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MI: Michigan lawmakers pass red flag gun law; Whitmer expected to sign
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After passing the State Senate Wednesday, red flag bills are now headed to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk.
The legislation gives a judge the power to remove guns from people posing a danger to themselves or others. The Senate votes fell along party lines.
Here’s how the law will work:
A partner, former source, family member, law enforcement, or mental health professional can petition a court to have a person’s firearms removed temporarily if they are deemed to be a risk. It’s then up to the person to prove they are not a risk of regaining access to weapons in a court of law.
Michigan will become the 20th state to adopt such laws. |
MI: Livingston County Sheriff clarifies his position on gun control legislation
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The Michigan state legislature passed a series of bills regarding extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws Wednesday. However, local counties are already saying they’ll defy the future laws. Livingston County is among them.
A subcommittee of the Livingston County Board of Commissioners has already approved a resolution reaffirming their commitment to upholding the Second Amendment. In it, they pledge to not allow resources to be spent enforcing any law deemed to be contrary to the Constitution.
Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy admits he took issue with the initial wording of the new resolution because he felt it hamstrung his office. |
MI: Judge sides with Michigan Legislature, declines to pause new gun laws
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A Michigan Court of Claims judge has denied a request from a pair of pro-firearm groups seeking to temporarily stop the state's new gun safety laws from taking effect.
Michigan Open Carry, Inc and Great Lakes Gun Rights filed in the Court of Claims last week seeking a court order to place a temporary restraining order against the laws and legislation, with the argument that lawmakers violated Michigan's Open Meetings Act (OMA) by not allowing balanced testimony during committee hearings on the bills.
Judge Thomas Cameron issued an eight-page opinion Tuesday stating the groups were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their lawsuit because they had failed to identify the Legislature's violation of the OMA in their initial complaint. |
WA: Wa-Hi JROTC rifle teams compete at Western Regional Championship
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Walla Walla High School’s JROTC Precision and Sporter Class Rifle Teams competed at the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s Western Regional Championship in Sandy, Utah, on Friday and Saturday, April 14-15.
Ten competitive marksmen from the Blue Devil JROTC Rifle program received invitations to the two-day rifle match that included 20 shots from each of three firing positions: prone, standing and kneeling.
On the first day of competition, the Precision team was led by Cadet Captain Tristan Scott, who fired a 564 out of 600 possible points.
Other precision shooters competing were Cadet Lieutenant Micah Vawter, Cadet Major Benjamin Nelson, Cadet Major Maximus Malone and Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Kaden Kerr.
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MO: How 'Stand Your Ground' and Similar Laws Factor Into the Shooting of Unarmed Black Teen Ralph Yarl
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s protesters took to the streets of Kansas City, Mo., to demand charges against the white homeowner who shot Black teenager Ralph Yarl after he accidentally stopped at the wrong house, the city’s police chief said that investigators were considering whether Missouri’s “Stand Your Ground” law could factor into the case.
Ralph, 16, was shot twice by 84-year-old Andrew Lester and sustained life-threatening injuries. Ralph’s family said he mixed up addresses when he went to pick up his twin brothers on the night of April 16. Lester told police that he opened fire because he was “scared to death” after he saw a Black male, whom he described at 6 feet tall, trying to open his front door.
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CO: Colorado lawmakers favor battle weapons over the people they rip apart
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An AR-15-style assault weapon was used in most of the deadliest mass killings in America since 2012, including two massacres in Colorado. Some firearms are designed mainly for self-defense, hunting or sport. But not assault weapons like the semi-automatic AR-15. These are designed to slaughter human beings efficiently and prolifically, and, no matter what a person believes about the Second Amendment or “freedom,” they have no legitimate place in civilian life. It is only societal insanity that has permitted assault weapons to proliferate, and elected leaders have only cowardice or corruption to blame for their failure to ban them.
Colorado leaders are now responsible for such failure. |
VA: What does a 'Stand Your Ground' law entail and does Virginia have one?
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“Stand Your Ground” laws are once again in the spotlight after two innocent people were shot in the last week by property owners in Kansas City and upstate New York.
“Stand your Ground” allows a person to use deadly force even if it could be avoided by retreating.
In these diverse United States of America, people's willingness to shoot first and ask questions later seems to be increasing. The laws about when a person is legally permitted to shoot someone else vary from state to state. |
If You Want Fewer Shootings, Ask Politicians To Back Off
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These incidents feed the usual debates, with "reformers" promoting gun restrictions or criticizing "stand your ground" self-defense laws. But while the impulse to do something is understandable, these eruptions of violence come after decades of plummeting crime that coincided with increasing firearms ownership and eased laws. Something changed: us. Boosted by bad pandemic policies, already agitated Americans became nuttier and more prone to conflict. Politicians and laws can't fix that. |
DC: DC’s Large-Capacity Magazine Ban Constitutional, Court Says
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LCMs qualify as arms, but are not used in self-defense
District ban is a response to ‘unprecedented societal concerns’
The District of Columbia’s large-capacity magazine ban survived a preliminary constitutional challenge in federal court on Thursday.
Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said that large-capacity magazines implicate “unprecedented societal concerns” and are the object of “dramatic technological changes” warranting a public safety response.
The order denied gun owners’ motion for a preliminary injunction against the law, setting up possible review by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. |
CA: State legislators, gun control advocates say other states should adopt California gun laws to reduce violence
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Mass shootings and gun violence in general would fall nationwide if other states adopted California's gun control measures, a group of state legislators and gun safety advocates argued this week.
State Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, and Assembly member Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, co-hosted a town hall discussion Wednesday, April 19, about how California can protect state residents from gun violence in the wake of the Jan. 23 shooting in Half Moon Bay in which seven people were killed and an eighth was critically injured.
The shooting happened less than 48 hours after an unrelated mass shooting in Monterey Park in Los Angeles County, in which 11 people were killed and nine others were injured. |
ID: Turn down scared, turn up sensible solutions to gun violence
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Increasing top-notch self-defense training, which includes training in legal constraints and judgment about what situations pose a mortal threat, should be easy. It should be required for every gun owner.
Keeping guns out of the hands of the psychologically disturbed will be harder. It will require voters to unite behind red-flag laws that give courts the ability to take guns away from the unfit, even temporarily. It will take state and national leaders, unlike those in Idaho, to relentlessly pursue passage of such laws. |
Cyberpunk-like gun operating on facial recognition hits market
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The cyberfuture is here, or at least one of its most distinctive characteristics, as Colorado-based Biofire Tech introduces its brainchild of a smart gun enabled by facial recognition technology into the market.
The gun was designed by Biofire founder and CEO Kai Kloepfer, who first envisioned the idea after the Aurora theater shooting during 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, when he was then a high school student with a penchant for engineering and an innovative idea for a science fair project. |
TN: Nashville Police Decline to Arrest Worker Who Shot Pregnant Woman 8 Times After Suspecting Her of Shoplifting
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The police spokesperson also revealed that the MNPD declined to arrest the man who shot Ferguson, 21-year-old Mitarius Boyd.
Boyd provided police with his gun and phone, and now police say they will let the district attorney decide if Boyd should be charged after handing over the details of their investigation.
The MNPD detailed Boyd's version of events in a release put out shortly after the incident.
Boyd told officers that he acted in self-defense when he opened fire on Ferguson, a claim that is being investigated by members of the homicide unit. |
NY: NYPD Selects Speer Ammunition
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The New York Police Department (NYPD), the largest law enforcement agency in the United States, has awarded Speer Ammunition with a contract to provide 9 mm NATO 124-grain Gold Dot handgun cartridges for duty and training use. Under terms of the agreement the company will supply the agency for up to five years with an expected quantity of several million rounds.
“We are excited to report the NYPD once again chose Speer Gold Dot 9mm 124 grain +P as their ammunition of choice,” said Speer’s Senior Director of Law Enforcement Ammunition Sales, Hal Price. |
America’s Paranoid Gun Violence Epidemic Claims Another Victim
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And as shocking as these events are, they are also not shocking.
because on average, 316 people are shot every day in America and 106 of them die. Gun violence is the number one killer of children in America. Eight in ten murders here involve a firearm. In a way, it’s only remarkable that we’re starting to notice.
This happens because we choose for it to happen. We have decided that it must. The National Rifle Association keeps pouring millions into the coffers of politicians, and those politicians get re-elected so we can’t have sensible gun laws. |
Drop the gun, and nobody gets hurt
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It’s always the gun. In all cases of Americans taking the law into their own hands — or impulsively reacting to some perceived threat — the gun is the common denominator in the tragedy that results.
Take the gun away, and no one gets hurt, no one dies.
There are three current cases — in Kansas, New York and Texas — where young people were shot, one of them fatally, by men with guns who apparently felt threatened or aggrieved. No crimes were being committed by the victims; the only thing they did wrong was get a little mixed up about where they were or where they were going. |
IL: Store Manager Stops Armed Robbery at a Chicago Auto Parts Store
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Some of us need supplies to fix or maintain our automobiles. All of us have been out shopping on the weekend. The customers and employees at an O’Reilly Auto Parts store never thought they would be involved in an armed robbery. The store manager at this auto parts store thought differently. He didn’t know when, but he thought his store could be robbed and his customers threatened. To be fair, the south side of Chicago is not the safest place to live. The store manager must have noticed other violent crimes happening to stores around him. Thank goodness this responsible store manager was armed on an ordinary Saturday. |
AZ: Arizona Police Investigating the Quick Death of a Phoenix Home Invader
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Phoenix police are investigating a home invasion that resulted in the fatal shooting of an intruder. The incident occurred just before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 9th, 2023, at a residence near 7th and Portland streets. According to police, the homeowner shot the intruder after he unlawfully entered the residence, made threats, and aggressively approached the homeowner.
Upon arrival, officers located the intruder in the third-story bedroom of the house with a gunshot wound. He did not survive. |
WA: Washington to become the 10th state to ban the sale of ‘assault weapons’
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Democratic Washington Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign a massive ban on so-called “assault weapons” into law after lawmakers in the progressive state passed House Bill 1240.
The legislation, which prohibits residents from selling, manufacturing, and importing scary-looking guns — especially semi-automatic rifles — passed the state House by a vote of 56-42, Fox News Digital (FND) reports, and it will go into effect the moment Inslee scrawls his signature of approval. |
PA: Suspect Shot Seven Times In Botched Home Invasion In Bethlehem
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Four suspects were charged with robbery and home invasion in Bethlehem Township early Thursday morning, according to District Attorney Terry Houck.
The suspects were identified as Millito Delgado, 45; Michael Matas, 29; Francis Ferrando, 23; and Anthony Santiago, 29. Delgado, Matas, and Ferrando. They are currently in police custody, while Santiago remains at large.
During the home invasion, which occurred at approximately 4 a.m. in the 2000 block of Willow Park Road, four men broke into the residence where three occupants were present.
In an act of self-defense, one of the occupants shot defendants Matas and Ferrando. |
The Second Amendment: A knotty problem
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On Monday, April 17, 2023, one of the most despicable congressmen now serving in the House of Representatives, the Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, held hearings in New York City designed to show that the Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, is personally responsible for a huge increase in every type of serious crime in New York City, and that in addition, he has coddled criminals without exception, and has treated the supposedly growing number of victims of terrible crimes shabbily. Jordan, who duplicitously headlined the hearings “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” presided over what can only be called a travesty of congressional hearings. |
CO: “Assault Weapon” Ban Defeated!
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We are pleased to announce House Bill 23-1230 (“HB 23-1230”) was defeated in committee. HB 23-1230 unconstitutionally banned the manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling, offering to sell, or transferring ownership of what the drafters have defined as an “assault weapon.” Over 500 NRA members and Second Amendment supporters showed up to testify and thousands of messages were sent to lawmakers opposing HB 23-1230. NRA encourages lawmakers to tackle the real issue of crime, instead of focusing on law-abiding gun owners. |
Harris claims Second Amendment support while pushing for assault weapons ban: 'Literally' weapons of war
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Vice President Kamala Harris called for an assault weapons ban while claiming she supports the Second Amendment at the same time during an appearance on Thursday’s "The Jennifer Hudson Show."
While mourning the victims of gun violence, Harris decried the "weapons of war" prevalent on the streets and called for a new assault weapons ban to stop mass shootings.
"We shouldn't have to be presented with this false choice which suggests you're either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want reasonable gun safety laws. That's a false choice." Harris said. |
AK: Dunleavy to dismayed Washingtonians: If you love the Second Amendment, move to Alaska
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After the Washington Legislature passed a a ban on dozens of types of rifles on Wednesday, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy had an immediate message to residents in the Evergreen State: Move on up to the Last Frontier.
“For all those great citizens of the State of Washington who value the 2nd amendment (actually all of the Constitution) think about moving to the great state of Alaska,” Dunleavy wrote on Twitter.
The Washington gun ban includes more than 50 gun models, including AR-15s, AK-47s, and others that reload automatically after each bullet is fired. It prohibits their future sale, distribution, manufacture, and importation, with rare exemptions that are limited to sales to law enforcement and the military in Washington. |
MN: Minnesota – Urgent Action Needed – Contact your Lawmakers to Oppose All Gun Control
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Governor Walz, of Minnesota, is pushing for gun control measures in the state. Yesterday, he delivered a highly charged and partisan State of the State speech where he emphasized that the issue of guns is not about the Second Amendment and declared his intention to implement universal background checks and “red flag” gun confiscations.
Senate File 2909, the omnibus Judiciary and Public Safety appropriations bill, which includes funding for “red flag” gun confiscations and universal background checks, has already been passed in the Senate. The bill is now in the hands of the House, where it has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee. |
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| "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." — The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the "Educating Heart Summit" in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate |
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