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FL: Husband Shot And Killed By Wife’s Partner After Breaking Into Home
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A nighttime incident occurred on Osteen Road in Perry, Florida, when a homeowner was forced to defend himself during a home invasion. According to the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, the homeowner woke up to the sound of glass breaking as the intruder forced entry through the front door.
The homeowner, accompanied by a female friend, was in the bedroom when the intruder entered. Acting quickly, the homeowner retrieved his firearm and shot the intruder. It was later revealed that the intruder was the husband of the female friend. He was pronounced dead at the scene. |
FL: Fabián Basabe welcomes NRA endorsement, promises balanced approach to gun safety
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The Miami Beach Republican, who won election in 2020 by a scant 242 votes, was among four Republican House incumbents endorsed for re-election by the NRA Political Victory Fund. The gun rights group issued grades and endorsements for Florida legislative races on the Aug. 20 ballot.
The NRA also issued an “A” grade to Basabe based on his voting record.
“As an elected official in this divisive climate, I appreciate my work being properly represented,” Basabe said as part of an extensive statement provided to Florida Politics. |
NY: Gun Groups Legally Support Case Against NY So-Called “Assault Weapons” Ban
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) are supporting the case, known as Lane v. Rocah. The case challenges the ban on so-called “assault weapons” in New York state. This motion also opposes a cross-motion from the defendants for summary judgment. Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Adam Kraut at the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Wash., Cody J. Wisniewski in Las Vegas, and Nicholas J. Rotsko at FLUET in Tysons, Va. The memorandum was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. |
Kamala Harris’ Gun Control Schemes Are No Laughing Matter
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By comparison, Kamala Harris has been much more circumspect about her anti-gun plans, and despite her maniacal cackle, could prove a more serious opponent to our Second Amendment rights than her former boss ever imagined possible.
Last year, most likely at the insistence of Barack Obama, Biden put Harris in charge of the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden said would “centralize, accelerate, and intensify our work to save more lives more quickly.” |
If You Think Biden Was Bad Get A Load Of Kamala
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Let’s start with the Second Amendment, as Lawrence G. Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation observed in a 2020 note to the firearms industry, “Failed 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is the last announced participant in Everytown’s gun control virtual townhall series. The then-senator from the Golden State said she would wave the magic wand of “Executive Action” to enact sweeping gun control policies if she could, including limiting the number of firearms a licensed retailer could sell each year and removing existing legal protections for firearm manufacturers.”
Harris will decimate the Second Amendment. She wants to ban AR-15s as a panacea to resolving crimes. |
VA: Surry supervisors propose allowing themselves to bring guns to meetings
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Two years after the body voted to ban guns in government buildings, two Surry County supervisors say they want to come armed to board meetings. According to Surry District Supervisor Tim Calhoun, at the start of a July 18 work session, Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Elliott asked that the meeting’s agenda be amended to include a discussion of the gun ordinance the supervisors adopted on Nov. 3, 2022, to prohibit the carrying of “any firearm, ammunition, components, or combination thereof” inside any building or part of a building that is “used for governmental purposes by the county” and any recreation or community center “owned and operated by the county.” |
Where the Democratic VP Front-Runners Stand on Guns
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With Kamala Harris’s place at the top of the Democratic ticket this November all but guaranteed, attention has now turned to who she plans to tap as the party’s vice-presidential nominee.
Despite some conflicting reports about who exactly is currently being vetted by the Harris campaign for the job, a consensus is emerging around a handful of perceived moderate Democrats as being the likely choices. The current Vice President’s stance on guns is well-established, and she has already signaled that she plans to run on strict gun control. But how do those on her presumed short-list of candidates balance out or accentuate her view on guns? |
WI: Wisconsin DNR to repeal fisherman gun-ban rule
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The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Wednesday announced the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has agreed to repeal its rule that essentially banned people from carrying a gun near any lake, river or stream in the state.
The rule stated that no one can “[p]ossess or control any firearm, gun or
similar device at any time while on the waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.”
WILL lawyer Skylar Croy said the DNR’s decision is a win for the Second Amendment, and a win against the growth of the administrative state. |
UT: Cul-De-Sac Turned OK Corral: Armed Homeowners and Pit Bulls Face Off
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In a quiet cul-de-sac in Ogden, Utah, an evening that started with routine truck maintenance quickly turned into a scene right out of an action movie for Dane Wise and his neighbor. The unexpected stars of this drama? Two pit bulls with a penchant for aggression.
Dane Wise, a man just trying to tinker with his truck under a covered area, found himself in a sudden showdown with the growling pits.
“(They) started getting aggressive and barking at me and growling and trying to get up on the thing,” Wise recounted to KSL TV, recalling the dogs’ sudden hostility. With only a hammer in hand, Wise did what any resourceful truck enthusiast would do – he threw it. The dogs fled, giving Wise a moment to arm himself properly. |
IL: Chicago Drops Their Federal Lawsuit Against Glock
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Right along those lines, the same legal beagles re-filed the the withdrawn case once more in state court, only this time they’ve added a couple of Glock authorized gun shops as defendants. Yes, Eagle Sports and Midwest Sporting Goods now get to spend tens of thousands of dollars defending against a defective lawsuit. At least until Brandon’s legal team files another two sentence voluntary dismissal.
Does anyone want to take a bet that this latest filing will meet the same end, perhaps even sooner than the original filings? |
OR: 2nd Amendment Rally Planned in Redmond
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This weekend, women across the state are expected to gather at four different locations including Redmond City Hall in a show of support for the Second Amendment. It's a follow-up to a series of pro-gun rallies that were held last weekend in all 50 states.
Preston says she is asking attendees to refrain from bringing open carry rifles even though it's legal to do so. She says she wants to work in partnership with local law enforcement and welcomes everybody to what she says is meant to be a family friendly event. |
Key facts about Americans and guns
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Guns are deeply ingrained in American society and the nation’s political debates.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, and about a third of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun. At the same time, in response to concerns such as rising gun death rates and mass shootings, the U.S. surgeon general has taken the unprecedented step of declaring gun violence a public health crisis.
Here are some key findings about Americans’ views of gun ownership, gun policy and other subjects, drawn from Pew Research Center surveys. |
WI: Wisconsin agrees to drop ban on carrying firearms while fishing following challenge
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People fishing in Wisconsin will soon be able to carry firearms after a rule banning them was rescinded by the state following a lawsuit brought by gun rights advocates.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources agreed in an order released Wednesday to rescind the rule barring anglers from carrying firearms. The lawsuit challenging the ban as a violation of the constitutional right to bear arms was brought by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. |
Gun Controllers Line Up Behind Harris
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As Biden and Harris formed the most anti-Second Amendment ticket in history, it should come as no surprise that anti-Second Amendment groups that supported Biden now move to Harris. Here is what these groups had to say of the presumptive nominee.
“Following President Joe Biden’s announcement today that he will not seek reelection, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention group, endorses Vice President Kamala Harris to be the next Democratic presidential candidate,” wrote the gun-control group Brady. |
MO: Jackson County official wants to ban minors from buying pistols. What stands in his way?
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“The legality component of that will be challenged, undoubtedly,” Abarca said. “I’ve instructed general council to write these as if they’re going to be policies we are going to enforce, and let’s enforce them until we’re told not to.” “If that means the state’s attorney general has to come down and sue the county because we’re trying to create safe communities, then so be it,” Abarca said. “Let’s take this through the judicial process.” Any limits on guns Jackson County or Kansas City want to take are constrained by long-standing state law largely blocking local governments |
CO: Aurora says yes, Westminster says no to allowing guns in city buildings
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On a razor-thin 4-3 vote, the Westminster City Council this week knocked down a proposal that would have opted out of a new state law that prohibits firearms from being brought into local government buildings.
But across town, members of the Aurora City Council gave initial unanimous approval to a similar ordinance — exercising a provision that allows local communities to cast off the gun restriction for their own property. The elected leaders of Colorado’s third-largest city will have to take a second vote on the issue next month to make it final. |
AR: Gunman claiming self-defense in Wednesday homicide at Camden
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Officers arrived to find a 25-year-old man walking toward them with his hands in the air. He told officers that a firearm was located on the trunk of his vehicle.
They found a 36-year-old man on the ground, who was unresponsive. He was taken to Ouachita County Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased.
The 25-year-old man claimed self-defense in the shooting. He told officers that the man who was shot had approached him aggressively with a hammer and a prybar.
The man was taken into custody without incident. The statement said he “remained compliant throughout the investigation and forthcoming with information pertaining to the incident. He was taken to his first judicial appearance on July 24. |
The NRA Endorses Trump
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The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) has officially endorsed former President Donald J. Trump (R) to be the next president of the United States.
Given Trump’s pro-freedom record as president from January 2017-2021, as well as the strong pro-Second Amendment positions he continues to articulate today, this endorsement is hardly a surprise, especially given that the NRA also endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020. Yet the obviousness of this endorsement shouldn’t obscure its importance—not at a moment in history like this. |
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