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In their front yard, on the road, and from their bed at night, responsible gun owners defended themselves last week, but you didn't hear it in the news. Firearms Instructor Lauren Hartnett joins host Rob Morse to talk about four recent examples.
These gun owners survived a lethal threat. What should we do in their place? Text and podcast available at the link. (21 minute audio)
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A CT gun safety measure, Ethan’s Law, is before Congress
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A federal version of Ethan’s Law, a bipartisan gun-storage safety measure that easily passed in Connecticut two years ago, could offer an early test of how gun legislation might fare in the new Congress.
Michael and Kristin Song of Guilford, whose 15-year-old son’s accidental shooting death was the impetus for the Connecticut law, and all seven members of the state’s congressional delegation joined in a video conference Wednesday to renew their campaign for a federal version. |
MO: Greene County sheriff changes mind on gun legislation after lawmakers make changes
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Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott says he’s changed his mind after two Springfield-area lawmakers changed the wording of two bills intended to protect the Second Amendment and further ease restrictions for gun owners.
Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Christian County) and Rep. Jered Taylor (R-Republic) sponsored the legislation to establish the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
The lawmakers say the bills will prevent police and deputies in Missouri from enforcing any federal gun laws, even if the federal laws become stricter than what they are now. |
NH: Two Self-Defense Measures to be Heard on Friday
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House Bill 81 is a common-sense clarification in the laws relating to the statute governing physical force in defense of a person. The bill proposes to clarify that an individual is justified in using physical force in defense of another individual, such as a family member, when a felony is being committed within the individual’s dwelling or curtilage. This is a common-sense clarification in the law, which ensures victims of crime can use force in defense of themselves or loved ones, without the worry of being prosecuted. |
NY: With guns in their lives, African Americans bear arms — and take lessons
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Philip Smith, founder of the NAAGA, said that more than 2,000 people joined the organization in just a few hours after the police-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
“That broke our records,” he said. “We’re getting a ton of folks from all over.”
And Smith’s account is supported by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association that tracks gun sales and analyzes industry trends. According to Mark Oliva, the foundation’s director of public affairs, the rise in Black gun ownership is unprecedented. |
Reconsidering the Backup Gun in Troubled Times
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Carrying a second handgun is a practice that literally goes back centuries. In the days of flintlock pistols, which provided a single shot, multiple guns were often carried on body. In the old west, cap and ball revolvers, and even the later single-action revolvers that used contained cartridges, proved slow to reload; therefore, multiple guns were often carried by those expecting trouble. Even in 20th Century law enforcement, the majority of which witnessed the dominance of the double-action revolver, multiple guns were often carried by law enforcement as reloading a wheel gun simply proves too slow under fire. |
IN: Indiana lawmakers propose tougher penalties for rioting
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Indiana's Republican lawmakers are attempting to deter protests that have elevated since George Floyd's death with a series of bills that would increase penalties for rioting, vandalizing monuments, blocking emergency vehicles and violating curfews.
The proposals come in response to May 2020 protests against racial injustice and police brutality spurred by Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody. In Indianapolis, it resulted in several nights of sometimes violent protests, as well as clashes between demonstrators and police. |
MO: Plan to invalidate federal gun laws wins approval in Missouri House
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The Missouri House on Wednesday gave first-round approval to a proposal that would prevent local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws that aren’t on the books in Missouri.
The “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” sponsored by Rep. Jered Taylor, R-Nixa, seeks to invalidate federal laws or other actions deemed to infringe on a person’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Lawmakers approved the proposal Wednesday on a 107-43 vote. |
MI: Military-grade weaponry unneeded in public spaces
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“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” reads the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
However, I ask: Why so many guns? Why high-capacity magazines and clips? Why military-style guns? Why rapid firing? Why concealed guns? I would be interested in hearing from anyone who can offer answers to these questions. |
5 Top-Rated 9mm Carbines
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A pistol caliber carbine, also known as a PC Carbine or simply a PCC, is exactly what it sounds like: a short-barreled rifle that is chambered for calibers typically used in semi-auto pistols or revolvers.
The longer barrel of the rifle allows for the handgun rounds to reach greater velocities than they can when fired from handguns, resulting in greater accuracy and more power. |
CO: Weld Man Shot By Father In Self Defense After Attack
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According to the Greeley Tribune, officers responded to a shooting near Milliken, where the father said that he shot in self defense after his son became violent. Fortunately no lives were taken.
The father also explained that his son had drank too much alcohol, became violent and began strangling his father and punching him in the face. Reports state that the man had a knot the size of an egg on his head from being hit. |
AR: 'Stand your ground' fails panel vote; moving to House is next try for bill
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The bill's Senate sponsor, Bob Ballinger, R-Ozark, said supporters of the bill would move to extract it from committee to the House floor this afternoon. Ballinger said he believed enough Republican support remained for the bill to surpass the two-thirds threshold to extract it. The House has 100 members, 77 Republicans and 23 Democrats.
"I think it's easier to vote 'no' when you're not going to be held accountable for it," Ballinger said, referring to the fact that voice votes are not recorded for each member. |
TN: Rep. Campbell's handgun bill lacks common sense
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Anyone has a right to operate a boat on Tennessee’s lakes and waterways provided they have passed a boater safety course, or to drive a motor vehicle on state roads provided they have passed the state’s driving test.
Those provisions are necessary to enhance public safety, just as is the state’s firearm safety course, which is required to obtain a permit to carry a handgun in Tennessee.
Rep. Scotty Campbell of Mountain City wants to change that. “The Constitution does not say that you have to pay money for a permit to have permission to carry a firearm,” he said in introducing a bill that would allow state residents to go armed without a permit. |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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