Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Bill Introduced In Congress To Tax Gun Sales, Require Stolen Guns To Be Reported :: 10/28/2015
According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms since 1991. While it’s tough to pinpoint the number of guns currently in the U.S., a 2012 Congressional Research Service suggests that the number hit 310 million in 2009.
Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson Slams 'Sweeping' Gun Control Calls :: 10/28/2015
Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson slammed the calls by liberals for more gun control. Appearing on Fox News’s Outnumbered, the reality TV star insisted, “Guns are in hands of mostly good people, just like police officers are mostly good people. Yes, there are bad ones. But you can't make a sweeping take-away-the-whole-Second- Amendment over this.”
FBI Director Doubles Down On Linking Scrutiny Of Police With Rise In Violent Crime :: 10/28/2015
On Monday, FBI director James Comey reiterated that the rise of violent crime in certain cities may be a result of less aggressive policing due to increased scrutiny of officers in the wake of recent high-profile police killings of black men.
McKeithen blasts vote on open carry :: 10/28/2015
Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen has come out against what he called a “secret ballot” vote taken by the Florida Sheriff's Association (FSA) in which a majority of members opposed legislative action to allow open carry of firearms.
NBC's Lauer Hits Socialist Sanders from the Left on Guns :: 10/28/2015
In an interview with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer worried that the socialist presidential candidate was out of step with “mainstream Democrats.” However, it was not because of Sanders’ radical left-wing views, but because he was not anti-gun enough.
The Progressive Gun-Control Charade :: 10/28/2015
After tragedy, politicians glibly call for unworkable reforms—then blame the ‘gun lobby’ when they fail.
Anti-Gunners: Police leaders address lawmakers inactivity on background checks :: 10/27/2015
President Obama is expected to call for stronger background checks on gun sales Tuesday afternoon at the International Association of Chiefs of Police at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
Anti-Gunners: The human brain reacts to guns as if they were spiders or snakes :: 10/27/2015
After each highly publicized mass shooting, there's a political debate about how to make them stop, with researchers and politicians alike firing up about assault-rifle bans, background checks, and other possible solutions.
Comey: Increased police scrutiny cause of rise in crime :: 10/27/2015
FBI Director James Comey on Monday attributed the rise in violent crime some major cities are suffering to less aggressive policing – a direct result of increased scrutiny by the public, he said.
Grieving father critical of Cali gun control proposals :: 10/27/2015
Following a proposal in California for new laws that would require background checks to buy ammo and force gun owners to give up extended magazines, an Oakland-area news station aimed to find out what community members thought of the proposal.
How Seattle Is Using A Tax On Gun Owners Against Gun Owners :: 10/27/2015
Ken Stok, a U.S. Army veteran, looked baffled as he stepped up to the podium before the Seattle City Council. He’d heard that his home city of Seattle was contemplating slapping gun owners with a “Gun Violence Tax.” Gun owners would have to pay a $25 tax on any gun they buy and a 5-cent tax on each round of ammunition (2 cents for .22-caliber) they purchase in the city to pay for harm caused by criminals who misuse guns.
How Web giants wage war against guns :: 10/27/2015
TOM GRESHAM: Ignoring Second Amendment hurts free market
In the Line of Fire :: 10/27/2015
Eight AK-47s—wooden pistol grips polished and gleaming, barrels blacker than black, hanging on a wall of a downtown Pittsburgh art gallery. Bent and welded together, the semi-automatic assault rifles form an eight-pointed Maltese cross. During its ten-week display, the sculpture attracted a diverse audience—art aficionados, non-experts, kids touring the gallery, even passersby off the street.
PA: Bill to allow hunting with semi-autos advances (SB 737) :: 10/27/2015
A senate proposal lifting prohibitions on the use of semiautomatic rifles by Pennsylvania hunters is now headed to a vote on the House floor.
Pew: Firearm-Related Homicides Declining Since Early 1990s :: 10/27/2015
Pew Research has released findings demonstrating a decline of nearly 50 per cent in annual firearm-related homicides between 1993 and 2013.
Thomas Sowell: Ongoing gun-control fantasy is a farce :: 10/27/2015
Gun-control won't make our gun situation just like other nations' because criminals ignore it, other nations were never just like us and we also value individual rights to self-defense.
What Americans blame most for mass shootings - (Hint) it's not gun laws :: 10/27/2015
Terry Eyler walks around looking at handguns as thousands of customers and hundreds of dealers sell, show and buy guns and other items during the Nation's Gun Show at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., on Oct. 3. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Anti-Gunners: Eliminate Gun Loopholes for Domestic Abusers :: 10/26/2015
WASHINGTON -- The debate over measures to reduce gun violence poses a cruel paradox. The most effective steps are politically unthinkable and likely unconstitutional. More restrained approaches, such as tighter background checks and reduced ammunition magazine sizes, have proved maddeningly impossible to maneuver through the political process and are open to the charge that they would not stop the killing.
As Cuomo Pushes for Federal Action on Guns, New York Measures Await His Support :: 10/26/2015
The murder of NYPD officer Randolph Holder and the seemingly constant news of campus shootings has a number of prominent Democratic legislators calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lend his support to state-level gun control bills.
Cruz Reveals What'll Happen to US If One More Liberal Justice Is Appointed to Supreme Court :: 10/26/2015
If the Supreme Court had just “one more liberal justice,” Sen. Ted Cruz says the second amendment could be no more.
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