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Anti-Gunners: Variety Honors Julianne Moore for Being a Hypocrite on Guns :: 04/10/2016

Variety published it’s 2016 Power of Women New York issue honoring five women who “use their clout to bring attention to worthy causes”. Among this year’s winners is Everytown for Gun Safety harpie Julianne Moore.

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Pennsylvania Residents Try To Buy 97 Guns Every Hour :: 04/10/2016

In the past three months, Pennsylvania residents have tried to buy 97 firearms every hour. Additionally, the number of requests this quarter through the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) is up 26 percent from last year. Since PICS was established in 1998, the number of background checks has incrementally increased from 200,000 at it inception to over a million by 2013.

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Don't Be Fooled: The White House Is Still Stonewalling Fast & Furious :: 04/09/2016

The White House has been stonewalling investigators for four years over the Obama Administration’s Operation Fast and Furious. Fast and Furious was gun-smuggling plot that armed the Sinaloa drug cartel with thousands of weapons in an apparent attempt to scapegoat American gun dealers in border states for drug cartel violence in Mexico.

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Guns are Now Being Allowed on College Campuses :: 04/09/2016

Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin have all passed legislation to allow guns on college campuses. Recently, Georgia has passed a similar bill through both chambers of their Congress.

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PA:Police Can-And Sometimes Do-Legally Form A "Posse" :: 04/09/2016

The Wild West is alive and well in rural central Pennsylvania. Clearfield County Sheriff Wes Thurston has called for citizens to join the very first Volunteer Clearfield County Sheriff’s Posse, a force of deputies who—armed with their own handguns, shotguns, and rifles—will help uphold the law.

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THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE: Liberal Academics Lie About Guns :: 04/09/2016

What we have here is a failure to communicate, or at least communicate honestly.

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What Does the Second Amendment Mean? :: 04/09/2016

It's one of the most controversial passages of the Constitution. Allegedly, it's also one of the most obscure and unintelligible sections. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

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Army Chief of Staff Says Concealed Carry Wouldn't Have Stopped Fort Hood Shooting :: 04/08/2016

Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, came out strongly against the carrying of private guns on military bases as a security measure in the wake of shootings at Fort Hood, the Washington Navy Yard, and a recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Chicago's grim murder trend blamed on light sentencing, misguided reforms :: 04/08/2016

Lamar Harris had seven felony convictions and 43 arrests when he shot three Chicago police officers. The same week, Samuel Harviley, who had just been paroled after serving less than half of his sentence for armed carjacking, shot yet another of the Windy City’s finest.

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Host on The View: If a Criminal Has an AR-15, Why Shouldn't I? :: 04/08/2016

During the April 7 airing of ABC’s The View, host Jedediah Bila countered anti-gun arguments by asking why law-abiding citizens should be denied an AR-15 if the criminal who attacks them is armed with one?

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Marion County (FL) Sheriff Chris Blair urges citizens to arm themselves :: 04/08/2016

Sheriff Chris Blair of Marion County spoke to a meeting of the Villages Conservative Action Group Thursday evening at Savannah Center. He outlined a number of programs that his administration has implemented to serve the citizens of Marion County.

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Medical Groups Seek Funds for Gun Research While Fire, Water Kill More Children :: 04/08/2016

More than 100 medical groups are pressuring Congress to fund more gun-control research even though fire and water lead to far more accidental child-deaths than do firearms.

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Obama administration turns over 'Fast and Furious' documents :: 04/08/2016

Washington (CNN)House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Friday that the Obama administration has turned over documents related to the "Fast and Furious" operation.

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Tennessee approves bill to block international treaties that limit gun rights :: 04/08/2016

The Tennessee Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a popular House bill prohibiting the enforcement of international laws in the state that could affect the Second Amendment.

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White House Still Claiming Second Amendment a 'Given' Right :: 04/08/2016

(Ammoland.com)- “The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms,” Barack Obama’s White House asserts on its website page explaining the Bill of Rights. If you believe that, then you agree with the totalitarian lobby worldview that “the government giveth, the government taketh away” is the way things ought to be.

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141 groups urge Congress to fund gun violence research :: 04/07/2016

A coalition of more than 100 health care, science and research universities and other groups is urging Congress to drop the federal ban on gun violence research.

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Constitutional Open Carry Bill Heads to Oklahoma Senate for Vote :: 04/07/2016

Oklahoma’s proposed Constitutional Carry bill is one step closer to reaching the governor’s desk.

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Does the Second Amendment Protect Laser Guns? :: 04/07/2016

Laser guns may replace traditional firearms in the future. Will you be able to buy one? Whither the well-regulated militia?

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DRGO's 1996 Congressional Testimony: Defunding Gun Control Politics at the CDC :: 04/07/2016

Just this week we received the raw data, scanned files of the transcript of our testimony.  Recently I’ve written a lot about when an internal medicine specialist, a neurosurgeon, and I testified before the House Appropriations Committee recommending that Congress refuse to pay for gun control-motivated junk science.

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Mississippi To Join "Constitutional Carry" Wave :: 04/07/2016

I’ll be honest: I could have never projected that the surge in “constitutional carry”—open or concealed carry without a government-issued permit—would go this far, this fast.

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