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Laws discriminate against sex as well as age in Illinois FOID case
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"Determined to do everything in her power to impede the right of the people to keep and bear arms, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is 'trying to persuade the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to dismiss an 18-year-old woman's lawsuit over the state's refusal to issue her a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, required in Illinois for purchase or possession of guns and ammunition,' St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Kurt Hofmann reported this morning." ... |
Daily Digest: The Rest of the Story Edition
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"Yesterday we told of a nine-year-old boy finding a loaded Glock [not pictured] in a movie theater restroom and his father doing the responsible thing by securing it and calling 911. The police took charge of the weapon and were looking for the owner, possibly to prosecute them. According to Tampa PD mouthpiece Laura McElroy, 'We believe that this would meet the standard of willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others, to leave a loaded weapon where a child — and in this case a 9-year-old found the gun — that certainly put others at risk…” Well, that was before they found the gun’s owner…" ... |
FNS-9 Contest Entry: Born in Fire and Forged by Flame
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... "You would be hard-pressed to find another set of 27 words that evoke as much passion as these. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is currently the most hotly debated segment of the Bill of Rights. With high-profile cases like the Aurora Cinemark Theater Massacre and the Sandy Hook shooting making national headlines . . ."
"…gun control is very much a dinner-table topic. But how much does your average American know about gun laws, or even guns themselves? What is the difference between how modern society thinks of firearms and how the drafters of the Bill of Rights felt? Exactly how much freedom did the Founding Fathers intend to give the citizenry? ... I’ll start with the last one." ... |
FNS-9 Contest Entry: Embracing the Other Side
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"If one were to listen to the gun-grabbing politicians, one would think that all gun owners are far-right wing extremists bent on opposing everything and everyone opposed to the mainstream Republican agenda. Obviously, as the armed community knows, this is not the case. But, could someone from outside the firearm community tell this? Probably not. In the past, when elections were close and there was less polarization and division, the issue didn’t matter. In today’s political climate . . ." ... |
FNS-9 Contest Entry: Self Defense Tip – Remember Mr. Murphy
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"What can to wrong, will go wrong. Sure, I would like to believe that the one time I need to deploy my carry gun, it will function flawlessly, my draw will be perfect, and there will be no equipment malfunctions. But the truth of the matter is, life has a sick sense of humor. Obviously we cannot predict when and how Murphy’s Law will strike, but being prepared for the worst can certainly go a long ways toward saving our lives and the lives of our loved ones . . ." ... |
Mossberg Hearts The Boys From Duck Dynasty
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"While I’m one of only a handful of people who have never seen an episode, one of the most popular 'reality' series on the tube these days is apparently 'Duck Dynasty.' The show’s ZZ Top wannabes are a certified cultural phenomenon and Mossberg has made sure that the any time someone on the show downs an incoming teal, the deed will be done with with a Mossy smoothbore. You have to wonder who has the eyewear sponsorship . . ." ... |
Is that a gun in your pocket?
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"For many senior citizens, pocket carry is the most comfortable method available. Bad hips, large mid-section, clothing style or a variety of medical and/or physical conditions that come with old age. I made do with a belt holster for 40 of my 42 years of owning and using a gun. I only started pocket carrying guns two years ago. Prior to that I was not even aware that they had such a thing as pocket holsters. I thought that you just put a small gun in your pocket just like I saw in the old James Cagney movies. It was something you did to impress women like Mae West (by now the younger readers are scratching their heads and wondering who I am talking about). ..." ... |
Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Tyranny Bus Tour in Blacksburg VA Friday
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"Virginia Citizens Defense League is planning a protest at the first Virginia stop for the Bloomberg gun-control tour. The event is scheduled for 9:30 AM at an empty lot in Blacksburg VA."
"The address is:
200 Clay St. SE
Blacksburg, VA"
"The event currently has no set ending time and I plan on hanging around as long as the antis are there. I expect it will last several hours."
"I will be bringing some signs for people to carry, but feel free to bring your own if you wish." ... |
TX: Mental wellness checks needed for gun buyers
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"The Alamo is a reminder that Texans — and more specifically South Texans —have always fought for their right to keep and bear arms."
"I, too, believe in the Second Amendment and the right to bear legally obtained and licensed firearms, and I further believe that no one will ever succeed in taking away this right from Texans or any other Americans."
"Polls show that the American people also overwhelmingly support the Second Amendment right to bear arms. However, there is increasing support for solutions to help prevent mass shootings, including universal background checks." ... |
Petition: Apply US Gun Control Regulations to Syrian Rebels
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"I love my senator. After President Obama announced plans to arm Syrian rebels with fully automatic machine guns, Ted Cruz tweeted 'Anyone know if President Obama intends to perform background checks on the Syrian rebels before providing them weapons?' And it took off like a gunshot. There are already a couple petitions asking that President Obama have the Syrian rebels pass the same background checks that U.S. citizens currently have to pass to purchase a firearm, including the 6+ month wait for NFA tax stamps. Oh, and that whole post-1986 machine gun ban too. ..." |
Self-Defense Tip: Don’t Do A Bruce Jenner (video story)
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"It’s Great (with a capital G) to hear a Hollywood-type speak-up for gun ownership. But I strongly discourage anyone to publicly echo Mr. Jenner’s home defense strategy against a home invader. Sir, I ask you again, did you or did you not say 'I’ll blow his ass away' before my client wandered into your home? In other words, anything you share with the world about shooting someone in self-defense can and will be used against you in a court of law. ..." ... |
Senior citizens still targets for carjackers
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... "Next time your fellow old geezer friends call you paranoid for carrying a gun in your car you can remind them that senior citizens still make attractive targets to armed carjackers. If it can happen in Gary, IN, the home of the Music Man, it can happen anywhere. This is a good time to remind everyone to make sure you are aware of your surroundings at all time, especially at night when the bogey man comes out. Keep your gun handy and be wary of any stranger. As an old mentor once told me. 'When you see a stranger, start planning on how to kill him .'. Harsh words but he was a hard nosed guy who knew how to survive in dangerous places. While we are plan to stop, rather than kill these days, there is a message in what he said. ..." ... |
OR: New neighborhood group: ‘This is a Glock block’
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"Neighbors say crime in their Clackamas County neighborhood is getting worse, so they’re taking drastic measures and packing heat for protection."
"'We’re starting a new group,' said Coy Tolonen, who lives in unincorporated Clackamas County. 'We don’t feel neighborhood watch is sufficient, and we don’t feel the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office is sufficient.'"
"Tolomon and a group of Jennings Lodge neighbors say they’re responding to escalating crime on their block by also making fliers that read 'This is a Glock block. We don’t call 911.'" ... |
Question of the Day: Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a Victim of Gun Violence?
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"In the eyes of those running the Mayors Against Illegal Guns 'No More Names' bus tour, Boston Marathon bomber and part time speedbump, Tamerlan Tsaraev was a victim of gun violence. 'During the rally, supporters of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns read the names of those 'killed with guns' since the Dec. 14 Newtown shootings — and Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name was memorialized among the names of the dead.' You’ll remember, of course, that the deceased member of the Flying Tsarnaev Brothers troupe was killed in a shootout with police. So that must mean . . ."
"…that the people in the Joseph P. Murrah federal building killed by Timothy McVeigh were casualties of vehicular manslaughter. ..." ... |
Mayors Against Illegal Guns “Memorialize” Boston Bomber Killed by Police as “Gun Violence Victim”
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"No, that is not a satirical headline. No it is not exaggerated for effect."
"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, at an event in Concord, NH, read off the names of all those killed by guns since the shootings at Sandy Hook."
"Among those names was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Bombing suspects who was killed in shootout with police."
"Anti gun statistics are notorious for including 'victims' who were criminals who were shot and killed by police or private citizens defending themselves. However, this might be the worst abuse of gun violence statistics by anti gun advocates yet." ... |
Bloomberg Anti Gun Bus Campaign Lists Boston Bomber As a ‘Gun Violence Victim’ WTF?
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"Naming an alleged Boston Marathon bomber as a 'victim of gun violence' because he was shot dead by police shows just how morally bankrupt Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun 'No More Names' bus tour really is, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today."
"At a Tuesday rally in Concord, N.H., event organizers read the names of shooting victims since the Sandy Hook attack last Dec. 14. Among the names of the dead was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the marathon bombing suspect. ...""'This is so far beyond insulting, I’m not sure there’s a word in the dictionary to describe it,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. ..." ... |
Bloomberg’s Real Agenda: Self-Defense is ‘Gun Violence’
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"Yesterday, a small group of supporters congregated in Concord, New Hampshire to support Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. They read off a list of people 'killed by guns' while standing before their 'No More Names' bus." ...
"While mourning the names of 'gun violence victims,' organizers read off the name 'Tamerlan Tsarnaev,' one of the two brothers who committed the mass bombing at this year’s Boston Marathon. He and his brother 'carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz, keeping him with them in the car for half an hour before releasing him at a gas station in Cambridge.' They were fleeing when police chased them down, and engaged in a 'gun battle' with police, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed." ... |
Congressman Engel Tries to Ban FN FiveseveN. Again.
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"Ah, political grandstanding. Where would we be without it? More specifically, where would the civilian disarmament movement be without pandering to people’s irrational fears? [NB: The NRA's alarmism is based on rational thinking, mostly.] One of the gun grabbers’ key tenets of terror: some firearms are WAY too dangerous for civilians. Machine guns? Certainly. (Providing you forget the fact that police are civlians, too). 'Assault rifles'? Most definitely. (Providing you forget the fact that tens of millions of Americans own them without incident.) And handguns. Admit guys, you want to ban handguns. Some handguns more than others, apparently . . ." ... |
FL: Mental health gun bill goes to Scott's desk -- Mental health workers worry bill will backfire
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"A bipartisan gun bill has made its way to the governor’s desk. If signed into law, it will prevent tens of thousands of Floridians from buying firearms, but mental health workers worry the bill will backfire." ...
"The legislation requires people who volunteer for mental health treatment to give up their gun rights. Mental health professionals want Gov. Rick Scott to veto the legislation." ... |
CO: Colorado Anti-Gun State Senate President Officially RECALLED!
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"John Morse, the anti-gun state senator that was at the head of the recent passage of a string of new gun control laws in Colorado, has officially been recalled!"
"The committee behind the recall effort submitted over 16,000 signatures to the secretary of state for verification. 7,178 were verified signatures were needed to officially have a recall election. Over 10,000 were found to be verified and the secretary of state signed off yesterday." ... |
NY: Law Beat: Piecemeal gun law approach draws fire in Senate
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"Retired law enforcement officers unhappy with New York's SAFE Act may have a new bone to pick with state lawmakers — and not the legislators you might suspect."
"The Democrat-controlled state Assembly, whose leader, Speaker Sheldon Silver, has long drawn fire from Republicans for bottling up crime bills, recently passed an amendment to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hotly debated gun law that would have allowed many retired state and federal law enforcement officers to own assault weapons."
"But in the Senate, which has historically been far more open to such bills, the measure remains stuck in the Codes Committee ... And that does not appear likely to change as lawmakers prepare to end this year's session." ... |
FBI: All Shoots are Good Shoots
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"Are the Fibbies telling fibbies? According to documents unearthed by nytimes.com, agents employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation who clear leather and let loose the dogs of war never ever shoot the wrong person. Or shoot the right person at the wrong time. [Click here to read F.B.I. Shooting Database Overview, 1993-2009.] The article goes into some detail about two questionable shoots that an FBI internal investigation found fully justified. But it’s the totality of the stats, and some of the charts, that are most intriguing. Here’s the NYT’s summary . . ." ... |
MI: Retired Cop Busted For Sex With Teen Girl
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"A 62-year-old retired Warren police officer is facing felony charges for allegedly having sex with a teenage student at the Warren high school where he worked as a guard."
"Dale Malesh was ordered held on a $500,000 bond at an arraignment Wednesday on 10 counts of criminal sexual conduct."
"Prosecutor Eric Smith said had sex with the 16-year-old girl at his Warren home over a period of several months. ..." ... |
Insurance Company Boycotts Schools That Arm Teachers
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"In yet another challenge to the Second Amendment, an insurance company has refused to provide its products to schools that want to protect students by arming teachers or staff members."
"Already, President Obama has made curbing gun rights a legislative priority, and his administration has limited the rights of certain veterans, people with various medical diagnoses and users of marijuana in states where possession is legal." ... |
No school insurance for teachers with guns
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"Allowing teachers and other employees to carry guns under a new state law would cost most school districts their insurance."
"EMC Insurance Companies, the state’s main insurer of schools, won’t insure districts with armed employees under the new law, which takes effect July 1. Districts already insured by EMC wouldn’t have their policies renewed." ...
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GOA steps up to defend 8th grader who faces year in jail for talking
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"On Monday, we looked at the persecution of Logan, West Virginia 8th grader Jared Marcum, who was not only suspended from school for refusing to remove an NRA shirt that in no way violated the school's posted dress code, but was then arrested for 'disturbing the education process' (whatever that means) and obstructing a police officer (his 'obstruction' came in the form of his efforts to plead his case--talking, in other words). Arresting officer James Adkins even threatened to charge him with 'making terroristic threats' (apparently for wearing a shirt with a rifle image and the words, 'NRA: Protect Your Rights'), but that charge was never officially leveled." ... |
CO Citizens Plan Civil Disobedience in Defiance of New Mag Restrictions
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"There are a couple events brewing on Facebook where Colorado citizens are preparing to thumb their noses at their state’s lawmakers. Around 100 people have signed up for an event on July 1st where they will sell and transfer their 'high capacity' magazines on the steps of the capitol building, in direct violation of the newly enacted 'high capacity' magazine ban. It will be interesting to watch how the police react, and if there’s any media coverage of the event at all. ..." |
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