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These 10 Incidents Highlight Importance of Second Amendment for Women
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Since 1987, the United States has recognized March as Womens History Month to celebrate the vital role of women in American history. Unfortunately, far too often we find that the armed women of history are overlooked or completely forgotten, and the vital role of the Second Amendment in the lives of American women is ignored.

Women long have availed themselves of the right to keep and bear arms in defense of life, liberty, and propertyfrom Harriet Tubman, the famed conductor of the underground railroad who was known to carry loaded pistols, to Mary Stagecoach Mary Fields, the first black woman to be a mail carrier, who notoriously kept a .38 revolver in her apron to fend off bandits and wild animals alike.

Jackboots policing: No-knock raids rip a hole in the Fourth Amendment
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Shadowy figures appear at the doorway, screaming orders, threatening violence.

Chaos reigns.

You stand frozen, your hands gripping whatever means of self-defense you could find.

Just that simple actof standing frozen in fear and self-defenseis enough to spell your doom.

The assailants open fire, sending a hail of bullets in your direction.

You die without ever raising a weapon or firing a gun in self-defense.

In your final moments, you get a good look at your assassins: its the police.

Brace yourself, because this hair-raising, heart-pounding, jarring account of a no-knock, no-announce SWAT team raid is what passes for court-sanctioned policing in America today, and it could happen to any one of us.

GA: Loeffler targets gun store patrons as part of voter registration efforts
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As shoppers came and went through the sliding glass doors at the sprawling Adventure Outdoors gun store Wednesday, smiling volunteers asked them if they were registered to vote.

"The right to self-defense is in the far-left's crosshairs," flyers being passed out declared.

Chatting with gun enthusiasts was businesswoman and former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Georgia. The Republican was there with her voter registration group Greater Georgia, which she founded last year after her loss to Democrat Raphael Warnock.

VA: Shooting Straight with Winsome Sears
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When I opened my mailbox to find a campaign flyer showing Winsome Earle-Sears in business clothes holding an AR-15, she had my full attention. She went on to win the election to become the first black woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Virginia. Now she had the nations attention.

Months later, as I walked up to the historic three-story, brick-and-terra-cotta building where I was to meet Sears in Richmond, Va., on a cold, sunny Presidents Day, I thought about how the building had been renamed in 2005 after Oliver Hill, a civil-rights attorney who worked to end segregation and who was the first black American to win a seat on the Richmond City Council in 1949.

ID: NRA-PVF Endorses Sen. Mike Crapo in Idaho Primary
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The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) proudly announced on April 21 its endorsement of Sen. Mike Crapo for reelection to the U.S. Senate in the 2022 Idaho Republican Primary.

As one of the strongest defenders of the Second Amendment in Congress, the NRA is proud to endorse Sen. Crapo. We encourage all Idaho NRA members, supporters, gun owners and sportsmen to vote Mike Crapo for Senate in the May 17 primary election, said Jason Ouimet, chairman, NRA-PVF.

FL: Fried sues feds over marijuana, guns conflict Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging federal restrictions that can prevent people from buying and possessing guns if they obtain medical marijuana in Florida. Fried and three other plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee, alleging that the restrictions violate Second Amendment rights and should be blocked.

Glock Handguns: An American Mainstay
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Today Glock pistols serve alongside thousands of law enforcement officers nationwide, as well as being the primary self-defense gun for tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens. Theyre also serving on front lines manned by militaries across the globe and win competitions, but the company didnt start as a firearm manufacturer.

Gaston Glock, an Austrian engineer, founded Glock Ges.m.b.H in 1963. The company specialized in the production of injection molded parts at the time. Curtain rods are the most-cited product from the early days, but it also created knives, machine gun belt links and even grenade casings for Austrias military.

Jacobs, Stefanik back bill to exempt firearms from bankruptcy proceedings
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Reps. Chris L. Jacobs and Elise M. Stefanik are working together on a bill that would allow people to keep their guns in the event of a bankruptcy.

The Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act, introduced by Rep. Jacobs, R-Orchard Park, on Monday, would allow anyone undergoing bankruptcy proceedings to keep up to $3,000 worth of firearms out of their bankruptcy estate.

By exempting those firearms from the estate, they cannot be sold by the trustee appointed by the court to sell the bankrupt persons possessions in order to clear debts.

CO: A letter to the Denver City Council on licensed concealed carry
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This letter is to address some of the questions about licensed concealed carry raised at the April 13, 2022, meeting of the Committee on Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness. This letter is also being made available to the public.

What are crime rates for persons with licensed carry permits?
A concealed handgun permit (CHP) is issued only to persons 21 and over. Roughly speaking, among the Colorado population 21 and over, an adult with a concealed handgun permit is about 39 times less likely to be arrested than an adult without a CHP. The data are as follows.

PA: Woman shoots husband twice in Germantown in possible act of self-defense: Police
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Police say a woman shot her husband twice, possibly in self-defense, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

Police say the 34-year-old woman fired from a car at Chew and Brinton streets around midnight Friday.

The 40-year-old husband was struck in both of his legs.

The gunfire also damaged an unattended, parked car and a nearby home.

Police found the woman in her car around the corner from the scene.

As Crime Grows, Bidens Radical War On Self-Defense Is Alienating Voters
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President Joe Bidens unpopular gun control moves are doing little to appease his gun control donor class. Worse, those same moves are distancing him from voters that clearly see crime as a central issue and gun ownership as a right to be protected.

Among the unpopular policy positions dragging down his presidency is his myopic focus on gun control instead of crime control. The Biden White House has pursued the most far-reaching and radical gun control agenda of any president, previously naming a gun control lobbyist to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) whose nomination was defeated when not even all Senate Democrats could support the nominee.

GA: Constitutional carry or not, we are missing the mark with gun violence prevention
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When you have a gun in the house, which so many people have for self-defense ... you are putting yourself at three times greater risk of someone in your home dying by an accidental shooting, Wachs said. As she reveals in her podcast, for the young men in Montana and metro Atlanta who died by suicide or homicide, access to guns in times of crisis resulted in quick actions with irreversible impacts.

Guns are part of American culture and most of the families featured in the podcast did not blame guns for the deaths of their children.

Are Gun Grabbers or Gun Owners Empathic and Distrustful? Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Both sides of the gun debate feel that their position is correct. Both sides agree that horrible people do horrible things. Both sides want to stop that. That small point of agreement is where progress in the debate usually ends. I think both sides are empathic and distrustful but they are paying attention to very different things. A way to get farther in the debate is to ask a deeper question.

Poll Indicates Support for Gun Control on Decline
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters dont think stricter gun control laws would help prevent shootings like the one Tuesday that left 29 people injured in Brooklyn. Thirty-eight percent (38%) think stricter gun control laws would help prevent mass shootings, while another 11% are not sure. These findings are virtually identical to a March 2021 survey, when President Joe Biden called for new gun control measures in the aftermath of two mass shootings. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Overall, 43% of voters believe the United States needs stricter gun control laws, while 50% disagree.

White Houses ghost gun crackdown receives mixed reviews on Capitol Hill
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Following a series of mass shootings in South Carolina and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last weekend, gun control is back in the national spotlight. The White House is hoping to curb gun violence as President Biden announced an executive measure last week targeting so-called ghost guns, homemade weapons that are difficult to track. Gun control advocates like Christian Heyne, from the Brady Campaign, are praising the move.

We have seen a significant increase of these weapons in major cities across the country, said Heyne.

WA: WA state Supreme Court rules against Edmonds gun storage law
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The city of Seattle passed a similar law that year, which has also been challenged.

Thursdays ruling was a victory for gun rights organizations, such as the National Rifle Association and the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation, both of which participated in the legal challenge.

In a statement, Alan Gottlieb, founder and vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, called the ruling a great victory for the principle of state preemption.

This should send a signal to other municipal governments especially the City of Seattle against which we have a nearly identical pending lawsuit that they cannot enact their own gun restrictions in violation of state law or the state constitution, Gottlieb added.

PA: Today's GOP personified
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Yes, liberals do want weapons to be registered, waiting periods, trigger locks, magazine limits, buybacks and some gun bans, certainly assault weapons, that were designed for the military to kill as many, as fast, as could be done. ...

Liberals do not want the police to be defunded nor would they eliminate the right to self defense. Those are GOP talking points. What they do want is to educate the police and the people on the use of deadly force and the elimination of concealed carry.

CA: To Fight Gun Violence, Prepare for When Not If
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Ive never done an active shooter drill here, said Sarah Aziz, a DVC student studying civil engineering. Its kind of scary that we might be unprepared.

Granted, it would be difficult to practice safety drills on a large campus where thousands of students are coming and going with different schedules. But its something the administration could, and perhaps should, consider trying.

Although California has the most gun laws in the nation 107 to be precise, according to the State Firearm Laws project at Boston University shootings here still happen with frightening regularity.

AL: Internal Ivey poll shows governor avoiding runoff, leading GOP primary field by 40-plus
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Regarding voters who consider themselves to be extremely conservative, Ivey garners 54% support. Likely GOP primary voters who are most concerned with issues surrounding illegal immigration and the Second Amendment, she receives more than 60% support. Iveys reelection campaign has recently launched ads promoting the governors position on both issues.

The results also show Ivey maintaining her status as Alabamas most popular political figure, as 80% hold a favorable impression of the incumbent governor, with 77% of respondents approving of her job performance. The percentage is consistent as well among very conservative voters, with Iveys job approval among that bloc of the Republican base standing at 78%.

Does Media Really Get Away with Alleged Bias, Gun Law Violations?
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A broadcast journalist using a hidden camera enters a gun show, purchases two 80-percent gun kits, then goes to the state attorney generals office where two agents help complete and assemble the guns before firing them on a rangeallegedly violating state and federal gun laws in the processwhile the camera records it all.

During a Sunday morning interview with a network news anchor, a nationally-known gun rights leader is challenged to discuss a 30-round magazine held by the anchor, on a show broadcast from the nations capital, where such magazines are known to be illegal.

Meet Michael Bloomberg, the Modern Day Paul Revere of Gun Violence
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There was a sense of Back to the Future in New York City when current Democratic Mayor Eric Adams was joined by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg for an announcement. Bloomberg, of course, is the failed presidential candidate and hypocritical billionaire subsidizer of anti-Second Amendment gun control groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action.

Mayor Adams largely won office by campaigning on getting tough on crime and made news when he let it be known hed carry a concealed firearm in office and forgo the mayors security detail. Those promises have vanished.