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Should I Become A Gunsmith?
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Most avid shooters have wondered at some point: Maybe I could become a gunsmith? Or you might be considering a change of careers and wondering if working on firearms is your next move. In this episode, Roy Huntington talks about the benefits — and costs — of becoming a professional firearms builder. |
SC: Deadly shooting in Pickens County; man claims self-defense
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The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that killed a man early Saturday morning.
Deputies were called to a disturbance reported on Allgood Bridge Road around 12:30 a.m. While they were responding, dispatchers received reports of a gunshot.
When deputies arrived on scene, they said a man came out of the home, complied with their commands and was detained.
Inside the home, they found an unresponsive man with a gunshot wound. He died at the scene. His name has not yet been released.
The detained man is being questioned, but deputies said no arrests have been made at this time. They are investigating his claim of self-defense. |
Woke prosecutors increase efforts to criminalize self-defense
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People who stand up to violent criminals resonate with Americans of all walks of life. The courage to fight back against crime is heroic. Everybody believes this today except the woke prosecutors in our midst.
One of the most notorious woke prosecutors is New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He brought charges against Jose Alba, 61, who stabbed an ex-con and assailant to death at a bodega shop he owned. After an earlier argument with the attacker’s girlfriend about not paying for an item, Alba defended himself when the perpetrator went behind the counter to assault him. |
NY: One man stabbed in Marcy; self-defense under investigation
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One man was stabbed multiple times during an argument in Marcy early Friday morning, according to the New York State Police. Troopers said the man may have been stabbed in self-defense.
The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, troopers stated.
State police spokesperson Trooper Jack Keller said the two men got into a fight in an upstairs apartment above the Empire Center of Dance on River Road at about 8 a.m. Friday. During the dispute, one man stabbed a 30-year-old Utica man multiple times with a knife, troopers said. |
GA: Woman Shoots Man That Attacked and Chased Her to Grocery Store Parking Lot
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In what seems to be a possible domestic incident, a woman was forced to shoot a man in self-defense overnight in Atlanta, GA.
Police are stating that the incident started inside an apartment complex in Atlanta, GA, where a man and woman got into a physical altercation shortly after 2 AM. The woman fled the apartment, but the man chased her to a nearby Publix grocery store parking lot. This is where she then shot the man in self-defense. |
TX: Hearing canceled for Army sergeant accused of killing protester in 2020
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A U.S. Army sergeant accused of murdering a demonstrator at a 2020 police brutality protest in Downtown Austin was set to face a judge Friday, but the date was canceled.
Almost exactly two years ago, on July 25, 2020, Daniel Perry was working as a rideshare driver when he took a turn onto a road where a group of people were protesting police brutality. That wrong turn led to tragedy.
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LA: New Orleans jury acquits man in 2018 Treme fight that ended with fatal shooting
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More than four years after a melee on a street in Treme ended with a fatal shooting caught on video, an Orleans Parish jury has acquitted the man charged in the case.
Jurors acquitted Carlsel Alexander, 26, who faced potential life imprisonment on a second-degree murder charge. Alexander was accused of killing Troy Wilson Jr. during a fight among several people in the 700 block of N. Broad Street early Feb. 18, 2018.
First set for trial in 2020 two months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Alexander’s trial was repeatedly delayed in the years since. |
CA: LAPD Won’t Enforcement of California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban
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The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project.
The email was sent Wednesday morning to all LAPD personnel by Commander Ernest Eskridge, assistant commanding officer of the department’s Detective Bureau.
Eskridge noted that on June 23, the “United States Supreme Court vacated the ruling in Duncan v. Bonta and remanded the case back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal for further consideration in light of its recent decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.” |
DE: Gun groups sue over Delaware gun control legislation
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Delaware gun rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction against recently passed gun control legislation.
The Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, The News Journal reported. Other groups involved in the suit include the Bridgeville Rifle and Pistol Club, the Delaware Association of Federal Firearms Licensees and the Delaware Rifle and Pistol Club.
The lawsuit names Nathaniel McQueen, secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and Col. Melissa Zebley, superintendent of Delaware State Police, as defendants, since the agency would enforce the law. |
MO: Missouri Sheriffs say they will not give up CCW information to FBI
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Byerely says state law keeps the information private.
” I was elected to protect their rights and their freedoms and to uphold the laws. That is a law in the state of Missouri that we don’t give out that private information,” said Sheriff Byerely.
Camden County sheriff’s officials say they’ll also keep CCW information private.
”That’s fundamental to our Second Amendment rights that every American has, and when you start questioning who can have access and why would we not allow access? Or why as a permit holder would I not want someone to know that is because it’s really none of their business,” said Sgt. Scott Hines. |
Will More Europeans Now Advocate for the Right to Self-Defense?
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In order to understand the chaos of European politics and the resulting regulation of civilian firearms ownership, one has to step back in time and consider the historic developments. In Europe, to own or carry a weapon—namely a gun—was seldom a right. Sometimes it could become a duty, such as when called up for the defense of the realm. For a select minority, the ruling or aristocratic class, it was considered a privilege, along with the right to hunt on their own estates. |
CA: Governor Gavin Newsom signs new gun control law modeled after Texas anti-abortion law
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On Friday Governor Gavin Newsom signed a controversial first-in-the-nation gun control law patterned after a Texas anti-abortion law. His action comes one month after U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices overturned a woman's constitutional right to abortions and undermined gun control laws in states including California.
Newsom signed the bill into law that allows private citizens to bring a civil action against anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports or imports assault weapons or ghost guns, which are banned in the state. Those who sue would be awarded at least $10,000 in civil damages for each weapon, plus attorneys fees. |
CO: Judge pauses Colorado town’s assault rifle ban, passed in the wake of mass shooting
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily suspended an assault rifle ban passed by the town of Superior, Colorado, in the wake of a mass shooting last year.
Gun rights organizations Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the National Association for Gun Rights joined Superior resident Charles Walker in suing the town on July 7 claiming Second and Fourteenth Amendment violations.
“The court concludes that plaintiffs have a strong likelihood of success on the merits,” wrote U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore in a 19-page opinion. |
TX: East Texas businesses see increase in gun sales, training due to current events
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Mass shootings across the country in public places and the recent deadly massacre at a Uvalde elementary school have caused more people to have their guards up.
In Tyler, more people are seeking protection. First-time gun owners are making purchases and signing up for training courses.
A Tyler gun shop and an East Texas training academy both said they have recently seen an increase in customers making purchases and signing up for beginner courses. |
‘Active Shooter Alert’ Bill, Designed to Scare, Draws in GOP Traitors and Suckers
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“H.R. 6538, the Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022, is not a public safety tool, but rather an anti-gun propaganda program intended to further public hysteria by hyper-inflating the authentic number of ‘active shooter’ incidents to expand support for unconstitutional gun control measures,” Gun Owners of America advised members in a mid-July alert. “Under the Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022, justified self-defense shootings, gang violence, drug violence, or accidental shootings will be used to send alerts to the American people about the presence of an ‘active shooter’ to intentionally misguide the public and create mass hysteria.” |
CO: Colorado U.S. District Court issues TRO against magazine and gun ban
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Today U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore issued a temporary restraining order against the ban on so-called "assault weapons" recently enacted by the town of Superior, Colorado, in Boulder County. The case is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Superior.
Lead attorney for the plaintiffs was Barry Arrington, one of Colorado's top lawyers on education law, and now the victor in a major Second Amendment case. Arrington previously served in the Colorado House of Representatives, and as a trustee of the Independence Institute, where I work. |
Preventing responsible gun ownership will not make America safer
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It has been an important few weeks for the public's Second Amendment rights. In the first major gun rights decision since 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right to carry a concealed firearm by striking down a New York state law that made it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed weapon outside their home legally, and wrongfully required individuals to demonstrate a “special need” for self-protection to qualify for a carry license. This was a major victory that will affect at least six other states with similar restrictive licensing requirements, also known as “may issue” laws. |
The self-defense argument
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Time was when students in high school could carry firearms on subways to school for target practice or in pickups for hunting afterward without alarming anyone. But the world has changed, and for the worse. We now have lunatics on the loose as never before.
The liberal reaction is, of course, to strip the innocent of any means of self-defense. As pundit Jim Treacher puts it, they say “America is a shooting gallery. Nowhere is safe. You could be murdered at any moment...now quick, give us your guns!” |
U.S. House panel advances assault weapons ban on party-line vote
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has passed legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons, in a renewed push to ban the guns most commonly used in recent mass shootings.
The party-line 25-18 vote followed recent mass shootings in which AR-15 style rifles were used — in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered, and Buffalo, New York, where 10 people were killed.
The chair of the committee, Jerry Nadler, said that the more than 100-page bill that would place a ban on assault weapons, H.R. 1808, is nothing new and Congress passed a 10-year ban on assault weapons in 1994. |
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