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KY: Grand jury not indicting Shively Animal Clinic shooter, called it self-defense
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A Jefferson County grand jury has decided not to indict the person who shot a 21-year-old at a local animal clinic.
"At the end of the day, I don't know what to think about this," said Trent Taylor Sr.
Trent Taylor was shot on May 14 during an altercation at Shively Animal Hospital and Clinic on Dixie Highway, officials said. He was an employee there.
Shortly after it happened, Shively police indicated that the shooting may have happened out of self-defense. |
Biden mocks Second Amendment supporters, says you 'need an F-16' to take on government
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Biden's remarks at a fundraising event in a private residence in California came as he discussed gun violence in America and stressed the notion that Americans do not need AR-15s.
"We have to change," Biden said. "There’s a lot of things we can change, because the American people by and large agree you don’t need a weapon of war. I’m a Second Amendment guy. I taught it for four years, six years in law school. And guess what? It doesn’t say that you can own any weapon you want. It says there are certain weapons that you just can’t own. Even during when it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon. You can’t own a machine gun.… No, I’m serious." |
NJ: Federal Appeals Stays Ruling Against New Jersey ‘Gun-Free Zones’
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Broad swaths of New Jersey are going back to being off-limits for licensed gun owners to carry a firearm.
That’s thanks to a 2-1 ruling from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals released Tuesday. The court issued a partial emergency stay on a lower-court order blocking most of New Jersey’s recently enacted “sensitive place” restrictions, where legal gun carry is prohibited.
The stay will allow the state to resume enforcing its gun-carry ban in schools, parks, zoos, libraries, museums, restaurants that serve alcohol, casinos, health care facilities, and anywhere within 100 feet of public gatherings. |
IL: Court action continues in gun ban cases
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Lawsuits challenging Illinois’ gun laws are well underway in state and federal courts with separate challenges to the constitutionality of the recently enacted gun and magazine ban and the decades old Firearm Owners Identification card.
In January, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law a ban on more than 170 semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns. He also banned the sale and possession of magazines with more than 15 rounds for handguns and 10 rounds for rifles. |
Meet the U.S. Senate's Gun-Control Caucus
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It is real American political theater to think of all the members of the U.S. Senate’s new gun-control caucus, which formally named itself the “Gun Violence Prevention Caucus,” sitting around a table in some hidden-away chamber in the Dirksen Senate Office Building plotting their many gun-control schemes—and, as you’ll see, they do have quite the list. This, after all, is how Hollywood has often treated the pro-freedom side. |
NJ: NJ ‘Sensitive Places’ Concealed Gun Ban Revived During Appeal
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New Jersey state officials convinced the Third Circuit to allow the state’s ban on concealed guns in certain locations to take effect for now after a lower court partially blocked the law last month.
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted the officials’ request in part Tuesday after previously agreeing to hold expedited proceedings over the objections of a group of gun owners who challenged the regulations.
Judge Cheryl Ann Krause signed the order temporarily reviving provisions in the law which prohibit concealed carry in “sensitive places,” such as libraries, museums, restaurants, bars, and more. |
Killer Mike Says New Gun Laws Will Hurt Black People, Wants Safety Training Instead
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Killer Mike believes any new gun control laws in America will hurt Black people before any other group -- but the rapper's telling us a few other ways he thinks the spike in gun violence can be flattened.
Mike joined us Wednesday on "TMZ Live" to discuss potential curfews for minors in Atlanta -- something he's all for as a measure to mitigate violence ... and, he says he had curfew when he was growing up in the area. |
Fact check: Biden makes 5 false claims about guns, plus some about other subjects
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President Joe Biden made false claims about a variety of topics, notably including gun policy, during a series of official speeches and campaign remarks over the last two weeks.
He made at least five false claims related to guns, a subject on which he has repeatedly been inaccurate during his presidency. He also made a false claim about the extent of his support from environmental groups. And he used incorrect figures about the population of Africa, his own travel history and how much renewable energy Texas uses. |
PA: Guns are tools
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We must change the system that allows anyone, regardless of age, mental capability, or reasonable intelligence to own a gun. There is a reason we demand that people who want to obtain a driver’s license must go through a test to determine that they know enough about car safety to drive a car. We have restrictions on voting until reaching a certain age.
The NRA would argue that the second Amendment to the Constitution gives everyone the right to own a gun. The Second Amendment never meant that every lunatic and mass murder would have the legal right to own a gun. We must do something to protect our people. |
Unequal treatment in Hunter Biden gun charges is outrageous
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It looks like Hunter Biden has cut a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to the various charges against him without doing any jail time.
And that has incensed a lot of people – including the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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Alan Gottlieb, head of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, called that deal “an insult to the intelligence of the American people.”
“Why should anybody respect any gun laws if the president’s son gets a pass?” he said. |
Kodak Black's Attorney Slams Hunter Biden Plea Deal
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Kodak Black's attorney is calling out a double standard after Hunter Biden received a plea deal for the same crime that the South Florida rapper was sentenced to over three years in prison for.
On Tuesday (June 20), President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden agreed with the Justice Department to plea guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges. Terms of the plea will would allow him to avoid prosecution on a separate federal gun charge. Following news of the deal, Kodak Black's attorney Bradford Cohen blasted the deal on Instagram |
SCOTUS To [Consider Reviewing] Law Preventing Accused Domestic Abusers From Owning Guns
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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on Thursday whether it will add a case concerning the possession of firearms by people who have domestic violence restraining orders to the docket for the upcoming term or not, CNN reported Wednesday.
The Supreme Court justices are reaching the end of their term and the one-year mark since they overturned New York’s concealed carry limitations and granted Americans the freedom to carry firearms in public for self-defense in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen case, according to CNN. A judicial panel on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cited the year-old ruling in striking down the federal law, which critics say will ease access to a firearm for alleged domestic abusers. |
NJ: Platkin says federal stay 'vindicates' NJ gun reform efforts. Here's why
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Attorney General Matthew Platkin said he felt vindicated after a federal court sided with New Jersey in its ongoing legal battle to regulate the concealed carrying of guns.
The order, a stay requested by the state last month, will enable enforcement of regulations on where concealed weapons can be carried in New Jersey. The stay was issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia. |
America’s “Culture War” Over Guns
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It is perhaps no accident that the first example Dictionary.com uses under its definition of “culture war” is “a culture war over the right to own a gun.”
This example is the result of a deep narrative that has been meticulously, and dishonestly, established by gun-control advocates who know that treating the Second Amendment as a fungible thing caught in the throes of a culture war can lead people to conclude that a compromise between warring sides must be found. And compromising a constitutional right is an incremental type of trap that would erode any civil liberty into dust. |
First Look: Federal HST .357 Magnum Ammo
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When hunters are toting their trusty bear-defense handguns outside of the backcountry, its often wise to change out ammunition—away from hard-nosed, monolithic rounds that focus primarily on penetrating thick skull plates and the like. Federal Premium is helping hunters do exactly that, with the addition of Personal Defense HST .327 Federal Magnum and .357 Magnum Ammo. Building off an already extensive line of personal-defense ammunition options, the addition of these jacketed hollow point magnum loads gives users an effective personal-defense option for revolvers. |
FL: Constitutional Carry – What It Is and Isn’t
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“There is a lot of misinformation about the new permitless carry law and Pinellas County’s law enforcement leaders want to ensure that residents and visitors understand what the law does and what the law doesn’t do,” he said in a video public service announcement on his office’s website.
The sheriff stressed that the new law does not affect open carry, which is still illegal in Florida under most circumstances. You may only openly carry a firearm if you are engaged in or traveling to or from fishing, camping, hunting, or test/target shooting.
The new law also does not change who can purchase a firearm, the waiting period to purchase a firearm, or where a person can carry a firearm, he said.
Ed.: Read before carrying. |
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