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Why Black People Own Guns
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As much as America loves her guns, she has never liked the idea of seeing them in black hands. Before the Revolutionary War, colonial Virginia passed a law barring black people from owning firearms — an exercise in gun control as racial control. In 1857, in his notorious Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney summoned the specter of black people freely enjoying the right to “keep and carry arms wherever they went.” Surely, he argued, the founders were not “so forgetful or regardless of their own safety” to permit such a thing. When black people armed themselves against white supremacist attacks following the Civil War, Southern state governments passed “black codes” barring them from owning guns.
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More Self-Defense Gun Stories
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Responsible gun owners defended themselves last week, but you didn't hear about it in the news. Instructor Jeff Street joins host Rob Morse to talk about three new examples.
First story- You work as a night clerk at a convenience store. Three armed men wearing masks enter your store shortly before midnight.
Second Story- You are in a cell phone store when an armed robber rushes in and points his gun at the clerk standing behind the counter.
Third story- You get out of your car and stranger walks up. He draws his gun and demands everything in your pockets. You're armed.
What would you do? What should you do? Text and podcast available at the link. (17 minute audio podcast) |
MA: Man Claims Self-Defense in Brockton Shooting
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A man claims he acted in self-defense when he shot another man in the city on Friday evening. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon related to the shooting that occurred about 5:45 p.m. on Thatcher Street. Police responded to Thatcher Street after receiving a call from state police reporting the shooting. A person had initially called Our Lady of Sorrows Convent to report the incident. |
Conductor Shot in Naperville Calls for Change in Gun Laws: 'Fix This Broken System'
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The Amtrak conductor who was shot by a passenger at a Naperville train station said he believes sensible gun control could have prevented the violence that left him with serious injuries. Amtrak conductor Michael Case said changes should be made to keep mentally unstable individuals from owning and having access to guns, though he stressed he does not want to infringe on Second Amendment rights.
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MI: Battle Creek School Board Opposes Bills That Would Allow More Guns in Schools
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Art McClenney believes Michiganders should be allowed to openly carry guns. Just not in Battle Creek Public Schools.
That's why McClenney, the president of the Battle Creek Public Schools Board of Education, voted for a resolution opposing three proposals now making their way through the Michigan Legislature that would allow more people to carry guns in schools and limit the ability of local school boards to regulate guns in their buildings
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ATF Offers Reward in Theft of Guns from Linden Store
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is offering a reward for information about the theft of guns from an Ace Hardware in Linden. On Nov. 15, 2017, the ACE Hardware on Shiloh Street was burglarized and approximately 10 firearms were stolen. ATF investigators continue the process of conducting an inventory to determine the exact number of firearms that were stolen.
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Classic Guns: MAS-38 Submachine Gun
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Walter Audisio was the principal figure of the Italian resistance movement in Milan and he operated under the nom de guerre “Colonel Valerio” for the sake of anonymity. On April 28, 1945 he left Milan with another communist partisan and drove north toward Lake Como. The day before, a column of German vehicles had been intercepted near the village of Dongo that included, among other high-ranking fascist leaders, none other than “Il Duce” himself: Benito Mussolini.
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IL: Chicago Police Stun-Gun Policy Changes have Officers' Union Balking
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The Chicago Police Department is getting sued for rewriting rules on officers' use of stun guns – without input from the city’s police union. Police are now deterred from using stun guns on people who are running away, intoxicated, or vulnerable to injury. The tightened policy follows an August investigation by the Chicago Tribune on the department's reliance on the devices, the newspaper reported Monday.
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Background Check Bypass: Burglars Hit WA Gun Store
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An early-morning burglary of a Bellevue, Washington gun store Tuesday has possibly put dozens of handguns on the street and underscored what gun rights activists might call a gaping loophole in the Evergreen State’s so-called “universal background check” law.
Criminals don’t obtain guns the way law-abiding citizens do. Instead, they steal guns, and it’s a problem not limited to the Pacific Northwest.
Earlier this month, thieves broke into a Phoenix, Arizona gun store and made off with more than two dozen guns. |
Is Shaneen Allen Suddenly Making Anti-Gunners Nervous?
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The story of Shaneen Allen’s arrest and incarceration in New Jersey for 48 days is famous in the firearms community, and over the Christmas weekend, her experience has suddenly become interesting to the press.
Allen, a single mother who had gone through all the hoops to obtain a carry permit in her neighboring Pennsylvania, was arrested in October 2013 when she was pulled over on a routine traffic stop after crossing into New Jersey. Honesty got the better of her when she advised the officer that her handgun was in her purse. |
Gun Rights Groups See Small Victories, Large Setbacks in 2017
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2017 was a somewhat slow year when it came to Second Amendment issues, and while the year handed some victories to pro-gun groups, it also handed them several losses, with roadblocks all the way from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C. Pro-gun groups didn’t make much headway in passing pro-gun legislation, nor did they taste victory in the legal system, but the groups didn’t back down and have vowed to press forward to expand Second Amendment rights despite the setbacks seen this year.
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Victim Shoots Robbery Suspects With Back-Up Gun
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KMOV TV 4 reported on 11-04-2017 in North St. Louis, Missouri, Police say the incident happened at a BP gas station the intersection of Madison and Florissant around 6:45 p.m. Authorities say a victim and two robbery suspects were wounded when they exchanged fire during a robbery in Old North St. Louis.
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Review: CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S1 Pistol
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“Shoot from the hip” and “stick to your guns” are two prevalent idioms that happen to have firearm terminology. However, one that’s especially fitting for Ceska zbrojovka Uhersky Brod (CZ) is “third time’s the charm.” Why? Unveiled in 2009, the CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 was the third (hence the name, “Evolution [EVO] 3”) and best incarnation of the selective-fire, blowback-operated, Scorpion-series submachine guns that originated as the brainchild of Ing. Miroslav Rybar (and upward of 13 other designers): the Samopal vzor 61, better known as the Skorpion vz. 61. This led to the eventual introduction of the semi-automatic CZ Scorpion Evo 3 S1 pistol, designed for the civilian market in the U.S.
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PA: Man Who Killed Mom, Self wasn’t Allowed to Have Guns
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Authorities say a man who killed his mother and then fired more than 100 rounds at police as her body lay in a Pennsylvania yard during an eight-hour standoff before he killed himself wasn’t permitted to have firearms and likely obtained them from his father, who killed himself days after the rampage.
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Cities Sue Defense Deptartment over Gun-Check System Failures
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Three large U.S. cities filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, arguing that many service members who are disqualified from gun ownership weren't reported to the national background check system. New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia said in court papers that the military's broken system for relaying such information helped spur the massacre of 26 people inside a Texas church last month.
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OK: Several Rifles, Pistols Stolen from Oklahoma City Gun Range
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Workers at Wilshire Gun in Oklahoma City have been busy cleaning up and taking inventory Tuesday after bold burglars smashed through the glass on the front doors and had free rein of the store. Just after 4 a.m., motion sensors at the north Oklahoma city gun store and range alerted after three men broke inside, officials said. General Manager Kevin Maxfield believes the thieves knew exactly what they were aiming for.
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Chicago Police Union Trying To Stop New Use-of-Force Policies
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The Chicago police union has filed a complaint with the Illinois Labor Relations Board, insisting that new use-of-force rules instituted by the police department should have been negotiated with the union. New rules governing the use of stun guns were announced months after a broader set of use-of-force rules changes in May, and only after a Chicago Tribune exposé on the use of stun guns that pointed out the new rules did not prohibit cops from stunning fleeing individuals who posed no other threat.
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SIG SAUER Elite Performance Rifle Ammunition Review
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We tested the entire spectrum of the Sig Sauer Elite Performance pistol ammunition in 2016 and found it to be very accurate and effective. The consistency of all loads was impressive in that we never experienced a “flyer”. That is not to say that it is not possible, but we didn't have a single flyer or misfire. In the early part of 2017, Sig began to introduce their Elite Performance rifle ammunition. We reload our ammunition for both hunting and competition shooting; however, as good as the Sig pistol ammo was, we could not resist contacting Shannon Jackson (Sig PR contact) and asking her to send us some of their new rounds.
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| "There's no legitimate use for a gun like this." --Chicago Police Superintendent Philip Cline, brandishing a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at a news conference (Chicago Tribune, "Special unit hauling in guns, drugs" by Glenn Jeffers, January 29, 2004) |
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