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AZ Bill Would Limit Feds' Ability to Enforce Second Amendment Restrictions in the State :: 02/21/2016
As the media cartel loses its power to define the agenda and dictate the terms of debate, states are starting to reassert their power to protect their citizens from an out-of-control federal government. A number of states have already passed laws that serve to reign in federal power over the regulation of guns. As an example . . .
Can Armed Citizens Stop Mass Murders & Spree Killers? Absolutely :: 02/21/2016
Last night in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a 45-year-old Uber driver began what appears to be an utterly random killing spree. He shot eight people at three locations over the course of six hours.
Lessons From A Mass Killing Survivor :: 02/21/2016
Carl Chinn was part of the church security team at New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 2007 when a mass killer entered the building with a 6.8 SPC rifle, several pistols, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, intent on racking up a massive body count.
NJ Police Charge PA Corrections Officer with Felony Gun Possession :: 02/21/2016
“Sgt. Ray Hughes had taken his wife to dinner in Atlantic City. He was driving home when he and his wife were hit by a drunk driver,” buzzpo.com reports. “When police responded, they noticed his ‘Fraternal Order of Police’ decal and law enforcement credentials. Hughes explained that he had his weapon with him, and police officers assured him that they’d secure it and he could pick it up later at the station.”
Uber Driver Spree Killer Takes Six Lives In Michigan :: 02/21/2016
A 45-year-old white male* is in custody after a spree killing the occurred in three locations over the course of six hours in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At least six people have
2nd Amendment advocate worried GOP will cave :: 02/20/2016
A gun-rights advocacy group is deeply concerned about the consequences if President Obama is able to appoint another left-leaning justice to the Supreme Court.
Lights Out for the Brady Campaign and Hillary Clinton :: 02/20/2016
I broke the back of the anti-Second Amendment Million Mom March in 2000 by exposing its use of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt money to endorse House candidates on its Apple Pie Award web pages. The organization crumpled up when columnist J.R. Labbe published the information I sent her and was later found to have filed a highly creative Form 990 tax return in which the organization told the IRS that it had spent no money to influence legislation.
Universal Orlando's Discrimination against Gun Owners Made Possible by Indifference :: 02/20/2016
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “A Universal Orlando worker who was fired after someone stole a gun from his car at work has sued his former employer,” the Orlando Sentinel reported. “A licensed concealed weapons holder, [Dean] Kumanchik regularly took his gun to and from work and kept it locked in his vehicle.
Vulnerable Supreme Court Rulings If Liberal Replaced Scalia :: 02/20/2016
If President Barack Obama or a future Democratic successor were to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a liberal, a host of prior high court decisions that favored conservatives could be revisited, and possibly be overruled completely.
Are Second Amendment Rights Protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? :: 02/19/2016
A Georgia television station’s report raises an interesting and important question: should a person who’s legally blind be “allowed” to exercise their Second Amendment rights? From newschannel9.com . . .
Carson on Gun Rights: There's a Reason 'We've Been Free for Hundreds of Years' :: 02/19/2016
(CNSNews.com) – When asked how he would preserve gun rights and protect the American people, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, a gun owner, said during CNN’s GOP town hall in South Carolina Wednesday that there’s a reason that U.S. citizens, who have been able to bear arms for hundreds of years have also been free.
Marine from famous photo asked if 'black lives matter' before he's beaten and robbed :: 02/19/2016
A former Marine made famous by actions caught in a wartime photo was knocked unconscious then robbed at a D.C. McDonald’s Friday night, but the victim said before he lost consciousness, his attackers wanted to know if he thought black lives matter.
On Eve of South Carolina Vote, Nation's ICE Officers Detail How Marco Rubio Betrayed Them :: 02/19/2016
ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation’s approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America’s immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Pro-Gun Senate Democrats Silent Supreme Court Nominee :: 02/19/2016
A Supreme Court justice nominee appointed by President Barack Obama could do much to shift the ideological weight of a bench split now evenly among justices nominated by Republican and Democrat presidents.
The threat of guns on Capitol Hill prompts a rare show of spine from Gov. Bill Haslam :: 02/19/2016
After years of making love to firearms in (almost) every conceivable way, the state legislature's Republican supermajority is mainly known — for good or bad — for expanding gun rights.
What Apple And Senate Republicans Have In Common: A Messaging Problem :: 02/19/2016
As I write this, Apple AAPL -0.21% CEO Tim Cook struggles with something other than the beating his company’s taken amidst the recent market correction (as an Apple shareholder, these are words I didn’t enjoy typing).
Donald Trump's Supreme Court litmus test :: 02/18/2016
Businessman Donald Trump, seeking to burnish his "common sense conservative" credentials for the Republican nomination, said Wednesday that he would use the landmark District of Columbia vs. Heller case from 2008 as a litmus test for nominating a Supreme Court justice.
How was Gun Control Imposed Upon an Unwilling World? :: 02/18/2016
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Disarmists use the bandwagon fallacy, (argumentum ad populum) to promote citizen disarmament. In essence, the non-argument makes the claim; everyone else disarms their population – so we should do the same. This is a logical fallacy.
Obama to seek gun control funding in budget :: 02/18/2016
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a crowd. U.S. President Barack Obama included funding to enact his recent executive orders on gun control in the budget proposal he sent to Congress last week.
Prosecutor group advocates stricter laws, more gun surrenders :: 02/18/2016
Prosecutors Against Gun Violence on Wednesday released what they term as a “roadmap” to reduce the use of firearms in domestic abuse incidents.
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