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NE: 4-H Shooting Sports National Championship Recap
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Over 700 shooters competed in the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships on June 23-28, 2024, in Grand Island, NE.
The nine competitive disciplines included recurve and compound archery, small bore rifle and pistol, hunting skills, muzzleloading, rifle and pistol airgun, and shotgun.
For a complete list of results, please visit: https://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/national-results-images
“It was an honor to host the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championship at the Heartland Public Shooting Park” said Tom Busch, HPSP Manager. “Thank you to all of the staff, coaches, and competitors,” he added. |
‘Bullets and bread’: Ammo vending machines installed in grocery stores in these southern states
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Vending machines can have a variety of goods, such as chips and drinks, but have you ever heard of a vending machine that dispenses ammunition?
It may sound like a device out of a video game, but American Rounds LLC, founded last summer, is leading the charge to make ammunition more accessible by setting up AI-automated vending machines at grocery stores across the South.
The Dallas-based company set up its first Automated Ammo Retail Machine at the Fresh Value Grocery Store in Pell City, Alabama, last November. |
Financial Surveillance: Why We Have To Prevent Liberal Organizations From Subverting The Second Amendment
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There is no such thing as a free nation where the police and military are allowed to keep and bear arms and citizens are not. Our Founding Fathers understood this and enshrined the basic right to self-defense in the U.S. Constitution. The Second Amendment guarantees the absolute ability to live in peace without fear.
The U.S. Supreme Court has, time and again, reaffirmed that right. Yet elected Democrats and other stakeholders continue their all-out assault on this freedom with the ultimate goal of denying law-abiding Americans the opportunity to purchase and carry guns. |
Washington Post Gaslights Readers With Demagoguery and Deceit
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This summer, the Supreme Court said it had been misunderstood: Courts were taking too far Bruen’s guidance that gun laws must align with U.S. “history and tradition.” People under domestic violence restraining orders, the justices decreed, could be barred from having guns, allowing a looser interpretation of its decision from two years ago.
But on both sides of the gun-control debate, people say the ruling will do little to ease the confusion and disruption unleashed by the high court’s 2022 historical mandate. |
Associated Press Refuses to Correct Anti-gun Story, Another Symptom of its Decline
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We have debunked the Gun Violence Archive more than two dozen times for its anti-gun bias and its fake data. Seewer should have known this. A simple Google search would have shown there were significant problems with his main data source.
He also could have compared and contrasted the GVA numbers with a database maintained by Northeastern University, USA TODAY and his employer, the Associated Press. The two datasets are vastly different. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 284 mass shootings in 2024. The AP database says there have been 20 mass killings, of which 14 were shootings. Seewer actually cited both databases in the story but ignored the vast differences in their numbers. |
Idaho Republican senators to introduce Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act
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Idaho Republican senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined Senator Kevin Cramer, North Dakota’s Republican senator, to introduce the bicameral Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act that modernizes the legal framework governing interstate firearms transactions, according to a press release.
Federal regulations prohibit the sale or delivery of any firearm to an individual who does not reside in the state where the licensee’s place of business is located. The legislation would allow interstate firearm transactions, redefine the residency definition for armed forces and federal employees and permit dealer flexibility. |
HI: Hawaii Bans Adults 18-20 from Buying or Possessing Ammo
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The Hawaii legislature has passed a bill that forbids adults aged 18-20 from purchasing or possessing ammunition. It also forbids anyone from transferring ammunition to people under the age of 21. Violation of the Bill would be punishable as a misdemeanor.
On May 2, 2024, the Hawaii Legislature sent Bill SB2845 to Democratic Governor Josh Green for his signature. Governor Green (D). Governor Green has signed several state laws restricting firearms ownership and carry in Hawaii. Governor Green (D) is expected to sign SB2845 into law. Hawaii government is effectively defying the Supreme Court ruling in Bruen. |
Supreme Court Justice’s Bodyguards Shot Would-Be Carjacker, Despite Her Opposition To Self-Defense
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s bodyguards shot a carjacker outside of her home while on duty, according to a report from the New York Post.
Two deputy US Marshals were parked outside Sotomayor’s home when an 18-year-old would-be carjacker walked up to their cars and pulled a gun on one of the federal agents. The 18-year-old, Kentrell Flowers, walked up to the Marshals’ cars around 1:15 a.m.
Both agents pulled their weapons out and fired several shots at the suspect. Flowers was arrested and treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. |
What the New GOP Platform Says About Gun Politics
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The Republican Party stripped all of the gun-policy promises from its 2024 platform this week. Is that a sign that the party is turning away from gun voters?
In its first official platform in eight years, the GOP reduced its commitments to gun rights to just a single passing reference. In a preamble statement preceding any discussion of the party’s actual policy priorities, the document pledges that any Republican majority will defend “our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.” Further discussion of the Second Amendment, or any concrete gun policy ideas, appear nowhere else in the 16-page document published Monday. |
GOP Ditches Gun Policy Promises
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The 2024 Republican platform dumped all mentions of specific pro-gun policy promises from the last platform in exchange for a single-sentence platitude. This is another sign the gun-rights movement is in a politically vulnerable state as the only major party with any interest in partnering with it backs away, as I’ve been talking about for a while. But does the platform change mean we’ll start to see Donald Trump or other Republicans back new gun restrictions? In a piece for members, Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman argues that’s probably not the thing gun owners should be concerned about. |
Republican Party Platform All But Ignores the Second Amendment
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As noted above, the Second Amendment sits in seventh position, behind other pressing issues like securing the border and deporting illegals. Making the country the dominant energy producer in the world is next, followed by “turn[ing] the United States into a manufacturing superpower. Number Six: “Large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips!”
In seventh place, the Second Amendment is likely to be ignored. There is no other mention of it among the 20 promises, and no agenda concerning rolling back present onerous unconstitutional infringements. |
TX: Trends for 'ghost guns' are shifting. Here's where experts say they're popping up.
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But in recent years, the cartel demand for ghost guns has slowed down.
"The reliability of those guns is still not as good as your regular manufactured firearm," Topper explained.
These days, you can buy kits with everything you need to build a customized but largely untraceable firearm.
The ATF says, especially in Texas, those purchases aren't usually nefarious.
"Most of the people that make privately made firearms are just making them for personal use, just one firearm," Topper explained. "And they don't distribute them."
Where the issue arises, Topper says, is when people leave those guns in their cars.
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WI: Guns to be allowed within proposed RNC security footprint
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From July 15th-18th the Republican National Convention will engulf downtown Milwaukee. When thousands of visitors will be in downtown Milwaukee, guns will be legally allowed within the proposed ‘soft’ security zone for the convention; per Wisconsin law.
Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke told WTMJ it would be difficult for the Common Council to restrict guns in the area even if they wanted to.
“State statute precludes local government from regulating firearm possession beyond what is regulated in state statute,” Goyke said. |
LA: In One Sneaky Move New Orleans Tries To Block Armed Self Defense
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Now, some New Orleans officials are seeking to undermine Louisianans’ Right-to-Carry through political gamesmanship. According to a report from the Associated Press, New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick intends to designate a police station in the heart of the French Quarter a “school” to curtail the Right-to-Carry within 1,000 feet of the building and frustrate the ability to carry in the popular downtown area.
Explaining the officials’ dubious strategy, the AP reported that when the legislature enacted Constitutional Carry, “Lawmakers rejected repeated pleas from police and city officials to exempt New Orleans entirely or to carve out the French Quarter and other areas well-known for alcohol-fueled revelry.” |
KS: Kansas challenge of ATF rule closing 'gun show loophole' fails to get injunction
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The U.S. District Court of Kansas noted that there are questions about the new rule but wasn't confident that it would be overturned or that Kobach and the other plaintiffs, which includes 20 states and a handful of Kansas citizens that engage in private sales, would suffer irreparable harm.
"While they may ultimately succeed on the merits, they have failed to make a strong showing that they are substantially likely to do so. In addition, there are unique procedural factors that counsel a cautious approach at this stage of litigation," wrote U.S. District Judge Toby Crouse. |
PA: DRT in Pennsylvania: Women Defends Herself Leaving Home Intruder Dead Right There
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In a dramatic turn of events early April morning, a woman in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, used her legal right to self-defense to protect herself and her home. The incident unfolded when an intruder broke into her house on 10th Avenue.
According to Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible, the homeowner was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. She armed herself with a 9mm handgun and went to investigate, only to come face to face with the intruder in her basement. Acting quickly in the terrifying moment, she fired her weapon three times, killing the man who had forcibly entered her home. |
HI: Hawaii Lawmakers Rebuilding Monarchy Without Second Amendment
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It’s almost as if Hawaiian lawmakers are working to re-establish a kingdom in the island state, one where the U.S. Constitution is a suggestion and not the law of the land.
Hawaii’s Gov. Josh Green signed the law that bans the sale, ownership, possession or controlling of ammunition by adults under the age of 21. The bill, Senate Bill 2845, would essentially eliminate Second Amendment rights for adults in Hawaii who are vested in the full spectrum of their civil rights.
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