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Checks Offer Few Benefits Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Background checks for gun purchases are supposed to be a filter, allowing ordinary people to purchase guns while screening out those prohibited from possessing guns. The best thing about background checks is that they protect honest gun sellers from inadvertently selling to a prohibited person. But the reality is that the system offers few other benefits.

MI: Kalamazoo Shooting Victim's Father Challenges U.S. to Reduce Gun Violence
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Gene Kopf has a challenge for the United States: make the country rank the lowest among developed countries for gun violence in the next decade.

Kopf, the father of 14-year-old Abigail Kopf, who was shot in the head during a gunman's rampage Feb. 20 in Kalamazoo, visited the Ann Arbor area Monday, June 20, to talk about gun safety and gun violence.

Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, county police chiefs and law enforcement officials, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, Washtenaw County commissioners and Department of Public Health Executive Director Ellen Rabinowitz appeared together for Washtenaw County Gun Safety Week, where community leaders called for residents to take measures to keep guns safe.

Armed Heroes in Teachers Clothing Submitted by: Robert Morse Website: slowfacts.wordpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
They dont look like heroes, but they are. I spent several days with a group of Ohio teachers who want to protect their students. They learned to stop an armed attack in their schools. They learned to treat the injured. These teachers became the good guy with a gun and bandages.. and they need our help.

WI: Fatal Stabbing of 38-year-old Eric Franklin Ruled Self-Defense Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Milwaukee County District Attorneys Office has decided not to issue charges against the 32-year-old Milwaukee woman in the June 15th homicide of Eric Franklin.

FL: Self-Defense Hearing Resumes for Deputy in Air Rifle Case
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A hearing is resuming for a Florida sheriffs deputy who seeking dismissal of a manslaughter charge by claiming he shot a man carrying an air rifle in self-defense. Deputy Peter Peraza of the Broward Sheriffs Office wants the case thrown out under the state Stand Your Ground law. A Broward County judge is scheduled to continue hearing testimony Monday. Peraza testified that Jermaine McBean refused police commands to drop the weapon, then turned and pointed the authentic-looking gun toward the deputies in July 2014. Peraza fired three shots, killing him.

The Second Amendment Isnt About Hunting or Self-Defense, But Revolution
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Last week, Rolling Stone published an article by David S. Cohen, a law professor who thinks the Second Amendment should be repealed. The Second Amendment needs to be repealed because it is outdated, a threat to liberty and a suicide pact, writes Cohen. When the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, there were no weapons remotely like the AR-15 assault rifle and many of the advances of modern weaponry were long from being invented or popularized.

Supreme Court Turns Down Assault Weapons Cases
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Fresh off the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a challenge to assault weapons bans passed in Connecticut and New York after the Newtown elementary school massacre of 2012. The challenges were denied, as expected, without comment from the court. Just last December five days after a terrorist attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif. the justices had refused to hear a challenge to a Chicago suburb's ban on such semi-automatic weapons.

Review: The Browning 1911-380 Pistol
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What do the M1911 service pistol and the .380 ACP cartridge have in common? Both are classics, to be sure. More to the point, though, both resulted from the same inventive mind: that of John Moses Browning. Its true that the first was more directly a result of Brownings mechanical geniusapparently an outgrowth of one of several distinct pistol designs patented in 1897, possibly as a hedge against which might ultimately prove most efficaciouswhile the second was more probably at his behest, with actual development likely carried out by the Union Metallic Cartridge Co.

When the Anti-Gun Side Dons a Marine Uniform Submitted by: Peter Karr Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
On the cover of the New York Daily News was a picture of an American Marine wearing battle regalia in Iraq. The headline over it read: No civilian should own this gun. The editors of the Daily News, thinking themselves clever, asked: Hey, NRA: This Marine served in Iraq and says assault rifles should be banned. Does that make him a gun-grabbing commie, too?

Of Course the Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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Progressives like to insist that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects a collective, rather than an individual, right to keep and bear arms. Or, put another way, they say that the only right Americans have to the ownership of lethal weaponry exists within the context of state-sanctioned military service. As a result, progressives conclude that there is nothing in place to stop the federal government from prohibiting the private ownership of firearms and allowing access to weapons only to those who belong to the National Guard the modern descendant of early-American state and local militia forces.

Will Orlando, Hillary and Trump Trigger a Run On Gun Sales? Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Its coming. Those who have seen it before say a rush on gun and ammo sales is on the verge of happening again. Thats typically been the case among gun owners fearful that the government will try to limit their purchases. But this time, there are also signs that a spike in gun sales has begun among gay people, lesbians and others in the LGBT community.

Evers Riles LGBT Activists With Gun Giveaway Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Barely a week after the worst mass shooting in the nation's history, state Sen. Greg Evers --- running in a hotly contested Republican primary for a Panhandle congressional seat --- drew criticism for planning to give away a semiautomatic rifle similar to a gun used in the attack that killed 49 people and injured dozens of others at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

FL: Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson Vote Party Line on Gun Bills
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Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio voted on party lines this evening on four gun bills that surfaced after the Orlando massacre. All four bills died. What am I going to tell 49 grieving families? What am I going to tell the families of those that are still in the hospital fighting for their lives?' Nelson said at a news conference after the votes. 'What am I going to tell the trauma surgeon whose blood-stained shoes have been shown in a picture on so many news programs and who said he didnt know, in the midst of the screams and the cries, if they were black or white, or gay or straight, as they brought in over 40, all at one time, into that trauma operating room?

CT: Lawmakers, Gun Advocates Comment on SCOTUS Decision
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Connecticut lawmakers and local gun advocates commented on the United States Supreme Court's decision to not to consider a challenge of the state's law banning assault weapons.
The Connecticut Citizens' Defense League along with other plaintiffs challenged Connecticut's ban on certain semi-automatic firearms in 2013. The decision came after "a lower court's ruling refusing to strike down on Second Amendment grounds," CCDL said.

NRA Slams Sarasota City Commission's Proposal to Ban Assault Weapons Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Sarasota City Commission will be voting on a resolution to ban high capacity assault weapons on Monday and the vote is already making waves among gun rights activists who say it's merely a way for elected officials to push an anti-gun agenda.

How Pennsylvania, New Jersey Senators Will Vote on Guns Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The sharp divide on gun laws and the charged politics around them will be on display on the Senate floor Monday, when lawmakers vote on four gun bills, all expected to fail amid partisan acrimony. Roughly a week after the Orlando massacre, the votes will instead provide political fodder as the two parties battle for control of the White House and Senate.

Trump Clarifies Stance on Guns in Clubs After NRA Pushback
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After facing pushback from the NRA over his suggestion that people at the Orlando club targeted in the June 12 terror attack should have been armed, Donald Trump clarified Monday he was only talking about security guards and club employees. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee tried to set the record straight on Twitter, after two top NRA officials said Sunday that club-goers who are drinking should not have firearms.

HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher' Blames Religion and Guns for Orlando Gay Nightclub Shooting Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Host Bill Maher of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" program has asserted that the mass shooting in Orlando was brought about by guns and religion. "Any time somebody shoots at a gay nightclub, and the question is not 'was religion involved,' it's 'what religion was involved,?'" Maher said.

GA: Docs vs. Glocks Case Pits First Amendment Against The Second
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A tug of war between the First Amendment protection of free speech and the Second Amendment right to bear arms will play out before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Tuesday. Known as Docs vs. Glocks, the case is a challenge to a Florida law that says doctors may not ask patients or the parents of children they treat about guns in the home. While Tuesdays legal debate involves only a law in Florida, other gun-friendly states, like Georgia, are watching closely to see whether the state can successfully defend its statute.

Flying Guns? Michigan Lawmakers Seek to Ban Weaponized Drones Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Legislation would make it a crime in Michigan to weaponize an unmanned aerial vehicle. Democratic state Rep. Jon Hoadley of Kalamazoo says: "We don't need flying guns in Michigan." He says the legislation introduced earlier this month would make it illegal for weapons, even those legally attainable in Michigan, to be attached to a drone.

Senate Rejects Gun Control Background Check Measures
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Senators rejected two gun background proposals Monday evening largely along party lines just over a week after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Senators voted 53-47 on a proposal from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would reauthorize funding for the National Criminal Instant Background Check System (NICS) and incentivize states to share mental health records with the federal system.
But 60 votes were needed to move forward with the proposal.

Toomey's Trouble Isn't Guns
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So now we have renewed focus on gun laws, a flurry of activity in Congress and national attention on Pat Toomey. Donald Trump (left) and Pat Toomey (right). In the middle are, AR-15 rifles lining a shelf in the gun library at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia December 15, 2015. Oh, and with Toomey in a serious re-election challenge, charges from opponent Katie McGinty that Toomey's on the wrong side of guns and/or pandering to make it look as if he's on the right side of guns - whatever that might be.

PA: Guns Stolen From Sporting Goods Store in Bradford County Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are 3 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
State police say someone broke into a sporting goods store in Bradford County and stole guns. According to troopers, someone broke into Fulmer's Sporting Goods on Route 6, also known as Golden Mile Road, near Wysox Monday morning and stole a large amount of firearms.