Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
A Bill to Stop Armed IRS Agents :: 07/30/2023
U.S.A. — On June 14th, 2023, a Montana gun shop was searched for the purpose of the federal government questioning the company’s business financials.
Baltimore priest has faith that gun "buyback" will work miracles :: 07/30/2023
Rev. Michael Murphy’s heart is clearly in the right place, but that doesn’t mean that the upcoming “buyback” he’s hosting at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in West Baltimore is going to have the impact he imagines.
Bloomberg’s ‘Trace’ Outed as Another Gun Control Group :: 07/29/2023
U.S.A. — The Trace, the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control empire, wants the public to believe it’s an actual newsroom comprised of actual journalists. It’s a fiction they’ll go to great lengths to maintain.
Mass Shootings Have 'No Correlation to Gun Laws,' says Report :: 07/29/2023
U.S.A. — Washington, D.C.—a jurisdiction with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country—leads the nation with “the highest rate of mass shootings per capita,” according to a report in the Daily Mail, citing new research released this week by medical researchers in Colorado.
Proven Lies and Weaponized Propaganda :: 07/29/2023
Antigun activists are getting so desperate that they are relying on incorrect methodology against the firearm industry to spread their own gun control agenda. Put simply: junk science will always be junk science. Regardless of whether the ‘scientist’ believes it or not.
Virginia AG: Operation Ceasefire already having an impact :: 07/29/2023
If you’re a regular reader here at Bearing Arms or tune in to Cam & Co, you’ve probably heard me talk about Operation Ceasefire before. The program, which was first implemented in Boston back in the late 1990s, uses a carrot-and-stick approach to reducing crime among violent offenders; offering social services like job training and counseling for those who will take it, but sending their next criminal case to federal court and the promise of a stiff sentence if they refuse to take advantage of the opportunities given to them.
Hunter Biden Plea Deal Implosion Puts New FOIA on Indefinite Hold :: 07/28/2023
U.S.A. — “At this time, the information you requested is related to ongoing litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,” Adam C. Siple, Chief, Information and Privacy Governance Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives informed attorney Stephen Stamboulieh in an email Monday. “Therefore, your request is denied pursuant to 5 U.S.C. section 552(b)(7)(A) because it concerns a criminal action currently pending before the Court.”
WH press secretary suddenly doesn't want to talk about Biden's support for gun laws :: 07/28/2023
With Hunter Biden’s plea deal in shambles thanks to an eagle-eyed judge’s attention to the devil in the details of the DOJ’s agreement, there’s a chance that the president’s son could actually end up having to defend his lie on the Form 4473 he filled out ahead of his background check asserting that he was not an unlawful user of drugs at a time when he admits to regularly using and abusing crack cocaine.
Why 27 Words of the Second Amendment are Not Enough in a 2A Court Case :: 07/28/2023
U.S.A. — Related to a recent article about how Judge Roger T. Benitez is working hard on defending the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution against numerous infringements created by the California government, a poster wrote:
Brazil Returns to Gun Control of Old Under Socialist Dictator Lula :: 07/27/2023
U.S.A. — “Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tightened restrictions on firearms access by decree Friday,” German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reports. “The executive order reverses his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro’s regulations that expanded gun ownership in the country.”
For Biden's Weaponized ATF, Home-based Gun Dealers are Low-Hanging Fruit :: 07/27/2023
U.S.A. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is not regulating the firearms industry as required by statute. The ATF is choking the life out of it – tearing it down, one gun dealer at a time.
Pro-gun is pro-democracy :: 07/27/2023
There’s this saying in American political circles that, “”The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” A variation of it is, “The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.” The origins of these sayings goes back to at least a couple of important Supreme Court cases.
ATF Intimidating Another Home-Based Gun Dealer to Surrender FFL :: 07/26/2023
U.S.A. — Tom Harris has been selling guns from his Lewisville, Texas home for 30 years. He is so respected and beloved by his customers that one gave him a kidney – literally – which saved his life.
Political Forces All Working to Silence Gun Rights Advocates :: 07/26/2023
Tombstone, Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- NRA’s America’s First Freedom magazine for August 2023 featured stories on efforts to “Silence the NRA.”
Wisconsin paper revisits editorial blasting concealed carry after two decades :: 07/26/2023
As a lover of history, it’s always enlightening for me to go back and read what folks where saying about the gun control debate back in the past. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the lessons to be learned in a 30-year-old copy of Playboy magazine that featured a pro-con debate on the Second Amendment, and I recently ran across another blast from the past: an editorial from the Wisconsin State Journal that ran two decades ago imploring lawmakers to just say “no” to a concealed carry law.
New Zealand Shooting Shows Gun Control Fails Globally :: 07/25/2023
U.S.A. — A mass shooting at a construction site in Auckland, N.Z. Thursday has provided plenty of evidence that gun control failure is a global problem, and that gun prohibitionists can be as ignorant of firearms facts elsewhere as they are in the United States.
Tennessee lawmakers standing firm on Second Amendment ahead of special session :: 07/25/2023
Well, at least some of them are, and it sure looks like the opposition to Gov. Bill Lee’s “red flag” proposal is growing as we get closer to August 21st; the date when Lee says lawmakers will return to the capitol for a special session to respond to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville earlier this year.
Bass Pro Shop’s Background Check Policy Raises Questions :: 07/24/2023
U.S.A. — Cecil Trimble, a 35-year-old restaurant manager, took a fishing reel to Bass Pro Shop’s Tampa store last week to be spooled with new line. As he was waiting, he wandered over to the gun department and immediately spotted the object of his recent desire.
Judge denies standing in Connecticut challenge :: 07/24/2023
If a law stops you from doing something you’ve been doing all along, that’s kind of an issue. We all know it to be one because many of us have run into that at some point or another.
New York teen charged with selling guns online :: 07/24/2023
How well are New York’s restrictive gun control laws working to actually control illicit gun sales? Not well at all, at least based on the arrest of an 18-year-old in Oswego County, who’s now facing more than 50 felonies after authorities discovered a cache of illegally possessed firearms for the second time in less than a year.
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