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Oklahoma Governor Disappoints Both Gun Owners and Gays on Friday
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While clearing the decks for her departure as governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin (shown), who leaves office in January 2019 after serving two terms, signed numerous bills and vetoed others on Friday. Two bills in particular — SB 1140 and SB 1212 — riled up two groups seeking either to protect or to expand their influence through legislation. |
Multiple Companies Abandon Dick's Sporting Goods
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Industry response was swift after documents filed on April 27 with the Clerk of the House Representatives and Secretary of the Senate surfaced that showed Dick’s Sporting Goods has hired The Glover Park Group to engage in “lobbying related to gun control.” The move came only a few weeks after the big-box retailer made headlines by enacting a chain-wide policy allowing only those 21 and older to purchase firearms, removal of all modern sporting arms and standard-capacity magazines from its 35-store Field & Stream chain and, ultimately, destruction of those guns instead of seeking refunds from distributors or manufacturers. |
Are Smart Guns Ready for Prime Time? The Technology May be, but Gun Owners Remain Wary
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Could “smart” technology that requires a unique biometric “key” to unlock a weapon help reduce firearm deaths in the U.S.? Advocates think it could and are pushing for wider implementation. But they will face skepticism from gun owners, who worry about reliability. Good morning, and welcome to "Field Notes," a newsletter on the latest ideas and research to solve problems. I'm David D. Haynes, Ideas Lab editor. In the Journal Sentinel's Ideas Lab, we find and test ideas to solve problems in our communities. |
Now That's a Lot of Guns
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The Algoma Rod & Gun Club 2018 Gun Show featured a wide range of hunting, archery and fishing equipment on Saturday. The event, now in its eighth year, saw 40 vendors participate in the event. Attendees were able to get hands-on with a number of handguns, rifles and archery equipment throughout the day.
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MI: Poll: Michigan Teachers Don't Want to be Armed in School
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Nearly three quarters of Michigan teachers are pretty clear about one thing when it comes to school safety: They don't want to be armed.
In survey results released Monday by the Michigan Education Association — the state's largest union for teachers and school support staff — 71% of those who participated said they oppose efforts to arm teachers.
The survey was given last month to 1,005 MEA members. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
"As politicians in Lansing continue to debate school safety, Michigan educators have a clear message: Listen to educators on the front lines. Allowing more guns in schools is not the right answer," Paula Herbart, president of the MEA, said in a media teleconference... |
Did Bloomberg Open Can of Worms with ‘Epidemic of Dishonesty’ Talk?
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Did anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg open the proverbial can of worms over the weekend when he told a commencement audience in Texas that Americans are facing “an epidemic of dishonesty,” according to CBS News?
According to the Second Amendment Foundation, any discussion about dishonesty ought to include a look at the gun control lobby, which gets plenty of financial support from the former New York mayor. SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb rattled off several contentious points about the gun prohibition lobby that might be called “accuracy challenged.” |
LGBTQ Activists Fight ‘Gay Panic Defense’ Used in Texas Case
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James R. Miller won’t serve any prison time after twice stabbing his gay neighbor in the back with a knife three years ago during a musical jam session in the victim’s home. That’s because the 67-year-old former Austin Police Department employee testified that he acted in self-defense, fearing for his life after his neighbor made sexual advances toward him. |
TX: After Sutherland Springs Massacre, Gun Permits Request Surged
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A hunter and taxidermist, Steve Bradbury is a proud gun owner who thought about getting a license to carry a handgun but never considered it a priority. That changed after Bradbury, a San Antonio firefighter, was driving past First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs the day of the Nov. 5 massacre that killed 26 people and stopped to help first responders take care of the victims. After that, he had a different mindset: “I said, ‘All right, that’s it, I’m getting it.” |
Lacey Students Signing Up For Free Firearms Training
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More than 75 Lacey Township High School students have signed up for the New Jersey Second Amendment Rights group's offer of free gun lessons. As of Friday, 76 students had filled out applications for the free program, said group President Alexander Roubian. That means 24 of the 100 available slots are left. |
Mark Robinson Talks at NRA-ILA Leadership Forum
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Mark Robinson never expected to be in the spotlight. He never expected to be a voice of reason. But he was that voice as a guest speaker at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on May 4, part of the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits. Robinson, known for speaking up for the Second Amendment during a city council meeting in North Carolina, drew on historical references during his speech at the Leadership Forum because “[h]istory is something that can teach us about our past. That’s a definite. But history can also be a guide to the future. And it can also serve as an inspiration to the present.” |
PA: Penn State Professor Leads Gun Conversation at Middlesex High School
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More than two decades after her graduation, Laurie Mulvey, now an assistant professor at Penn State, found herself back in Middlesex High School, only this time, she was leading the academic discussion. Mulvey, who serves as an assistant teaching professor of sociology at Penn State and the executive director of the World In Conversation, was at Middlesex High School on Thursday night to lead a roundtable discussion focusing on guns.
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'Assault Weapons,' Explained: New at Reason
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Although "assault weapons" fire no faster than any other semi-automatic, politicians routinely conflate them with machine guns, which have not been legally produced for civilians in the United States since 1986. Prohibitionists like Sen. Diane Feinstein (D–Calif.) argue that "assault weapons" are good for nothing but mass shootings and gang warfare, despite the fact that only a tiny percentage of these guns are ever used to commit crimes. They say these firearms are "weapons of choice" for mass shooters, who are in fact much more likely to use handguns, and claim they are uniquely deadly, even though the category is defined based on features that make little or no difference in the hands of a murderer.
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IL: 2 Dead, at Least 12 Wounded in Saturday Shootings
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On Saturday, two men were killed and at least 12 other people were wounded in shootings across the city of Chicago. A man was fatally shot and a woman was wounded in the Burnside neighborhood. Officials were called around 1:10 a.m. to the 9100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, where they found the two victims, Chicago Police said. Derric Smith, 41, of Englewood, was found inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds to his head, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office and police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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