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MO: Store manager shoots man charging at him with knife in downtown Kansas City
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A store manager shot a man who allegedly charged at him with a knife at a store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday.

Just before 6 p.m. Sunday, police responded to a shooting at the convenience store located at E. 11th Street and Grand Boulevard.

When officers arrived, they located the suspect, Marcus Webb, on the ground suffering from gunshot wounds. He was transported to an area hospital.

Webb was charged in the incident.

CA: Stockton Man Released After Fatal Shooting in Possible Self-Defense
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Authorities in Stockton are investigating a fatal shooting that may have been an act of self-defense. The incident occurred Monday night near Poplar Street and Madison Street, where officers responded to reports of gunfire at approximately 9:03 p.m.

When police arrived, they discovered a 50-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel transported him to a nearby hospital, but he did not survive his injuries. Law enforcement officials located a firearm at the scene and initially detained a 33-year-old individual in connection with the shooting. However, after further review, the person was released as investigators continue to assess whether the shooting was legally justified under self-defense laws.

CA: Manteca, CA Council Member Shoots Stepson in Self-Defense During Violent Confrontation
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A Manteca City Council member shot his adult stepson in what police say appears to be a self-defense incident following a violent attack inside his home. The incident occurred on January 23, 2025, at approximately 12:28 p.m. in the 1000 block of Yolo Street.

According to the Manteca Police Department, Council Member David Breitenbucher called 911 after being attacked by his stepson, 31-year-old Landon White. Breitenbucher reportedly sustained a head injury during the confrontation, prompting him to use his personal firearm to defend himself. White was shot in the abdomen and transported to a local hospital, where he remains unconscious due to medical treatment.

TX: Two Cases of Young Adults Using Guns for Self Defense
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On January 15th and January 16th, in Houston, Texas, two young men fired guns in defense of self and others. One young man was protecting himself and his companions in the car he occupied. The other was protecting his pregnant significant other. Both actions appear to be justified. Both young men are reported to be less than 21 years old.

The Texas restoration of Constitutional carry, passed in 2021, generally excluded people under the age of 21. Here are the two incidents.

On January 16, 2025, at 9:30 p.m., a young man was driving with his pregnant significant other. The incident started on I-610 in northeast Houston. From khou.com:

Hyde-Smith joins act to oppose national gun registry
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U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) recently joined Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) to introduce the No Retaining Every Gun In a System that Restricts Your (REGISTRY) Rights Act (S.119), legislation that would prohibit the federal government from creating a national firearms registry. The creation of a federal gun registry would set a dangerous precedent that could severely compromise the rights of law-abiding Mississippians and Americans. The Second Amendment protects our right to keep and bear arms, and this legislation is a key step in defending this fundamental freedom from federal overreach and intrusive regulations, said the Brookhaven senator.

WI: Lawmakers reverse DNR rule that banned guns for anglers in Wisconsin
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Anglers can now carry guns while they fish in Wisconsin after lawmakers overturned a decades-old rule on Wednesday.

The Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules approved overturning the rule on a 7-3 vote without discussion.

The change comes after a conservative group highlighted the law last year and how it could potentially impact anglers who carried a gun for protection but didn't plan to use it on fish.

Walther Expands PDP and PP Lineup
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Starting with the PDP F-Series Professional ACRO model, the company has shown commitment to both its F-series line and its partnership with Aimpoint. This essentially combines the best of both worlds for an easy-to-use F-series handgun paired with upgraded features like the Dynamic Performance Trigger and removable magwell. It will also feature an Aimpoint ACRO P2 optic milled directly into the slide.

PDP F-Series Pro-X

Walther kept up with the trend of enhancing the F-series lineup with the Pro-X model. This model features the same upgrades as above in terms of trigger and magwell. This one differs in that it doesnt have the ACRO up top but does have a compensator built into the slide.

CO: Proposal to ban guns with detachable magazines in Colorado clears its first hurdle
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A controversial proposal that would make it illegal in Colorado to sell, buy or make guns that use detachable magazines cleared its first committee hearing Tuesday, the first hurdle on its legislative path.

Senate Bill 3's main sponsor, Democratic Sen. Tom Sullivan of Centennial, opened the hearing by talking about his son Alex's murder at the hands of a mass shooter during the 2012 attack on an Aurora movie theater.

High-capacity magazines are what put the mass into mass shootings, Sullivan said, wearing a leather jacket that belonged to Alex. The people of Colorado have mandated that we do something about the public health crisis that is gun violence, so thats what were going to do.

CA: Sonoma County youth find their voices through Guitars Not Guns
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For kids in Sonoma County, the sound of possibility starts with a single chord. At Guitars Not Guns, students ages 8 to 18 are learning more than just musictheyre building confidence, resilience, and a connection to something greater than themselves.

When I found out I could keep my guitar, I was super hyped, says Phoenix Encinas, 12. Its like a dream. I never thought Id have my own guitar.

Guitars Not Guns, a national nonprofit, runs eight-week sessions that provide free guitar lessons and instruments to at-risk youth. The Sonoma County chapter, led by Director Stephan Avanozian, partners with local organizations like the Petaluma Library to make music accessible to anyone.

CO: 10th Circuit mulls whether to block Colorado's 'ghost gun' law
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Members of the Denver-based federal appeals court last week probed the details of a 2023 Colorado law prohibiting the possession and purchase of certain firearm components not imprinted with a serial number deemed "ghost guns" that a trial judge declined to block last year.

To address the proliferation of guns privately assembled from kits or 3-D printers, the General Assembly enacted Senate Bill 279 two years ago, making it a misdemeanor to possess ghost guns unless the owner obtains a serial number from a licensed firearm dealer and the dealer performs a background check. Multiple violations of the law are felony offenses.

SCOTUS to Decide Whether Atlanta Homeowners Can Sue FBI over Wrong Address Raid
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Can the FBI be held liable for a familys trauma because a SWAT team smashed through the door of the wrong house in an October 2017 raid in Atlanta, detonating a flashbang grenade, handcuffing the man and holding him, a woman and her child at gunpoint?

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, and the outcome could have a lasting effect on the way federal law enforcement and even local police conduct raids.
According to USA Today, the agent in charge of the raid blamed a GPS device for the mix-up. Apparently, nobody checked the actual warrant for the right address, but only relied on GPS, which has been known for sending motorists down dead-end roads.

MD: Crackdown on do-it-yourself firearm kits is curbing ghost guns. Will it last?
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Deep inside headquarters of the Baltimore Police Department, a vault holds thousands of artifacts from a generation of gun crime and clues to a tide that may be turning.

Most of the firearms lining the vault's walls have serial numbers indicating origin and ownership, but many of the most recent additions to the collection are homemade and unmarked.

"You can buy the pieces online, put them together and you can have a fully assembled firearm that is untraceable," said BPD Commissioner Richard Worley, who gave ABC News a rare inside look at the cache.

Gun Sales Are Plummeting. Heres Why
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Demand for guns skyrocketed in the United States five years ago as the country grappled with COVID-19, social unrest, and a contentious presidential election. Now, that boom appears to be ending.

Americans bought 15.3 million guns in 2024, down from a record 21.8 million in 2020, according to The Traces gun sales tracker, which estimates purchases based on national background check data.

Gun manufacturers have also scaled back. The Traces analysis of federal data shows that between 2021 and 2023, the most recent year available, the number of guns produced annually for the U.S. market fell 36 percent, from 23.4 million to 14.96 million.

Students Demand Action Are Fighting to Ban High-Capacity Guns and Magazines
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Going to school freshman year felt like marching toward death and we dont mean that figuratively. Thats because there were multiple shootings at our high school in a single year and in one of those cases, our classmate was killed.

Talk about a freshman year from hell.

We were terrified, full of grief, and, honestly, feeling kind of hopeless. It was hard to make sense of how something like that could happen even though our generation knows the reality of gun violence all too well.

CO: Colorado Semi-Auto Gun Ban Passes Committee
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A bill that would ban most semi-auto firearms in the Centennial State sailed past a key legislative committee this week along party lines.

Colorado SB 25-003, which would outlaw the manufacturing, distribution, transfer, and sale of semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines as well as "gas-operated" semiautomatic handguns with detachable magazines, passed the Senate's State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

The measure has been described as the "most radical 'assault weapons' ban in Colorado's history," by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a state 2A group. "This bill will ban all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, most semi-automatic shotguns, and most handguns in everyday use!"

Over 200 Years Old, Americans Still Go Nuts for These Guns Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The revolver, a handgun with a rotating cylinder, was first patented by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, nearly 200 years ago. Upon their introduction, revolvers represented a technological leap in the world of firearms, allowing users to fire multiple rounds before reloading. As a result, revolvers were widely used by law enforcement agencies and the U.S. military.

CO: A bill to ban guns with detachable magazines in Colorado clears committee in party line vote
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This session's most significant gun bill went before the Senate's State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, where witnesses spoke for over eight hours about mass shootings, the Second Amendment, and gun safety.

Senate Bill 003, sponsored by Sen. Tom Sullivan, D-Centennial, and Julie Gonzales, D-Denver, and Reps. Andrew Boesenecker, D-Fort Collins, and Meg Froelich, D-Englewood, would prohibit the manufacturing, distribution, transfer, and sale of semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines and gas-operated semiautomatic handguns with detachable magazines.

LWRCI Offers Brand-New IC MK2, Luxury 9mm IC-9 Carbine + Suppressors for 2025
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As a result of its very successful piston-driven AR design, LWRC International has grown into a brand that many people know and love for its quality and performance-focused guns. Trusted by law enforcement and beloved by the domestic market alike, LWRC brought a range of new products to SHOT Show 2025.

From its next-gen LWRC IC MK2 rifle to a brand-new 9mm carbine and an entire line of suppressors, heres whats new from LWRCI for 2025.

LWRC IC MK2

The LWRC IC is a rifle that competed in the U.S. Armys Individual Carbine Program, which ultimately was canceled with no firearm adoptions. However, the design of the rifle was extremely popular, and it competed in several other military trials.

Gun Owners Still Waiting on Pro-2A Executive Orders
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President Trump promised gun-owning voters that Bidens unconstitutional anti-gun disasters would get ripped up and torn out during the first week of his Administration.

We just officially passed that milestone in the Trump-Vance Administration and Bidens anti-gun policies are still in effect.

Look, we all know theres quite a lot to fix after four disastrous years of Joe and Kamala, but defending the Second Amendment of the Constitution MUST be a TOP priority for the President of the United States.

Thats why GOA is mobilizing gun owners like YOU to remind the President that we are still waiting on him to deliver on his promises to roll back the Biden-era anti-gun policies and revive the Second Amendment.

WY: Protect the Second Amendment in Wyoming!
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HB0283 (https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0283), and a Senate mirror bill SF0196 (brought by Senator Salazar), that would destroy the criminal penalty in Wyoming law for Wyoming officials who infringe on your Second Amendment Rights.

They falsely claimed this was advancing Second Amendment Rights.

Dont take our word for it, download the identical bills (HB0283 and SF0196) and look at the language on page 4 striking the CRIMINAL PENALTY THAT MANY CALL AMERICAS BEST!!

Legislators have finally heard GOAs call, and in the last few days, HB0303 (https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0303) has been introduced.