Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
CA Background Checks Had No Effect According To Johns Hopkins Study :: 12/27/2019
We’ve been told that background checks are the key to preventing certain parties from getting their hands on guns. In particular, it’s needed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the insane. Background checks, especially universal background checks, are supposed to be the perfect answer to everything.
Georgia Legislation Bans Common Hunting, Sporting Guns :: 12/27/2019
State Senator Donzella James, (D-Atlanta), has pre-filed legislation that would ban the possession of semi-automatic firearms. The prohibitions in Senate Bill 281 would even ban common semi-automatic shotguns used for bird hunting and trap shooting. Any person convicted under this new law “shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of 5 years.” SB 281 has yet to be assigned to a committee.
Health Researchers Favor Gun Control More Than Criminologists, Economists :: 12/27/2019
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A new paper by three top researchers has revealed public health researchers are “are much more supportive of gun control than are either criminologists or economists.”
Lies Cost Lives in Virginia Politics :: 12/27/2019
This is the holiday season. We lie to ourselves and gain weight. We say we’ll exercise to make up for what we ate and drank. Good luck with that. I know those extra pounds will have to come off sometime. That extra glass of wine and that little piece of pie are the small lies I tell myself.
Carrying Concealed Not Legal Grounds to Stop and Search a Person in PA :: 12/26/2019
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- At about 2:30 in the morning of 28 June, 2014, Michael Hicks was at a convenience store in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hicks had a valid concealed carry permit, and had a handgun in an outside the waistband holster, concealed by his shirt.
VA's Northam Wants To Increase Prison Spending For Gun Owners :: 12/26/2019
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam loves him some gun control. I’m not sure he’s that committed to the idea of gun control or if he just loves it because it allowed him to skate past that whole blackface scandal earlier this year. Regardless of where he was, though, he’s definitely a fan now.
Arrests On Stolen Guns Illustrate Why Gun Control Doesn't Work :: 12/24/2019
No one is crazy about the idea of bad guys having guns. If most of us on the pro-gun side had our druthers, criminals would be relegated to just having rocks or bare hands while the rest of us could move about freely with fully-automatic weapons on our person at all times. Unfortunately, that’s not realistic. Bad guys are going to get guns. No amount of gun control is really going to stop it.
Bloomberg Seeks Endorsement From Anti-Gun Pittsburgh Mayor :: 12/24/2019
Pennsylvania voters won’t choose their pick for the Democratic nomination for president until the end of April, but billionaire Michael Bloomberg is already making a play for the state by courting several high profile political figures.
Law Professors Say the Darnedest Things - Part 15,312 :: 12/24/2019
This Politico article on how President Trump’s appointments have changed the composition of the Ninth Circuit presents example after example of how that court “has been the go-to venue for activist state attorneys eager to freeze Trump policies on health care, immigration, and other social issues.” That, of course, is consistent with the decades-long reputation that the Ninth Circuit has earned as a bastion of liberal judicial activism—of judges in the mold of the late Stephen Reinhardt who override democratic enactments in pursuit of their own vision of the good.
Over A Third of Democrat Primary Voters Favor Gun Confiscation :: 12/24/2019
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- From 5 December 2019 to 8 December 2019, Zogby Analytics ran an online poll of 443 likely Democrat primary voters. Of those voters, 36% approved of confiscation of legally owned firearms from American Citizens who have not committed a crime. These are the Americans who really do want to take your guns.
Chicago Shooting Reveals Failures In Criminal Justice System, News Media :: 12/23/2019
A weekend shooting in Chicago left 13 people wounded when at least two men opened fire on partygoers who were leaving a home on the city’s south side. The media coverage of the incident reveals some big flaws in the criminal justice system, as well as an anti-gun bias within the media itself.
Former Facebook Engineer Sounds Off On Social Media 2A Crackdown :: 12/23/2019
The folks over at Open Source Defense have a fascinating column by former Facebook engineering manager Chuck Rossi on the new social media policies at Facebook and subsidiary Instagram that target influencers who create gun-related “branded content.” Rossi says the move by the tech giant is a “significant change” for the companies, because they’re not just going after ads for firearms (which have been banned on the platform for several years), but are now cracking down on organically created content.
Kansas Lawmakers Wants To Make 'Red Flag Laws' Illegal In The State :: 12/23/2019
One of the issues that gun owners across the country will have to deal with in the 2020 state legislative sessions are “red flag” proposals, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders. The laws, which allow for firearms to be seized from someone deemed by a judge to be a potential danger to themselves or others, are already on the books in 17 states and are a big priority for gun control groups, but one lawmaker in Kansas is pushing back with legislation that would ban any such laws from taking effect in the state. From KAKE-TV:
Philadelphia's state legislators fail to move gun regulation in Harrisburg, dooming a city bill :: 12/23/2019
Philadelphia’s state delegation has stumbled once again in Harrisburg to successfully back the city’s efforts to enforce its own gun regulations.
The 2A Sanctuary Movement Is Using The Left's Playbook, And They Can't Stand It :: 12/23/2019
Gun control activists in politicians are doing everything they can to try to tamp down the Second Amendment Sanctuaries spreading like wildfire across the state of Virginia. On Friday morning, the Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action called on law enforcement groups to denounce the more than 100 counties, cities, and towns in the state that have declared (in varying fashion) their opposition to any new gun control laws coming out of Richmond.
Congress reaches deal to fund gun violence research for first time in decades :: 12/21/2019
Federal agencies will receive $25 million from Congress to study gun violence in a government spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators — a major win for Democrats who have long pushed for dedicated funding to research the issue, a source told The Hill.
More Than A Third Of Democrats Favor Gun Confiscation :: 12/21/2019
The right to keep and bear arms is a natural right, one that exists within each man or woman from the moment of their birth, something that the government cannot rightfully take away. Natural rights are the foundation of all of our civil liberties, something out Founding Fathers believed in highly and, by extension, we should all strive to support and defend.
The Bloomberg Manifesto :: 12/21/2019
On December 1, former NYC mayor, now private sector Democrat Presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg wrote an accusatory Chicago Tribune Commentary, “NRA appeal to the Supreme Court puts gun laws at risk”. We certainly hope so!
Woman who witnessed husband's murder in gun-free zone faults media coverage of shootings :: 12/21/2019
A Tennessee woman who tragically witnessed her husband's murder at the hands of her own stalker argued that gun-free zones make Americans less safe and she faulted the mainstream media for failing to represent her views and those of other Second Amendment supporters.
England: Men on motorbikes armed with knives and sword overrun and rob English gas station :: 12/20/2019
Dozens of men on motorbikes can be seen storming a gas station in England in newly released surveillance footage of what authorities have described as a Halloween night rampage.
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