Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Rifles: 99 percent of the gun control debate, 2 percent of murders :: 09/28/2016
While most of the gun control debate focuses on the debate over banning assault weapons, data from the FBI show such weapons are involved in only a tiny portion of the nation's murders.
Tennessee Department of Health Admits It Was Wrong About Reported Huge Rise in Accidental Gun Deaths :: 09/28/2016
That scary 105 accidental gun death figure, more than five times the previous year? Turns out to really be 5, slightly more than a quarter of the previous year.
Why This Virginia Tech Student Went on a Hunger Strike for Gun Rights :: 09/28/2016
A Virginia Tech student, currently on a hunger strike advocating for the allowance of concealed weapons on campus, wants the right of self-defense abided by on his college campus.
Breaking through the noise in the background checks initiative :: 09/27/2016
The Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, where 28 people died in a Newtown, Conn. school shooting – including 20 children 7 years old or younger – sparked a national debate on gun violence and legislation.
Donald Trump Jr: 2nd Amendment A Basic Right of Americans, We Have to Defend It :: 09/27/2016
Donald Trump Jr. tells firearm suppressor manufacturer Silencer Co. that the Second Amendment is “a basic right of Americans” that has to be defended.
Lester Holt Spins Debate For Hillary Six Huge Ways, Plays - Gotcha - With Trump :: 09/27/2016
Journalists got their wish. Presidential debate moderator Lester Holt hoisted Hillary Clinton’s campaign high in the air like Atlas. Holt repeatedly called out Trump, as both the Clinton campaign and the liberal media had begged him to do.
No Fly List applied to gun rights will be a 2A infringement :: 09/27/2016
Monday night’s presidential debate saw both candidates making repeated references to policies that have worked, are working or will work. Clinton made eight such comments; Trump made four.
Seems Gun Laws Don't Apply if You Advocate For Gun Control :: 09/27/2016
Gun control is the only law that points to its abject failure as reason to have MORE gun control.
The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham :: 09/27/2016
From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau of Investigation never had much enthusiasm for prosecuting Hillary Clinton or her friends. Under President Obama, the FBI grew so politicized that it became impossible for the Bureau to do its job – at least where high-ranking Democrats are concerned.
Violent crime up 4 percent in 2015 :: 09/27/2016
Despite a continued decrease in other crimes, the number of violent crimes increased 3.9 percent in 2015 and the murder rate rose by nearly 11 percent, according to data published Monday in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report.
Whether the Second Amendment Applies to All Citizens Is Not a New Question :: 09/27/2016
It’s been about 150 years since the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted black people the right to full citizenship, but some have recently questioned whether the Constitution applies equally to all citizens.
While Anti-gunners Exploit Tragedy, Gun Rights Group Calls Them Out :: 09/27/2016
When a well-financed Washington State gun prohibition lobbying group moved quickly to exploit last Friday’s tragic Cascade Mall shooting in Burlington, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms quickly noted that this incident is more evidence that gun control laws backed by anti-gunners don’t work.
Anti-Gunners: For Maine restaurateur, a gun debate turns nasty :: 09/26/2016
PORTLAND, Maine — Diners at the Grace restaurant sit under a vaulted ceiling and stained-glass windows in a former Methodist church built in the 1850s. Its cool, spiritual chic comes with a catch: No one who owns an assault rifle — or even supports the right to own one — is welcome.
As numbers rise in Georgia, ATF has new app to report gun thefts :: 09/26/2016
The number of guns reported stolen in Georgia has steadily increased over the past three years, and this year those numbers are on track to be even higher, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office in Atlanta.
Donald Trump aims to carry on presidents' tradition of proud gun ownership :: 09/26/2016
From George Washington’s flintlock pistols to John F. Kennedy’s M1 rifle, presidents have shared a long tradition of proud gun ownership. That heritage would be far more likely to continue under a President Donald Trump than it would under a President Hillary Clinton.
Gun and ammo taxes is a plan with room to backfire :: 09/26/2016
Circulating on pro-gun websites this week is a video clip from 1993 of Hillary Clinton, then a relatively new First Lady, lending unequivocal approval to a proposal of a 25% tax hike on purchases of handguns and “automatic weapons,” as Senator Bill Bradley put it, as well as a new $2,500 license fee for dealers.
Shouldn't the Presidential Debate Ask About Guns We Already Have? :: 09/26/2016
Can “infringement” be defined? Of course it can—and that’s the problem.
Southern California Police Agencies Missing More Than 300 Weapons :: 09/26/2016
Authorities in Southern California have had more than 300 weapons lost or stolen over the last five years.
Trump threatens Clinton's Pennsylvania firewall :: 09/26/2016
Donald Trump is threatening to burn straight through Hillary Clinton's well-funded Pennsylvania firewall, according to a new poll that has Trump within the margin of error in the usually solidly Democratic state.
Washington state mall shooting suspect was under 'no firearm' order :: 09/26/2016
A 20-year-old suspect was in custody on Sunday for the killing of five people during a deadly shooting at a mall in Burlington, Washington, two days before.
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