Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Everytown Law: It's Totally Constitutional To Close Gun Stores Right Now :: 04/01/2020
Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun law firm, Everytown Law, is trying to convince elected officials around the country to shut down gun stores during the current national emergency, and has sent a letter to state and local officials in charge of enforcing COVID-19 emergency closure orders offering up a strategy and legal argument for those who do so. Fortunately for gun owners, and unfortunately for the gun control lobby, their argument doesn’t stand up to the slightest bit of legal scrutiny.
Trump to Anti-Gun Governors: 'Back Off' :: 04/01/2020
For more than 150 years, gun laws in the United States were essential, as written in the Bill of Rights: “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.” It was not until the second half of the 20th Century that gun control as we know it took hold. By that time, of course, the United States had survived a bloody civil war, expanded territorially from the eastern seaboard to the Arctic Circle, fought in and emerged victorious in two World Wars, and was the only superpower to stand against the expansionist communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Red China.
Arlington employee charged for shooting burglar in middle of the night, owner speaks out :: 03/31/2020
Arlington, VA. (ABC7) — The owner of a South Arlington smoke shop is outraged after his employee was charged with multiple crimes for shooting a suspect who had allegedly broken into the business.
Ontario Armed Robberies Another Example Of Gun Control's Failures :: 03/31/2020
Canada has a lot of gun control and they’ve only been working to add still more of it over the last couple of years. They simply don’t trust their citizenry with firearms and are bound and determined to make it more difficult for anyone to get them.
Pandemic Exposes Dangers of So-Called "Universal" Background Checks :: 03/31/2020
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- As the COVID-19 pandemic makes its way across the country, Americans are getting an important lesson in the dangers of placing a prior restraint on the exercise of a constitutional right. The vast increase in those seeking protection in the Second Amendment during this period of uncertainty has caused the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and Point of Contact State background check systems to buckle. Worse, some jurisdictions that have criminalized the private transfer of firearms have also shut down access to gun stores or their state criminal background check system. This lethal combination of misguided policies has made it impossible for millions of Americans to acquire, or even borrow or lend, firearms during this moment of crisis.
Chicago Crooks No Match For Chicago Armed Citizens :: 03/30/2020
While crime is down in Chicago at the moment, it hasn’t disappeared entirely. There are still bad actors on the streets, but thankfully there are also tens of thousands of concealed carry licensees in the city, and several of them have been forced to protect themselves in recent days.
Everytown Claims Surge In Gun Sales All Because Of NRA Fearmongering :: 03/30/2020
The Michael Bloomberg-backed Everytown For Gun Safety is blasting the Trump administration’s new guidance on critical sectors of the economy, which includes firearm and ammunition manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, calling it “shameful and nonsensical” that the Department of Homeland Security would recommend Americans still have access to their Second Amendment rights during the current emergency.
There is No Emergency Shutdown of the Second Amendment :: 03/30/2020
Give someone power if you want to see their character. Unfortunately, the usual characters have revealed themselves during the Wuhan virus epidemic. Government officials asked citizens to limit their contact with others in order to slow the spread of the virus. Some government officials went well beyond that. They closed roads, released jail inmates, refused to arrest or prosecute suspects, closed gun stores, and refused to process firearms applications. It is precisely during such an emergency that we need government officials to stay within their authority.. and not one inch beyond.
Anti-Gunners Continue To Argue Gun Stores Not "Essential" :: 03/28/2020
As governor after governor declares gun stores as essential businesses, there are those who disagree.
States' actions on guns during coronavirus pandemic raises Second Amendment questions, attorneys say :: 03/28/2020
As cities and states across the country race to manage the coronavirus pandemic, stay-at-home orders have closed gun shops and some mayors have attempted to limit firearms sales. Although these moves are designed to protect the public, they may also be bumping up against Second Amendment protections, legal experts said.
Trump Admin: Gun Makers, Retailers Essential Businesses Nationwide :: 03/28/2020
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security released updated guidelines naming gun manufacturers and retailers as essential on Saturday, which means they are to stay open and operational nationwide during a Chinese coronavirus shutdown.
ATF, NICS Struggle To Keep Up With Surge In Gun Sales :: 03/27/2020
Gun stores are having a difficult time keeping firearms and ammunition in stock as a surge of new gun owners continues to pour into those stores that remain open, so it shouldn’t come as a shock to learn that the FBI and ATF are also struggling to keep up with the incredible demand we’ve seen over the past two weeks.
To Bear Arms for Self-Defense: A Right of the People or a Privilege of the Few? :: 03/27/2020
During oral argument in the seminal case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy asked counsel for the government whether the Second Amendment’s second clause - “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”[1] - concerned something besides the militia. When counsel replied that those words referred only to “a military context,” Justice Kennedy appeared to disagree by asking the further question, “It had nothing to do with the concern of the remote settler to defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears and grizzlies and things like that?”[2] This question suggested that he read the Amendment to protect individual rights. But it also implied that the right extends outside the home, where unfriendly humans and animals would be encountered.
Truckers Call for Second Amendment Right Nationwide During Emergency :: 03/27/2020
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A group of small business truckers has sent an email to the Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The email asks that, as part of the national emergency involving the Chinese virus, the federal government declare the Second Amendment overrides state law and federal regulation forbidding truckers from exercising their Second Amendment rights.
States Use Pandemic to Suspend Second Amendment :: 03/26/2020
State governors across the country have issued orders mandating the closure of all businesses not deemed essential or “life-sustaining” in response to the growing China Virus pandemic. Unfortunately, several states have included firearms retailers in their list of “nonessential” stores, effectively limiting their residents’ access to their Second Amendment rights.
Why Governments Shouldn't Close Gun Stores During A Pandemic :: 03/26/2020
Business across America is grinding to a halt. Some of this is due to self-isolation and some to stay-at-home orders by government officials. There are exceptions for businesses critical to maintaining a functioning society. Gun businesses need to be among them.
Anti-Gun Doc Thinks New Gun Buyers Are Murders In The Making :: 03/25/2020
Dr. Joseph Sakran has a reason to be anti-gun. As someone who was shot, I get why he doesn’t like guns. While I vehemently disagree with him on the issue of guns, I can understand why he feels the way he does. Not that such a thing is universal, mind you. Plenty of people come out the other side of incidents similar to what he went through with a newfound respect for the Second Amendment for me to even begin to think such a thing.
Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled During Coronavirus Panic :: 03/25/2020
PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron and his right-hand man, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, have a good cop/bad cop act going on here. Word leaks to the media that Macron is erring on the side of freedom with respect to some potential future measure to tighten the screws on the current quarantine. Then, in a national address, Philippe informs us which of our freedoms will be curtailed.
Divided PA Supreme Court: Governor can shut down firearms dealers during Coronavirus emergency :: 03/25/2020
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued an order that closed all "non-life-sustaining businesses." That order required licensed firearms dealers to shut down. In contrast, the Governor of Illinois defined firearm suppliers "for purposes of safety and security" as "Essential Businesses" that can remain open
Yes, You Need a Gun During the Virus Scare. . .and After :: 03/25/2020
You want to have a gun before you need it. Advocates of armed defense have been saying that for decades, though recent events underlined their point. Last month, sentencing reforms in some states effectively decriminalized theft under about 900$. We saw stores stripped by flash-mobs. Police refused to investigate a “misdemeanor” crime even though the total loss may be tens-of-thousands of dollars. Those sentencing revisions also let more serious criminals out of jail without bail. The revolving door of injustice spun pretty fast after that.
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