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Newtown Gun Controllers: There Is No Such Thing as 'Constitutional Carry' :: 02/06/2023
The gun control group Newtown Action Alliance is responding to the constitutional carry push in Florida by tweeting that “there is no such thing as ‘constitutional carry.'”
Poll: Two-Thirds of CA Adults Say Gun Control More Important than Gun Rights :: 02/06/2023
A survey released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California shows two-thirds of California adults believe gun control is more important than gun rights.
Race is On as SC GOP Pushes to Pass Constitutional Carry Before Florida :: 02/06/2023
The race is on as South Carolina Republicans push for their state to adopt constitutional carry before Florida does.
FACT CHECK: Gavin Newsom Says 'Permitless Carry Does Not Make You Safer' :: 02/05/2023
CLAIM: In the lead-up to his February 1 push for more gun control, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed, “Permitless carry does not make you safer.”
GOP Senators Push to 'Stop the ATF's Pistol Brace Rule in Its Tracks' :: 02/05/2023
Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and John Kennedy (R-LA) are pushing legislation to end the National Firearms Act’s registration and regulation purview over short-barreled rifles, thereby eliminating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF’s) pistol brace rule.
GOP Sens. Introduce National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry :: 02/05/2023
Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and John Cornyn (R-TX), introduced legislation Wednesday to treat concealed carry permits like drivers’ licenses, making a permit from any one state valid in the other 49.
YouTube Says Silencer Video Takedowns, Gun Channel Deletions Were Mistakes :: 02/05/2023
Social media giant YouTube has reversed course on deleting videos and channels featuring content where a silencer is attached to a gun.
Gavin Newsom should worry about California :: 02/04/2023
This week I called out Gavin Newsom on Twitter for invoking Parkland in an attack on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and recently introduced permitless carry legislation in the Florida Legislature. Well you don’t get a free pass from this father when you try use the memory my daughter and the other victims in Parkland to score political points. My response invoked a fair bit of online and TV media coverage. Here’s the Twitter exchange.
More Guns, Things are Looking Up in Israel! :: 02/04/2023
“Terrorists want to die, but only on their own terms. Our goal is to grant them half their wish!” ~ Phil Messina
Second Amendment poll taxes and acceptable liberal bigotry :: 02/04/2023
The Bruen decision that struck down New York’s “may issue” laws has had a galvanizing effect on the anti-gun movement in this country, which can be seen not just in the defiant moves by Democrats in state legislatures to enact a number of new “sensitive places” where concealed carry is prohibited and adopt sweeping bans on so-called “assault weapons” and “large capacity” magazines, but by the increasing willingness to publicly adopt positions that are strikingly similar to those expressed by the most malignant abusers of civil rights back in the 1950s and 60s.
Cincinnati mayor has big plans if preemption falls :: 02/03/2023
I cannot see the name “Cincinnati” without thinking of WKRP in Cincinnati. Yes, I’m a child of my time and my time was a long time back. What can I do?
Florida’s Unlicensed Concealed Carry Bill Already Under Attack :: 02/03/2023
When Gov. Ron DeSantis signs HB 543: Concealed Carry of Weapons and Firearms Without a License, few Floridians will even notice. The sun will continue to shine. The citrus won’t fall off the trees, and the streets most certainly will not run red with blood.
Former Marines Sue ATF Over New Pistol Brace Rule :: 02/03/2023
The ATF has overstepped its boundaries yet again. This time, trying to requalify pistol stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles.
Anti-Gun Governors Double Down on Dangerous :: 02/02/2023
Since the recent violent attack at a dance studio in Monterey, California, Gavin Newsom has come out and expressed his distain toward guns; but is there something else getting under his skin?
National CCW Reciprocity Bill: 4 GOP No-Shows and 0 Democrats :: 02/02/2023
About the same time Washington State’s Department of Licensing was advising Ammoland News that the number of active concealed pistol licenses had hit more than 698,000 on the last day of January, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) were introducing the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
Oklahoma lawmakers take aim at "sensitive places" :: 02/02/2023
The Sooner State has been pretty friendly to gun owners and Second Amendment supporters over the past few decades; first adopting “shall issue” concealed carry back in the 1990s and more recently approving permitless carry in 2019. There’s always room for improvement, however, and lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills this year that would strengthen the Second Amendment rights of residents; many of them dealing with the number of “sensitive places” where concealed carry is still prohibited by law.
California DA says Newsom, lawmakers have "blood on their hands" after officer shot and killed :: 02/01/2023
As California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies in the legislature take aim at legal gun owners with a slate of new infringements on the right to keep and bear arms (more on that coming up on today’s Cam & Co, by the way), the District Attorney in Fresno County says the Democrats’ criminal justice “reform” efforts are fueling violent crime and played a direct role in the shooting death of a police officer in the small town of Selma on Tuesday.
In War on Guns, Hysteria is Powerful Weapon; Ask the States :: 02/01/2023
The press event in Florida announcing “constitutional carry” legislation had barely finished before Sunshine State anti-gunners were already declaring the proposal to be a disaster in the making, while Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill if it hits his desk.
Bureaucrats Gone Wild: Rep Clyde to Challenge the ATF Final Rule :: 01/31/2023
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) published its pistol stabilization device rule to the Federal Register this morning. Now, some members of Congress are stepping in to try to stop the new regulation.
Homicide Data Show No Justification for Blanket Citizen Disarmament :: 01/31/2023
“Murders in US Are very concentrated, and they are becoming even more so,” a new paper by economist and author John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center demonstrates. “Most counties experience no murders, a smaller set where there are a few murders, and then a tiny set of counties where murders are very common.”
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