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MI: Michigan teen sues Dick's Sporting Goods over new firearms age restriction
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A west Michigan teen says a new policy at Dick's Sporting Goods that raised the minimum age for purchasing a firearm from 18 to 21 violates his civil rights.
Tristin M. Fulton, 18, of Battle Creek, attempted to purchase a shotgun at Dick's Sporting Goods, 562 W. 14 Mile in Troy, on March 5 and was turned away, based on the new policy, which was announced Feb. 28.
The new policy -- similar to another instituted by Walmart -- was instituted after 17 people were killed during a massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.
Fulton can legally own firearms under state and federal law, and his attorney, Dearborn-based James J. Makowski ... |
AK: I’m a high school student in Alaska. We spend more time practicing for a mass shooting than for an earthquake.
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They call us the "Mass shooting generation." That's the headline that sticks with me the most. Not the counts of the dead, not the headlines declaring Nikolas Cruz to be mentally unstable, not even the ones that list how many mass shootings have occurred. It's that my generation, the kids that are choosing what to do with our lives, preparing for prom, getting our driver's licenses, applying for our first job, are now growing up in a world where we've been labeled "Most likely to die in school."
I support people having the right to own weapons, to go hunting with or to protect their families. What I don't support is the ease with which we get them. I don't support people owning an AR-15, ...
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MI: Harper Creek gun club seeks varsity status
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Austin Frey injured himself playing football in the sixth grade and had to find another sport to play.
He became a member of the Harper Creek Clay Target Club and hopes the club will become a varsity sport this year.
"I feel it's important to us because it gives the shooters something to look forward to," Frey, now a sophomore at Harper Creek High School, said Friday. "Shooting offers you scholarship opportunities.
Frey, who shoots a 12-gauge Remington 1100 competition semi-automatic in competitions, said he's also learned the proper way to handle a shotgun, etiquette and "just general responsibilities."
The club asked the district's Board of Education on Feb. 12 for the OK to become a varsity sport. |
WY: Committees OK duplicate 'stand your ground' bills
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The Wyoming Legislature now has two duplicate bills making their way through the chambers that would make so-called “stand your ground” policy law.
Both the House of Representatives and Senate passed their “stand your ground” bills — House Bill 168 and Senate File 71 — through the houses of origin. On Tuesday, those bills both passed committees in the second houses as they make their way to votes of the full bodies in the last scheduled week of the session. |
CO: Communication in the gun debate
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In conclusion, clearer and more honest discussion and debate occurs when proper terminology is used rather than emotionally loaded terms.
One more thing. As discussion and action are taking place around the issue of raising the age for purchasing long guns to twenty-one, stop and think about how many young people in our military under the age of twenty-one are prepared to use firearms to protect our nation. |
OK: Oklahoma House Approves Expanding 'Stand Your Ground' Law
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House lawmakers have approved legislation that would expand civil lawsuit immunity to Oklahoma churches when someone uses a gun or other deadly force in self-defense.
The Oklahoman reports that the "Stand Your Ground Law" already protects businesses and property from lawsuits that stem from an accidental injury or death by someone who was acting in self-defense on that property. The House bill approved Tuesday adds "place of worship" to the law.
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The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump
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Now attention is focused around a middle-aged Russian central bank official and a photogenic young gun-activist from Siberia who share several passions: posing with assault rifles, making connections with Republican presidential candidates, and publicizing their travels between Moscow and America on social media. Alexander Torshin and his protégé Maria Butina also share an extraordinary status with America’s largest gun lobbying group, according to Torshin: “Today in NRA (USA) I know only 2 people from the Russian Federation with the status of ‘Life Member’: Maria Butina and I,” he tweeted the day after Donald Trump was elected president. |
CO: Give gun controls a chance
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Let's do more than just banning bump stocks or raising the age of purchase of semi-automatic weapons to 21. Let's ask ourselves, considering the number of gun deaths from military-style weapons, whether the fact that assault weapons are fun to fire justifies them being available without restriction. Let's try another assault weapons ban, this time supported by a strong universal background check law. Let's see what happens. |
Defensive Gun Use Is More Than Shooting Bad Guys
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That statement grossly misleads by pretending that firearms only stop violence when they are used to kill criminals. As explained by the National Academies of Sciences in a 300+ page analysis of firearms studies, “Effective defensive gun use need not ever lead the perpetrator to be wounded or killed. Rather, to assess the benefits of self-defense, one needs to measure crime and injury averted. The particular outcome of an offender is of little relevance.”
Likewise, a 1995 paper in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology states, “This is also too serious a matter to base conclusions on silly statistics comparing the number of lives taken with guns with the number of criminals killed by victims.” |
The Lazy Fantasies of Foreign Gun Laws
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A crime like shooting up a school, however, involves the unique variable of a perpetrator who is psychopathically homicidal, a mindset that does not eagerly submit to the discipline of law. A massacre is not a crime of laziness, obliviousness, or selfishness, as most criminal offenses are, nor even a crime of passion or recklessness, as many violent ones are proven to be. Yet causal assertions that this or that gun policy has clearly prevented massacres in, say, Canada carry the implication that would-be killers in that country find their mad hunger for death cured by an encounter with progressive gun regulation. |
FL: Gun legislation passes Florida House, goes to governor
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The National Rifle Association, a major player in Florida elections, opposes the legislation, mostly because it raises to 21 the age to buy a gun and imposes a three-day waiting period on all gun purchases – a standard now applied only to handguns.
The proposal also bans bump stocks, attachments that can turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
Rep. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach, was among Republicans urging support Wednesday for the measure, saying he was angered by the heavy lobbying and mean-spirited emails he’s received from those seeking a ban on assault-style weapons. |
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