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NY: Hawley criticizes NYS plan to require background checks for ammo purchases
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Assemblyman Steve Hawley (R,C-Batavia) denounced the state government’s recent decision to require background checks for all ammunition purchases in New York. While the current system allows for free customer background checks for firearm purchases, this initiative would hand over this duty to the New York State Police.
Once this new system goes into effect, customers will be charged an additional fee of $9 for firearms and $2.50 for ammunition in order to cover the cost of a background check. Hawley is disappointed the state government is once again disregarding New Yorkers’ Second Amendment rights. |
The Incorporation Doctrine Waters Down the Second Amendment
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Many people want the federal government to protect the right to keep and bear arms by applying the Second Amendment to the states and using it to limit state gun control. The problem with this strategy is that we almost always end up with a lower standard for the right to keep and bear arms that then gets applied nationwide.
Furthermore, putting the feds in charge of protecting the right to keep and bear arms gives states the cover they need to implement more gun control instead of limiting it. That’s because even though states can technically impose limits on their government that go beyond what the Supreme Court dictate, they rarely do. Any federal court decision usually becomes the upper limit on their action. |
FL: Florida’s largest gun show offering concealed weapons classes at Florida State Fairgrounds
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For the first time since Florida’s permitless carry law went into effect July 1, the state’s largest gun show is coming to Tampa this weekend.
“Florida is a free state,” General Manager Robert Geisler said. “They want to carry. They want to exercise their Second Amendment.”
While it is no longer required by state law, Geisler said he still recommends that gun owners, especially first-time buyers, obtained a concealed carry permit. Throughout the weekend, active and former law enforcement officers will teach four concealed weapons classes inside the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Center. |
What The Hunter Biden Saga Should Teach Even Second Amendment Haters
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President Joe Biden (D) has a long history as a “warrior” against the users of illegal drugs. In 1989, in a televised speech, Biden criticized then-President George H. W. Bush (R) for having taken an approach that, per Biden, was “not tough enough, bold enough or imaginative enough” for his tastes. “What we need,” Biden said, “is another D-Day, not another Vietnam, not a limited war, fought on the cheap.” Bush’s plan, Biden said, “doesn’t include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, not enough prosecutors to convict them, not enough judges to sentence them and not enough prison cells to put them away for a long time.” His aim, Biden insisted, was to “hold every drug user accountable.” |
AZ Woman Fatally Shoots Sex Offender As He Tried to Disarm Her
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A convicted sex offender is dead, and a woman is unharmed after he tried breaking into her home last week.
On August 11, a 42-year-old convicted sex offender attempted to break into an Arizona woman’s home. The woman told the suspect to leave, which he didn’t, so she armed herself with a handgun.
The details are scarce, so I don’t know if the following altercation occurred outside the home or if the suspect had gained access to the house. Local media reported that she fired a warning shot, hoping to scare the suspect off. But it didn’t.
The suspect tried to disarm the woman, and he was shot during the altercation. He died on the scene. The woman sustained no injuries. |
Gun control group slammed over claim Kyle Rittenhouse 'not held accountable' for 2020 shooting, despite trial
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Critics ripped gun control group Moms Demand Action for a social media post claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse "was not held accountable" for killing two men and injuring another with his AR-15 rifle during a Black Lives Matter riot in 2020.
Even though a Wisconsin circuit judge ruled in 2021 that Rittenhouse was not guilty of all charges relating to the deaths of the two men and the injury of the other, Moms Demand Action claimed justice hadn’t been done in post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday, which marked the three-year anniversary of the incident that happened during the riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
New Bill Would Stop VA Bureaucrats From Gaming The System To Grab Veterans’ Guns
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Currently, the VA forces any veterans who want to appoint a fiduciary to manage their benefits to risk losing their Second Amendment rights. The expressed purpose of the fiduciary program, according to the VA, is “to protect Veterans and beneficiaries who are unable to manage their VA benefits through the appointment and oversight of a fiduciary.”
At no time during the fiduciary evaluation process does the VA determine if a veteran is a danger to himself or others. Yet, any veteran who is deemed “unable to manage” their benefits on their own by the VA is automatically barred from purchasing or owning firearms or ammunition. |
MO: St. Louis to give ‘commonsense’ gun laws a chance
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St. Louis could soon join Kansas City in passing gun control legislation that would outlaw possession of assault weapons and take other actions to stem gun violence.
“In the coming days, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office, aldermen are ready to introduce commonsense gun safety legislation,” said Mayor Tishaura O. Jones following a listening session that included gun violence survivors and gun control advocates and Friendly Temple in north St. Louis. |
NJ: New Jersey Follows California's Lead on Unworkable Microstamping Requirements
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New Jersey is trying its hardest to become the California of the East Coast – without the good weather, Hollywood and vineyards. When it comes to gun control, though, New Jersey’s got just about everything California has to offer – even down to the microstamping requirements.
That is, of course, until a federal judge ordered that California couldn’t enforce microstamping mandates earlier this year. Turns out, it violates the Second Amendment. New Jersey might want to take note. |
CA: Butte County district attorney opts out of homicide charge in Oroville shooting
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The Butte County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to charge an Oroville homeowner with homicide after a shooting that occurred Tuesday.
The shooting resulted in the death of 29-year-old Oroville resident Bruce Pagenkopp on Tuesday morning, but according to a press release issued Thursday by the DA’s Office, there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove that the alleged shooter, 54-year-old Darren Moran, had committed a homicide.
“Based upon the totality of the current evidence, and given our burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Moran did not have a reasonable self-defense argument, we will not be filing homicide charges,” District Attorney Mike Ramsey said. |
The GOP Debate Reminded Americans Once Again Why Their Individual Gun Rights Are Important
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Eight Republican presidential candidates were under the bright lights in Milwaukee, Wis., this week as the 2024 election officially kicked off with the first televised debate of the campaign.
Fox News hosted the debate and candidates who qualified for the stage included North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, South Carolina U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, former Gov. and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. |
Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, by Carl T. Bogus
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The National Rifle Association has promoted a false version of American gun culture; among other things is the legendary association with the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms with the Minutemen of the American Revolution. Carl T. Bogus finds a darker history in Madison’s Militia. James Madison, the future president, authored the Second Amendment to placate Southern slaveholders such as Patrick “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Henry, who threatened to prevent the Constitution’s ratification without additional assurances that the slave states could be maintained. |
AR: Arkansas gun laws to be studied with an eye toward clarity, lawmakers decide
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The subcommittee is also expected to review requirements for concealed carry instructors, including marksmanship standards; how state and federal gun laws interact; and which agency should provide advice to State Police when firearms laws conflict.
The issues cited in the call for the study echo those raised by witnesses at the July Game & Fish/State Police subcommittee meeting. Second Amendment activists and county sheriffs called on the panel to create a task force to help eliminate confusion about existing gun laws.
Arkansas stopped requiring a concealed-carry permit in 2021 and amended the law this year to make it clear that a license is only provided to allow reciprocity for those who travel to states where a permit is required. |
MI: Can Michigan’s red flag laws reduce gun violence?
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If implemented properly, firearm legislation can make a difference when it comes to preventing gun-related injuries and death according to a recent policy study from researchers at the University of Michigan.
How much of a difference, however, remains to be seen as many states have only recently adopted their own laws which can remove firearms from a person’s possession if found to be a safety risk to themselves or others.
This means more research on the topic is needed to make a clearer link according to the study, which was published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in June of 2023. |
The edgelord of the federal judiciary
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He’s written that a federal law prohibiting gun possession by people that a court has determined to be a “credible threat to the physical safety of [their] intimate partner” is unconstitutional. Among other things, Ho claimed that this law “should give us pause” because women getting a divorce sometimes seek such court orders as “a tactical leverage device” in their divorce proceedings. |
The Slanted Findings of a Gun-Control “Study”
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Everytown for Gun Safety is a Michael Bloomberg-funded gun-ban group that has never heard of an anti-gun proposal that it hasn’t supported. So, when Everytown recently joined with The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab to study “youth” and guns, it should come as no surprise that they “found” exactly what they were looking for.
The combined groups’ new “study,” titled “U.S. Youth Attitudes On Guns Report,” concluded that pro-gun youth are more likely to hold supremacist or racist views. “Evidence from this study suggests that pro-gun attitudes were associated with more extreme worldviews like male supremacist ideation and racial resentment,” the report stated. |
TN: Tennessee Special Legislative Session Targets Gun Owners
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Several anti-gun measures that were rejected by the Tennessee General Assembly earlier this year are back in play in a special session that convened on Aug. 21. Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) special session, ostensibly to address “public safety,” has quickly turned into an anti-gun barrage with proposals under consideration that cover everything from “red-flag” laws to “safe-storage” provisions.
“Tennessee will be a safer state as a result of the efforts of the legislation and the legislators who are engaged in the process of this special session on public safety,” said Gov. Lee when announcing the session earlier this summer. |
‘Ghost Gun’ Piece Hardly the First National Review Second Amendment ‘Fail’
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“Political observers expect the Washington Post and the New York Times to carry water for Joe Biden’s Department of Justice gun control agenda. It’s surprising when the conservative National Review seemingly bends over backward to defend the weaponized agency in a poorly researched and written piece,” the National Rifle Association stated in a Wednesday release. “On August 9, National Review published an item with the confident title ‘Yes, the ATF Can Legally Regulate Ghost Guns.’ The ill-informed piece was written by a summer intern. If it was an unpaid internship, the publication got every penny’s worth.” |
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