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Barriers To National Concealed Carry Reciprocity
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Gun rights activists are either already aware or beginning to be aware of a need for national concealed carry reciprocity. At present, the right to carry is abridged, to a degree, by the lack of reciprocity between states for concealed carry permits and/or constitutional carry laws. Otherwise perfectly law-abiding citizens on one side of a line that can only be seen on a map are criminals on the other.
Granted, many licenses do not cross state lines, such as professional licenses for educators, Realtors, and lawyers. Driver’s licenses, though, are honored by all 50 states. |
Girls and Guns
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Cosmopolitan magazine would like us to believe that women have the moral high ground when they second guess their boyfriends owning firearms. It helps that they didn’t choose the most articulate men in this little mock “interview” session, but the women merely trot out a few reasons to be scared of guns without any supporting evidence. As National Review’s Ericka Andersen summarizes, “Within seconds, the viewer is aware that Cosmopolitan believes women think guns are scary ‘death machines,’ men that own guns are probably domestic abusers, and the Second Amendment is worthy of nothing more than an eye roll.” |
KS: Your personal safety is your responsibility, not government’s
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The only thing police can do is recommend filing a restraining order – which is an official invitation to murder whoever files it.
People have been deluded by leftists into thinking the Constitution gives them rights to police protection.
That is hogwash.
The right they should look to in the Constitution is the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms.
That is never mentioned in 99.9 percent of these Hollywood reenactments of “True Crime.” |
In reversal, GOP senator says he does not favor hearings for Garland
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Under pressure from the right, Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran has changed his mind and now does not support holding hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, an aide told CNN Friday.
The aide said in a statement that Moran made his opposition to Merrick Garland clear in speaking to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. |
Rasmussen: Public says don’t pay criminals not to commit crimes
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This is not an April Fool’s joke. The Washington Post actually did publish the March 26 story with a dateline from Richmond, Calif. The story discussed a 21-year-old man who had been released from prison last year, and was reportedly getting money from the City of Richmond not to “commit another gun crime.”
People just released from prison are prohibited from having a firearm. Gun control laws say so. Committing armed robbery or some other offense with a firearm is illegal. It really doesn’t matter that the newspaper observed, “Cities across the country, beginning with the District of Columbia, are moving to copy Richmond’s controversial approach because early indications show it has helped reduce homicide rates.” |
The Original Homeland Security
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“The Second Amendment: America’s Original Homeland Security.” These are more than mere words emblazoned on a T-shirt offered by the NRA Store. But like many slogans and soundbites rendered on cotton/poly blend knit, there is a deep, underlying, often unspoken, truth to it. Americans are different than the people of other nations. The United States has citizens, not subjects. Americans can and do use their personal firearms for the protection of themselves (and at times in our past, the state)—as they have since the first settlers stepped off a boat onto a swampy Virginia landscape in 1609. |
GA: Professors, students protest Georgia Campus Carry bill
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“Books not bullets,” chanted a group of professors and students at a south Georgia university as they protested House Bill 859, commonly known as the Campus Carry bill Friday morning.
The group at Valdosta State University talked to passers-by about the bill, trying to get them to join the protest by warning them about what they called the potentially dangerous consequences of the legislation. As written, HB 859 allows those with a concealed carry license to bring a handgun into classrooms, dining halls, administrative buildings and other parts of public colleges, universities and technical schools in Georgia.
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IL: Thousands Expected to Demonstrate Against Gun Control on Wednesday, April 6th
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Thousands of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners will converge on the state capitol on Wednesday, April 6th to remind the General Assembly that concern for gun rights remains high across the state.
Wednesday’s event, widely known as the Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (iGOLD), will kick off with a rally at the Prairie Capitol Convention Center at 10:30 followed by a march to the Lincoln Steps where the group will be addressed by legislative leaders.
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ID: Constitutional Carry took only 18 days to become law
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This summer, Idaho will become the ninth U.S. state to adopt Constitutional Carry laws.
Idaho will join Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming when the permitless concealed carry law becomes effective July 1.
On March 26, Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed Senate Bill 1389, which will allow unlicensed concealed carry across the state for people 21 years or older and legally able to possess a firearm. |
ME: Bill to Protect Gun Owners in Subsidized Housing Heads to Governor’s Desk
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The legislation proposed by Senator Andre Cushing (R-Penobscot) to protect the rights of gun owners in subsidized housing today achieved final enactment in the Maine Senate.
“I am very pleased with this vote because it validates the fact that Second Amendment rights apply to all Mainers, regardless of their financial circumstances,” Senator Cushing said. |
MS: Mississippi churches may soon arm their churchgoers
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Asked to choose between a Christian spirit of peace and a “God-given right” of self-defense, Mississippi senators Tuesday overwhelmingly favored the latter.
The state Senate voted 36-14 in passing House Bill 786, known as the Mississippi Church Protection Act. The senators sent it back to House counterparts for further work. |
WA: Gun rights advocates applaud suicide prevention law
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A new law has two unlikely groups coming together for a common cause: gun rights activists and suicide prevention advocates.
The law aims to decrease the number of suicides in Washington by introducing suicide prevention techniques to the gun world.
Supporters said the law is the first of its kind in the country. In addition to creating a suicide prevention task force, the new law urges gun salesman to be trained to identify suicidal customers and encourages hunters’ safety instructors to talk about suicide, not just gun safety, in classes. |
WV: Tomblin vetoes 6 bills before deadline
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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed six bills Friday morning, among them one that would allow investigators in the Attorney General’s office to carry concealed weapons and another that would allow guns to be carried in state parks for self defense purposes.
Lawmakers had enough votes to override Tomblin’s veto of the permitless carry bill, which occurred while the legislature was still in session. |
NC: Grocer Chain Refuses to Serve Gun-Carrying Customers
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North Carolina-based grocer The Fresh Market says it will refuse to serve law-abiding customers who carry guns for self-defense.
The decision came amid pressure from the Micheal Bloomberg-funded group, Moms Demand Action, which claims to have “gathered nearly 4,000 signatures across North Carolina” to pressure The Fresh Market into banning guns. |
TX: Old Times Here are Not Forgotten
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OK, I’m actually way too young for that last one. We gave up our freedom in America a long time ago, way before I was born. Matter of fact, I know the date America’s freedom was lost. It was June 26, 1934. The day the National Firearms Act became an unconstitutional law. The Second Amendment died that day. It’s been downhill since then, freedom-wise.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “No, Kendal, we still have freedom. We can still own guns, so we still have the Second Amendment.” Bless your heart. Please try not to be such a gooberhead, and pay attention. |
IL: ISRA Thursday Bulletin
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On Monday, March 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment applies to all instruments that constitute bearable arms.
The decision of the court was unanimous. The case, known as Caetano v Massachusetts, dealt with a Massachusetts law that prohibited stun guns. The law was upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, but was overturned by the United States Supreme Court. In the decision ordering the law to be vacated, the court stated that the Second Amendment applied to arms that were not in existence at the time of the founding. In short, that means that the AR15 and a variety of other arms are now protected.
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MN: Verdict: Stabbing was in defense
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Robert Otteson did not deny he stabbed and killed Francisco Narvaez in a Denton hotel room in 1983.
But the man, on trial for murder, said it was self-defense. A jury believed him and rendered a “not guilty” verdict Thursday in Denton County’s 16th District Court, with Judge Sherry Shipman presiding.
Otteson is now free to return to his family in Lakeville, Minnesota.
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OH: Gunless in Cleveland
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What could possibly go wrong with hundreds of resentful candidate loyalists attending the most fractious political convention in decades … with their guns?
The Secret Service decided: Plenty.
In response to more than 43,000 signatures on a Change.org petition calling for the right to bring firearms into the Quicken Loans Arena at the Republican national convention this summer, the federal agency, which oversees security at both party conventions, said that weapons would be prohibited, except for those carried by authorized law enforcement officers.
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Why aren't GOP bigwigs fighting for open-carry rights at their convention?
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What a bunch of weenies!
Republican Party leaders apparently are sometimes just wimps when it comes to defending what they universally claim are sacred Second Amendment rights.
Tens of thousands of people have signed petitions in favor of allowing guns to be carried openly at the GOP convention in Cleveland in July. Party leaders have said nothing about the matter, but the Secret Service has announced that only duly authorized officers will be allowed to bring firearms to the conclave.
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PA: Cruz addresses PA conservatives
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"He said, 'Ted, when it comes to Supreme Court justices, when it comes to religious liberties... you got to learn how to cut deals with Democrats and go along to get along.,'" Cruz said, as members of the audience booed.
"Well let me be very clear with the people of Pennsylvania: I will not compromise away your religious liberty. And I will not compromise your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."
His words were greeted with wild applause.
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What are the top Three Things you Want the Next President to fix?
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So I want to hear from you: What do you think the FIRST THREE THINGS the next president needs to tackle to fix America?
WITHOUT talking about potential candidates, list the top three things you’d fix if it were up to you.
Here’s my list:
--Strengthen Second Amendment rights (constitutional carry)
--Enact criminal justice reform nationwide (see Texas)
--Decimate ISIS (KABOOM)
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WI: Trump, Sanders, Palin All In Wausau Area This Weekend
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Also on Sunday, former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be speaking in support of Donald Trump and Second Amendment rights at Zingers and Flingers, a gun and archery shop in Wausau. She will be at the store from 12:45 until 1:45 p.m.
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