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NAS Pensacola shooting leads Navy instructor pilots to tell top brass: 'Arm us' :: 12/10/2019
EXCLUSIVE -- A group of U.S. Navy instructor pilots asked top military brass for permission to arm themselves in the wake of the shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., where a Saudi military pilot gunned down three American sailors and wounded eight others.
Questions Remain As To How Pensacola Guman Got Firearm :: 12/10/2019
Last week was a rough one for the Navy. While gearing up to commemorate the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we had a shooting there in Hawaii. That was then followed up with a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola. The Pensacola attack was more deadly, claiming the lives of three servicemen there on the base.
The Futility of Gun Regulations: From Ghost Guns to Background Checks :: 12/10/2019
It seems obvious: Restrict gun access and people will be safer. Everything from gun bans to background checks keep being pushed as the solutions.
England: British Police Reportedly Find Hand Grenades In Gang Raid :: 12/09/2019
We’re constantly told how great gun control works in other countries. We hear all about how guns vanish off the streets and criminals can’t get them anymore.
Following legalized campus carry, universities report no increase in violence on their campuses :: 12/09/2019
Though popular belief holds that more guns on college campuses will lead to an uptick in gun violence, several universities have reported no such increase even after their states legalized the carrying of concealed weapons on school grounds.
Proposed Credit Card Gun Purchase Bill Could Evolve into Confiscators' Dream :: 12/09/2019
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Wexton bill would use credit card data to track firearms purchases,” The Washington Post reported Friday. “Congressional gridlock on gun legislation led Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) to seek creative ways to prevent gun violence.”
The Problems With Study On Universal Background Checks And Students :: 12/09/2019
Proponents of universal background checks will do anything to try and advance their agenda. On the surface, that’s not such a big deal. Most gun owners undergo background checks when they purchase firearms anyway. Only a small minority of guns purchased are done so via face-to-face transfers that bypass background checks. Most go through licensed dealers.
Georgetown Students Need Lesson In Constitution :: 12/08/2019
Georgetown University is supposedly one of the better colleges in this country. It’s one of those schools that gets mentioned in someone’s resume as if it’s supposed to mean something to the rest of us, kind of like Harvard or Yale. As such, one who hasn’t been paying attention to the state of the American university would think that such a school would require intelligence.
Naval Station's Gun Restrictions Didn't Stop Shooter but Did Stop Sailors from Arming Themselves :: 12/08/2019
U.S. Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida was put on lockdown early Friday morning as shots rang out in what would be the second mass shooting on a stateside military base this week.
Can senseless gun regulations ever be constitutional? :: 12/07/2019
New York’s uniquely onerous restrictions on transporting guns were so hard to justify that the city stopped trying. Instead, it rewrote the rules after the Supreme Court agreed to consider a constitutional challenge to them, and now it argues that the case is moot.
It's Never Enough: Gun Control Advocates Won't Ever Be Satisfied With Marginal Changes to Our Gun Laws :: 12/07/2019
When seeking to pass whatever the anti-gun flavor of the month is when it comes to gun legislation, anti-gun advocates often claim to be seeking only “reasonable” solutions. They often claim that if just one more marginal restriction on our rights is enacted, then we will be “safer.”
The Michael Bloomberg Speech He Doesn't Want You To Hear :: 12/07/2019
Michael Bloomberg is out with a new online ad featuring his years of speechifying in support of more gun control laws, and debuted the clip with post on Twitter. As it turns out, there’s one very important speech that Bloomberg gave that’s not featured in the new ad. In fact, even though it was recorded, he refused to allow the speech to be released.
Why Standing Argument May Not Apply In SCOTUS Case :: 12/07/2019
While the Supreme Court is considering a Second Amendment case for the first time since the McDonald decision, anti-gun forces are concerned. They probably should be.
Bloomberg Unveils Radical Anti-Freedom Plan Attacking Second Amendment Rights :: 12/06/2019
Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who is sympathetic toward the Chinese Communist Party, unveiled a massive anti-freedom proposal on Thursday aimed at severely clamping down on American’s constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights.
Giffords Launches Campaign To Block Trump Judicial Nominee :: 12/06/2019
One of the most enduring legacies of the Trump administration is likely to be the number of federal judges he’s been able to appoint with the help of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Unless Democrats decide to overhaul the federal judiciary and pack the courts with judges of their own the next time they have the chance to do so, the judges appointed by President Trump are likely to have a big influence for decades to come.
Gun-grabbing activists Women Against Gun Violence lie about 'good guy with a gun' :: 12/06/2019
One of the most contentious elements of the whole gun debate is the proper use of firearms for self-defense as well as stopping crimes as they occur. “Good guys with a gun” have repeatedly stopped bad guys with guns since before America was founded as a nation, and as gun-free zones like Chicago and Baltimore demonstrate, liberty control advocates have no leg to stand on in their push to deprive us of our constitutional rights.
Preventing Gun Violence is not a Compelling Governmental Interest :: 12/06/2019
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- In a recent column, well-known Reason editor and writer Jacob Sullum made a likely unintentional error. He writes that “preventing gun violence” is a compelling government interest. From townhall.com:
We Cannot Rely Solely on the Courts to Save the Second Amendment :: 12/06/2019
For the first time in nearly a decade, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case directly involving the Second Amendment. Not since McDonald v. Chicago in 2010 has the High Court taken up a gun rights case, despite several opportunities to further clarify its landmark decisions in that case and the Heller opinion two years earlier. Conservatives, however, would be well advised to hold off uncorking the champagne bottles.
Would more restrictive gun laws violate the Second Amendment? :: 12/06/2019
RICHMOND, Va. — With all the chatter around Virginia regarding Second Amendment sanctuaries, gun advocates argue gun control laws will infringe on their Second Amendment right.
GOP Rep. Introduces Bill to Rein in ATF Firearm Approval Process :: 12/05/2019
Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation Tuesday to streamline the ATF approval process for guns regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA) and completely remove short-barreled rifles from NFA purview.
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