public safety.
Mass.
AG Faces More Legal Pressure Over Unilateral Gun-Ban Expansion. The Massachusetts attorney general's decision
to unilaterally expand the state's ban of certain semiautomatic firearms is facing a new round of filings in state and
federal court this month. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) announced on Wednesday a collection of gun-rights
groups had filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in Worman v. Healey. That case
challenges the decision in the First U.S. Court of Appeals. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) announced
earlier this month it would be supporting Baystate Firearms and Training, LLC and Downrange, Inc. in their effort to fight
the action in state court.
Democrats
Manufacture "Gun Control" Propaganda Moment During Kavanaugh Hearing. During the senate confirmation hearing
today the full antics of the Democrat political apparatus were on display. One of their choreographed and manufactured
moments happened when a man named Fred Guttenberg was staged to shake the hand of Judge Kavanaugh during one of the recess
breaks. [...] Fred Guttenberg is one of the parents from the February Parkland High School shooting, a Democrat and a gun
control proponent. Judge Brett Kavanaugh, like most of America, had no idea who the guy was who was trying to grab
him. It was an entirely staged event put on by Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat party, and coordinated with prior
notification to media to anticipate the moment.
Where do nuns get that kind of money?
Catholic
Nuns Buy Controlling Stocks in Gun Companies to Destroy Them. An anti-gun/anti-Second Amendment publication,
The Trace, reports that a group of Canadian and U.S. nuns and other Catholic activists want gunmakers to actively monitor
violence committed with their product. That's not all, they plan to make them engage in corporate governance. To
make this happen, they bought stock — enough to make them bend to their will. It's another ploy meant to
make gunmakers the means of their own destruction. We don't make car manufacturers keep lists of everyone who dies in a
crash and then provide governance. According to SEC filings, these anti-Second Amendment activists bought stock in gun
manufacturing companies to force them to do it and more. This was in response to the Parkland school shooting.
Dick's
Sporting Goods takes hit from tighter gun controls. Dick's Sporting Goods reported a bigger-than-expected drop
in quarterly same-store sales and forecast further declines this year due to tighter controls on gun sales, sending its
shares down 8 percent. The company posted a 1.9 percent fall in same-store sales, bigger than the average estimate of a
0.62 percent drop, also blaming weak sales of Under Armour products at its stores. Dick's was one of the first
retailers to stop selling assault rifles and high-capacity magazines as well as bar the sale of guns to people under age 21,
following a massacre at a Florida high school in February.
A
Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival. The right to bear arms is a fundamental right granted to Americans by the Bill
of Rights. It's not about hunting or sport shooting. It's about self-defense from personal assault, home invaders, or potentially
a hostile government. Like all fascists and communists, the left dreams of seizing control and confiscating guns from citizens who
might threaten the left's rule. Every time there is a mass shooting, regardless of the reason, such as Islamic terror, drugs, or mental
illness, the leftist drumbeat is heard again, demanding more and more controls on gun rights. Chip, chip away is their strategy.
The NRA has provided a continuing brilliant defense of the Second Amendment so far, but watch as the left wing continues to attack the
NRA and one of our most basic rights.
NY
Sheriff Shuts Down Gun Store After Multiple Burglaries. Imagine you have a business that is targeted by criminals
over and over again, and the sheriff decides to fight crime by shutting down your business. Doesn't make a lot of sense,
does it? Yet one New York gun store owner had just that happen recently after being the latest of a series of burglaries.
Judge
Sides with NRA, 2nd Amendment Foundation, Disqualifies Washington Gun Control Initiative. A Thurston County
Superior Court judge sided with the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation against a gun-control ballot initiative in the state
of Washington. On July 3, Breitbart News reported that the initiative, I-1639, was being presented as a simple
attempt to raise the legal age for long gun purchases from 18 to 21. Although an attempt to disqualify 18- to
20-year-olds from exercising their Second Amendments is troubling enough, the reality of the matter is that I-1639 would have
put in place a new system of background checks and myriad other guns controls as well.
Tucker
Takes on 'Disturbing' Order by U.S. Virgin Islands to Seize Guns From Citizens. Utah Rep. Rob Bishop said
that House lawmakers will be probing the effectiveness of an order signed by the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands that
allows the seizure of weapons from its citizens. Bishop (R) said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that a letter was sent to
USVI Gov. Kenneth Mapp, asking for information on if, in fact, any guns have been seized.
Dem
candidates embrace gun control in campaign for House takeover. As the Democrats shift to the left on a number
of issues from health care to immigration, they've already gone all in on one of the most contentious issues around —
gun control[.] A study by The Wall Street Journal found that of the 63 candidates on the House Democrats' campaign arm's list
of seats to flip in November, 62 support expanded background checks for gun purchases. While Dems have long pushed for gun
control, there was a time when some candidates ignored the issue, included gun rights as part of their platform or even allied with
the National Rifle Association.
Ninth
Circuit Panel Rules CA Unsafe Handgun Act not Covered by Second Amendment. A three judge panel in the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the restrictions of the California Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA) do not violate the Second
Amendment. In circular reasoning, the opinion posits the UHA restrictions do not restrict behavior protected by the
Second Amendment. They then apply the least restrictive Constitutional test to determine if the behavior is
protected. Unsurprisingly, they find that it is not. The key to the decision is the Ninth Circuit's hostility
to a broad reading of the Second Amendment.
A
Lot Of Teens Think Gun Control Will Stop Mass Shootings. When it comes to school shootings, I understand
completely why teens have a strong opinion on the matter. In their minds, at least, they're the prime target of such
killings. While school shootings aren't the entirety of mass shootings in this country, it's still understandable that
teens have some concern. When we look at other high profile mass shootings, those happened in places teens go
too. Church, concerts, movie theaters, malls, all places where you'll find a teen contingent. So yeah, it's
understandable they have an opinion. It doesn't mean we should bow to their opinion, though. Especially when it's
so wrong.
Five easy
Ways to Make AR15 type Receivers at Home. You don't necessarily need a 3D printer. You could use a
programmed CDC machine.
3-D printed
guns are an imaginary problem. A note for the gun-control gang: "Die Hard 2" wasn't a documentary.
The 1990 action flick was only one episode in the story — the mostly fictitious story — of plastic
phantom pistols that can be walked through airports by terrorists and other nogoodniks. Spy novels of the 1970s and
1980s told of the KGB-invented "Troika" pistol, which sometimes made its way into media stories and government reports in
spite of the fact that nobody ever seems to have actually seen one. There's also the plastic stealth pistol sneaked
into a courtroom by a mafioso in "The Dark Knight" for the purpose of knocking off the crusading district attorney.
Dems
introduce law to block publication of 3-D printed gun blueprints. New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney and three
of her fellow Democrats in the House on Friday [8/3/2018] introduced a law to block the online publication of blueprints showing
how to make guns using 3-D printers. "The idea of untraceable, undetectable guns available to anyone, even violent criminals
and domestic abusers, with the click of a mouse is utterly terrifying," said Maloney, who co-sponsored the legislation with
Reps. Brad Schneider of Illinois and Ted Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
The Editor says...
If the Republicans passed a law to block publication of blueprints for gay wedding cakes, little pink hats with cat-like ears,
and rainbow flags, the Democrats would call it a free speech issue.
Video
Proves 'No One Wants To Take Your Guns' Is A Lie. [Scroll down] I can't help but be amazed at the number
of people protesting who don't even understand the subject they're supposedly so passionate about. I mean, if you think
the gun laws are insufficient, how can I take your claim seriously when you don't even know what the gun laws are? I
mean, maybe she's from California or some other state that has some kind of gun registry, but she's at a protest in
Washington, D.C., so I don't see that as a valid defense of the stupid. Then the NRA released this one where we see
lots of people who don't even understand what an AR-15 is, despite wanting to ban them.

The Utter Futility of Gun Control.
Defense Distributed (DD) is a small Texas company that has developed and published online digital files that may be used to
make firearms either by 3D printing or computer controlled milling machines. It is the brainchild of self- described
libertarian anarchist Cody Wilson. In 2013, DD uploaded software files for the 3D printing of the "Liberator," a single
shot pistol, and a lower receiver (the part regulated by federal law) of the much maligned AR-15 rifle. According to
the Associated Press, the software was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first 24 hours. The downloads continued for
days thereafter, and the software became (and remains) widely available on numerous free access websites. It was game, set
and match for Wilson and DD. Nevertheless, within days of the initial online posting, the Obama Department of State ordered
DD to cease making the software available online.
In
Lawsuit, NRA Says Gov. Cuomo's 'Coercion' Has Cost Them Millions. The NRA is accusing New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of trying to "deprive" them and their constituents of "their First Amendment rights to speak
freely about gun-related issues and defend the Second Amendment" in a new lawsuit. In April, Cuomo directed state
regulators to "urge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in
New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle Association." The governor's part in encouraging
these entities to end their partnerships with the gun rights organization did much to hurt their finances, the group alleges.
Let's Debunk
The Misleading Panic Over 3-D Guns. First of all, "3-D Plastic Guns" aren't being sold to the public. Nor
are "downloadable firearms" or "ghost guns." These things don't exist. Data, code, and information is being sold
to the public. There is no magical contraption that creates a new gun on demand. Sorry. Even if such a
machine existed, however, the Trump administration hasn't suddenly begun "allowing" Americans to fabricate guns in the
comfort of their homes, as so many stories have intimated. It's never been illegal to make your own (non-NFA) weapons
in the first place. The pretext for this freakout is news that the State Department reached a settlement with Cody
Wilson and his company, Defense Distributed, which offered digital designs for 3-D printed guns, not guns.
If
3D Printed Guns Are A Brand New Threat, Then Explain This. Ever since the Trump administration agreed to drop
charges against Defense Distributed for sharing files related to 3-D printed guns, the anti-gun activists have lost their
everloving minds. Since then, it's been nothing but doom and gloom, like plastic guns are about to herald the
apocalypse or something. Welcome to Gunmaggedon! However, the technology isn't new. While Defense
Distributed was barred from sharing the files above, other parties shared them far and wide. 3-D printers cranked out parts
and weapons in homes and offices all over the nation and the world. But watch the news and this is supposedly a new
threat that will result in guns that are undetectable and untraceable. Now, I'll admit that printed guns are
untraceable. They're no different than any other homebuilt firearm in that way but undetectable?
Federal
Judge Undermines Two Rights By Blocking 3D Printer Files. Honestly, it seemed like I was the only one excited
by the prospect of 3D printing your own firearms and parts. While there was plenty of press about the Justice Department's
decision to stop trying to prevent Defense Distributed from spreading the files, it just didn't seem like there was a lot of
interest in folks printing their own parts. Fair enough. In fact, if the anti-gunners had realized that, they might
have taken a step back and recognized that maybe this wasn't the threat they thought it was. Too bad that's something they
just can't do. They don't know how to ignore something that doesn't seem to have much interest from the firearm community
in the first place. So, they found a friendly judge and got him to infringe on two rights, not just the right to keep and
bear arms.
3D
gun blueprint restraining order is ultimate test for rejecting judicial supremacism. A semi-retired judge in a
congressionally-created court might want to ban Computer Aided Design (CAD) files of 3D gun prints he doesn't like, but it
doesn't mean we no longer have a 3-dimensional system of government. We still have two other branches of the federal
government with more robust powers. The question is: will the case of a district judge granting random states standing
to bar nationwide the publishing of blueprints for 3D prints of guns be the final straw that will galvanize conservatives and
libertarians to finally put the courts in their place?
Judge
issues temporary restraining order stopping release of 3D-printed gun. A federal judge issued a temporary
restraining order Tuesday blocking a Texas organization from posting new online blueprints for 3D-printed guns, delivering a
last-minute win to gun control backers who were worried about the implications of untraceable firearms being manufactured at
home. Defense Distributed had planned to make 3D blueprints widely available over the internet on Wednesday, but U.S.
District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ordered a halt and reimposed Obama-era restrictions that blocked the plans'
distribution. The Trump administration reversed the rules this year.
The Editor says...
Free people, or careful people at least, have made their own guns at home for centuries. This is nothing new, except
that the printed guns are made of plastic. The talking heads on TV, whose strings are pulled by the Left, say plastic guns
could pass through the airport screening process undetected and lead to hijackings. That may (or may not) be true, but the
widespread ability to make unregistered, untraceable, disposable weapons at home is much more worrisome to big government
bureaucrats and tyrants.
More
than 450 people in Florida ordered to give up guns under new law, report says. Hundreds of gun owners in
Florida have been ordered to give up their guns under a new law that took effect after the deadly Parkland shooting in
February, according to a report published Monday [7/30/2018]. The Risk Protection Order, signed by Florida Gov. Rick
Scott just three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas, aims to temporarily remove weapons from gun owners
who have been deemed by a judge to possibly be a threat to themselves or others.
The 3D-Gun
Debate: Separating Truth from Fiction. One of the most bizarre aspects of the modern gun debate is the
extent to which it is still dominated by ignorance and misinformation. One of the most important controversies in
American public life rages on, yet media gatekeepers and all too many politicians simply don't know the most basic facts.
They don't understand the most basic constitutional issues. Even worse, many of them don't seem to care.
Gun
Rights Coalition Posts 3D Print Code Despite Judge's Order, Says 'Code Is Free Speech'. Gun and speech rights
advocates posted 3D print codes Wednesday [8/1/2018] despite a judge's order restraining Cody Wilson from posting his files
for public access. Wilson's files were viewable and downloadable on July 27, 2018, but ARS Technica reports they "went
dark" after US District Judge Robert Lansik halted their dissemination. Wilson was scheduled to share his files broadly
on August 1, 2018, as the result of a settlement with the State Department. However, Judge Lansik said, "The
proliferation of these firearms will have many of the negative impacts on a state level that the federal government once
feared on the international stage."
Pelosi:
Yes, I Hope There's a 'Slippery Slope' Towards More Gun Control. [Scroll down] In reality, she's just
previewing how much of the Left will respond if this restriction gets implemented. They'll welcome incremental progress
while complaining bitterly that the measure is nowhere near strong or far-reaching enough, vowing that the battle is just
beginning, etc. Allahpundit thinks Pelosi is deliberately trying to blow up an emerging deal by "spooking" Republicans
and keeping Democratic attack points intact.
Texas
company cleared to put 3D-printed gun designs online. After spending years fighting the federal government for
the right to do so, a Texas company was given the green light to post blueprints online showing people how to make
3D-printed guns from the comfort of their home.
Hollywood
Hypocrisy On Guns. TV shows are still pushing gun violence to goose the ratings. A recent study by the
Parents Television Council reported that the degree of gun violence on prime-time broadcast TV has actually increased in the
last five years since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. In a review of the November 2017 sweeps period after the mass
shooting in Las Vegas, it found that 175 of 287 episodes contained violence (almost 61 percent) and 112 of them
(39 percent) had scenes of gun violence. It's dramatically worse at the movies. Matt Philbin of the Media
Research Center reported last fall that an astounding 589 incidents of violence were featured in "Kingsman: The Golden
Circle," "American Assassin," Stephen King's "It" and "mother!" And that's just four top-grossing movies from the week before
the Las Vegas attack. The films had no less than 212 incidents of gun violence, and the body count was
at least 192.
Vermont
Governor's Approval Tanks Following Gun Control Bills. Gun control supporters tend to think of their victories
as happening as soon as the law is signed. At that point, they figure, they have what they want. They also figure
the laws get signed because they're calling the shots. They hold press conferences and talk about their great victories
and make the typical bogus claims that people will be safer. However, it's not over for the politicians who support
those laws. Oh, for some, it's no big deal. Those who represent anti-gun enclaves can rest easy and never have to
worry about their vote really coming back to bite them [...]. But for governors of states that sign such bills?
Well, that can get ugly.
U.S.
appeals court upholds right to carry [a] gun in public. A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S.
Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii
overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home.
Americans
have constitutional right to openly carry firearms, court rules. Americans have a constitutional right to
openly carry firearms, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday [7/24/2018], delivering a major victory to gun rights
supporters. While courts previously have recognized the right to own firearms to protect the home, the decision by the
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit extends that into the public sphere, calling it a "core
Second Amendment right." In a 2-1 ruling, the panel said Hawaii's law severely restricting guns outside homes or
businesses tramples on that right.
ACLU Solidifies
Its Anti-Gun Image. Years ago, while watching a debate about the ACLU, someone asked why a group that
supposedly defends the Bill of Rights ignores the Second Amendment so completely. The other side simply remarked that
the ACLU doesn't fool with it because there are other groups that defend the Second Amendment, but few that focus on the
others. For a while, I accepted that well enough. I mean, I don't always buy the ACLU's position, but I could
accept that they simply left the Second Amendment to other organizations more focused on that sacred right. However, it
now seems that the other guy was wrong.
One
Quarter Of Illinois Counties Are Now "Gun Sanctuaries". Back in May, we talked about a bit of an uprising in
Effingham County, Illinois. County executives had decided that they weren't willing to simply fall in line with new gun
control measures passed by state legislative majorities based almost entirely in Chicago. In response, they passed a
largely symbolic measure declaring their county a sanctuary for gun owners, saying that they would not enforce the new mandates.
This marks
the end of gun control. The federal government has finally recognized the obvious — that sharing
instructions on how to make guns with 3D printers counts as constitutionally protected speech. Despite little fanfare,
this is an important victory for First Amendment rights. It also represents a real blow to the increasingly futile
cause of gun control. The U.S. Justice Department announced a legal settlement and its surrender to the First Amendment
arguments July 10 made in a case brought by Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed. Wilson, 25, created a ruckus in
May 2013 when he announced his successful design of a plastic gun. In just two days, 100,000 copies of the handgun blueprint
were downloaded from Wilson's website. The most downloads came from Spain, followed by the U.S., Brazil and Germany.
California
law prompts spike in assault weapon registrations: report. A recently-enacted California gun law that broadened
what firearms must be registered with the state prompted a 43 percent spike in assault weapons registration and a lawsuit by
gun rights advocates, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday [7/18/2018]. The 2016 law banned the sale of semi-automatic
assault rifles with so-called "bullet buttons" — a feature on some rifles that enables faster replacement of ammunition.
"Bullet button" rifles purchased before the law were required to be registered with the state by June 2018.
Gunning
for Judge Kavanaugh. It's not just the wrongly decided Roe V. Wade decision that liberals fear is in
jeopardy with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. They also fear their crusade against "semi-automatic" weapons may be
exposed as the semantic, visual, and judicial fraud that it is.
NRA,
Second Amendment Foundation File Suit Against Seattle Gun-Storage Ordinance. A pair of gun-rights groups
announced they filed a lawsuit against Seattle's restrictive gun-storage ordinance on Friday [7/20/2018] because they say it
violates Washington state law. The National Rifle Association and Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation are
working together with two Seattle residents in the suit against the city. They say the city's requirement that any guns
in a person's residence must be stored in a locked container unless being carried by the owner or other authorized users
violates state law.
The
Ninth Circuit Protects Gun Rights and Stops Confiscation. Under California law, any person who possesses a
legally purchased magazine capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition must either remove the magazine from the
state, sell it to a licensed firearm dealer, or hand it over to law enforcement. Those citizens who retained their
magazines after the law went into effect risked a fine or up to one year's imprisonment in county jail. The district
court's 66-page opinion was a legal tour-de-force that not only dismantled California's justifications for the ban, but also
reiterated and reinforced the constitutional and historical basis for the right to keep and bear arms.
How
Entertainment Shows Have Become Vehicles for Gun Control Propaganda. All of the major television networks use
their primetime entertainment shows to push a pro-gun control agenda. Liberal television executives apparently think
that they have the power to change Americans' attitudes. Not liking guns has been portrayed as cool for a long
time. It is an old theme that dates back to the original 1980s MacGyver series, in which the titular character avoids
using guns and expresses his aversion to them. This theme has continued with the current remake. But the push to
sway public opinion really seems to have picked up.
Idaho
GOP Rep. Receives Threatening Voicemails, Emails Because of This Facebook Post. Last weekend, the Idaho
Republican Party held their annual convention. One of the main speakers during the event was newly-elected NRA
President Oliver North. Naturally, Oliver's presence brought gun control proponents out to protest. During one of
the convention's breaks, Idaho State Rep. Priscilla Giddings (R) walked outside and noticed a group of protestors
calling for gun control. Giddings read their signs and decided to pose for a picture with them. [...] Little did the
girls in the picture know that Giddings, a former combat pilot and current major in the Air Force Reserves, utilized firearms
during multiple deployments in the Middle East. The most ironic sign of them all was the one girl's call to ban...
artillery. "When I saw the gun control signs my interest was peaked," Giddings told Townhall. "I'm a very strong
supporter of guns and the Second Amendment."
Tough
Gun Laws Do Nothing To Prevent Chicago PD Finding 35 Illegal Guns. Chicago doesn't have a gun problem.
They have a criminal problem. Whatever the mechanism is that creates criminals in urban centers, Chicago has it in
spades. They're chock full of whatever it is, and instead of looking at what that might be, they keep focusing on the
tool being used, not the tools using them. The truth is, the city has so many illegal guns not because of gun laws in
other states, but because they have a culture that serves as a breeding ground for people who will acquire illegal guns.
Plain and simple. Remove that, and suddenly the crime rate will plummet.
$5
homemade shotguns handed in at $100 gun 'give back'. It seems someone was inspired to make a quick $400 for
charity at a local police gun 'give back' in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Homemade
shotgun turned in at gun buyback event in San Francisco. Police in San Francisco took in 187 weapons during a
gun buy-back Saturday morning [6/30/2018]. The four-hour event, hosted by United Playaz, yielded 57 pistols, 44 revolvers,
11 assault weapons and three shotguns. One of those shotguns was homemade. [...] The event offered $100 for every handgun and
$200 for every assault weapon, no questions asked.
The Editor says...
Mrs. Editor mentioned today that she saw some news report about a gun "buy back" program at which the cops "bought back" a board with
a pipe attached to it — for $100! It makes me wonder if they'd "buy back"
a Pop Tart
with one corner
bitten off.
Parkland
Congressman: 'You Shouldn't Be Able to Fire a Gun' Without Fingerprint Recognition. Rep. Ted Deutch
(D-Fla.) said the development of smart guns should be part of the gun-control conversation, arguing that a gun owner should
not be able to fire a gun without some sort of verification like a thumbprint that's needed to unlock a smartphone.
Deutch also said that there are efforts underway to require gun manufacturers to incorporate smart technology in firearms but
that the NRA is standing in the way.
Islamists
Work To Disarm Free Men And Arm Themselves. I don't like the expression that "The right exists in nature." Nature promises
absolutely nothing to you, any more than it promises that the Wildebeest won't perish by being eaten by Crocodiles as it crosses the rivers.
Nature doesn't recognize rights. Only God grants rights and responsibilities, and only God can take them away. The state doesn't
exist to protect you or your family except from foreign invasion (a duty at which it has failed, and miserably so). God has given that
solemn duty to you.
M4OR:
Students have a right to defend themselves. "We basically work to support the Second Amendment and school
safety through social media, education, and peaceful demonstration, which will be in the form of marches that are going to
happen on July 7th," says Xena Amirani, chairman and executive director of March for Our Rights, a non-profit organization
that is student led and student run. Amirani tells OneNewsNow the Second Amendment is one of the most essential amendments
in the Constitution, as it acts as a way for people to protect themselves from tyranny and folks who wish to do harm.
Americans
[Have] Never [Been] Divided So Sharply Over The NRA. In its latest poll, Gallup found that 88 percent of
Republicans view the NRA very or mostly favorably. Democrats, on the left hand, view the outfit the same by only
24 percent. That's a whopping 64 percent division in positive feelings, the largest margin Gallup has ever
encountered on the NRA.
NBC's Pete Williams Struggles
To Describe How Shotguns Work. NBC correspondent Pete Williams employed an interesting analogy on Friday when
trying to describe how shotguns work. According to Williams, describing the gun used by the shooter in the Capital
Gazette newsroom on Thursday, insisted that shotguns operate like a "backwards funnel." "A shotgun, uh, uh, you know,
if you're not familiar with a shotgun, it sets out a spray of pellets and because a bullet simply goes in a straight line and
shotgun is sort of like a backwards funnel, it spreads it out so that you don't have to aim very precisely," Williams claimed
on MSNBC on Friday [6/29/2018].
The Editor says...
It sounds like the only shotgun he's ever seen was in the hands of Elmer Fudd.
Mob
Violence and Gun Ownership. We are watching Democrats, perpetrators of the incremental coup, encouraging the
rise in political mob violence to overthrow the existing political order. Eventually, sooner than later, the Democratic
mob will feel empowered by its immunity from consequences to expand its tactics and target nongovernment citizens for
bullying, intimidation, and inevitable violence. This is exactly the tactic the political left understands will be
enabled most by strict gun control, meaning confiscation. After all, mob violence as a tool of political enforcement,
will be far easier and more effective if those against whom it is deployed are not capable of defending themselves.
Disarmament of the law-abiding has always preceded violent revolution. This is the entire purpose of "gun control."
Only one side will be equipped for the impending violence.
NJ's
Governor Phil Murphy Thinks Poor People Shouldn't Have Guns. We already knew that Governor Phil Murphy hated
guns. His signing of a slew of recent gun control bills made that obvious in case anyone didn't know. Of course,
those laws didn't stop a recent shooting in Trenton, NJ, but whatever, right? What we didn't necessarily know was just
how much he hated poor people. I mean, he may pretend he's a champion of the little guy, but if that's the case, why
does he want so badly to make it too expensive for poor people to be armed in his state?
UN
Continues Their Push To Disarm Americans. The United Nations can't say Agenda 2030 — their plan for
global peace — is successful if Americans are still armed and if the Second Amendment still exists. They
have to completely get rid of armed citizens in America and the way to go about that is using our peers against us. Our
threat is no longer just at home. It's international. It's time for gun owners to wake up to the international
threat that sits right before us.
New
Jersey AG Attacks Right to buy Gun Parts & Learn How to Make Guns. Guns have been made by individuals as long
as there have been guns. In the United States, it has always been legal to own the means of production to make your own
guns. It has always been legal to make your own. Hobbyists have been making firearms as long as the United States
has existed. The national war on the Second Amendment started in the 1930's. Passed in 1934, the National
Firearms Act required a license to make some guns for commercial sale. A federal tax stamp was required to own short
barreled rifles and shotguns, and guns that can fire more than one shot with each pull of the trigger. New Jersey is
one of only six states that does not have a state constitutional amendment protecting the right to keep and bear arms.
Report:
Cities Across Country Use Zoning Codes to Create 'Gun-Store-Free Zones'. Cities and townships are using zoning
restrictions to create "gun-store-free zones" around the country. This includes over 20 such zones in California
alone. According to the Trace, a gun control journalism outlet, such use of zoning codes allows cities to "effectively
ban firearm stores" in lieu of Congressional refusal to pass more gun laws. Piscataway, New Jersey, is one of the
latest townships to adopt this approach. They have no federally licensed firearms dealers in their township, and the
town Council hopes to use a zoning resolution to keep any licensed dealers from setting up shop in the future.
The critical fraction. According to the
General Social Survey in 2013, about 1 in 4 Americans owned guns. That's 79 million gun owners, and probably an
undercount because gun owners are chronically suspicious of the intention behind such questions. But we'll go with it
as an assumption that's best-case for the doorknockers. That means that in order to stop attempted gun confiscations
dead on a purely force-on-force level, only one in 317 American gun owners needs to remember that our first American
Revolution began as spontaneous popular resistance to a gun-confiscation order. Only one in 317 American gun owners
need to remember their duty under the U.S. Constitution as members of the unorganized militia — "the body of the
people in arms". Only one in 317 American gun owners need to shoot back. Is that a plausible fraction? Yes.
Unable
to Ban Guns, Lawmakers Want to Weaponize the ATF Against Gun Dealers. What's a politician to do when it's clear
that people will vigorously resist attempts to restrict their lives? Well, you could empower government officials to
arbitrarily punish anybody who might help them exercise their freedom. That's the approach favored by three Democratic
members of Congress, who appear to see the path to limiting private firearms ownership in harassing gun dealers and
subjecting them to the whims of government officials. Not that they're the only legislators to wield regulations as
bludgeons, but it's always a lousy idea.
Hillary
Clinton: Gun Control [is] a 'Political Necessity'. While speaking to a group of activists in San
Francisco, Hillary Clinton stressed that gun control is a "political necessity" and part of "taking back" the country.
Clinton ran gun control as a candidate in the 2016 election and lost. President Trump ran as pro-gun and LMT Online
reports that Clinton is now criticizing him for standing with gun rights organizations.
L.A.
sheriff's detectives seize more than 500 firearms from felon's home. A search of a felon's home in Agua Dulce
led Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators to a stash of more than 500 firearms, marking one of the largest seizures from
a person forbidden by law from possessing guns. Investigators raided the home of Manuel Fernandez after getting a tip
that he had an arsenal of firearms. After entering the property early Thursday, they found a staggering number of
weapons, including rifles, shotguns and handguns, some decades old.
Can
Police Arrest Person Carrying Gun Without First Checking If He's Licensed? [Scroll down] The police here
operated on an outdated assumption — possession of a firearm in and of itself is a crime. Until recently,
that was true in the City of Chicago. But the law has shifted dramatically during this decade. Since the
legislature has legalized gun possession and concealed carry, many citizens may now possess firearms provided they have
followed the regulations.
American
Medical Association Calls for More Gun Control Including Gun Bans, Confiscation. The American Medical
Association announced on Wednesday [6/13/2018] it would back strict new gun-control measures including banning and
confiscating certain firearms. The measures, which the group called "common-sense," include outlawing not only the sale
of what the group referred to as "assault-type" weapons but also their possession, outlawing the possession of any firearms
by adults under 21 years old, a national gun registry, requiring a license to own any firearms, and gun buyback programs
among a number of other proposals. The group also called for a ban on the possession of bump-fire stocks, stated its
opposition to teachers being allowed to carry firearms in schools, and stated its opposition to national concealed-carry
reciprocity. The group also called for the passage of a law which would bar those convicted of domestic violence
offenses from owning guns even though federal law already includes such a provision.
Judge
Blocks Chicago Suburb's Gun Ban Hours Before Going Into Effect. Zero hour was approaching for the law-abiding
gun owners of Deerfield, Illinois. The village had banned the ownership of so-called assault weapons, which in reality
meant AR-15 rifles and any other firearm that carried a detachable magazine capable of holding ten or more rounds.
That's how Deerfield defined a so-called assault weapon. On June 13, the anti-gun ordinance passed by the Chicago
suburb would have gone into effect. It was essentially a gun ban, and there were no exceptions. It's either you
turn them over, move, or risk facing a $250-$1,000/ day noncompliance fee. Yeah, the AR-15 and other rifles the
anti-gun Left finds scary were banned, but it also included scores of handguns. Magazines holding 15 rounds
are not uncommon. Luckily, a circuit court judge blocked this law 24 hours from going into effect.
Gun
Businesses Scramble After Credit Card Service Stops Processing Payments on all Gun Purchases Without Warning.
Intuit, without warning, ceased processing credit card payments at firearm-related businesses across the country, resulting
in small businesses scrambling to track down customers to get them to pay their bills. Intuit maintains its actions are
justified because the company has a "face-to-face" policy prohibiting firearms from being directly sold to customers, the New
York Post reports. However, many of the guns businesses sold were sent to federally-licensed firearms dealers near the
customers, where a background check can be completed prior to possession.
Illinois
teachers [are] flocking to firearms training courses. Though their state law prohibits guns on campus, Illinois teachers are
privately training with firearms, the New York Times reported Tuesday [6/12/2018]. "Across the state, businesses have begun offering
free concealed-carry training sessions to teachers and school staff members," the Times reported. One class reached capacity within
two hours of posting it, and there is now a waiting list of approximately 40 more educators. "None of us ever want to have to use our
guns," said teacher and firearms student Julie Smith. "All of us want to protect our kids."
Florida
Candidate Promises To Ban 'Assault Rifles' By Decree. While I really try not to focus on political parties here
at Bearing Arms, sometimes, it's difficult. The thing is, there are Democrats who support the Second Amendment, and as
a writer covering the Second Amendment, I don't want to alienate those readers. We all agree that candidates who oppose
our right to keep and bear arms are a problem, and their party really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Their lack of respect for our civil rights, however, does. However, I can't help but think of how many Democrats are
screaming about "fascism" ever since the election of President Donald Trump, but remain completely silent when a political
candidate for governor announces that they've figured out a way to ban a certain type of gun by decree, completely circumventing
anything resembling democratic process.
California
Man Has Home Raided, Guns Confiscated After Trying to Register Firearm. A California man had his home raided,
guns seized, and will appear in court this week to face a dozen state felony charges after attempting to register a rifle in
accordance with state law. Jeffrey Scott Kirschenmann attempted to register an AR-15 with the California Department of
Justice last month but instead found himself in significant legal trouble. The California DOJ accused Kirschenmann of
illegally modifying the rifle he attempted to register. Law enforcement officials raided his home in Bakersfield before
ultimately confiscating a dozen firearms and a few hundred rounds of ammunition, then charging him with a dozen felonies,
KGET reports. Kirschenmann was accused of possession of assault weapons, two silencers, and something referred to as a
"multi-burst trigger activator." He does not appear to have been charged with any violent crimes.
Brady
Campaign Uses Handgun Deaths To Justify Assault Weapon Ban. Many of us have often remarked that gun grabbers
don't know the first thing about guns. We have ample evidence of this, after all. Shannon Watts touted perhaps
the least dangerous firearm possible as a deadly assault weapon, for example. To be sure, it kind of makes sense.
People who understand guns won't take some of the positions this crowd tends to take. They'd understand a great deal
more, and while they might still be anti-gun, their positions would include nearly as much stupidity as it does. Yet,
the fact remains that they don't. Maybe that's why the Brady Campaign seems intent on defending the Deerfield, IL
assault weapon ban by referencing handgun-related crimes and fatalities.
Credit
service shuts down payments on all gun purchases. Several gun-related businesses were suddenly — and
without warning — disrupted in recent weeks when Intuit stopped processing credit card payments because sales were
gun-related, The [New York] Post has learned. Some of the payments stopped didn't even involve firearms, but simply
T-shirts and coffee mugs and gun safety classes, according to small business owners. As a result, the businesses had to
scramble to track down customers to get them pay their bills after Intuit credited back to customers' accounts the
purchases — even if the T-shirt was already shipped or the class already taken, one businessman told The Post.
Past
Versus Present American. Try this question to any one of [the] 50 million Americans who are 65 or older:
Do you recall any discussions about the need to hire armed guards to protect students and teachers against school shootings?
Do you remember school policemen patrolling the hallways? How many students were shot to death during the time you were in
school? For me and those other Americans 65 or older, when we were in school, a conversation about hiring armed guards and
having police patrol hallways would have been seen as lunacy. There was no reason. What's the difference between
yesteryear and today? The logic of the argument for those calling for stricter gun control laws, in the wake of recent
school shootings, is that something has happened to guns. Guns have behaved more poorly and become evil.
As if her opinion is relevant:
Jodie
Foster Is 'Much More Comfortable Having Robots' Own Guns. Foster is promoting her latest movie, Hotel
Artemis, in which she plays a nurse who treats a gun shot victim who was shot in a gun-free zone — the kinds
of places that have 100 percent gun control and are magnets for mass public attackers. The IMBD parental guide for the
star-studded crime thriller says the film show "guns, most of which were apparently 'printed' at Hotel Artemis, [that] are
brandished and fired," brutal axe attacks, people "slaughtered" with a scalpel, and others killed by being injected with
medicine intended for elephants.
Reason #6831
Why Gun Registration Is Evil. There's absolutely nothing to gain by gun registration. At least, not for
gun owners. While gun grabbers may love and adore it, convinced that they have found the solution to crime —
if they're particularly deluded, that is — gun owners tend to understand that registering their guns doesn't
really do anything to make them safer. But you know what it can do? Apparently, it can get you arrested when you
try and comply with the law.
NY
Governor Blows Off Due Process With Latest Anti-Gun Proposal. So-called "red flag" laws are rife with the potential for
destroying people's due process rights, which is why groups like the Gun Owners of America refuse to back the measures. The
thing is, they make a valid point. Unless the laws are written just right, private citizens can be disarmed on the untrustworthy
word of people with grudges to settle, for example. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has figured why even bother pretending
due process is even a thing.
New
Jersey and Gun Control. The gun control conundrum will continue ad infinitum. But what is happening in
New Jersey should frighten anyone — gun owner or not. NJS102 will most likely be affirmed by the Democrat
senate majority in the NJ legislature.
CA
Lawmakers Seek to Expand Gun Confiscation, Limit Number of Firearms Residents Can Buy. California lawmakers are
pushing numerous gun control measures including an expansion of confiscatory orders and limits on the number of firearms
residents can buy each month. Many of the lawmakers are claiming school shootings in Florida and Texas as the impetus
for more gun control on law-abiding Californians. The Mercury News reports that Assemblyman Rob Bonita (D-18) is
pushing controls to bar 18-20-year olds from buying firearms.
Empire
State Building Shines Orange for Gun Control. The Empire State Building was ceremoniously lit orange on Friday
night in solidarity with thousands of anti-gun protesters across the country. The ultra-liberal city of New York
illuminated the iconic building to commemorate the third annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day and usher in National Gun
Violence Awareness Month. The color orange was inspired by the #WearOrange campaign, a coalition of gun control
advocacy groups and elected officials who ask participants to observe National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 1
by posting orange on social media, wearing orange clothes and attending pro-gun control events throughout the U.S.
Illinois
Suburb's Gun Confiscation Law Set To Go Into Effect. It's June. It might not be a big deal for most, but
for the law-abiding gun owners of Deerfield, Illinois — it's the time when a new gun confiscation law goes into
effect. The Chicago suburb recently passed a law, where AR-15s and other firearms that look scary, along with a host of
handguns, have to be transferred out of the village limits, turned over to the police, or destroyed. Owning these
firearms is not permitted within Deerfield and non-compliance could carry a $250-$1,000/ day fee. Yes, the National
Rifle Association has joined a lawsuitagainst the provision. It's absurd. Gun ownership has been banned in a
slice of America. That's grossly unconstitutional.
Obama
Encourages Gun Controllers to Stay Committed 'No Matter How Long It Takes'. Former President Barack Obama
encouraged gun control proponents on Friday to stay committed to securing new gun laws "no matter how long it takes."
Friday was National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Obama tweeted that gun control proponents must not only push for a
change in laws, but also in "leadership" to secure the new laws.
Anti-Gun
Arne Duncan Sends His Children to School with Armed Security. Obama Sec. of Education and staunch gun control
advocate Arne Duncan sends his kids to a school with armed security. On May 20 Breitbart News reported that Duncan
suggested Americans ought to pull their kids from school until Congress passes more gun control. He said he and his
family would even be willing to take part in the school boycott if it were done "at scale," i.e., if there were broad-based
participation in such a boycott. Duncan made this suggestion in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Santa Fe High
School. He did not call for armed teachers or other armed personnel in schools. Rather, he simply focused on gun
control. All the while, Duncan sends his children to a school that affords them armed protection.
Tennessee
lawmaker says porn, violent movies among 'root causes' of school shootings: It's a 'big part'.
Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., seemed to at least partially blame pornography for school shootings during a meeting with
local pastors last week. [...] Black, who is running for governor, blamed gun violence in schools on a myriad of issues:
the "deterioration of family," violent movies, mental illness and pornography. Without a strong support system, Black
said, young people can "go in the wrong direction" after seeking "something" on the internet or with certain friends.
NYPD
officially phases out revolvers as 25-year vets transition to 9-mm. The last crop of cops transitioning from
the old-school revolver to the modern semi-automatic handguns reported to the NYPD shooting range in the Bronx for training
Wednesday [5/30/2018]. The remaining 150 police officers — who all joined the force before 1993, when the the
.9-mm [sic] semi-automatic became the department's service weapon — had until Aug. 31 to be be trained on new guns.
The Editor says...
I'd like to see that 0.9-millimeter model mentioned by the New York Daily News. I'll bet it's hard to load.
Company
Creates Video Game That Lets People Be School Mass Shooters. A popular online video game platform is set to
release an extremely controversial video game on June 6 called "Active Shooter," which gives users the opportunity to be a
mass shooter and go on shooting sprees inside schools.
The Editor says...
One can easily imagine the effect such a game would have on a poorly-educated, godless, fatherless simpleton. The kind of person
America has too many of. And yet, when such a loser goes on a shooting spree, his guns will get the blame.
Update:
'Active
Shooter' video game pulled after huge backlash. A game developer and digital distribution company has
announced, after facing harsh criticism, that it will pull a video game that allows players to simulate a school
shooter. Valve Inc. announced Tuesday it would pull "Active Shooter" from its online gaming platform, Steam, after
learning that the game's publisher and developer has a "history of customer abuse" that was uncovered as a result of the
controversy surrounding the game, Variety and other news outlets reported.
The Editor says...
I predict the game will be back.
How
To Get Inside the Mind of Someone Who Wants a Disarmed Population. [Scroll down] When registration of
modern rifles is required by law, the national guard is not mobilized and sent on door to door searches. Instead, the
80-95 percent of people who choose civil disobedience and do not register their guns, are ignored. At least for the
next few years. This puts the battle into the election booth and the courts instead of on the streets. It is worth
while to remind people that there are over 400 million private firearms in the United States. Those who want the
population disarmed often attempt to minimize the number of firearms in the United States and the number of armed citizens in
the country.
'Surrender
Your Firearms Within 24 Hours or Be Shot'. I am reading a fascinating book by Stephen P. Halbrook from the
Independent Institute called Gun Control in Nazi Occupied-France: Tyranny and Resistance. [...] One of the most
startling facts in the book is in the last chapter entitled "Liberation": [...] ["]...only 835,000 of three million
hunting guns — less than one-third — were turned in by French citizens threatened with the death penalty for
not doing so. That is an incredible testament to the inefficacy of gun control in the most extreme circumstances.["]
David
Hogg puts Publix in crosshairs, demands $1 million donation and anti-NRA pledge. David Hogg is trying to shake down
Publix. The public face of the gun control movement demanded $1 million Thursday [5/24/2018] from the Florida-based grocery
chain in a tweet, just one day after calling for a "die-in" protest at its stores. Publix is being targeted by Mr. Hogg
for its support of Adam Putnam, a Republican gubernatorial candidate who is now the state's agricultural commissioner. The
Tampa Bay Times reported earlier this week that Publix had given $670,000 during the last three years to Putnam campaigns.
Watch:
Far-Left Parkland Activists Scream On Grocery Store Floor, Demand Boycott. Parkland gun control activists threw
themselves on the floor of a Florida grocery store on Friday, screaming and yelling for customers to boycott the store because
of political donations that it had made. The "die-in" was organized by far-left activist and provocateur David Hogg, who
has launched multiple boycotts aimed at those who support the NRA or who criticize him.
Ted
Cruz Says Media Is Avoiding Santa Fe School Shooting Because Texas Students Don't Want Gun Control. [Quoting
Ted Cruz] Out of a dozen students who just hours earlier had been in this shooting, every one of them said the answer is not
gun control. They said, don't take our guns. They said if you take our guns, it won't make us safer, it will just
mean the killers and murderers have guns. A lot of the students there said, "Well, maybe more metal detectors in
schools. Maybe more armed police officers in schools, so that you're able to stop something like this when it happens."
Several of the students brought up that they thought teachers should be able to be armed.
Revealed: Obama
WH Emails Plotting Strategy Two Days After Sandy Hook. Former President Barack Obama's education secretary and
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were planning how to turn a national tragedy into a legislative victory for the administration two
days after the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. That's according to emails obtained under a Freedom of Information
request from a reporter from the Baltimore Post. On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man killed his mother
in their home then traveled to Sandy Hook Elementary School — a semi-automatic rifle and two pistols in tow.
He broke into the school and killed another 26 people — 20 of them first-grade students. The gunman committed
suicide after authorities arrived on the scene.
Backlash:
Publix Gets Slammed For Caving To Far-Left Activists; Customers Leaving. he Florida-based grocery store chain
Publix is facing severe backlash after they caved to far-left activist David Hogg and his intimidation tactics on Friday [5/25/2018]
as many customers are now saying they will no longer shop at the store. Hogg and other far-left activists laid on the
floor of the grocery store for 720 seconds — which Hogg falsely claimed is a second for each mass shooting that
has happened in the U.S. since the Pulse nightclub massacre — and screamed for a boycott of the store. The
boycott came after it was revealed that the grocery store had donated money to a politician in the past who had described
himself as a major advocate for the NRA and the Second Amendment.
To
stop school shootings, use Israel's approach to fighting terror: Texas attorney general. Experience is a hard
teacher, and with 2018's second major school shooting behind us, its lesson is clear: We must secure our schools.
All over the country, schools lack security measures of any consequence — not enough armed personnel, few safety
protocols and insufficient entryway monitoring. No federal government agency, airport or congressional office building
would tolerate such vulnerability, so why the resistance to outfitting schools with the same level of security?
The
Doomsday Scenario: What if School Walkouts Don't Work? The New York Times seemed to think it was
bitterly ironic that some of the students at Santa Fe High School, site of the recent mass shooting, had staged a walkout
last month in support of the Parkland, Florida, students. But now, only a month later, one of the students who
participated in the walkout is in the hospital from yet another school shooting. I suppose we could revel in the irony,
but, as a more results-oriented person, what I take from that vignette is that school walkouts are not effective deterrents
to school shootings. I'm not sure the poems did much either. These are hideous events that require serious
proposals, not the self-indulgent mawkishness our media keep serving up.
Liberalism's
Impact on Abhorrent Behavior. A lot has changed over the past 30 years. America has always had many
firearms in circulation, laws against killing people, gun control, bullying and the like — these are not new
phenomena. What is strange, however, is that people suffering from mental illness decide to mow down their classmates
instead choosing to seek help or being flagged by their parents, classmates, or teachers. Two decades or so ago, people
still faced similar problems — disappointment with their lives due to normal, coming-of-age pressures. But
instead of overcoming said obstacles like adults, they resort to terrifying violence. It's clear that something has
changed in regard to how people seek help and how they overcome the realities of life. Liberalism is that change —
pampering people in safe spaces instead of making them act like adults. We need a new narrative regarding mass
shootings. Instead of calling for more, ineffective gun control, we must discuss the impact liberalism has had
on behavior control.
Dem
gun confiscator tacitly admits gun control wouldn't work. One of the more despicable Congress-critters is
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a man with utter contempt for Truth. He was on Tucker Carlson Tonight last
evening [5/21/2018] pushing for confiscation of AR-type rifles and spinning like a dervish with rocket boosters. But
let's forget that while Swalwell wrote an op-ed calling for gun confiscation, it's not really confiscation, according to
Swalwell. Let's forget that what he labels "assault weapons" are just semi-automatic rifles that happen to have a
military-style appearance (much like putting a Porsche body on a Yugo chassis). Let's forget that he claimed that his
AR-species confiscation plan would "keep kids safe," ignoring that the most recent shooting, in Santa Fe, was perpetrated
with a .38 pistol and a shotgun. Most significant is that, amid his pseudo-Machiavellian babbling, he contradicted
himself and refuted his own argument. Pointing out the congressman's more-equal-than-others status, host Tucker Carlson
repeatedly asked Swalwell if he would restrict his own bodyguards, the Capitol Hill Police (CHP), to the same weapons to
which he'd limit Joe Six-Pack. Practice what you preach, right?
Gun Owners
Of America Issues Statement On Santa Fe Shooting. What happened Friday was awful. Unfortunately, because
a firearm was used, we'll inevitably continue to debate the tools used rather than the mentality behind such attacks.
It's also because of this that gun rights organizations need to speak out in the aftermath of such an attack. [...] A school
shooting will always draw media attention, and part of that is because people want to know what happened. That's not
going to change, even if the media suddenly did a 180 on guns. That said, it was almost as if the media was salivating
at another school shooting, only to be visibly disappointed that the weapon wasn't an AR-15, not to mention that none of the
anti-gun proposals being floated around would have done one thing to stop this shooting.
Keywords: irrational, knee-jerk, rash, emotional outburst.
Obama
education secretary: No children should go to school until gun laws are changed. Former Education
Secretary Arne Duncan said parents should pull their children out of school until Congress passes gun control legislation.
"What if no children went to school until gun laws changed to keep them safe?" Duncan tweeted Saturday [5/19/2018].
Duncan, who served as secretary under President Obama, called the step "tragically necessary."
Parkland
survivor Kyle Kashuv defies a blue youth tide. Not everyone from the Parkland school shooting is an activist
for gun control. Kyle Kashuv, in fact, is quite adamant that the Second Amendment is not the problem; government
failure is. And he's defying a blue wave to get that word out.
Guns
Aren't the Problem. The Collapse of the Morality You Mock is the Problem. If it isn't a gun, it would be
a knife. If not a knife, it'd be car. If not a car, it'd be homemade pipe bombs. People are desperate to
grasp onto something to stop the monstrous kids who storm into schools to gun down their peers. Getting rid of guns is
a tangible thing that people think they can do in an age of "just do something" self-help that would make the situation
better. This situation is not getting any better. Ban the guns and the next kid will find a new way to make
headlines killing the other kids he hates. [...] Ours is an armed society that is morally collapsing and you can't
round up the guns even if you wanted to.
Two
recent cases where school resource officers have stopped mass public shootings. Over the last two months, what
would have been mass public shootings at schools in Illinois and Maryland were stopped by armed school resource
officers. Of course, this should be three cases in a row. While Broward Deputy Scot Peterson arrived at the
building one minute after the attack started, it was another 10 minutes before any officers attempted to enter the
building. After the Antioch Waffle House shooting a number of gun control advocates have said that case showed that one
doesn't need a gun to stop someone with a gun. Good luck with that. It isn't that once in a while that can't be
true, but, as a general rule, that is not the best advice. In any case, these examples don't take away from our concern
about the extremely difficult job that uniformed officers face in stopping these types of attacks, that they will frequently
become the first target because the killers know if they kill the single armed officer, no one will be able to stop them.
Elizabeth
Warren Boldly Pledges to Never Take Money from a Group that Has Never Donated to Her. Sen. Elizabeth
Warren, the Native American* Democrat from Massachusetts, has boldly pledged to refuse to accept donations from the National
Rifle Association. Which really does not change anything because, according to OpenSecrets.org, the NRA has never
donated to Sen. Warren in the first place. Still, Sen. Warren is being praised for this decision announced
via NowthisNews.com in which she proudly proclaims, "It's time we strip the NRA of its stranglehold over our children's
lives." She is technically the first Senator to refuse to accept NRA money.
The
Best Explanation for Our Spate of Mass Shootings Is the Least Comforting. [Scroll down] The preparations
for massacres are often extremely detailed. Shooters (and wannabe shooters) will often film videos, mimic the dress and
poses of the Columbine killers, and otherwise copy the shooters who came before. [...] Indeed, it's the pattern of elaborate
preparation and obsession with the subculture of mass shooters that has led in part to my own advocacy of the gun-violence
restraining order. While we don't have sufficient details about today's shooter in Texas to know if it would have made
a difference, it's a fact that large numbers of mass shooters broadcast warning signals of their intent to do harm, and it's
also a fact that family members and other relevant people close to the shooter have few tools at their disposal to prevent
violence. A gun-violence restraining order can allow a family member (or school principal) to quickly get in front of a
local judge for a hearing (with full due-process protections) that can result in the temporary confiscation of weapons
from a proven dangerous person.
Thresholds of Violence.
[Scroll down] Then came Columbine. The sociologist Ralph Larkin argues that Harris and Klebold laid down the
"cultural script" for the next generation of shooters. They had a Web site. They made home movies starring
themselves as hit men. They wrote lengthy manifestos. They recorded their "basement tapes." Their motivations
were spelled out with grandiose specificity: Harris said he wanted to "kick-start a revolution." Larkin looked at the
twelve major school shootings in the United States in the eight years after Columbine, and he found that in eight of those
subsequent cases the shooters made explicit reference to Harris and Klebold. Of the eleven school shootings outside the
United States between 1999 and 2007, Larkin says six were plainly versions of Columbine; of the eleven cases of thwarted
shootings in the same period, Larkin says all were Columbine-inspired.
The
Left Has Created A Cottage Industry From the Deaths of Children. More details about the incident are sure to be
made public in the coming hours and days, but we'll take a wild guess here: White, male student, considered a loner,
possibly already on the radar of local law enforcement, and almost certainly under the influence of prescription drugs
in the SSRI class. Why do I feel so confident about making this assumption? Simply because this has been the M.O.
of nearly every mass shooter in American history since the advent of antidepressants, (which is pretty much every mass
shooter in American history). One of the few exceptions to this rule was Stephen Paddock of Las Vegas infamy, whose
timeline and history have been an oddly well-guarded secret among local law enforcement.
Santa
Fe Tragedy And The Mind Of The Left: A Primer. The Left wants your guns, and they want them now.
That is the overwhelming conclusion from the media coverage of Fridays' shooting in Texas. Horribly, ten were killed at
Santa Fe High School; immediately, the Left — in the political, news, and entertainment realms — began
their quest for your guns. They want your guns.
Lots and lots of guns.
Royal
Wedding: How a vast security operation will keep the couple, guests and spectators safe. When Prince
William married Kate Middleton in 2011, there were about 5,000 officers on duty. The force presence is expected to be even
greater this time. Thames Valley force noted they have called upon neighboring forces to further bolster force numbers.
Democrats
to propose weapons ban, gun confiscation powers in bill inspired by Trump. Senate Democrats said they will introduce
a gun control bill that would expand background checks, ban certain weapons, and give the courts the power to temporarily take guns
away from people who are deemed to be a threat to themselves or others, after President Trump offered support for these goals in a
White House discussion Wednesday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the only way to advance the measure in
the GOP-led Senate is with the endorsement and help from President Trump. He described a scenario in which the Senate could
pass Schumer's proposal with mostly Democratic support and a few Republicans encouraged by Trump.
United
Nations Quietly Pushes International Gun Control. The United Nations' International Action Network on Small
Arms (IANSA) is finishing up their Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence. According to IANSA, the goal of the
week-long meeting is "for us to advocate collectively for an end to illicit trade and misuse of small arms and light weapons."
The RINO mayor's
feel-good gun restriction. Generally speaking, conservatives learn their lessons from tragedies like the mass
shooting in Parkland, Florida, while leftists figure out how to exploit them. For the second time, the "Republican"
mayor of Orange County, Florida, Teresa Jacobs, is sticking her finger in the air to see which way the political winds are
blowing on gun issues after the Parkland shooting. Due to term limits, the mayor has turned her attention to running
for Orange County's school board chairwoman. In hopes of winning the seat, the mayor has thrown law-abiding gun owners
under the bus to appease Orlando's left-wing anti-gun lobby.
April
Gun Sales Set A New Record, Thanks Anti-Gun Activists. David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Emma Gonzalez decided to
take on the National Rifle Association, pro-gun rights politicians, Republicans, and rural America after the tragic shooting
at their high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida. The result has been the best fundraising for the
NRA in years, a boost in membership, and record gun sales.
The strange
case of Dick's. In the aftermath of the epic failure of law enforcement at Stoneman Douglas High School, a
number of companies adopted preening, anti-gun stances. One of them was Dick's Sporting Goods. What makes this
weird is that Dick's is a major retailer of firearms. [...] Has this ever happened before? A company lobbying against
the products that it sells?
Hard
Times for Dick's as Second Amendment Supporters Respond to Company's Anti-Gun Bent. We have recently been
reporting on the bizarre anti-gun activism of one of the nation's larger firearm retailers, Dick's Sporting Goods and its
affiliated Field & Stream stores. First, the company announced it would stop selling most centerfire semi-automatic
rifles at its stores, carry only limited capacity magazines for semi-automatic guns, and ban firearm sales to certain legally
eligible adults. It then took the further step of declaring it would destroy its inventory of the newly-restricted
firearms at company expense. And if that weren't enough, the news also recently broke that the company had hired
expensive D.C. lobbyists to push for gun control measures on Capitol Hill. Dick's, in other words, was positioning
itself as a rising star in the field of corporate gun control activism, in obvious contradiction of its own financial
interests. Now, however, the pro-gun community is parrying Dick's gun control thrust with their own countermeasures,
while customers appear to be eschewing Dick's to search for bargains elsewhere.
2 New Court Decisions
are Quietly Eliminating Californians' Second Amendment Rights. Two new federal court decisions highlight a harsh new
reality: California has effectively repealed the Second Amendment inside its borders. In the first case, decided yesterday [5/9/23018],
a district judge ruled against the National Rifle Association's state affiliate in a challenge to onerous new California rules targeting
popular semi-automatic rifles. That 2016 law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D), is called the Assault Weapons Control Act.
"Even an outright ban on certain types of semiautomatic weapons does not substantially burden the Second Amendment right," wrote Judge
Josephine Staton, a Barack Obama appointee in Santa Ana, California.
Sheriff's
Candidate Willing To Shoot Gun Owners Loses Big. Sheriff's candidate R. Daryl Fisher was really okay with
shooting gun owners. We know this because he said so. "You've heard people say: 'You'll have to pry my gun from
my cold, dead hands,'" Fisher said in a speech as he campaigned for Buncombe County Sheriff. "Okay," was his response.
He apologized for the comment, but he also wasn't the only one willing to use deadly force against gun owners who didn't want to
give up their rights. Yesterday [5/8/2018], the people of Buncombe County, North Carolina spoke in their primary elections,
and Fisher got trounced.
Dallas
Hotel Searched Guest's Car During NRA Annual Meetings. There was a lot going on during the 2018 NRA Annual
Meetings, much like every year. There are displays and numerous gun companies unveiling new products. There's the
chance to check out a number of notable speakers and, of course, there's the actual NRA business taking place. However,
it seems that at least one hotel had a little something else going on.
Gun
Manufacturers Fire Back at Dick's Sporting Goods, Halt Sales. Sporting goods retailer "Dick's" is losing access
to several popular gun manufacturers' products in a retaliatory strike, as the companies withdraw their business following a
series of public moves by the popular store. Dick's made some news last month when they first pulled from their shelves,
and then destroyed, what they characterized as "assault-style" guns in their inventory. That stunt followed their statement
earlier this year at the time that they pulled the guns from the shelves that they were "committed" to several new gun control objectives.
Thank
You, Anti-Gun Liberals: NRA Annual Meeting Broke Attendance Records & They Have A New President. Well, the
National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting in Dallas is over — and it was a tremendous success. It set a new
attendance record, with nearly 90,000 people attending the three-day conference. Speakers included NRA spokesperson Dana
Loesch, Diamond and Silk, Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott, NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox, and NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. Besides allowing gun
manufacturers, and small business owners to showcase their latest gear and equipment, it was also time to remind Second
Amendment supporters of the gathering storm: the 2018 midterms.
On
the lies by gun control advocates and how opposition to gun control has changed over time. Dr. John Lott's
talk in Dallas on May 6, 2018, at the NRA Annual Convention. He went through a series of lies by gun control advocates
after he briefly discussed on the opposition to gun control has changed over the last couple of decades. [Video clip]
Dem Rep.
Swalwell: We Need To Ban & Buy Back Assault Weapons. A California Democrat writes in USA Today —
it's not enough to ban so-called assault weapons. He says the U.S. must reinstate the assault weapons ban of 1994 and
institute a forced buyback. One America's Jonathan Blaisdell has the latest liberal agenda to take America's fire arms.
Why
Science and Experience Command That You Buy an "Assault Rifle". It must be nice walking through life believing
that the paradise the founders built here in North America is the natural state of man, and that we can therefore forgo the
difficult and dangerous tasks associated with defending it. But some of us don't have the luxury of illusions. We
know that peace and civilization are not the natural state of man, and that the black swan events that we have somehow convinced
ourselves could never happen do happen with startling regularity. And this is why you should buy guns and ammunition.
Students Across the
Country Walk Out of School in Defense of Gun Rights. Called "Stand for the Second," the demonstration was a response
to the March 14 National School Walkout in support of gun control. The idea was hatched by New Mexico high school senior
Will Riley. Riley told USA Today: "I'm watching the news, and I see they're saying, 'We have to do something
about this. We have to enact some sort of gun control legislation because this is what the kids are asking for.' And
I'm thinking, 'I'm not asking for that.' I look at my friends, and I think, 'They're not asking for that.'" Riley says
his event was for pro-Second Amendment students "who feel that they're being misrepresented by the media."
President
Trump at NRA Convention: Gun Rights Originate from God Not Government. President Donald Trump took the
podium at the NRA convention on May 4 amid massive applause, thanked NRA leadership and the "American patriots of the NRA,"
then launched into a speech reaffirming that our natural rights originate in God. Trump said, "The people of his hall
have never taken our freedom for granted, ever, and you've never stopped fighting for our constitution." He talked of NRA
members' commitment to fight for "our sacred rights, given to us by God."
Trump To Cheering NRA Crowd: 'Come
And Take It'. President Donald Trump gave a major shoutout to Texas during his speech to the National Rifle Association
on Friday [5/4/2018]. Trump referenced Texas fighting for its independence, stating, "They had men all over the place, the
[Santa Anna] army was big. This time they were met by dozens of Texans, soldiers, settlers and ordinary citizens, who had
rushed to Gonzalez to defend their rights and their freedom as Santa Anna's men watched from a distance, those brave Texans raised the
flag for all to see." The flag, Trump explained, had a cannon on it along with four words: "Come and take it."
Eric Swalwell Unloads Gun Platform
Liberals Really Want. Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California wants to ban assault weapons, instate a federal gun
buy-back program for those who own them and criminally prosecute those who refuse to hand them over. The representative wrote an
op-ed in USA Today Thursday [5/3/2018] rolling out what he feels is the gun control policy America should adopt, one that would take
"military-style semiautomatic assault weapons" away from law-abiding citizens and threaten them with jail time if they refuse.
California
Voters Oppose Arming Teachers to Shoot Back if Under Attack. By a wide margin California voters support more
gun control and oppose arming teachers to shoot back if under attack. The opposition to armed teachers was uncovered
via a Berkeley-IGS Poll and reported by the Sacramento Bee. The poll found 61 percent of voters opposed arming
teachers while only 37 percent supported it. When viewed by political affiliation, 83 percent of Democrats opposed
allowing teachers to be armed to protect themselves and their students, while 75 percent of Republicans supported the idea.
Effingham
County, Illinois, Declares Itself 'Sanctuary County' — for Gun Owners. By an 8-1 vote, the Effingham
County (Illinois) Board has approved a resolution declaring the county a sanctuary for gun owners. In a move mocking
so-called "sanctuary cities" that refuse to enforce the nation's immigration laws, the resolution directs employees not to
enforce laws that "unconstitutionally restrict the Second Amendment."
Boycott
Yeti Movement Explodes: Americans Shoot, Slice, Crush, Destroy Coolers. On April 21 Breitbart News
reported on a NRA-ILA statement which said Yeti Coolers had cut ties with the NRA Foundation. The statement, written by
former NRA president and USF executive director Marion Hammer, said, "Suddenly, without prior notice, YETI has declined to do
business with The NRA Foundation saying they no longer wish to be an NRA vendor, and refused to say why. They will only
say they will no longer sell products to The NRA Foundation."
The NRA
just broke a 15-year fundraising record. As the student-led March for Our Lives movement captured the nation's
attention in the weeks after the Parkland shooting, the other side of the gun control debate enjoyed a banner month of its
own. The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31,
the group's first full month of political fundraising since the nation's deadliest high school shooting on Valentine's Day,
according to filings submitted to the Federal Elections Commission. The total is $1.5 million more than the
organization raised during the same time period in 2017, when it took in $884,000 in donations, and $1.6 million more
than it raised in February 2018.
7 Forces Driving
America Toward Civil War. [#7] Gun Grabbing: Liberals have fallen in love with the idea of ignoring the
2nd Amendment and confiscating all firearms. The logistics of doing this in a nation with hundreds of millions of guns
(many of which are off the books) when many police departments and tens of millions of Americans would not cooperate is
seldom discussed. Another thing that seldom seems brought up is that large numbers of conservatives would see this as a
prelude to the government's use of force against the citizenry. When it is discussed on the Left, there seems to be an
assumption that lone resisters might get into firefights with dozens of police or soldiers, as opposed to ganging up with
other formerly law-abiding Americans to waylay gun confiscators, politicians and anti-gun activists at THEIR HOMES in
guerrilla actions that would be silently applauded and supported by hundreds of millions of Americans concerned about their
freedom. Confiscating guns is a dangerous and stupid idea that could in and of itself end our republic if a serious
attempt were ever made to implement it.
Chipping
Away at the Second Amendment. The Democratically controlled New Jersey Assembly under Governor Phil Murphy has
passed the following measures to tighten already stringent gun laws. Murphy asserts that "he supports these measures as
"a public health matter" and wants legislation to encourage the sale of so-called "smart guns" which use technology to
restrict who can fire them." [...] It is ironic that Murphy is speaking against the backdrop of the JCRC (Jewish Community
Relations Council), many of whom take a liberal stance and may not know the history of gun control and the Holocaust.
Peace
Through Weakness — Vermont Governor Signs Gun Control Law Endangering Lives of His Constituents.
Last week, Vermont Governor Phil Scott hurriedly signed the state's first gun control laws in many decades. He did this
in violation of his repeated campaign promise that he would not support additional gun regulations. One of the
newly-passed gun-control laws limits rifle-magazines to 10 rounds of ammunition and handgun magazines to 15 rounds
of ammunition. Except for remaining in-state inventories, these so-called "high capacity" magazines, will no longer be
available to Vermonters, effective immediately. Ordinary Vermonters will no longer be able to import these magazines
from neighboring New Hampshire, where such magazines are perfectly legal. How Vermont will enforce this law to prevent
a homicidal madman from bringing thirty round magazines into Vermont to do his worst, is not even questioned, but that is
exactly who this feel-good law is supposed to deter. Like most gun-control laws, this law will only affect the
law-abiding. Still, the politicians will pat themselves on their backs and imagine they "did something".
Minnesota
Anti-Gun Bill Outs Owners, Strips All Second Amendment Rights. Since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida, it seems that leftists across the United States have been competing to see who could pass
the most oppressive gun control measures. Though many states have proposed extremely restrictive measures for limiting
the gun rights of law-abiding residents, it seems that Minnesota may hold the record. To say that HF 3022 in Minnesota
is an 'anti-Second Amendment' piece of legislation is an understatement. If the bill, HF 3022, is passed in the state
of Minnesota, it would make Minnesota's firearm regulations as strict, and in some ways MORE strict, than those in California.
It would allow the state to arbitrarily strip all Second Amendment rights from law-abiding citizens, and impose an oppressive
burden on gun owners in the state of Minnesota.
Hey, Normal
Americans, Don't Worry About Us Locking Up Your Guns. [Scroll down] Actually, the law is rather vague on
locking up firearms not under direct control: it almost looks as if all firearms have to be locked up with some sort of
trigger lock at all times, including when carrying. And, notice, fines on those who have had their property stolen.
We do not penalize people who have had other property stolen, such as motor vehicles, that are used to hurt other people.
This is all about trying to scare citizens into not exercising their Constitutional rights.
County Declares
Sanctuary Status For Second Amendment Supporters, Outrage Ensues. An Illinois county recently declared sanctuary
status — for gun owners. This is brilliant! The Effingham County (Illinois) Board passed a resolution
this week protecting their county from any laws from the state's capital that might abridge the Second Amendment. Leftists
and snarky, coffee cup liberal reporters who have probably never shot a gun are melting over the idea. They're also
insulting Americans who support it. Apparently those in favor of Second Amendment sanctuaries are off the rails.
Video/Audio of Silencerco Maxim 9
on new Video platform GunStreamer.com. [Here] is
a link to a video/audio of the Silencerco Maxim 9 from the industry day at the range at the Shot Show in 2017. The video is on a new platform
GunStreamer.com, to compete with Youtube. Youtube is actively demonitzing and marginalizing gun videos and gun writers. This
amounts to private censorship. It has become particularly bad since Youtube was acquired by Google. Google motto "Don't be Evil"
seems particularly ironic. The insurrection is going to have to find ways to get the message out against the forces of the
empire/establishment. Google is clearly one of the prime movers in the Establishment/empire.
Oklahoma
Looks To Expand Stand Your Ground Laws To Places of Worship. If there's one thing no man or woman should ever
have to worry about, it's fear that the need to defend oneself will inhibit their actions at a critical moment. Stand
Your Ground laws were written to help mitigate that concern. It's a legal requirement that doesn't give you permission
to shoot first and ask questions later but instead removes any duty to try to get away from an attacker before acting in
self-defense. The laws have been somewhat controversial in some parts of the country, but they're an essential piece of
legislation in a world where some people view self-defense as some kind of moral wrong. In the state of Oklahoma,
they've taken this reality as well as the horrors of Sutherland Springs, and come to a conclusion. [...]
New
Jersey Makes Attempt To Expand Gun Laws To Surrounding States. Individual states' rights exist due to differing
opinions throughout the nation. While all fifty states may hold different laws and beliefs, all fall under the
protection of the U.S. Constitution, or at least they used to. Most recently, liberal legislators in New Jersey began
pushing for a law which would expand the state's overreaching gun laws into other, more gun-friendly states. This is
unsurprisingly motivated by the left's hatred for the National Rifle Association which is being blamed for recent
shootings. If passed, a travel ban would prevent "public workers and elected officials" from visiting 37 states
if such travel is funded by the state.
Alabama
rated top state for the gun industry, Rhode Island the worst. Red Alabama is the best state for the firearms
industry when it comes to factors such as jobs and gun culture, while blue Rhode Island is the worst, according to the jobs
website Zippia. The rankings reflect the sharp regional and political divide in the country on guns. "A general
rule of thumb emerged from the data — head south if you are looking to get one of as many as 141,500 jobs
generated by companies that make, distribute, and sell guns," the website said. The advice to head south also pertained
to another 159,623 jobs in ancillary industries such as gun component suppliers. But another "rule of thumb" is also
apparent: If you want a job in the gun industry, head into Trump country.
Woman
declines to sing national anthem at minor league game because she can't bring her gun. After being offered an
opportunity to sing the national anthem before a Nevada minor league baseball game, a woman has decided to turn it down after
learning that she can't bring her gun to the stadium. Alishia Wolcott was picked by the Reno Aces to sing after she
submitted an audition tape in March, she told Fox News. But after she and her husband went to the stadium on Saturday
to attend a game as spectators, they saw security included metal detector wands, which she claimed was a new measure this
year. "Upon walking up to the stadium we saw the normal bag checks, and past that were men stopping guests and using
the wand metal detectors before entering the game, which was an action just implemented this baseball season," Wolcott said.
London
Mayor Sadiq Khan Isn't the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer. Recently, London's murder rate caught up with New York
City's. Which is weird, because there shouldn't be any murders in either city. After all, both NYC and the UK
have very strict gun laws. As we've learned from our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left, banning guns
leads to fewer gun crimes. (That's why the Secret Service doesn't carry them!) So how is this happening?
How can such a gun-free utopia be so dangerous? The answer will terrify you: scary, evil KNIVES.
London
Uses Knife "Stop and Frisk" and "Knife Wands" for Knife Control. If only we were more like the Europeans and we
opened our doors to terror migrants while banning anything that could be possibly used as a weapon. London's murder
rate has topped New York. [...] But those sensible Europeans have gun control. Unlike the uncivilized American savages
who occasionally do things even when the government would rather that they didn't. So what's the problem?
Shockingly, murderers will kill people even when they don't have guns. And before the invention of firearms, sharp,
edged blades were in use. But London is fighting back. With knife control.
London
Mayor Sadiq Khan targets knives as murder rate spikes: 'There is never a reason to carry a knife'. London Mayor
Sadiq Khan announced a tough crackdown on knives Sunday as the city reels from a spike in stabbings that have led its number
of homicides to top New York City's for two straight months. He tweeted: "No excuses: there is never a
reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
The Editor says...
Gun control doesn't work, and knife control won't work, either.
Dick's
Sporting Goods will destroy assault-style rifles pulled from shelves. When Dick's Sporting Goods said it would
no longer sell modern sporting rifles at its Field & Stream stores following the Valentine's Day shooting at a Parkland,
Florida, high school, one question was what would happen to the unsold firearms in its inventory. Typically a retailer may
return unsold merchandise to the manufacturer. But in this case, Dick's Sporting Goods has decided to destroy them.
Hard
Times Ahead For Gun Owners And Ammunition Buyers. There is such a proliferation of gun control and ammunition
control articles, commentaries, editorials and laws that it would be impossible to mention them all, let along discuss
them. Boulder has just announced a new assault weapons ban. The LA Times advocates ammunition regulation, Smith &
Wesson will soon be under pressure from its parent company, Black Rock Investment is pimping gun free investments, a recent
challenge to the Massachusetts assault weapons ban has fallen, bump stocks will soon be illegal, the Las Vegas Sun is
publishing letters advocating the confiscation of ammunition, and the News Tribune published a reader who wants to tax
ammunition more heavily.
US
interest in concealed carry permit training jumps 100 percent after Parkland. In the 50 days since the Parkland,
Florida shooting, companies and networks of firearm instructors that provide training for the permits in dozens of states have
seen enquiries spike. One company said it had even received more requests for training than after the 2012 Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. "There's been a lot of shootings, unfortunately, in this country,
but we've never seen a spike this big before, even with Newtown," Chris Schultrop, the CEO and co-founder of Minnesota-based
concealed permit training network National Carry Academy (NCA), which works across 27 states, told The Independent.
Muslim
Mayor of London Declares New 'Knife Control' Policies as Fatal Stabbings Soar. The Muslim Mayor of London,
Sadiq Khan declared a new knife control policy as stabbings in London soar to unprecedented levels. This of course completely
crushes the 'guns cause violence' narrative the left pushes since the UK has some of the strictest gun laws in the world.
Massachusetts'
ban on assault weapons doesn't violate 2nd Amendment, judge rules. A judge in Massachusetts on Friday [4/6/2018] ruled
against a lawsuit that questioned the state's ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, declaring that the weapons were not
protected by the Second Amendment. Assault weapons are considered to be military firearms, U.S. District Judge William Young
said in his ruling, therefore disqualifying them from being included in a citizen's right to "bear arms." Policy makers, rather
than the courts, were better suited to decide on the regulation for the weapons, he said.
Most
Guns Used in School Shootings Come From Home. A striking detail stands out in nearly three decades of American
mass school shootings: The killers mostly use guns owned by a family member, not purchased on their own.
The 8 Most Twisted Policy Positions
of Your Modern Democrat Party. [#1] There's a growing push to repeal the Second Amendment among many influential liberals and members of
the coastal T.V. glitterati, [...] According to a recent poll, 39 percent of Democrats support repealing the Second Amendment and 82 percent
favor banning semi-automatic weapons.
Black
Gun Owner's Epic Rant Against The Government Goes Viral. On Tuesday [4/3/2018], while speaking during a city council
meeting on curtailing gun violence, an African-American gun owner in North Carolina blasted government officials who want to restrict
gun rights of law-abiding citizens. The city council meeting was held to determine whether the community should cancel an
upcoming gun show which is "held twice yearly at the Coliseum, a city-owned building," WFMY News reported. "When are you all
gonna start standing up for the majority? ... I'm the majority! I'm a law-abiding citizen who's never shot anybody," Mark
Robinson said. [Video clip]
'Law-Abiding
Citizens Are the Majority!': Gun Rights Advocate Takes on City Council. In the wake of the Parkland high school
massacre, a North Carolina city is debating whether a yearly gun and knife show should still be held this summer.
Though the city attorney said the city cannot cancel the event at Greensboro Coliseum, the council opened the discussion up
for public debate Tuesday. The conversation brought out passion on both sides, with critics claiming that the show
"allow[s] people to take advantage of the gun show loophole and bypass background checks."
David
Hogg Challenges Obama as Greatest Gun Salesman of All Time. They thought that no one could unseat Barack Obama
from his throne as the Greatest Gun Salesman of All Time. Then came David Hogg, whom the media and Soros-backed professional
left have been exploiting as their top tool in their war against the Constitution. Shamelessly diverting rage over Parkland
from where it belongs (refusal to deal with the mentally ill, insufficient security, inept and cowardly law enforcement) to the
rights of law-abiding citizens has produced impressive results.
Now
It Starts: Grabbing Guns in Deerfield, Illinois. We don't want to take your guns away, they said.
Just those awful "assault rifles," they said. Everything else will be fine, they said. Yeah, right. Ask the
gun owners in Deerfield, Illinois, about that. On Monday [4/2/2018], the Village Board of Trustees of Deerfield, a
northern Chicago suburb, voted unanimously to ban "assault weapons," and those who own them have until June 13 to get
rid of them. Otherwise they'll face a penalty of — get this — between $250 to $1000
per day. That is, says village attorney Matthew Rose, until there is "compliance."
Gun
Sales Soar As Leftists, Parkland Activists Demand More Gun Control. When people fear supply may dwindle, demand
rises higher than a feminist's screech at the confrontation of soap. So the famous economical rule played out in March,
when balloon-faced tweens whined about guns and the NRA, despite a series of galactic government screwups leading up to a
shooting in Parkland, Florida. The numbers on gun sales are in. Looks like y'all purchased some weapons last month.
Gun
Sales Soar, Set Record in March Amid Push for New Gun-Control Measures. Last month saw the most gun-related
background checks run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of any March on record, documents released by the agency on
Tuesday show. With 2,767,699 checks conducted by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in
March 2018, the month beats the previous record of 2,523,265 set in March 2016 by 244,434 checks. That represents a
9.68 percent increase. The March results put 2018 on pace to see more gun-related background checks than 2017, the
second-best year on record, but still behind 2016, the best year on record.
Students Stage Walkout in
Support of Second Amendment. So maybe there is some hope for the next generation after all. About 75 students at
Rockledge High School in central Florida walked out of class in support of the Second Amendment on Friday [3/30/2018]. The students
say they felt "silenced" last week when students walked out in support of gun control.
Rep.
Debbie Dingell to Introduce Gun Confiscation Legislation. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) used an April 2 Fox News Live
appearance to announce that she is preparing to introduce legislation to create a federal law allowing firearm confiscation
orders. Such laws, generally referred to as Extreme Risk Protection Orders, are already in place in California, Indiana,
Oregon, and other states, and Dingell believes the ability to seize firearms is crucial for pubic safety. During [the] live
broadcast Dingell said, "Fred Upton (R) and I are looking at introducing ... legislation ... at the national level."
Brazil
Considers Easing Extreme Gun Law, Allowing Self Defense. Brazil has extremely strict gun control laws, and
relatively few firearms. It is estimated there are about 17 million firearms in Brazil. Only 5.4 million
are legally owned by private parties. 2.2 million are owned by the military and police, and 9.5 million are
illegally possessed. [...] Brazil has a very high murder rate. Brazil's level of murder is currently about 39 per
100,000 people. Brazil is in the top 20 nations for homicide in the world.
Bill
passed to confiscate guns for domestic-violence misdemeanors. New York gun owners convicted of misdemeanors in
domestic-violence cases would have their firearms taken away under a bill lawmakers approved along with the new state
budget. Convicted felons already are barred from gun ownership in the state. The new bill, promoted by
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, would strip guns from people convicted of misdemeanor counts of assault, menacing, criminal
contempt, unlawful imprisonment, aggravated harassment and similar charges if the victims are members of their family or
their household.
Do
states with stricter gun control laws have fewer gun deaths? No. Do they have fewer homicides and suicides?
Definitely not. Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically
provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real
problems with this approach. A Boston University School of Public Health project is one of the latest to make the
rounds in various news outlets. Few academics look at such purely cross-sectional data, simply because it is impossible
in that case to accurately account for differences across different places.
Train
Teachers To Shoot Intruders. The idea was pitched to me by men uniquely qualified to train those teachers
willing to carry concealed weapons and confront armed intruders in schools. One was father to a former student who'd
done several tours in the Middle East as a Green Beret. He was still doing three-month hitches in Afghanistan with his
team of other highly-trained, contracted soldiers who would deploy for ninety days over there, then serve another ninety here
in New England protecting courthouses, then back to Afghanistan, and so on. When asked my opinion of their proposed
enterprise I said it was a great concept, but public schools would never allow it, being almost completely staffed by anti-gun
leftists who believe only stricter gun laws will prevent school shootings. Maybe school officials have since taken a
lesson observing Chicago over the interim five years where even with the strictest gun laws, almost as many young people are
shot every weekend as were shot last week in Florida.
Dem Congressman: 'We Need
Better Supreme Court Judges' To Interpret The Second Amendment. Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen
remarked on CNN Wednesday [3/28/2018] that the United States needs "better Supreme Court judges" to make decisions on the Second
Amendment. CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked, "Do you think the Second Amendment to the Constitution should be repealed?"
"We need better Supreme Court judges who can interpret the Second Amendment in a way that is in keeping with what the American
people want," Cohen answered. "You know, I think that there's a right to bear arms of individuals to protect their homes,
and I passed a right to carry bill when I was a state senator because people ought to have a right to protect their home."
David
Hogg would've made a good brownshirt. Hogg would've made a pretty decent brownshirt back in the pre-World War
II day. Those are the National Socialist party people who ran around Germany strong-arming and bullying and
intimidating the general populace into accepting the goals of the Nazi organization. Not saying Hogg's one
now — goodness, no. There are advertisers to consider, of course. Just saying his demeanor, his
rhetoric, his whiney demands, his illogical views of the Second Amendment, his refusal to consider facts and historical
truths over emotionally charged screams — all that, added up and considered, suggests he may have missed
his calling by a few decades, and an Atlantic Ocean.
Gun-grabbing geezers.
Over the last several weeks I've talked to several people about guns. Without fail, every one has been surprised to learn that
young people are the less supportive of gun-grabbing than old folks are. Reuters-Ipsos polling shows it and the GSS corroborates.
The major media's mendacity strikes again — though in fairness, NPR (!) has given it some attention.
NC
sheriff hopeful apologizes for joke about taking guns away from people's 'cold, dead hands'. A Democratic
candidate for sheriff in North Carolina apologized Sunday for a joke about taking guns away from people's "cold, bare hands."
R. Daryl Fisher, who is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination in the upcoming primary election for Buncombe County sheriff,
has come under criticism following his remarks at a monthly Moms Demand Action meeting for gun control earlier this month.
During his short speech, where he expressed support for banning high-capacity magazines and "any weapon that's designed for use
by the military," he joked about taking away guns once people are dead.
Yes,
Gun Control Advocates Do Want To Take Away Your Guns — Just Ask John Paul Stevens. In a New York
Times op-ed, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens flat out calls for repealing the 2nd Amendment. While his
reasoning makes one wonder how he got on the Court in the first place, he does expose the true agenda of gun control advocates.
Dem
Lawmaker: We Don't Want To Confiscate Guns, We Want To 'Seize' Them. A Georgia state lawmaker said she
didn't want to take guns away from Americans, but she also supports legislation that would seize guns from Americans.
Likely missing a dictionary and basic common sense, Erica Thomas still expects us to believe that the government isn't coming
for our guns. During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Thomas claims to not be talking about "taking the guns from
law-abiding citizens, I'm talking about a ban on assault rifles. We are not trying to promote a militia. What war
are we going at that we need assault rifles?" But Carlson quotes the bill Thomas herself said she supported, which states,
"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation shall seize and take possession of any assault weapon, large capacity magazine, armor
piercing bullet or incendiary fifty caliber bullet." Carlson then asks how that confiscation will be received by hundreds of
thousands of law-abiding gun owners in her state and in typical democrat fashion, can't answer what a "seizure" of guns from
law-abiding citizens who don't want to give up their morally acquired property would look like.
Every
Word Liberals Say About Guns Is A Lie. Let's start out with a basic premise — if you are a healthy,
law-abiding American citizen you should own, and be proficient with, effective firearms and have sufficient ammunition on
hand to act to defend yourself, your family, your community, and your Constitution. That's what free people do.
Of course, it's the people who don't have those tools — backed up by the random goofy vet who tweets pics
of himself turning in his personal weapons to baffled and embarrassed law enforcement officers — who want to take
your firearms from you. Which presents certain practical difficulties when push comes to shove.
The
Anti-Constitution Party: Justice Stevens a chilling reminder of the importance of judicial appointments.
[Scroll down] The Constitution is a compact between "we the people" and the government to form a "more perfect union"
that establishes a shared responsibility for our common defense. Nothing is more basic — or more sacred — than
self-preservation, the right to ensure one's own personal security. The Constitution provides assurances that our own
beings and property will be protected both against arbitrary intrusion by our government and from invasions and domestic
violence. To deny a law-abiding person the means to defend himself or herself and family is to deprive that person of
"life, liberty and property" in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Of course, like any right, the
Second Amendment is subject to reasonable regulation to protect the community from dangerous abuses. Society certainly
has a vested interest in keeping guns out of the hands of hardened criminals and the mentally ill, for example. However,
that's a far cry from eviscerating an individual's inherent right to possess arms altogether, which would happen if
Mr. Stevens and his fellow anti-gun rights activists have their way.
Here
We Go... Louisiana Democrat Party Leader Calls for Repealing the Second Amendment. Karen Carter Peterson is a
Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate. Peterson is also the current Chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
No
One Is Saying That. Did you hear? They're talking about repealing the Second Amendment. It started with former
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley. And it sure does seem like
those calls prompted skeptics of American gun culture to echo their remarks. Turley and Stevens were joined this week by op-ed
writers in the pages of Esquire and the Seattle Times. Democratic candidates for federal office have even enlisted
in the ranks of those calling for an amendment to curtail the freedoms in the Bill of Rights. Of course, this is just the most
mainstream invocation of anti-Second Amendment themes that have been expressed unashamedly for years, from liberal activists like
Michael Moore to conservative opinion writers at the New York Times. [...] You might be surprised to learn that none of this
occurred. It's only your vivid or, some might go so far as to say, fevered imagination. Rest assured, CNN host Chris Cuomo
insists that "no one" is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. And even if they are, as Justice Stevens most
certainly is, he's a "boogeyman" who commands no influence or respect.
Justice
Stevens' Dishonest Attack On The Second Amendment Must Be Taken Seriously. Former Supreme Court Justice John
Paul Stevens has an op-ed in the New York Times today where he agrees that the case against firearms made by a crew of
ill-bred cretinous teens is so powerful that the Second Amendment should be abolished. There is a lot wrong with the
article. The errors are so glaring that it is hard to attribute them to mere carelessness and not to a deliberate
attempt to deceive.
Democrats
Want To Repeal The First And Second Amendments. Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, a
liberal appointed by establishment Republican President Gerald R. Ford, yesterday penned an op-ed in the New York Times
calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. Calling the Second Amendment a "relic of the 18th century" Stevens
wrote that the "March for Our Lives" demonstrators "should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should
demand a repeal of the Second Amendment." This call for the repeal of the Second Amendment is a significant extension of
Justice Stevens' previous position stated in his judicial opinions and even his 2014 book "Six Amendments: How and
Why We Should Change the Constitution" wherein he suggested that the Second Amendment be rewritten to read: ["]A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when
serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.["] Liberal-leaning pundits were quick to embrace Stevens' call for
repeal, and polling shows that there is significant support for such a move among Democrats.
What
Frightens the Left Most? The Constitution. The Left — which is by turns both malevolent and cowardly,
and therefore both tantalized by and fearful of firearms — has never made its hostility toward the Second Amendment a secret,
but for decades it was able to keep it under wraps during the half-century or more between the effective closing of the borders to
immigration in 1921 and the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, known as the Hart-Celler Act but today chiefly
remembered as Ted Kennedy's lasting gift to the American people. That period saw the rise of urban ethnic gangsters (mostly
Irish, Italians, and Jews, immigrants or children of immigrants, and thus "foreign" to largely Protestant America) and of the
indigenous Midwestern bank robbers being chased around the prairies by the FBI, both groups long since tamed and romanticized.
When, in 1939, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Miller that a certain kind of sawed-off shotgun could be banned,
and cited the Second Amendment's subordinate "militia" clause as its justification, few kicked about it, because by then gangland
had been largely cornered and the country was at peace. The Miller decision was effectively overturned in 2008 by the
Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which finally got around to adjudicating and establishing the
individual right aspect of the amendment.
Trump
and the Great Unmasking of the Left. Former Justice John Paul Stevens, once upon a time a Republican but now a long
term beltway establishmentarian, openly called for repeal of the Second Amendment. Not "common sense gun control measures" anymore,
the mask that gun grabbers formerly wore. It used to be taboo to mention confiscation of guns or repeal of any part of the Bill
of Rights, but in their fury, those restraints on candor are being forgotten. The NRA, already experiencing a spike in its membership, now
has an even stronger appeal to civil libertarians. "Hands off the Bill of Rights!" is a powerful appeal beyond the ranks of gun owners.
No,
The 'March For Our Lives' Isn't Defining A Generation. Nothing changed on Saturday. It was another in a long line of
manufactured moments playing at being transformative. It was, as Shakespeare put it, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing." A miniscule number of teenagers grabbed our attention, as has happened before. But the story of the future
will be made by the millions more, outside the spotlight, who will continue to be Americans desirous of their rights.
'March
for Our Lives' Leaders Deny They Want to Repeal Second Amendment. Leaders of the "March for Our Lives" anti-gun protest
movement scrambled Tuesday [3/27/2018] to distance themselves from an op-ed in the New York Times by former Supreme Court
Justice John Paul Stevens calling for the Second Amendment to be repealed. In the op-ed, Stevens wrote that in the wake of
last weekend's nationwide protests, "the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should
demand a repeal of the Second Amendment."
Gun
Control March Organizer Backs Out of Debate with Pro-Second Amendment Parkland Student. Gun control march
organizer Cameron Kasky announced Monday that he is backing out of a debate with pro-Second Amendment Kyle Kashuv.
Kasky and Kashuv are both Parkland students and were planning to debate because they hold opposing views on the Second
Amendment. Fox News reports that Kasky pulled out of the debate because Kashuv was critical of a student who complained
about a proposed requirement for students to use clear (transparent) backpacks to prevent people from sneaking weapons into
school unseen.
Al
Sharpton's Brother Charged in Shooting Murder — One Day After Participating in Anti-Gun March.
Rev. Kenneth Glasgow was charged in shooting murder the day after he participated in the local anti-gun march.
Rev. Kenneh is Al Sharpton's half-brother from Alabama.
Al
Sharpton's half-brother charged in murder after marching against guns. The half-brother of Rev. Al
Sharpton, also an activist whose group participated in Saturday's anti-gun March For Our Lives, has been charged in a Sunday
shooting death in Dothan, Ala. Dothan police said that Rev. Kenneth Glasgow was the driver in a car linked to the
murder of 23-year-old Breunia Jennings of Dothan by passenger Jamie Townes, 26.
Planned Parenthood helped organize
the "March For Our Lives". On last night's [3/26/2018] episode of Off The Cuff Declassified, Hollywood Conservative
Amanda Head joined me to discuss the far-left big money backers of the "March For Our Lives". Buzzfeed and TruthRevolt have revealed
that Everytown USA (an anti-gun advocacy group), MoveOn.Org, and Planned Parenthood all contributed to the organization of the marches.
Beyond Guns: Democrats
Introduce Bullet Control Bill. In the wake of the "March For Our Lives" rally Saturday, and with no legislative
appetite for more gun control laws, Democrats in both the House and Senate have introduced a bill requiring background checks
for purchasing bullets. "You do not have the right to bear bullets," said Congresswoman and former Democratic National
Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a press conference Monday announcing the introduction of a bill that would
require instant background checks to purchase ammunition.
The
Stupidity of the 'March For Our Lives'. They have sucked up nearly every available second of possible air time
on CNN & MSNBC (while obviously avoiding actual journalism.) They've also had ample amounts of cash and exposure thrown
their way. Saturday's march was to be the pinnacle of this outrage movement that has largely been propped up by false
pretense. These young people — immediately thrown into one of the most manipulated controversies of our
time — are angry, opportunistic and — just a month after their classmates were needlessly
lost — now instant celebrities. Even though they have little more than a junior high level of education
under their belt. The political left, driven by a leftist media, and financed by uber-rich and hard-left celebrities
are willing to use them, and to continue to use them to advance their socialist utopia ideals. (One of the primary
ideas of which has always included disarming the masses.)
March
for Our Lives Speeches Focus on New Gun Ban, Magazine Restrictions. The March for Our Lives rally in
Washington, D.C., held on Saturday [3/24/2018] focused mainly on calls for a new ban of certain guns and ammunition
magazines. A series of emotional and passionate speeches bookmarked by performances from celebrities, students, and
activists called for a number of sweeping new gun-control proposals as a response to the shooting in Parkland, Fla., which
left 17 dead. The speeches focused heavily on banning America's most popular rifle, the AR-15, and similar firearms as
well as banning so-called high-capacity magazines, though details on what the protesters believe constitutes a "high-capacity"
magazine were sparse. The crowd, which CBS News estimated to be 200,000 — or less than half what the
organizers requested space for in their permit application — was filled with signs advocating for a new
ban on "assault weapons."
The
Religious Texture Of The Gun Control Movement. [Scroll down] Reuters is lying. The students didn't
organize anything. Everytown is organizing and managing the entire process. The students are just being
used. The lie notwithstanding, make no mistake about what's happening here. This is a religious quest for
them. The language ("warriors of the light") has very direct theological import. This is a worship service, and
they wanted to have the high priests of paganism there to preach sermons to them. [...] Their religion is collectivism, and
their god is the state. You're on notice that they've declared war on you.
Dem
Rep Wasserman Schultz Introduces Legislation Requiring Background Checks on Ammunition Buyers. Monday, Miami
NBC affiliate WTVJ reported on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's (D-FL) news conference announcing the Ammunition Background
Check Act of 2018, which was legislation requiring background checks to purchase ammunition. Surrounded by students from
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Wasserman Schultz said, "Unlike firearm purchases, someone who wants to go into a store
that sells ammunition can buy as much ammunition as they want without so much as being asked their first name."
Candidate
for Sheriff in N.C. 'Jokes' About Taking Guns From Cold, Dead Hands. A Democrat candidate's joke about taking
guns from the cold, dead hands of gun owners may have played well with his liberal audience in Asheville, N.C., earlier this
month, but a widely-shared video of the crack has since fallen flat with thousands of Second Amendment supporters.
Daryl Fisher, who is running for sheriff in Democrat-heavy Buncombe County, N.C., made the comment after talking about the
types of gun restrictions he favors during a meeting with the Michael Bloomberg-funded anti-gun group Moms Demand Action on
March 7. Fisher told the group that he wants to see the age requirement for people to purchase firearms raised to
21 and said that gun owners should be subjected to mandated proficiency testing every year. He also advocated that
concealed carry permit holders only be allowed to carry the firearm they trained with.
The Editor says...
The mandatory annual proficiency test is an idea I haven't heard before. Obviously this would be a way to compel every
gun owner to report for testing (and mug shots and fingerprinting?) on a frequent basis. Oh, and presumably your gun would
be taken away if your child support isn't paid up, or you have an outstanding warrant, or you haven't paid your tollway bill.
Anyone who believes otherwise is not familiar with the left's affinity for incrementalism, whereby they get an innocuous law
in place and they expand its scope year after year until it does what they wanted in the first place.
Emma Gonzalez Injects Irony
Overload. Saturday's March for Our Lives was a phony spectacle, but a glimpse of reality showed through when
teenage totalitarian Emma Gonzalez took the stage to bark moonbattery on behalf of the liberal media establishment that
granted her 15 minutes of fame. Her jacket prominently featured the flag representing the communist regime that
rules Cuba. This regime produced a folk hero for leftists, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was Fidel Castro's chief
executioner before dying of poetic justice before an extrajudicial Bolivian firing squad.
Gun
maker Remington files for bankruptcy. Firearms manufacturer Remington Outdoor Company has filed for bankruptcy
protection in the face of falling sales and lawsuits stemming from the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Wall
Street Journal reported Sunday night [3/25/2018]. According to the Journal, Remington announced that it would file for
Chapter 11 last month but the actual filing was delayed after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Fla. that killed 17 people.
Rapper
Killer Mike to 'Progressive' Gun Grabbers: 'You're not Woke,' and 'You're Going to Progress Us into Slavery'.
While students and activists geared up to march in Washington, D.C., and across the country in support of new restrictions on
the Second Amendment, rapper Killer Mike warned that gun control is way the progressive left can return black Americans to
slavery. In an interview with NRATV's Colion Noir, Killer Mike explained how the left equates gun control with progress
and observed, "[They are] going to progress us into slavery." In the lead-up to the March 14 school walk out for gun
control, Killer Mike said he told his kids, "I love you, but if you walk out that school walk out my house."
March For Our Lives:
A Report From Gotham. The New York rally brimmed with our-lives histrionics. "The adults failed us and
now 17 people are dead," Meghan Bonner, a Parkland student, told the crowd from a platform at West 61st Street.
According to the New York Post, Bonner wept as she recalled the shooting that has sparked a nationwide outcry.
"I want to see change," Bonner said. Don't we all, Meghan. Megan and the great majority of marchers are ignorant
pawns of politically ambitious celebrities who seem eager to turn citizens into leftist believers. I know some
marchers. One is a child-protective Upper West Side feminist Tiger Mom, daily fighting gun violence, racism, President
Trump, and all things Republican with soul and heart. This righteous mom and others like her simply cannot —
will not — process the obvious: that gun violence is to a large degree a ghetto thing. Illegal handguns in black
hands — not crazy white boys — are the nation's major killing machine. (Ironically, Hollywood is doing
its best through its seductive video games and entertainments to turn low-wattage white boys and everyone else into sociopaths.)
Who Runs March
for Our Lives? Follow the money. It's a strange political fact, but nearly every major anti-gun group has
been a front group. [...] Everytown for Gun Safety was formed out of two other groups: Moms Demand Action and Mayors
Against Illegal Guns. Both are actually front groups for Michael Bloomberg, the lefty billionaire and former boss of
the Big Apple, who used New York City resources to host at least one of its websites. So Everytown is really New York
City. March for Our Lives is on every cable channel, but who runs it? The photogenic teen fronts are out
front. But it's obvious to everyone that a bunch of teens don't have the resources and skills to coordinate a
nationwide movement. Instead it's the experienced activists who are actually running things.
Obama's third term.
The sudden anti-gun marches by children is not happenstance. Liberals are as spontaneous as a wedding. This was
planned. They wanted the right shooting. They will wait years for one. [...] Liberals seek flawed cases because
they want to give conservatives traction to oppose them because liberals want to battle. All the time. On all
fronts because what liberals seek is power, and they know the power of the state peaks in times of chaos and turmoil.
The Parkland high school shooting was a classic case of government inaction. The school didn't institutionalize
him. The FBI did not check out tips. The sheriff's deputy didn't enter the building. And so on.
This was the tragedy they were hoping for because this incident had so many gray areas.
Pennsylvania
District Equips Classrooms with Buckets of Rocks to Stone Mass Shooters. Schuylkill County officials are
equipping classrooms with buckets of rocks to stone mass shooters. Dr. David Helsel made the announcement this
week in Harrisburg.
The Editor says...
Let the one who is without a clue cast the first stone.
Children's
Crusade? No, It's Worse. Charlie Kirk, the President of Turning Point USA, waded into the D.C. crowd of
lefty protesters to ask a simple question: What is an assault rifle? The results were predictably amusing:
[Video clip]
Was
Gun Control Rally Just A Big Voter Registration Drive? These rallies that erupt because of current events are
part of our reality and conservatives have to step up their game to counter those with different political philosophy.
The other side is organized and motivated.
Militant
Moonbats Call for Banning Assault Weapons, Don't Know What They Are. Any moonbat who took part in the March
Against the Constitution for Our Lives spectacle can tell you that assault weapons must be
banned. What these fools cannot tell you is what an assault weapon is: [Video clip]
March
for Our Lives D.C. Unfolds as Anti-Trump, Anti-Gun, Get-Out-the-Liberal-Vote Rally. The thousands of people who
took part in the March for Our Lives protest along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, on Saturday carried signs revealing
their anti-gun, anti-Trump, and pro-left wing agenda. The event was launched by students at the Parkland, Florida high
school where 17 people were shot and killed last month by a former student with a long history of mental health issues and
run-ins with law enforcement. But in a matter of days, left wing and gun control groups hijacked the march and transformed
it into a turn out-the-liberal-vote rally.
Parkland
massacre survivor who champions the Second Amendment leads counter protests. While his schoolmates from Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School were leading the March for Our Lives and demanding stricter gun laws, Kyle Kashuv emerged as the
voice of counter-demonstrators arguing for the Second Amendment. Kashuv, a survivor of the February 14 massacre in
Parkland, Florida, went on Fox News on Saturday [3/24/2018] and criticized the demonstrations as 'anti-Republican.' 'I saw
this [march] as extremely anti-GOP,' he told Fox News. 'One of the biggest causes of this march is to be anti-Republican.'
Parkland
survivor Kyle Kashuv: March for Our Lives [was] meant to be anti-Republican. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School student Kyle Kashuv said the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., Saturday was meant to be "anti-Republican."
"I saw this [march] as extremely anti-GOP," Kashuv told Fox News after attending the event. "One of the biggest causes of
this march is to be anti-Republican." [...] Kashuv, a junior, said [fellow student David] Hogg was engaging in "egregious and
inflammatory" rhetoric. "Guns aren't the issue. It's everything surrounding acquiring a weapon," Kashuv said.
"I talked to so many marchers and they don't have a clear-cut solution. And it pains me not to see the government being
held accountable for their failures. I don't see anyone blaming Sheriff Scott Israel for failing to do what he was supposed
to do."
High
School Sophomore Goes Viral For Smacking Down #MarchForOurLives With Simple History Lesson. CJ Pearson, a
15-year-old high school sophomore, is going viral for a history lesson on the Second Amendment directed at his peers who were
attending the March For Our Lives. The well-spoken Georgia teen's video has been viewed nearly 40,000 times.
[Video clip]
6 Reasons
Why The AR-15 Is Actually Ideal For Self-Defense. The AR-15 may well be the most vilified rifle in existence at
the moment, possibly even more so than the Soviet-designed AK-47. This is especially true following several incidents where
bad people did bad things with the rifle in question. As per usual following such incidents, politicians begin clamoring
for the rifle to be banned. They use all kinds of rhetoric to paint the firearm as some kind of evil murder-death-kill
machine that serves no other purpose except to end lives. This usually comes from the same people who claim that the most
recent gunman, armed with a Glock, didn't have a semiautomatic weapon. Yeah. Anyway, many of these folks —
including at least one former vice president of the United States — have said that all you need for self-defense in
your home is a shotgun. Unfortunately, this just isn't the case. The AR-15 is a great weapon for self-defense, and
there are a number of reasons why.
Celebrity
chi-chi cavalcade joins in on the kids' march. People are tuning out to Hollywood based on knowledge that they
are going to get lectured about politics from its denizens. The decline of box office returns and viewership at
Hollywood awards shows points to it. A lot of people hate politics, too, when the Hollywood chi-chi crowd turns up.
[...] But Hollywood doesn't read markets and neither do most political activists. So amid the massive hype of the March
for Our Lives youth rally on gun control, who should show up but the full celebrity cavalcade.
March
for Our Lives Protesters Trash Streets of D.C. After Gun Control Rally. Thousands of protesters at the March
for Our Lives in Washington, DC, Saturday packed the streets holding signs promoting an anti-gun agenda, but many of them
left those signs out in the cold after the march. The signs that the self-described socially conscious protesters held
up high during the march, along with countless other items of trash, were littered on the streets of D.C. like old rags.
Let's
Talk About Chicago And Handguns. It seems fairly evident that nobody on the gun control side of the aisle wants
to have a serious talk about guns and gun violence. What they want is an easy win. They want to cast the National
Rifle Association as the epitome of evil. An army of children is marching on Washington this weekend, and they want to
take semi-automatic rifles away, specifically, the spooky AR-15 rifle. If they were actually serious about gun
violence, they'd be talking about places like Chicago and they'd lobby for further regulation of or outright ban on the sale
of handguns. Yes, the real numbers actually show rifles are among the safest firearms for an American to own.
According to the FBI, Americans are roughly 20 times more likely to die at the end of a handgun.
'March
for Our Lives' gun control rally to draw thousands across US. Just days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people, students-turned-activists echoed the words "never again"
and "not one more," pushing lawmakers for increased gun control and better school safety. Many of the Parkland
students, who have primarily taken to social media to champion these issues, have met with President Trump and Sen. Marco
Rubio, R-Fla., among others to demand action. One shooting survivor Cameron Kasky, a junior at the high school, wrote an
op-ed about his experience, demanding Congress to take action. Other Parkland shooting survivors have organized events.
Actors
at Casting Call Are Surprised by Real Gun Facts They're Asked to Read. Here is what happens when people on both
sides of the gun conversation in America are able to be heard. The producers of this video had a variety of actors cold
read statistical truths about guns and crime in the United States. Much of this is known to pro-Second Amendment
advocates but not to the general public. It is difficult to have a fact-based conversation when the largely uninformed
anti-gun left is running around screaming "ASSAULT WEAPONS" all of the time and the media is always there to amplify their
panic. One of the younger actors admits that he just "blindly chose a side" in the gun debate. Another says she
is now inspired to do more research. At the very minimum, the video is full of good information for pro-Second
Amendment people.
No,
Citigroup, you must bake the gay wedding cake. Credit card oligarch Citigroup thinks it can block the sale of
guns. Nope. It's a legal transaction. I am pretty sure that the courts will tell the bank to stick to
banking, and disarm its politicking. But for fun's sake, what if Citigroup were not in the pocket of the Democratic
Party (huge supporters of presidential candidates the Clintons) and decided not to extend credit for late-term
abortions? Or better yet, what if Citigroup blocked abortions for people under 21? Or best of all, what if
Citigroup stopped all transactions with Planned Parenthood, including donations?
Dick's
Sporting Goods Sales Sink After New Gun Policy. Dick's Sporting Goods has suffered a surprisingly steep
downturn in sales since promising to sell fewer guns, but the problem isn't the gun sales, Fortune says. Stock
tumbled to the lowest in four months after the sports store banned assault-style weapons from its Field & Stream stores and
raised the minimum age for a customer to buy a firearm from 18 to 21.
Citigroup
wants retail clients to restrict gun sales. Citigroup is imposing restrictions on corporate clients that sell
or manufacture guns, the first major bank to impose limits on gun sellers following a national outcry for gun control.
Citi is requiring that corporate and small business clients restrict sales to people under 21 and pass background checks, and
not sell high capacity magazines or bump stocks, Michael Corbat, the CEO, said in an internal memo obtained by The [New York]
Post. "It makes a good headline, but we don't have any way to see the numbers around it," Brian Kleinhanzl, a bank
analyst at KBW, told The [New York] Post.
The
Second Amendment rights of more than 4 million Americans are at risk thanks to Republicans in Congress. Just
before President Obama left office, his administration finalized new regulations banning Social Security recipients from
buying a gun if they have trouble managing their finances. About 10 percent of all people 65 and older risked being
classified as "financially incompetent" — about 4.2 million in all. Using the Congressional Review Act,
Republicans and two Democrats passed a bill overturning the regulation. But the bill did more than that. It also
prevents any future president from reinstituting the ban without new legislative authorization from Congress. Unfortunately,
the spending bill passed Thursday [3/22/2018] allows the ban to be reinstituted because it reauthorizes the 2007 National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act.
Barack
and Michelle Obama go all in behind Parkland students' gun control campaign. Former President Barack Obama and
first lady Michelle Obama penned a letter to the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School heralding them for their
efforts to get new gun laws passed.
YouTube Bans
Firearms Channels. Those who follow firearms, shooting, and tactical channels on YouTube know about the
travails of Hickok45 on YouTube. Venerable and old school, Hickok45 tests and comments on firearms manufacturers send
him. Sometimes he shoots his own firearms, but always, he shoots, comments and often provides history and mechanical
commentary on the machines he is using. Sometimes it is with admiration, sometimes slight disdain, but always honest
and interesting. Hickok45 met with disapproval from some redditors when he supported the NRA in light of the compromises
the NRA recommended (e.g., bump stocks, enhanced background checks), but being a former LEO and old school like he is, I
wouldn't have expected anything else from him. Just as interesting to me is Jeff Quinn of Gunblast, especially when
shooting and commenting on revolvers, but always interesting.
6 Reasons Gun
Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings. [#6] Australia did not "eliminate mass public shootings" by banning assault weapons.
Mass shootings in the country were rare before the 1996 National Firearms Act, and multiple-casualty shootings still occur. Before
1996, firearms crimes in Australia rarely involved firearms prohibited under the National Firearms Act, suggesting that any change in
firearm-related crimes or deaths was not due to the law. Further, Australia did not see a reduction in "mass murders." In
the years immediately following enactment of the National Firearms Act, the country experienced six mass murders in which five or more
people were killed — they just were not killed with guns.
Teacher
Punished for Questioning Anti-gun Walkout. A California teacher questioned Wednesday's [3/14/2018] national
anti-gun school walkout — then found herself in the cross hairs, being told not to come to work that day at
all. The story began last week when Julianne Benzel, a history teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California,
questioned the double standard reflected in the protest. She stated that it was wrong for the school to support one
walkout if they weren't willing to support those associated with other causes, such as one against prenatal infanticide (she
used the common term "abortion"). Benzel's young charges didn't disagree. "I didn't get any backlash from my
students," she said. "All my students totally understood that there could not be a double standard," related CBS
Sacramento. But her school was a different story. As CBS also reported, "Benzel received a letter from her human
resources department, informing her she's being placed on paid administrative leave."
Here
Are 8 Stubborn Facts on Gun Violence in America. [#5] Higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with
higher rates of violent crime. Switzerland and Israel have much higher gun ownership rates than the United States but
experience far fewer homicides and have much lower violent crime rates than many European nations with strict gun control laws.
While some will argue that the guns carried by Swiss and Israeli citizens are technically "owned" by the government in most cases,
this does little to negate the fact that many citizens in those countries have ready access to firearms. Canada is ranked 12th
in the world for the number of civilian-owned guns per capita and reports one of the world's lower homicide rates — but even
then, some provinces have higher homicide rates than U.S. states with less restrictive laws and higher rates of gun ownership have.
FBI
testimony confirms Obama DOJ ordered 500,000 fugitives purged from background check database. While Democrats
throw tantrums over who should and shouldn't have guns, it seems the Obama administration was pretty adept at getting weapons
into the hands of some people. Acting FBI deputy director David Bowdich confirmed that it was a decision made under the
direction of the Obama administration that led to more than half a million fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants to have
their names removed from a national database.
Yes, They
Do Want To Take Your Guns Away. Every time the issue of gun control comes up and America goes to war with
itself over the preservation of the Second Amendment, I get a slew of leftists and uneducated statists popping up in my
mentions and comments sections telling me that no one is trying to take our guns. But they absolutely are.
In their braver moments, when they think all the momentum is with them, they straight up admit it.
Beto
O'Rourke Just Showed Everyone How To Lose An Election In Texas. There are two ways to guarantee you'll lose a
statewide election in Texas: campaign for abortion or campaign against guns. Texas Democrats accomplished the first in
2014, when Wendy Davis lost the governor's race to Greg Abbott by 20 points. Now they're determined to do the
second. Beto O'Rourke, the photogenic Democratic congressman from El Paso hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Ted
Cruz in November, declared at a SXSW event Monday [3/12/2018] that there's no reason an AR-15 should be sold to a civilian.
Why
Democrats Would Lose the Second Civil War, Too. It's obvious that the central tenet of the Democrat Party
platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans. Taking their cue from the elites in Europe and Canada
who are stripping dissenters of their free speech rights and religious freedoms, the leftist elite is moving to
solidify its hold on power here with the eager assistance of tech companies and the moral support of the Fredocons who yearn
to return to pseudo-relevance as the ruling class's slobberingly loyal opposition. In California, the leftist
government is practically firing on Fort Sumter. And nationally, these aspiring fascists are especially eager to disarm
Normal Americans — doing so would be an object lesson in who's the boss, as well as solving that frustrating
problem of the Normals having the ability to resist. Probably because I've spent time where they actually had a civil
war, many people ask me — people whose names you know — whether I think this turmoil will all end in a
Second Civil War. They are seriously concerned, and not without cause — the left's hatred for Normal
Americans and its dedication to totally stripping the people who are the backbone of this country of their ability to
participate in their own governance is threatening to rip the country apart.
Think
They'll Never 'Come and Take' Your Guns Without an Armed Revolt? Think Again. The recent gun control
debate ignited by last month's tragedy in Parkland, Florida, has liberals trotting out what has become a favorite Leftist
talking point — Australia's 1996 National Agreement on Firearms, an act which, among other things, severely restricted
semi-automatic rifles after after a similarly horrific mass shooting. Liberals consider the cornerstone of the law, a
massive forced gun buyback program, a "common sense" approach to what might otherwise be perceived by gun owners as an
unwelcome curtailing of traditional American freedoms. Sure, the government may be forcing gun owners to make the
transaction, but exchanging money for items IS capitalism, right? And it sure beats the alternative, a Communist-style
door-to-door roundup of weapons that both sides agree would likely lead to civil war.
Cruz
challenger Beto O'Rourke wants to ban the AR-15. Giving an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin Texas
over the weekend, the Democratic nominee opposing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said American civilians should not be
permitted to buy an AR-15 rifle. El Paso Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, is proud of his campaign's claim that he
shuns political action committee (PAC) money. He criticized Senator Cruz for taking $300,000 from the National Rifle
Association and boasted that his campaign has taken $0 from the NRA.
DOJ
Reclassifies Bump Fire Stocks as Machine Guns. In the post-Parkland hysteria, President Trump directed the Department
of Justice to perform some regulatory legerdemain where bump fire stocks are concerned. The ATF had long ago passed on the
stocks, deeming them perfectly legal accessories for semi-automatic rifles. Now, in a Saturday morning move apparently meant
to fly under the radar ... ["]The U.S. Department of Justice formally submitted a regulation on Saturday [3/10/2018] to ban
'bump stocks,' a modification to high-capacity rifles that lets them fire like an automatic weapon.["]
Department
of Justice moves to ban bump stocks, classifying them as 'machine guns' under federal law. The U.S. Department
of Justice formally submitted a regulation on Saturday to ban "bump stocks," a modification to high-capacity rifles that lets
them fire like an automatic weapon. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum in February directing the department to
make the regulatory change, which must now be approved by the Office of Management and Budget before it is published and
subject to a commentary period. The move does not require congressional approval, allowing the administration to
side-step what could have been insurmountable pressure from pro-gun groups such as the National Rifle Association that have
worked to erode changes in firearm laws in the wake of mass shootings in Florida and Nevada.
Va.
Social Worker Says She Was Fired For Having A Concealed Carry Permit (Not A Gun, Just The Permit). On Friday
[3/9/2018], a young woman named Storm Durham posted on her Twitter account that she was fired from her job as a social worker
at Roanoke City Social Services in Virginia for the "crime" of merely having a license to carry a concealed firearm.
She says she wasn't carrying the gun itself, mind you. She was simply carrying the permit that proved she had
responsibly undergone training to carry a concealed firearm. She further alleges she was escorted from the building
following her termination because her employer deemed her a "safety risk."
Gun
Confiscation Begins in Illinois. It is no longer a conspiracy theory spawned by deplorable bitter clingers, but
a creeping reality spawned by shootings law enforcement could have prevented but didn't. The Illinois House has passed
legislation requiring 18- to 20-year-olds to give up certain legally purchased and legally owned firearms.
NRA
handed out more than $7M to hundreds of schools. The National Rifle Association has dramatically increased its
funding to schools in recent years amid a national debate over guns and school violence, an Associated Press analysis of tax
records has found. But few say they plan to give up the money in the aftermath of the latest mass shooting. The
AP analysis of the NRA Foundation's public tax records finds that about 500 schools received more than $7.3 million from
2010 through 2016, mostly through competitive grants meant to promote shooting sports. The grants have gone to an array of
school programs, including the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, rifle teams, hunting safety courses and agriculture clubs.
Fed-Up
Parkland Survivor Absolutely Destroys David Hogg on National TV. As a number of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School students continue building a coalition of young gun-control advocates, a less vocal group of individuals tied to last
month's deadly shooting in Florida is making a different argument with a similar end goal: safer schools. One such
advocate is Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland who recently appeared on Fox News to voice his
support for more attainable immediate goals.
Quit Disarming Teachers.
As one of the millions of teachers in America I know there is one thing I don't ever want to be... a fish in a barrel.
Think of the hero teachers who've thrown their bodies in front of students taking bullets fired by mentally deranged mass
murderers. If these heroes had had a weapon does anyone doubt they would've used it to protect those students?
Aspiring mass murders who seek out gun free zones to commit their atrocities are inherent cowards. And they're also
untrained and unprepared for anyone with the ability to stand up to them. As soon as someone with a gun shows up they
either kill themselves or die.
CNN
Admits: U.S. Town Where Guns Are Required Has Had Only 1 Murder in 6 Years. CNN admitted in a report on
March 6, 2018, that a Georgia town requiring gun ownership has only seen one murder in six years and maintains a violent
crime rate of less than two percent. CNN reports that Kennesaw, Georgia, adopted an ordinance in 1982 requiring the
head of every household to "maintain a firearm." CNN suggested the law requiring gun ownership is not actually enforced,
but it simultaneously reported that the town of Kennesaw has only witnessed one murder in the past six years. In other
words, just the common knowledge that guns are in the hands of law-abiding citizens appears to restrain the actions of criminals.
Senators
offer bill that could block gun sales to people seen as risks. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard
Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation on Thursday [3/8/2018] to let a court temporarily block an individual seen as
posing a risk to themselves or others from buying or owning a gun. The legislation, known as the Federal Extreme Risk
Protection Act, comes in wake of the deadly shooting of a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead and
re-energized a debate over gun control. It would let law enforcement or family members get a court order to block the
sale or ownership of a gun to an individual determined to be a risk to themselves or others. Graham said they are
hoping to start a "national conversation" with the bill's introduction.
Supreme
Court Takes Two Cases that Could Scale Back Federal Power. The Supreme Court on Monday granted review in two
new cases that raise significant constitutional issues for reining in the scope and powers of the federal government.
With few exceptions, almost all of the Court's cases are discretionary: the justices can decide whether to take the
case. The High Court receives over 7,000 petitions for review each year — called a petition for a writ of
certiorari — and grants fewer than 80. The justices' decisions on which cases to grant sometimes signal that
changes in the law are in the offing. The two cases they took this week will either bring about such change or will
reaffirm doctrines that conservatives have long hoped to change.
Tearing
Apart The 4 Most Popular Gun Control Proposals Following Parkland. It seems inevitable that we're going to be
engaged in this particular round of the gun control debate for the foreseeable future. The media is being as tenacious
as I've ever seen them on the topic, and even I have to admit that trotting out teen survivors is an effective way to
dominate the news cycle. Whether we want to or not, we're going to have this debate. With that in mind, I
started taking a look at the most popular anti-gun proposals out there.
NAACP Urges National Gun Confiscation.
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson called for a national gun confiscation program in a syndicated column through Black Press USA on
Monday [3/5/2018]. Comparing recent school shootings to the violence and discrimination black students faced after the 1954
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Johnson wrote that "fear and terror still exist in our children's classrooms"
because of the "National Rifle Association and the politicians [sic] that support them."
A
Star Is Born! Speech On Guns By VA Lawmaker Causes Democrat Walk-Out, Goes Viral. All eyes are suddenly
Nick Freitas, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, now that he's ticked off a lot of Democrats with his
powerful speech on guns that quickly went viral, raking up over 12 million Facebook views since Friday [3/2/2018]. The
powerful and aggressive speech, which touched on inconvenient truths about the Democrat Party's history, even triggered some
Democrats to walk off the House floor. Freitas delivery his remarks on Friday as a response to the very heated gun
control debate.
Florida
Senate Rejects 'Assault Weapons' Ban, Passes Bill to Arm Teachers. The Florida Senate rejected "assault
weapons" ban legislation on Saturday and voted in support of training and arming teachers for school safety. The Senate
action came less than a week after the state's House Appropriations Committee rejected an "assault weapons" ban as
well. Reuters reports that the Senate vote against the ban was 20-17. Those supporting it consisted of
the 15 Democrat senators and two Republicans who crossed the aisle to support gun control.
NRA
Memberships Surge in Wake of Anti-NRA Protests, 'Media Bias'. National Rifle Association memberships surged in
the wake of the anti-NRA protests and "media bias" that followed the February 14 Florida school shooting. The Daily
Mail reports that Google searches for "NRA membership" rose "4,900 percent" since the Florida attack. That rise
occurred at a time when many Democrats, media personalities, and Hollywood celebrities were denouncing the NRA as causal in
the shooting that took 17 lives in a gun-free zone.
Gun
Laws and the Second Amendment. If our overall goal is to keep schools safe, our focus should be on securing the
schools themselves. As it stands now, they are not hardened or secure in any tangible way from these attacks. If
we wish to keep schools safe, we need to fortify them and treat them as the priority they should be. Think of the
efforts, dollars, and drills that go into fire prevention in schools? A child hasn't died in a school fire for more
than 50 years, yet we continue to do everything we can to prevent one. Shouldn't we have the same determination in
their security?
Celebrities
Push Gun Control Surrounded by a Wall of 500 Armed Officers. The Los Angeles Police Department will deploy 500
officers to wrap the Dolby Theatre in multiple barriers of armed security for the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, an
event at which several of Hollywood's most celebrated stars will actively push for more gun control in America. "We
have these concentric rings of security that start in the middle and radiate outward," said LAPD Cmdr. Blake Chow, the
man tasked with overseeing the massive operation. "We have a lot of officers in fixed posts and foot beats keeping an
eye on the event."
Watch:
Speech on Guns by Virginia Senate Candidate Causes Democrat Walk-Out, Goes Massively Viral Online. A Speech by
Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas, the liberty-minded conservative who is challenging Senator Tim Kaine, discussing the
importance of the Second Amendment has been viewed over five million times in the past 24 hours. Friday's [3/2/2018]
speech by Freitas before the Virginia House of Delegates lead to many Democrats actually walking out and demanding a recess
so that they could calm down because they were so outraged.
The Editor says...
The video clip cited above can be viewed here.
It is well worth a few minutes of your time.
The
Gun Confiscation Crusade Begins. The next chapter of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting saga has begun. Anti-gun
interest groups and politicians have used the Parkland shooting to launch what, until recently, they regarded as a distant
dream — a wave of state legislation authorizing the confiscation of firearms. Quietly, but quickly, a raft
of identical gun confiscation bills have been filed by liberal politicians in states across the country. They are all
copies of a ballot measure that passed in Washington State in November 2016. And that ballot measure was loosely based
on a California gun confiscation law enacted in 2014 and a much older Connecticut law from 1999. The first bill in the
recent wave was actually enacted before the Parkland shooting.
Guns
Have Not Changed, Progressive Indoctrination Succeeded. If the general atmosphere of strife is anything to go
by, it seems like I'm not the only person sick and tired of the unrelenting rhetoric on the left related to gun control.
As a person who isn't afraid to think logically, I am utterly disgusted by the inexorable liberal effort to infringe on my
Second Amendment right. Even before the terrible incident in Florida, the left was, and is constantly chipping away
at the most important law in America. The globalist masters of the democrat party recognize that the protections in
the United States Constitution would be worthless, unless free, armed men were ready and able to defend them. So, we
are forced to deal with their steady drip, drip, dripping attempt to wear away the bedrock of our liberty.
The
more Americans hear Hollywood preach gun control, the more they love guns, new poll says. Liberal celebrities'
support for stricter gun laws is backfiring, according to a recent poll. A survey by Zogby Analytics found that
respondents viewed the Second Amendment more favorably after hearing Hollywood entertainers call for gun control, the
Washington Examiner reports.
R.I.
Governor Signs Executive Order To Seize Guns. Rhode Island's Democratic Governor signed an executive order
allowing the federal government to seize firearms from the homes of individuals they deem are dangerous. Gina
Raimondo's overreaching order allows law enforcement officers to take guns away from those in "red flag" cases. The
measure, which satisfies just about everything on gun-grabbers' wish list, claims the government is legally allowed to
determine which citizens should or should not have the right to bear arms. Many would agree that a person with a mental
illness should not have a gun, but Raimondo's executive order allows for the Rhode Island government to determine which
individuals can have a gun.
Another
Texas School District Arms Employees to 'Protect Our Children'. A rural school district joined nearly 200 other
Texas school districts in arming their employees to protect students under a "Guardian" program. On Monday [2/26/2018], the
Fayetteville Independent School District announced its new safety plan. Signs went up that read: "Please be aware
that the staff at Fayetteville ISD may be armed and will use whatever force is necessary to protect our children." The
school district, which claims less than 250 enrolled students, houses all grades K-12 on one campus.
Dick's
Employee Pens Epic Resignation Letter in Response to New Firearms Policies. After the shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School sent shock waves through the ever-present debate about firearms, some retailers began
reevaluating their sales policies. Dick's Sporting Goods made headlines with their decision to cut some guns from
their catalog, and to raise the buying age for firearms to 21. This decision hasn't gone over well with everyone.
Disarming
20-Year-Old Moms. If you are a 20-year-old single mom with a restraining order against your threatening
ex-husband or ex-boyfriend, don't expect Dick's Sporting Goods to help you defend yourself and your child. Dick's will
no longer sell guns to such irresponsible and dangerous young people, even as we allow them to stop texting long enough to
determine gun policy in orchestrated town hall meetings. Nor will they sell "assault-style rifles," whatever that
means, presumably guns that look scarier than others but in practice pose no difference in lethality. Actually this is
not news. Dick's hasn't sold these weapons in its branded stores for six years. This is merely a grandstanding
minor extension of the ban to exploit the Parkland tragedy:
Delta
Airlines and Other Companies Crashing and Burning with NRA Boycott. In the wake of the horrible mass shooting
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the left quickly moved to blame the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the violence.
Why? The NRA is among the most famous conservative organizations in America, and they specifically defend every
Americans' 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. For this reason, the NRA has always been a target of the left,
and will likely continue to be a target for as long as they continue to fight for our liberty. However, the reality is
that the NRA has nothing to do with such terrible crimes as the shooting we saw at Douglas High School. The NRA is
actually a collection of some 5 [to] 14 million American citizens who spend their money and their time defending
every Americans' liberty.
Georgia
lawmakers yank tax break for Delta after airline cuts ties with NRA. Georgia lawmakers voted to nix a tax
benefit for Atlanta-based Delta as part of a broader tax package approved Thursday, following the airline's decision to sever
ties with the National Rifle Association. The bill — which includes a sweeping income tax cut —
cleared the state House on an overwhelming 135-24 vote, after being approved in the state Senate on a 44-10 vote. It
now heads to the governor's desk. The final version dropped an earlier amendment that would have renewed a jet fuel tax
exemption worth $50 million that was taken off the books in 2015.
13 tickets
cost Delta Airlines $50 million. Delta Airlines officials are reeling from public reaction to their virtue
signalling when they ended discounts for National Rifle Association members. The airline decided to blame the NRA for a
massacre in Florida. This publicity stunt backfired as not only did NRA members boycott the airline, but legislators in
Georgia scotched a $50 million tax exemption for the airline.
Only 13 Passengers Used
NRA Discount To Buy Delta Tickets. It appears that Delta Airlines gave up a $40 million tax break over a mere
thirteen passengers, according to a Friday report. A spokesperson for the Atlanta based company revealed that only 13
passengers had used their National Rifle Association membership to purchase tickets with Delta Airlines, reports USA Today[.]
The airline company confirmed that number to The Daily Caller News Foundation Friday afternoon [3/2/2018].
Georgia
governor signs bill nixing Delta tax break after NRA split. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Friday [3/2/2018] signed into
law a tax bill that fellow Republicans used to punish Atlanta-based Delta in retaliation for the airline's decision to sever ties with
the National Rifle Association. The final version of the bill dropped a tax break worth millions to the airline. Until it
was removed, the amendment would have renewed a jet fuel tax exemption taken off the books in 2015. But GOP lawmakers, led
by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, moved quickly to punish Delta for its split with the NRA.
The
number of Delta Air Lines passengers who bought tickets with NRA discount: 13. How many airline passengers does
it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines? Only 13. The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel
tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, dropped
the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear neutral on gun policy. After the firestorm,
Delta will review all its marketing programs to avoid those that might become political, CEO Ed Bastian announced Friday [3/2/2018].
The president may be
confused, but the citizenry is not. [Scroll down] The biggest problem in this senseless slaughter was that the courageous
calls to authorities fell on deaf ears and the system collapsed. So the purveyors of the system figure they will be able to stop the
next shooting if they disarm all law-abiding adults from 18-21, give law enforcement another law to avoid enforcing, demonize a group that
speaks for millions of lawful gun owners in America, and get rid of bump stocks, which is such an insult to our intelligence that it's painful.
It's like they were so busy since that massacre in Vegas that they didn't get around to it, and this has nothing to do with the Florida case, but
they'll ban them anyway, leading to an ultimate ban on semi-automatic firearms. It won't be long until most politicians say, "Who really
needs a semi-automatic?"
I
Bought My First Gun Because Of The CNN Town Hall. After ten minutes of CNN's town hall "debate" I had already
searched for gun safes, the closest firearms dealer near me, classes on gun safety, and an NRA membership. Whether
that's a sign the event was a rousing success or terrible failure depends on who you ask. But whenever the left talks
about gun control, significant numbers of people who see value in the Second Amendment run out and purchase a gun.
Normally, that wouldn't include me. But this time was different.
A
Machine Gun Is an 'Assault Rifle,' an AR-15 Is Not. I just read an article on "assault rifles." Though written
by a firearm professional and fairly accurate, the article still missed the mark on a few items. First off, an AR-15 is
not an "Assault Rifle," as it is not capable of firing in either burst or automatic modes. The AR in AR-15 stands for
"Armalite Rifle". Armalite was the first company to manufacture Eugene Stoner's rifle design in the late 1950's.
Another inaccuracy in the article was the suggestion that civilians cannot own machine guns. This is simply false.
Machine guns can be obtained for civilian ownership, however they come at a price of around $15,000 to $100,000 (or more).
There is no required permit or license to own a machine gun, but the purchaser is required to submit an ATF form 5320.4 and
submit to an extensive FBI background check which usually takes 12-18 months.
Muslims
are less than 1% of the United States population, but 33% of major mass shootings. In the last decade, there
were only 10 major mass shootings where the death toll went into the double digits. Three of those were carried out by
Muslim terrorists. That's all the more remarkable since Muslims make up less than 1% of the United States population,
but account for 33% of major mass shootings. Proportional to their representation in the population, Muslims are responsible
for far more mass shootings than Americans. The trend is worrisome. Since 2015, not a single year has passed without
a Muslim mass shooting. While 2017's Muslim mass shooter Kori Ali Muhammad only managed to kill three people in Fresno,
his expressions of racial and religious hatred make it clear that we are dealing with a hateful pattern.
They
Don't Hate The NRA. They Hate You. The progressives are cranking things up to 11 on the Stupid/Psycho Scale,
which is good for us in the short term — some of us Normals were growing complacent and the midterms are
coming. But we also need to open our eyes and accept the bitter reality we face. We can't just pretend the truth
is not the truth because we wish it were otherwise. The left's dropping of its mask has demonstrated once again the
undeniable fact. The left hates you. Just give them a listen. Those carefully selected moppet puppets are
out there on TV telling Normals "We are going to outlive you." When leftists tell you that you are going to die first, you
should believe they mean it. They have a track record of making that happen. And then there is the new meme, that
the NRA is a "terrorist" organization. This means you are a "terrorist" simply by advocating for your political views.
Trump Plans
to Ban Bump Stocks by Administrative Fiat. Today [2/28/2018] President Trump said he plans to prohibit bump
stocks by executive order, notwithstanding the lack of legal authority to impose such an administrative ban. "We can do
that with an executive order," Trump told Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). "I'm going to write the bump stock, essentially,
write it out. So you won't have to worry about bump stock[s]. Shortly that will be gone." Trump's determination
to ban bump stocks by administrative fiat is a blatantly political attack on the rule of law that conservatives would have
immediately condemned as such if Barack Obama had attempted it. Bump stocks are accessories that increase a rifle's rate
of fire by harnessing recoil energy to help the shooter slide the weapon back and forth against his trigger finger.
Previously an obscure novelty, they became notorious after they were used in the mass shooting that killed 58 people
in Las Vegas last year.
Dem
Obstruction of Education Officials Handcuffing Agency on School Safety. The Department of Education has been
handcuffed as it works to provide guidance on school safety following the murder of 17 students at a Florida high school due
to continued Democratic obstruction of nominees for its top leadership posts. One appointee who has been waiting months
to be confirmed is Frank Brogan, who happens to have a personal experience with school shootings.
Gun
Sales Skyrocket As Gun Owners Brace For An All-Out Assault On Our Second Amendment Rights. Every time the left
goes into a gun grabbing frenzy, gun sales always end up going through the roof. In the aftermath of the recent tragedy
in Florida, we are seeing an all-out assault on our 2nd Amendment rights like we haven't seen in decades. Politicians
from both parties are pushing for new gun control legislation, and as a result gun owners all over the nation are feverishly
stockpiling weapons and ammo while they still can. In fact, Google searches for "buy a gun" and "buy AR15" both just
hit the highest levels ever recorded. At a gun show down in Tampa, Florida over the weekend, nearly 7,000 people showed
up on a single day. The Republican governor down there has turned out to be a gun control nut, and so true
conservatives are buying guns while they still can.
Despite
Parkland's opposition, Florida House panel votes to arm teachers. Facing anguished relatives and classmates of
shooting victims, a panel of Florida legislators took the unprecedented step Tuesday of creating a new statewide program to
put armed teachers in classrooms — over the vocal opposition of Parkland residents. Voting along party
lines, the House Appropriations Committee approved training teachers to carry guns in class under the direction of local law
enforcement — if superintendents or school boards approve. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a
similar bill later Tuesday [2/27/2018]. "The last line of defense," said Rep. Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, referring
to teachers with guns.
Stop
hiding the surveillance video of the Parkland shooting. Open government isn't just good government. It's
the public's right. In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's Office and Broward County school district are fighting to
keep exterior surveillance video from the day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hidden from
view. As journalists and citizens who've waged uphill battles against secrecy well know, government agencies too often
invoke broad disclosure exemptions in the name of protecting public safety when they're really just trying to protect their
own jobs. Feckless Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and media darling school Superintendent Robert Runcie are
defendants in an open-records lawsuit filed Tuesday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Miami Herald and CNN.
Survey:
Americans Blame School Shooting on Government, Not Guns. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows that
Americans blame government rather than guns for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. According to
Rasmussen, 54% of Americans believe government failure is to "blame for the mass shooting." Only 33% of Americans blame
guns. Eleven percent of Americans say they are unsure what contributed to the occurrence of the mass shooting.
When the sample group was adjusted so as to focus only on Americans "who have children of elementary or secondary school
age," the percentage of Americans who cite government failure as causal jumped to 61 and the percentage who blamed guns
dropped to 23.
Australia
had no School Shootings Before Their Extreme Gun Restrictions. Australia did not have any rampage school
shootings before 1996, when they implemented their extreme gun ownership and use scheme. Zeif then claims that the
Australian parliament then "stopped it", and that there have been zero students shot in Australia since their extreme
restrictions on gun ownership and use were implemented. In fact, the closest Australia has had in a rampage school
shooting was in 2002, six years after the gun restrictions were put into effect. The events took place at Monash
University, not a grade or high school. That shooter did not use a rifle. He used six pistols. The
Australian parliament responded by passing even more restrictions on gun ownership and use. The next closest Australian
mass murder took place in 2000, four years after the extreme restrictions on gun ownership and use were put in place.
Delta
Airlines May Lose $40 Million Tax Break Over NRA Kerfuffle. By now, most Gateway Pundit readers are well aware
of Delta Airlines severing ties with the NRA and no longer offering group discounts to NRA members. The move could cost
the airline a $40 Million tax break that they'd been the beneficiaries of in Georgia, as the airline's headquarters and
main hub are located at the Atlanta based Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Delta's move doesn't go over so well with the
pro gun sentiments in the state, [...]
When the mob said, "We've got to DO SOMETHING," I don't think this is what they meant.
Florida
lawmakers reject assault weapons ban, approve bill allowing teachers to carry guns. Florida lawmakers shot down
an amendment on Monday that would have banned semi-automatic "assault" weapons like the AR-15 used in the Parkland school
massacre. They did, however, agree to raise the legal age for purchasing a firearm to 21 — and approved
legislation that would give teachers the right to carry guns in school, NBC-2 reports. The amendments were introduced
as part of a packaged set of bills being offered up following [a] shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Gun Grabbers Deny the
Science. The flaw in the public health claim about the need for more research into gun violence is the idea
that gun violence can be solved with "the same kind of scientific research that showed us how to save millions of lives from
cancer, heart disease and high blood pressure... [to] save half a million lives from road traffic crashes, without banning
cars... [and] that proved that second-hand smoke harms people." And to compare "gun violence" to the thalidomide tragedy
of the 1960s is just noxious. We've addressed these irrelevancies many times at Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, in
great detail [elsew]here. Guns are inanimate objects controlled by people. With any knowledge at all, they can
be dealt with safely despite certain intrinsic risks like misfires. It's entirely about where they are pointed and,
literally, how they are handled. They cause no contagion (it's psychological), no pathological spread (just illegal
acquisition like straw purchases and theft), and no societal threat (except by criminal use). None of this compares to the
issues addressed by true public health science, when people living normal lives are unknowingly, even helplessly subject to
illnesses and other risks of pathogens, lack of sanitation, and accidental injuries in the workplace and at home.
Why We Need the Second Amendment
More than Ever. It's evident now, no matter what you think of current gun laws, that a myriad of governmental
bureaucracies and police departments — from school authorities to social workers to the FBI to the Broward County
Sheriff's Office — screwed up on a level that borders on the incomprehensible. Blinded by a mutually
reinforcing cocktail of political correctness and organizational stupidity and ineptitude, they were clueless about the near
constant acting out of [the Florida shooter].
Why
the Left Opposes Arming Teachers. A New York Times editorial offered the following argument against having any
armed teachers: "Nationwide statistics on police shooting accuracy are not to be found. But if New York is
typical, analyses show that its officers hit their targets only one-third of the time. And during gunfights, when the
adrenaline is really pumping, that accuracy can drop to as low as 13 percent." But if that is an argument against
armed teachers, why isn't it an argument against armed police?
Counterattack
Hard Against Liberal Attacks on Our Gun Rights and Other Civil Liberties. We're now supposed to give up our
guns because it's the 21st Century, people, and the cops will totally protect us and oh, you can't dare criticize the FBI for
failing to disarm yet another ticking time bomb and what kind of crazy nut would expect a police officer to actually confront
a gunman? Show of hands: Who thinks this stops, even slows down, once those mean old not-actually-assault weapons
get banned? That liberals have taken a hard stand in favor of cowardice does not exactly fill one with confidence that
once we give up our Second Amendment rights that we'll be safer or freer.
Hundreds
Of Teachers Have Signed Up For Gun Training All Over The Country. The question of whether or not teachers
should be able to carry firearms in school has begun, and one Sheriff in Ohio is proactively training teachers to handle guns
by giving them free lessons. Fox Business reported that Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones offered the training to
teachers after the Parkland school shooting which left 17 dead, and the response was far greater than he had originally
anticipated, with hundreds signing up within hours.
Dear
United Airlines And Delta: If You Really Oppose Guns, Disarm Your Pilots And Crews. Legacy airlines
United and Delta announced Saturday that they will no longer offer discounted bulk travel rates for NRA members to use
exclusively for NRA gatherings, to which an estimated 100% of NRA members nationwide perplexedly responded, "Delta and United
used to give NRA members travel discounts?" Now that United and Delta have made crystal clear their hostility toward a
constitutionally protected civil right, they should follow their newfound activism to its logical conclusion and disarm not
only the U.S. Marshals who protect their flights but also the airlines' own pilots and crews.
The
Contemptible American Left. My life's experience has reinforced the concept that the right to bear arms is the
foundational basis of preserving and protecting freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and private property. The socialist
oligarchy the left is determined to establish in America requires that that fundamental right to be dramatically eroded and
under the thumb of a central authority. I immigrated to the United States from a continent that had nearly destroyed
itself in World War II. The war was the end product of the ascension to power of various egomaniacs, steeped in
socialist-Marxist ideology, determined to amass all political power within their countries. Once elected to office, these
despots began to centralize their authority and eliminate all individual freedoms and democratic institutions. As they lived
in nations that historically did not allow unfettered gun ownership, the people were incapable of stopping the inexorable seizure
of power, and many paid the price as nearly 40 million were killed and untold millions displaced during the war.
NRA
hits back: LaPierre, at CPAC, says 'opportunists' exploiting Florida tragedy for 'political gain'. The leader of the National
Rifle Association on Thursday [2/22/2018] pushed back hard against the latest efforts to enact new gun control measures in the wake of last week's school
shooting rampage in Florida, accusing liberals of exploiting the massacre "for political gain." "As usual, the opportunists wasted not one second
to exploit tragedy for political gain," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, said here in a fiery speech to conservative activists at the
Conservative Political Action Conference. LaPierre railed against "the elites" renewing calls for restricting gun ownership in the United States
since the Parkland, Fla. shooting. "Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eradicate all individual
freedoms," he said.
It's True, The Founding Founders Said
Second Amendment Is God-Given Right. As expected NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's speech at CPAC was panned by
liberal commentators. But there was a tiny part of his speech that was trashed more than others — the part
where he mentioned God.
Four
States Form Coalition to Track Guns After 'Federal Government's Continued Inaction'. Four governors announced a
coalition this week to attempt to stop out-of-state guns from coming into their localities with an information-sharing
database to trace and intercept firearms. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, New Jersey
Gov. Phil Murphy and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo call their coalition "States for Gun Safety," and said their
quad-state database will supplement the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System and launch the nation's
first Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium.
'Why
Not Give Me the Chance to Fight Back?': Armed Teacher Speaks Out. In the wake of the deadly school shooting in
Parkland, Florida, some are calling for teachers, administrators and other adults at schools to carry guns to help prevent
mass shootings. A Utah teacher joined Martha MacCallum on "The Story" to explain why she carries a handgun to school
every single day. Kasey Hansen revealed that the idea to arm herself in the classroom began with the 2012 shooting at
Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
NRA
CEO LaPierre: 'Ridiculous' to Say Armed Security Makes People Less Safe. Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National
Rifle Association, addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, pushing back on those who argue armed
security makes people less safe. LaPierre said there is far more armed security for politicians and celebrities than
for children in schools. "Does that make any sense to anybody?" he asked, calling for "effective armed security" to be
present at schools to prevent mass shootings. "The whole idea from some of our opponents that armed security makes us
less safe is completely ridiculous. If armed security makes us less safe, let's just go ahead and remove it from
everywhere. Let's remove it from the White House, from Capitol Hill, and remove it from all of Hollywood," he said.
Assault
Weapons [are] Not Protected by [the] Second Amendment, Federal Appeals Court Rules. Maryland's ban on 45 kinds
of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday [2/20/2018] by a federal appeals court in a
decision that met with a strongly worded dissent.
Florida
House kills assault weapons ban by 2-1. In the first sign that last week's Florida high school shooting hasn't
changed the gun control debate yet, the state's legislature Tuesday overwhelming voted against a plan to ban assault weapons.
David
Clarke: Fla. students' gun control push has 'George Soros' fingerprints all over it'. Former Milwaukee
County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. insinuated Wednesday [2/21/2018] that student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school
shooting were being manipulated by Democratic billionaire George Soros to organize for gun control. [...] Clarke's tweet
follows false conspiracy theories in right-wing media such as Gateway Pundit claiming that students at the Florida high school
who have appeared on CNN, including David Hogg, are "crisis actors" paid to exploit the shooting for nefarious purposes.
Children's
Crusade, 2018. Today [2/21/2018], left-wing organizers will lead high school students into the Florida
legislature, where they will demand that old chestnut, a ban on AR-15 style rifles. It isn't clear why anyone thinks
15-to-18-year-old kids have any special insight into the issues relating to mass murders by the mentally ill, but of course
that won't stop the left. One wonders whether the young people who will harangue Florida legislators even know that an
"assault weapons" ban was tried a couple of decades ago, and was allowed to lapse because it was a complete failure.
One wonders, too, how many of them know that the rifle is the least popular of murder weapons, ranking, according to the
FBI's statistics, well below knives, shotguns, blunt objects and bare hands. In 1994, when the "assault weapons" ban
was enacted, the Second Amendment was the stepchild of the Bill of Rights. That is no longer true; or, at least, it is
much less true today. Today, a ban on AR-15 style firearms might well be held unconstitutional, both under the Second
Amendment and as a violation of due process. Courts might well find that a ban on AR-15s irrationally distinguishes
between that style of rifle — America's most popular — and the many other semiautomatic rifles on the
market, based on differences that are largely cosmetic.
Hey Liberals, Armed Guards
In Schools Was Bill Clinton's Idea. I believe we need to create a program to arm teachers like they do in Israel,
or to put more than a single armed guard in schools. Every time someone recommends armed guards in schools a liberal is
there to call it stupid or pandering to the "gun lobby." I wonder how they would feel if they knew the first president
to suggest armed school guards. Because it was almost eighteen years ago then-president Bill Clinton, suggested putting
armed cops (or other trained armed guards) in schools.
What
Liberals Don't Understand: A Serious Attempt at Gun Confiscation Could Lead to Civil War. Liberals love
to fantasize about confiscating every gun in America. It may be their most beautiful dream. Liberals get control
of the Supreme Court and ignore the Second Amendment; Washington makes gun ownership illegal; almost all the guns come
pouring in or are destroyed; a few hapless Jim Bobs who won't get in line get shot up by the cops and then the government is
free to do anything it wants and if people don't like it, well, what are they going to do about it without guns? Let me
suggest a less happy, but probably more accurate version of how an attempt at gun confiscation would likely go.
Liberals get control of the Supreme Court and ignore the Second Amendment followed by Washington making gun ownership
illegal. So far, so good, right? Then the vast majority of police departments across the country refuse to do
more than accept weapons that are turned in and, of course, very few citizens actually hand over their weapons.
Kentucky
Gov. Bevin: We Have to Look at What Has Changed in Society; It Isn't the Gun. As calls grow louder
for gun control, even outright repeal of the Second Amendment on some social media threads, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R)
said those arguments miss the point. Guns have been with us since the nation's founding, but school shootings are a
relatively recent phenomenon. So it's not the gun, it's the culture that's changed, Gov. Bevin told Fox News's
Tucker Carlson Monday night [2/19/2018].
Democrat
Comes Out Against Gun Control, Says It's Not The Answer. A Democratic candidate running in Pennsylvania's
upcoming special election is cautioning people that calling for more gun control in the wake of the recent shooting in
Florida is not the answer to reducing the number of mass shootings in the United States. Democrat Conor Lamb insists
that the best way to prevent mass shootings is to enforce the laws that already exist and not enact more gun control laws.
No,
It's Not Cowardly to Be Conservative on Gun Rights. One of the worst aspects of the modern gun debate is the
presumption that Republican politicians vote the way they do not out of conviction but out of craven compliance —
that they care less about school shootings than they care about NRA campaign dollars or NRA votes. It's a sentiment
that plays very well on Twitter (note the retweets and likes), but it's detached from reality. In fact, those making
the argument either don't know or don't care about the extent to which courage is a cornerstone of gun culture. After
all, what good is a firearm if a law-abiding citizen doesn't have the courage and self-discipline to use it in self-defense
or in the defense of his family and neighbors?
7
Things We Can Do to Prevent Another School Massacre, Without Violating the Second Amendment. We all know there
is something wrong in our land. Desperately wrong. The recent massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Fla., is just another example of how the soul of our nation is rotting. There were heroes in the shooting, of
course. The people who were gunned down were innocent and much loved by their families. But down deep we all know
that something is wrong with our nation ... and it is only getting worse. What is the problem, and how do we address
it? Can we even solve the problem once we diagnose it? Are we even ready to face what will not work and what just
might work?
'All
bets are off' in NYC if federal gun law passes: NYPD head. Police Commissioner James O'Neill said it
would be "insanity" for the feds to force one state to recognize another's lax gun laws. A bill making its way through
Congress would make gun possession akin to a driver's license — so one state's looser regulations against
concealed weapons would be protected in tougher anti-gun states, like New York. "I think it's insanity," O'Neill told
CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday night [2/11/2018]. O'Neill said accidents and suicides —
in addition to crime — could skyrocket with more out-of-state guns around town.
A Warning to Gun Owners Regarding
Political Agendas and Democratic Dominated Police States. In late January, a Colorado teacher, while traveling
in NY, was arrested by local authorities at the Airport in Albany, NY (ALB) as she declared her legally-owned and correctly
packaged-for-travel pistol (in checked baggage) to SW Airlines for her trip home. TSA enforces federal law, so they
don't care. But local authorities, enforcing state law (or at least their interpretation of it), made the arrest, after
SW Airlines turned her in. This is just the latest in a endless series of arrests by state authorities in NY, NJ, MD,
CA, et al of hapless out-of-state gun-owners who made the mistake of trying to fly out of ALB, JFK, LGA, EWR, et al,
or who voluntarily "reported" their guns to local police, naively thinking they were thus in compliance with local laws.
Ban
on Guns within 1,000 feet of Parks is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Illinois has ruled that a state ban
on carrying guns within a 1,000 feet of a park is obviously unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because it
"directly implicates the core right of self-defense".
Beware:
The United Nations Is Taking Aim at Ammo. The United Nations will have a busy year in 2018 on the firearms
front. That's not good news for anyone in the U.S. who buys firearms. When it comes to the U.N. and guns, the
best form of action is always inaction. Worse, manufacturers and importers at this year's SHOT Show — the
Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, organized by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for
the firearms industry, which ran from Jan. 23 to 26 — believe they're starting to see the results of past U.N.
anti-gun efforts. Bottom line: there are more problems for U.S. gun importers, while China gets a free pass on a
critical issue.
What It's Like
to Live in a State Hostile to Gun Owners. [Scroll down] The one thing many gun owners here will say is
that they feel like they have been abandoned. I know many former NRA members who will no longer pay money when they
feel like they have been left out in the cold, which has led to the rise of organizations here like S.C.O.P.E., small in
stature but fiercely fighting for gun owners when they can. Gun owners need hope; they need a reason to get out and
vote. We need candidates who don't just give out the "You can't fight New York City" line and just go along to
get their paycheck and pension. We need someone to run for governor who can find upstate and northern New York without
having to look for it on a map or who has been north of Albany more than once or twice in their lives. I feel for those
in other states like mine (NJ, CA) who have no problem stripping the rights away from gun owners. Right now Andrew
Cuomo is proposing a new law where gun owners who are arrested for domestic violence lose their firearms, permanently.
Hypocrisy
Alert: Golden Globes Security For 'Elites' Included Walls, Guns, ID Checks. Wait, isn't it "racist" and
"anti-immigration" to demand identification checks, and twelve-foot high walls to hold back the "unwashed masses"?
And, aren't we supposed to ban all guns?
Walls,
BIG guns, military vehicles protect Hollywood elites at Golden Globes. Even if an adoring member of the unwashed
masses wanted to get close to a Hollywood A-lister, they couldn't, as elite celebrities were protected by walls, heavily-armed
police and even military vehicles near the Golden Globes venue on Sunday [1/7/2018]. Photos tweeted by Margaret Carrero
show heavy security outside the Beverly Hilton. One photo shows a massive wall, approximately 12 feet high,
surrounding the venue. If that wasn't a deterrent enough, the road was blocked by heavily armed police.
Federal
Investigators Couldn't Illegally Buy Guns Through Legitimate Websites Despite 72 Attempts. Federal agents
posing as criminals were unable to purchase any firearms from legitimate online marketplaces despite dozens of attempts over
a two-year period. Between July 2015 and November 2017 investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO),
following up on a congressional request, tried to make the illegal private gun purchases through a number of online forums
and market places. They made 72 attempts over that time but couldn't complete a single sale using legitimate
sites. In 29 attempts the gun sellers refused the sale after being asked to illegally ship the gun to the buyer.
Twenty-seven sellers refused after being told the potential buyer was a felon, domestic abuser, or otherwise prohibited from
buying a firearm.
Dem-ordered
study to expose illegal online gun sales backfires. A Democrat-backed study meant to expose illicit online gun
sales instead seemed to show the opposite — with hardly any sellers taking the bait when undercover investigators
tried to set up dozens of illegal firearm transactions. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., as well as Sens. Elizabeth
Warren, D-Mass., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, had commissioned the Government Accountability Office report to look into how
online private dealers might be selling guns to people not allowed to have them.
PA
Calls For Medical Marijuana Users To 'Dispose' Of Their Firearms. The Pennsylvania State Police are angering
some gun owners in the Keystone State. You see, the state now has a medical marijuana program. They also have
people with guns. And, like the police in other states, they don't want people with medical marijuana cards to have guns.
Woman
who declared her gun range a 'Muslim Free Zone' announces bid for Arkansas governor. A gun rights activist who
once dubbed her shooting range a "Muslim Free Zone" has announced her bid for governor of Arkansas. Jan Morgan, a
former journalist turned gun range owner, said in a campaign video that she would be challenging the state's current,
Republican governor in the GOP primary in May. Ms Morgan described herself as "a born again Christian, a
genetically conservative wife, mother, small business owner [and] certified firearms instructor".
Six
Insane California Laws That Will Be Implemented On Monday. [#6] Schools will no longer be allowed to decide whether or
not they're "gun-free zones": Because the legislature has decided for them. AB 424 says school administrators can
no longer permit employees with concealed carry permits to conceal and carry firearms on campus. Which means the only
people with guns on campus will be criminals and campus police, who more often than not can only respond to shootings, not
prevent them.
BBC
Curious As To Why Guns Sales Spike At Christmas. I guess being British and all, they didn't seem to understand
why gun sales seem to spike at Christmas time. Maybe they figured "peace on Earth, goodwill to men" meant people would
trust in the holiday season more than in Glock, Ruger, and Remington or something. [...] People give one another firearms for
Christmas. How is this surprising? Well, it's probably because that's not an option in the UK. They've long
forfeited their right to keep and bear arms, so now that's not even an option for them. As a result, they're stunned that
it happens. The BBC did report on the legalities of giving guns, probably because they're surprised you can do it.
Exclusive:
Virgin Islands Extends Order Allowing Seizure Of Weapons. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp extended
an order allowing the National Guard to seize arms from civilians. Mapp, an independent, signed an executive order in
September that stated the Adjutant General is "authorized and directed to seize arms, ammunition... and any other property
that may be required by the military forces for the performance of this emergency mission." The order declaring a state
of emergency and putting the state's national guard in active duty came ahead of Hurricane Irma's impact on the USVI. Two
Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, both devastated the USVI this fall, and Mapp declared on December 1 an
extension of his previous order to last through January 4, 2018.
Cuomo
proposes taking guns from domestic abusers. Gov. Cuomo wants to take firearms from people who engage in
domestic violence — the first step in a plan to address victimization of women. His proposal would close a
loophole in current law that allows people convicted of misdemeanor abuse, but not felonies, to keep their weapons.
"In nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in United States history, including Las Vegas ... the shooter had an existing
record of committing violence against women, threatening violence against women or harassing or disparaging women," the
governor said. He added that firearms were used in 25 domestic homicides in New York state last year.
A
Massachusetts Police Officer Talks About How an Unpaid Traffic Ticket Could Result in a Gun Ban. The "Fix NICS
Bill" (aka, the "Traffic Ticket Gun Ban") is being fraudulently sold in Congress as a way to insure that NICS has the names
of horrible criminals. But this is the standard tactic of the "Gun Control Movement" and their allies in the "just
enforce the federal gun laws" camp. How many of the "Bonnie-and-Clyde" type criminals do we really think have been left
out of NICS [National Instant Criminal Background Information System]? If the Sutherland Springs killer was part of an Air
Force omission, well, that omission is already being addressed administratively. And do we honestly think that an
initial denial by the NICS system will really stop a committed killer from getting a weapon? Similar to other killers,
the Sandy Hook murderer simply stole the weapons he used.
Three
Pinocchios For Pelosi On Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. As with most things these days, it started with a
tweet. After the House passed their version of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, the former Speaker of the House (now
Minority Leader), Nancy Pelosi expressed her displeasure by going on social media and informing everyone that the Republicans
were once again trying to unleash drooling hordes of criminals and dungeon dwellers on the nation armed to the teeth.
20
of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Gun Moments of 2017. Just when we thought things couldn't get any crazier than the
whirlwind year we had during the presidential election of 2016, we were served 2017. With a pro-Second Amendment President
sitting in the White House and two mass shootings shaking the nation, the calls for increased gun control have grown considerably
stronger. That burning need to do something, anything, to prevent another tragedy like Vegas or Sutherland Springs —
or any other act of senseless gun violence — from happening again is understandable. But it does not give anyone a
free pass to throw out falsehoods and outright lies to promote their agenda. Despite what anti-gunners think, Second Amendment
advocates aren't completely against sensible gun laws. It's just that most of the suggestions being thrown out there aren't,
well, sensible. That's largely due to the fact that most gun control advocates have zero to minimal understanding of firearms,
the importance of our Second Amendment, and existing gun laws.
For
Concealed Carry Reciprocity, Gun Grabbers Are Suddenly Concerned With States Rights. The same people who want
all sorts of federal laws banning and grabbing guns, along with lots and lots of restrictions on ownership by law abiding
citizens, is suddenly concerned. The House passed a bill allowing nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry permit
holders when they travel to states other than their own[.]
Ohio
Police Chief: Concealed carry laws are wildly confusing. Here's why they need to change. Gun owners
who take pains to follow the law are always worried they'll make a mistake someday and break a law without even realizing
it. As the chief of police in Gahanna, Ohio, and as a gun owner myself, I am all too often asked about confusing gun
laws, and all too often confronted with what happens when a well-intentioned person gets in trouble for something they didn't
know was wrong. The laws regulating concealed carry are some of the nation's most confusing, and finally, Congress is
trying to do something to change that.
House Passes
Interstate Concealed-Carry Gun Bill. A bill to allow gun owners with concealed carry permits in one state to
legally carry their weapons in any other state overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, by a vote
of 231-198 in the GOP-controlled chamber, including six Democrats who voted in support. Rep. Richard Hudson,
R-N.C., introduced the legislation, the "Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017" (H.R. 38), on Jan. 3. It
treats concealed carry permits like driver's licenses, validating a permit from one state in the other 49, in order to
spare lawful gun owners having to navigate a confusing patchwork of concealed carry laws around the nation.
GOP-led
House passes bill making it easier for gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines. Republicans
rammed a bill through the House on Wednesday [12/6/2017] that would make it easier for gun owners to legally carry concealed
weapons across state lines, the first significant action on guns in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed
more than 80 people. The House approved the bill, 231-198, largely along party lines. The measure would allow gun
owners with a state-issued concealed-carry permit to carry a handgun in any state that allows concealed weapons. It now
goes to the Senate.
The Editor says...
Notice that when Democrats have control of the House, a bill can "sail through" or "pass easily," but when
Republicans are in the majority, the bills are "rammed" through.
Rep.
Thomas Massie Exposed BIG Democrat Gun Control Attempt Attached To Reciprocity Bill. Kentucky Republican Thomas
Massie is blowing the whistle on a quiet attempt by the Democrats to piggyback gun control legislation onto the much
anticipated national reciprocity bill heading to the floor for a vote. The bill, known as the "Fix NICS" bill, is an
Obama style regulation that, according to Massie, would require government entities to submit thousands of names into the
NICS database for denial of the purchase of a firearm. The legislation is being quietly added in a Trojan Horse style
by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein
The
Truth About The 4,000 Guns Sold By Gun Stores To Prohibited Individuals. Sutherland Springs exposed flaws in
the NICS system. Whether you agree with background checks or not, they're the law and the Air Force blew it on that
one. They failed to input the information into the system. Plain and simple. However, is the lack of data
being input the only flaw in the system by any stretch of the imagination. Well, the FBI asked BATFE seize thousands of
firearms from prohibited people who bought them in gun stores, most after NICS failed to report that the individual was prohibited.
Don't Register Anything.
Like too many jurisdictions, Hawaii requires gun owners to register their firearms. Also like an excess of other
control-freaky places, the state requires medical marijuana users to register themselves with the state Department of
Health. As it turns out, those who dutifully abide by both requirements find themselves in trouble. Hawaii may
allow the use of marijuana for medicinal uses, and even require registration of its users, but the state continues to regard
the practice as a violation of federal law.
Feds
issue 4,000 orders to seize guns from people who failed background checks. Federal authorities sought to take
back guns from thousands of people the background check system should have blocked from buying weapons because they had
criminal records, mental health issues or other problems that would disqualify them. A USA TODAY review found that the
FBI issued more than 4,000 requests last year for agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives to
retrieve guns from prohibited buyers. It's the largest number of such retrieval requests in 10 years, according
to FBI records [...]
Medical
Marijuana rules being used to confiscate guns in Hawaii. While 29 states have legalized medical marijuana in
some form, the drug is still illegal under federal law. Some police departments are now selectively enforcing federal
law — people can get the medical marijuana, they just can't own guns. Hawaii requires all medical marijuana
users to register in a state-run patient registry and also requires gun owners to register all their weapons with the county
police chief. The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports that in January The Honolulu Police Department started sending out
letters telling medical marijuana users that they 'have 30 days' to turn in their guns.
FBI
receives single day record of over 200,000 requests for gun background checks on Black Friday. The FBI said on
Saturday that it was inundated with over 200,000 requests for background checks for gun purchases on Black Friday —
setting a single day record. The bureau said that it received 203,086 requests for background checks on Friday
[11/24/2017], smashing the previous all-time single day record of 185,713 in 2016 and 185,345 in 2015.
Know
the facts: Anti-gun activists utilize emotional grief to line their pockets. The Second Amendment is
under siege now more than ever. Every day, we see more assaults made on our Constitutional rights to keep and bear
arms. Radical gun-grabbing organizations like Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Coalition to Stop
Gun Violence are just a few of the national organizations that seek to take away law abiding citizens' guns, and it's not
much better at the university level. There's a Student Pledge Against Gun Violence and a campaign to "Keep Guns Off
Campus." In many cases, students cannot exercise their recognized rights just because they step foot on campus. These
radical organizations employ misleading phrases to win over new supporters such as "Secure freedom from gun violence",
"Disarm Hate," and "take common-sense steps to save lives". However, they don't tell you what gun-grabbers' real intentions
are. These organizations carefully craft phrases they know will cause an emotional response from Americans. It's
all propaganda used to fill their pockets and combat their boogeyman: the National Rifle Association.
Man protected
by guards still wants your guns. Out in rural America, we are often 20 miles from the nearest law enforcement
officer. [Joe] Biden doesn't carry a gun. He doesn't have to. But the rest of us need one. We are not
The Chosen Few flanked by a Praetorian Guard.
How
Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch handed Jeff Sessions a huge present. If the law were properly enforced, there would be fewer incidents of what
the gun grabbers call "gun violence." Fewer incidents to use as propaganda for demanding even more draconian laws limiting the access of law-abiding
citizens to firearms through new laws. Here is the opportunity this enforcement fiasco has created for Sessions, and his boss, President Trump.
Start with a high-profile denunciation of the DOJ's failure over the last 8 years to protect the public. This could be done by either President
Trump or his AG. There surely are instances of people who were not prosecuted and went on to commit crimes. The victims of those crimes can be
highlighted and a finger of responsibility pointed at the DOJ. President Trump then directs, via an executive order, his DOJ to prioritize prosecution
of violations of the background check documentation. A signing ceremony, accompanied by remarks criticizing the failures of AGs Holder and Lynch, and
promising to reverse the harm they have caused by their negligence, would be good.
One
Starry Eyed Editorialist Still Dreams Of Mass Gun Confiscations. In the aftermath of the Texas church shooting
there's been the usual amount of soul searching and demands that somebody "do something" about gun violence. And as
always happens, the usual list of suspects begins proposing the same old solutions which wouldn't have done anything to stop
the guy.
ABC
News: Firearm Confiscation Orders [are] Part of [a] Solution to Mass Public Attacks. Senate Democrats
pushed nine different gun controls during the past six weeks, and ABC News has now emerged with a tenth gun law which they
suggest may be the ringer. That law would legalize firearm confiscation orders like those in Washington state.
Such orders allow a judge to issue an ex parte order for the confiscation of an American's firearms. This means
the order can be issued without the firearm owner even being present for the process. His or her first knowledge of
the order would come when police knocked on their door to sweep the house for firearms.
Democrats
using Texas tragedy to advance agenda. What kind of demonic soul walks into a church a murders 26 innocent
people, including several children, at point-blank range? What kind of heartless monster instantly seizes on such
senseless tragedy to advance a personal political agenda? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, for
one. Authorities identified the killer as a severely deranged and violent reject illegally in possession of guns, but
Ms. Warren somehow accused the Republican Party of perpetrating the atrocity.
Trump
Pentagon pick says its 'insane' for civilians to own semi-automatic weapons. President Trump's nominee to lead
the military health system said Tuesday he thinks it is "insane" for civilians to be able to purchase semi-automatic rifles
like the one a gunman used to kill 26 people at a Texas church. Dean Winslow, a professor at Stanford University and
retired Air Force colonel, made his remarks during his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Service committee,
according to the Washington Examiner. "I may get in trouble with other members of the committee just say how insane it
is that in the United States of America a civilian can go out and buy a semi-automatic like an AR-15, which apparently was
the weapon that was used," Winslow said. "I think that's an issue not as much for this committee, but elsewhere."
Levin:
Texas Church Shooting Hero Is 'Everything the Liberals Hate About Americans'. On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Tuesday
[11/7/2017], host Mark Levin explained why the Texas church shooting "is being covered differently by the media than Las Vegas," saying, it's
because the hero in Texas is "everything the liberals hate about Americans, about America." "He's everything the liberals hate about
Americans and America," said Mark Levin. "[He's] the plumber, white Christian, male, NRA member, former NRA instructor, owning an
AR-15 — he's not wearing shoes when he runs outside his very modest house — and he stops the killer."
Thoughts
and Prayers for Anti-Gun Freaks Grieving Over Death of The Narrative. The synchronized leftist response to this latest attack on
normal Christians was pre-planned, and it didn't matter that this time it was another militant atheist weirdo instead of an ISIS-loving foreigner.
The memes and the lies were all prepped and ready, and the villain was already chosen. No surprise — once again, it was you, the normal
American who keeps and bears arms to protect yourself, your family, your community and your Constitution. But this time it didn't go the
way they wanted.
The Problem
Isn't Gun Laws, It's Government Incompetence. Obviously, in the wake of the Texas church shooting, Leftists
(who often refuse to give up their own guns and/or their armed security) are again calling for lots and lots of gun control,
right up to draconian restrictions and even a repeal of the 2nd Amendment.
Ted
Cruz: Dems Filibustered Legislation That Would Have Had Texas Church Shooter in Prison. Yesterday, on
"Fox News @ Night," Cruz really laid into Democrats. He said that in 2013, the Democrats filibustered the Grassley-Cruz
legislation that "would have resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that
Texas church." I still admire and really follow Ted Cruz and I know he is sick in his soul over this killing in his
state. I'm also sure he's furious because it didn't have to be this way.
Libs think you're Stupid. Are
You? Another mass shooting, this time in a Texas church and we hear the same old mantra from Democrat leaders
and the lamestream press. It's guns. We need more gun laws to combat right wing hate speech that's driving these
incidents. If you've drunk the Kool-Aid, you don't bother checking the facts and trust that these pseudo intellectuals
know what they're talking about. [...] What they will not tell you is that most of these mass killings are committed by
jihadists, left wing psychotics and atheists. They also ignore that it is the hate speech on the left that has spurred
attacks on recent innocent victims.
Obama
Uses Texas Church Massacre To Call For Fewer Guns. Former President Barack Obama used the Texas church shooting that
left 26 people dead on Sunday [11/5/2017] to call for fewer guns. Obama said that Americans should ask God for "the wisdom
to ask what concrete steps we can take to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst." [...] Obama, who has taken an unusually
active role during his successor's administration, offered no specific details on what those steps to reduce the guns "in our midst"
would look like.
NFL
in Death Spiral: San Fran 49's Spend $$ on Gun Control, Not Better Players. Did you really think the
politicization of the NFL starts and stops with the taking of a knee at the sounds of the national Anthem you are
wrong. Now the San Fran 49'ers are acting as a Democrat Party PAC — giving $500,000 to promote gun
control. "According to ESPN, the 49ers presented the gun control pledge as part of creating a "more understanding and
safer America." The $500,000 will also be used to push a ban on bump stocks and armor-piercing bullets. The ban on
armor-piercing bullets is somewhat ambiguous, but appears similar to a ban which was unsuccessfully pushed by the Obama
administration in 2015.
Former
NPR CEO: I Changed My Mind About Supporting Gun Control After Writing Book on Conservative America. The former
CEO of National Public Radio came back from a reporting trip on conservative America having changed his mind about the
efficacy of gun control measures, he said on Tuesday [10/24/2017]. Ken Stern appeared on "Morning Joe" to discuss his new
book, Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. Stern, a Democrat,
wrote he realized he was cordoned off in a liberal bubble and set off into conservative enclaves of America to expose himself
to new ideas. Co-host Willie Geist asked him if he altered his views on any key issues as a result of the book.
Stern said he had changed them on guns, and it began with a notion he hadn't thought of before: that gun homicides have
declined significantly over the past 25 years.
Why don't you just play football?
San
Francisco 49ers Pledge $500,000 to Push Suppressor Ban, Other Gun Control Measures. The San Francisco 49ers
pledged $500,000 Thursday to secure a suppressor ban and other gun controls. The push comes in the weeks after the Las
Vegas attack. Suppressors were not used in that attack, but the 49ers are dedicated to banning the devices anyway.
According to ESPN, the 49ers presented the gun control pledge as part of creating a "more understanding and safer America."
The $500,000 will also be used to push a ban on bump stocks and armor-piercing bullets.
RINO! The Grand Old Politburo and the Leviathan State.
No politician in America favors limiting or prohibiting the gun ownership and access of government employees and those with
special privileges granted by the ruling class to arm themselves. They are opposed to the private ownership of
firearms. Every gun law on the books from the local to the Federal level have one purpose: to infringe, abridge
and deny the non-government keeping and bearing of weapons. The Second Amendment merely guarantees a pre-existing natural
right. That is the goal. Wholesale eradication of weapons in private hands.
Study
Claims Network News Exploited Las Vegas To Push Gun Control Agenda. Immediately following Las Vegas, gun rights
activists knew gun control supporters would go on the offensive. Those same gun rights activists knew the mainstream
media was unlikely to serve as an ally. Now, a study seems to confirm what so many already suspected. The network
news programs may well have exploited the Las Vegas tragedy to push their gun control agenda. [...] The massive imbalance in
the coverage may well explain the supposedly massive support for gun control in a recent poll. With a near constant
bombardment of anti-gun propaganda and no moderating counterpoint, it's not surprising that people may well feel that gun
control is the only answer. Especially since the media made no effort to show any alternatives.
The
Controllers: "We Want Monitoring Of Ammunition Stockpiling". [Scroll down] I never really thought
Hugh Hewitt was a conservative. But it does go to show that even the supposed conservatives are giving you up (case in
point, the NRA, whose willingness to compromise empowered the controllers, who saw nothing but weakness). They don't care
about your rights, whether firearms or the ammunition to use in them. I know, I know. The Supreme Court may block
such rules and regulations, but they may not. They didn't block the assault weapons ban, and Heller was a weak
enough decision that it may even be used to bolster the ammunition control case.
NRA
spokeswoman: Dems want to ban 'every single part of a rifle'. Conservative pundit and National Rifle
Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch warned that any new gun control measures in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting could
lead to a total ban on guns. "Dianne Feinstein is looking to make a Christmas tree out of the gun control bill," Loesch
said Friday in a speech to the Values Voter Summit, a Christian conservative conference hosted by the Family Research
Council. "If they get their way, it's going to be like Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time," Loesch continued.
"They are going to ban every single part of a rifle — period — your regular hunting rifle, until the
whole thing is banned. It was made perfectly clear last week and it was made perfectly clear the week before
that — no bans, no bills, period. None."
'No one Wants
To Take Our Guns'? Oh, Really? Almost immediately after the Las Vegas shooting came the calls for "common-sense"
gun control. The quest almost always begins with a reassurance that "no one wants to take away your guns." Not
everyone read the memo. Nelson Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc., the organization that became the Brady Campaign
to Prevent Gun Violence, in a 1976 interview could not have been more clear about his group's goals: "Our ultimate goal — total
control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to 10 years. The
first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem
is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except
for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal."
Statistical Anomalies
Do Not Deserve Blood Sacrifice of the Remainder. The Second Amendment was never written to enable a sport like hunting or target
shooting; it was written and understood from a deadly serious point of view about the security and nature of a free state. It was
written to debilitate a tyrannical government and keep it in check until it could be overthrown. Nothing that has transpired in the
20th or 21st Centuries so far has refuted the utility or importance of the Second Amendment. The means of self-defense in the
hands of the citizenry simply and clearly define the difference between slaves and citizens.
Fmr.
Obama Senior Adviser Calls for Gun Confiscation 'Similar to the One Australia Instituted'. Former Obama White
House advisor Dan Pfeiffer called for the United States to implement an Australian-style gun confiscation program in an
article published on Wednesday [10/11/2017]. Former President Barack Obama previously said in 2016 that the United States
should consider following the example of Australia, which enacted a "mandatory buy-back" of guns and created a gun registry.
Pfeiffer echoed that view in Wednesday's article, published on Crooked, a media site founded by three former Obama staffers.
Pfeiffer argued Democrats should propose such a program and outlined an extensive regimen of gun restrictions that Democrats could
support, advising they stop "insincere pandering" to gun owners. "We are nibbling around the edges instead of proposing bold,
meaningful solutions," Pfeiffer wrote. His suggestions included implementing a national gun registry, mandating "smart-gun
technology," and rolling-out a buy-back program similar to Australia's.
The
Unbelievable Stupidity of Those Who Believe that Laws Stop the Lawless. Lady Gaga is the latest celebrity
weighing in on the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre by blaming lawmakers (aka Republicans) for not passing more gun
control. Yoo-hoo Lady G, no law would have prevented the slaughter because the alleged suspect passed all federal
laws purchasing his legal guns. Here's a tip which I give freely (as someone who loathes guns and is not a member of the
NRA): if you hear anyone urging Congress to pass more gun controls immediately, consider that person mentally deficient.
That advice will be coming from celebrities, the media and politicians who probably all have armed security to protect them.
Let's
Have a Real Debate on Guns. The pattern is depressingly familiar: Someone uses a gun in an act of mayhem
and murder. Progressive and center-left politicos demand "action" in the form of gun-control legislation.
Congress toys with the idea but doesn't pass much of anything. The [New York] Times and other liberal
publications and commentators denounce the "gun lobby" to which they attribute vast powers of coercion.
Statistician
Supported Gun Control. Now She Says It's A Lie. Check Out Why. With so many people insisting that
the Las Vegas massacre confirms what they've always thought about gun control, it is refreshing to hear from someone who
changed her mind on the subject after considering the evidence. "My colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three
months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States," Leah Libresco, a statistician who used to
work for the data journalism site, writes in The Washington Post. "We looked at what interventions might have
saved those people, and the case for the policies I'd lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence." Regarding the
much-touted gun control laws of Britain and Australia, Libresco found that "neither nation experienced drops in mass
shootings or other gun-related crime that could be attributed to their buybacks and bans." Looking into bans on
so-called assault weapons, she concluded that the category is an arbitrary construct with little practical significance.
Call
to Disarm Citizens Violates Natural Rights. An un-preventable tragedy occurred in Las Vegas this week. A
man who easily passed a background check bought legal weapons, ammunition, and accessories, then used them all in an illegal
manner. While most of the country mourned the dead, prayed for all of the victims and sought answers as to "why," the
anti-Second Amendment and gun control crowd immediately started their impossible demands. Their assumptions and
imaginations could not wait for facts. They call for "universal background checks" even though this man passed
his. They call for banning automatic weapons, even though they are already highly restricted and the killer didn't use
them. They call for new laws even though the existing laws did nothing to prevent this massacre. Homicide is
illegal. Shooting in public is illegal. Terrorism is illegal. This coward broke numerous laws, yet the left
immediately demands more. To what end? No proposed law would have stopped the Vegas shooting.
The New York Times says...
Repeal the Second
Amendment. Repealing the Amendment may seem like political Mission Impossible today, but in the era of same-sex
marriage it's worth recalling that most great causes begin as improbable ones. Gun ownership should never be outlawed,
just as it isn't outlawed in Britain or Australia. But it doesn't need a blanket Constitutional protection, either.
When
You Politicize Shootings You Make It Harder To Find Solutions. The unstated reality is that many of these
murders probably can't be stopped. Attempting to preemptively discern which of our neighbors are ideologically driven
or mentally capable of committing mass murder is no more feasible than trying to keep every one of the 350 million guns
in the country away from them. Most often, even the relatives seem to be at a complete loss as to why it happens.
Hillary:
Be Silent, Please. Liberals have, of course, seized on the [Las Vegas] murders to renew their calls for "common
sense gun control." The problem they can't solve is that we already have hundreds of common sense laws and regulations on the
books relating to firearms. If there is another one that would prevent murders like this from taking place, what is it?
Why We Need More Men With
Guns, Not Less. Anti-gun activists would like you to think that gun violence is a growing problem in the United
States as alpha males flock to gun shows to buy weapons. But this is completely untrue. Gun violence has
decreased almost equally with the increase in gun ownership. States with higher gun ownership don't have more
murders. Not to mention, since 1993, the gun homicide rate has fallen by nearly 50 percent, despite recent increases in
some urban areas. This decrease in gun violence is a statistic gun control activists often bury because it doesn't fit
their narrative. Regardless of facts, they continue to spread misinformation, resulting in many people thinking we're
awash in gun violence. A Pew Research survey in 2013 found "56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years
ago and only 12% think it is lower." A mass killing like the one we witnessed in Las Vegas is horrific, but we can't
extrapolate from this that gun violence is on the rise or that men who own guns are an inevitable threat. The fact is,
mass shootings are still very rare, and most men who own guns aren't out killing people. They're mostly out saving
lives or preparing to do so.
There's
No Correlation Between Gun Ownership, Mass Shootings, and Murder Rates. Mass shootings here include a shooting
involving 4 or more people, and do not necessarily mean school shooting. They can mean someone went nuts and shot his
wife, her lover, and two bystanders at a birthday party when the shooter personally knew all the victims. There are not
just cases of random public shootings. If we only included those, the total numbers would be microscopically small.
Even with all mass shooting data together, it's obvious that your odds of being involved in one in any given year are vanishingly
small, and less than 1 per 100,000 in 48 states. I've included all victims, not just fatalities here.
Bump-Stock
Device Received ATF Green Light During Obama Administration. On June 7, 2010 — about a year and a
half into the Barack Obama administration — the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued an
opinion letter, giving the go-ahead to an after-market accessory that allows the user to "bump fire" a semi-automatic
rifle. A company called Slide Fire had earlier sent its patented replacement shoulder stock to ATF's Firearms
Technology Branch, asking for an evaluation of the device. The ATF, in reply, wrote: "Your letter advises that
the stock (referenced in this reply as a 'bump stock') is intended to assist persons whose hands have limited mobility to
'bump fire' an AR-15 type rifle."
Democrats
Demanding 'Bump Stock' Was The Problem In Vegas — Did They Know OBAMA Approved It? The "goofy, little doodad"
known as a bump stock, approved under the Obama administration was used by Stephen Paddock to modify his AR-15s. And of
course, the left is in an uproar. They don't understand how the "doodad" works and they have no awareness that it's
only legal because of Obama.
Flashback:
Obama Administration Signed Off On The Use of Bump Stocks in 2010. A bump stock is an after-market accessory
which replaces the factory stock and grip of an assault rifle. It operates by harnessing the natural recoil of a
firearm, allowing the user to continuously fire as the trigger is repeatedly bumped against an individual's firing
finger. The company Slide Fire patented a shoulder version of the bump stock and sent the device to Obama's ATF for
regulatory evaluation in early 2010. The ATF approved Slide Fire's device in June of that year.
What
'gun law' would have prevented the Vegas Massacre? There are more questions than answers concerning the Las
Vegas massacre. In the frenzy to cover a story with so many glaring unknowns, contradictory information comes
out. Some reporters are focused on getting a scoop, others on parroting the official line, and others on exploiting the
situation to advance an agenda. What's real, what's not, what's being deliberately planted, and by whom? With a
flood of information coming from so many sources of indeterminate reliability, it's almost impossible to know
who — or what to believe.
On
average, there is mass killing bigger than Vegas in Chicago each month. There were 762 murders in Chicago in
2016, the most in 19 years. On average, there was mass killing — by different perps — that adds
up bigger than the Las Vegas massacre each month. Where is the wall-to-wall coverage? Chicago has very strict gun
laws, with no gun shops in Chicago. The Chicago police and politicians know where the criminals, gangs, and guns are,
so why don't they get them off the street? We see more effort to restrain the cops instead of restraining the
criminals. In Chicago and elsewhere, we repeatedly see killings and other serious crimes committed by illegals and
legal citizens with long criminal records. What we have is a catch-and-release program instead of a system that
protects the public. We have more concern for the criminals than either the cops or the victims.
Vegas
Atrocity As Political Opportunity. [Scroll down] As for Hillary, the yet-to-be-indicted failed former
secretary of state started her day yesterday making nonsensical statements indicating she doesn't understand guns and how
they work, not to mention physics. "The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots," Clinton tweeted Monday at 10:03 a.m.
"Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get." But if Paddock had used a
silencer, also called a suppressor, on the barrels of his rifles his murder spree would have ended soon after it got underway.
This is because a metal silencer on a continuous-fire weapon would have quickly deformed or melted from the intense heat
generated. Anyone who has ever fired a rifle knows that even an ordinary rifle is loud. The powerful weapons
Paddock used are much louder. It is somewhere between impossible and very unlikely that a silencer would have muffled
the extraordinarily loud sound of a machine gun. After making a fool out of herself, at 10:04 a.m. she tweeted,
"Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop
this from happening again." Of course, demonizing the NRA and its millions of Second Amendment-supporting members
isn't actually putting politics aside [...]
All-Out
War Against The NRA Begins After Las Vegas Massacre. Left-wing politicians, activists and journalists are using
the worst mass shooting in modern American history to attack one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations. The
National Rifle Association (NRA) became a convenient scapegoat following the Las Vegas mass shooting that left at least 58 people
dead and more than 500 injured. Left-wing activist group Democracy for America wasted no time fundraising off of the
attack while demonizing the NRA and linking them to the violence in Las Vegas.
Facts,
Not Emotions, Are Needed In Gun Debate — Here Are 3. [#1] More gun laws won't mean fewer homicides
or mass shootings. [...] When you look only at homicides, there's no clear correlation between those and state gun laws. For
example, Maryland had a homicide rate of 6.1 per 100,000 population in 2014, despite getting an A rating from the Law
Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which grades states on the strictness of their gun control laws. Next door Virginia, which
gets a D rating, had a homicide rate of 4.1. A-rated California and F-rated Texas had the exact same homicide rates.
Gun-control-friendly Illinois had a higher homicide rate than its pro-gun neighbors, Indiana and Ohio. If anything, there's an
inverse relationship between gun homicides and the number of guns per person. As economist Mark Perry notes, the number of guns
per person has climbed more than 50% since 1994. Over those same years, the gun-related homicide rate dropped by 49%.
What
Democrats want is no guns, but they don't have the courage to say so. One of the fictions we want to believe is
that making certain guns illegal would prevent mass shootings. They can't tell you exactly which kinds, because each
state actually defines them differently. But the bad ones, they'll say. The ones mass shooters use. But
mass shooters use all kinds of guns, from so-called "assault rifles" to shotguns and handguns. In Charleston, Dylan
Roof killed nine people with a .45 Glock pistol. Aaron Alexis killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard with a
shotgun. Jared Loughner killed six in Arizona with a handgun, and Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 and wounded 43 others at
Fort Hood with just a pistol. The truth is, the scary-looking guns many Democrats want to ban account for just 2% of
gun deaths in the U.S. The vast majority of gun deaths are actually suicides. And most homicides are committed with
handguns. Banning semi-automatic rifles is not only arbitrary, it would have negligible impact on gun violence in America.
Tucker
Carlson takes out a pitifully unarmed gun-control advocate. On the surface, Tucker Carlson's takedown of a gun
control advocate Tuesday night [10/3/2017] seemed a bit...well, mean. As Carlson fired off questions, it was pretty
obvious that the man, Colby Hall, a mild-mannered writer for Mediaite who argued for gun control in clichéd and
emotional terms, didn't have much intellectual firepower.
Democrats
Politicize [the] Las Vegas [shooting] before [the victims'] Blood [is] Even Dry. Before the blood was even dry
in Las Vegas, Democrats from coast to coast were pushing gun control. Hillary Clinton led the charge, finding time
between fainting spells to tweet "Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and
work together to try to stop this from happening again." (Translation: "Put your politics aside... and accept my
politics! Oh, and my grief is never enough because I don't feel any.") But I guess, taking Rahm Emanuel's counsel,
leftists "never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Keith Olbermann
Calls the NRA 'a Terrorist Organization'. Keith Olbermann, probably the only person ever fired from MSNBC for
being too radical, cited former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and claimed that the Second Amendment doesn't
guarantee people's right to own guns. He actually argued that, based in part on the amendment's "militia" language, the
Framers had intended for it to be a gun-control measure. He said it was meant to limit our access to firearms, not
enable it. "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..." He says the Framers didn't
know that there would be a firearm capable of attacking so many people when they authored the amendment. But they also
didn't envision Keith Olbermann spouting nonsense on a thing called the internet when they wrote the First Amendment.
Because he can reach more people with his partisan dialogue, does that mean it should be banned now too? The entire
Bill of Rights was designed to guarantee our God-given inherent rights. That means the Framers thought they would
remain inherent for perpetuity. It shouldn't matter how the tools evolve, the rights stay the same.
Appeals
Court Denies D.C.'s Request for Full Court Hearing on Gun-Carry Law Struck Down in July. Wrenn v.
D.C. is the latest in a long series of challenges to the city's strict gun laws. The case centers around the city's
gun-carry law, put in place after the previous ban on all gun-carry was declared unconstitutional, which allows city
officials to deny a permit application based on whether they believe the applicant has a "good reason" for obtaining one.
The plaintiffs complained that in practice this has resulted in very few gun-carry permits being issued in the city,
with only 126 permits issued as of July 2017, and said the restriction is an unconstitutional infringement on their
Second Amendment rights. In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge appeals court panel agreed with the plaintiffs.
Pelosi
Invokes Scalise Shooting to Blast Bill Deregulating Silencers. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.)
on Thursday invoked the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) to criticize the SHARE Act that passed out of
committee this month. The legislation introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.) deregulates silencers, furthers
protections for interstate firearm transport, furthers protections on classification measures for certain firearms and
ammunition, and increases access to federal public lands for hunting and fishing, among other measures. The bill would
treat silencers as common firearms and require background checks in order to buy one from a licensed gun dealer, the
Washington Free Beacon reports. Pelosi called the legislation "very dangerous" and said it was pushed under the
facade of being for hunters.
Federal
Court Ruling Guts Police Ability To Use Guns. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday [9/19/2017] that Seattle police
can only use force "proportional" to the threat they face, seriously damaging the Seattle Police Department's ability to use
firearms. The ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the use of force reforms put in place by federal
mandates under the Obama administration that required police to use only "objectively reasonable force, proportional to the
threat or urgency of the situation," the Associated Press reports. The unanimous ruling strikes down a lawsuit filed by
a group of more than 120 Seattle officers in 2014 who claimed that the strict reforms infringe on an officer's right to self
defense and the Second Amendment.
Docs vs. Glocks law protects patients.
Opponents of the law, now struck down by the U.S. District Court, maintain that the law violates doctors' First Amendment
right of free speech. The doctors insist they only want to educate patients about gun safety. But none of the
doctor organizations fighting the law have admitted to the public why the "Docs vs. Glocks" law, or Firearm Owner's
Privacy Act, was necessary in the first place. Not the American Academy of Pediatrics. Not the American Academy
of Family Physicians. Not even U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke, who didn't even mention in her opinion the
years-long gun control campaign waged by medical organizations. Here's the truth: the American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other medical organizations want guns banned. As far back
as 1996, the AAP distributed a pamphlet jointly with the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, a part of the Brady Campaign,
then tellingly known as Handgun Control, Inc.
National
Reciprocity Reportedly Going Nowhere Due To Paul Ryan. Republicans are supposed to be pro-gun. Not only
is that how Democrats paint them, but it's how Republican lawmakers paint themselves. After all, the Second Amendment
is a sacred right and must be defended. Following the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise at the hands of a deranged
liberal terrorist, Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a bill for national reciprocity. This bill would make it so
concealed carry license would be treated like marriage licenses or drivers licenses; a permit in one state would be
recognized in every other state. The bill, however, has stalled, and Massie points the finger for this squarely at
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
U.S.
Governor Orders Seizure of Privately Owned Guns, Ammo Ahead of Hurricane. Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp there has
activated the National Guard and has now ordered all guns, ammo and property needed by the National Guard seized. Silly
me... I thought that was unconstitutional and illegal. The wording of the order is tricky as it allows the seizure in
the performance of the National Guard's duties. Mapp issued this emergency order and signed it on Monday [9/4/2017] in
preparation for the storm. It smacks of martial law.
Virgin
Islands Allows National Guard To Seize Guns, Ammo Ahead Of Hurricane Irma. U.S. Virgin Islands
Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns, ammunition, explosives and property
the National Guard may need to respond to Hurricane Irma. Mapp signed the order Monday [9/4/2017] in preparation for Hurricane
Irma. The order allows the Adjutant General of the Virgin Islands to seize private property they believe necessary to
protect the islands, subject to approval by the territory's Justice Department. Mapp issued an emergency declaration
Tuesday and mobilized National Guard units to prepare for the massive storm.
Defending
Your Family During States of Emergency. As you probably know, you may legally defend yourself using deadly force if you or your
family faces a reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm. And with rare exceptions, lawful citizens may keep defensive
firearms in the home. But can authorities legally confiscate your firearms during an emergency as they did in New Orleans after
Katrina? What about using deadly force to protect property? Most important, can you legally carry firearms to protect your
family if forced to evacuate?
Does
the Left Know Something's Coming Involving Guns? This sounds a little "out there," but we live in a time when
what is going on beneath the surface dwarfs what we see as the end result of someone's planning. So what if the
discordant calls for gun control are because those politicians, anarchists, and activists (though I repeat myself) have
foreknowledge of some kind of planned escalation of their brand of "protest" and are setting the stage for disingenuous "I
told you sos'? What if they have something of a timeline along which they either believe that things will happen or will
make things happen, to escalate the blitzkrieg of media and hysteria by which they effect "change" — meaning a
coup? What if they and the media are in bed together on this, too, and have prepared their stories and narratives ahead
of time? [...] Seeing the unprecedented dishonesty we have seen over the last nine years, practiced by unethical zealots who
see their opportunity to gain full control over the wealth of an entire nation, is this too ridiculous to imagine?
The
Right Questions Can Help the Uninformed Think Past Anti-Gun Disinformation. When did self-defense become
morally wrong? If someone violently attacks me or my family, is it wrong for me to resist? Do I not have a right
to life? Forget about me. How about your elderly mother? If someone with intent to rob, degrade, beat, rape
and butcher attacks her, would she be morally at fault for protecting herself? [...] Let me ask another basic question.
What is a right? Is it something that is granted by a government authority? If so, how does that differ from a
privilege? Can something that is granted be withheld? Can something that is licensed be revoked? Are rights
not unalienable? Do they not precede the establishment of government? Are they not, in fact, outside the authority
of government? Does our Second Amendment say the right it articulates "may be infringed" or "shall not be infringed"?
Oregon
Governor Signs Gun Confiscation Bill Into Law. The governor of Oregon signed Democrat (and even Republican)
supported gun control legislation that would allow authorities to strip firearms from law-abiding citizens. The bill,
signed Wednesday [8/16/2017] by Gov. Kate Brown, would permit state authorities to seize the firearms of anyone who has been
determined as a threat to themselves or others — without any judicial process at all. The intent is to reduce the
number of gun-related suicides, which has been on the rise recently in the state, but Second Amendment advocates were incensed.
Lack Of Openness.
[Scroll down] Back in the late 1990s there was a study by economist John Lott on the effects of concealed carry and
what happens when states pass Shall Issue laws. The effect he found was stark and clear: concealed carry reduces
crime. See his book More Guns, Less Crime. Of course this is no surprise to people on the Right. But
naturally this was a political hot potato; he was viciously attacked by claims his research was flawed, biased, etc.
So — and I hold this to be the very zenith of openness — he offered his data set, copies of his notes
in developing his analytical technique, and copies of the analysis model itself to anyone who asked, including his critics.
And that's the critical point. He shared his data, even with critics, because he was interested in the truth.
Texas
police chief with 'badge clearly displayed' around his neck forced to exit doctor's office for carrying gun. A
veteran police chief in Conroe, Texas was asked to leave a doctor's office after he reportedly refused a receptionist's
request to put the gun he was carrying in his car. Chief Philip Dupuis checked in to his appointment at the Texas Ear,
Nose and Throat Specialists in The Woodlands the afternoon of August 8, with his handgun attached to his side and an
identification badge hanging from a lanyard around his neck.
2nd
Amendment Foundation Issues Travel Advisory: Your Gun Rights Are No Good in California. On August 7, the
Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) issued its first ever travel advisory warning American gun owners not to go to California unless
they are willing to enter the state disarmed or risk going to jail. The gun rights group is "warning law-abiding armed
citizens that their civil rights could be in jeopardy due to that state's restrictive gun control laws."
Another
of those gun confiscations which we're told never happens. When elected officials, at both the federal and
state levels, propose new gun control laws we are given the same speech every time. Stop crying wolf. It's not
as if armed officers are about to go door to door confiscating everyone's guns. When you listen to that speech
repeated often enough you might even become tempted to start believing it.
Anti-Gun Activists Lead a Couple
to Ruin. In 2012, Jessica Ghawi was murdered by James Holmes during a showing of The Dark Knight. She was one of
twelve victims who died that day. In the aftermath, Ghawi's mother, Sandy, filed a lawsuit against Lucky Gunner, the business that sold
Holmes his weapons. [...] Phillips's lawsuit was dismissed under the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which was meant to protect
the firearms industry from politically motivated lawsuits in which the plaintiffs claim that gun manufacturers and dealers were responsible for
the criminal acts of third parties beyond their control. And rightly so. As the recent campaign of Hillary Clinton shows, there is
a concerted attempt underway in this country to usher gun control in by the back door and turn innocent people into criminals.
Law
Enforcement Wrongfully Confiscates New York Veteran's Guns. [Scroll down] There is no longer any debate
on this issue. Moreover, we know from scientific studies that limiting access to firearms of the mentally ill does not
reduce suicide deaths. For some progressives who simply want to worship the totem pole of mental health and behavioristic
psychology, and who are well intentioned, they refuse to listen to the science behind their incorrect perceptions of the
world. They want to bow down and worship at the altar of the local witch doctor, or the psychiatrist, as if he knows
how to make everything better. But for most people, they know better than to believe that violence is related to illness
rather than moral maladies and evil, and yet they throw out the red herring of mental illness anyway in order to cover over
their real intentions, which is yet another gun control and confiscatory scheme. That's what happened here. The
SAFE act is anything but safe, because it protects no one and places peaceable, law abiding men in harm's way.
GOP
Rep. Introduces Legislation to Nullify State-Level Gun Controls. Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) introduced
legislation Monday [7/31/2017] aimed at nullifying state-level gun controls that exceed gun controls put in place by the
federal government. New York's SAFE Act (2013) is a prime example of the kind of gun control Collins hopes to
erase. WKBW reports Collins' bill is titled the Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA), and its language explicitly
"[limits] the authority of states to regulate conduct, or impose penalties or taxes in relation to rifles or shotguns."
It is designed to catch laws that go beyond federal statutes and render them void.
Chaos Erupts At City Hall Hearing for
Proposed Gun Bill. Chaos erupted Tuesday [7/25/2017] at a Baltimore City Hall hearing for a proposed mandatory one-year sentence
for possession of an illegal handgun. It took just minutes for rising tensions to overflow. Council members had issued several
warnings to unruly attendees, but police were called to move in as activists clashed with council members, and people pushed back.
D.C.
law requiring 'good reason' to carry concealed handguns is ruled unconstitutional. A strict D.C. gun law that
prevents most firearms owners from carrying concealed handguns in public in the nation's capital is unconstitutional, a
federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday, saying the city government cannot demand citizens prove a "good reason" before
being issued permits. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered lower courts to issue
permanent injunctions blocking enforcement of the law. City officials said they are considering an appeal, but gun
rights supporters said the ruling is a major step and could set up an even bigger victory should the U.S. Supreme Court adopt
the circuit judges' decision.
Florida
taxpayers to shoulder $1.1 million in legal fees over 'docs vs. glocks' law. Florida will pay $1.1 million in
legal fees to attorneys who challenged a controversial state law that sought to prevent doctors from asking patients about guns,
a group representing opponents said Monday [7/24/2017]. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced the legal fee
agreement more than five months after a federal appeals court sided with doctors and medical groups in striking down key parts
of the 2011 law — which became known as the "docs vs. glocks" law.
Concealed
handgun permits surging, blacks, women lead growth. Concealed handgun permits in the United States soared by
1.83 million since last July, setting a record for the fourth consecutive year, according to an analysis released Thursday
[7/20/2017]. That brings the total number of concealed handgun permit holders in the country to 16.3 million, with
some of the biggest increases occurring among women and African-Americans, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said.
Concealed handgun permits are now held by some more than 6 percent of American adults, the CPRC analysis found. Outside
the restrictive states of California and New York, that figure rises to about 8 percent.
Weak-Kneed
Ryan Stalls National Concealed Carry Reciprocity. Our friends at the Virginia Citizens Defense League recently
put out an alert letting gun owners know exactly where the problem is with the national concealed carry reciprocity
bill — with Democratic Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Losing Their Gun Rights With Barely a
Whimper. Gun-rights activists often express the view that Americans will not easily give up their rights to gun ownership
even if the laws eventually outlaw — or at least greatly restrict — the freedom of individuals to own firearms. The scenario they
depict is bleak but simple: When armed agents come to their doors to confiscate people's arsenals, some of those people can be expected
to fight back. [...] The experience in California, in particular, suggests an entirely different scenario. From what I've seen, the
public often will support aggressive new restrictions. Gun owners will meekly hand over their weapons to agents. Gun-rights groups
will quietly protest, but have little sway. Republican legislators will make things worse as they try to prove their commitment to taking
guns out of the hands of "criminals." The erosion of our fundamental gun rights will take place so slowly that few will protest too much.
Had
Hillary Clinton Won the Election.... Hillary, like the rest of the left, hates the Second Amendment. Had
she won, it would likely have been abrogated out of existence. Law-abiding citizens would be relegated to victim
status by decree, no longer allowed to defend themselves from the always armed criminals while the likes of Hillary and her
crowd live in gated mansion and have armed guards. "For me but not for thee" is the mantra of the left. She
would be taking the nation in the direction of Oregon, which is fast becoming the fascist state the left so admires.
New
Report From Crime Prevention Research Center Shows 11.1 Million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits. The
last comprehensive report on the number of concealed carry permit holders was completed three years ago by the U.S. Government
Accountability Office and showed that 8 million Americans held a concealed carry permit. These numbers show that the
number of permits is not only increasing, but they are growing at faster and faster rates.
No, really —
guns for we but not for thee. Hey, remember two weeks ago when congressional bodies were hitting the ground,
and some guy named Loudermilk rushed to a microphone and said congressvermin should pass a law giving them the privilege of
going armed anywhere they wanted? [...] Introducing H.R. 2940, The Congressional Self-Defense Act, "To allow Members of
Congress to carry a concealed firearm anywhere in the United States, with certain exceptions."
By
What Right Do We Bear Arms? The constitution is a covenant by which men have agreed to live together. We
derive our authority to bear arms from God, in whose image we are made, and who Himself made war when necessary, and thus we
are to protect that image. This is His immutable law. If the covenant within which we live does not reflect God's
laws, it is an abomination and dishonors God. It is null and void. Second, to the extent that it does, when we
fail to live within the framework of that covenant it is null and void. Therefore, if the government breaks covenant
with the people, the government has declared itself null and void before God.
74%
of American gun owners say owning a gun is 'essential to their freedom': Poll. [A] wide-ranging new poll from
the Pew Research Center [...] found that 74 percent of all U.S. gun owners say owning a gun is "essential to their freedom."
Another 73 percent of the owners say they could never see themselves "not owning a gun." Half say that "all or most of their
friends" also own guns.
Law-Abiding
Citizens Have More Than 600 Million Firearms in America. The fact is, while there is no definitive way to tally
all the firearms in the United States, it is commonly accepted and reported that there are roughly 300 million firearms in
the hands of law-abiding Americans. But has anyone else noticed that number hasn't moved in years, even in the 8 years
Obama sparked an increase in gun sales, the gun run during Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and after the NICS background
checks system set new records for 15 straight months?
Most Americans
know that owning a gun is an essential part of our freedom. An overwhelming majority of Americans view gun ownership as essential to their freedom.
This is what a recent Pew Research poll discovered in a deep dive into the complex relationship Americans have with guns. According to the poll, "The nationally
representative survey of 3,930 U.S. adults, including 1,269 gun owners, was conducted March 13 to 27 and April 4 to 18, 2017, using the Pew Research Center's
American Trends Panel." In other words, the survey is pretty comprehensive. And its findings reflect the understanding of many clear-thinking Americans
on the 2nd Amendment: for those who do own and use firearms, it is integral to who they are.
Teachers packing
heat: More educators taking gun training classes. Teachers across the country are moving to the head of the class when it comes to learning
how to use a gun. With mass shootings seemingly becoming common place in classrooms across the country, teachers are learning how fire grade-A shots and
starting to carry weapons in class. It's an attempt to better protect their students and prevent the next Sandy Hook Elementary School or Columbine High
School shooting. Nearly a third of the country, a total of 18 states, allows adults to carry a loaded gun on school grounds, with certain permissions.
U.S.
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Seeking Gun-Carrying Rights. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider loosening
restrictions on carrying firearms in public, rejecting an appeal by California gun-rights advocates and continuing to steer
clear of one of the nation's most polarizing issues. The justices left intact a San Diego County policy that requires
people to show a special need in order to get a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home. A divided
federal appeals court had upheld the policy. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch said the high court should have
heard the case.
Scalise
shooting and knee-jerk calls for more gun control — here we go again. After each mass public
shooting, President Obama would call for expanded background checks on private transfers of guns — even though not
one of the shootings would have been prevented by such a law. Indeed, not a single attack since at least 2000 would
have been stopped. "News" coverage of these events also shows the same knee-jerk biases for more gun control.
Guns are often referred to as "assault weapons" even if they function exactly the same as a hunting rifle. Nowhere do
the news reports mention whether an attack occurred in a gun-free zone. They never examine the thought process of
attackers who want defenseless victims.
Concealed
carry permit holders exposed by data breach. The names of thousands of concealed carry permit holders in
Florida may have been leaked as the result of a recent data breach, state officials said. An online payment system
utilized by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) was compromised about two weeks ago, the
office acknowledged Monday [5/22/2017], in turn exposing the Social Security numbers of 469 customers as well as the names of
16,190 concealed weapon licensees.
The
Ivory Tower Man: Why Academia Hates Guns. The rise of this Ivory Tower Man can be attributed to the rapid
urbanization of our society combined with an abundance of resources and technology that has made it possible for people to be
soft. Wimps can now survive and thrive. Everyone gets a trophy. Our lifestyle is less strenuous than has
been the experience for all past generations. And, above all, due to scientific advancements life is now more secure
than it has ever been in human history. Sure, bad things happen to others, but the Ivory Tower Man does not personally
see these things on a daily basis in his own nice neighborhood. He is insulated and thus willfully naive. [...] And
here is a prime characteristic of the Ivory Tower Man: He despises those who still believe in strength, skill, and
self-reliance.
Home
Invasion Victim Waits Over an Hour for Police to Arrive. There's a big divide between urban liberals and rural
conservatives when it comes to gun rights, and there's a very simple reason why. In rural areas, a gun has many
different uses. Aside from self-defense, they can also be used for hunting, putting down injured livestock, and culling
pests and predators. Plus, there are a lot more opportunities to shoot firearms recreationally in the countryside.
People who live in cities however, don't have as much respect for firearms, because they don't need them nearly as much.
In the city, the only reason you'll need a gun is for self-defense, and even then it doesn't seem very important to most urban
dwellers. After all, why would you need a gun to protect yourself in a densely populated area, where a phone call can
bring the police to your door in a few minutes?
Trump:
'I Will Never, Ever Infringe on the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms'. President Donald Trump pledged
to never infringe on the 2nd Amendment during a speech at the National Rifle Association's meeting in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday
[4/28/2017]. "We all took an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, and that means defending
the 2nd Amendment. So let me make a simple to every one of the freedom-loving Americans in the audience today: as your
president, I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms — never, ever," Trump said.
The
Left Slams Even the NRA's Program to Keep Children Away from Guns. The National Rifle Association doesn't want young children handling guns,
and so it runs the "Eddie Eagle GunSafe" program for schools, designed to teach kids four steps they should take if they find a gun: Stop, don't touch,
run away, and tell a grown-up. This is absolute common sense, and the sort of message that every kid in the country should hear. Nothing in the
program encourages kids to want guns, purchase guns when they're older, or shoot guns. The potential harm of a gun in the wrong hands — and unprepared
hands are the wrong hands — is made clear. Despite the utterly innocuous message, some voices on the left object to the Eddie Eagle program.
ATF Reverses
Draconian, Obama-Era Policy on Stabilizing Braces. News broke this week that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has reconsidered and "clarified" its Jan. 6, 2015 Open Letter on the use of stabilizing braces
as shoulder stocks. As we explained at the time, the ATF took the position in that letter that merely affixing the
stabilizing brace to a pistol did not constitute the "making" of an NFA firearm. Firing the braced pistol from the
shoulder, however, was held to constitute a "redesign" of the firearm that brought it under the jurisdiction of the National
Firearms Act (NFA), with all the additional regulations that classification entails. This directly contradicted earlier
advice the ATF had provided, in which the agency stated, "firing a pistol from the shoulder would not cause the pistol to be
reclassified as an SBR." Nor, advised the ATF in the earlier guidance, would using a stability brace improperly as a
shoulder stock "change the classification of the weapon per federal law."

ATF Clarifies
Legality of Pistol Arm Brace Use. As you can see, the device can also be used as a very short stock for the
AR-15 pistol, even though that is not what it is designed for. Many people have put the brace to this use, as it is
much easier to purchase AR-15 pistols and a brace than it is to go through all the bureaucratic and bizarre requirements to
obtain a legal short barreled rifle (SBR) or short barreled shotgun (SBS). The legal restrictions on SBS and SBR firearms
never made any sense. They only made sense if the federal government put the same restriction on handguns, as FDR
attempted to do in 1934.
Dem.
Assemblyman Pushes Bill to Guarantee Teachers Cannot Shoot Back if Attackers Strike. California Assemblyman
Kevin McCarty (D-7) is pushing legislation to take away school administrators' power to allow teachers with a Carry Concealed
Weapon license to be armed in classrooms for self-defense. McCarty's bill — AB 424 — was
introduced months ago and is snaking its way through the legislative process.
Marine
veteran to serve 3 years in prison for carrying unlicensed gun in New Jersey. In 2011, former Marine Police
Sgt. Hisashi Pompey was visiting family in New Jersey from Quantico, Virginia, when he went to a Fort Lee nightclub with
friends. The then-active duty sergeant, who was in uniform, went to get his bag out of one friend's car when another
friend approached him with blood on his face from getting in a fight, a local CBS News affiliate reported. The friend
then grabbed a gun from Mr. Pompey's holster and carried it into a confrontation with police, a local ABC News affiliate
reported. Mr. Pompey, who served three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, had a permit to carry the gun in Virginia,
but not in New Jersey.
Update:
Chris
Christie Commutes Sentence for USMC War Vet Charged over Legally Owned Gun. On Friday Gov. Chris Christie (R) commuted the
prison sentence for former Marine Sergeant Hisashi Pompey, arrested six years ago for possessing a legally owned gun that was unregistered in
the state of New Jersey. On April 13 Breitbart News reported that Pompey brought his handgun into New Jersey while visiting from
Virginia. Following an altercation at a nightclub, one of Pompey's friends retrieved the gun and was arrested. Pompey was also
arrested because the gun was not registered in the state of New Jersey.
Hunters
and Anglers Object to Last-Minute Lead Ban. Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS),
issued a directive to phase out the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle within the nation's wildlife refuges and other
federal lands controlled by the agency. The directive bans the use of lead in ammunition and fishing tackle on more
than 307 million acres of federal land, effective January 2022. The FWS action expands the existing ban on the use
of lead shot for hunting migratory waterfowl to all types of ammunition and fishing equipment that use lead for all species on
FWSmanaged lands. Ashe issued the directive on January 19, the day before he left the agency as President Donald
Trump took the oath of office as president.
South
Carolina House passes bill granting carry of handguns without a permit. The South Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday [4/5/2017] approved
a bill that would allow residents to carry a gun, openly or concealed, without getting a weapons permit. The controversial bill passed the chamber 64-46 after
more than three hours of debate. If approved by the Senate and signed into law, anyone who is legally allowed to buy a gun could do so without getting a
state permit. The bill would keep the state's concealed weapons permit program in place so South Carolinians could carry their guns in other states.
Clovis
Family Wins Lawsuit, Forcing California DOJ to Return 500 Guns. A Clovis family won a court case against the California
Department of Justice that forces the state agency to return 500 guns it had confiscated from Albert Sheakalee. The CA DOJ raided
Sheakalee's house in 2015, alleging he was listed in the state's Armed Prohibited Persons (APPS) database. Sheakalee's attorney
won the case by arguing that the CA DOJ had not notified Sheakalee that he was on the APPS. Moreover, his attorney, Mark Coleman,
stated that "the justice department broke a promise to Sheakalee to keep the raid confidential until a court hearing determined whether
he was mentally fit to own guns." According to the Fresno Bee, Sheakalee was arrested, but he "had no prior criminal
history." [...] No charges were ever brought against Sheakelee; nonetheless, the CA DOJ held onto the guns.
DOJ
Seized 541 Guns From This Man With No Charges Filed, but He Fought and Got Them All Back!. A California Federal
Firearms License holder who had his entire firearms collection of 541 guns seized with no charges filed against him, has had
his guns returned. Albert Sheakalee, who lives in the Clovis area, went through mental health treatment in 2014. He
has had a clean criminal record all of his life and owns a retirement home. He is a retired budget director of Fresno
Community Hospital, and has held a FFL for more than two decades. However, under the Obama administration, the Justice
Department went after his guns without any charges or guilt of any crime being obtained, a clear violation of the Fifth
Amendments protections that he not be deprived of his rights (specifically the right to keep and bear arms). A press
release at the time by then-state Attorney General, now Senator Kamala Harris barred him from owning guns and brought about a
12-hour raid on his home by the Bureau of Firearms Special Agents on November 12, 2015. He was subsequently arrested
for allegedly possessing illegal firearms.
Gun
rights activists are on a political roll with four recent wins. Second Amendment advocates are on a bit of a
political roll recently, with four major victories in just one week. House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled an anti-gun
healthcare proposal from consideration; the governor of North Dakota signed a bill letting residents carry a firearm without
a permit; New Mexico lawmakers defeated a gun registry bill and the Supreme Court ruled for a defendant whom a gun rights
group had supported. "It gives us a lot of hope," Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said to Fox
News. "We just spent the past eight years on the defensive. Now we are playing offensive ball."
Accidental
gun deaths hit record low, even amid recent boom in firearms sales. Gun sales are up, and accidental gun
injuries are down, according to a report released this month by the National Safety Council. The NSC's "Injury Facts
-2017 Edition" shows a 17 percent decrease in accidents involving firearms from 2014 to 2015, a period when gun sales
soared. There were 489 unintentional firearms-related fatalities during that time period, the lowest total since
record-keeping began in 1903, accounting for less than 1 percent of accident deaths. This decrease, which was the
largest percentage decline of any category cited in the NSC's report, came in a year that saw record-high firearm sales.
Accidental
gun deaths hit record low,. even amid recent boom in firearms sales
Without
Obama, once-booming gun industry poised to shrink. Fears of government limits on guns — some real,
some perceived — led to a surge in demand during Obama's tenure and manufacturers leapt to keep up. Over the
decade ending in 2015, the number of U.S. companies licensed to make firearms jumped 362 percent. "The trends really
almost since Election Day or election night have been that gun sales have slacked off," said Robert Spitzer, political science
department chairman at State University of New York at Cortland. "
North
Dakotans now allowed to carry concealed guns without permits, governor decides. North Dakotans will no longer need a
permit to carry a concealed weapon after Republican Governor Doug Burgum signed legislation lifting restrictions, a victory for gun rights
advocates that came a week after South Dakota's governor vetoed a similar bill. The law, which takes effect on Aug. 1, mandates
that gun owners only need a North Dakota driver's license or state identification card for at least a year before they can carry a concealed
firearm in public.
Republicans
Move to Strengthen Protections for Interstate Travel by Gun Owners. Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) introduced a
bill to the Senate on March 14 that would institute new protections for gun owners who travel across state lines with their
firearms. The Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act, also introduced by Rep. Morgan Griffith (R., Va.)
to the House of Representatives in January, would expand and clarify the interstate firearm transportation rules instituted
under the Firearms Owners' Protection Act of 1986. Under that law, Americans are allowed to transport firearms from one state
where they can legally possess them to another so long as certain requirements are met, such as the firearms being unloaded
and locked in a container not easily accessible to passengers.
New
Hampshire ranks highest in firearms manufacturing study. New Hampshire ranks at the top among all states when
it comes to manufacturing firearms, according to a recently released study by WalletHub. But because it doesn't rank so
high when it comes to gun ownership, and its congressional delegation tends to favor gun control, the state finished 12th in
the study's rankings, which measured dependence on the gun industry. Thanks to industry giants like Sig Sauer in
Newington and Sturm Ruger's facility in Newport, sales of firearms in New Hampshire totaled $722.92 per person, the biggest
output per capita in the union, according to WalletHub.
House
Stops VA from Finding Vets Mentally Unfit to Own a Gun. The House passed on Thursday [3/16/2017] a bill to prohibit Veterans Affairs from
blocking a veteran from buying a gun by labeling them mentally unfit, requiring a judiciary authority to make that determination. The Veterans
Second-Amendment Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), states "a person who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or
experiencing an extended loss of consciousness shall not be considered adjudicated as a mental defective" by the VA "without the order or finding of
a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others."
Supreme
Court: Weapons allowed on Madison buses. Wisconsin's capital city must allow passengers to carry hidden
weapons on buses, the state Supreme Court said Tuesday [3/7/2017] in siding with a gun rights group that local governments
cannot trump the state's concealed-carry law.
Florida's
Gun-Free Zones Could Be Eliminated; Opponents Call That Madness. If only more people were packing loaded
weapons, there would be fewer mass shootings like Orlando's Pulse nightclub massacre and the carnage committed by another
lone gunman at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airport in January. That's the thinking behind legislation
proposed in the Florida House and Senate — HB 803/SB 908 — to do away with most of the
state's gun-free zones. But Patti Brigham, co-chair of the Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, called the
proposal to allow "guns everywhere absurd and incredibly dangerous."
Trump's
team scraps Obama-era ban on lead bullets. Hours after literally riding into town on a horse for his first day
on the job, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday scrapped an Obama-era ban on hunting with lead bullets on federal
lands. The rule, put into place during the final days of the Obama administration, was cast as an attempt to prevent
the lead poisoning of animals on all lands overseen by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But critics —
including sportsmen's groups, gun rights organizations and a host of others at the federal and state levels — said
it was designed to discourage hunting. Mr. Zinke seemed to agree, signaling that he believed the rule hindered
hunting and fishing for many Americans.
These
Payment Processors Are Trying To Hurt Gun Stores. Shortly after SHOT Show last month, a couple of FFL dealers
began having issues with financial institutions cutting off merchant accounts for "violating" the user agreements, Bearing
Arms has learned exclusively. Montana Tactical, located in Bozeman, unexpectedly received an email from Intuit, a
credit card processing company, saying Montana Tactical's transactions are considered "MOTO business" (mail order/telephone
order). Intuit declined to continue servicing Montana Tactical because the store sells firearms, ammunition and gun powder.
Fourth
Circuit Sets the Stage for a New National Gun Ban. In an unusual opinion that at times reads more like an op-ed
at the New York Times than a legal ruling, the 4th Circuit Court last week upheld Maryland's highly restrictive "Firearms
Safety Act." It's apparent that the 4th Circuit acted in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton victory in November, in which
case its decision would have gone unchallenged by the Supreme Court or affirmed, thus substantially laying the groundwork for
the overturn of the Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, and with that the effective
national evisceration of the 2nd Amendment under a second Clinton administration.
Sununu
signature scraps 'concealed carry' permits. Anyone who legally owns a gun can now carry it in a concealed
fashion without a permit from their local police chief, thanks to Senate Bill 12, signed into law on Wednesday [2/22/2017] by
Gov. Chris Sununu. The battle over constitutional carry, or concealed carry, has been waged in the State House on
and off for the past three decades.
NH eliminates
license requirement to carry concealed gun, effective immediately. It's now legal to carry a concealed, loaded
gun in New Hampshire without a license. In his first bill signing since taking office, Republican Gov. Chris
Sununu signed so-called constitutional carry into law Wednesday. "It is common-sense legislation," he said during a
ceremony in Executive Council chambers. "This is about making sure that our laws on our books are keeping people safe
while remaining true to the live-free-or-die spirit."
Note: This article in Slate is replete with bias.
Appeals
Court Rules that Second Amendment Doesn't Protect Right to Assault Weapons. On Tuesday [2/21/2017], the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that the Second Amendment doesn't protect assault weapons — an
extraordinary decision keenly attuned to the brutal havoc these firearms can wreak. Issued by the court sitting en
banc, Tuesday's decision reversed a previous ruling in which a panel of judges had struck down Maryland's ban on assault
weapons and detachable large capacity magazines.
Connecticut
Proposes Quadrupling Gun Permit Fees as Part of New Budget Plan. The governor of Connecticut is attempting to
tap gun owners to help close the state's $1.7 billion budget deficit. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has proposed
increases to pistol permit fees. The five-year renewal fee for pistol permits would increase from $70 to $300, first-time
five-year permits would increase from $140 to $370 and fees for background checks would increase from $50 to $75.
Gun Sales Dip
in January as Trump Takes Office. The number of gun-related background checks performed by the FBI in January
were down significantly from the record number from last January. The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check
System, or NICS, processed 2,043,184 gun-related checks through January 2017, records released on Friday show. That's
more than 500,000 fewer checks than the record set the year before. It comes on the heels of a streak that saw
18-straight months of new monthly records, and two new yearly records as well.
Neil
Gorsuch, Guns & the Second Amendment: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme
Court is generally regarded as a supporter of the Second Amendment and gun rights. Vigorously praised by the National
Rifle Association, Neil Gorsuch "has endorsed Second Amendment rights," says FiveThirtyEight. However, there is one
ruling that gives some conservatives concern, relating to when police can disarm those carrying firearms. Although
Gorsuch's positions on some hot button issues — like abortion — are less clear, his stances on the
Second Amendment and guns are clearer.
Judge
Neil Gorsuch: Some Cause for Concern. According to the 10th Circuit's opinion, the police are justified
in forcibly disarming every armed citizen based on nothing more than the presence of a concealed firearm. This allows
the police to treat every law-abiding gun owner like a criminal — which, in many cases we have seen, includes
rough treatment such as grabbing him, twisting his arm behind his back, slamming him down on the ground, and handcuffing
him. Far too many police officers do not like anyone to be armed other than themselves and have taken it upon
themselves to intimidate those who dare to exercise Second Amendment rights.
Do
Not Touch The Guns. Any man who believes that LEOs have the right to disarm innocent civilians because they
feel like it isn't fit to be on any bench, much less the Supreme Court of the United States. Neil Gorsuch should resign
his post along with his colleagues on the tenth circuit and be replaced by good men who believe in the constitution.
Gun-rights
supporters oppose plan to protect wildlife refuges by prohibiting lead bullets. In the waning hours of the Obama administration,
the head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set in motion a plan to prohibit lead ammunition and fishing tackle from national wildlife
refuges by 2022. The Jan. 19 order, intended to protect birds from lead poisoning, presents the Trump Administration with an early
opportunity to weigh in on gun policy. Gun-rights supporters have condemned the plan as a nakedly political act unsupported by science.
The Editor says...
I really don't think environmentalists care about lead. The environmentalists are the tools of the gun-controlling, America-hating
left. Environmentalists don't care about stratospheric ozone or gas mileage or polar bears or "light pollution" or rising sea levels,
or endangered species, unless these issues can be used to stifle capitalism.
Branded
With a Scarlet 'G'. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals just suffered from an outbreak of bad judging. In
an en banc opinion, the court ruled that after a lawful traffic stop, the police may frisk any person who they
believe may possess a firearm, regardless of whether that person possesses a concealed-carry permit. The court actually
typed this sentence: "The danger justifying a protective frisk arises from the combination of a forced police encounter
and the presence of a weapon, not from any illegality of the weapon's possession" (emphasis added.) The implications
were clear: Even lawful gun owners are by definition "dangerous" and can be broadly treated as such by the state.
Urban
Leftists Can't Stop Violating the Constitution. Yesterday [1/18/2017], the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down yet
another series of Chicago laws that transparently and clumsily attempted to circumvent the Second Amendment and controlling legal precedent
protecting the rights of Chicago citizens to own handguns for self-defense. It's a battle that's been raging for almost a decade. [...] In
2010, [Otis] McDonald won his case. The Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment was "fully applicable" to the states and protected
the right to keep and bear arms from intrusive state and local laws. Chicago's handgun ban was thus plainly unconstitutional. But
rather than comply with the Constitution, Chicago went back to the drawing board, this time constructing a new, indirect ban. As
summarized by the Seventh Circuit, the city allowed residents to possess a handgun if they had a lawful permit, required range training
as a prerequisite to getting a permit, and then banned firing ranges from operating in the city.
The
Phony 'Public-Health Crisis' of Gun Violence. Two major medical journals have decided to renew the academic
medical establishment's assault on gun owners. The first shot across the bow appeared in the November 8 Journal of
the American Medical Association, where esteemed Stanford University health economist Victor Fuchs published a paper on
the problem of life expectancy in the black community. Near the end of his lamentation, Fuchs asserts that increasing
life expectancy in the black community "depends more on public health measures such as gun control than on medical care."
The second shot came with the release of the January issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, which has four papers and an
editorial devoted to firearms violence, with a heavy emphasis on suicide prevention, which would benefit whites much more
than it would the black community. It should go without saying that Dr. Fuchs and his fellow public-health
avengers have made critical analytical errors that belie their actual goal: a creeping vine of restrictions on
access to firearms that, in their most lurid dreams, would eventually make gun ownership illegal.
Washington
State Considers Gun Bans Which, Shockingly, Mostly Affect Law Abiding Citizens. Democrats have lots of talking
points for in public. Things like they just want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. That they want to
reduce gun violence. We'll get things like they believe in the 2nd Amendment, and just want common sense gun
control. That they don't really want to confiscate guns. But, when they aren't yammering to the general public,
we see that they really do want to mostly ban guns from the law abiding citizens, and when they submit legislation, it isn't
about criminals, it's about banning guns from the hands of non-criminals[.]
Up
to 30 Shots Fired In Squad-Sized Home Invasion In Texas. Gun control supporters keep shrieking that we don't
"need" the standard capacity magazines specifically designed for our firearms. The 5-10 home invasion suspects who
opened fire on law enforcement responding to a 911 call in Houston last night would clearly agree that they want their
victims outgunned. [...] Anti-gun Democrats in New York, California, Connecticut, Maryland, and other ban-happy states have
given violent criminals a distinct advantage by passing magazine limit laws that law-abiding citizens will comply with, and
which violent criminals such as these will ignore. These legislators are giving criminals the advantage. They do
not have your best interests at heart, and only encourage this kind of crime to become more prevalent.
Obama's
Outrageous Expansion of Gun-Buyer Background Checks. Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your
finances? Under finalized new rules released just before Christmas by President Obama, Social Security recipients will
be banned from buying a gun if they are deemed "financially incompetent." Some 4.2 million Social Security recipients —
about 10 percent of all people 65 and older — could lose the right to own a gun as a result. Just because someone
can't manage his finances doesn't mean that he's a danger to others. What is next? Keeping guns away from people who can't
drive or do math? What about other rights? Should "financially incompetent" people be forbidden from voting or making other
decisions? President Obama and most other Democrats would be understandably upset if any voters were required to pass a literacy or
intelligence test at the polls, but they have no problem denying millions of seniors their ability to defend themselves.
2016
Proved To Be The Biggest Year In History For Gun Sales. Well, besides President-elect Donald J. Trump's
stunning upset win over Hillary Clinton, 2016 will also be known as another record year in gun sales. In fact, more
guns have been sold this year than ever before in history. [...] Now, the spike in gun sales was due to fears that Obama and
the Democrats would enact new gun control laws, specifically through executive order. Even Hillary Clinton made similar
overtures on the 2016 campaign trail.
More Guns Have Been Sold in
2016 Than Any Year in History. More gun-related FBI background checks were done in 2016 than in any other year
in history after November set yet another record for gun sales in the United States. So far this year, the FBI has
processed 24,767,514 checks through its National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS, which puts 2016
more than 160,000 checks above the yearly record set in 2015. The record comes after November 2016 set its own monthly record
with 2,561,281 checks, nearly 320,000 more than the previous record set last November. This gun sales spike has lasted for
over a year and resulted in monthly records for 19 straight months.
Oops.
Bloomberg's $20M gun control bid in Nevada has fallen apart. It was almost the perfect plan. And if it weren't for
[...] the FBI, Michael Bloomberg might have gotten away with it. By all accounts, the billionaire dropped at least $20M through his
various anti-Second Amendment groups in an effort to get Ballot Question 1 passed in Nevada. The proposal would require virtually
all private transfers of gun ownership to be contingent on an FBI background check. And on election day, the measure passed. Great
news for gun grabbers, right? Well... it was. That is to say, things were looking good until the FBI came along and said they
wouldn't be participating in the program.
Local
gun shop regulation to have its day in court. A federal appeals court granted county officials a new hearing
Tuesday [12/27/2016] on whether local governments in California can restrict the location of gun shops, setting aside a
ruling that said such regulations may violate the right to bear arms. By a majority vote of its 27 judges, the Court of
Appeals in San Francisco ordered a rehearing in a case challenging an ordinance passed by Alameda County supervisors in 1998.
The ordinance prohibits new gun stores in unincorporated areas within 500 feet of a residential neighborhood, a school, a
day care center, a liquor store or another gun shop.
The Editor says...
Hardly any place in any city is more than 500 feet away from a "neighborhood" (to be defined and re-defined later), a school (ditto), or a
day care center (ditto). Laws like this are designed to be all-inclusive and easily amendable, to make it impossible to set up a
politically unfavorable business.
Obama
Administration Yanks Second Amendment Rights from SSI Recipients. Last week, the Obama administration put the
finishing touches on a new policy that would deprive recipients of disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income
(SSI) of their Second Amendment rights. The administration will now characterize those citizens as "mental defectives,"
thereby having their ability to own a firearm subject to the federal Gun Control Act. Supplemental Security Income
helps blind, disabled, and elderly people with little to no income. Previously, it was understood that "mentally
defective" referred to one's mental health. Citizens who have been institutionalized against their will are restricted
from owning a firearm. The new definition of "mentally defective" has nothing to do with being mentally ill.
Tacoma Cheesecake Factory Kicks Out Armed Cops.
The next time there is an emergency at the Cheesecake Factory in Tacoma, it will be hard to blame first responders if they
don't give it priority over finishing their coffee break.
Grandma
Got Run Over By Obama: Social Security Finalizes New Gun Prohibition Rule. On Monday [12/19/2016], Barack
Obama's Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will doom tens of thousands of
law-abiding (and vulnerable) disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to a loss of Second
Amendment rights under the guise of re-characterizing them as "mental defectives." The SSA, for the first time in its
history, will be coopted into the federal government's gun control apparatus, effectively requiring Social Security
applicants to weigh their need for benefits against their fundamental rights when applying for assistance based on
mental health problems.
Hollywood's
Gun-Control Dud. Miss Sloane, a highly anticipated movie demonizing the NRA and calling for gun control, has
bombed. The movie succeeded only in emphasizing the top-down nature of the gun-control campaign and how little
intensity there is for more regulations.
Top 5 Facts That Gun Control
Advocates Hate. It's a great honor and privilege for me to write about the 2nd Amendment, the Constitution and
America in general and have so many dedicated readers and followers who enjoy my point of view, the stories I bring them and
the truths I reveal. Sometimes though, the truth that is revealed doesn't come from me but from one of my readers.
California's
'Assault Rifle' Law Goes Into Effect Jan. 1. California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law last July
that will redefine what is and isn't an assault rifle. It goes into effect Jan. 1 and will affect many thousands of
California gun owners. The most common example of what California defines as an assault rifle is the standard AR15.
Starting in 2017, no one will be able to legally buy or sell one in that state. "People have been kind of holding off,"
Terry Fong, of Rocklin Armory, told FOX40. "The last 30 days have been absolutely crazy. Phone calls, probably
50-60 phone calls a day, just looking for specific brands of AR's. Now, they're looking for any AR's."
The
Gun Industry's Lucrative relationship With Hollywood. The NRA and the entertainment industry interact publicly
as mortal enemies. But as the number of weapons shown in movies and TV steadily increases — and stars like
Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie make fortunes wielding guns onscreen — a co-dependence that keeps both churning is
revealed: "making the liberal bias a lot of money"
Box
Office Disaster — Jessica Chastain's Gun Control Movie. This past weekend, "Miss Sloane" — starring
Jessica Chastain — was released in theaters across the country. According to Fox News, the film — which
premiered in select cities on Thanksgiving — casts Chastain as a no-nonsense D.C. lobbyist who is willing to do whatever
it takes to roll back the Second Amendment.
Hollywood
Gun Control Thriller Miss Sloane' Stumbles and Falls Hard at the Box Office. The gun control thriller starring
Jessica Chastain, "Miss Sloane," had some tragic results at the box office — despite critics praising the
actress's performance. The film follows a Washington, D.C., lobbyist named Elizabeth, played by Chastain, who is
asked by gun rights lobbyists to find a way to turn females against universal background checks.
Va.
Court of Appeals rules photo ID can't be required for concealed handgun permit application. The Virginia Court
of Appeals ruled that Circuit Courts cannot require a photo ID with a concealed handgun permit application. An attorney
in the case announced that his client won in his challenge on whether the Norfolk Circut Court could require a photo ID as a
part of the Concealed handgun Permit (CHP) Application. The court of appeals said that they cannot require a photo ID.
Several circuit courts across Virginia continue to impose additional requirements on CHP applications, even though Virginia law
prohibits courts from requiring applicants to provide anything other than what is required by the code and on the application,
the attorney said.
Anti-Gun
Hysteria Is Hazardous to Your Health. [Scroll down] Yes, there is something you can do. You can arm
yourself. When you do, you no longer feel helpless because you're not. You don't have to rely on your laptop or a
pair of scissors to save your life and the lives of those around you. You can walk into a restaurant, a mall, or any
other place where firearms are permitted with confidence, not as a vigilante, but as an armed citizen capable of defending
yourself and others. Yet anti-gun hysteria too often triumphs over common sense. Bring up expanded
concealed-carry rights, and some on the Left seem to panic as if law-abiding men and women will somehow turn our shops and
schools into free-fire zones. But the evidence is overwhelming: Concealed-carry permit holders are not a
public-safety risk.
Levi's
CEO: Don't bring guns while shopping at our stores. Levi's, the world's oldest maker of jeans, is asking
customers to leave their guns at home when they're out shopping in its outlet stores, which include four New Jersey
locations. The message was posted in an open letter on LinkedIn by Levi Strauss President and CEO Chip Bergh. He
cited a recent incident where a customer carrying a gun was injured after it went off accidentally. Bergh did not
mention the store's location.
Better
late than never: Military can finally carry at gov't facilities. Seven years have gone by since Nidal
Hassan killed 14 unarmed people at Fort Hood in the first lone-wolf terror attack on military personnel in the US. Finally,
the Department of Defense has changed its policy to allow our armed services to be ... y'know ... armed. Military Times
reporter Jeffrey Schogol wrote about the change of policy yesterday that will allow commanders in the field clear authority
to allow concealed carry of firearms by recruiters and other personnel.
Acknowledging
domestic terror threat, Pentagon says troops, recruiters can carry concealed guns. U.S. military personnel can
now request to carry concealed handguns for protection at government facilities, according to new Defense Department
directive issued last week in response to a series of deadly shootings over the last seven years. While service members
already were authorized to carry weapons as part of specific job responsibilities, the new policy allows them to apply to
carry their privately owned firearms "for personal protection not associated with the performance of official duties," the
directive says.
Ammo
Control Had Failed New Jersey, So Of Course They Want More Of It. New Jersey Democrats [...] think you're too
incompetent to pump your own gas. They want to mandate that all gun buys have smart guns... though they don't exist in
any viable form. They demand that you use FMJ or round nose lead bullets for self-defense, because they're not bright
enough to understand that jacketed hollowpoint bullets are the worldwide standard because they're both more effective in
stopping bad guys and reducing over-penetration risks to those downrange. Now they're compounding their ammo
foolishness (again) by noting that the previous ammo law didn't stop bad guys from shooting one another and law-abiding
citizens, so they need to make the law even more restrictive for people who aren't the problem.
Baltimore
Expected to Approve Law Banning Possession of 'Replica' Guns. A Baltimore police detective shot and wounded
14-year-old Dedric Colvin earlier this year during a foot chase. Police say they gave chase and ultimately fired shots
after seeing Colvin carrying a weapon that appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol. After the shooting, however,
officers discovered the weapon was actually a BB pistol modeled after a popular type of semi-automatic handgun.
Authorities ruled the shooting was justified and no charges were filed against the officer. If the aftermath of the
incident, the Baltimore City Council decided that it wanted to do more to prevent another similar incident from happening.
How do they plan to achieve their goal? By passing a citywide ban on the possession of toy or replica guns that appear
similar to real handguns and rifles.
Hillary
Clinton and Gun Control. Hillary believes that Second Amendment proponents are a "minority" of people, and that
their viewpoint is "terrorizing" the American people. Hillary not only wants to make gun ownership illegal for many,
but would allow gun manufacturers to be sued by those who have been shot by a legally owned gun. This would include
those committing crimes on private property. Hillary said that the Supreme Court is wrong about the Second Amendment,
referring to District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down the D.C. gun ban and ruled that individuals have
a fundamental right to gun ownership under the Second Amendment.
Calif.
Proposition Requires Permit to Buy Bullets. California residents will be voting tomorrow on a measure that
would require individuals to purchase a permit to but bullets and for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to regulate the
purchases. The measure, Proposition 63, would require individuals to pay up to $50 for an ammunition purchase
authorization permit in order to buy ammunition.
I'm
Not Willing to Sacrifice My Family for Your Gun-Free Dreams. [Scroll down] We've taught our older kids to use firearms as well (my
oldest daughter is a natural with the AR-15). I had two reasons for doing this — first to send the message to anyone thinking
about harming our family that we're armed and know how to use our weapons, and second to remind readers and listeners of the vital importance
of the Second Amendment in securing the blessings of American liberty. Quite frankly, it's harder to intimidate and silence armed
citizens. In the middle of the media blitz, my colleague Charlie Cooke reminded me of a key difference between left and right.
"All those progressives who say your story is moving," he said, "probably want you disarmed." And, like clockwork, here comes a lefty
writer to make Charlie's point.
Hillary:
Impose Gun Control by Judicial Fiat. Hillary really, really, wants to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce
in Arms Act. The PLCAA essentially protects gun manufacturers and gun dealers from being sued unless, well, they have
done something wrong. It's a perfectly simple standard that would apply in any other field of human endeavor. The
reason for the PLCAA's enactment was simple. As law professor Timothy Lytton wrote, before PLCAA was enacted: "By
2000 gun litigation was regularly front-page news, and manufacturers faced potentially bankrupting industrywide liability
exposure as a result of suits by dozens of individual victims, over thirty cities, and the State of New York." These suits
were based upon various elaborations of the argument that "guns are used in crime, and so gun manufacturers should pay for
what criminals have done." Some sought to impose liability even where no one could prove what gun criminals had used:
the theory was that all gun makers should pay for all gun crime, in proportion to their annual production level.
Report:
Hillary Clinton Would Ban 'Some of the Most Popular' Firearms in America. A report by the Washington
Times confirms Hillary Clinton would ban "some of the most popular" firearms in America if elected to the White
House. Moreover, the report shows she would chip away at the Second Amendment with myriad new gun control laws
and regulations.

Fraction
of Suicides with Firearms Compared to per Capita Firearms in U.S.A.. The number of firearms in private hands
has been rising for at least 70 years. During the last 20, the numbers of murders, murders with guns, and violent crime
with guns has been dropping sharply. It has become very hard to say that more guns equal more crime with a straight face.
Fatal gun accidents are at an unprecedented low. The rate of fatal gun accidents has dropped 94% in 85 years. The
response of those who wish to disarm the public has been to focus on suicides. They lump in suicides with murders and
accidents and call the whole mismash "gun violence". But if you look at the actual numbers of suicides committed with
guns, you come to an understanding at odds with the gun haters narrative. As the number of guns per capita has increased,
the percentage of suicides with guns has dropped.
Hillary
Clinton: "Reasonable" to Require Guns to be Unusable at Home. The candidate who claimed politicians "need
both a public and a private position" on policy issues demonstrated that tendency Wednesday night in the final presidential
debate in a desperate bid for damage control on a statement she made in a private meeting with wealthy donors. That
earlier statement was simple, uncomplicated, and utterly damning to anyone who believes in the Second Amendment.
Hillary Clinton told the very people who she depends on to fund her political ambitions: "the Supreme Court is wrong
on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get." As a Yale-educated attorney, Clinton
knew exactly what she was saying when she made that remark. But it doesn't take a lawyer to understand the contempt it
demonstrates for the right to keep and bear arms.
The Deep, Deep Gun Control Convictions of Unite
Blue Head Becky Carrizales. Is there any better example of the steadfast political convictions of liberals than
Unite Blue chief Becky Carrizales's convictions on gun control? Twitchy and @eriContrarian shed initial light on the
subject, but a closer look at Carrizales's Twitter account gives definitive evidence of her deep, principled gun control
advocacy: [...]
Separating
Fact From Fiction With the Second Amendment and the War on Guns. The current presidential election
notwithstanding, there are very few topics that generate as much passionate debate as the Second Amendment and gun
control. Every time a tragic event occurs, the left calls for a renewal of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and other
restrictive gun control measures, claiming that the proliferation of firearms in this country is responsible for a
disproportionate amount of violence and poses an ongoing threat to public safety. Ever since 2008, when the U.S.
Supreme Court held in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment provides an individual right "to keep
and bear Arms," gun control activists have been trying to narrow the scope of that right (with considerable success in the
lower courts).
How
The Cloward-Piven Strategy Is Driving The United States To Collapse. Since Obama took office in 2008, the political elite has tried
everything from smuggling illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels, attempting to make ammunition expensive through regulation to convincing banks to
refuse to extend credit or loans to gun store owners. Schemes like these are intended to make gun ownership such an impossible venture, that
eventually no one will own any, thereby making any attempts to establish a hard tyranny slightly easier. Although disarming law abiding
Americans is an important step in implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy, the political elite must also establish an enforcement mechanism for
the new government they intend to create. Coincidentally, over the past five years, reports of numerous and excessively large transactions
have occurred between federal agencies and ammunition manufacturers. While some agencies need ammunition for training purposes and to do
their jobs, why do agencies such as the EPA or the Department of Education ammunition and weapons as well, especially in an era where there isn't
even enough for the military? One possible answer to this vexing question is that even if the political elite succeeds in gutting the military
completely, they likely don't trust the average soldier or Marine to carry out orders for a hard tyranny. Therefore, the political elite likely
intends to use federal agencies to carry out tyrannical orders, all in the name of "law enforcement". If this is the case, it would likely
explain the comments made by President Obama during a speech he made in Colorado, where he argued for a domestic force that was equally as
well-equipped and funded as the military.
Judge
dismisses civil suit by Sandy Hook families against gun-maker, dealer. A superior court judge on Friday
[10/14/2016] dismissed a civil lawsuit brought by the families of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shootings four years ago. Judge Barbara Bellis ruled that the suit against the Remington Outdoor Co., the manufacturer
of the AR-15 assault rifle used in the massacre, is not permitted by federal law.
The
Most Explosive WikiLeaks Clinton Revelations (So Far). [#12] Gun control: cherry-picked data and executive orders:
Democrats are going to lose patience with voter opposition to their gun control agenda and begin imposing it, as soon as they no longer have
to worry about losing a tough election in the near future. They often worry about the potential backlash from Democrat voters in key
states who support gun rights, but they'll stop worrying about that soon, especially if Clinton does extremely well in those states.
A packed Supreme Court will make her even bolder about chipping away at the Second Amendment. No one should be surprised that
Democrats like to pick and choose which crimes the public should focus upon, in order to sell the gun control agenda.
The Clinton Record.
[Scroll down] Lamenting that "too many families in America have suffered — and continue to suffer — from gun violence," Mrs. Clinton has
stated that crime victims should be allowed to sue firearm manufacturers and retailers who lawfully produced or sold a gun that was
used in a crime. This is a way to eliminate the Second Amendment "without firing a shot," so to speak, as it would inevitably
cause the firearms industry to disappear. At a New Hampshire town hall in 2015, a man asked Mrs. Clinton whether she would
consider supporting a gun buyback measure similar to the one that had been implemented in Australia: "Recently, Australia managed
to get away, or take away tens of thousands, millions of handguns. In one year, they were all gone. Can we do that?"
Clinton replied: "I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged." In
other words, Mrs. Clinton is eager to explore creative ways of eliminating the Second Amendment.
Feingold:
Hillary Might Issue Executive Order on Guns. Russ Feingold, the former Democratic senator from Wisconsin who is
running again in an attempt to win back his old Senate seat, was recorded at a fundraiser saying that Hillary Clinton might
issue an executive order on guns. The video was captured by James O' Keefe's Project Veritas at an Aug. 17, $2,700
per-head fundraiser held at the Palo-Alto, Calif., home of Democratic donors Amy Rao and Harry Plant. Palo-Alto is
located 10 minutes away from Stanford University, where Feingold taught after leaving his position as a special envoy at the
U.S. State Department. Feingold can be heard in the video discussing what Hillary Clinton could do in relation to guns
if she were to be elected president. "If there's still Republican control in Congress, and if Hillary is elected, is
there anything she can do to uhh...," a person asks Feingold within the video. "Well, there might be an executive
order," Feingold responds.
The
Huffington Post Is Now Actively Encouraging Felony Gun Theft. The editors of the Huffington Post have always
reliably been for gun control, but now they've taken the shocking step of publishing a story promoting felony gun theft.
Glock,
Remington Sue to Stop Massachusetts Investigation of Gun Safety. Remington and Glock have filed suit to block
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's attempt to investigate possible safety problems with guns manufactured by the
companies. The gun makers contend Healey's investigation is just another one of her attempts to garner headlines above
the folds of liberal newspapers, as well as further her campaign to cripple the firearms industry. In Healey's response
to the Glock lawsuit, her attorneys said the AG's office had no alternative because firearms are "one of the few products not
regulated by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission."
Irony:
Gun Control Fanatic Kim Kardashian Robbed at Gunpoint; Now She Has Heavily Armed Security. Gun control
advocates are only for restricting other people's right to own firearms. When it comes to their own safety and
security, they're not going to risk it. They're going to either surround themselves with armed security, or arm
themselves. And they'll do it while they preach about the necessity of stringent gun control laws.
Crowd
Cheers Clinton Field Organizer Praising Progress Under Obama 'to Cut Access to Guns'. The crowd at
Sen. Tim Kaine's (D., Va.) rally in Colorado cheered on Monday [10/10/2016] when a Democratic field organizer for
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign praised progress under President Obama "to cut access to guns" in the United
States. Prior to Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and musician Dave Matthews appearing together at the
rally in Denver, Pat Costigan went on stage to energize the crowd.
The
Coming National Gun Ban — and How the States Can Resist. The law of averages predicts that at some
time in the future, perhaps as soon as 2017, the Democratic Party will once again control the White House and majorities in
both houses of Congress. When that happens, the next Democratic president — be it Hillary Clinton or someone
else — will sign into law a sweeping, foreign-style gun ban. The legislation has already been written.
H.R. 4269 would enact a national, permanent ban on the manufacture and sale of so-called "assault weapons" and all firearm
magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. The bill, introduced last December, already has 149 Democratic
co-sponsors (218 are needed to pass the House).
Wikileaks
Release: Hillary Clinton Press Sec Says Gun Control to Be Implemented by Executive Order. The batch of
emails released by Wikileaks on October 7 includes one in which Hillary Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon explained that
Clinton "would support... closing the gun show loophole by executive order." Fallon also highlighted Clinton's support of
universal background checks — which have already failed in California, Colorado, Washington state, and Paris —
and her support for a scenario wherein victims of crime would be able to sue gun manufacturers.
A Banana Republic, If We Choose to Keep It.
Hillary Clinton, along with countless other leftists, wants to overturn the Supreme Court verdict in DC v. Heller that affirmed an
individual American's right to own firearms. In the meantime, leftist governments, highlighted by efforts in Seattle and Chicago,
are imposing taxes on bullets and guns in a transparent effort to make both as unaffordable as possible. Voting for the
status quo will keep all of these efforts ongoing.
Tim
Kaine's Gun Control Positions Through The Years. Tim Kaine has held public office off and on in some capacity
since 1994 and has consistently pushed gun control for law-abiding citizens along the way. In 1994 Kaine was a Richmond
City councilman. In that capacity he "supported legislation that included a ban on commonly-owned firearms and their
magazines." As with all gun controls, this ban would have only applied to law-abiding citizens.
Federal
Agency Pushed Law Enforcement to Scan License Plates of Gun Show Attendees. The emails date back to 2010 and
were obtained by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). According to WSJ, "[ICE] crafted a plan in 2010 to use
license-plate readers — devices that record the plate numbers of all passing cars — at gun shows in
Southern California, including one in Del Mar." ICE then "compared that information to cars that crossed the border, hoping
to find gun smugglers, according to the documents and interviews with law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the operation."
Court
Judge: 'No One Should Have' Guns — 'Not Police, Not Security'. According to Oregonlive.com, circuit
court judge Kenneth Walker of Multnomah County, Ore. decided to go on a tangent about gun control during a criminal
sentencing on Monday [9/26/2016]. "If I could, I would take all the guns in America, put them on big barges and go dump
them in the ocean," the judge said. "Nobody would have a gun. Not police, not security, not anybody. We
should eliminate all of them."
Charlotte
violence sparks self defense gun buying spree. The explosion of racial violence in Charlotte, N.C. has led to a
gun buying spree by locals worried about their safety. At Hyatt Guns, one of the nation's largest, staff arrived
Thursday morning after the second night of riots and encountered a line of buyers. "First off, our prayers are with law
enforcement this morning. People are afraid. They see lunacy in the streets being perpetrated by criminals and
they are gearing up to protect themselves," Justin Anderson, director of marketing for Hyatt Guns told [the Washington Examiner].
This is gun control at its finest:
'1 shot — 1
note': Russian sharpshooter performs Beethoven using pistols (Video). A Russian sharpshooter has proven his
skills are going way beyond just precisely hitting targets, as he performed various musical pieces, including by Beethoven,
using two Glock pistols, a video has shown.
Tim
Kaine on Gun Control: "I Can't Think of an Issue I'd Rather be Aligned With Than This". In May 2000, Tim
Kaine, then-mayor of Richmond, Va., used more than $6,000 in public funds to charter eight buses. The buses were used
to transport city residents from Richmond to the anti-gun, and inaccurately named, Million Mom March in Washington, D.C.
The Million Mom March was sponsored and organized by extremist gun control organization the Bell Campaign, which was later
renamed the Million Mom March Foundation. The Bell Campaign supported a litany of gun control measures, including gun
rationing, a ban on the possession of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, firearm owner licensing,
and gun registration. In regards to the right to keep and bear arms, the Bell Campaign contended, "The Second Amendment
does not, and never did, protect the private ownership of guns for private purposes." Following a public outcry over the
use of public funds for political purposes, including criticism from Richmond City Council members, Kaine was forced to seek
private funds to reimburse the city.
Heller
Was Unambiguous, Unlike Hillary. That's the stunning bob-and-weave answer to a simple, direct question by ABC's
George Stephanopoulos as to whether Hillary Clinton believes the Second Amendment protects an individual right. Her
answer lays bare her oft-repeated big lie about support for our unique American liberty. Allow me to dissect her
smoke-screen answer. The Scalia decision she was referring to, of course, came in the 2008 5-4 landmark U.S. Supreme
Court case, District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down the District's ban on handguns and its ban on
armed self-defense in the home. In short, Heller marked the first-ever definitive Supreme Court decision
upholding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
Huckabee:
Clinton's Gun Control Plans are Another 'Hillary Hypocrisy'. Clayton Morris told Huckabee that the New York
Times ran a story on Trump's latest comments about the Second Amendment, saying that he "once again raised the specter of
violence against Hillary Clinton by suggesting Friday that Secret Service agents who guard her voluntarily disarm to 'see
what happens to her' without their protection." Huckabee called the Times' insinuation "utter nonsense." "He's
pointing out the absolute 'Hillary hypocrisy': Guns for me — good thing — guns for you —
bad thing." "Since 1978 she's be surrounded by people who've protected her, not with a notepad, but with guns."
Clinton has said in the past she will sign executive orders calling for tighter gun control.
How
to Talk About Gun Rights With Gun Control Advocates. Guns are a tricky topic. Very rarely do you find
voters ambivalent about gun violence, gun safety, etc. Someone is either strongly pro-gun rights or pro-gun control,
which makes a civil conversation difficult to start or maintain. But the solution isn't to avoid the topic.
What's
really behind the ongoing push for gun control? The gun grabbers tell you they want more gun control in order
to keep you safe. But that is the Big Lie. If they really wanted to limit guns used most to murder people they'd
target handguns, which are used in almost half of all homicides. Of 8,124 murders using a firearm in 2014, handguns
were used 5,562 times. Rifles were used to murder someone only 248 times. And the dreaded "assault weapon"
the politicians make such a kerfuffle over is a subset of rifles, so the number of people killed by those is much lower.
That is evidence the government assault on so-called "assault rifles" is just a show designed to confuse, deflect and cause
conflict and a means to begin the incremental steps to a complete gun ban.
Democrat
VP Candidate Tim Kaine: Confirmed — He's a Radical Leftist Gun-Banner. In May 2000, Tim Kaine,
then-mayor of Richmond, Va., used more than $6,000 in public funds to charter eight buses. The buses were used to
transport city residents from Richmond to the anti-gun, and inaccurately named, Million Mom March in Washington, D.C.
The Million Mom March was sponsored and organized by extremist gun control organization the Bell Campaign, which was later
renamed the Million Mom March Foundation. The Bell Campaign supported a litany of gun control measures, including gun
rationing, a ban on the possession of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, firearm owner licensing,
and gun registration. In regards to the right to keep and bear arms, the Bell Campaign contended, "The Second Amendment
does not, and never did, protect the private ownership of guns for private purposes."
Kentucky
Governor Matt Bevin says bloodshed may be needed to protect conservatism. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said
conservatives may need to turn to physical violence in order to protect the United States against contemporary liberalism.
[...] Bevin suggested that if Democrat Hillary Clinton were elected president, she would set the nation on a dangerous course
that might require bloodshed to correct. He told the audience that the "candle" of liberty might go out "on our watch." To
hammer home his point, he paraphrased a famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
The
TSA's Screwed Up System For Transporting Firearms. [Scroll down] First of all, lock your case while
transporting your gun in the checked luggage, no matter what he said. Declare your firearm at the ticket counter.
The airline will call for TSA. From here things get confused, like Barney Fife is doing the work. I've had TSA agents
ask me to open my case (which is why I keep the keys to the lock handy). I've had TSA agents look at the weapon, look at the
form I completed asserting that the firearm was unloaded, ask me to lock my case, and then (almost always) throw the form down
on top of the case, NOT inside it (the airlines insist that your form be visible inside the luggage but not inside the gun case,
and they usually request that I simply place it on top of the gun case). Luggage handlers and TSA agents need to be able
to see that there is such a form, and if it's inside the case, they can't. I have always had TSA and the airlines insist
that ammunition be inside the luggage, but not inside the gun case. I've also had TSA agents swipe the inside of the case
(as if looking for residue of some sort, and there will always be residue inside my gun cases), and then ask me to lock my
case. Not once have I ever had an agent verify that my firearm was unloaded.
CDC
Study Ordered by Obama Contradicts White House Anti-gun Narrative. In January, following the Sandy Hook
Elementary School massacre, President Obama issued a "Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to
research the causes and prevention of gun violence," along with 22 other "initiatives." That study, subcontracted out to the
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, was completed in June and contained some surprises for the president.
Obama had announced at the beginning of the year his push for three major gun control initiatives — universal background
checks, a ban on "assault weapons," and a ban on "high-capacity" magazines — to prevent future mass shootings, no doubt
hoping that the CDC study would oblige him by providing evidence that additional gun control measures were justified to reduce gun
violence. On the contrary, that study refuted nearly all the standard anti-gun narrative and instead supported many of the
positions taken by gun ownership supporters. For example, the majority of gun-related deaths between 2000 and 2010 were due
to suicide and not criminal violence.
Here
Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Biggest Gun Grabs of the Last Eight Years. [D]espite the fact that
firearm-related murders are at their lowest point since 1981, members of Congress stage a sit-in over a supposed lack of
action on gun control. Anti-gunner believe that by passing legislation targeting law-abiding citizens (who else does
legislation target?), they can reduce the number of firearm-related crimes. That's the charitable view. The less
charitable view is that state and federal politicians don't like the idea of their subjects being armed, and they'll do
anything in their power to take away their right to own and carry firearms.
The
Second Amendment: How Does It Work? Progressives Have No Idea. [Scroll down] [I]s there any
other constitutional right, or any other constitutional amendment, that is so consistently and so aggressively handled with
such base and inexcusable stupidity, on so regular a basis, and on such an industrial scale? I am not sure. You
don't usually see arguments of this idiotic magnitude when it comes to, say, the Fourth Amendment, or the Sixth. You
certainly see dumb interpretations of the First Amendment, but that's usually a matter of degree, not kind: you will have
people arguing that the First Amendment doesn't protect "hate speech," for instance, but nobody ever argues that the First
Amendment only applies to state governments, say, rather than to individual members of the body politic. Only the
Second Amendment is subject to such illiterate and ahistorical analyses. Once you realize that, you can fully grasp
why: many people simply do not like guns, and they will lie — or else keep themselves deliberately
ignorant — to prevent other people from having them.
Green
Party Nominee Wants To 'Explore' Disarming Police Officers. Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for president,
on Sunday said she would like to "explore for the future" the idea of taking away guns from police officers in order to
"address this scourge of racist violence." The liberal candidate has talked about disarming police officers before.
Asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" to explain how that would work in a society where there are already
millions of guns, Stein said: "Exactly, which is why I used the term something to explore for the future." Stein
spoke of the "need to actually hold police accountable so that we can address this scourge of racist violence."
A Woman's Self-Defense
Guide to Concealed Carry (CCW). Between 2004 and 2011, the report shows there was a 77-percent increase in
women who own firearms, a 36-percent increase in women who target shoot, and a 23-percent increase in women who hunt.
Yet, even with more women engaging in shooting sports, that's still not the reason so many are purchasing guns. It's
not for hunting. It's not for fun. It's for self-defense.
Here's
How "President Hillary" Will Destroy Your Gun Rights Without Repealing The Second Amendment. Hillary Clinton is
running the first presidential campaign in the history of the United States based explicitly on the gutting of a core
Constitutional and human right. Clinton has made attacking the human right of self-defense a key part of her 2016
campaign, and if she's elected — and down-ballot Democrats manage to take control of the Senate and/or
House — she's poised to be able to destroy the gun rights of American citizens in three distinct ways.
• Place progressive, anti-gun justices on the Supreme Court
• Pass bans on a wide range of
common firearms
• repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA)
Stop
Gun Violence? Stop Liberalism First. The left, as mostly consisting in this country of the politically liberal,
vocalizes its hatred for the concept of private gun ownership in direct proportion to its increasing seizure of power. As
they have enhanced their control of culture, politics, and discourse, they have similarly increased their open rejection of the
right of private gun ownership. It is by no means the only right they have devalued. Speech and religion are significantly
curtailed by the left, so that only approved speech, and the government-approved religion of Islam, can be openly encouraged.
But gun ownership is the right they hate the most. It is the one which totalitarians always hate the most, since it is the only
one that can successfully stop dictatorship. They will limit our speech, and insult our faith, and spy on us, and treat us
like cattle. But private gun ownership exists to prevent total victory for tyranny.
Gun
Control Is Totally On The Ballot In Four States Or Something. There are many things Leftist become utterly
hysterical over. The fake anthropogenic climate change. Abortion on demand. And, of course, gun control,
with Think Progress' Kira Lerner highlighting 4 ballot initiatives [...] Of course, these are mostly minor measures that do
not encompass the true gun banning that Leftists would like to see occur. They are nickle and diming it. But,
remember, add up a bunch of small steps, and suddenly you'll realize that Democrats have severely restricted your
Constitutional rights. This is what they do when they can't get their big "comprehensive" packages through.
Gun control
goes on the ballot. Voters in four states will decide ballot measures relating to gun control this
November. In Maine and Nevada, voters will decide whether to expand background check requirements to include private
gun sales. In Washington, voters will decide whether to take guns out of the hands of people who are subject to extreme
risk protection orders, which include restraining orders and people at risk of suicide. And in California, voters will
decide whether to ban the possession of large-capacity magazines. The California measure, Proposition 63, would
also require individuals to pass a background check before purchasing ammunition.
These
Gun Owners Are Least Likely Criminals, Report Finds. Concealed-carry permit holders are nearly the most
law-abiding demographic of Americans, a new report by the Crime Prevention Research Center says — comparing the
permit holders foremost with police. "Indeed, it is impossible to think of any other group in the U.S. that is anywhere
near as law-abiding," says the report, titled "Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States 2016." From 2007
through 2015, permits issued by state and local governments increased by 215 percent, to more than 14 million Americans,
according to the data.
Concealed-Carry
Permit Surge Could Play Decisive Role in These 2016 Battleground States. The number of concealed-carry permit
holders has skyrocketed over the last four years, noticeably in key battleground states and among women, according to a new
report. Two swing states have the highest number of permit holders in the country, with 1.58 million in Florida and
1.2 million in Pennsylvania.
Texas AG shoots down profs' arguments against campus
carry. A lawsuit against Texas' new campus carry law is "frivolous" and lacks "legal justification," the
state's Attorney General contends in an opposition brief filed Monday [8/1/2016]. Three University of Texas professors
filed the lawsuit in response to the campus carry law that took effect August 1, arguing that guns in the classroom threaten
both academic freedom and equal protection as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
It's
about time for Texas' guns on campus law. Gun control advocates think that gun bans will make people
safer. But banning guns only ensures that law-abiding good citizens are disarmed, not the killers. Instead of
bans improving safety, these bans attract killers and make it easier for them to commit crimes.
Do
Democrats want to disarm minorities? Instead of additional background checks and creating problems for more
law-abiding citizens, let's acknowledge and fix the broken system that we already have. Virtually everyone who fails a
background check is someone who is legally eligible to buy a gun. Law-abiding minorities, particularly blacks, are the
ones most likely to be stopped from buying guns. Hillary Clinton claims that background checks have stopped 2.4 million
dangerous or prohibited people from buying a gun. But what she ought to say is that there were 2.4 million "initial
denials." These initial denials are akin to being stopped from flying because your name is similar that of someone on the
No Fly list. This happened five times to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. By Hillary Clinton's method of counting,
five terrorists were stopped from flying.

New
evidence confirms what gun rights advocates have said for a long time about crime. Lawful gun owners commit
less than a fifth of all gun crimes, according to a novel analysis released this week by the University of Pittsburgh.
In the study, led by epidemiologist Anthony Fabio of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health, researchers partnered
with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police to trace the origins of all 893 firearms that police recovered from crime scenes in
the year 2008.
New
ATF Head Wants Computerized Database of All Gun Purchases. Deputy Director Thomas Brandon (shown on right),
head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) appeared on CBS's Sunday Morning television show,
complaining that his agency is "a small agency with a big job" and that he really needs more agents and more money to do that
job. What he would really like, however, is a computerized database of all gun purchases made by every buyer and seller
in the country: [...] Brandon took over the agency in April 2015 after Todd Jones bailed out following the agency's failed
attempt to ban ammunition for the popular AR-15 rifle. Jones had taken over the agency after Kenneth Melson bailed out
in 2011 following the implosion of the ATF's Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal.

Per
Capita Firearms vs Murder Rates in the U.S. 1950 - 2014. While various pundits and scholars have claimed that
more guns equal more murders, the raw numbers reveal that to be untrue. The graph above plots the per capita firearms
rate in the United States (stated as number of firearms per 10 people) against the murder rate as tabulated in the FBI
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The UCR includes both murder and non-negligent homicide in the murder numbers. The UCR
murder rate is per 100,000 people in the United States. The murder rate may be one of the most reliable numbers in the
UCR, because murders are more likely to be reported than any other crime. There is a body, and usually an
investigation. Other crime numbers are less certain.
Democrats
renew push for gun bans, convinced mass shootings have changed politics. Fifteen years after they concluded
that gun control was a losing issue for them, Democrats say it's time for a rethink, convinced that a spate of mass shootings
has changed the politics and left Americans clamoring for action. From the stage this week, a powerful lineup of
victims and family members of those killed in shootings begged for gun bans, saying the deranged shooters would have caused
far less damage without the semi-automatic rifles many of them used. Hillary Clinton may be a flawed messenger —
in the 2008 election, she ran as a defender of gun rights — but to the victims and those close to them, she is the best
chance they have to win a fight they have lost for decades.
Lawmakers
Push Back Against Lawless Gun Ban by Massachusetts AG Healy. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy's
unconstitutional gun ban last week may have played well to the gun ban crowd in the Democrat party. She took a moment
of national anger over the assassinations of police officers to push her personal anti-Second Amendment policies, while the
legislature was not in session. Dozens of legislators were not amused.
Democratic
delegate admits 'gun control' is code for wanting to ban all guns. A new video by Project Veritas shows Mary
Bayer, a former Democratic delegate admitting that the term "gun control" is just code for repealing the Second Ammendment
and banning guns. When asked by an undercover reporter if she was in favour of banning guns, Bayer replied in the
affirmative. "I'm totally against them, and my husband is against guns. My husband is now a registered Democrat."
Knife
Rights: The Unseen Side of the Second Amendment. While congressional Democrats and Republicans go head-to-head
over gun control, proponents of a smaller, often overlooked facet of the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms pursue a
battle of their own — the right to carry a knife. Knife Rights, an Arizona-based advocacy group aimed at ridding
states of existing bans on specific types of knives, is leading the fight against restrictive knife laws across the U.S.
"Protecting knife rights is the second front in the defense of the Second Amendment," Todd Rathner, director of legislative
affairs at Knife Rights, told The Daily Signal.
Gun
Restrictions Punish Only the Rational and the Responsible. The basic argument for restricting the manufacture,
purchase, and possession of firearms runs as follows: Because some gun owners use their guns to commit crimes or
suicide, or they use their guns irresponsibly, the rights of all gun manufacturers, sellers, and owners must be
restricted. Thus, the case for restricting guns rests on collective guilt. (The guns under consideration here are those
those suitable for personal self-defense, including shotguns, semiautomatic shoulder rifles and handguns, and the like.) That
guns can be (and usually are) used in rights-respecting ways is obvious. Nearly half of the U.S. population — scores
of millions of people — own a gun. Many millions of Americans use guns for recreational target practice and
hunting. Many millions possess a gun for self-defense — some ten million have a permit to carry a concealed
handgun — and every year many thousands of Americans use a gun to defend themselves.
How
Many People Were Shot by Open Carriers at the RNC? We were warned. Prior to the Republican National
Convention, multiple mainstream media outlets warned about Ohio's dangerous gun laws that allow for the open carry of
firearms. The head of the police union wanted Ohio Governor John Kasich to (unconstitutionally) suspend the state's gun
laws. "We are sending a letter to Gov. Kasich requesting assistance from him. He could very easily do some
kind of executive order or something — I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point," Stephen Loomis,
president of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told CNN.
Massachusetts
Attorney General Unilaterally Rewrites the State's Gun Laws. Without the legislature, without the governor, and
without any form of public consultation, the attorney general of Massachusetts has today [7/20/2016] rewritten the state's
1998 Gun Control Act. In an edict sent out this morning, AG Maura Healey explained that the law no longer meant what it
had meant since 1998, but instead would mean what she wanted it to mean.
Revealing
Gun Control Legislation Takes aim at Youth Shooting Sports. On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, two Democratic legislators introduced another
gun control bill — this time, to effectively end all youth shooting sports and hunting programs in the United States. Think that's bad?
Wait 'till you read how it's worded. Senator Edward J. Markey and Congressman Ruben Gallego introduced new legislation that claims will
"ensure that powerful, military-style weapons don't end up in the hands of children".
Illinois
gun restrictions unfairly target foster parents, lawsuit claims. Kenneth and Colleen Shults want to permanently
welcome a foster child into their Fairmount, Ill., family, but claim in a federal suit filed this week they are being forced
to surrender their Second Amendment rights to do it. Already parents of three, the couple is in the process of formally
adopting a daughter through the state foster care system and is fighting Department of Children and Family Services rules they say
severely restrict their gun rights. The couple charges that the firearm restrictions aimed at safeguarding foster children
violate their constitutional rights and threaten their ability to keep their family safe.
Why The Left Always Talks Gun Control.
A terrorist goes into a nightclub in Orlando and kills dozens. The President rushes out to make sure everyone knows it is a hate crime and
we must have gun control. In Dallas, a man guns down police officers and the President rushes out and will not call it a hate crime, but
declares we must have gun control. In addition to admitting he classifies hate crimes based on the victim's class, not the intent of the killer,
the President admits he has no ideas but gun control. Like the solution always being the same whether the left believes we are in global cooling
or global warming, the solution to every terrible act in America is gun control.
Despite
racist motives, Obama blames Dallas attacks on gun control. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said "never let a
good crisis go to waste," and President Obama intends to use the racist anti-police attacks in Dallas for expanding gun
control. Despite the fact that one of the shooters, Micah X. Johnson, had racist motives and wanted to kill white
police officers because he was angry and cited #BlackLivesMatter as inciting him, the President is claiming it was the lack
of gun control that caused the deadly massacre in Dallas. "When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately
it makes attacks like these more deadly and tragic," Obama said at a press conference during a trip to Poland. "In the
days ahead we're going to have to consider those realities."
Conservatives
to oppose no-fly gun bill, derail GOP leaders' push for action. House conservatives have kneecapped GOP
leaders' attempts to pass a compromise gun-control bill to keep firearms out of the hands of suspected terrorists, saying
Wednesday that the chief Republican plan still tramples on Americans' constitutional rights. Speaker Paul D. Ryan had
hoped to push the gun proposal through as part of a broad anti-terrorism package, but the House Freedom Caucus said the gun
provisions go too far, while the terrorism language doesn't go far enough. Without the Freedom Caucus's support, it's
doubtful Mr. Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will be able to pass their bill, which has drawn fierce opposition
from Democrats who say the gun provisions need to be stiffened to deny more people the chance to buy firearms.
As
Congress Returns, Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Gun Control. House Republican leaders are planning to
hold a vote this week on legislation intended to bar some suspected terrorism suspects from buying guns. [...] While
Republicans have been reluctant to pursue any legislation that can be construed as gun control, backers of this proposal
insist it achieves the delicate balance of preventing those suspected of having terrorist ties from buying
weapons — while preserving their right to due process.
FBI
Flagged This Congressman as a Terrorist. Here's Why He Opposes a New Gun Ban. Waiting on a routine flight
from Sacramento back to Santa Barbara, Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., discovered he was a terrorist. Or at least
that's what the FBI thought. McClintock was clearly more of a frequent flyer than radical extremist. But a
classic case of mistaken identity, not ties to terrorism, landed him on the FBI's no-fly list. A well-known state
senator at the time, McClintock was left stranded at the Sacramento International Airport about 10 years ago.
He couldn't fly home under his own name. Pointing to gaffes like the one that grounded McClintock a decade ago,
Republicans now warn of serious constitutional consequences that could occur if Democrats ban suspects on the no-fly list
from purchasing guns.
Gun rights activists say they
won't comply with California's new laws. Fifty or so gun activists gathered Saturday morning at Sacramento's
Cesar Chavez Plaza to protest Gov. Jerry Brown's signing of six gun control measures they said would turn "law-abiding
citizens into criminals." One bill Brown signed will expand the state's assault weapons ban to include "bullet-button"
rifles, which allow users to quickly dislodge a magazine of ammunition by pressing a button. Others prohibit citizens
from possessing magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and require background checks on people purchasing ammunition.
Congressional
Black Caucus to 'Cause Chaos' on the House Floor Over Guns. What more do these Congressional Black Caucus goons
want? Paul Ryan has already caved and will allow a House vote on gun confiscation. Apparently that's not good
enough for the racist Congressional Black Caucus. They plan to "cause chaos" and are urging other fascist Democrats to
join them all over gun control and confiscation.
It Ain't
About Guns: Democrats Super-Excited About Killing Off Your Due Process Rights. The latest efforts to
enact gun-control by Democrats in congress are either strictly symbolic, since they would not have stopped the San Bernadino
or the Orlando Islamic extremists, or a Trojan horse to abolish the 2nd Amendment. Their proposal is to deny 2nd
Amendment rights to anyone on the Transportation Safety Administration's (TSA) "no-fly list." The murderers in San
Bernadino and Orlando were not on the no-fly list, so even if such a law were in place, those acts of domestic terrorism
would not have been prevented. So from that standpoint, such legislation would be mostly symbolic, and solve little to
nothing. It is much more likely, however, that the legislation is a Trojan horse to literally abolish 2nd Amendment
rights of all, or more likely, select citizens.
June Gun Sales Crush
Previous Record. June 2016 saw the most FBI gun background checks of any June since the current system went into
effect. The agency reported on Sunday [7/3/2016] that it processed more than 2.1 million gun related checks in June,
an increase of more than 600,000 over the previous record set last year. That makes June the 14th month in a row to
see a new background check record, including every month of 2016. This year is on pace to break 2015's record for most checks
in a year. Last month's numbers are still lower than the first four months of the year, which tracks with standard seasonal
lulls in sales for the industry. However, June's numbers are higher than May's — a departure from previous years
when June had traditionally seen the fewest checks of any month.
What are the risks guns could be banned
from video games? Some people have wondered, because of the public shootings that occur every so often,
including the most recent ones in Orlando and Germany, is there a risk that computer games might be forbidden to show weapons — specifically
guns — or that video games that show guns being used to wound or kill people, especially in apocalyptic or
"collapse of civilization" scenarios, where players might engage in rampages, including the potential for the killing of
soldiers and police officers, could be banned or prohibited from distribution? Short version: The various
governments of the United States — which means: the federal government and both a state government and a sub
agency of a state government such as a county or city — lack the power to prohibit a maker of a video game from including
guns in a video game, the use of guns in a video game, the use of guns on a video game to kill people, or the use of video
games to kill soldiers, uniformed police officers, or even a protected class of people or an identifiable minority or
religious group such as blacks, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, gays, whites, American Indians, men, women, or children.
California governor signs stringent
gun bills, vetoes others. Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday [7/1/2016] that will require people to turn in
high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales, as California Democrats seek to strengthen gun laws that are already among the
strictest in the nation.
Gov.
Jerry Brown signs six gun-control bills, vetoes five. Californians wishing to buy ammunition will have to
undergo a background check beginning in 2019 similar to those already required for gun purchases, under one of six
gun-control bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday [7/1/2016]. The governor vetoed five gun bills, including
the only bill Republicans supported, AB1176, which would have made it a felony to steal a gun or buy a stolen gun, regardless
of its value.
Gun
control isn't the answer. We already know how to stop the violence. As long as Democrats insist that new gun laws and bans are the
only way to stop or slow gun violence, the Republicans and most of the American people will stand in their way — unless they rush to pass new gun
laws and bans within 2-3 weeks of major mass shootings. The reasons are many, but one of the biggest problems with the new legislation
approach is the fact that gun violence is mostly committed in urban areas by people in demographic groups and living in geographical locations that
a large segment of the American people believe are heavily connected to the Democratic Party.
Obama's
Muslim Homeland Security Adviser Demands National Gun Registry. The Obama administration has been riddled with
Muslims who are anti-American in their views in key national security positions. Now, Cairo-born Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who
immigrated to the States in 1990 and worked at the FBI for 22 years is calling for a national gun registry in clear violation
of the Second Amendment. Abdel-Hafiz who is consulting Obama's "countering violent extremism," which should be more accurately
titled, "countering Islamic terrorism," suggested that a national gun registry be created.
No Fly
No Buy? 100% Unconstitutional. It comes as no surprise at all, that in the aftermath of the Orlando Islamic
terrorist attack, all liberals can talk about is taking guns away from law abiding citizens or making it hard, if not
impossible in some cases, to even purchase a gun. THAT, say the liberals, is the best way to defeat terrorism.
Ted Cruz had a slightly different perspective on the situation: "You don't defeat terrorism by taking away our
guns. You defeat terrorism by using our guns."
Democrats
Sit-In for Secret Lists and Maybe Even a Police State. Democrats are holding a sit-in on the floor of the
House, demanding action on gun control. "The time for silence and patience is long gone," said Rep. John Lewis
(D-Ga.), a former civil rights leader who's taken the lead in the sit-in. "The American people are demanding
action. Do we have the courage, do we have the raw courage to make at least a down payment on ending gun violence in
America?" Details are scarce. Vox.com reports that House Democrats would like to force a vote the way Senate
Democrats did through a filibuster. The Senate voted on four gun bills on Monday night [6/20/2016], with all four
failing. The most egregious wanted to deny the right to bear arms for anyone who was put on the federal government's
terror watch list, a list the federal government can put any American on without even the pretext of due process.
How You Lost The Constitution.
Let's talk for a bit about the so-called "narrow" and "common sense" compromise being put forward by Democrats —
and a few Republicans, notably Susan Collins (R-ME), to block people from buying guns if they're "on a terror watch list."
Sounds reasonable, right? Well, it's not. And the reason it's not has nothing to do with letting terrorists have
guns. Nobody in their right mind wants to have someone who is an actual terrorist walk into a gun store and buy a
firearm — or 10. Rather, we blew it when we allowed the creation of "watch lists" that are (1) secret,
(2) constrain people (e.g. "no-fly" lists) and (3) have no due process protections of any sort associated with
them. These are all unconstitutional, I remind you, to the extent they apply to American citizens.
Supreme
Court upholds gun ban for domestic violence. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday [6/22/2016] that a federal law
intended to keep guns away from domestic violence offenders can apply even if their crime was nothing more than "offensive
touching." The decision was a victory for gun control advocates and groups that work to protect battered spouses and
children, and a defeat for gun rights organizations that argued the federal law goes too far.
Democrat
Governor Vetoes Missouri Constitutional Carry Bill. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D.) vetoed legislation that
would have allowed any adult who was legally allowed to possess a firearm to carry it without a permit. "As Governor, I
have signed bills to expand the rights of law-abiding Missourians to carry concealed and am always willing to consider ways
to further improve our CCW process," Nixon said in a statement. "But I cannot support the extreme step of throwing out
that process entirely, eliminating sensible protections like background checks and training requirements, and taking away the
ability of sheriffs to protect their communities." The governor's decision comes after the Republican controlled
legislature voted overwhelmingly in favor of the measure last month.
Corker:
We Can Still Get a Bill 'That Protects 2nd Amendment Rights' and Keeps Guns Out of Terrorist Hands. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.),
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told CNN's "State of the Union with Jake Tapper" that Congress can still pass a bill that "protects
2nd Amendment rights" and keeps guns out of terrorist hands. "There's still a place that we can get to that protects Second Amendment rights,
but also ensures that we keep guns out of the hands of terrorists," Corker said.
Gun
control initiative allowing ammo confiscation qualifies for ballot in California. A Democrat-backed measure
that would give California the nation's toughest restrictions on ammunition and allow the seizure of magazines exceeding 10
rounds has qualified for the state ballot. The California Secretary of State's office announced Thursday [6/23/2016] that the
Safety for All initiative, championed by Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, had gathered the petition signatures
necessary for a slot on the Nov. 8 ballot. "Enough massacres, death, tears, and hate — it's time to take
action and save lives," Mr. Newsom said in the Sacramento Bee. "The Safety for All initiative gives California
voters the opportunity to keep guns and ammo out of the hands of violent, dangerous, hateful people."
Democratic
Sen. Calls For Ammunition Control. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who is on the shortlist to be Hillary
Clinton's vice president, called for limiting the size of magazines on semi-automatic rifles.
Hawaii
Puts Names Of Law-Abiding Gun Owners Into Federal Database. On June 23, Hawaii Governor David Ige (D) signed a
bill into law placing all of the state's law-abiding gun owners in a federal database. The database — called "Rap
Back" — is run by the FBI and will alert Hawaiian law enforcement if a Hawaiian gun owner is arrested for a crime
anywhere in the United States. Fox 59 quoted Ige saying, "This will allow county police departments in Hawaii to
evaluate whether the firearm owner may continue to legally possess and own firearms." The bill, which received heavy
opposition from gun owners and gun rights groups, was passed by a Democrat-controlled legislature under the presumption that
background checks are not enough.
House Democrats'
sit-in. The Democrats are chanting their silly meme, "No fly no buy." The idea is that if you are on the
terrorism no fly list, you should not be able to buy a gun. The terrorism list started in 2003 as a data base to help
identify potential terrorists, not to keep people off of airplanes. But it evolved. Today, for reasons never
stated, a nameless, faceless bureaucrat can put anyone on the no fly list and it is almost impossible to get off. If
someone put on the list has resources, they can try to sue, but often when the case gets to court and the plaintiff demands
to know why they are on the list, the government invokes the "State secrets" privilege. That privilege is invoked when
there is allegedly classified information in a case and is generally used to deny access to that information.
With the exception of Chicago and New York, where guns are prohibited...
America
is Awash in Guns, and Crime is at Record Lows. Most Americans believe America is submerged beneath a tidal wave
of gun violence. A Pew Research poll in 2013 found that 56 percent of Americans thought gun violence had risen in the
last 20 years, 26 percent thought it had remained the same, and only 12 percent thought it had fallen. You might
be surprised to learn the 12 percent were right. The gulf between the facts about guns and the public's perception is
immense, and was created deliberately. Anti-gun advocates invent new terms ("assault weapon") and politicians lie to win over
a skeptical public. Too often these myths are swallowed by journalists and celebrities who don't bother to check the data and
don't know how modern firearms actually work.
Hawaii
becomes first state to put gun owners in database. Gov. David Ige is signing a bill that makes the state the first to enter
gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country.
My
Family Fled Communism. Stop Pushing Soviet-Style Gun Control Here. From the amateurish House sit-in to
the full-on assault on AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, your assumptions about Democrats pursuing full disarmanent under the
guise of "gun control" are correct. They mean it. As a Virginia gun owner and concealed handgun permit (CHP)
holder myself, I hope my perspective get can you to think differently about firearms if you have doubts. Don't know the
Second Amendment? Let me list it for you: The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed." But, but, but this amendment is outdated, archaic and Draconian! But, but, but there's no explicit
mention of individual gun ownership! (Nope, and nope!) When I hear the most ardent supporters of gun control (aka
disarmament) use these talking points, I cannot help but think of societies where totalitarian regimes succeeded in oppressing
people by first disarming them — like the former Soviet Union.
The
Democrats Are Boldly Fighting For a Bad, Stupid Bill. After Democrats in the Senate staged a filibuster in
support of gun control measures, their colleagues in the House have begun a "sit-in" aimed at embarrassing Republicans into
allowing a vote on a measure that would restrict the ability of suspected terrorists to legally buy guns. The move is
fantastic political theater. It's also a tremendous waste of popular support and activist energy in support of a
measure that isn't just ineffective but also actively offensive. The Democratic proposal has been catch-phrased and
hashtagged as "no fly, no buy," because it would prevent people who end up on government terrorism watchlists, including the
"no fly list," from purchasing firearms. This would do little to reduce gun violence, but it would add an additional
layer of surveillance and government scrutiny to a particular class of people.
GOP
Senate Debates Gun Control Instead of Real Measures to Fight Terrorism. In the aftermath of the terrorist
attack in Orlando — the largest in the United States since 9/11 — lawmakers on Capitol Hill have yet to
introduce one piece of legislation that would actually fight terrorism. Not one. Instead, the Republican-controlled
Senate has not only allowed Democrats to define the debate and make this an issue about gun control, but they've joined the tour
de farce. That President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats once again called for more gun control in the wake of the
tragedy is no surprise. It's completely predictable.
Family
Plans to Destroy Stockpile of Inherited Guns and Ammo Worth Millions, Lawyer Says. Family members set to
inherit a stockpile of guns and ammunition, worth millions of dollars, plan to destroy the weapons "to send a message," their
attorney Daniel Brookman told ABC News today [6/22/2016]. "They want these instruments of death to be destroyed," Brookman
said. "They don't want these weapons out on the street." Jeffrey A. Lash, of Pacific Palisades, California, died
last summer of natural causes, but left behind a stockpile of more than 1,500 guns, 6.5 tons of ammunition and nearly
$250,000 in cash, according to local ABC-owned station KABC-TV. All of the purchases were legally made, KABC reported.
The reason Lash amassed such a collection remains a complete mystery.
Homeland
Security Adviser Demands National Gun Registry. Following the terror attack in Orlando, the dominant
media/political narrative turned to gun control and now-discredited claims of the suspect's mental illness (claims which
included gay-baiting). Now, one controversial former FBI agent — and current consultant to the Obama
administration on "countering violent extremism" (CVE) — is suggesting a national gun registry be created.
Such a registry would target millions of law-abiding American citizens. Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, born in Cairo, immigrated to
the U.S. in 1990. He recently retired from the FBI after 22 turbulent years at the bureau.
What
Will Gun Controllers Do When Americans Ignore an 'Assault Weapons' Ban? [I]n the wake of Omar Mateen's bloody
rampage in Orlando, gun control advocates think that overcoming the passionate opposition of firearms owners and imposing a
ban on a difficult to define class of "assault weapons" is a swell idea whose time has come. This prohibition
will somehow be different. "Those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and
explain why that makes sense," President Obama tut-tutted last week. But the moralizer-in-chief failed to make sense
himself, calling for the outlawing of a category of devices that doesn't really exist.
Dianne
Feinstein's Plans For Guns And The "Terrorist Watch List". [Scroll down] That means that if you're an NRA
member, or a patriot, or you believe in the second amendment and your God-given rights to own firearms, or believe that gun
ownership is the best surety against tyranny, the executive might just label you a terrorist or low-level extremist, and
prevent gun purchases. He might also garnish your wages, prevent driver's license renewal, prevent renewal of your
professional license, or remove your children from the home and place them in the custody of DSS. Do you get the
impression that someone wants you to be disarmed and controlled?
Don't Be
Deceived: Democrats' Gun Control Push Is Not Limited to Those on No-Fly List. [Scroll down] There's
a very deliberate effort here to misstate to Americans what Feinstein's law does. Part of that is undoubtedly because a
recent poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support denying gun sales to people on the "no-fly" list. Perhaps if
Americans understood that what Feinstein is proposing is affecting hundreds of thousands of more people than she's claiming
they'd be less likely to give it a thumbs up. But when people think the list is actually very limited, they're probably
more likely to accept it, due process violations notwithstanding. But proponents of the law don't particularly care
about the distinctions because of their generalized stance against gun ownership. That more people will be denied guns
is a feature, not a bug, even if these people are innocent of any sort of disqualifying behavior. If you perceive all
gun ownership outside of the state as a threat, then the broader hidden consequences are actually beneficial to your goal.
Feinstein
Made Her Gun Control Bill Even Worse. Under Feinstein's 2015 bill, the attorney general can stop the transfer
of a firearm if he "1) determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in
conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism, or providing material support or resources for
terrorism" and "(2) has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism."
The amendment Feinstein introduced last Wednesday, by contrast, lets the attorney general block a sale if he "determines,
based on the totality of the circumstances, that the transferee represents a threat to public safety based on a reasonable
suspicion that the transferee is engaged, or has been engaged, in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or
related to terrorism, or providing material support or resources thereof." In the revised version, there is no
additional requirement that the attorney general have reason to believe the weapon the suspect is trying to buy will be used
in a terrorist attack.
Police Ask Disarmed Brits to Defend Themselves With
Umbrellas. How will we defend ourselves from criminals when the government has taken away our guns? With
umbrellas, of course: [...] You see? No need for law-abiding citizens to carry firearms. In Britain, criminals
don't need guns either, since they know their prey has been disarmed by the government. When a 20-year-old man is
robbing a 70-year-old woman, fists are weapon enough.
Taking
Away Constitutional Rights at the Discretion of the Government. If the news reports are correct, the latest
"gun control" proposal being put forward by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is a "measure that would block people on the
Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list from buying firearms," according to ABC News. There is one major
problem with that proposal: It is potentially unconstitutional since it would take away a constitutional
right — your Second Amendment right to bear arms — at the discretion of a government official in a
secret, nontransparent process that has no adequate due process protections. Let's be clear — we don't want
terrorists buying guns in this country. Nor do we think that they have a Second Amendment right to do so. But
this blunt instrument is not the right solution.
US Senate rejects terror list gun sale
restrictions. [Scroll down] Senators strongly disagreed about how to prevent more attacks happening in
future. Republican Senator John Cornyn said: "Our colleagues want to make this about gun control when what we
should be making this about is the fight to eliminate the Islamic extremism that is the root cause for what happened in
Orlando. "My colleagues in many ways want to treat the symptoms without fighting the disease."
Gun
Store Sells 30,000 AR-15's Since Orlando Shooting. Hunter's Warehouse Owner Tom Engle told the FOX Business
Network's Stuart Varney, his online operation consisting of 300,000 to 400,000 weapons has sold 30,000 AR-15's since
Sunday. A Federal Firearms License (FFL) lets gun-store owners manufacture and import firearms and ammunition across
the United States. Even though each state has its own set of gun laws, Engle explained how it would be possible to buy
an AR-15 online.
Supreme
Court leaves state assault weapons bans in place in Connecticut, New York. The Supreme Court has repeatedly
turned away challenges to gun restrictions since two landmark decisions that spelled out the right to a handgun to defend
one's own home.
The
Goal Is People Control, Not Gun Control. The GOP is getting ready to do what the GOP always does —
cave to the force of progressive bullies. ["]According to CBS News's Steven Portnoy, McConnell has a meeting with
FBI director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday [6/15/2016]. Portnoy Tweeted that McConnell
has signaled he may be willing to consider new gun controls after that meeting.["] Via SSI, it might be claimed that
this is all being done for a purpose and by design, effecting no change except for raising money.
After
Orlando, isn't it time to fight back? Do you get it yet? ISIS, al-Qaida, and millions of Islamic
extremists have declared war on the United States and Western civilization. It's not an accident that people who
believe in the Quran keep picking up guns, bombs and machetes and attacking people who don't believe in the Quran.
Meanwhile, in response, Western civilization has declared a war on itself. We decry the foolishness of jihadi warriors
who are willing to become suicide bombers in order to die for their cause, and yet we have offered ourselves up as willing
victims to die for our own causes of "tolerance," "diversity" and "gun control." We are a suicide civilization.
Ted
Cruz Blasts Democrat 'Political Gamesmanship' in Wake of Orlando Terror Attack. On Thursday [6/16/2016] Senator
Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor to address the Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando. The speech he gave should be the
standard Republican response to the left's deflection towards gun-control instead of addressing the real issue at hand:
defeating radical Islamic terrorism. [Video clip]
Why
should anyone need or want an AR-15? A semiautomatic carbine is a legitimate and appropriate weapon for a
law-abiding citizen to own for personal or home defense. The suitability to task increases in proportion with the size
of one's home, lot, farm, or ranch, as a handgun is neither precise nor powerful enough to guarantee stopping a lethal threat
the farther away that threat is — and we don't apologize for wanting to keep the threat as far away as possible.
With a carbine, a person defending himself or his family has two to five times greater chance of placing rounds on target at
moderate distance. How important is that? It can make the difference between life and death. Consider that
the hit ratio for cops — trained professionals — with handguns in real-life officer-involved shootings,
at short distances, hovers around 15 percent. It's incredibly difficult to hit the bad guy when you're scared to death.
The Audacity of Dopes. While Obama
refuses to fault "radical Islam" for terrorism, his votaries plainly name "National Rifle Association," "Christians,"
"Republicans," and other unusual usual suspects as the true culprits behind last weekend's carnage. "This is a
political distraction," the president said about his reluctance to utter "radical Islam." So, too, is the audacity-of-dopes
effort to deflect blame onto all-too-convenient enemies. Senate Democrats filibustered in non sequitur fashion
to vote on legislation — specifically a bill to allow government to waive due process to determine, in its
omniscience, who gets to own a gun and who doesn't.
They
Don't Want Your AR-15: They Want Everything. The "news" media is ranting the democrats familiar song, after a
muslim jihadi committed atrocities in a gay nightclub: "We must ban the AR-15, a weapon of war, it has no place in the
public's hands. Why does anyone need an AR-15 to murder Bambi?" It doesn't matter to the "fair and balanced"
media that the mass murderer (not "gunman," a deliberate derogatory sexist slur against men — and guns) didn't use
or even have an AR-15. It doesn't matter that banning the AR-15 would have zero effect on what was done, or what the
next jihad assault will do. All that matters is that murders create political capital and useful propaganda that
influence useful idiots to press Congress to act against the Constitution. And they do.
Rep.
Black: 'Delusional' to Think Gun Control Will Stop 'Radical Islamist Intent on Taking Innocent Life'. "Anyone
who thinks that another gun control law will thwart the will of a radical Islamist who is intent on taking innocent life is
delusional," said Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) in a statement on Thursday [6/19/2016]. She made her remarks in response
to the news that the Senate will hold votes on gun control measures following a 15-hour filibuster from Senate Democrats protesting
inaction on the measures. "As a firearm owner myself, I believe that instead of eroding the 2nd Amendment, we must expand
these rights so that Americans are empowered to protect themselves from those who would do us harm," Rep. Black said.
"This means passing legislation like the National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act, so that law-abiding citizens can take their
firearms with them wherever they may travel within the United States," she argued.
Former
Navy SEAL Destroys Democrats Calling For An 'Assault Rifle' Ban. Since the terror attack on a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Florida, Democrats have begun calling for a full ban on assault weapons or, as many have come to call them, "weapons
of war." "We have seen the devastation that these military style weapons cause," said Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton in a recent interview. Not everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Millions of law abiding gun owners are
defiantly opposing the calls for a ban. Dom Raso, a veteran Navy SEAL, is one of the voices rejecting left-wing calls
for a ban on so-called assault weapons. In a recent video, Raso destroys arguments that claim such a ban would make
Americans more safe.
A
Portland restaurateur says assault rifle owners are not welcome at her businesses. A Portland restaurateur used
her business's Facebook page to speak her mind on assault weapons — inciting a backlash from gun rights advocates.
Anne Verrill, owner of Grace on Chestnut Street, and Foreside Tavern & Side Bar in Falmouth, published the post on Wednesday [6/15/2016],
along with a photo of an assault rifle similar to the one used in the Orlando massacre. "I have spent 12 years, intentionally,
not being political on this page... Let me be clear, this is not a political issue," she wrote, according to several reports. "This
is a human rights issue. If you own this gun, or you condone the ownership of this gun for private use, you may no longer enter
either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love."
The Editor says...
What she's saying, apparently, is that gun owners don't have human rights. She is also advertising her properties
as gun-free zones, which has been repeatedly proven to be disastrous.
Oh Look, The Actual Debate!
[Scroll down] [I]n states where gun laws have been liberalized violent crime rates have gone DOWN at a rate that
exceeds that where such changes in the law have not been made. It appears that "MAD" works on both a macro,
international level and at a micro level, in that thugs actually consider the possibility that they may wind up with a bunch
of extra holes in their body in unpleasant places if they attempt their crimes. Where that possibility is higher, they
are deterred and choose either non-violent, non-personal criminal acts or no crime at all. In point of fact
so far in Chicago (as of 6/15) this year there have been 1451 people shot and 259 killed, or more than
five times Orlando. Chicago remains a place where it is basically impossible for a citizen to lawfully own and
possess a firearm for self-defense, and the gang-bangers know it. They are also not deterred by lots of cops who cower
instead of respond.
FBI: Gun Ownership at All-Time
High; Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low. The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per
100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was
4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per
100,000. Homicide rates were considerably higher in the United States during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, but over the past
25 years, have fallen nearly continuously.
Trump,
GOP lawmakers open door to restricting gun buys for those on watch list. A congressional push to ban or
restrict gun sales for those on terror watch lists gained bipartisan momentum Wednesday, with everyone from key Republican
lawmakers to Donald Trump to the National Rifle Association opening the door to discussing the idea. The presumptive
Republican presidential nominee indicated interest in the push in a tweet Wednesday morning announcing a meeting with the NRA.
DOJ
overrules FBI on gun sales debate, says no-fly list can be used for ban. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
overruled FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday [6/16/2016], saying the Obama administration does support denying firearms
sales to those on terrorist watch lists and that it can be done without harming investigations. Mr. Comey last year had
told Congress that denying sales could "blow" his agents' investigations into potential terrorists. But his superiors at the
Justice Department issued a statement Thursday saying they want to see Congress approve the "no-fly, no-buy" plan Democrats are pursuing.
6
Things To Know About Tying Gun Sales To A Watch List. [#3] The Democrat's proposed gun sales ban list has all
of the infirmities of the no-fly and terrorist watch lists. The Democrats are pushing legislation to create a secret
anti-gun list run by bureaucrats whose job has nothing to do with looking out for your interests. The government does
not have to tell you that you're on the list, even if you are denied authorization to purchase a firearm. The opportunity
to challenge inclusion is sharply limited. You can be added to the list at the whim of hundreds of faceless bureaucrats
without judicial oversight. And the legislation intentionally avoids finality. In the name of national security,
naturally, these same bureaucrats may add or remove you from the list as they please. This is an obvious violation of
due process as protected by the Fifth Amendment, something even the compromised American Civil Liberties Union admits.
NRA Says
It Won't Change Position on Watch-List Gun Ban. The National Rifle Association said on Wednesday it would be
happy to meet with Republican nominee Donald Trump to discuss how to keep terrorists from obtaining firearms but that it
would not change its position. "We are happy to meet with Donald Trump," Chris Cox, head of the NRA's Institute for
Legislative Action, told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement. "The NRA's position on this issue has not
changed." "The NRA believes that terrorists should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms, period," he
continued. "Anyone on a terror watch list who tries to buy a gun should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and
the sale delayed while the investigation is ongoing. If an investigation uncovers evidence of terrorist activity or
involvement, the government should be allowed to immediately go to court, block the sale, and arrest the terrorist."
Schumer,
Feinstein Say FBI Suspicions Should Be Enough to Block Gun Sales. Gun control advocates said on Monday [6/13/2016]
they're going to push "to finally close the terror gap once and for all" by barring gun sales based on the FBI's suspicions about
how a gun will be used. "If the FBI believes there's a reasonable chance someone is going to use a gun in a terrorist attack,
it should be able to make that determination and block the sale," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told a conference call on
Monday [6/13/2016].
Keywords: baby, bath water.
Don't
Disarm Suspected Terrorists. The presumptive presidential nominees of both major parties nevertheless think
people on watch lists should not be allowed to buy guns. "If somebody is on a watch list," Donald Trump told ABC News
last November, "I would keep them away, absolutely." Hillary Clinton dismisses constitutional concerns, saying, "If you are
on that list and you believe you should not be on that list, we have a process to actually raise your objections." But
that process is stacked against people mistakenly linked to terrorism, who are forced to prove their innocence.
Americans should not have to dispel secret suspicions before they can exercise their constitutional rights.
Who to Scapegoat? Guns
or Muslims? Democrats go after gun owners the way Trump targets Muslims. Clinton pronounced Monday
[6/13/2016] as "not a day for politics." Then she called for a ban on "assault weapons." The Orlando shooter did
use an AR-15 rifle, but, as gun owners have convinced me, a ban on one weapon only steers gun aficionados to weapons with
similar firepower. Calls for such bans do not hinder criminals and do radicalize resourceful gun enthusiasts.
Congratulations go to Clinton. She just sold thousands of AR-15s. Clinton made another suggestion: "If the
FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you shouldn't be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked."
Problem: Such a law would not have prevented the Orlando shooter from purchasing guns.
Jeh
Johnson: Gun Control Is Now 'Part and Parcel of Homeland Security'. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson said Tuesday that passing gun control laws is now "part and parcel of homeland security" in an
interview on CBS This Morning [6/14/2016]. In the segment which was flagged by Politico, Johnson said this was the
first time he had vocalized such a belief publicly. President Obama and congressional Democrats have made a renewed
push for gun control laws in the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack on a gay nightclub that left 49 people dead.
Johnson, who made a series of media appearances Tuesday, was asked by left-leaning host Gayle King what it would take to get
gun control laws passed in the United States.
Irony:
Jeh Johnson Says Gun Control Now a Matter of Homeland Security... Orlando Terrorist Worked For DHS. The Islamic
terrorist who carried out the horrific, atrocious attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando Sunday morning was employed by G4S
security company as a licensed, professional security guard with the ability to carry a firearm on duty. He worked at
the company for years. [...] Further, the terrorist (an American citizen) purchased the firearms he used Sunday legally and
passed a background check to do so. Despite these facts, during an interview [6/14/2016] with CBS this morning Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declared gun control as a "matter of national security."
Ripping Apart the Second Amendment.
California law doesn't bar home ownership of firearms, but it does prohibit transporting loaded firearms even when going to
or from a target range. It also exempts security guards and the like. Sustaining a lower court's decision
upholding the California law, the Ninth Circuit could have limited its ruling by finding, as some other courts have, that the
"good cause" requirement is reasonable. But it didn't. The Ninth Circuit (the most liberal in the nation, and the
most reversed by the Supreme Court), went far beyond to create a direct challenge to the Second Amendment. It held that
"...the Second Amendment does not preserve or protect a right of a member of the general public to carry concealed firearms
in public." Most of us thought that this matter was disposed of by the late Antonin Scalia's opinion in the 2008
opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller.
Concealed carry,
California and the 9th Circuit's misrepresentation of the facts. Thursday [6/9/2016], the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 7-4 decision
that Americans don't have a right to carry concealed handguns for protection. Since California bans people from openly carrying guns, their decision amounted
to prohibiting people from carrying guns at all (whether openly or concealed). It is clear that a judge's political affiliation determines whether he
thinks that people have a right to defend themselves. Democratic judges are now moving to overturn recent Supreme Court decisions that struck down bans on
guns. Last year, about 0.24 percent of adult Californians had a concealed handgun permit. In the rest of the U.S., the rate was 24 times
higher, for a rate of 5.8 percent. In many parts of California, it is essentially impossible to get a permit. In San Francisco County, just four
people (0.0005 percent of the adult population), got a permit in 2015. That is an improvement over 2012, when just two permits were granted —
one of which was to the sheriff's personal attorney.
Concealed
carry, California and the 9th Circuit's misrepresentation of the facts. Thursday [6/9/2016], the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled in a 7-4 decision that Americans don't have a right to carry concealed handguns for protection.
Since California bans people from openly carrying guns, their decision amounted to prohibiting people from carrying guns at
all (whether openly or concealed). It is clear that a judge's political affiliation determines whether he thinks that
people have a right to defend themselves. Democratic judges are now moving to overturn recent Supreme Court decisions
that struck down bans on guns. Last year, about 0.24 percent of adult Californians had a concealed handgun
permit. In the rest of the U.S., the rate was 24 times higher, for a rate of 5.8 percent. In many parts of
California, it is essentially impossible to get a permit. In San Francisco County, just four people (0.0005 percent of
the adult population), got a permit in 2015. That is an improvement over 2012, when just two permits were granted —
one of which was to the sheriff's personal attorney.
Criminal
Ninth Circuit Attempts to Shred the Constitution. In a move that endangers public safety and the ability of
California residents to defend themselves, an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that "the Second
Amendment does not preserve or protect a right of a member of the general public to carry concealed firearms in public."
Therefore, any prohibition or restriction a state or local government wants to impose on concealed carry is allowed, from the
"good cause" requirement to obtain a license under review in this case, to a complete ban. This overturns the decision
of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit that came to the opposite conclusion and struck down the "good cause" restriction.
And this comes from the same Ninth Circuit that recently concluded that under the Fourteenth Amendment, Arizona is required to
provide driver's licenses to illegal aliens — thus creating a constitutional right in that case, while dismissing an
actual constitutional right in this case.
Petraeus,
Mark Kelly form new gun control group. Gen. David Petraeus and retired astronaut Mark Kelly announced Friday [6/10/2016]
they are forming a new gun control group for veterans. The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense will push to strengthen gun background
check laws and help prevent veterans from committing suicide. It pointed to several alarming statistics about the military and gun
violence. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), about 22 veterans kill themselves each day.
The Editor says...
A spate of suicides among military veterans is not a gun problem. It is a mental health problem. It's also a VA scandal.
Court:
No automatic right to concealed weapons. In a long-awaited opinion, a federal appeals court decided Thursday [6/
that people do not have a constitutional right to carry concealed weapons in public. Judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals determined that California counties may require people who want permits for concealed guns to show a
specific reason why they need them. The ruling upends a previous one from two years ago in which the court struck down
a San Diego County Sheriff's Department policy which required applicants to show "good cause" as to why they needed a
concealed weapons permit.
En
Banc, the Ninth Circuit Rules Against the Plaintiffs in Peruta. I've just finished reading the Ninth Circuit's
en banc decision in Peruta v. City of San Diego. The short version: This was a loss for
gun owners. The en banc court declined to agree with the three-man panel that preceded it, and instead "affirmed
the district courts' judgments and held that there is no Second Amendment right for members of the general public to carry
concealed firearms in public." In consequence, Californians who live in counties with strict licensing regimes will
not be able to carry firearms for their defense.
DNC
Platform Committee Member Says Nobody 'Should Have A Gun'. A member of the Democratic National Committee's
15-person platform drafting committee said during a public meeting on Wednesday that she does not believe that "anyone should
have a gun." Bonnie Schaefer, a former retail executive and a progressive philanthropist, said that more should be done
to combat gun violence in addition to "just keeping the guns out of the hands of mentally ill people and criminals." "I
really don't personally think anyone should have a gun," she said. "That's just my own philosophy. Nothing is
ever solved when you have a gun in your hand except the worst possible scenario."
Four
ways Hillary Clinton will work to end gun ownership as president. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton just couldn't
bring herself to say on ABC's "This Week" that Americans have an individual right to own guns. But it didn't stop her
from denying Donald Trump's claim that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. Clinton accused Trump of making
"outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue." From changing the Supreme Court to make it
possible to again ban guns in the United States to making it more costly to own guns, I predict that a President Hillary
Clinton will do four things to either ban guns or at least reduce gun ownership, especially for poor people: [...]
Watch:
Hillary Refuses Say Right to Bear Arms Is a 'Constitutional Right'. Sunday [6/5/2016] on ABC's "This Week,"
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton refused to say conclusively the Second Amendment is a constitutional
right and that it "is subject to reasonable regulations."
Second
Amendment takes another hit from D.C. Court of Appeals. In 1975, the right to own a handgun in Washington, D.C.
was illegal. In addition, all other firearms such as rifles and shotguns had to be "unloaded and disassembled or bound
by a trigger lock," making them useless in the event that the gun owner needed to defend himself. However, in a 2008
5-4 decision — please note: that was 5-4, not unanimous — led by the now deceased Antonin Scalia, the
Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the law was a violation of the right to bear arms under the
Second Amendment. And though this ruling was specific to the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court reinforced the
Heller decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago in 2010; a case involving restrictions similar to those found in
Heller. With these two cases, the Supreme Court confirmed the Second Amendment rights of citizens in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia. But that hasn't stopped the anti-gun leftists from continuing to find creative ways around
the Constitution. And, once again, the fight returns us to Washington, D.C.
Hillary Won't Stop at Just Disarming Veterans.
Several leftist media outlets — and also a so-called "veterans' group" — have launched a new effort to
get veterans to help propel Hillary Clinton to the White House. This is quite ironic, of course, since few people have
done more to disarm military veterans than the Clintons. Under President Bill Clinton, veterans with PTSD lost their
gun rights when the VA began forwarding veterans' names to the FBI for placement in the NICS system. To date, over
257,000 military veterans have lost their gun rights because of the precedent that began under the Clinton
administration. And there is no doubt that this antipathy for our veterans' gun rights continues with
Hillary — and that she wants to take away guns from far more Americans than simply veterans.
When
'Smart-Gun' Laws Are Not So Smart. At a White House conference on Tuesday [5/24/2016] with representatives of state and
local law enforcement from all 50 states, Vice President Joe Biden asserted that an "overwhelming majority" of Americans fully support
so-called smart guns — firearms that can only be fired by a particular person. Biden claimed that this technology "could
have gigantic payoff for us" in saving lives and reducing gun-related violence. Now, President Obama wants to use federal grants to
encourage police departments to buy "smart guns" for officers. The idea is to prevent officers' guns from being used against
them. In reality, this technology is more likely to endanger lives than to save them.
D.C.
Attorney General Ignores Court Order, Refuses Gun Permits. Less than a year ago, Kim Davis ignored a court
order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and refused to issue a marriage license to same-sex
couples. She was held in contempt of court, served five days in jail, and was ruthlessly attacked in the media.
Now the office of Karl Racine, the Washington, D.C. attorney general, has ordered D.C. government employees to ignore a court
order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The order by the D.C. District Court Judge Richard
Leon was to stop denying individuals applying for a concealed-carry permit from requiring a "good reason," and to immediately
update the forms to no longer require that. This "good reason" requirement, while it might sound nice, just means D.C.
government claimed the authority to arbitrarily deny people their Second Amendment rights because the D.C. government doesn't
like the reason they wanted to be able to defend themselves. As open-carry is completely prohibited, the inability to
get a permit to conceal-carry means no one is allowed to bear arms outside his home without the permission of the D.C.
government. For instance, according to the D.C. government, living in a "high-crime area" is not considered a "good
enough" reason to want to be able to defend yourself. This is hardly the strict scrutiny applied to the other
enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights like the First Amendment.
Hawaii
could be first to put gun owners in federal database. Hawaii could become the first state in the United States
to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere
else in the country.
Guns
found at TSA checkpoints could mean fine, jail time for travelers. Starting June 1, anyone who forgets they
have a gun in their carry-on luggage will be looking at up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine if the firearm is caught at
the security check point at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Until Georgia law was changed two years ago, "we
didn't really have any issues here," Britt Johnson, who is head of the Atlanta FBI office, said of the "Guns Everywhere Law"
that expanded the list of places guns were allowed. The law said gun owners with a permit could take guns discovered in
their carry-on luggage back to their cars or give them to someone for safe keeping, and they would not face criminal charges.
Clinton
Promises to Attack Gun Owners on Her "Very First Day" in Office. The NRA-ILA is a top source for news about
issue that could affect our Second Amendment rights. Not that it is much of a surprise, but the Democrat frontrunner
has pledged to assault the Second Amendment on day one if elected. As usual, she claims she wants to lower gun
violence... by stepping on the throats of gun manufacturers.
Primed
to fight the government. Deep in the heart of a vast U.S. military training ground, surrounded by spent shotgun
shells and juniper trees blasted to shreds, the Central Oregon Constitutional Guard was conducting its weekly firearms
training. "The intent is to be able to work together and defend ourselves if we need to," said Soper, 40, a building
contractor who is an emerging leader in a growing national movement rooted in distrust of the federal government, one that
increasingly finds itself in armed conflicts with authorities. Those in the movement call themselves patriots,
demanding that the federal government adhere to the Constitution and stop what they see as systematic abuse of land rights,
gun rights, freedom of speech and other liberties.
Hillary
Clinton's fierce anti-gun stance could backfire in general election. Democrats, skittish over pushing gun control since
Al Gore's bid for the White House fell short in 2000, are once again flirting with the issue, preparing to pick perhaps the most
anti-gun presidential nominee in a generation. Hillary Clinton's provocations will be on the minds of thousands of Second Amendment
activists gathering in Louisville beginning Thursday [5/19/2016] as the National Rifle Association hosts its annual meetings, insisting
Mrs. Clinton's fierce gun control stance will once again hamstring Democrats in a national election. Likely GOP nominee Donald
Trump will speak Friday, delivering his fervent pro-gun stance to the one part of the conservative coalition that has quickly and eagerly
embraced him — which makes the contrast with Mrs. Clinton, who's highlighted her anti-gun stance, all the more striking.
Hillary
Clinton Opposes Heller Gun Rights Ruling, Adviser Says. Hillary Clinton believes a 2008 Supreme Court ruling
that is the linchpin of an individual's right to own a gun was "wrongly decided," her policy adviser told Bloomberg Politics
on Friday [5/20/2016]. [...] The stance by Clinton, the all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee, carries potentially
profound implications for the future of gun rights in the U.S. In striking down a longstanding handgun ban in the
District of Columbia, the D.C. v. Heller ruling marked the first time the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment
protected an individual's right to own a firearm for lawful purposes such as self-defense in the home.
Leaked audio: Hillary says SCOTUS
wrong on 2nd Amendment — promises to fight for gun bans. Recently, Hillary's gun control mask slipped a bit
when her daughter Chelsea promised that her mom was eager to return to her gun-grabbing ways. She promised that a
Clinton Supreme Court would issue a "definitive ruling" on the subject — by which she meant overturn D.C.
vs. Heller — and gut the 2nd Amendment. To remind you of her true intentions, the GOP War
Room has cleaned up and re-released some leaked audio from last October. In it, Hillary makes it plain as day.
When
your doctor asks you if you own a gun. Should your doctor be asking you during the course of a routine check-up
whether or not you or any family members have a gun in your house? And what if they do just come out and ask? Ben
Guarino at the Washington Post brings us some information about a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine which
suggests that nothing should hold doctors back from inquiring. You know... just for your own good.
D.C.
Judge Grants Temporary Injunction Against D.C. Gun Permit Law. Judge Richard J. Leon has issued a tightly
reasoned opinion granting a temporary injunction against the enforcement of the District of Columbia's unreasonably restrictive
handgun licensing scheme. In effect, Judge Leon ruled that the District scheme was a thinly veiled ban on the carry of
arms outside the home for the purposes of self defense in the District of Columbia.
Court
rules Second Amendment extends to gun sales, could ease zoning laws on gun stores. Constitutional protections
afforded by the Second Amendment include the right to buy and sell firearms, a federal appeals court ruled Monday [5/15/2016] in a
decision that reinstates a lawsuit over zoning laws that limit where gun stores can be located. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Second Amendment challenges brought by three California businessmen who had sought to open
a firearms store in Alameda County, but filed suit after they were denied a zoning permit based on laws that they claimed prevented
them from opening a store anywhere in the county. Monday's [5/15/2016] ruling did not strike down the local zoning ordinance,
but it does declare that the right to buy and sell firearms "is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and
to bear arms."
Ninth
Circuit: Right to Bear Arms Includes Right to Acquire Arms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit ruled Monday that the right to bear arms has historically included the right to acquire them, and remanded the case
of Teixeira v. County of Alameda to the lower court. [...] In summarizing the latest ruling, the court pointed
to the Ninth Circuit's position that Alameda County "had offered nothing to undermine the panel's conclusion that the right
to purchase and to sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and to bear arms."
Hillary
Clinton Picks a Doomed Fight With Americans Over Guns. "Yesterday, once again, this time horrifically on live
television," says Hillary Clinton in a video on her presidential campaign website, "we saw the terrible consequences of gun
violence." As it turns out, she's not talking about civilian deaths from drone strikes or bombing raids on hospitals by
the U.S. government, but instead about a criminal shooting spree in the United States. Sure enough, the Washington
Post pointed out last week that one of Clinton's signature issues heading into the general election is tightening
restrictions on the ownership and use of guns by Americans.
Trump's
Not Wrong: Clinton Wants to "Abolish" Second Amendment. Donald Trump told his supporters at a rally in
Lynden, Washington, on Saturday that the presumptive Democrat nominee would like to abolish Second Amendment. [...] Clinton
seems to be of the opinion that she understands the Second Amendment better than the Founding Fathers or the U.S. Supreme
Court, as revealed last October.
Putting
a target on firearms. There is a growing effort in the country to prosecute gun manufacturers and retailers for
the crimes committed by those who abuse their products. Proponents of such a gesture — namely, the gun
control lobby — believe suppliers of firearms should be held liable for any wrongdoing or crime committed with
their products. They believe suing gun manufacturers and suppliers will end gun violence. How does suing a gun
manufacturer or retailer stop gun violence? It won't. Gun manufacturers shouldn't be held liable for the actions
of criminals; criminals should be held accountable instead.
Social
Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is
proposing to report people who receive disability benefits and have a mental health condition to the FBI's background check
system. The proposal, which stems from a memorandum that President Obama issued in 2013, would essentially block some
people with severe mental health problems from buying guns. The SSA, which will propose the rule in Thursday's [5/5/2016]
edition of the Federal Register, says it plans to notify disability beneficiaries who might be reported and establish a process
for them to appeal their placement in the FBI's background check system. The proposal is just the latest attempt by the
Obama administration to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
The Editor says...
It looks to me like "the latest attempt by the Obama administration to keep guns out of the hands of [everybody, starting with] the
mentally ill, using Social Security as leverage.
Six
Parts of Hillary Clinton's Plan to Disarm Citizens. [#4] Replace Instant Background Checks With Indefinite
Background Checks: Clinton wants to expand the time frame in which a background for a gun purchase is conducted.
The current time frame is "instant" — via the National Instant Criminal Background Check System — but
there is an allowance for the FBI to take up to three days to complete the criminal records search on a would-be gun
buyer. Clinton wants to expand the FBI's three day allowance by transforming it into an indefinite amount of time to
complete a search.
Mississippi
Law Reclaims Right to Keep and Bear Arms Without Gov't Permission. Mississippi is the latest state to codify
the right of citizens to carry firearms without the permission of the government. On April 15, Mississippi Governor
Phil Bryant signed House Bill 786 into law. The measure was originally intended to permit churchgoers to bring firearms
into their houses of worship, but when the bill was sent to the state senate for its consideration, a state representative
attached an amendment greatly expanding the scope of the proposal. State Representative Andy Gipson is also a minister
of a small congregation in the state, and his amendment allows anyone to carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the state as
long as it is in a holster or scabbard on the belt or shoulder. For a law of this latitude to actually make it to the
governor's desk is an extraordinarily rare victory for advocates of the right to keep and bear arms as protected by the
Second Amendment.
Sheriffs
call for Americans to defy unconstitutional gun laws. As the federal government continues in its quest to
restrict the rights of gun owners across the country, local law enforcement is stepping up their response. For many, it
is one of a line in the sand against a bevy of agencies based in Washington, and partnering state agencies, who have violated
the constitution. The still-growing Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), headed by former
Sheriff Richard Mack, is standing up to these infringements, and saying no. Of course, it has the attention of the
indoctrinated Big Government folks, who are apt to see a group of law enforcement officials standing up for the rule of law
as — what else — a potential threat.
National
Sheriff's Group Stands Up to Gun Control. Sheriff Mack is back in the news and recently gave an interview that
was published in the Washington Post yesterday [4/28/2016]. Former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, Richard Mack,
formed the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) in 2011 with the goal of getting a quarter of the
nation's 3,080 sheriffs to join. Mack sees the feds as "the greatest threat we face today" and sees his several hundred
sheriff-membership as "the army to set our nation free." He is opposed to enforcing bad or unconstitutional laws and
believes gun control is unconstitutional.
Missouri
Looks to Join Constitutional Carry Club. Idaho recently became the ninth state to adopt constitutional carry,
which gives law-abiding citizens the right to conceal carry their firearms in public without a permit. Missouri seems
to be making their intentions known to become the tenth state, as the state legislature recently voted to grant their
residents permitless carry. The Missouri House passed the measure overwhelmingly on April 28, it now works
its way to the State Senate.
Chelsea
Clinton Spills the Beans on Hillary's Plans to Confiscate Guns Using the Supreme Court. We here are the
Federalist Papers Project have been warning that if Hillary Clinton becomes President she will be a true anti-gun president
and will seek to confiscate our guns and put a major crimp in our Second Amendment rights. Now Hilary's own daughter,
Chelsea, is flat out admitting that what we have been saying here is 100 percent correct: Hillary will seek to destroy
the Second Amendment. In an MSNBC broadcast of comments made at a campaign event in Maryland, Chelsea Clinton flat out
admitted that her mother would seek to undermine the Second Amendment and take away our rights. Chelsea also specifically
noted her mother will stack the Supreme Court with extremist liberals who will follow her policy to destroy the Second Amendment.
One
Law for the Rich, Another for the Average. Somewhere, Big Tim Sullivan might be laughing. Over 100 years
after the enactment of New York City's handgun licensing law (commonly referred to as the Sullivan Act), the measure is still
working as the political boss intended. That is to say, it is ensuring that New Yorkers who are well-connected, either
by status or more nefarious channels, are able to arm themselves with handguns, while average residents remain at the mercy
of the criminal element.
Australia's
Gun Controllers Aim for More Restrictions. Further proving that gun control supporters aren't satisfied with
anything less than the elimination of private gun ownership, Australia's anti-gun activists have their sights set on further
restricting access to firearms. This time, the gun controllers have taken issue with the importation and private
ownership of a lever-action shotgun, and that some Australian gun owners have chosen to accumulate a number of firearms.
Harriet
Tubman was a gun-toting Republican. There are some knee-jerk reactions to the seemingly "political correctness
run amok" move to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, replacing President Andrew Jackson. But the replacing of the
slave-owning founder of the Democratic Party with a gun-toting black Republican may spark a political debate worth having and
unearth historical truths worth learning. [...] Harriet Tubman's image should remind Americans that gun control was a
historical method to control and subjugate blacks.
Oops!
Chelsea shot off her mouth on guns, and now Hillary has to pander — and fails. Hillary Clinton has
been eagerly exploiting the only progressive issue on which she can position herself to the left of Bernie Sanders. [...] But
Chelsea's comment, on video, is a bell that can't be un-rung. No matter how quickly Hillary moves to quiet concern over
her anti-gun ownership predilections, Chelsea has made it clear that a Hillary presidency will lead to a Supreme Court that
will hold there is no individual right to own guns.
Hillary Wants
Your Guns. Given the Democrats' dismal record when they run on an anti-gun platform, it is hard to believe that
Hillary Clinton wants to make gun control her signature issue. Nevertheless, that appears to be the case. [...] What do
you think Hillary means by "chang[ing] the gun culture"? My guess is that she knows next to nothing about the "gun culture"
as it is experienced by those who own and use firearms, and what she has in mind is making it really, really hard for anyone
to buy a gun. Except for her armed guards, of course.
Hillary
Says 'Amen' To Supporter Who Wants Her To Use Executive Power To Prohibit Guns In Cars. Hillary Clinton had one
word for a supporter who urged her on Thursday [4/21/2016] to use executive action as president to restrict citizens from
carrying guns in their vehicles: "Amen. "We need you to be able to use your executive powers to legislate that
you can't carry guns in cars, you can't bring cars in buildings that are not assured to carry them," an audience member at a
campaign forum in Hartford, Conn. told Clinton. "We need executive powers to say we will fight for life and not kowtow
to the sons and daughters of Charlton Heston," he added, referred to the actor and former president of the National Rifle
Association. "Whoa, let the congregation say, 'Amen,'" Clinton responded.
Hillary is a tough talker while whe is surrounded by heavily-armed Secret Service agents.
Hillary
Clinton: We have too many guns 'in our homes'. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday
[4/20/2016] that Americans have too many guns in their homes. "When it comes to guns, we have just too many guns. On the streets,
in our homes, in our neighborhoods," the former secretary of state told a gun violence forum in Philadelphia, according to a clip obtained
by Washington Free Beacon.
Clinton
Vows to Spend 'Every Single Minute' as President to 'Change Gun Culture'. At a meeting with families of
gun-violence victims in Hartford, Conn., today, Hillary Clinton vowed to use "every single minute of every day" to "change
the gun culture" in America. Participants at the event included Erica Smegielski, daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary
School principal Dawn Hochsprung, and Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, was also among the Sandy
Hook victims. Clinton, who has been hammering at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over gun control, said "if anything
else were killing 33,000 Americans a year... we would be fully mobilized, doing everything we possible could to save lives."
I predict the members of Hillary's anti-gun gang will be wearing brown shirts.
Clinton: We Could Have Positive
Gangs. Hillary Clinton said that society needs to have "positive gangs" during a discussion on gun violence
Thursday [4/21/2016] in Connecticut. "You said something that is so important for people to hear. You know,
joining a gang is like having a family. It's feeling like you're part of something bigger than yourself. So we're
either going to have gangs that murder and rob and do the things that are so destructive to the gang members and to the
community," she said. "Or, we're going to have positive gangs. We're going to have positive alternatives for
young people. The discussion that Clinton took part in was to push her gun law agenda further to potential voters.
Chelsea Clinton:
Gun Control Opportunity on Supreme Court With Scalia Gone. Chelsea Clinton said Thursday at an event in
Maryland that there is now an opportunity for gun control legislation to pass the Supreme Court since Justice Antonin Scalia
passed away. "It matters to me that my mom also recognizes the role the Supreme Court has when it comes to gun
control. With Justice Scalia on the bench, one of the few areas where the Court actually had an inconsistent record
relates to gun control," Clinton said. "Sometimes the Court upheld local and state gun control measures as being
compliant with the Second Amendment and sometimes the Court struck them down. Clinton then touted her mother's record
on gun control issues and knowledge that the Supreme Court has an effect on whether many gun control laws stand.
Guns
are not Designed to Kill People. People who push for more restrictions on the ownership of guns claim that they
have no desire to restrict people from having hunting guns. Guns that are specifically designed to be used to kill
animals. Guns that can be used to kill animals can be used to kill humans, but that is not their design function.
Some guns are not designed to kill at all. Guns that are designed for target practise are not designed to kill
anything. They are specifically designed to place shots accurately and/or quickly on targets for score. Numerous
gun designs are specifically marketed for target shooting[.] Some guns are designed to prevent killing. Guns that
are designed for self-defense or defense of others fall into this category. Most guns used for self defense are never
used to kill anyone. Most police officers carry a gun their whole career and never shoot anyone. The guns are
there to project force to prevent extreme harm or death, much like the Minuteman III. While many are used for
defense, few are used to actually kill a human.
Hillary is a tough talker while whe is surrounded by heavily-armed Secret Service agents.
Hillary
Clinton: We have too many guns 'in our homes'. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday
[4/20/2016] that Americans have too many guns in their homes. "When it comes to guns, we have just too many guns. On the streets,
in our homes, in our neighborhoods," the former secretary of state told a gun violence forum in Philadelphia, according to a clip obtained
by Washington Free Beacon.
Surge
in gun sales helped create tens of thousands of jobs last year. An unprecedented surge in gun sales created
tens of thousands of jobs last year. The gun industry added 24,763 jobs in 2015 for a nationwide total of 287,986,
according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. That's an increase of nearly 10% from the year before in
manufacturing and retail jobs for guns, ammunition and related supplies, like hunting gear.
Student wearing empty holster cited for 'threatening
the safety of campus'. Two University of South Alabama students were confronted by campus police Wednesday [4/13/2016], and
one student was cited for "causing alarm" by wearing an empty holster. "This week is the empty holster protest for Students for
Concealed Carry in Alabama to demonstrate that students are defenseless on campus," D.J. Parten, president of Students for
Concealed Carry, told Campus Reform.
Don't be too alarmed: The phone-gun doesn't yet exist!
Minnesota
creator of phone-shaped gun responds after backlash. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday [4/7/2016] came out
strongly against soon-to-be-released double-barreled, .38-caliber handgun designed to look like a smartphone. [...] Kjellberg set up
a Facebook page in December and launched his company's website in January. The site advertises the handgun at $395. Much
engineering work remains, he said, and a prototype will not be ready until June. Production isn't likely to start until October
at the earliest.
Gun
That Resembles Cell Phone Sends Liberals Into Hysteria. A Minnesota entrepreneur named Kirk Kjellberg designed
a gun — a two-shot .380 that more or less resembles a cell phone. Liberals got wind of the design and went ballistic.

More Guns Does
Not Mean More Murders. According to proponents of gun control, more guns in America equals more murders and a
more lawless society. Every time there is a mass killing involving guns, liberal politicians rush to call for more
restrictions on guns. Those in favor of disarming the citizenry claim that fewer guns will mean less gun crime.
This assertion is not based on facts, as can be seen in the chart below. Not only is there no correlation between
increases in gun ownership and homicides, but the relationship in fact is negative.
Oregon
Governor, AG hold secret meetings with gun grabbers. It's been a busy week, apparently, for Oregon's top elected
morons. As they struggle to come up with new ways to enact gun control, Governor Kate Brown, Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum, and senate majority leader Ginny Burdick have apparently been meeting with anti gun organizations behind closed
doors, away from the public eye, with no announcement or invitation for anyone else to participate.
They don't trust
you with a gun. As has been said by others, if they don't want you to have a gun it's probably because they
want to do something to you and you would use the gun to resist.
Company
Invents Gun That Folds Up to Look Like a Cellphone. A Minnesota company has invented a handgun that folds up to
look just like a smartphone. The .380-caliber pistol, called Ideal Conceal, will be available later this year and "will be
virtually undetectable because it hides in plain sight," Ideal Conceal says on its website.
The Editor says...
Where will this device first be used as an offensive weapon? A high school? A subway? A courtroom? The airport?
The city jail? You should expect to undergo closer scrutiny at all these places, especially if you're carrying a cell phone.
Schumer
Wants New Smartphone Gun Investigated. The loathsome gargoyle known as Chuck Schumer despises the idea
of self-defense. Except, of course, when it comes to his own self-defense. Capitalism, science and technology do
not favor the statist. The confluence of social networking, 3D scanning, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and advanced
cryptography — to name but a few — mean that designing, building and sharing advanced weaponry will be
as easy as buying a cheese-grater at Target.
Kasich Spits on the Second Amendment. The Heller
decision, confirming that the Second Amendment acknowledges an individual right to keep and bear arms, written by the late Supreme Court
justice Antonin Scalia was in many respects the Roberts court's finest hour. In its acknowledgment that rights are inherent, not
granted by government Heller is constitutional originalism at its finest and Scalia at his incisive and eloquent best. But
someone on his staff apparently forgot to tell Ohio Governor John Kasich about just how important Heller is to limited government
constitutional conservatives because over the weekend he told CBS News that if he were elected President he would consider appointing to
the Supreme Court the judge whose decision Heller overturned.
Supreme
Court rejects ban on stun guns. Right off the bat I'll express my amazement that the court managed to come to a
unanimous ruling on any case that involved the word gun. Perhaps there's a sliver of hope for the future after all.
But even though the technology of firearms has changed significantly since the time of the founders, would they have really looked at
a Taser and though of it as "arms" in the conventional sense once they figured out how electricity works? All such weapons at
that time were obviously devices which fired projectiles of some sort through the use of gunpowder.
Gun
Owners of America: Senators Must Tell Obama That His "Supreme Court Pick is D.O.A.". Today, President Obama
took the most significant step in his sordid journey to fundamentally transform our nation. Obama nominated a virulent
anti-gunner to fill the seat of Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Let's be clear: the U.S. Senate should bury
this nomination and write "Dead On Arrival" as its epitaph. Despite promises to nominate a consensus candidate, Obama has
chosen a radical leftist in Judge Merrick Garland: [#1] He supported the DC gun ban in 2007, voting to reconsider the
Heller case after a three judge panel had ruled against the ban. [...] [#2] In a 2000 case, Garland voted to maintain the
registration of gun owners, supporting efforts by the Clinton administration to use the instant check to illegally retain gun
owners' names for six months.
NRA:
Why we oppose Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination. In 2008, the Supreme Court answered the question of
whether individual citizens have a right to own a firearm in their homes for self-defense. It was [Antonin] Scalia who
wrote the majority opinion in that case, District of Columbia v. Heller. That landmark decision made clear that
the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. Shockingly, the decision was only
5 to 4. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, Scalia joined Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s
opinion holding that that individual right is fundamental and applies to all Americans regardless of where they live.
Once again, the decision was 5 to 4. With Scalia's tragic passing, there is no longer a majority of support
for Heller and McDonald among the justices.
An Idaho Town Makes The Case For
Guns In School. During the winter, it can take 45 minutes for police to arrive at Garden Valley High
School — one of several reasons the district trains teachers to use guns stored in their classrooms. To some
outsiders, it's foolish. But to the people who live here, the solution meets the challenges that distinguish their home.
Clinton
Wants to Work to Limit the Numbers and Kinds of People Who Have Access to Guns. "I think we have to try everything that
works to try to limit the numbers of people and the kinds of people who are given access to firearms," Hillary Clinton said at Sunday
night's [3/6/2016] Democrat debate in Michigan. "The Brady Bill, which has been in effect now for about 23 years, has kept
more than two million purchases from going forward. So we do have to continue to try to work on that because not every killer
will have the same profile." Clinton endorsed "comprehensive background checks" for online purchases and those at guns
shows. She aslo wants to make sure gun sales do not proceed if background checks are not completed in three days.
Gangbanger
free to roam despite gun busts arrested for armed robbery. A Brooklyn gang member sprung from jail on a paltry $1,000 bail after
two gun busts just 10 days apart has been nabbed again — for an alleged armed robbery with two illegal pistols, The [New York]
Post has learned. In his latest crime, Junior Regis, 23, threatened his victim with a stolen .40-caliber Taurus handgun and a defaced
9 mm Kel-Tec after stealing the man's cash and cellphone Feb. 17, court papers allege. Regis was caught with the
guns — both loaded — about 30 minutes later when the victim, a 21-year-old man, pointed him out to cops
from the 63rd Precinct anti-crime team, police sources said on Wednesday [2/24/2016].
Meet
'Captain Crunch,' the Pentagon gun muncher that has destroyed 1M firearms. It's the place where military weapons go to die. Once a
weapon is marked for destruction, it is sent to Anniston Army Depot where it will more than likely spend its final moments being chomped apart by the
military's Grim Reaper for guns: "Captain Crunch." The massive metal shredder has been in operation since the early 1990s and has used a
pair of intertwined blades to chop up more than a million weapons during that time.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Clueless
MSNBC Reporter Goes to Gun Range; It Doesn't End Well. A MSNBC correspondent on Tuesday [2/23/2016] decided to do a
live report from a gun range. As one could guess, it didn't go well. Reporter Kerry Sanders pointed at the gun-rights
fans and began, "There are lots of folks here who believe that Second Amendment in this country is under attack." Seconds
later, the shooting started. The Second Amendment afficionados drowned Sanders out. [Video clip]
OSHA is going after ammo
manufacturers. I received a call today [2/4/2016] from someone who works for a major ammunition manufacturer. They required
anonymity but want the following information to get out to the public. NSSF is also involved in the fight but doesn't want to speak out
about it either. It turns out my blog post about OSHA considering a requirement of "no guns at work" policy got their attention.
Clinton
and the gun control lobby get it wrong. It is one thing to stop a felon from getting a gun, but it is something quite different
to stop someone whose name is similar to that of a felon. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy was held up at the airport five times because someone
with a similar name was on the no-fly list. Would Mr. Gross really say that a terrorist was prevented from flying on five occasions?
Presumably not, but that's the way that he counts the Brady background checks. In 2010, the last year that the Department of Justice's annual
report on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was released, it showed that 94 percent of "initial denials" were
dropped after the first internal fact check. A 2004 review by Congress found that another two percent were dropped when the cases were sent
out to BATFE field offices. Many more cases were dropped during the three remaining stages of review.
Some
Oklahoma schools display signs warning staffers could be armed. Officials at an Oklahoma school district said they wanted to send a clear
warning to protect against potential attacks, so they put up signs on Monday alerting that staff members could be carrying guns. The signs were
erected at public schools in Okay, according to the Muskogee Phoenix. The town's police department was reportedly disbanded in 2014, and even
though sheriff's deputies are available, Superintendent Charles McMahan says that may not be enough. "We don't want to be a soft target," he
told the newspaper.
Connecticut
town considers program to arm teachers. A Connecticut town is considering a program that would arm teachers at
its only school. Kent selectmen voted 2-1 on Wednesday [2/3/2016] to present information about the "FASTER Saves Lives"
program to the Kent Board of Education. The board will ultimately decide whether to implement the program at the pre-K
through eighth-grade Kent Center School.
Facebook
bows to Obama, banning private gun sales. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has caved into pressure by the Obama
administration and will ban private gun sales. The policy will also carry over to the CEO's photo-sharing service Instagram.
"Over the last two years, more and more people have been using Facebook to discover products and to buy and sell things to one another,"
Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of product policy, said in a statement released Friday [1/29/2016]. "We are continuing to develop,
test and launch new products to make this experience even better for people and are updating our regulated-goods policies to reflect
this evolution."
'How
I Spent My Constitutional Rights': MA town to require essay for carry permits. If citizens in Lowell, Massachusetts want to
carry a weapon in self-defense, they had better start sharpening their pencils. The city will now require anyone who wants an
"unrestricted" gun license to explain in writing why they feel the need to exercise their constitutional rights publicly, with the police
chief playing the role of schoolmarm in deciding who passes and who fails. On top of that, anyone wishing to carry at all
must take a course that currently costs more than $1100.
Critics
blast Massachusetts city's new 'essay' rule for gun-carry applicants. Critics are blasting a Massachusetts city's new law that they claim requires
residents applying for a license to carry handguns to write "an essay" and pay upwards of $1,100 for training. The new laws take effect this week in
Lowell, a city of 110,000 that lies 35 miles north of Boston. Pushed by Police Superintendent William Taylor and passed by the City Council, they
require applicants for unrestricted handgun licenses to state in writing why they should receive such a license. Taylor, who was unavailable for comment
on Monday [1/25/2016], has sole discretion for approving or denying the applications.
Essay
Writing As A Requirement For Concealed Carry. [Scroll down] I have a better idea. Rather than applicants
writing an essay to get their rights recognized, I want the top cop in Lowell to read the essay I've already written, and then write
me an essay that explains why anyone has a right to force applicants to write an essay in order to engage in the free exercise of
their rights. If this seems to difficult for the top cop, we can start at a remedial level. Write me an essay on the
meaning of this phrase: "... shall not be infringed."
Buy Ammo. I have never, ever had anyone tell me
that he had too much ammunition. Not in a combat zone, not in a civil disaster, not even in peacetime. Never. Nor have I lived through
a time where our governing class was so deeply corrupt, so utterly foolish, and so dangerously focused on the perpetuation of its own power that it risked
bringing down everything we have built not merely in the United States but in the entire West. Right now, if you are watching the news, you have
questions about the future. And the answer to all of them is to buy ammo.
Journalist-Registration
Bill Is Modeled On Gun Law, S.C. Lawmaker Says. Criminal background checks and assurances that a person "is
competent to be a journalist" are among the requirements put forth by State Rep. Mike Pitts in a new bill in South Carolina's
Legislature. The bill would also create a responsible journalism registry. Titled the South Carolina Responsible
Journalism Registry Law, the bill quickly drew condemnation from rights groups after it was introduced Tuesday [1/19/2016] (when it was
also referred to a committee). [...] The bill lays out fines — and prison time — for a "person who works as a
journalist without registering," culminating in a maximum punishment of either a $500 fine or a 30-day prison term.
Va.
Senate panel scraps gun-control bills, advances gun-rights measures. A Virginia Senate panel on Wednesday [1/20/2016] scrapped a raft
of gun-control bills while advancing measures intended to expand gun rights. Among the legislation was one, proposed by Sen. George L.
Barker (D-Fairfax), that would have created a way for authorities to remove firearms from people deemed by a Circuit Court judge to be at "substantial
risk" of injury to themselves or others. "There are people slipping through the cracks who are a danger," said Lori Haas, a gun-safety activist
whose daughter was injured in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. "It is not meant to send somebody into your home unnecessarily."
Some
Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals. FOR those of us who argue in favor of gun safety laws, there are a few inconvenient
facts. We liberals are sometimes glib about equating guns and danger. In fact, it's complicated: The number of guns in
America has increased by more than 50 percent since 1993, and in that same period the gun homicide rate in the United States has
dropped by half. Then there are the policies that liberals fought for, starting with the assault weapons ban. A 113-page
study found no clear indication that it reduced shooting deaths for the 10 years it was in effect.
Democrats
on Guns: It's a Mystery. In the waning days of the Obama administration, it seems that gun control is the
Democrats' number one priority. President Obama bestirred himself to both deliver a speech and participate in a staged "town
hall" on the issue of gun regulation, showing unusual energy by his standards. The White House issued an odd potpourri of gun
initiatives, including some that are already law. [...] I find this extremely puzzling. We have seen this movie before, and
we know how it ends. The Democrats have died on the gun control hill a couple of times already. I understand demagoguing
an issue, but don't politicians generally try to demagogue issues that are popular?
Pennsylvania
Mayor Pulls Police From NRA Gun Show. The mayor of Harrisburg, Penn., ordered his police department on Friday
[1/8/2016] not to provide security for an upcoming NRA-sponsored gun show after the association refused to meet a demand to
pay a 60-percent increase in fees for the service. Harrisburg police have provided security for the annual Great American
Outdoors Show, scheduled this year for February 6-14, in the past. Mayor Eric Papenfuse said that the decision not to
offer the department's services this year was motivated in part by the NRA's opposition to the city's gun control policies.
If the spike in gun sales didn't tell you this, there's now a poll to confirm it:
Obama
Fails To Sway Public On Gun Control, Poll Finds. Despite years of speeches, addresses, events and a legislative push, President Obama has failed
to convince the public on key gun control positions that he has advocated, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll. Just 42% of the public thinks stricter
gun control laws will help keep guns out of the hands of criminals, while 52% think increased gun ownership increases public safety. The poll also found
that 42% of adults say that they or someone in their household owns a gun, and 28% say they are planning to buy one; 55% of them say that it is for "security
or protection." Among married women, 49% say that they or someone in their house owns a gun.
Obama's
Long Game on Guns. In the twilight of his presidency, with his goals of gun control unfulfilled, President Obama has pivoted
to the long game. During a teary-eyed press conference yesterday, Obama lamented that federal legislation "won't happen during my
presidency." But with the stroke of a pen, he laid the groundwork for the states to do what Congress would not: limit the number
of people who can own guns. Until gun-control advocates can gin up enough support in Congress, they have targeted state and local
governments as the next frontier. At face value, the president's executive actions are modest, and will have little practical effect.
Their potency, however, lies with the power they give to progressive states to strengthen gun control nationally, without any action by Congress.
President Obama, guns and our
Constitution. In 2008, the Supreme Court laid to rest the once-simmering dispute over the meaning of the Second Amendment. In an
opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court articulated the modern existence of the ancient personal right to keep and bear arms as a pre-political
right. A pre-political right is one that pre-exists the political order that was created to protect it. Thus, the court held, the origins of
this right are the ancient and persistent traditions of free peoples and their natural inclinations to self-defense. The court also characterized
the right as fundamental. That puts it in the highest category of rights protected by the Bill of Rights.
Growth
of NICS Mental Defectives Index Category. The National Instant Check System, NICS, started operation in 1998.
The first numbers that I found available for 'mental defectives' were in an annual report listing numbers available at the end of
2000. The first 89 thousand people on the list were submitted by the Veterans Administration. In the next report,
at the end of 2002, about another 60 thousand individuals had been added from state data bases. [...] The Obama administration
put forth a trial balloon to include 4 million Social Security recipients in the 'mental defective' category of the NICS index.
That trial balloon was withdrawn after the strong public protest that followed. The NICS index is one of four databases that
the FBI checks when doing a background check. Most of the felony convictions are in the National Crime Information Center
(NCIC) data base.
Politico
Writer talks about Obama Regulating FFLs... and does not Know what They Are. The gun culture is used to
ignorant journalists who feel compelled to comment on things that they are ignorant about. It is nothing new. It helps keep
subject matter experts in the field busy writing articles. But there is an obvious disconnect between what it appears the Obama
administration wants, and what it is obviously trying to get. If the Obama administration wants people who sell a few guns a year
to have those guns go through background checks, then it would make sense to repeal most of the onerous Clinton era regulations on small
time gun sellers. [...] But I do not believe that is what President Obama wants. What he would prefer is both onerous
regulation and a requirement to have an FFL to sell small numbers of firearms.
Obama
and the Insanity of the Liberal Mind. Never letting a crisis go to waste, liberals have once again renewed efforts to take
away the guns of law-abiding citizens notwithstanding that they may help thwart a terrorist attack. Refusing to recognize that
terrorists will not only obtain guns whenever they want but that their weapon of choice is more often a bomb, liberals' inability to
reason has and will continue to lead to loss of life and limb. Only a change in commander-in-chief will save Americans from living
through decades of terrorist attacks on our shores.
You Know Less Than You Think About
Guns. More guns do not necessarily mean more homicides. More gun laws do not necessarily mean less gun crime.
Finding good science is hard enough; finding good social science on a topic so fraught with politics is nigh impossible. The facts
then become even more muddled as the conclusions of those less-than-ironclad academic studies cycle through the press and social media
in a massive game of telephone. Despite the confident assertions of the gun controllers and decades of research, we still know
astonishingly little about how guns actually function in society and almost nothing at all about whether gun control policies actually
work as promised.
The
Real Reason Obama's Pushing Gun Control. On Tuesday [1/5/2016], President Obama unveiled his rather minor executive actions
on gun control with great fanfare, applause, and tears. We laughed; we cried; we questioned why exactly he was wasting political
capital on a series of initiatives that largely mirror already-present federal law. Here's the answer: he's trying to mobilize
his hard-core base. Obama said during his press conference, "I'm not on the ballot again. I'm not looking to score some
points." But his party is. Leftist columnist Greg Sargent of The Washington Post explains that the gun control
issue drives hard lefties to the polls.
Obama's gun control
lies. In what was surely the most sickening display of presidential demagoguery in the history of the United States,
President Obama wept — wept — crocodile tears in a calculated effort to gain the support of the
ignorant, the clueless, and the stupid while announcing multiple violations of the Bill of Rights yesterday [1/5/2015]. Obama's
speech alternated between effeminate weeping, pleading, and sanctimonious, holier-than-thou indignation as he presented a litany of
falsehoods, straw man arguments, and outright lies as justification for his plan to strip the American public of constitutionally
enumerated rights.
Obama's
Gun-Control Plan Includes Gun-Ban For Some Social Security Beneficiaries. The White House released a fact-sheet
Jan. 4 which previews the executive gun control Obama will unveil Tuesday [1/5/2016] and one aspect of the new controls is the inclusion
of "information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from
possessing a firearm." On July 18 Breitbart News reported on Obama's push to ban gun-possession for Social Security
beneficiaries who are believed incapable of handling their own finances.
Obama's Legacy Will Be Executive
Abuse. When I got back from my winter vacation, America was still being run by a two-term president who believes it's his job
to impose his notions of morality, safety, and decency on everyone, often trying to work around the limits the system places on him.
This week Barack Obama is going to institute new restrictions on Americans unilaterally — expanding background checks, closing
supposed "loopholes," and tightening the process for law-abiding gun owners — because Congress "won't act" and also because he
believes it's the right thing to do. Neither of them are compelling reasons to legislate from the White House.

Top Secret: the US homicide rate over the past 120 years. [W]hile murder
rates are down over the past twenty years by something like 50%, a rate that the media would have hailed as a miracle if it'd applied to drunk
driving or cancer deaths.
America
Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem. America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west
where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown. Chicago is America's mass shooting capital.
There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot. 2,995 people
were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter,
Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common,
they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.
Doctors
can report some mentally ill patients to FBI under new gun control rule. Delivering on its promise to deliver
"common sense" gun control, the Obama administration on Monday [1/4/2016] finalized a rule that enables health care providers
to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system. The action was one of a series of
steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence,
but the rule was not published until today [1/4/2015].
They don't trust
you with a gun. As has been said by others, if they don't want you to have a gun it's probably because they
want to do something to you and you would use the gun to resist.
Before
Barack Obama, We Did Not Have Shootings Like This. A few days ago in California, Islamic radicals shot up a
Christmas party. Armed with long barrel rifles — not handguns — and an assortment of other instruments
of death, they killed more than a dozen people. The American political left, before the facts became clear, immediately
started blaming Republicans, the National Rifle Association and Christians. Once it was clear that Muslims were involved,
the political left looked the other way. When Bryce Williams killed two reporter colleagues live on air in Virginia, the
American left immediately blamed Republicans and the National Rifle Association, and demanded new laws for background checks.
When it was pointed out that Williams had a background check before buying his gun and that he was gay, the story disappeared.
Trump
challenges Hillary to 'disarm' bodyguards. Donald Trump is challenging Hillary Clinton to "disarm" her bodyguards to demonstrate she
doesn't need guns for protection. The Republican presidential front-runner took to Twitter to dare Clinton to put her money where her mouth
is. "Hillary said that guns don't keep you safe," Trumped tweeted Sunday [1/3/2016]. "If she really believes that, she should demand
that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!"
New
California law allows police to seize guns without notice. One of the most controversial new laws of 2016 will go into effect Friday
[1/1/2016] in California, where the state will allow judges to seize guns from even law-abiding citizens if they are judged to be a risk to
themselves or other people. The legislation, introduced after Elliot Rodger killed six people in the Isla Vista massacre, near Santa Barbara,
will allow authorities to seize a person's weapon for 21 days if a judge decides the potential for violence exists. The law, known as
the "gun violence restraining order" will allow family members and law enforcement to request an order from a judge to have guns removed from those
seen as a danger.
Police
May Confiscate Guns without Notice to Owner Starting January 1. Beginning January 1, police in California may
confiscate firearms from gun owners thought to be a danger to themselves or others without giving the owner any notice.
This is the result of the implementation of "gun violence restraining orders" (GVROs), which go into effect New Year's Day.
According to KPCC, GVROs "could be issued without prior knowledge of the person. In other words, a judge could issue the
order without ever hearing from the person in question, if there are reasonable grounds to believe the person is a threat based
on accounts from the family and police." And since the order can be issued without the gun owner even being present to defend
him or herself, confiscation can commence without any notice to the gun owner once the order is issued.
Crime-Free,
Gun-Free Illinois Beta-Testing Gun Confiscation Law, Overriding Second Amendment! Representatives Emanuel
Welch, Pamela Reaves-Harris, and Jaime Andrade, Jr. are behind the resolution and claim that Chicago's epidemic of gun
violence is due to insufficient gun control laws, claiming that "The Heller decision and other pro-firearm industry court
rulings have resulted in a proliferation of guns in numerous communities and have diminished the security and freedom of our
citizens to enjoy a life free of gun violence." The representatives fail to explain how Chicago, which historically has
the most restrictive gun laws in the United States, has seen more than 2,000 people shot in 2015 alone, almost all of the
violence gang- and drug-related shootings.
Justice
Department sued for cross-checking gun buyers with terror lists. A federal class-action lawsuit filed this week
accuses the Justice Department of treating "every potential gun owner like a terrorist" by requiring the cross-checking of
names of firearm purchasers with those on secret watch lists. Paloma Capanna, an attorney, filed a complaint this week
against the Justice Department's top brass in Rochester, New York, to raise objections to the federal government's use of
rosters containing the names of suspected terrorists when reviewing proposed firearm purchases. Ms. Capanna is a policy
analyst with the Shooters Committee on Political Education, a New York-based gun rights group.

A
Historical Perspective On Homicide. The Young Conservatives Instagramed this graphic a couple of days ago. I
haven't verified all the numbers, but I checked most of them against FBI data and they appear to be correct. The chart puts
current hysteria over homicide and firearms into perspective.
Stop
Trying To 'End Gun Violence.' It's Not Going To Happen. From a practical standpoint, we're not ending gun violence.
As long as we have guns, we're going to have gun violence. It always astounds me that most liberals (correctly) understand that
enforcing prohibitions against something as common as, say, marijuana results in untold horrors perpetrated by the state on the
undeserving and innocent. Yet, somehow this same logic doesn't apply to the fact we're stuck with 350 million guns.
Getting rid of this many guns is about as close to a literal political impossibility as there is.
Virginia
halts concealed carry reciprocity with 25 states. Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced Tuesday [12/22/2015]
the commonwealth will no longer recognize concealed carry handgun permits form 25 states that have reciprocity agreements with the state.
Mr. Herring's office said that permits from states with more lax concealed carry laws than Virginia's will no longer be considered legal in the
commonwealth. Out of 30 states that Virginia has entered into reciprocity agreements with, 25 have regulations that are weaker than Virginia's.
Update:
Virginia
Republican lawmakers respond to 'anti-gun' governor by trying to take away his armed bodyguards. The fight
began Dec. 22, when state Attorney General Mark Herring announced that starting on Feb. 1, Virginia would stop recognizing
concealed weapons permits from other states — a move that would affect residents in 25 different states that have reciprocity
agreements with the commonwealth of Virginia. Furious Republicans are threatening to retaliate with an amendment to the
state budget as early as January to strip McAuliffe of his state-funded armed bodyguards.
Update:
Gov.
McAuliffe Reverses Course: Restoring Concealed Carry Reciprocity with 25 States. Just over a month after
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) caused a public outcry by announcing the end of concealed carry reciprocity with
25 states, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) is reversing that decision by restoring reciprocity with the states.
The Washington Post reports McAuliffe will announce the continued reciprocity on Friday [1/29/2016].
Gowdy:
List of Visa Overstays Should Be Sent to Firearms Dealers. Never mind the secret and mysterious government watchlists:
The government could and should be sending its list of people who overstay their visas to federally licensed firearms dealers, Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-S.C.) told two Obama administration officials on Thursday [12/17/2015]. Speaking at a hearing on foreign travelers and national
security, Gowdy said three groups of people currently are barred by law from purchasing or possessing a firearms, including people in the
country without permission; people who overstay their visas; and even, in most cases, people who are here on a valid visa.
Dems
Are At War With Americans On Cars, Guns And Refugees. [Scroll down] Democrats have also made it their
mission to impose stricter gun control laws on the country. On Wednesday [12/16/2015], House Democrats introduced a measure to ban
assault weapons, and Obama is preparing still more executive orders to tighten access to guns. The public? They want more access
to guns, not less. Gun sales have exploded after each mass shooting, as an increasing number of people realize that being armed
is the first, best defense against a terrorist or crazed killer. Meanwhile, polls show a steady decline in support for stricter
gun control laws.
Activist
Judge Legalizes Illegal Gun Confiscation in New York. [Scroll down] [Andrew] Carroll decided to sue in federal court for violations
of his Second Amendment and other rights. He also demanded that the county be enjoined from destroying his guns and to stop them from future
illegal gun confiscations. The decision by District Judge Arthur Spatt was almost as incredulous as the confiscation of the guns themselves.
He denied the injunction against Nassau police, citing the belief that Carroll could be compensated monetarily for having his guns stolen by law
enforcement. I challenge the judge to show me in the constitution where any government agency, local, state or federal are allowed to illegally
seize guns and then compensate the owner with cash. It is more likely that this judge just wants to make it very expensive for Carroll to get
his guns back and even if he receives money in place of the guns, Nassau County will in all likelihood refuse him a permit to buy new guns.
Appeals
Court Vacates Previous DC Gun Ruling. A federal appeals court vacated a lower court judge's ruling that
Washington, D.C.'s gun carry law is unconstitutional over a technicality involving the judge's ability to hear the case on
Tuesday [12/15/2015]. The appeals court ruled that federal judge Frederick J. Scullin did not have the authority to hear
a challenge to the District of Columbia's gun carry law, the Associated Press reported. Scullin, a New York-based judge, had
been temporarily assigned to hear a challenge to the city's original complete ban on gun carry and ruled it was unconstitutional.
He then heard a follow-up case that challenged the law passed in response to his ruling and again declared it unconstitutional.
Americans
Are Ignoring Radical Gun Laws. Both Connecticut and New York rammed through blatantly unconstitutional gun laws
in the wake of Sandy Hook. Both states banned entire classes of firearms and magazines, and demanded citizens register their
firearms. Citizens in both states reacted with blatant civil disobedience. More than 85% of Connecticut's gun owners
refused to register their weapons. When spokesmen for the Connecticut State Police made rumblings that they knew who had at
least some of these firearms, and that they might attempt to start arresting some of the 80,000-100,000 non-compliant gun owners,
Connecticut's gun owners noted that there were only 1,100 State Police, and dared them to try. Governor Dannel Malloy
hasn't dared rattle that cage since.
Calif
gun purchases surge after San Bernardino shooting. Gun sales in California spiked in the days after the deadly
Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, in spite of having some of the strictest gun laws in the country — with
as many as 6,000 guns being sold a day in the days after two jihadists massacred 14 people. Figures provided by the
California Department of Justice to FoxNews.com show that in the four days after the massacre, there were 20,664 sales,
compared to only 12,649 from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.
Connecticut
to ban gun sales by those on no-fly list. Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy proposed Thursday [12/10/2015] to use an
executive order to ban gun sales to those on federal no-fly watch lists. The Democratic governor said that his order would make Connecticut
the first state to do so and that state officials are working with the federal government to get access to the lists. "If you cannot fly
due to being on a government watch list, you should not be able to purchase a firearm while on that watch list as well," Malloy told reporters
at the Capitol.
Texas
police chief, others urge citizens to arm themselves. Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in the small East Texas town of Hughes Springs,
about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his personal Facebook page that the Second Amendment was established to
protect people from criminals and "terrorists and radical ideology."
Growing
number of law enforcement officials urging licensed owners to carry guns. A Texas police chief who warns
President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would "cause a revolution in this country" is
the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings.
Gun Control: An Incipient Tyranny's Desperate
Last Stand. The governing establishment sees it coming, is terrified of the people, and desperately wants them disarmed. It really isn't
hard to understand why that would be the case. After all, if your power and wealth depended upon lying to the people, abolishing their freedom, destroying
their livelihoods, and sending their sons and daughters off to die in pointless wars, would you want them to have weapons? The American people are buying
guns and ammunition in record numbers in absolute defiance of a massive and coordinated gun control propaganda campaign.
Supreme
Court lets local ban on assault weapons stand. The Supreme Court gave an apparent green light Monday [12/7/2015] to
lawmakers who want to restrict the sale of guns such as the rapid-fire weapons that have been used in the recent wave of mass
shootings from Paris to San Bernardino. The justices by a 7-2 vote turned down a 2nd Amendment challenge to a local
ordinance in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park which banned the sale or possession of semiautomatic guns that carry more than
10 rounds of ammunition. In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas said the high court, by refusing to consider a challenge
to that law, was "relegating the 2nd Amendment to a second-class right."

A
Most Problematic Chart for the National Socialist Democrat Party. Every day and in every way, the far left
Democrat Party tries to sell the American people wildly fraudulent bills of goods. Climate change can be controlled by
giving the government more of our money. The entire health care market can be fixed by giving the government complete
control of the system. And ISIS terrorists can be contained by giving the government our guns. Of course, the
the [sic] reality is very different indeed.
Why
I stand with Liberty University's Jerry Falwell, Jr. on guns. I stand with Jerry Falwell, Jr. And like the president of
Liberty University, I am proud to call myself a gun-toting, Bible-clinging American patriot. President Falwell is facing criticism from
Democrats and jihadist sympathizers after he urged students at the nation's largest Christian university to carry concealed weapons on campus
to counter any possible armed attack from jihadists.
We've
had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here's why. According to the FBI's data, the national rate of violent crime
has decreased 49 percent since its apex in 1991. Even as a certain type of mass shooting is apparently becoming more frequent, America has
become a much less violent place. Much of the decline in violence is still unexplained, but researchers have identified several reasons for the
shift. Here are five. [...]
Democrats
Empower Citizens to Restrict Constitutional Rights. [Scroll down] [S]toreowners fearing guns are allowed to discriminate against concealed carry
permit carriers. However, there is not one iota of evidence that concealed weapon carriers commit crimes at a rate higher than non-carriers.
The FBI doesn't categorize murder or other crimes as to whether or not the perpetrator had a concealed carry permit. The crime rate for concealed
carry weapons permit holders is, if you study FBI records, zero. While some murderers use legal guns, they do not have concealed carry
permits, according to FBI data. Yet, discrimination against concealed carriers is not only tolerated by Democrats, it is codified into Illinois
state law. The chief law enforcement agency of Illinois, the IL State Police, makes a free No Guns sign available for download from the internet.

The
FBI reports that the #1 weapon used in violent crime is.... And yet the statists continue to shriek for gun
control, in spite of the Paris attacks that took place in a country that disarms virtually all of its citizens.
Despite the 9/11 attacks, in which Islamists wielding box-cutters killed 3,000 Americans.
Gun
buys, applications likely to surge as pols push gun control laws. "We are so busy right now that I don't know if I'm coming
or going," Derrick Meyers of River City Firearms in Louisville, Ky. told FoxNews.com. "Yes, there has most definitely been an
increase in gun sales," said David Wiley of Wiley's Gun Shop in Wills Point, Texas. "I expect it to continue from now until the
next presidential election." The surge in demand for guns comes not only due to the fear that arises after a mass shooting,
owners say, but amid a fresh push for gun control from mainly Democratic politicians at local and national levels.
Guns Are Flying Off the
Shelves. According to the FBI, last week's Black Friday sales smashed all one-day records for background checks.
According to the Left, something has to be done about it. Not only did Black Friday this year smash records, but background
checks from gun sales from May, June, July, August, September, and October were all record-breaking as well. The people of
America know several key points about today's United States of America: (1) Violence is escalating with the Black Lives
Matter movement; (2) rhetoric from the nation's president consistently calls for more and more gun control; (3) gun-free
zones and soft targets are hit because people are not allowed to be armed within them; and (4) Jihadists live among us.
If all that doesn't prompt you to find a way to protect your life and the lives of your family members, then you aren't paying attention.
White
House: Obama Thinks Gun Control Will Deter Terrorists. Peter Doocy: "President Obama yesterday jumped to say
that this mass shooting means it's time for commonsense gun laws. Does the President really think that common sense gun laws
would deter terrorists now that he has admitted that these two may have been terrorists?" White House press secretary
Josh Earnest: "Yes. The president believes that passing common sense gun laws that makes it harder for people with
bad intentions to get guns, makes the country safer." Peter Doocy: "But so the president thinks that when there are
potentially two terrorists sitting around planning a mass murder they may call it off because President Obama has put in place
common sense gun laws?"
Ulster County sheriff: 'PLEASE' carry your gun
if you have a license. Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum is encouraging private citizens who are licensed to carry a gun
to take up arms in the wake of mass shootings and other world events. Van Blarcum released the message via the Ulster County
Sheriff's Office official Facebook page. "In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I
want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to PLEASE DO SO," the post reads.
Ulster County Sheriff: All
Licensed Handgun Owners Should Carry Them. All licensed handgun owners in Ulster County should carry their pistols. That's
the message Thursday [12/3/2015] from the Ulster County Sheriff. Ulster County is located about two hours north of New York City.
University
of Chicago Surrenders to Jihad. Assuming the threat is credible (and the FBI apparently thinks it is) there are
a very small number of people who threatened to do something evil with a gun. There are thousands of people that attend,
either as students or employees, at UofC. Tell them to bring their guns. Want to try to playing Allah Akhbar or
similar? Go ahead when everyone around you is carrying. It'll last 2 seconds and you'll get exactly one round
off — maybe — before you're dropped where you stand.
Florida
'Muslim-free' gun shop owner wins discrimination suit. A federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim
activist group against a Florida gun retailer owner who declared his shop a "Muslim-Free Zone" has been dismissed. U.S.
District Judge Beth Bloom ruled that Florida Gun Supply owner Andy Hallinan's sign was protected by the First Amendment, and
the activists couldn't prove they were injured by the action, a local NBC affiliate reported.
Armed Citizens Make Fewer Mistakes Than Police.
According to a study by Newsweek magazine, only 2% of civilian shootings involve an innocent person being shot (not killed).
The error rate for police is 11%. What this means is that you are more than 5 times more likely to be accidentally shot
by a policeman than by an armed citizen. But, when you consider that citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals
as do police every year, it means that, per capita, you are more than 11 times more likely to be accidentally shot by a policeman
than by an armed citizen. That is as low as I can get that number. This is not meant to be an indictment of the police.
In fact, because police often live on the edge, they naturally tend to shoot first and ask questions later. Although they are
trained to repress this instinct, it does not always work, as evidenced by the number of innocent people killed by police.
Also, since they are generally better marksmen, they tend to kill, rather than wound or totally miss their target.
Armed
militias and concealed carry: It is Lexington and Concord time. It is now clear that the US Government, for the
most part is unable and, in some cases, refuses to protect Americans from external and internal threats to our security,
whether that be through unregulated immigration, an impotent ISIS policy or the disarming of law-abiding citizens.
Under the Obama Administration's leadership, elements of the radical left such as Black Lives Matter have joined forces
with the Islamist-supporting groups the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and the Council
on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and funded by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, George Soros' Center for
American Progress and the Joyce Foundation, a group that funds gun control efforts. While the Islamist groups want to
render us defenseless against jihad in America, the political left wants to make us vulnerable to government tyranny.
DC
Police Chief who approves almost no concealed carry permits wants armed citizens to take action. Washington
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was on 60 Minutes this week talking about mass shootings, law enforcement response times and
the duties or abilities of citizens in such scenarios. One of her comments caught a lot of attention from those familiar with
her official office policies.
Democrats'
devious gun control measure. [Scroll down] The attorney general would make a list based on data the government
already has amassed. Or, potentially, based on anything else for that matter. Perhaps the Southern Poverty Law Center's
list of troublesome people would serve as a guide. Who knows? Bottom line, if your name appeared on that mysterious list
(intentionally or unintentionally due to errors, which routinely occur), then you would be unable to buy a gun. Wow.
I have to hand it to the Democrats. They've devised a strategy that combines gun control, faux window dressing concern about
national security, and the likely targeting of law abiding American citizens who might wind up on The List.
White House:
Americans Should Talk About Gun Control This Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving, the Obama administration wants Americans to talk about why
Congress won't pass more gun control — but not about Obama's foreign policy failures. During the White House press briefing, Press
Secretary Josh Earnest continued to press a narrative set up by gun control activists in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Stephanopoulos
Omits Arguments Against Barring Guns to Watch List Suspects. On Sunday's [11/22/2015] This Week, host George Stephanopoulos
repeatedly brought up the debate over whether to bar guns from people on the federal terror watch list or the no-fly list without delving into
any of the arguments against doing so. The ABC host brought up the issue with both guests Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, and
raised the issue again during the "Roundtable" segment, but never noted either the specific criticisms that the list gets from both the left and
the right, or the argument against tipping off suspects under secret investigation which barring them from purchasing guns would cause.
Clinton
Wins Gun Control Award From Major Anti-Bill of Rights Group. The Brady Campaign came up with a new award they
named for a former anti-gun New York Governor, Mario Cuomo. The current anti-gun New York Governor, his son Andrew Cuomo, was
on hand at an event in Manhattan to praise Clinton as the recipient of the inaugural "Mario Cuomo Visionary Award." The
primary message of the event was clear: everyone wants more gun laws, and the only thing stopping their passage are cowardly
politicians acting in concert with the NRA.

Flame-Throwing:
The Next Frontier in the Right to Bear Arms? A couple of innovative entrepreneurs, the kind of manufacturers
that made America the industrial power of the world that it is, have created personal flamethrowers that throw [genuine]
liquid fire for dozens of feet. These flamethrowers are easy to use. They are affordable. And of course,
they are fun. But to a buzz-killing Democrat in Michigan, Rep. Sarah Roberts, the question of whether flamethrowers
should be outlawed in her state is a simple question of personal safety — not convenience, fun or even personal
liberty. "There is no good reason for anyone to have or use a flamethrower," said Roberts. "These are dangerous
devices."
The Editor says...
The emergence of recreational flamethrowers raises an interesting legal question: Is such a device a firearm?
If it fires a liquid projectile instead of a solid lump of lead, is it covered by the Second Amendment? When I
light up my charcoal grill, I use the same technology on a smaller scale, so are they going to outlaw that, too?
IDIOCY.
Sheer. Unvarnished. Idiocy. Just when you thought the gun-grabbing Left couldn't debase themselves further, the
Democrat-aligned "Moms Demand Action" — an astroturf-laden front group aligned with Michael Bloomberg —
fell chin-deep into the swamp today [11/14/2015]. With a couple of ill-timed tweets (e.g., "This is how AK-47s get to Paris"),
this mentally disturbed group appears to believe that Islamist terrorists, who destroyed the World Trade Center with airplanes and
bombed London and Madrid, would obey gun control laws. No word on what they want to do with suicide belts.
Wisconsin
Dems move to ban most semi-auto firearms in a big way. A bill introduced by four Assembly Democrats would
establish prohibitions on a variety of rifles, shotguns and pistols with no provision to grandfather. [...] [Lisa] Subeck's
legislation would set a broad definition of just what would be considered an assault weapon under Wisconsin law. For
semi-auto rifles with a detachable magazine, having the addition of a pistol grip; adjustable, folding or thumbhole stock;
bayonet mount, threaded barrel, muzzle brake or compensator would deem them an assault rifle.
Jump
in FBI Gun Background Checks Indicates Rising Gun Sales. Statistics for NICS firearm background checks reported
by the FBI on its website indicate that the system initiated 1,795,102 such checks in September, setting a record for that
month. The number represented 335,739 more checks than the previous September high set in 2012 — a 23-percent
increase. Another new record was set in October, with 1,976,759 background checks, which was 373,290 more than October 2014,
another 23-percent increase. While the number of background checks conducted does not exactly match the actual number of
firearms sold, an increase in the number of such checks almost certainly indicates higher gun sales. If anything, the actual
number of guns sold is likely to be higher, since multiple firearms can be sold to the same person by a dealer running a single
background check.
Sharing
firearms for informal target shooting: Another legitimate activity outlawed? Here are two things that a person
might do with a firearm: 1. Sell the firearm to a complete stranger in a parking lot. 2. Share the firearm
with a friend, while target shooting on one's own property. Michael Bloomberg's "Everytown" lobby is promoting "universal
background checks" as a means of addressing activity No. 1. But the Bloomberg laws also outlaw activity No. 2.
The
Great Gun Control Con. The pendulum of politics swings widely. We see that today as candidates for the
Democratic Party nomination for president clamor for more restrictions on lawful gun owners. What a change from 20 years
ago, following the passage of the Clinton gun ban (also known as a ban on so-called "assault weapons"), which resulted in
President Bill Clinton's party losing control of Congress for the first time in 40 years. The president himself,
in his 1995 State of the Union Address, said as much: "I don't think it's a secret to anybody in this room that several
members of the last Congress who voted for that aren't here tonight because they voted for it." That gun ban expired
10 years later, and a congressionally required review showed that the law had little or no effect on crime.
Gun
Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row. The Federal Bureau of Investigation processed a record number of
background checks in the month of October, indicating that gun sales were at an all time high for the sixth month in a row.
The FBI's National Instant Background Check System processed 1,976,759 firearms related checks in October. That is a
373,290 increase in checks over last year and a new record for the month. It also makes October the sixth consecutive
month to see a record number of checks.
FBI:
Kentucky Has More Gun Background Checks Than California, Texas Combined. An FBI report on the number of gun purchase
background checks, January 1 through September 30, shows that Kentucky performed more than twice as many background checks
in the first nine months of the year as California and Texas combined.
Video:
New Hillary ad demands more gun control. In 2008, Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of being a gun-grabber.
Seven years later, she's complaining that Obama hasn't grabbed enough guns. In a new campaign ad launched today, Team Hillary
demands more federal action on gun control, apparently sensing a weakness in Bernie Sanders' record — but possibly
opening up a large weakness in Hillary's general-election campaign: [Video clip]
Bloomberg,
McAuliffe Fail to Win Virginia Senate With Gun-Control Pitch. Virginia Republicans look set to hold onto their
Senate majority in the Old Dominion, amid aggressive campaigning by Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe. It is a big defeat for
McAuliffe, a close ally for Hillary Clinton, and a big defeat for New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg, who donated heavily to
Democrats in the hope of winning the Virginia electoral fights on a promise of more gun-control.
Virginia
Democrats conspired against gun store, emails show. Democratic elected officials in Northern Virginia worked
together to engineer a campaign against a Fairfax County firearms store in a bid to politicize gun violence and drum up
support for a Democrat in an election Tuesday, an exchange of emails shows. JB Gates, owner of Nova Firearms, opened
a shop in McLean after protesters thwarted his expansion efforts in Arlington County by pressuring his landlord into breaking
his lease.
Has
the liberal wing of the Democrats finally pushed the party too far? Alexander Bolton has a column at The Hill where
he explores the question of whether or not the ascendant, hard left, liberal wing of the Democrats has finally pushed their part
to a tipping point in the run-up to the next presidential election and how that might affect some downticket races as well.
The main area he focuses on is the anti-arms race going on among Democrats as they each try to one-up each other on who would ban
the most guns the fastest.
The "National Debate" About Gun Control Is Over.
Gun Control Lost. In recent weeks we've seen gun control advocates, anti-gun Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream
media call for a laundry list of laws to be passed:
• "universal" background checks
• bans
on certain kinds of firearms, primarily "assault weapons"
• magazine limits and magazine confiscation
• background checks for ammunition purchases
• expensive liability insurance
•
increased taxes on guns and ammunition
• repeal of the Second Amendment
• forced government
gun confiscation
Backed by all of the current crop of Democrat Presidential candidates and President Obama, gun control supporters are
increasingly loud, almost shrill in their demand for federal gun control laws, and they aren't anywhere near to getting them.
Schumer
Puts Military at Risk by Playing Politics with Their Sidearms. Last Friday, [Senator Chuck] Schumer publicly
announced a plan to require bidders for a $580 million Department of Defense contract to supply the U.S. Army with handguns
to submit to questioning regarding efforts to push a gun control agenda. The fact is, Schumer's attempt to subject the vital
fighting equipment of our nation's servicemen and women to petty politics is nothing more than a cynical attempt to indulge his
lust for press coverage, and is a reckless and dangerous threat to the safety of our service men and women.
Hillary Lets It Slip:
If Elected President, She Will Indeed Try to Confiscate Your Guns. As Hillary Clinton floundered on the witness stand last
week, despite withering help from her Democrat apologists who dutifully fell in line and insisted that she can do no wrong, her speech
last Friday [10/23/2015] on the subject of private ownership of guns by American citizens has gone largely unreported. Last Friday,
Clinton, in a rare moment of honesty, advocated for the forced confiscation of privately, legally-owned guns from otherwise innocent
American citizens.
Amish
man sues to buy firearm without photo ID in gun rights, religious freedom lawsuit. In a suit that brings
together the Second Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), an Amish man filed a federal lawsuit in
Pennsylvania last week because he wants to buy a gun without the required photo ID — and because getting that
photo ID would violate his religious beliefs.
Amish
Man With No Photo ID Suing Over Denial Of Gun Permit. There are a couple things at play here. First, the 2nd Amendment
says the Right shall not be infringed. I personally do not have any problem in requiring a photo ID for purchase of any gun, be it
a handgun or a long rifle. For 99.9%, there is no infringement. [...] But, let's think about this: in order to exercise a
Constitutional Right, one must, no exceptions, have a proper government issued photo ID. Liberals pitch a hissy fit over
photo ID requirements to vote. Why no complaints about the requirement for gun purchases?
Ben
Carson: Govt Finds It 'Much More Difficult to Dominate People Who Are Armed'. [Dr. Carson's] statement came after host
Chuck Todd revisited Carson's past comments about how he believes European Jews could have limited the scope of the Holocaust had
they been armed. It was October 8 when Carson said, "I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals
would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. I'm telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people
take the guns first."
Attention Santa Claus:
Gatling Gun Fires 2000 Rounds in 60
Seconds. It's name is the GAU 19B 50 Cal Gatling Gun and they don't call it the "terrorist killer" for no reason!
This version was released by General Dynamics in 2012 and could raise some serious hell in Syria.
Islam Has Been Making the Need
for the Second Amendment Obvious. The latest wave of violence from the Religion of Peace would have taken more lives if not for law-abiding Israeli
citizens carrying guns: [...] No wonder Europeans, who have been placed in the same boat as Israelis by the quislings allowing the ongoing invasion by Muslim
"refugees," wish they had guns too.
Arranging
American Gun Confiscation. America's progressive chatter on guns has been shifting noticeably from the abstract
language of "control" to the concrete language of "confiscation." Hillary Clinton is just the latest leading voice to serve
notice that the forced disarmament of law-abiding Americans is not the dystopian fantasy of paranoids, but a matter of current
policy discussion — and action.
The
weaknesses — and dangers — of the liberal vision. After every tragic shooting, liberals
and progressives call for more gun laws. They exploit American ignorance as to why the Framers gave us Second Amendment
protections. James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, said, "(The Constitution preserves) the advantage
of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid
to trust the people with arms." Alexander Hamilton said, "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that
they be properly armed." [...] Our Founding Fathers expressed a deep distrust and suspicion of government in general and Congress
in particular. More of that distrust is seen in our Constitution's language, such as Congress shall not abridge, infringe,
deny, disparage, violate or deny. If the founders did not believe that Congress would abuse our liberties, they would not
have provided those protections.
Women Disarming Women. The
gun control movement has become the new feminist battleground. Courtesy of millions of dollars flowing from Michael Bloomberg
to women-fronted groups, the face of "gun control" is now decidedly female. Feminization of the issue is not by happenstance.
It is a deliberate strategy designed to appeal to gender voters, to beta males, to those who make decisions based on emotion rather than
fact, and to those who are ill-informed but know what is best for all. If this movement is successful, the consequences will be
tragic and deadly — especially for women. Women who choose to arm for self-protection in an increasingly dangerous
society will be denied that right and instead, will be forced to become easy prey and crime statistics. Make no mistake:
gun control is the real war on women and civilian disarmament is the goal.
Clinton
suggests she'd consider mandatory gun buy-backs, sparking fears of 'confiscation'. Hillary Clinton said Friday [10/16/2015]
that mandatory gun buy-back programs like ones in Australia are "worth looking into," sparking criticism that the Democratic presidential
front-runner would, if elected, impose gun-confiscation efforts. Clinton made the comments during a campaign stop in Keene, N.H., when
an attendee asked about Australia's 1996 and 2003 buy-back programs that collected roughly 700,000 banned semi-automatic rifles and other
firearms. "I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged," Clinton responded.
Americans [are]
Much More Concerned About Gun Control Than Mass Shootings. According to the study, more people are worried about volcanoes,
robots, and artificial intelligence than mass shootings. On the bright side, their concern over mass shootings is double that of
people worried about zombies and ghosts. So, they can hang their hats on that.
Gun Confiscation
Fantasies Fast-Tracking Democrat Party To Destruction. We're seeing a sort of collective insanity taking over the political left
in the United States, and the decline seems to be accelerating in recent weeks. Despite the FBI's recent release of Crime in the United
States for 2014 — showing that violent crime is continuing a dramatic long-term decline of over 18-percent for the past 15 years
even as gun ownership has skyrocketed almost 82-percent — left wing pundits, journalists, and politicians have thrown rationality to
the wind to launch a hysterical and poorly thought-out attack on the Second Amendment and their fellow Americans. Going far beyond their
"normal" calls for mere infringements on constitutional rights that have protected this nation since 1791, they're now calling for forcible
disarmament in newspaper op-eds, blog posts, and social media rants.
CA
Lt. Governor Will Introduce Ballot Initiative for Background Checks to Purchase Ammunition. The lieutenant governor of
California, Gavin Newsom, is proposing a ballot initiative that would create some sensible gun laws. Just kidding, they're not
sensible. Newsom's initiative will ask voters to "strengthen the state's gun laws by restricting ammunition sales, requiring owners
to turn in assault-style magazines that have a large capacity and requiring gun owners to report lost or stolen guns to law enforcement."
If the initiative is passed, California will be the first state to require background checks to purchase ammunition. The proposal is
sponsored by the anti-gun crew at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
FBI: As Gun Sales Soared, Violent Crime
Fell. Again. A new FBI report shows that while FBI NICS background checks (a proxy for gun sales) have soared nearly 82-percent
over the past 15 years, violent crime has plummeted over 18-percent. Anti-liberty Democrats keep screaming that there is an
"epidemic" of "gun violence," but the facts just keep proving them wrong, year after year.
Hillary's
gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way. Allahpundit wrote yesterday [10/16/2015] about Hillary Clinton's
startling lurch to the left on guns. The story dealt largely with her fascinating suggestion that the United States should look at a
"buyback program" similar to Australia's draconian laws which they instituted in 1996 following a mass shooting in Tasmania. (Barack
Obama made the same reference last year, by the way, though it never went anywhere.) As AP noted, this wasn't a gun buy back program
such as many states and municipalities have offered. It was mandatory confiscation with a modest cash reimbursement to soften the blow.
Yes,
Nazis Disarming Jews Did Make A Difference. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has just been dinged
by the liberal media for the nth time for observing that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust "would have been
greatly diminished" had the Nazis not been able to disarm them. He added, "There is a reason that these dictatorial people
take the guns first." This contradicts the narrative that gun control is benign and historically progressive and that
government is inherently good and the governed are apparently not. The problem with this view is that firearm registration
and prohibition facilitated the Nazi dictatorship and was an essential tool in rendering powerless the Jews and all other "enemies
of the state." Denial of this fact is denial of a factor that led to the Holocaust.
'Gun Control' — A Deadly Farce. The zealotry
of gun control advocates might make some sense if they had any serious evidence that more restrictive gun control laws actually reduce gun
crimes. But they seldom even discuss the issue in terms of empirical evidence. Saving lives is serious business. But
claiming to be saving lives and refusing to deal with evidence is a farce.
Mo.
cop kicked out of Olive Garden because of duty gun. A uniformed Kansas City, Mo., cop hoping to celebrate his birthday with lunch
at Olive Garden on Sunday [10/11/2015] was kicked out because of his duty firearm. A hostess caught sight of Officer Michael Holsworth's
holstered handgun as he waited for his family and asked the decorated officer to leave the restaurant at once, he ranted in a Facebook post
Sunday afternoon [10/11/2015].
Olive
Garden apologizes to Missouri police officer kicked out over service gun. The president of the Olive Garden
restaurant chain has apologized to a police officer after he was kicked out of a Missouri restaurant over his service gun.
Olive Garden President Dave George called and apologized to Kansas City Officer Michael Holsworth after he posted a message on
Facebook, that quickly went viral, describing an incident on Sunday in which he was asked by a hostess to leave an Independence
restaurant because of their policy against guns, the Kansas City Star reported.
SNL Just Made the Best Argument for
Why We Need This One Gun Law. [A]fter watching this "public service announcement" by the folks at Saturday Night Live, the former TV
comedy show, I'm publicly coming out in favor of one, powerful, inarguably necessary new gun law. Here it is: No guns
for liberals. That's it. You doubt me? Just watch how the liberals in this SNL commercial handle firearms.
No muzzle control. No trigger discipline. No checking to see if there's a round in the chamber. Liberals can't be trusted with
firearms. Period. [Video clip]
Related commentary:
Has Anyone On
SNL Ever Even Held A Firearm Before This Skit?
Sheriff
Clarke Drops a Bombshell About Obama's Gun Confiscation. Obama operates under the Rahm Emanuel mantra of "never
let a crisis go to waste", and he's certainly doing his best to apply it to the Oregon college shooting. But not everyone is
content to sit back and let him try to trample over the second amendment, including Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who
challenged Obama to put his money where his mouth is. [Video clip]
Ben
Carson Shuts Down Hostile Interviewer: An Armed Citizenry Keeps Government Constrained. During the October 11
airing of Face the Nation, host John Dickerson went after Ben Carson for contending that the Jewish people would have
suffered less under Nazism had they been armed. And instead of examining the substance of Carson's observation, Dickerson
tried to intimate that Carson was suggesting we are under a Nazi-like regime now. But Carson would not relent.
Israeli
Leadership: Everyone should be armed and ready to take out the enemy. This is the way you deter the enemy and
eliminate terrorism and crime. In the wake of a serious uptick in stabbings and shootings in Israel, Education Minister
Naftali Bennett encouraged Israelis to carry weapons and be alert. They are to prevent further attacks... in other words,
eliminate the enemy. Take them out. Terminate them. That is the perfect advice, I just wish our leaders were
this sane and pragmatic. The terrorists may still kill, but they will be taken out quickly and many Israelis will be saved
by this. The answer to terrorism is not fewer guns... you arm everyone and don't bother with arresting these jerks or
giving them a trial. Let them answer for it in the afterlife.
Why Ben Carson is right about
Jews, the Holocaust and guns. Dr. Ben Carson recently asserted that if guns had not been confiscated from Jews then Hitler would have
had more trouble orchestrating the Holocaust. Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation Leauge, quickly objected, stating
that there were few firearms available to Jews in Germany in 1938 and that surrendering them did not measurably contribute to the totalitarian power
of the Nazi German state. Ben Carson is right, and Jonathan Greenblatt is wrong.
Obama
weighs expanding background checks through executive authority. In response to the latest mass shooting during
his presidency, President Obama is seriously considering circumventing Congress with his executive authority and imposing new
background-check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from high-volume gun dealers. Under the proposed rule
change, dealers who exceed a certain number of sales each year would be required to obtain a license from the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and perform background checks on potential buyers.
President
Obama mulling expanding gun background checks through executive action. His royal highness, King Barack I is
thinking of issuing a decree to his subjects, ordering more background checks for those wishing to purchase a firearm.
This backdoor gun control would be accomplished by forcing high volume gun dealers to obtain a license to sell guns from the
ATF — one of the requirements being to perform background checks on purchasers.
How
to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps. [Step 5] Sure, you can try a buy-back program like Australia,
but like Australia that will still leave behind anywhere from 60 percent to 80 percent of privately owned firearms.
The rest you have to take. You'll need the police, the FBI, the ATF or the National Guard — all known for their
nuanced approach to potentially dangerous situations — to go door-to-door, through 3.8 million square miles of
this country and take guns, by force, from thousands, if not, millions of well-armed individuals. Many of whom would rather
start a civil war than acquiesce. So inevitably gun violence, which is currently at a historic low, will skyrocket.
Number of recent school
mass shootings by gun permit-holders: Zero. One thing is certain: if anything, conceal-and-carry permit holders respect the
law more than the general population. [...] Total conviction rates in Texas for permit holders who committed a crime in 2013, for example,
stood at .31 percent. That covers all crime, not gun-specific crimes. Those who obtain a conceal-and-carry permit,
as a whole, commit less crime than the general population.
The Mask Falls: Left Calling for "Gun-Free Society".
They had previously lied about their goals, claiming to be in favor of "sensible gun safety measures" or other rot. But
now they're becoming more honest: a Washington Post editor just explicitly called for a "gun free society.
So the Oregon shooter's guns were legal.
Now what? [Scroll down] From the liberal, gun grabbing side of the discussion there is one remedy which would —
eventually — cut down on mass shootings. It involves eliminating all of the guns on the planet. Owing to the fact that
the majority of Americans still value gun rights and view private gun ownership as a positive force in protecting themselves from evil,
Democrats are loathe to say the words out loud, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't like to see it happen.
Anti-gunnites
More Overtly Reaching For Ban On Private Gun Ownership. [Scroll down] Let's move on to something else from the NY Times,
an article which explains how 14 killers in mass shootings obtained their guns. In every single instance, they obtained them
legally via a federally licensed firearms dealer. Aaron Alexis, the Navy yard shooter, was the only one who was stopped, failing
the background check to purchase a rifle, and, instead, legally purchased a shotgun. Two points here. First, for all the
caterwauling about the "gun show loophole", none of these people obtained them from a gun show. [...] Second, this seems to be thinly-veiled
method of blaming the gun stores, so, of course, this gives people the idea of banning gun stores. Which has worked really, really
well in Chicago, right?
NY
prosecutor reverses employee gun ban after taking fire from legal experts. Earlier this week, FoxNews.com
reported that Nassau County Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas had implemented a policy that "assistant district
attorneys are not permitted to apply for a handgun permit nor own or possess a handgun while employed by the Nassau County
District Attorney." But after UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh first drew attention to the policy in a Washington Post
blog, asserting that it violated both the Second Amendment and a New York state law, Singas issued a revised policy.
Tennessee
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey says 'fellow Christians' should arm themselves. Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey responded to
the mass shooting at an Oregon community college in a Facebook post Friday [10/2/2015] saying that "fellow Christians" should
consider getting a handgun carry permit to protect themselves. In his Facebook posting, Ramsey, who is also speaker of
the Tennessee senate, said the recent spate of mass shootings around the nation is "truly troubling." The Blountville
Republican said, "whether the perpetrators are motivated by aggressive secularism, jihadist extremism or racial supremacy,
their targets remain the same: Christians and defenders of the West."

The
Truth About Gun Ownership in America Isn't What Liberals Think. The number of guns in the United States has
increased by 62% since 1994 but gun violence has decreased by 49% since 1993.
What
Obama doesn't understand about Oregon shooter Chris Mercer. One of the hurdles in the way of building a system
to prevent killings like those that occurred in Oregon is that politicians like President Obama turn such tragedies into
reprehensible calls for gun control, rather than proper calls to rebuild the mental health care system. Somehow, the
uncontrolled psychiatric symptoms of one man should justify, in the president's mind, curtailing the liberties of all men.
Multiple Victim Public Shootings.
Few events obtain the same instant worldwide news coverage as multiple victim public shootings. These crimes allow us to
study the alternative methods used to kill a large number of people (e.g., shootings versus bombings), marginal deterrence
and the severity of the crime, substitutability of penalties, private versus public methods of deterrence and incapacitation,
and whether attacks produce "copycats." The criminals who commit these crimes are also fairly unusual, recent evidence
suggests that about half of these criminals have received a "formal diagnosis of mental illness, often schizophrenia."
Yet, economists have not studied multiple victim shootings. Using data that extends until 1999 and includes the recent
public school shootings, our results are surprising and dramatic. While arrest or conviction rates and the death penalty
reduce "normal" murder rates and these attacks lead to new calls from more gun control, our results find that the only policy
factor to have a consistently significant influence on multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun
laws. We explain why public shootings are more sensitive than other violent crimes to concealed handguns, why the laws
reduce the number of shootings and have an even greater effect on their severity.
Washington D.C.'s 'One
Gun a Month' Rule Struck Down. There is no need for a court to show "deference" when dealing with the restriction of a fundamental right.
Gun
Control Shills Won't Let Roanoke Journalists' Murders Go To Waste. [Scroll down] Even the reporter's
grieving father, Andrew Parker, got drawn into the gun control debate. Mr. Parker told Megyn Kelly on Fox News on Wednesday:
"My mission in life, and I talked to the governor [McAuliffe] today, he called me, I told him I am going to do something whatever it
takes to get gun legislation, to shame people, to legislators, into doing something about closing loopholes in background checks."
McAuliffe apparently encouraged Parker to speak out on the issue. But when reporters asked McAuliffe whether the killer was
prohibited from legally buying a gun, he replied: "I don't know anything." By late Wednesday night, it turned out that
all their assumptions were wrong. Vester Lee Flanagan, the killer, had legally bought the gun from a registered firearms dealer.
The so-called expanded background checks, which would have mandated background checks on private transfers, would have done nothing to
stop this attack. Indeed, such expanded background checks would not have stopped any of the mass public shootings that President
Obama has frequently pointed to in justifying such a law.
Hillary
Clinton: We Should Have a 25 Percent National Tax on All Gun Sales. As we continue to focus on Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server to send and receive top secret, classified information, it's important to remain focused on the rest of her record
as well. Gun control will no doubt be a topic of debate as the 2016 presidential election inches closer and anti-Second Amendment
Clinton has a lot of explaining to do. American's For Tax Reform is out with a new piece reminding voters of testimony then First
Lady Clinton gave back in 1993 when she called for a 25 percent tax on all gun sales. Although her statement was reported by
mainstream outlets at the time, it hasn't been reported by any media outlet for more than 20 years.
The Editor says...
Even a 200 percent sales tax on guns wouldn't keep guns out of the hands of homicidal/suicidal maniacs who have
reached the end of their respective ropes and have no further need for money.
Gun Sales See Best Summer Ever. Gun sales
were at an all-time high in June, July, and August, according to one metric. This August saw 1.7 million background checks
performed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives on new gun sales, the most checks ever performed in any August
since the creation of the National Instant Background Check System. The agency performed 1.6 million checks in July, the
high for that month. They did a further 1.5 million in June, another all-time high.
Shocking
study: criminals generally don't buy guns legally at gun shops. Every time there is a mass shooting or any other criminal
event involving guns there is a chorus of voices imploring us to think about the children and pass new background check laws or
other restrictions on the purchase of firearms. It's a touching story and one which gets the media all up in high dudgeon as they
beseech us to help stop the violence. So how much of an impact will these laws have in terms of keeping the guns out of
the hands of the bad guys?
Father
of slain journalist goes after NRA and lawmakers who voted against stricter gun laws. The heartbroken father of
murdered TV reporter Alison Parker said his fight for gun control laws has only just begun as he hit out against the NRA and
lawmakers who voted against stricter legislation, saying they 'messed with the wrong family'.
Gun control is a dead issue.
There are nearly 300 million privately owned firearms in the United States today. This fact, all on its own — without
considering any constitutional or political obstacles — means that the ship sailed on gun control long ago, never to return.
No gun control measure short of universal confiscation would do anything to curb shootings in this lifetime. And the prospect of
rounding up 300 million guns from some 60 million households makes the deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants
seem like a simple matter of arranging a field trip. The gun-control proposals made in the real world are all proven failures whose
only result is to hassle innocent people who would never shoot anyone. Yet these proposals are recycled over and over again as
silver-bullets for curbing gun violence.
'Anti-gun
stupidity': Honolulu destroys $575G worth of police firearms. Some 2,300 Smith & Wesson 9 mm handguns,
including at least 200 that are brand-new and in unopened boxes, were issued to the city's police department. But with the
2,200-member force upgrading to lighter and less expensive Glock 17s, the guns were set to be permanently holstered.
While it is customary throughout the country for departments to auction the guns to law-abiding citizens, including the police
who once carried them, or donate them to another department, Honolulu opted to destroy them.
Study Learns Chicago Criminals Don't Buy Their Guns
Legally. The study examined and interviewed inmates in Chicago's Cook County Jail who are either facing current gun charges, or have
a background consisting of firearms related convictions. The study learned that virtually zero criminals have ever used the internet or gun
shows, because that method is easily traceable. It's much safer for a criminal to acquire firearms on the streets where they're harder to
keep track of, and that's most criminals method of choice.
Hillary
Clinton Campaigns On Gun Control and Calls for a National Gun Registry. Hillary Clinton is coming after our guns big time.
The very core of her campaign is Universal Background Checks. If that goes through it will create a national gun registry and you will
no longer be able to sell your guns to whoever you want to. She also wants all gun owners licensed. These are precursor steps to
seizing and banning guns. Clinton is blunt about it and feels it is a winning position for her. How? Most of America owns
guns and cherishes their Second Amendment rights. They abhor a registry as unconstitutional and they detest being taxed for ownership.
Virginia
Shooting Victim's Husband: 'I Blame the Guy Holding the Gun,' Not the Gun. On August 28, Tim Gardner, husband
of Virginia shooting victim Vicki Gardner, said he does not blame the gun for his wife's shooting. Rather, he blames
the man who was holding the gun and pulled the trigger. Vicki is the woman Alison Parker was interviewing when Vester
Lee Flanagan opened fire.
White
House concedes new gun laws wouldn't have stopped Va. gunman. The White House conceded Friday that new gun
regulations probably wouldn't have prevented the gunman who murdered two television journalists in southwestern Virginia this
week. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it appears that a proposal championed by President Obama to require
background checks on purchases at gun shows "would not have applied in this particular case."
The Editor says...
That hasn't stopped the White House from politicizing the incident.
NYT's
Kristof Admits Gun Control Probably Wouldn't Have Stopped WDBJ Shooter. During a discussion on the Thursday [8/27/2015]
edition of MSNBC's The Last Word, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof briefly admitted that gun control would not
have stopped the shooter who shot dead two local news reporters in Roanoke Virginia on Wednesday but continued to nonetheless argue
that more gun restrictions are needed. The slip came near the tail end of a panel discussion featuring host Lawrence O'Donnell,
Mother Jones' David Corn, and The Boston Globe's Shira Center in which Kristof was discussing some common characteristics
of shooting incidents when he stated that "you know, it may well be that no measure could have prevented the killer in this case from
actually acquiring that gun."
Hillary
Clinton Really Is Coming For Your Guns. Some politicians talk about gun control once in a while. Clinton
has been pushing to curb firearms for decades. No wonder the NRA has vowed to bring her down.
Hillary
Clinton vows to be gun-control president. "We have got to do something about gun violence in America —
and I will take it on," Mrs. Clinton said in an on-camera statement to reports while on campaign trail in Iowa. In an
emotional plea for more restrictive gun laws, Mrs. Clinton said that too many people known that the availability of firearms
is a problem in the United States but avoid the subject because "it is hard."
Seattle Hit With Lawsuit After Mayor Signs
Illegal Gun & Ammo Tax Into Law. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) warned Seattle Mayor Ed Murray last week that
if he signed the city council's "gun violence tax" into law, that Seattle;s citizens would have to pay to defend the law in court.
Well, Murray unwisely signed the bill into law on Friday, and the city was slapped with lawsuit today [8/24/2015].
Anti-Gun
Left Gets [a] Reminder of NRA's Original Mission. Gun control cultists don't want the National Rifle Association
to train Indiana National Guardsmen for a very simple reason: it reinforces the NRA's credibility in the eyes of the public
as authorities on the subject of firearms. When the NRA is recognized as a leader in firearms safety training —
and with 120,000 certified instructors it most certainly is — then it makes it that much harder for gun control groups
to appear credible as opposition. This is especially true when you consider how many times supporters of gun control have
been proven to be incredibly ignorant about the basic function of even the most common firearms.
NRA
sues over Seattle's adoption of 'gun violence tax'. Three gun rights groups, including the National Rifle
Association, sued the city of Seattle on Monday [8/24/2015] over its adoption of a so-called "gun violence tax," a tax on
firearms and ammunition designed to help offset the financial toll of gun violence.
Kentucky
Chuck E. Cheese refuses to serve police officer with firearm. A Kentucky Chuck E. Cheese appears to have taken
the kid-friendly chain's "no guns" policy too far, refusing to serve a police officer who entered the restaurant with a
firearm. The gun-toting officer encountered the problem at the Chuck E. Cheese in the Greenwood Mall in the city of
Bowling Green, prompting outrage from some people, including a sheriff from a neighboring jurisdiction, WBKO-TV reported
Friday [8/21/2015].
Bloomberg,
Dems Push Cabela's, Bass Pro, To Ignore FBI Rules, Slow Gun Sales. The nation's top outfitters and gun retailers have rejected an
unusual Democratic request to ignore current gun background check rules and institute their own system that anti-gun advocates believe would slow
sales. Already required to run background checks on gun buyers, over a dozen Democratic senators have asked giants Cabela's, Gander Mountain,
Sportsman's Warehouse and Bass Pro Shops to block sales to customers whose checks aren't finished in the required three days. According to
the National Rifle Association, the firms have so far rejected the request.
Study
Claims Private Gun Ownership Endangers Police. Law-abiding citizens who are armed for self-defense pose no
threat to police officers. And laws that prevent such citizens from being armed for self-defense simply create an atmosphere
where only the criminals are armed — with guns that are stolen or otherwise obtained.
Seattle
City Council advances new gun, ammunition tax. The Seattle City Council is expected to
cast a