Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Advocates for new gun laws rally at DNC, but face dilemma choosing between Pat Toomey, Katie McGinty :: 07/27/2016
Advocates for tougher gun laws are planning to flex their muscles in this fall's critical Senate elections -- but they have a dilemma in Pennsylvania.
DOJ pressed on decision to drop Orlando gunman from terror list :: 07/27/2016
Key lawmakers are demanding an explanation for the FBI’s decision to drop Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen from its terrorist watch list, despite signs the Orlando gunman had ties to radical Islam.
Olympic shooters thrust into gun-control debate :: 07/27/2016
Kim Rhode sees the news on television or social media. Another mass shooting, in Aurora, San Bernardino, Newtown, Orlando, Dallas, Baton Rouge.
Open carry doom and gloom forecast for RNC fizzles :: 07/27/2016
After petitions and statements by some seeking to bring their firearms to the Republican National Convention and others pressing to ban guns in Cleveland, the outcome was largely anticlimactic.
San Francisco cop arrested for possessing AR :: 07/27/2016
An officer with the city of San Francisco was arrested on gun charges Tuesday after the department’s internal affairs division ended a yearlong investigation.
WaPo: New Evidence Confirms What Gun Rights Advocates Have Said for a Long Time About Crime :: 07/27/2016
New research conducted by the University of Pittsburgh bolsters a claim long made by gun rights advocates that lawful gun owners rarely commit crimes.
Why Was This Vietnam Veteran Shot For Supporting A Presidential Candidate? :: 07/27/2016
Paul Jones, Jr. was enjoying a beer with a friend and discussing the upcoming presidential elections when another man butted into the conversation uninvited, and then decided that if he couldn’t win the debate, that he’d shoot the debater.
Americans mostly favor broad gun control, poll shows :: 07/26/2016
The Associated Press released this week a sprawling survey that explored public opinion on more than a dozen topical policies involving guns in the U.S. as well as their influences.
CPRC: Gun Control Is Not the Answer to Shootings that Kill Police Officers :: 07/26/2016
Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on Sunday that police are more likely to be killed in states that have open-carry laws. He claimed that without an assault-weapons ban police lives are endangered because people have “access to military weaponry, stronger than the police have.”
DRGO: How the Gun Control Movement Sabotages Itself :: 07/26/2016
One of the recurring themes of the American gun control movement has been the need to conceal their eventual goal of making firearms illegal for everyone but the police, the military and the bodyguards who protect the political and economic elite.
How to Respond to an Active Terrorist Attack :: 07/26/2016
This summer, deadly terrorist attacks and crimes have taken place across the world and have many wondering how they can be safe even in the United States or Western Europe.
PA Supreme Court Affirms that Castle Doctrine is an Inherent Right :: 07/26/2016
In a decision issued in Commonwealth v Childs on July 19, 2016 relating to the retroactive effect of Pennsylvania’s Stand Your Ground law (HB40 of 2011), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court acknowledged that the Castle Doctrine is an inherent right, dating back to biblical times, and that the Right existed in common law, long before being codified as part of our Stand Your Ground law in 2011.
The Armed Civilian Who Helped Stop UT's Tower Sniper 50 Years Ago :: 07/26/2016
The heavyset man holding a rifle seemed to know what he was doing. Dressed like many detectives did in 1966 — with pocket liner in his shirt — he suggested to Officer Ramiro Martinez that they climb the stairs of the University of Texas Tower “service style.” With the chaos above them, there was no time for introductions.
The exercise of rights will always have consequences :: 07/26/2016
Debates over rights so often see the observations that no right is unlimited and that all rights come with responsibilities brought up. Typically, these statements are made by someone who has a list of desired restrictions to promote. The implication here is that the exercise of rights has consequences, that those consequences open up our actions to regulation.
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown Signs AB 857, Flip-Flops His Way to Outright Tyranny :: 07/25/2016
Sacramento, CA -(AmmoLand.com)- California’s self-appointed gun-controller-in-chief Kevin de León rammed through new legislation which criminalizes the possession of family heirlooms thanks to the capitulation of the state’s “acting” Governor Jerry Brown, said civil rights advocacy organization Firearms Policy Coalition.
Democrat Delegate Confesses Clinton Plot to Ban All Guns :: 07/25/2016
Project Veritas Action (PVA) brought down corrupt Democrat activist front group ACORN with a series of revealing videos, and has now turned his sights on Hillary Clinton’s attacks on the gun rights of American citizens.
German officials urge tightening of already strict gun laws :: 07/25/2016
MUNICH — Two days after the mass shooting by a violence-obsessed teen here, German politicians on Sunday urged tighter gun restrictions in a country that already has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world.
Hardest States to Buy a Gun :: 07/25/2016
Born from a violent revolution, the U.S. constitution ensures that gun ownership is a fundamental right. Today, there are more than 7.5 million gun stores in the United States, and 29.1% of American adults own at least one firearm of some kind. While the second amendment grants U.S. citizens the right to own guns, federal laws also restrict certain people from buying firearms.
Japan: Knife Attack Kills 19, Injures 20 :: 07/25/2016
TOKYO (AP) — At least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack Tuesday at a facility for the handicapped in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan.
More prospective gun buyers being prosecuted for providing false information :: 07/25/2016
With four businesses in South Strabane Township licensed to sell firearms, police Detective Ken Torboli knows all about the ramifications of providing false information on an application to buy a gun.
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