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Pennsylvania: Anti-Gunners: Red flag gun bill author eyes changes to ease lawmakers concerns :: 10/02/2019

A Republican lawmaker from the Philadelphia suburbs says he is considering changes to legislation that would give law enforcement the power to seize people’s guns if a court determines they are a risk to themselves or others.

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Rifle Murders Declined Nearly 24 Percent, FBI Report Shows :: 10/02/2019

America saw a significant decrease in the number of homicides involving rifles, a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation released on Monday shows.

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California Woman's Arrest Illustrates Stupidity Of Gun Control :: 10/01/2019

Surprisingly, many anti-gunners will note that gun control laws really do only impact the law-abiding. However, they argue that if law-abiding citizens can’t get guns, then how will criminals get them? In other words, if we’re choked off from our supply of legal weapons, then the criminals will eventually run out of their supply of stolen guns as there aren’t any more left to steal.

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Democrats' analgesic gun rights rhetoric, unmasked :: 10/01/2019

From the 2012 Democratic Party Platform:

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Las Vegas shooting motive remains elusive as officials, survivors gather to mark 2-year anniversary :: 10/01/2019

Two years have now passed since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history – yet the biggest question about it remains unanswered.

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Michigan Bill Would Put Gun-Free Zone On The Hook For Injuries :: 10/01/2019

The Supreme Court has ruled that the authorities have no duty to protect you as an individual. The police’s job is to protect society as a whole, not you as a person. Honestly, that’s fine with me. While I respect police officers, by and large, I also recognize that the only way they could protect me as a person is to walk side-by-side with me all the time and I’m someone who likes my privacy.

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Where does Mexico really get its guns? :: 10/01/2019

MEXICO CITY – Tucked inside a narrow wedge of a traditional open-air market is one of Mexico’s most dangerous black market operations. It’s known as the Tepito.

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Anti-Gun Control Sticker Leads To Citation, Prosecution :: 09/30/2019

A Tennessee man says he’s going to fight a citation recently issued by a Sumner County sheriff’s deputy over an anti-gun control sticker on his truck. Nicholas Ennis says he’s been driving around for about a year with the sticker displayed, but it wasn’t until recently that he was told the sticker is “obscene”.

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Corporate Discrimination vs. Second Amendment Freedoms :: 09/30/2019

More and more businesses are wading into the gun-control debate day by day. Over the last several months, Americans have seen many businesses— including banks, social media magnates, sporting-goods stores, grocery shops, and a multitude of other commercial entities—seek to levy and advocate anti-gun policies, regulations and legislation against law-abiding Americans in attempts to control their Second Amendment rights.

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Decision Looms For SCOTUS On New York City Gun Case :: 09/30/2019

On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co., I’m joined by Tom King, executive director of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. The 2nd Amendment group is at the center of a case challenging a New York City gun law that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider in conference tomorrow.

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FBI Says Murder And Violent Crime Both Declined In 2018 :: 09/30/2019

File this under “good news that won’t make too many headlines”; the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s released its Uniform Crime Report for 2018, and violent crime, including murder, declined significantly last year.

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Democrats are Suckering Republicans into Gun Control :: 09/29/2019

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- Democrats have created a false narrative on guns, and Republicans have been suckered into buying it.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and (Gun Control) Statistics :: 09/29/2019

In Chapters from My Autobiography, beloved American humorist Mark Twain wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” And maybe nowhere in the spectrum of the American political debate are statistics used more deceptively than in the debate over gun control.

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The Real Threat of the Demos' 'Universal Background Checks' :: 09/29/2019

At the 2016 Democrat convention, when Hillary Clinton was coronated as the next president because only Deplorables would vote for Donald Trump, she declared: “I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns.”

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Can a Federal Judge Sentence You for a Crime Your Jury Says You Didn't Commit? The Answer May Terrify You :: 09/28/2019

Can a federal judge sentence you for a crime your jury says you didn't commit? In a sane world, the answer would be "no." If a prosecutor charges you with five crimes, and the jury finds you not guilty of four of them, the judge who then doles out the sentence should be able to consider only that one guilty verdict.

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FL AG Moody - "Gun Purchases Can Be Denied Without Proof Or Judicial Review" :: 09/28/2019

Florida – -(AmmoLand.com)- In a pending legal case of LEONARDO LYNCH v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT the Florida Attorny General Ashley Moody argued that the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement does not have to provide any evidence or proof and should not be questioned when it denies anyone their right to purchase firearms.

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FL Appeals Court Announces Decision on Red Flag Laws :: 09/28/2019

The biggest argument about red flag laws typically stems from their constitutionality. Most, as written, are a horrendous infringement on people’s due process rights. They assume the individual is guilty and take their guns, leaving it up to said individual to prove their innocence. That’s not how our legal system is supposed to work in the least and you’d think anyone with half a brain could see that.

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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Gun Control :: 09/28/2019

No government regulation can make society moral. A social ill takes place on three levels: the object level, the individual level, and the social level.

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Why The Debate On Guns Is So Polemic :: 09/28/2019

On Sept. 12, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted: “Democrats say we have guns in America because of ‘corruption’. No, we have guns because it’s our God-given right enshrined in the Constitution.”

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DRGO: The Past Year in Medical Firearms Research :: 09/27/2019

From the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, “Gun violence and trauma surgery”:  “Mass shootings account for less than 1 percent of all gun-related deaths in the US”. You would never know it the way they only react when there is a mass murder.  Every murder is significant, yet they ignore the daily toll of murders from street gangs and the drug trade to make front page news over the less than one percent toll from mass murders.

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