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OH: Women learn to shoot straight, ‘Honor Story’ at Women’s Leadership Conference
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Guest speaker Rose Sabin encouraged women to “Honor Your Story” at the 2023 Women’s Leadership Conference at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center on Friday, Jan. 20. The event was hosted by the Port Clinton Chamber Ambassadors and was sponsored by Lakelynn Design. This is the second year Chamber Ambassadors offered the event.
“Last year, we wanted to have something to bring women in leadership and women business owners together for networking,” said Chamber Ambassador Chrystal Petersen. “It’s just bringing women together to learn leadership skills from other women in the community.
“It’s a good turnout. We have about 65 women here,” she said.
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NV: Marksmanship team earns high marks in Webb City Championship
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On Friday, Jan. 27, the Nevada High School Flying Tigers Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Marksmanship team competed in the 2023 Missouri State Civilian Marksmanship Program 3-Position Air Rifle Championship held in Webb City, Mo.
All eight shooters (Gabrielle Leonard, Matthew Eaton, Kate Micklich, Gabriel Adams, Connor Irwin, Tanis Franklin, Alexis Carter, and Alyssa Leonard) improved on their personal records. Four Nevada shooters (Micklich, Adams, Irwin, and Franklin) earned the Air Force Marksman badge and two cadets (G. Leonard and Eaton) earned the next higher Sharpshooter badge for outstanding marksman skills. |
Women gun owners slam Biden's SOTU demand to 'ban assault weapons now': 'Joe, come and take it'
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Women gun owners slammed President Biden after he called for the ban of so-called assault weapons during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, arguing that "guns save lives" and that AR-15s are wildly popular for self-defense.
"Dear Joe Biden. We aren’t terrorists. We aren’t the enemy. We’re the good guys," a group of women said in a video published by the NRA on Wednesday.
The video came in response to the president's address, in which he demanded the U.S. "ban assault weapons now. Ban them now." Biden cited his time as a Delaware senator when he voted to ban semi-automatic firearms in 1994, a law that expired in 2004. |
NC: No charges in deadly Rocky Mount motel shootout
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Rocky Mount police said no charges will be filed in a deadly shootout Sunday at a Rocky Mount motel.
Police said Damien Williams was killed when he and two other men forced their way into a room at the Executive Inn on North Wesleyan Boulevard to rob the two men inside.
Officers say there was an exchange of gunfire and Williams and Johnny Lyons were shot. Lyons received non-life-threatening injuries and was one of the men inside the room before the robbery went down. |
GA: Democrats, Republicans proposing many gun bills in state legislature, but no support yet
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So far, this year’s Georgia legislature has seen a new gun bill about every day of the session.
Most are proposals from Democrats, but there is a broad range of them. The bills seem to reflect the state’s updated political reality – that pro-gun lawmakers and a pro-gun governor are running the show.
Republican state Sen. Colton Moore (R-Trenton) has introduced a gun bill that would require Georgia law enforcement to not enforce federal gun restrictions.
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The third political branch of government
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While Marcus is correct that Second Amendment law is currently too absurd for even Samuel Beckett, she errs in pinning the blame on originalism, or in fact on any body of legal theory. The justices did not rule the way they did in Bruen, or its predecessor District of Columbia v. Heller, or in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization or Citizens United for that matter, to adhere to deeply held views of law and justice, but rather because of a political agenda into which legal philosophy was shoe-horned to fit. |
CO: Man Tracking His Stolen Car Gets into Gun Fight With Occupants
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According to Denver 7 News, at around 7:00 PM on February 5th, a man located his stolen vehicle. The man located the vehicle by tracking it with some smartphone app, perhaps something like an Apple Airtag. The man approached the vehicle near West 12th Avenue and North Decatur Street. News 7 reports that at least one of several people inside the stolen vehicle and its owner exchanged gunfire. The suspects flee from the area and crash in the 2900 block of West 10th Avenue.
When police arrived, all occupants had fled the stolen vehicle except for the driver, a 12-year-old male who sustained a gunshot injury. Paramedics took him to the hospital, where he died.
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Freedom's Extinction
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In December 1776, just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been signed and a year and a half into the Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine sensed a desperation throughout the colonies. It prompted him to write a candid and now iconic essay entitled "The American Crisis," which began with the famous line "These are the times that try men's souls." He made a similar argument as Ronald Reagan would 188 years later.
The essence of that argument is that our personal liberties are fragile. Since government is essentially the negation of liberty, government is liberty's greatest threat. So, we must exercise our freedoms with prudence and courage. We must also do so skeptical of what the government says and does. |
Senator Markey Joins Senator Menendez in Legislative Effort to Ban High-Capacity Magazines
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Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a founding member of the U.S. Senate Gun Violence Prevention Caucus, and 26 of his Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Keep Americans Safe Act, renewing efforts to ban the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer, or possession of gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. High capacity ammunition magazines allow shooters to fire a large number of bullets without stopping to reload. As a result, from 2009 to 2020, mass shootings—where the shooter used high-capacity magazines—led to five-times as many people being shot per mass shooting than incidents that did not involve high-capacity magazines. |
OR: Oregon bill aims to crack down on paramilitary activity
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Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation that would give the state some of the strongest laws in the country to combat paramilitary activity and violent extremism.
During a hearing in Salem on Monday, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on House Bill 2572. The legislation attempts to uphold constitutional protections such as the right to protest and carry firearms while more actively protecting public safety. If the bill were to pass, Oregon would have the most updated, comprehensive, and arguably most effective law in the country to address private paramilitaries. |
Democrat Conniptions Continue in Wake of SCOTUS Second Amendment Decision
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The Concise Oxford English Dictionary I keep by my desk defines “conniption” as “a fit of rage or hysterics.” To illustrate more clearly what a “conniption” means in modern parlance, a picture of Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California, should accompany the definition. It is he and his anti-Second Amendment colleagues in other deep blue states who are having recurring conniptions over the June 2022 Supreme Court decision commonly known as Bruen. |
5th Circ. skeptical of ban on gun purchases by people facing felony charges
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A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday appeared skeptical of federal prosecutors' bid to revive a Texas man's conviction under a federal law barring people under indictment for felonies from buying guns, which a lower court judge declared unconstitutional.
The dispute over the decades-old law has divided trial-level federal courts since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year finding that the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment protects the right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense. The 6-3 decision also established a new standard that any gun control measures must be in line with the nation's "historical tradition" of gun regulation. |
FL: Plan to allow permitless concealed guns in Florida gains traction as three rival camps emerge
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Valdes, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, and about 20 others, said Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to sign a “constitutional carry” proposal – the right to bear arms in public without government interference – and HB 543 is not what was promised.
“Florida under a Republican supermajority state not advancing open carry is a travesty to gun owners especially for the fact that the open carry ban was passed in 1987 because of (former Miami-Dade State Attorney) Janet Reno, one of the state's most anti-gun Democrats,” said Valdes. |
ID: Bonneville County GOP to host Kyle Rittenhouse, James Lindsay at 2023 Lincoln Day Gala
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Kyle Rittenhouse will be one of two keynote speakers at the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee’s Lincoln Day Gala in April.
The former Illinois man who now lives in Florida and was acquitted of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering charges in 2021 for killing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounding a third person with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, “will come to tell his story firsthand and set the record straight about his self-defense case,” according to a news release from Bonneville County GOP. |
GA: Family stunned after learning wife accused of stabbing husband to death won't be tried
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Brett Zachary's family said they are heartbroken and shocked after finding out that the woman who admitted to killing him will not be tried in his death.
Investigators said Zachary was stabbed to death by his wife, Roxanne, in 2020. Court documents show that she claimed it was self-defense.
This week, a Gwinnett County judge granted her immunity after a January hearing, and she was released from jail Tuesday.
Zachary's sisters and mother have been seeking justice for nearly three years now.
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ID: ID Supreme Court hears Festival at Sandpoint firearms case
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A case that explores whether the Festival at Sandpoint can ban firearms went before the Idaho Supreme Court Monday.
The case involves a sitting member of the Idaho legislature. During the summer of 2019, Scott Herndon, then a private citizen but now a state senator, and a companion named Jeff Avery came to Sandpoint’s War Memorial Field to see a Festival show. They were carrying firearms. A guard at the gate and a county attorney wouldn’t let them in. |
MD: Maryland Senate hears testimony on bills to further regulate where guns can be carried, who can buy them
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A legislative committee heard over 10 hours of testimony on a series of bills that would regulate specifically who can carry guns in public in Maryland, and where they can go while armed.
A bill that would bar guns within 100 feet of courthouses, arenas, hospitals, libraries, hotels and any other “place of public accommodation” drew the most testimony by far, at more than six hours. It’s sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher of Montgomery County.
“Who can and cannot access firearms is a fundamental life or death question,” Senate President Bill Ferguson said in advance of Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. |
Mexico: Kyle Busch violated Mexican gun laws on recent vacation
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Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.”
Busch was sentenced this month to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for having a gun and ammunition, a punishment handed down by a judge in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, home to beach destinations Cancun and Tulum. |
CA: Man Stabbed in Self-Defense After Allegedly Attacking Family Member of Estranged Spouse
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A Mendocino County man is reportedly set to face multiple charges including domestic battery and criminal threats.
In a press release, the county Sheriff’s Office identified 41-year-old Jack Edward Lemay as the suspect in an incident on the night of January 31 in which he is accused of accosting his estranged spouse’s family, attacking one of them, and violating the terms of his probation. Lemay was reportedly stabbed in self-defense as a result. |
MO: Business Owner Allegedly Shoots Man He Found Sitting In Owner’s Car, Charges Dropped
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The charges against Sidney Kile, the owner of SK Security, have been dropped due to a lack of cooperation from the shooting victim, according to reports.
Kile had claimed self-defense after shooting a man who he says was sitting in his vehicle outside his office on March 31st last year, according to KSHB.
Kile, who is licensed to carry a firearm, drew his weapon and ordered the man to get out of the vehicle. Kile alleges that the man started running at him and his girlfriend after he said police had been called and so he shot the man.
Although it is unclear what happened to the man who was shot, he survived. |
MN: American Suppressor Association Defeats New Mexico Suppressor Ban
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On Monday, February 6th, ASA Executive Director Knox Williams testified in the New Mexico Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee in opposition to Senate Bill 171. Sponsored by Senator Williams Soules (D-37), the initial legislation sought to ban the “manufacture, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer or acquisition” of suppressors, “assault pistols”, machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and virtually every type of hunting and self-defense ammunition. |
AZ: Hearings for Pro-Gun Bills Today & Tomorrow
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Today and tomorrow, two senate committees will consider bills that will protect and enhance Second Amendment rights in Arizona. Please use the Request to Speak application (RTS) on the Arizona State Legislature website to ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bills 1331 and 1109.
Today, starting 2:00PM, in the Senate Education Committee:
Senate Bill 1331 exempts law-abiding parents with carry permits from the ban on possessing firearms when on the grounds of a school in which they have a student enrolled. In addition, it also prohibits governing bodies of education institutions from adopting or enforcing policies against such lawful carry or transporting. |
Originalism Is Going to Get Women Killed
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American law has not historically been good to women, and whatever progress there once was is now vulnerable to regression. This return is being midwifed into the world by the theory of constitutional interpretation known as originalism—the idea that a law’s constitutionality today is dependent on the Constitution’s purported “original public meaning” when the relevant constitutional text was enacted. Its adherents market originalism as fair and free from favor or prejudice—but its effects are not and will not be fair at all. By its very nature, originalism threatens women and other minority groups who were disempowered at the time of the Constitution’s adoption. |
What Biden Said About Guns in His State of the Union Speech
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In his 2023 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden (D) repeated his favorite attack on our Second Amendment freedom.
“Ban assault weapons now! Ban them now, once and for all,” said Biden. The president’s Twitter account also tweeted at the same time: “Let’s ban assault weapons again.”
If it seems like Biden has said this before, that’s because he has, on numerous occasions, including last year’s State of the Union address. A quick Twitter search shows that Biden has tweeted this desire dozens of times since entering office. |
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