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SD: South Dakota is a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary
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Amid all this, the right that exists to defend all other rights is also under assault.
Yes, I’m talking about the 2nd Amendment, our right to keep and bear arms. The Biden administration is attempting to erode this essential right that the founding fathers passionately supported. He has signed executive orders and pursued legislation to strip law-abiding citizens of their rights, and he has promised to do worse.
Since I became governor, I have enhanced South Dakota’s protections for 2nd Amendment rights. The first bill I signed as governor was constitutional carry, also known as permitless carry. Every law-abiding citizen should have the 2nd Amendment rights guaranteed. |
CA: Oakley Woman Fatally Shoots Man in Self-Defense: Police
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A woman shot and killed a man in Oakley early Friday in a case that police are treating as self-defense.
Officers responded at 12:39 a.m. to a report of a 51-year-old man shot in the 200 block of West Cypress Road.
The man was found in the driveway of a home and succumbed to his injuries at the scene, police said. His name has not been released.
Investigators detained three people at the home and learned that a 74-year-old woman there has an elder abuse restraining order against the man because of a history of physical violence, and more alleged violence by the man led her to shoot him in self-defense, according to police. |
CA: Attempted robbery in Antioch turns into self-defense fatal shooting
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One man died and another was injured after gunfire at an apartment early Friday that resulted from an attempted robbery, police said.
Police did not make any arrests and called the shooting a case of self-defense. Authorities did not identify either man immediately.
The self-defense shooting was one of two that occurred in the eastern area of Contra Costa County early Friday. An Oakley woman also fatally shot a man against whom she had filed a restraining order for elder abuse, police said. |
WA: Investigation Underway After Vader Woman Says She Shot Husband in Self Defense
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The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident where a 51-year-old Vader woman reportedly shot her 54-year-old husband in self defense.
Deputies responded to the scene at approximately 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 17, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
The man was airlifted to a Vancouver-area hospital where he underwent surgery and is in stable condition, according to the sheriff’s office.
“At this time this is still very much an active investigation, and due to the nature we are not releasing additional details at this time,” said Field Operations Bureau Chief Dusty Breen in an email to The Chronicle on Friday. |
SC: You Don’t Need A Handgun If You Follow These 6 Self-Defense Principles
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The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident where a 51-year-old Vader woman reportedly shot her 54-year-old husband in self defense.
Deputies responded to the scene at approximately 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 17, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
The man was airlifted to a Vancouver-area hospital where he underwent surgery and is in stable condition, according to the sheriff’s office.
“At this time this is still very much an active investigation, and due to the nature we are not releasing additional details at this time,” said Field Operations Bureau Chief Dusty Breen in an email to The Chronicle on Friday. |
Bird head pistol grips
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London gun maker Lewis Barbar is credited with making flintlock pistols that are the earliest version of our modern bird head pistol grip. Barbar, active in the 1700’s, made pocket pistols with a grip swept a bit forward at the bottom and possessing a “knob” of sorts.
Lacking art or photos for this piece, you can get the idea by thinking, “Pirate pistol.” From that came the early bird head grips, which are swept forward at the butt and taper down to a point so that an upside down “bird head” is configured. |
Should 18-year-olds be allowed to buy semi-automatic rifles? State and courts debate
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But one question remains: Should an 18-year-old be allowed to buy a semi-automatic rifle?
In the last couple of years, California, Florida and Washington state have responded to the string of mass shootings by young men by raising the minimum age to buy certain kinds of rifles, such as the Bushmaster.
Gun rights groups, meanwhile, have sued, calling this a violation of young adults’ Second Amendment rights.
Last week, a panel of three federal judges in California agreed, overturning the higher minimum age approved by the state last year. |
Democrats Use Buffalo Shooting to Reintroduce Federal Firearm Licensing Act
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Led by Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a group of Democratic senators are pushing for a requirement for all would-be gun owners to first acquire a Department of Justice (DOJ) license.
Joined by Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Booker is using Saturday’s mass shooting in Buffalo to justify this latest attack on Second Amendment-protected rights.
“This is the moment to enact ambitious legislation — as a nation, we must rise to it, or we are fated to witness the deadly scenes of this past weekend and years past over again,” he said in a statement.
Read between the lines: Never let a crisis go to waste. |
Without a trace: How the DOJ plans to track 'ghost guns' and keep communities safer
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It’s a privately manufactured firearm, also known as a ghost gun. This means it has no serial number and no associated background check; it has no trace in the gun world.
“We've seen an explosion of these firearms being recovered here in D.C.,” ATF Assistant Special Agent In Charge Chris Amon said as we sat down for an interview in a nearby lab room.
The draw for criminals to get their hands on ghost guns is obvious. You can order a ghost gun kit online, pick one up from someone who bought one or make one with a 3-D printer.
“You don't have to be overly handy,” Agent Amon said. “With some basic tools, you know, you can assemble one of these firearms within 30 to 45 minutes” |
BRG9 Elite: More Features For Less Money
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Most American shooters by now have noticed the influx of Turkish-made pistols, which are typically priced less than better-known brands of comparable quality. Buffalo Cartridge Company recently expanded to include importation of its own 9 mm Turk, the polymer frame BRG9 Elite, and first impressions are positive. |
NRA Says Ruling Bolsters Challenge to Florida Gun Law
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Pointing to a ruling in a California case, lawyers for the National Rifle Association this week urged a federal appellate court to strike down a Florida law prohibiting sales of rifles and other long guns to adults under age 21.
A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March heard arguments in the Florida lawsuit, which the NRA filed after the Legislature passed the law in 2018 in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
The ban on long-gun sales to people ages 18 through 20 was included in a sweeping school-safety law. Federal law already barred sales of handguns to people under 21. |
A war correspondent in Ukraine found a vivid and inspirational example of the need for the right to keep and bear arms
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While reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine, in March, I found myself swimming in a horrific, frightening, wonderful mix of dread, compassion and desperation to remain free. The literal tool for that freedom—many types of guns—were in Ukrainian’s hands. Shopkeepers, school teachers, engineers and professional soldiers were all armed and ready to fight for individual and national liberty.
I soon learned that, in late January, inside a snowy village on the outskirts of Kyiv, civilians came to learn to shoot AK-47s. This was part of widespread training courses designed to teach as many people as possible to defend themselves against the then-possibility that Moscow would invade. |
TX: 2022 NRA Annual Meetings And Exhibits In Houston, Texas
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I’m looking forward to seeing many of you over Memorial Day weekend at the 151st NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Houston, Texas. From entertainment to special events, it’s all happening in the Lone Star State, where NRA members will gather at the George R. Brown Convention Center May 27-29 to celebrate freedom and honor those who have served our country. |
Originalists Don't "Hate America"
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I don't do corpus linguistics and so I won't dispute Koppelman's criticisms of it. My only contribution to the field was to identify egregious misclassification of quotes by several scholars who filed an amicus brief in Second Amendment Supreme Court case. Kopel, Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment: Support for the right to bear arms for all purposes, Volokh Conspiracy, Oct. 29, 2021. |
AK: Legislature Fails to Pass Pro-2A Legislation as it Adjourns
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At midnight on Wednesday, the Alaska Legislature adjourned from its 2022 Legislative Session. Mandatory firearm storage legislation, House Bill 203, failed to gain enough votes to pass in committee. Unfortunately, Second Amendment Emergency Powers Protection Legislation, Senate Bill 136, fell short by just 2 votes for final passage in the afternoon hours of the session. |
The Best .308 Hunting Rifles in 2022
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The .308 Winchester turns 70 years old in 2022, and despite being rather long in the tooth, this round still ranks among the most popular hunting and shooting cartridges in the world, especially for hunting rifles. There’s no doubt that newer cartridges like the 6.5 Creedmoor and PRC and Winchester’s new 6.8 Western have some ballistic efficiencies over the .308, but that hasn’t eroded the .308’s mass appeal. If you’re looking for a short-action cartridge that offers ample punch for most big game animals combined with moderate recoil, and you want plenty of factory hunting loads from which to choose, then the .308 is still a solid bet. Here’s a list of the best .308 hunting rifles that I’ve used in the field or on the range. |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right. [Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846)] |
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