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MI: American Legion, Precision, sporter air rifle champions crowned
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The American Legion crowned its 2024 Junior 3-Position Air Rifle National Championship precision and sporter winners Saturday, July 20, in Hillsdale, Mich. The top eight in both classes competed in the Margot Biermann Athletic Center on the campus of Hillsdale College for the finals after two previous days of back-to-back tournament matches.
The precision champion is Emme Walrath of Kenosha, Wis., and second-place finisher is Kamdyn McFarland of Billings, Mont. Sporter champion is Alexandra Orr of Poquoson, Va., and second-place finisher is Zachary Higgins of Gray, Tenn. Walrath and Orr will receive a $5,000 scholarship provided by The American Legion and Sons of The American Legion. |
Biden’s Hollow Bow as Harris Talks Restrictive Gun Control
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It was enough to compel Alan Gottlieb at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to declare Harris is even more radical than Biden on gun control extremism.
“Since her days in the California Legislature, Kamala Harris has been an ardent gun prohibitionist,” Gottlieb said. “When she first arrived at the U.S. Senate, she co-sponsored gun control legislation to ban so-called ‘assault weapons.’ When she ran for president in 2020, she called for a ‘mandatory buy-back’ program, which translates to compensated gun confiscation.”
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MA: Massachusetts governor signs bill cracking down on hard-to-trace ‘ghost guns’
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On ghost guns, the law toughens oversight for those who own privately made, unserialized firearms that are largely untraceable. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice reported recovering 25,785 ghost guns in domestic seizures.
The law expands the state’s extreme risk protective order law — also known as the red flag law — by authorizing health care professionals and others who interact regularly with people in crisis to petition a court to suspend a person’s right to possess or carry a gun to protect themselves and others.
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WA: Washington State Supreme Court leaves high-capacity magazine ban in place
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Washington's ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines will remain in effect after a Monday decision by the state Supreme Court.
A majority of justices denied a request to modify an order from Supreme Court Commissioner Michael Johnson issued back in April that kept the ban in place, despite a lower court ruling that determined the law was unconstitutional.
Monday’s decision will keep the ban in effect until the court hears arguments, possibly in September, in the state’s appeal of the lower court's ruling. |
An 8-Year-Old’s First Shots
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Last weekend, our Guns Save Life Defense Training crew had a unique opportunity to grow America’s gun culture beyond the students enrolled. One student, a public school teacher, brought her well-behaved 8-year-old daughter along to the class. The young lady even spent some time behind the rangemaster, watching her mom and a gaggle of other students firing their first shots with great interest.
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OK: CCW SAFE Sees Surge In Gun Owners Obtaining Self-Defense Plans
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CCW Safe, a unique national self-defense plan provider, has announced a thirty percent annual member growth rate in recent years. The private company’s various plans provide holistic legal, financial, emotional, and physical support to citizens and off-duty law enforcement officers should a self-defense incident occur in 47 states through travel or residency.
The company, with its one-of-a-kind business model, was launched in 2013. |
Guam: Former Chief of Police calls for public education on expanded castle doctrine
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From protecting the castle to the curtilage, a resident’s right to defend their home without the duty to retreat is now extended to include the surrounding curtilage such as their yard and driveway.
After contentious debate, Senator Will Parkinson’s Bill 39 passed with near unanimous support– with just one senator opting out.
Earlier this week, Governor Lou Leon Guerrero let it lapse into law but there's bound to be confusion, according to University of Guam legal studies faculty Frank Ishizaki. |
NC: Case pits 2nd Amendment against gun-free school zones
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“When the application of a statute impedes conduct protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment, it is presumptively unconstitutional,” wrote Judge Hunter Murphy. “To overcome this presumption, the State must demonstrate that its regulation is consistent with, or analogous to, this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
“The State failed to demonstrate that regulating Defendant’s possession of firearms, which were kept within a vehicle that was parked in the university hospital parking lot where Defendant was seeking emergency medical care, is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” Murphy added. |
NY: Letitia James Loses Bid to Change Judges in Lawsuit
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has lost a bid to change judges in a lawsuit challenging a state law banning the sale of body armor.
James' office is defending a law prohibiting the sale and possession of body armor in the state, which was passed following the mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. The shooter killed 10 people and injured three others. Police described the shooting as "racially motivated," as the alleged shooter traveled 200 miles from his home to target the market in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The shooter was wearing body armor. |
WI: Wisconsin Ends Ban On Carrying Firearms While Fishing
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Wisconsin residents are allowed to carry firearms while fishing after the state rescinded a longstanding restriction on gun owners Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty announced in a press release published June 6 that it filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), arguing that the ban infringed on the Second Amendment.
DNR announced the change Wednesday. The law had been in effect since 1999. |
48 Percent Prefer to Live Where Gun Ownership Allowed
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Forty-eight percent (48%) of voters prefer to live in a community where people are allowed to own guns. A Scott Rasmussen national survey conducted by RMG Research found that 39% of voters would rather live in a community where guns are outlawed.
The survey also found that 55% of voters oppose a proposal to ban the private ownership of guns so that only police and other government officials would be allowed to have them. Forty percent (40%) of voters favor the proposal. |
NH: Shout Out to N.H. Gov. Sununu For Signing Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act
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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, applauds New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu for signing H.B. 1186, the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, into law last week. This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing firearms and ammunition in The Granite State. With New Hampshire, there are now 17 states with laws that protect the Second Amendment financial privacy of their citizens. |
FL: Florida Department of Law Enforcement Loses in Court Over It Delaying Gun Purchases
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“This ruling ends to ability of administrative agencies to deny firearm rights without being subject to lawsuits and attorney’s fees for their misconduct,” Friday said. “It also ends their ability to force people into the lengthy administrative process when the Legislature has not required this administrative process. This is an argument every agency has attempted to use against gun owners, and the Court has removed that argument from administrative agencies that want to violate Floridians’ gun rights.
“Ending government abuse of citizens is always a huge victory,” Friday said. |
Care About Your Gun Rights? Make Sure You Vote
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A new report from a grassroots voter registration group demonstrates the tremendous importance of registering to vote and the heightened impact hunters, recreational shooting sports enthusiasts and other law-abiding American gun owners could have on federal, state and local elections if they were only to register to vote and do so on Nov. 5, 2024.
That includes making sure the more than 22.3 million new first-time gun owners since 2020 are registered and make the effort to get to the ballot box on election day. |
MA: Healey signs gun reform bill, putting Mass. among a handful of states regulating ghost guns
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Massachusetts is now joining a handful of other states that are trying to regulate the do-it-yourself firearms known as ghost guns.
The guns, which lack serial numbers and are extremely difficult to trace, are put together with parts that come in kits or as separately purchased, mix-and-matchable pieces. Gov. Maura Healey signed a law Thursday that requires all guns to have serial numbers issued through a forthcoming request system that the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services will design. |
Don’t Underestimate Kamala Harris
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Harris has become the country’s highest ranking anti-gun activist. She is not opposed to lying, spinning or gaslighting the public as long as it’s strategic and meets her needs. Neither will she hesitate in demonizing those who oppose her gun control schemes, such as labeling them feckless or extremists.
Quite frankly, Kamala Harris comes across as goofy, but she has surrounded herself with a team of dedicated individuals who are anything but. They are as committed to infringing upon our Second Amendment rights as we are to preserving them.
We underestimate Harris and her team of experienced anti-gun advocates at our peril. |
Trump Thrills Crowd In Dallas
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) preceded Trump and was cheered by the crowd, especially when he announced, “I want to say to all NRA members here today, as the governor of this great state, welcome to Texas, where, when it comes to defending our freedoms, it is part of our DNA. Now more than ever, we must fight to protect our Second Amendment rights. And that is exactly what Texas has done. According to the NRA, since I became governor, Texas has passed more significant Second Amendment protections than any other state in the United States of America.” |
Will Kamala Harris Move Her Campaign Left on Guns?
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Biden and Harris aren’t miles apart on firearms. They’ve both backed many of the same policies over the years. The main difference is in degree.
They both opposed the Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 finding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, but Harris signed on to a brief in the case as California Attorney General. They both back a so-called assault weapons ban and buyback, targeting popular guns like the AR-15. However, Harris has also advocated for the government to force owners to sell their firearms. The two also back using executive power to unilaterally implement new gun restrictions but clashed over the extent of that power. |
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