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Unlicensed dealers and black market guns
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Unlicensed gun dealers sold at least 68,388 firearms into the black market between 2017 and 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said Thursday. Those guns represent 54% of illegally trafficked firearms recovered in that period. Another 40% involved illegal "straw purchases" for someone unable to pass a federal background check.
Ed.: With about 60,000,000 guns sold by FFLs during the same period, that is a rounding error; a statistical anomaly. |
CO: Attack on Firearm Ownership Continues
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Yesterday, the Colorado House Business Affairs & Labor Committee passed the bill requiring gun owners to purchase firearm liability insurance. The bill will now be sent to the House Committee of the Whole.
House Bill 24-1270 requires firearm owners to maintain a liability insurance policy that covers losses or damages to a person, other than the policyholder, who is injured on the insured property as a result of any accidental or unintentional discharge of the firearm.
Also yesterday, Senate Bill 24-066 was passed by for the day. SB24-066 allows credit companies and payment processors to use merchant category codes (MCC) to track credit card purchases of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition. |
A Front Row Seat to History—D.C. vs. Heller
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The lead attorney, Alan Gura, had initiated the case since 2002. At the Supreme Court, I was one of the other three lawyers who joined Gura at the counsel table to assist him on the oral argument. For example, since the attorney for D.C. would go first, we could give Gura written notes to help him rebut what D.C.’s attorney said or address issues raised by the justices.
Gura had won the case in a lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. That court had ruled that the Second Amendment “right of the people” protects all the people of the United States, not just those who are in a militia. Therefore, the District of Columbia’s 1975 ordinance prohibiting D.C. residents from possessing handguns was unconstitutional. |
Americans Continue to Add More Than a Million Firearms to Their Arsenals Every Month
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The latest report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released earlier this week shows that the average American’s appetite for a new firearm remains unsatiated. Over the last 20 years, March background checks (groomed by the NSSF to measure just those related to firearms purchases) have doubled, from about 600,000 in 2004 to over 1.4 million last month. That’s four times the rate of growth of the country’s population.
Over the last decade Americans have been buying more than one million new firearms a month, adding an estimated 120 million new firearms to their already sizeable arsenal over that period. According to AmericanGunFacts.com, Americans owned an estimated 400 million firearms in 2017. |
MO: What happened in self-defense fatal shooting of KC businessman John Bartrom? New details
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Interviews and search warrants from a Kansas City police case file suggest well-known business owner John Bartrom, 46, who was killed in a January shooting, may have been trying to buy drugs before an altercation that led to his death. Jackson County prosecutors declined to file charges last month against a man accused of fatally shooting Bartrom in January, saying the man who fired the handgun in the incident acted in self defense. The man arrested in connection with the shooting told police that Bartrom came to his car window at a gas station off East 63rd and Prospect and asked him for drugs. He told police he believed Bartrom was “high” at the time of their interaction, according to an interview log from officers.
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Less-lethal guns offer alternative to traditional firearms
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For a few hundred dollars more, a less-lethal rifle offers higher power and a longer range.
“This is a paintball gun on steroids,” Ganz said.
Instead of paintballs, projectiles replace real bullets. Some are hard and they hurt. Others are designed to incapacitate in a single shot with pepper spray and tear gas, burning your throat and making it hard to breathe for up to 40 minutes.
It’s meant to give the user time to get away.
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Rep. Tokuda wants to destroy ‘zombie guns’
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So, she and dozens of House Democrats are co-sponsoring a bill to close what they call the ‘zombie gun loophole.’ The legislation would ensure the guns handed over to law enforcement do not end up in anyone else’s hands.
“Not just the revolver and the frame, but all of the parts,” said Tokuda.
Gun Owners of America, a group which describes itself as “the only no compromise gun lobby in Washington D.C.,” said the term and issue of zombie guns have been made up by Democrats.
“First, we had ghost guns. Now we have zombie guns. What’s the next scary type of firearm name that the anti-gunners will come up with in order to try to infringe on our rights,” questioned Director of Federal Affairs Aidan Johnston.
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WI: Thorp Police Chief: Man exercising Second Amendment rights prompts numerous calls into dispatch
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Thorp Police say there is no wrongdoing after an armed man was spotted walking around the city Thursday evening.
Chief Tydon Schneider said just before 7 p.m. Thursday, multiple calls came in to the Clark County Dispatch Center reporting a man openly carrying a rifle slung across his chest.
Officers from the Thorp Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff’s Office approached the man and confirmed that he was lawfully exercising his Second Amendment rights by openly carrying the firearm.
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PA: Let’s talk about some current gun laws that could affect your Second Amendment rights
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In Pennsylvania HB 777 is a piece of legislation that was passed by the House and is on its way to the Senate. It’s essentially a ban on self-assembled firearms in the state.
Carl Hill from Hill Top Arms said, “This is basically a ban on ghost guns, being able to assemble a firearm for yourself. I sell firearms for a living, training mostly is what we do, but we sell firearms to go along with that. I don’t think you should have to come to me to buy a firearm if you want to build your own or if you are legally allowed to own a firearm, you should be able to build anything that you can legally own.”
The bill in the PA Senate would essentially put an end to that ability. |
NY: Sotomayor allows NYC to deny gun license to ‘scofflaw’ who didn’t disclose arrests
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor left a New York City gun licensing rule in place that allows the city to reject gun license applications on the grounds that an applicant lacks “good moral character.”
The case is the latest to come before the high court in the wake of its 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, which expanded gun rights by striking down New York state’s handgun licensing regime as unconstitutional. |
ME: Controversial Bill Targeting “Unauthorized Paramilitary Training” Passes Through Maine’s House
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Maine’s House passed a controversial bill targeting “unauthorized paramilitary training” which has raised concerns with Second Amendment rights advocates, who believe that it could be used to target law-abiding gun owners and firearms instructors.
The bill passed by a single vote.
“The United States of America was founded on what this bill would define as a civil disorder. I find it very likely that King George III would have been very, very supportive of this legislation,” said Rep. Donald Ardell (R-Monticello). |
HI: Bill sets age limit for ammunition sale, possession at 21
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A state Senate bill designed to keep firearms ammunition out of the hands of people under 21 years of age passed the House and is headed to conference to resolve Senate disagreements over House amendments.
Under Senate Bill 2845 (Senate Draft 2, House Draft 1), people would be prohibited from selling ammunition to anyone under 21 and those under 21 would be prohibited from owning, possessing or controlling ammunition except as specifically allowed by law. |
Bias Against Guns Continues Its AI Spread
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If you can’t change the facts, change the public’s perception of the facts.
Anti-gun politicians whose constituents express concerns about crime and public safety respond with the narrative that it’s a gun problem rather than a problem of lawbreakers and criminals, a message that is amplified and reinforced by an accommodating mainstream media. The national media’s hostility towards guns and the Second Amendment is so widespread that a recent Washington Post article that wasn’t markedly anti-gun became the subject of an NRA-ILA grassroots alert. |
James Cameron ‘Knew Nothing About Guns’ When Making ‘The Terminator,’ but Then He Remembered: ‘This Is America, I Can Just Go Buy Them!’
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“The Terminator’s” script was lean and mean and full of weapons, a fact that soon proved an issue for a Canadian director exploring unfamiliar ground. “I knew nothing about guns,” Cameron said. “And then I thought, ‘This is America, I can just go buy them!’”
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Cameron has previously said that he regrets fetishizing guns in some of his earlier work, including “The Terminator.”
“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of ‘Terminator’ movies 30-plus years ago, in our current world,” he said. “What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach.” |
1944 British Bren Gun a Blast on the Range
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Like many nations, the British Empire went back to the drawing board on many of its standard firearms designs after World War I. The war had seen many changes to tactics and technology, and the British realized the importance of having a lighter, portable machine gun that could be carried by soldiers. This need was highlighted by the American BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle), which made a great impact in the last two months of the war. |
Nigeria: Kidnapping: Private guards should bear arms, expert tells govt
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An expert in security matters and National President of the Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria, Dr Chris Adigwu, said security companies had a wide presence in the country, stressing that the private guards were ready to join in the fight against kidnapping in schools and estates.
On January 30, 2024, six pupils, two teachers and a driver of Apostolic Faith Church Primary and Secondary School, Emure, Ekiti State were abducted in Eporo-Ekiti while being transported home after school hours. |
OK: How an Oklahoma man double-crossed a Mexican cartel with knockoff guns
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Pierson dodged questions about his own role in trafficking gun parts, including faking out cartel members by selling them homemade assault rifles fraudulently stamped in the U.S. with the prestigious name brand Colt, said Edwin Starr, the ATF special agent who led the effort to send Pierson to prison.
"He knew, if the cartel found out he was giving them counterfeits, that would be bad for him," Starr said. |
MD: I’ve lost family members to gun violence. I still got my gun license.
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I hate guns but I realized I needed one.
Last December, I became a licensed gun owner and carrier, joining a growing number of Black Marylanders that I know who legally own guns. I am proud of this accomplishment, but the decision came with intense emotions and unhealed wounds surrounding guns in my life.
My first step toward gun ownership was enrolling in a two-day mandatory wear and carry class. During this course, I learned everything from National Rifle Association rules and state gun laws to pistol marksmanship and cartridge loading.
Through it all, I did my best to learn as much as I could. But this information overload session also prompted me to reflect on all the death and gun violence I witnessed living in Baltimore. |
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