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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shoo
Published On 3/22/2023
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.

Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes). There is no reason to believe this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted to these heroic acts. In addition, we do not attempt here to list the vast number of defensive gun uses in general that are reported daily in the US.
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Carjacker in Philadelphia Shot by Victim
Published On 3/20/2023
It happened late Saturday night at North Mascher and West Berks streets in Kensington.

Police say the suspect approached the victim who was sitting in a vehicle.

The victim fired a gun through the windshield, shattering the vehicle’s glass and hitting the suspect in the chest
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Our Research on Errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports given Extensive Coverage in the Washingt
Published On 3/19/2023
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler has a long discussion about our research on the FBI’s Active Shooting cases. One benefit from Kessler’s piece is that he was actually able to get the Texas State University people to respond to two of the cases that we provided. Dr. Lott has tried numerous times over the years to get responses from the people at Texas State University without any success. In their response to Kessler, the TSU people claim that they don’t include cases involving domestic disputes or instances where a suspect started shooting after being denied entry to a lounge or bar. Yet, at the end of the long quote from Kessler’s article, we list 14 instances where the FBI list does include shooting resulting from domestic disputes and three others that involve people being denied entry to a lounge or bar. Excluding these 17 cases would reduce the FBI’s 252 active shooting cases from 2014 to 2021 by seven percent.
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California’s Mass Public Shooting rate is much higher than Texas’ or the rest of the United States
Published On 3/18/2023
After the California Supreme Court declared the state’s assault weapon ban unconstitutional in 1998, a new law was enacted in 2000. Picking just a few years from 2019 to 2021 to evaluate the law seems arbitrary. Whether one picks the years from 2000 on, 2010 on, or 2020 on, the per capita rate of mass public shootings in California is always greater than the rate for the rest of the country (Excel file is available here). The rate has also been consistently lower in Texas, which gun control groups give an “F” grade for its gun control laws. From 2010 on, California’s per capita rate of mass public shootings was 43% higher than the rate in Texas and 29% higher than in the rest of the United States. Since 2020, the rate in California is 276% higher than in Texas and 100% higher than in the rest of the U.S..
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Illinois loses appeal over gun control law, leaving restraining order in effect
Published On 3/17/2023
The state of Illinois lost an appeal on Tuesday after a lower court judge issued a restraining order on a newly enacted ban on some semiautomatic rifles as well as high-capacity magazines.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the gun control law on Jan. 10, which bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high capacity magazines and switches, which went into effect immediately after he approved it.

Effingham County Judge Joshua Morrison issued a temporary restraining order against the law on Jan. 24, preventing it from being enforced.
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Senate Republicans push for concealed carry reciprocity in new Second Amendment bill
Published On 3/16/2023
Republican Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., today will introduce new Second Amendment reforms that would allow state-issued concealed carry permits to be recognized in other states that allow concealed carry.

The bill, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, is backed by more than 40 of their Senate colleagues, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D.
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Chicago: Man shoots, wounds suspected robber in shoot out on Green Line train
Published On 3/16/2023
A man with a concealed carry license shot and wounded a man trying to rob him at gunpoint on a CTA Green Line train Friday afternoon near the Cicero station, according to officials.

About 4:45 p.m., the suspected robber, 33, approached a 25-year-old man on the train, Chicago police said.

The younger man, pulled out a firearm of his own and a shootout ensued, police said. That man had a valid CCL/FOID license.

The suspected robber was shot in the leg and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital . . . The younger man was not struck by gunfire. . . .
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After Mass Public Shooting in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu announces that “Firearm licensing will be e
Published On 3/15/2023
Israel just had a mass public shooting where seven people were murdered. Compare Israel’s response to that in California, where they have just had several mass public shootings. In California, few people have a concealed handgun permit. Half Moon Bay is in San Mateo County had 24 permits with 591,048 adults (one permit per every 24,630 adults). Monterey Park and Beverly Crest are in Los Angeles County and had 1,378 permits last year with an adult population of 7.8 million (one permit for every 5,660 adults). In contrast, they know that armed civilians are necessary to stop mass public shootings in Israel.
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Florida, Nebraska, and South Carolina are moving towards Constitutional Carry
Published On 3/15/2023
There are currently 25 Constitutional Carry states, with Louisiana allowing veterans and those in the military to carry without a permit. Florida and South Carolina are racing against each other to see who will be the 26th state. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been pushing for Constitutional Carry since last April. In Nebraska, State Senator Tom Brewer said November’s election made the Legislature slightly more conservative, so there should finally be enough votes to advance the bill. Nebraska almost passed the law last year. On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a bipartisan vote of 5 yes, zero no, 2 abstentions, and 1 absent. Last year, they could not get the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, and this year no one voted “no” on the bill.
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New Gun Regulation Handicaps the Disabled
Published On 3/1/2023
The Biden administration’s newly released regulations regarding “pistol-stabilizing braces” will instantly turn tens of thousands of law-abiding Americans into felons and create a national rifle registry. But the Biden administration and the media exaggerate the costs and ignore the benefits these braces produce.

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Few seem to realize that stabilizing braces for pistols were originally designed to allow wounded and disabled veterans who may have lost the use of part of their hand to hold handguns. They are essentially a strap attached to the gun. Disabled individuals are often viewed as easy targets by criminals, and stabilizers make it easier to defend themselves. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) originally approved pistol braces during the Obama administration.
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Connecticut armed robbers shoot store owner who pulls out legal firearms and kills suspect: cops
Published On 3/1/2023
A Connecticut clothing store owner fatally shot a suspected robber during a shootout last week, but was wounded in the exchange of gunfire, according to police.

"A brief struggle took place between the store clerk and one of the suspects who pulled out a firearm," the East Hartford Police Department reported. Police identified the store employee as a clerk, though NBC Connecticut reported it was the store owner who was on the premises working late that night.

Two men wearing black ski masks entered the clothing store Humble & Paid Co. just after 10:30 p.m. on Thursday with the intention of robbing the store, the police said in a press release.
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Bill to allow counties to ban firearms discharge clears House with surprising votes
Published On 2/28/2023
A bill that seeks to allow counties to ban firearms discharges on certain private property cleared the House Thursday morning, with House Republicans mounting a furious, last-minute effort to kill it.

But the final vote — with eight Democrats voting against — shows the issue got Democratic opposition rarely seen on gun control bills that have moved in the last few years through Colorado's state House, a legislative body dominated by Democrats.
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“Ax-wielding attacker shot by gun-permit holder who was defending himself”
Published On 2/28/2023
Merced County Sheriff’s deputies say an ax-wielding man was shot Tuesday evening after he allegedly attacked a property owner who has a concealed-carry permit.

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. . . the suspect, identified as Luis Larios, was on the gun owner’s property, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release.

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The property owner saw Larios sitting inside a vehicle stuck in the mud. The property owner was trying to help him get the vehicle out of the mud.
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Huge increase in concealed handgun permits in Maryland — a 599% increase between the end of 2021 and
Published On 2/28/2023
The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision from June has greatly impacted the number of concealed handgun permits in Maryland. Our last annual report showed that as of August 27th, 2022, there were 47,674 concealed handgun permits in Maryland, up from 12,189 in 2021. But permit issuance had continued soaring, and by the end of 2022, 85,266 permits were issued — a 599% increase from 2021 and a 79% increase from the end of August. That is still only about 1.8% of the adult population with permits, but it is sizeable increase over what it had been before.
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Iowa gun-toting mother stops duo from kidnapping her son
Published On 2/27/2023
Some news stories point out this mother used a gun to scare off the kidnappers, but others just say she scared away these two attackers without explaining how this mother was able to scare away a man and a woman.

Fox station KDSM in Des Moines, Iowa reported that two people, later identified as Michael Ernest Ross, 43, and Laurie Lynn Potter, 57, repeatedly walked in front of the Hubbell Tower Apartments door on Jan. 5.
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Tragedies That Could Have Been Prevented With Better Gun Control
Published On 2/25/2023
Guns. They've caused countless tragedies. The list of tragedies that could have been prevented by guns is literally infinite, especially when you consider the multiverse.

Here is a small sampling of tragedies that could have been prevented with common sense gun control:

World War I: Without guns, they would have just resorted to slap fights. In the case of the French, tickle fights.
World War II: Imagine what would have happened if Hitler had never been able to access an AR-15.
That time Chick-Fil-A ran out of sauce: And even during the crisis, Congress did NOTHING.
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Colorado Democrats are poised to introduce a package of stricter gun bills on Thursday
Published On 2/23/2023
Democrats in Colorado are expected to introduce a slate of gun bills at the statehouse Thursday that have been in the works for months.

However, the majority party is divided over the most controversial idea on the table: a statewide assault weapons ban, which will likely be introduced later this session.

Thursday’s package, which has the support of Democratic legislative leadership includes:

A three-day waiting period for all gun purchases
Increasing the age to purchase a firearm to 21
Expanding who can file ask a court to temporarily remove someone’s firearms with an Extreme Risk Protection Order
Making it easier to sue firearm manufacturers for liability.
Democrats say the bills are part of an intentional effort to treat gun violence like other policy areas that come up for discussion at the legislature every year.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna saying that California’s strict gun control laws aren’t worki
Published On 2/23/2023
Luna: California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, but look at what we just had today. So let’s look at across our nation, see what works and what doesn’t. But I can tell you this, the status quo is not working. We need to re-examine what we are doing, and what may work better.
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'You don't need an AR-15': A look at some of Biden's most inaccurate remarks about firearms and 2A s
Published On 2/22/2023
President Biden's tenure in the White House has been marked with a consistent tone surrounding the Second Amendment and firearms, but on several occasions, the president has shown that he may not know the real issue at hand as he repeatedly pushes for a ban on "assault weapons."

Biden's latest remarks taking aim at strong supporters of the Second Amendment and certain firearms came last week during a speech at the National Action Network's annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Washington, where he appeared to mock his conservative colleagues.
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At the Washington Times: Why aren’t stalked women ever told to get a gun for self-defense?
Published On 2/22/2023
On this past Tuesday night, Ewen Dewitt brutally murdered 40-year-old Julie Minogue with an axe in her Milford, Connecticut home. Two of her children were at home when the murder occurred. Dewitt, an ex-boyfriend, had been stalking her.

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“I’m scared he’s going to kill me,” she told police. In 2019, she had a protective order issued. Just a week before the murder, a judge had granted her a full no-contact restraining order.

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The case clearly illustrates the limits of protective orders when the stalker is intent on murdering the victim. If the murderer is already facing the possibility of life imprisonment without parole for first-degree murder, how will an additional five more years in prison and a $5,000 fine deter such murders?
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Court Strikes Down Federal Law Barring Pot Heads From Owning Guns
Published On 2/22/2023
A U.S. District judge in Oklahoma ruled that a federal law restricting marijuana users from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, marking the latest court decision to expand Second Amendment rights.

Trump-appointed judge Patrick Wyrick ruled last week that federal law violated the Second Amendment rights of Jared Michael Harrison, who was arrested in May 2022 for possession of marijuana. He was later charged with violation of federal law "that makes it illegal for ‘unlawful users or addicts of controlled substances’ to possess firearms," according to Fox News. In his decision, however, Wyrick wrote that "Harrison’s mere status as a user of marijuana" did not "justif[y] stripping him of his fundamental right to possess a firearm."
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The Paranoid Style in Gun Control Politics
Published On 2/20/2023
If you're looking for a website like QAnon, but catering to gun control advocates, you will enjoy some articles from The Trace, a gun control website founded and funded by Michael Bloomberg. In August, The Trace presented a conspiracy about the amicus briefs filed in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The article was reprinted by Politico. Will Van Sant, The NRA's Shadowy Supreme Court Lobbying Campaign, Politico, Aug. 5, 2022.
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TV Show bias on Guns: Defensive gun use with a concealed handgun permit gone wrong, “Got the gun for
Published On 2/20/2023
Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and use in a crime to it being used in an accidental shooting), and this episode of CBS’ “Blue Bloods” is no different (Season 13, Episode 4, October 28, 2022). This episode has an example of a defensive gun use failing. A woman being robbed of her $200,000 watch pulls out her permitted concealed handgun and is severely wounded by the robbers. The point of the episode is that other people who were robbed of their watches by the same criminals in the episode weren’t harmed.
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TV Show bias on Guns: Actor TV FBI agent dismissing defensive gun use, “So much for a good guy with
Published On 2/19/2023
Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and use in a crime to it being used in an accidental shooting), and this episode of CBS’ “FBI Most Wanted” is no different (Season 4, Episode 1, September 20, 2022). This episode even has two different examples of defensive gun uses failing. The second example involves someone who is supposedly the head of an NRA-type organization (called the NRF). The NRF head carries a concealed handgun, but it does him no good in stopping a man threatening his life. The person threatening him had his child murdered in a school shooting, so he was very sympathetic.
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Naked man shot after breaking into Tennessee home, ransacking living room: police
Published On 2/19/2023
A Tennessee homeowner shot and injured a naked and violent man who broke into his neighbor's house and ransacked the place, according to authorities and reports.

Drake Combs, 27, allegedly broke into a Knoxville house and ransacked the living room on Dec. 6, after he threw objects at the homeowner and told him to leave, WATE reported.

The homeowner and his wife fled to the home of a neighbor, who reportedly grabbed his 9mm handgun and went to investigate. The neighbor found the suspect in the driveway after the suspect allegedly jumped on the resident’s car, broke the windshield and swiped the windshield wiper as a weapon, according to WATE.
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Nebraska state senator thinks Constitutional concealed carry will pass this legislative session
Published On 2/19/2023
The new legislative session is just weeks away, and one state lawmaker believes that some controversial bills have a good chance at passing.

Sen. Tom Brewer said that includes his gun rights bill, which would bring permitless concealed carry to Nebraska.

The proposal fell just two votes short of the 33 needed to overcome a filibuster last legislative session.
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More Media Misinformation: Machine guns used by criminals, NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime
Published On 2/18/2023
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime is no different. This episode shows a criminal shooting a cop with a machine gun.

In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey did not even mention fully automatic weapons. A similar finding is available from the FBI UCR report where 2.6% of all murders involve rifles of any type and 0.3% of all murders involve unspecified “other guns.” There is a reason for that. Since 1934, there was only one possible known use ever of a civilian using a machine gun in a murder. And even before 1934, they were very rare.
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Louisiana woman shoots and kills home invasion suspect to protect her children: police
Published On 2/18/2023
A Louisiana woman shot and killed a man who broke into her home during the early morning hours on Sunday, according to law enforcement officials.

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to reports of shots being fired at a residence on Klein Road just after 5 a.m. on Sunday.
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Federal judge strikes down California's 'fee-shifting' gun control scheme, which echoed Texas aborti
Published On 2/15/2023
A federal judge has blocked the state of California from enforcing a gun control scheme that was modeled after a controversial Texas abortion law, delivering Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom the exact outcome he wanted.

U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California issued a permanent injunction on Monday against the "fee-shifting" provisions of the state's gun law – which empowers private citizens to bring lawsuits against gun manufacturers – declaring it unconstitutional.
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New anti gun bill
Published On 2/13/2023
This has been pushed to tomorrow. Keep the pressure up! Contact your representatives today! Follow the link below!


https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230210/colorado-update-committee-members-advance-shooting-ban-on-private-property
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Fox News: Support for red flag laws turns to opposition when voters told about how they work
Published On 2/1/2023
The study’s author suggests ‘really biased’ framing of poll questions greatly skews support for red flag laws.

A new study shows that the attitude of Americans toward red flag laws, where guns are taken away from citizens by a judge who determines they are a danger to themselves or others, dramatically changes from support to opposition when more detail is provided in the poll question about the process of gun confiscation via the legal process.

The recently released study of 1,000 likely voters conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center initially showed that 58% of people support red flag laws when told the “primary purpose is to allow judges to take away a person’s gun based on a single complaint when there is a concern about that individual committing suicide.”
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The Well Armed Woman's Top 10 Guns of 2021
Published On 1/23/2023
Based on the latest statistics provided by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 2021 proved to be another strong year for gun ownership, particularly among women and first-time buyers. In fact, one third of new gun buyers last year were women. We celebrate and welcome these new Second Amendment warriors into our fold and invite them to take advantage of all the resources offered on this site. Whether it’s for firearm training, competitive shooting, 2A advocacy or hunting, we at NRA Women strive to offer helpful information from renowned firearm experts, and also to act as a clearinghouse for those who support, educate and inspire others to be good ambassadors for gun ownership.
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Idaho murders: Residents rattled by unsolved slayings fear for their safety, seek self-defense train
Published On 1/23/2023
Some Moscow, Idaho, residents who report to work at odd hours say they are "genuinely" fearful for their safety when they're commuting – often walking – or spending time alone at their jobs, social media show.

Since early on in the investigation into the quadruple homicides in the small city of Moscow, users on Reddit have sought advice and expressed concerns about getting to work, and being there alone, in the wake of the killings.
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“Good Samaritan” Armed Amazon employee stops shooter who opened fire at Arizona facility, police say
Published On 1/19/2023
An armed Arizona man is being credited as a “good Samaritan” by police after he shot an active shooter in an Amazon facility parking lot, likely preventing further bloodshed.

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Police in Chandler, Arizona, say that 29-year-old Jacob Murphy pulled into the employee parking lot of an Amazon facility on Wednesday morning and opened fire after jumping out of his car,” KSAZ-TV reported. . . .
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Armed Florida good Samaritans detain man who allegedly assaulted, shot at 2 women
Published On 1/19/2023
A Florida man was arrested by deputies after two concealed carry permit holders kept him from escaping by holding him at gunpoint after he allegedly shot at two women.

Police in Florida say that Lee David Wilkerson, 38, was standing outside the Bingo Paradise bingo hall in Pensacola, Florida on Wednesday when two females attempted to enter and an argument ensued, according to a Facebook post from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.

Wilkerson allegedly retrieved a firearm from his side and struck one of the females in the head with it before shooting in their direction as they attempted to run away.
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Bill Text
Published On 1/13/2023
We have published the leaked draft of the bill on our website. It is as bad as you can imagine. Read it for yourself.

https://www.cssa.org/docs.ashx?id=1096744
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Federal court strikes down Trump-era bump stock ban
Published On 1/13/2023
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a firearm accessory that enables a semi-automatic gun to shoot at an increased rate of fire.

In a 13-3 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), acting under "tremendous" public pressure, short-circuited the legislative process by approving a rule to define bump stocks as "machine guns," which are heavily restricted. The court said ATF did not have the authority from Congress to do so.
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CSSA Statement on the "Assault Weapons Ban"
Published On 1/12/2023
The Colorado State Shooting Association is committed to defending the Second Amendment on every front.

Today, we are announcing that we plan to bring a lawsuit against the "Assault Weapons Ban," which was introduced this week in the Colorado State House, if it should be signed into law.

This "Assault Weapons Ban" bill, titled as "Mass Shooting Prevention Act of 2023," only disarms and removes rights from responsible Colorado gun owners.

This bill would ban the firearms that are most popular for women to use for self-defense. It would outlaw the most popular sport-competition rifles. It would make many hunting rifles illegal. This bill would also remove the most common home-defense firearms from store shelves. Criminals will not follow this law as they do not follow the law by definition.
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Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instea
Published On 1/5/2023
Between 2014 and 2021, citizens stopped 104 out of 204 potential or actual mass shootings where we could identify that guns were allowed in the area. So 51% of attacks were stopped by people legally carrying concealed handguns. Again, the most recent data is most accurate, and for 2021, 58% of the attacks were stopped in areas where people were clearly allowed to carry.
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson revolver fetches nearly $1 million at auction: 'Fantastic condit
Published On 1/5/2023
Roosevelt’s historic single action revolver sold for $910,625 — is well over a century old
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At Real Clear Politics: Media Spin on Gun Control Doesn’t Match Voters’ Opinions
Published On 1/5/2023
Red Flag laws are the top priority of Democrats and gun control advocates. Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support these measures — by margins ranging between 2-1 and 3-1. Congress recently passed legislation providing funding for states that adopted these laws.

But the polling doesn’t really gauge whether Americans understand how these laws operate. The surveys generally just ask people if they support laws that “allow guns to be temporarily confiscated by a judge from people considered by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.”
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Merry Christmas!
Published On 12/25/2022
Merry Christmas!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Published On 11/24/2022
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Fox News: FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents
Published On 11/18/2022
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) argues that the FBI’s data contains “massive errors” when tracking active shooting incidents, undercounting how often armed citizens have thwarted active-shooting situations over the last seven years.

“Although collecting such data is fraught with challenges, some see a pattern of distortion in the FBI numbers because the errors almost exclusively go one way, minimizing the life-saving actions of armed citizens,” the report, which was provided to Fox News Digital this week by Crime Prevention Research Center founder and president John Lott, states.

Data released by the nonprofit shows that 34.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens between 2014 and 2021. However, FBI data show only 4.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens during that time period.
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On this day in history, Nov. 17, 1871, National Rifle Association founded by Civil War veteran Union
Published On 11/17/2022
Former Union officers, who had led the costly battlefield effort to free 4 million Americans from bondage, chartered the National Rifle Association (NRA) in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 17, 1871.

Civil War veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate created the organization after they were "dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops," states the NRA in its online history.

The association was determined to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," Church wrote in a contemporary magazine editorial, the NRA reports.
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Gun rights group fires back at California AG's reported leak of firearm owners data: 'He should resi
Published On 11/16/2022
The office of California's Attorney General Rob Bonta released the personal information of thousands of California gun owners and concealed carry permit holders to the public this week, and Second Amendment activists see it as a major breach of privacy.

Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, told Fox News Wednesday that the release of information was either negligent or potentially criminal.

"We believe that AG Rob Bonta is either massively incompetent, incredibly negligent, or willing to criminally leak information that he does not have the authority to leak," Paredes said.
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States with higher rate of gun ownership do not correlate with more gun murders, data show
Published On 11/16/2022
Calls have rung out across the nation demanding gun control laws in a bid to curb violent crimes such as the recent series of mass shootings. Data, however, show that in states with higher percentages of households with at least one gun, crimes are not higher than in states with strict gun laws.

"Gun ownership is higher in states with fewer restrictions, and homicide rates in these states are lower. People can protect themselves," George Mason University Professor Emerita Joyce Lee Malcolm told Fox News Digital of what she's found through her research. Malcolm pointed to a study on burglars from 1986 that found 34% of burglars interviewed reported "to having been scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim."
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'Love is the answer, but I own a handgun just in case:' Sen. John Kennedy
Published On 11/15/2022
If we want to get control of this crime problem that we have, we're going to have to do a couple of things. Number one, we're going to have to have more cops. In New Orleans, in my state, [it] needs 2,000 cops on the street -- we've got less than 1,000.
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Ben & Jerry’s Calls for Gun Control
Published On 11/15/2022
We live in a Clown World state where irrationality reigns supreme in politics.

In our increasingly politicized daily lives, all sorts of non-political organizations are giving their opinions on mundane political affairs.

To be sure, government actors will always be major threats to the right to bear arms. However, our enemies have proven skillful in their ability to adapt. They understand that privatized forms of coercion can work really well in a consumerist society like the US, in which markets and private property dominate.
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Vote!
Published On 11/8/2022
Every supporter of the Second Amendment needs to vote today. We can elect leaders who respect our gun rights but we have to turnout!
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Voting
Published On 11/1/2022
We are a week away from the election and every gun owner and Second Amendment supporter needs to return their ballot today! Voting is the first line of defense for our gun rights. Vote like our gun rights depend on it, because they do.
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Passing of Minority Leader Hugh McKean
Published On 10/31/2022
Colorado lost a great voice in the passing of Minority Leader Hugh McKean. He was a staunch defender of our rights and liberty. He did not back down from a fight and always took time to encourage those around him. He will be missed and Colorado is less without him.
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VOTE
Published On 10/18/2022
Ballots are dropping all across Colorado. Every responsible gun owner needs to return their ballot as soon as possible. We will show the anti-gun politicians that we will vote to support the Second Amendment.
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Support for Red Flag Laws Depends on People not understanding how Red Flag Laws Operate
Published On 10/17/2022
The Crime Prevention Research Center hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey Red Flag Laws for 1,000 general election voters from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The survey asked people whether they supported Red Flag Laws, then asked whether they still supported it when they were told that there are no hearings before an individual’s guns are taken away, and there are no mental health care experts involved in the process, and finally, if they prefer Involuntary Commitment or Red Flag laws.
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Credit Card Companies Join Democrats’ Gun Control Scheme
Published On 10/16/2022
Democrats aim to create a comprehensive national list of gun owners. In a major victory for gun control advocates, American Express, Mastercard, and Visa agreed to help the government track firearm sales.

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Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, and it requires that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System erase background check information within 24 hours of completion and that it not keep a database. Yet in 2016, the Government Accountability Office called out the Obama administration for holding on to the data, and the Biden administration continues to compile digital records.
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 33 Cases During July 2022
Published On 10/15/2022
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a man who shot two other men earlier this month at a Salt Lake City TRAX platform.

The shooting happened on July 2 at the 900 South 200 West TRAX station…

“The evidence clearly demonstrates that the suspect was approached on two separate occasions by one and later both individuals who were ultimately shot by the suspect. After the first encounter, one of the individuals clearly knew that the suspect was in possession of a firearm. Nonetheless, despite this knowledge, the evidence demonstrates both individuals approaching the suspect in an aggressive manner as he sat on a bench on the platform awaiting the train. As they approached the suspect, the suspect was pointing a fire
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Alabama school resource officer shoots, kills ‘suspicious’ person outside elementary school: report
Published On 10/9/2022
A man described by police as "suspicious" has been shot and killed by a school resource officer after attempting to enter an Alabama elementary school Thursday morning, reports say.

The gunfire erupted outside Walnut Park Elementary in Gadsden around 9:30 a.m. after the individual showed up and attempted to gain entry into vehicles and buildings, Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton told WIAT.

"I got a call from the principal, who’s really distraught, and I really couldn’t make out what was happening," Tony Reddick, superintendent of Gadsden City Schools, told the station. "But I knew it was something pretty bad."
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Another Defensive Gun Use by a Teenager
Published On 10/9/2022
A homicide release record showed that at approximately 10:40 p.m. local time, deputies responded to a call in the 16000 block of First Street in Channelview, Texas.

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Upon arrival, deputies located two men unresponsive from apparent gunshot wounds on the lawn to the side of the home.

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Both men were pronounced dead at that location by EMS personnel. . . .
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She’s Suing Glock, But She Should Have Bought One
Published On 10/5/2022
On April 12, 2022, a black supremacist shooter charged onto the New York subway and opened fire on innocent victims. One of his victims, Ilene Steur doesn’t blame the violent killer or the people who radicalized him. You may have trouble believing the leap in logic her lawsuit leads. Let’s break it down.
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NYC's gun-free zones don't 'make sense' with experts calling strategy 'low-hanging fruit'
Published On 10/5/2022
Law enforcement experts are raising their eyebrows over New York City’s "gun free zone" law, which established a perimeter lined with laminated signs prohibiting the public from carrying firearms within, as one longtime police executive said the new legislation doesn’t "make sense" and is "extremely confusing."

"I didn’t like the idea of setting up special zones where permitted gun carrier holders could not go," said Terence Monahan, formerly the highest-ranking uniformed member of the New York Police Department.
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Rep. Massie says 'good guys' with guns stopping 'bad guys' is 'inconvenient truth' for Dems
Published On 10/2/2022
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie fired back at Democrat Rep. David Cicilline after he suggested during a congressional hearing that there wasn’t "a single incident" where someone with an assault weapon "was stopped by a person with a gun."

"The fact that guns are used by good guys every single day to prevent and stop bad guys is an inconvenient truth for Rep Cicilline and other Democrats who want to trample on the Second Amendment," Massie told Fox News Digital on Tuesday following his exchange with Cicilline last week.
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President Biden botches AR-15 facts while stumping against gun violence in Pennsylvania
Published On 10/2/2022
President Biden made gun-related gaffes during a campaign-style event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon.

Biden traveled to Wilkes-Barre to promote his "Safer America" agenda, which is focused on deterring crime and helping law enforcement. Biden's policies are also geared towards toughening up gun laws and expanding background checks.

During the speech, Biden made an unsourced claim about the speed that an AR-15 shoots bullets.
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The Otto Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming Match
Published On 9/26/2022
The Colorado State Shooting Association is an association that strives to support all realms of firearms ownership from legislative endeavors to hunting and plinking, defensive encounters and even competition. In this very supportive environment, I still get surprises from time to time that demonstrates just how the CSSA supports ALL firearms owners.

On Saturday, September 17th four Colorado competitors traveled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to compete in NRA Action Pistol at the Otto Road Gun Club. As the year starts to wind down many of us are focused on other things, like hunting! The match was smaller than usual but still have the characteristics of a “big” match. I can’t help but get a little excited waiting for the first busser after hearing, “Shooter ready….stand by!”

You might ask yourself, “Why is the CSSA supporting a match in Wyoming? CSSA is a Colorado association.” You know what, you’re right! But look at the name, COLORADO State SHOOTING ASSOCIATION. The CSSA is much more than
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Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to categorize gun store sales separately
Published On 9/26/2022
Payment processor Visa announced Saturday its plans to separately categorize gun shop sales, joining Mastercard and American Express, which have already said they would categorize purchases at firearm stores.

Visa said it would apply the International Organization for Standardization’s new merchant code to gun shop sales. The new IOS code was announced on Friday. Previously, gun store sales were labeled as "general merchandise."
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Youth football cheerleading league in North Carolina takes flak for offering rifle in raffle
Published On 9/24/2022
A nonprofit organization in North Carolina raising money for young athletes and cheerleaders stoked backlash after offering a rifle as a prize in a fundraising raffle.

The raffle held by East Henderson Youth Football and Cheerleading League (EHYFCL) in East Flat Rock, North Carolina, received criticism from some locals for offering the winner an FN 15 Patrol Carbine, according to local ABC affiliate WLOS.
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At Real Clear Investigations: How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers — and
Published On 9/18/2022
The Bureau reports that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021 were stopped by an armed citizen. An analysis by my organization identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them were stopped by an armed citizen.

That is, the FBI reported that 4.4% of active shooter incidents were thwarted by armed citizens, while the CPRC found 14.6%.
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FL Sheriff: Man Who Defended Home with 'AK-47 Style' Gun Will 'Absolutely Not' Face Charges
Published On 9/18/2022
A Pensacola homeowner was home alone on the night of July 7 when three men invaded his house, prompting him to act in self-defense.

One of the alleged assailants pulled a handgun from his waistband as the other two reportedly shoved the victim, according to Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim himself was also armed with a handgun, but it slipped out of his hand and was obtained by one of the suspects, according to WKRG-TV and Business and Politics Review.
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Published On 9/18/2022
As to this being the job of police, what gun control advocates such as Jody Madeira fali to acknowledge is a point that we have repeated over and over again. A police officer in uniform has an extremely difficult job in stopping these attacks. These terrorists have huge strategic advantages in determining the time and place of attacks. They can wait for a police officer to leave the area, or pick an undefended location. Even when guards or police are in the right place at the right time, those in uniform who can be readily identified as guards may as well be holding up neon signs saying, “Shoot me first.” Terrorists know that once the officer is killed, they will have free rein to go after everybody else. In addition, with 332 million Americans and only 665,380 police and sheriff’s patrol officers (with at most not much more than a third on duty at any give time), there are simply too many targets for police to be able to guard everyone of them.
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The New York 2A Ruling is a Gut Punch to Gun Control, but not a Tidal Wave
Published On 9/18/2022
Democrats are running scared. CNN Supreme Court Analyst Steve Vladeck believes that no gun control legislation is safe. “We’re in for a whole new slew of litigation challenging any and every gun-control measure in light of the analysis in today’s ruling.” And they should be afraid because the ruling deals a blow to any argument against your God-given Second Amendment right to bear arms. But pace yourself for the fight ahead, because this is not over yet.
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New York Effectively Nullifies The Supreme Court’s Latest Pro-Second Amendment Decision
Published On 9/17/2022
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ushered in the long Independence Day weekend by signing legislation crafted in response to Supreme Court’s recent decision.
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Canada moves to a “Mandatory” Semi-Auto Rifle Buyback Program
Published On 9/17/2022
Under the label of “assault-style” weapon, the Canadian government plans to ban a broad range of semi-automatic rifles. They have already prohibited the sale or transfer of these guns, but now comes the mandatory confiscation. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair claims that the banned guns are made for “military use.”
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After Handgun Ban, Canadian Bandits Begin Politely Robbing Tim Horton’s With Finger Guns
Published On 8/30/2022
TORONTO - An embarrassing crime wave has taken Toronto by storm as criminals, emboldened by Canada's ban on handguns, have begun holding up businesses armed with nothing but finger guns. Tim Hortons, a popular Canadian cafe, is reportedly among the hardest hit.

Authorities confirm that the cashiers of Tim Hortons are routinely held at finger-point and forced to empty hundreds of dollars into cartoonish money bags. By the time police arrive on the scene the robbers are long gone.
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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shoo
Published On 8/30/2022
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.

Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes). There is no reason to believe that this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted to these heroic acts. In addition, we make no attempt here to list here the vast number of defensive gun uses in general that are reported daily in the US.
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JOE ROGAN SUMMARIZES OPPOSITION TO GUN 'REFORM' WITH FIVE IMPORTANT WORDS
Published On 8/28/2022
Joe Rogan addressed the horrific Uvalde shooting on his podcast. In the aftermath, leftists have renewed a push for gun control reform. Only, in record time, we've gone from increasing the age of purchase and red flag laws to world leaders and puppets controlled by others outright calling for a ban on handguns. They want to leave citizens at the mercy of the government and authorities for self-defense, and we've seen how that can play out.
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69-Year Old Woman Stands Her Ground
Published On 8/28/2022
On Sunday, May 22, 2022, a 69-year old woman defended her home from a threatening intruder. Virginia Morrison earned the monicker “Gun-Slinging Grandma,” when she fought off her 38-year old attacker.
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Nevada Pulls Funding From Firearm Manufacturers
Published On 8/28/2022
Nevada just announced a major divestment from firearms manufacturers.

The divestment marks the end of an $89 million investment portfolio managed by the treasurer’s office. Zachary Conine, Nevada’s Treasurer announced that this is his response to the hellish attacks in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.
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Biden in 1985: Criminals Will Get Firearms ‘With or Without Gun Control’
Published On 8/23/2022
If you look into the past of most anti-gun Democrats who have been in office for more than ten years, they used to be have polar opposite views on the Second Amendment.

Joe Biden in particular, has completely flip-flopped. While he was never a pro-gun champion, early in his career he was to the right of some moderate Republicans today.

As NBC News reports, while in the Senate in 1985, Biden not just votes for the pro-gun Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA), he vocally spoke out in support of the bill.
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If Joe Biden Cared About Gun Laws, Hunter Biden Would Already Be In Jail
Published On 8/22/2022
President Joe Biden is on a full-blown crusade to regulate or repeal the Second Amendment out of existence. While Democrats are often not honest about their intentions, this has always been their true agenda. Biden’s son, Hunter, who appeared to purchase a gun illegally in 2018, could be among those hardest hit.

On Thursday night, the president went on a nearly 20-minute tirade on the need to ban “assault weapons,” whatever that means.

“Why in God’s name should an ordinary citizen be able to purchase an assault weapon that holds 30-round magazines that let mass shooters fire hundreds of bullets in a matter of minutes,” Biden said, ranting on the graves of the 19 children and their two teachers gunned down by a madman in Uvalde, Texas last week.
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POLITICSLeaked Documents Show FBI Equating Basic American Terminology With ‘Violent Extremism’
Published On 8/21/2022
Project Veritas released a newly leaked document today provided by an FBI whistleblower, which shows how the Bureau classifies American citizens it deems to be potential “Militia Violent Extremists”
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Biden Says He ‘Won’t Stop’ until ‘Assault Weapons’ Are Banned
Published On 8/21/2022
President Joe Biden delivered remarks Monday about the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, casting the recently passed bill as a mere starting point on the way to advancing Democrats’ broader gun-control agenda.

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“The legislation is real progress but more has to be done,” Biden said while giving a speech to survivors and victims of mass shootings, as well as the lawmakers who helped pass the bill, in front of the White House.
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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shoo
Published On 8/19/2022
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.

Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes). There is no reason to believe that this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted to these heroic acts. In addition, we make no attempt here to list here the vast number of defensive gun uses in general that are reported daily in the US.
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With Joe Biden constantly focusing on gun control laws, will the US DOJ charge Hunter Biden with vio
Published On 8/19/2022
Discussions recently have centered around possibly bringing charges that could include alleged tax violations and making a false statement in connection with Biden’s purchase of a firearm at a time he would have been prohibited from doing so because of his acknowledged struggles with drug addiction.

The investigation of the President’s son has loomed large among the politically fraught issues Merrick Garland faces as attorney general. Weiss is one of a handful of appointees of former President Donald Trump who were kept on by the Biden administration because they were overseeing politically sensitive investigations. . . .
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UPDATED: Errors in Associated Press, the Washington Post, and the New York Times articles on how rar
Published On 8/19/2022
Advocates for expanding gun access frequently justify their positions by citing a scenario in which an armed civilian stops a shooter: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” the National Rifle Association tweeted Monday. But in practice, this is an uncommon occurrence during mass shootings. In recent studies of more than 430 “active shooter incidents” dating back to 2000, the FBI found that civilians killed gunmen in just 10 cases. . . .

“I think you might get more individuals carrying, sort of primed for something to happen, which is particularly dangerous,” said Jody Madeira, a law professor at Indiana University Bloomington who researches the Second Amendment. “And I think also you’ll get this idea that these people are needed out there to help protect citizens, when in reality that’s the job of the police.” . . .

James Bikales, Paulina Villegas, Praveena Somasundaram and Reis Thebault, “Rampage in Indiana a rare instance of armed civilian ending mas
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House Passes ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
Published On 8/19/2022
The House narrowly approved a bill outlawing the sale of “assault weapons” on Friday, the first time in almost 30 years that lawmakers have passed a measure to reinstate the expired federal ban.

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The bill passed with a vote of 217–213, largely along party lines, with Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Chris Jacobs of New York voting for it. Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas voted against.
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Indiana Hero Vindicates State’s Constitutional Carry Laws
Published On 8/19/2022
The Mayor and some in the media are calling him the “good Samaritan.” The 22-year-old hero drew his weapon when he saw the vulnerable in need. He acted quickly and cut a bloodthirsty killer’s rampage short.
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Gun Control Advocates denounce ‘Good Samaritan’ Who Saved Indiana Mall Goers as No Hero
Published On 8/16/2022
The head of Mike Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action group, Shannon R Watts, took to Twitter about eight hours after Elisjsha Dicken stopped a mass public shooter within two minutes after it started. Rather than running away from the gunfire, Dicken heroically ran to it. But rather than Watts being happy for the lives Dicken saved, Watts is exceptionally disparaging. The attacker there had more than 100 rounds left when Dicken stopped him. But, even worse, she takes the wrong lesson from what happened. The mall was a gun-free zone, which undoubtedly greatly limited the number of people legally carrying there. Suppose it hadn’t been a gun-free zone. In that case, it is very likely that in Indiana, where 22% of the adult population has a concealed handgun permit, some legally carrying a gun would have been even closer to the attack and been able to stop it faster.
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Democratic Rep. Garcia lashes out at Twitter user with profanity, offensive term
Published On 8/16/2022
Democratic Rep. Chuy García posted a profane response to an anonymous Twitter user who spoke of ignoring new gun control laws.

The House of Representatives voted to pass an assault weapons ban Friday evening, with legislators narrowly approving the bill by a 217-213 vote. The legislation will now head to the Senate, where it's unlikely to break the filibuster.
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At Newsweek: Indianapolis Just Latest Time a Good Guy with a Gun Stopped a Mass Shooting
Published On 8/16/2022
In Indianapolis on Sunday, a law-abiding citizen carrying a concealed handgun stopped another mass public shooting. But these heroic acts happen much more frequently than most imagine, because they rarely get national news coverage.

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A 22-year-old, legally carrying man fatally shot an attacker at an Indianapolis shopping mall. The headline at Fox News mentions the “good Samaritan,” and CNN and The Washington Post mention that an “armed bystander stopped the attack.” The attacker was heavily armed and had already murdered three people and wounded three others, after firing about 20 shots.
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At Real Clear Politics: AP Stylebook Finally Recognizes AR-15s Aren’t Weapons of War, but the timing
Published On 8/16/2022
The term “assault weapon” is nonsensical. Finally, the Associated Press’s highly influential Stylebook followed by the news media is recognizing that fact. As the AP now acknowledges, the term conveys “little meaning” and is “highly politicized.”

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Politicians will obviously continue calling AR-15s “assault weapons” and “weapons of war,” as President Biden did a few days ago. And many seem to think that “AR” means assault rifle when it stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. But at least some of the media is now recognizing that “AR- or AK-style rifles designed for the civilian market” are fundamentally different than military weapons.
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Since 2019, Congress put $75 million into gun control research
Published On 8/16/2022
lawmakers in Washington have set aside roughly $75 million since 2019 for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.

Ramsey Touchberry, “Congress pours $75M into gun research such as whether community gardens stop shootings,” Washington TImes, July 27, 2022.
We have been very critical of research done by public health/gun control advocates. Here are some of the posts that we have done on this issue.
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UPDATE: Mass Public Shooting at Indianapolis Mall Stopped by 22-year-old man legally carrying a gun
Published On 8/15/2022
“While police are crediting an Indiana man with shooting and killing a suspect in the Greenwood Park Mall shooting Sunday, mall policy prohibited him from carrying at all. . . . ‘The real hero of the day was the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began,’ [Greenwood Police Chief James] Ison said.”

“Someone we are calling the ‘Good Samaritan’ was able to shoot the assailant and stop further bloodshed. This person saved lives tonight. On behalf of the City of Greenwood, I am grateful for his quick action and heroism in this situation.” GREENWOOD MAYOR MARK MYERS
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Active shooter stopped by legally armed Citizens
Published On 8/15/2022
South Fulton, Georgia: . . . Meadows said the men involved in the shootout with Hambrick have been cooperative and will likely not be charged since the teenager fired the first shot.

“After having reviewed most of the witnesses statements, it appears that the decedent Mr. Hambrick discharged his weapon first, and as a result of that there was an exchange of gunfire between him and two individuals,” he said. . . .

Fox 5 Atlanta Digital Team, “Charges not likely in shootout that killed teen near ‘Stop the Violence’ rally, police say,” Fox 5 Atlanta, May 3, 2022.
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Media downplays ‘good Samaritan’ narrative following Indiana shooting, firearms experts weigh in
Published On 8/12/2022
Liberal media outlets have downplayed and criticized the good guy with a gun argument in the wake of an Indianapolis shopping mall shooter who was killed by a "good Samaritan" carrying a handgun.

Police say Elisjsha Dicken, who ended a mass shooting at an Indiana mall by killing the gunman, saved lives, noting only about 15 seconds passed from the time the suspect opened fire until when he was shot. Dicken was legally carrying his weapon at the time of the shooting under the state’s new constitutional carry law.
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Survey: Most Americans Favor Giving Schoolteachers and Administrators the Option of Being Armed at S
Published On 8/12/2022
A new YouGov survey of 1,500 U.S. adult citizens was conducted from May 28th to 31st. The survey has some interesting results regarding whether people favor arming teachers (pp. 134-5).

All Americans except for Democrats, liberals, and blacks favor arming teachers and administrators in schools. Young people between 18 and 29 are evenly divided.
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Gun control advocates stunned man who allegedly shot Indiana mall shooter labeled 'Good Samaritan'
Published On 8/12/2022
Critics are lashing out after a man carrying a pistol stopped a mass shooting at an Indiana shopping mall, arguing the man should not be called a "Good Samaritan."

"The term, ‘Good Samaritan’ came from a Bible passage of a man from Samaria who stopped on the side of the road to help a man who was injured and ignored," wrote CBS4 traffic anchor Justin Kollar on Twitter Monday. "I cannot believe we live in a world where the term can equally apply to someone killing someone… my God."
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'MORE PEOPLE NEED TO VOTE AND VOTE THE RIGHT WAY:' BADASS STORE OWNER WHO 'SHOT CROOKS ARM OFF' SPEA
Published On 8/10/2022
Yesterday, we told you the story of an elderly store owner who defended his store from an armed robbery. The long and short of it is that a thug ran in with a gun, the store owner has his own shotgun and got off the first shot, and the thug ran off crying like a little biyatch that, "blah blah blah, he shot my arm off!" We didn't have the store owner's name, but we do now. It's Craig Cope.

Also, he's a more based badass than we assumed. Keep in mind, Cope suffered a heart attack after shooting the dude and was back to work two days later.
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Senate bill pushes unused COVID money to securing schools in wake of mass shootings
Published On 8/9/2022
New legislation being introduced in Congress would green light the use of untouched COVID-19 relief funds allocated to schools to go toward "hardening" premises with physical security measures, as the nation grapples with several mass shooting incidents in recent weeks.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has partnered with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont, and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., in pushing forward a new bill, the "Safe Schools Act." Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., is introducing a companion bill in the House. The lawmakers say there are $150 billion of available COVID-19 relief funds that have yet to be spent by schools, and the money should be put toward security measures.
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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shoo
Published On 8/9/2022
UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.

Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes). There is no reason to believe that this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted to these heroic acts. In addition, we make no attempt here to list here the vast number of defensive gun uses in general that are reported daily in the US.
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House committee approves first assault weapons ban bill in decades
Published On 8/9/2022
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday moved a bill banning assault weapons forward, but it’s unclear if the legislation has enough support to pass a floor vote.

Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Henry Cuellar of Texas have said they won’t support the bill, while Republican Reps. Chris Jacobs of New York and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois have said they are open to voting for a ban, according to The Hill. House Democrats have a four-vote margin.

The Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 was advanced in a 25-18 vote, but a date for a vote on the House floor has not been set.
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Responding to George Will’s misleading column on the Supreme Court’s recent gun control decision
Published On 8/9/2022
George Will misses a historical fact in his critique of Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion in last week’s gun ruling (“The Supreme Court’s gun ruling is a serious misfire,” June 23, 2022). Will cites the Supreme Court’s Robertson v. Baldwin ruling in 1897 to justify bans on concealed handguns, but doesn’t mention that the same justices decided the infamous 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. That ruling upheld the separate but equal doctrine and allowed racial segregation to continue. Robertson also discriminated against blacks with its restrictions on concealed carry. Blacks, the most vulnerable members of society, were prevented from being able to defend themselves. Unfortunately, Will relies on such an infamously racist court to attack Thomas’ opinion. The May-issue laws in New York and six other states continued that discrimination.
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Los Angeles DA Gascon pushes gun control amid crime spike, backlash over releasing convicted murdere
Published On 8/8/2022
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push for more gun control as he faces criticism over releasing criminals who have gone on to commit violent crimes.

"Thank you, @cagovernor Newsom, for signing several important bills to protect Californians from #gunviolence including four bills supported by my office," Gascon’s office tweeted Friday in response to Newsom signing four bills that Gascon says will ‘help limit the availability of firearms and take on the growing menace of unlicensed ghost guns
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 32 Cases During May 2022
Published On 8/8/2022
The incident happened at the Quality Inn and Suites in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street at 11:49 p.m. Tuesday.

According to police, the man walked into the hotel and threatened three employees with a knife.

Police say one of the employees, a 32-year-old woman, shot the man…

FOX 13 News spoke to the employees involved in the incident off-camera. The woman who shot the man said she had no other option, as the attacker was threatening the life of her co-workers.

The employee says the man is not a stranger to the business either. She says he has caused issues at the hotel in the past.
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During April 2022
Published On 8/8/2022
Daniel Ruffin is charged with attempted murder, domestic violence, and other crimes following the April 4 incident.

According to police, Ruffin fired at the car on Illinois Street. No one was hit by the bullets, but a child inside was cut by the shattered glass.

After he fled the scene, an unidentified person else pulled their gun and shot Ruffin about a block away on Tuttle Avenue…
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More TV shows push Criminals Using Machine Gun Myth: CBS’ The Equalizer and Magnum PI
Published On 8/7/2022
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey did not even mention fully automatic weapons. A similar finding is available from the FBI UCR report where 2.6% of all murders involve rifles of any type and 0.3% of all murders involve unspecified “other guns.” There is a reason for that. Since 1934, there was only one possible known use ever of a civilian using a machine gun in a murder. And even before 1934, they were very rare.
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During February 2022
Published On 8/7/2022
The shootout unfolded just before 4 a.m. in a convenience store on the 5500 block of Torresdale Avenue in the city’s Wissinoming neighborhood, the Philadelphia Police Department said.

The 32-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was standing with her manager behind the store counter when two Black males walked in and attempted to get behind the counter, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told FOX29 Philadelphia.

“We believe that’s where they were going to commit this robbery,” Small said. “And that’s when there was clearly a shootout between at least one of the perpetrators and the female store clerk who tragically was shot several times.”
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NBC’s Law & Order: SVU: Again Shows another Civilian Defensive Gun Use Gone Wrong
Published On 8/7/2022
Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and use in a crime to it being used in an accidental shooting), and this episode of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU is no different (Season 23, Episode 4, October 7, 2021). This episode illustrates all the normal gun control myths pushed against women using a gun defensively. In this case, when the woman tries to reach her gun it is taken from her and used to pistol-whip her. The gun is also used to kill her baby as if the man who raped her couldn’t kill the child without the gun. A later scene shows that the rapist took the gun with him and is using it to threaten a police officer.
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No strong link between gun ownership, gun homicide rate
Published On 8/6/2022
DENVER (KDVR) — National data does not show a connection between state gun ownership rates and gun homicide rates.

The national conversation has turned to gun violence and gun control in the last two weeks in the wake of the Uvalde and Tulsa shootings. President Joe Biden will address the nation on the subject Thursday night.
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House gun hearing gets testy when Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee comments on Republican showing firearms
Published On 8/5/2022
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., snapped back at Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, when she commented on his use of firearms during a Thursday congressional hearing.

The incident occurred during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Democratic "Protect Our Kids" package, an expansive piece of gun control legislation that Democrats argue is common sense, while Republicans say it is overly broad and unconstitutional.

Steube, who attended the hearing digitally from his own home, gave several examples of firearms in his own personal collection that the Democratic bill would ban.
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Hunter Biden is in BIG Trouble if Democrats Follow Through on Their Anti-Gun Schemes
Published On 8/5/2022
Democrats talk a big game about gun control. Particularly Joe Biden, who has had multiple press conferences in the past week demanding stricter gun control laws.

“We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Biden demanded during one recent statement. “And if we can’t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21. Strengthen the background checks, enact safe storage laws and ‘red flag’ laws. Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability.”
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Rep. Thomas Massie's Solution to School Shootings: Repeal the ‘Gun-Free School Zones Act’
Published On 8/4/2022
Research compiled by Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that at least 94% of mass shootings happen in gun free zones.

That disturbing trend continued in Uvalde, TX, where a mass-murdering madman killed 19 children in an act of evil.

But what is the left's solution? More restrictions on guns.

Thankfully, not everybody in Congress believes that is the solution.
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Biden's proposed assault weapons ban has a serious constitutional problem
Published On 8/4/2022
President Joe Biden is demanding that Congress act immediately to ban assault weapons in America such as the AR-15 that was used in several recent mass shootings. As we grieve the horrific loss of life, it is understandable that emotions are running high. And while emotions often lead to action, those actions are not always lawful. This is Biden’s real dilemma.
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Tucker Carlson BODYSLAMS Gun-Grabbers in Epic Takedown of Their Radical Agenda
Published On 8/4/2022
What's actually happening here is that people like Justin Trudeau know that their rule is illegitimate. They know perfectly well how resented they are, and they spend an awful lot of time thinking about civil unrest.

You probably don't. You live in a democracy, so you don't imagine that anyone needs to be disarmed for political reasons, but people like Justin Trudeau can feel the deep resentment aimed at them, and they are fully intent on disarming the population. Now, we reached out to Justin Trudeau's office today about this new law. We want to know if Trudeau will apply these laws to himself. That's always the first and most important test of sincerity. If it's good for me, it ought to be good for you, too, and vice versa.
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New York Lawmakers Pass Bill to Raise Age to Buy Semi-Automatic Rifles
Published On 8/4/2022
New York’s legislature passed a bill on Thursday to raise the age limit to buy or possess a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21.

The bill, which passed the state senate along party lines in a 43-20 vote and in the state assembly in a 102-47 vote, would also require anyone buying a semi-automatic rifle to obtain a license.
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Joe Rogan Destroys Every Anti-Gun Argument in Less Than a Minute
Published On 8/4/2022
Joe Rogan is the most popular podcaster in the world.

And the left desperately wants him off the air because he speaks the truth.

He may not always be right, but he refuses to shy away from controversy, which is rare in media today.
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Sean Hannity tells Biden that disarming law-abiding gun owners is 'not the answer'
Published On 7/30/2022
Predictably, he shamelessly now is using the horrific shooting in Uvalde for political gain. Now, no doubt there are serious concerns surrounding this massacre in Texas. The Evolved Day school district police chief has stopped cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety investigation. That can't happen. That is incredibly troubling and should be to everybody. Make no mistake, there's absolutely zero excuse for the hour plus that it reportedly now took law enforcement to storm that building and rescue those kids. That is their job. There's no reason this country cannot secure every single school with well-trained and prepared armed guards, including retired cops, retired military personnel, along with metal detectors and a single point of entry into every school. Now, Joe Biden is not addressing any of this. Instead, he's what, predictably vilifying the Second Amendment and responsible lawful gun owners everywhere, even threatening to ban nine millimeter handguns. Really, Joe
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Gun-Grabber-in-Chief Joe Biden: A 9mm Bullet ‘Blows The Lung Out Of The Body’
Published On 7/30/2022
The Gun-Grabber-in-Chief is at it again. This time he is insinuating that 9mm handguns -- the most popular guns in America -- should be banned because the round "blows the lung out of the body" when someone is shot. Whatever the hell that means.

“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,” Biden said.

“So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting,” Biden added. “Remember, the constitution was never absolute.”

“You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed,” Biden said. “You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weaponry.”
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Biden Just Gave Up the Left's Endgame on Gun Control
Published On 7/26/2022
President Biden raised eyebrows on Monday when he spoke about what he considers sensible restrictions on "high-caliber weapons" in the wake of the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last week.

The president recalled visiting a trauma hospital in New York, where he explained doctors showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds that were caused by different firearms.
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POTUS HATES IT WHEN WH CORRECTS DUMBS THINGS HE SAYS, SAYS DUMB THINGS ABOUT CANNONS AND SECOND AMEN
Published On 7/26/2022
Our puddingheaded POTUS made some off-the-cuff comments about gun rights to the press over the weekend. Why yes, they were dumb, incoherent, and false. But before we get to them, this POTUS makes comments unapproved by the people who control him all the time. They get walked back immediately, and people have to explain what Joey "meant" to say. Turns out Joey hates it when people do that.
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Gun manufacturer sued by victim of New York City subway shooting
Published On 7/26/2022
A woman who was shot earlier this year in an attack on a New York City subway is suing the manufacturer of the gun used in the crime, claiming the injuries she suffered were "a direct" result of the company's marketing and sales tactics.

Ilene Steur was one of ten people shot of the 29 injured when a suspect opened fire on a train in Brooklyn on April 12. Prosecutors say the alleged perpetrator, Frank James, used a Glock 17 pistol in the incident, and that he purchased the handgun legally from an Ohio
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Liberals Stunned: Most Voters say Anti-Gun Laws Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
Published On 7/26/2022
Calls from liberal politicians and the media to “listen the polls” and use mass shootings to target gunowners are running into a harsh reality: Americans say anti-gun laws won’t stop gun crime.

“In the aftermath of a teenage gunman’s deadly spree in Buffalo, most voters remain unconvinced that more gun control laws can prevent such mass shootings,” the polling firm announced in a Tuesday press release, prepared before that day’s killings in Uvalde, Texas.
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Biden, often stymied by aides, pushes gun measures unlikely to pass
Published On 7/17/2022
President Biden has made clear he wants serious gun control laws passed, and hopes that "rational Republicans" are willing to compromise.

But will the White House undercut him by announcing that he doesn’t really want to ban assault-style weapons?

The president says he has not negotiated with Republicans, rational or otherwise, because he was comforting grieving families in Uvalde, Texas. But another reason is that he knows that odds are against him on the Hill and doesn’t want to own an imminent failure, as he and Barack Obama did after Sandy Hook, when Biden was the point person on a gun control campaign.
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Denver councilwoman blasts colleagues on concealed carry ban in parks: ‘There is blood on their hand
Published On 7/17/2022
DENVER — One of the most progressive members of the Denver City Council told fellow council members on Monday that any death caused from enforcement of a new ban on licensed concealed carry of guns in Denver’s parks would be their fault.

“I’m really disappointed in my colleagues today,” Candi CdeBaca said after the council voted 9-3 to ban concealed carry, with small exceptions, in city and county owned or leased buildings and in city parks. CdeBaca said a concealed carry ban in parks opens the doors to justify excessive use of force. “When the first case happens, I hope that everyone on this dias knows there is blood on their hands.”
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Stop Lying about the Historical Understanding of Gun Rights
Published On 7/17/2022
It has never been ‘mainstream’ to interpret the Second Amendment as guaranteeing anything other than an individual right to bear arms.
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What kind of pathetic leader does not believe in defending schools? Our president is more worried ab
Published On 7/10/2022
President Biden does not “believe in” proposals to harden schools against potential gunmen, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday.

“I know there’s been conversation about hardening schools, that is not something he believes in,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at a White House press conference. “He believes that we should be able to give teachers the resources to be able to do their job.”
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Tucker Carlson: They are fully intent on disarming the population
Published On 7/10/2022
It was a week ago today that a deranged teenager called Salvador Ramos murdered 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas.

You know this because we've had seven days of full saturation coverage, and it's all deserved. Given that, it's amazing what we still don't know about what happened that day. Let's start just because it's the most obvious with how the shooter could possibly have afforded the firearms he used.
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Parkland shooting victim's father says focus on gun control, not solutions, is why this 'happens'
Published On 7/9/2022
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The father of a teenage victim of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that state governments haven’t "learned anything" from past school shootings and insisted more gun laws are not the solution to preventing more shootings.

"Evidently they didn’t learn anything," Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed when a gunman opened fire at her school in Parkland in 2018, told Fox News Digital.
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Canadian PM Trudeau announces legislation to ‘freeze’ handgun ownership, buy back ‘assault-style wea
Published On 7/9/2022
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that his government is introducing legislation to "implement national freeze on handgun ownership" throughout the country.

"What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada," Trudeau said at a press conference.

"We recognize that the vast majority of gun owners use them safely and in accordance with the law, but other than using firearms for sport shooting and hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives."
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Uvalde school shooting a wake up call to focus on safety and training for school personnel
Published On 7/9/2022
The attack by a gunman upon students and teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, sent shock waves throughout school communities across the nation.

Parents are asking whether their school officials have not only target-hardened their schools, but also if staff inside those schools are following the simplest of security protocols such as not propping open perimeter doors. Many parents are now uncertain as to whether the first police officers on the scene of an active school shooting will enter their schools to immediately neutralize the shooter.
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People legally carrying guns have saved police officers
Published On 7/9/2022
Two deputies responded to a report of shots fired in a Maple Falls neighborhood. Upon arrival, the suspect started yelling at the deputies, waving a shotgun around, and “appeared to be intoxicated by his speech and actions.” The suspect fired at the deputies, hitting both. That was when good Samaritans armed with their own weapons stepped forward and fired multiple shots in the direction of the suspect to provide cover for and protect the wounded deputies. The sheriff thanked the armed good Samaritans who came to the wounded heroes’ aid and kept them safe until backup arrived.
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Biden slammed for claiming there's 'no rational basis' for 9mm bullets: ‘We’re banning handguns now?
Published On 7/9/2022
President Biden faced a new round of backlash on Twitter for his comments on gun control legislation and 9mm ammo on Memorial Day.

Speaking with reporters outside the White House, Biden told about his efforts to work on gun control legislation with Republicans in Congress following the deadly Uvalde school shooting. While Biden admitted that his executive options are limited, he suggested that 9mm bullets have no "rational basis" to be used for self-defense.

"The .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body. The idea of a high caliber weapon, there is simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," Biden said.
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Here's a Three-Word Policy That's Been Effective in Stopping School Shootings
Published On 7/8/2022
The border city of Uvalde, Texas is mourning. Salvador Ramos, 18, shot and killed 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. They were all in one classroom. It’s a heinous crime. It’s a Sandy Hook-like situation. Ramos shot his grandmother before this rampage. The grandmother is said to have survived. We’re going to hear an earful about gun control, so-called assault weapons bans, and other anti-gun talking points from Democrats. And the result will always be the same—Americans will not torch their rights to appease a political class lusting for more power and control, especially after the COVID lockdown fiasco. NONE of the COVID protocols were effective. The lockdowns did next to nothing to reduce the mortality rate. The one policy that has been effective is having police officers at schools.
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Protecting kids in school must be more than 'rhetoric,' real world solutions needed: Experts
Published On 7/8/2022
Shootings carried out in places where there are fewer security measures, known as "soft targets," have rocked America at least three times over the last 12 days. The tragedies have sparked calls to beef up security in buildings such as schools and for politicians to stop with their rhetoric immediately after the tragedies.

"There's certainly been a push by some with the woke agenda to remove police officers from schools, and I couldn't think of an actually worse idea right now," Fraternal Order of Police National Vice President Joe Gamaldi told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Schools are a particularly soft target. They're doing the best job that they can right now,"
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Parkland dad devastated after Schumer blocks GOP school safety bill named after son: 'It's heartbrea
Published On 7/8/2022
Max Schachter, whose 14-year-old son was killed during the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, said he’s heartbroken after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blocked a school safety bill named after his son Wednesday.

After the horrific mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked for the Luke and Alex School Safety Act to be passed by unanimous consent. Schumer objected to Johnson’s request, claiming on Twitter that the bill "could see more guns in schools."
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Ted Cruz won't cancel NRA convention appearance after Uvalde shooting
Published On 7/8/2022
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will speak at the National Rifle Association convention this weekend, just days after the deadly Uvalde school shooting in the same state.

“I’m going to be there because what Democrats and the press try to do in the wake of every mass shooting is they try to demonize law-abiding gun owners, try to demonize the NRA,” Cruz told a local CBS affiliate on Thursday.
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Musk favors some gun control, calls for special assault rifle permits for 'extremely well vetted' pe
Published On 7/7/2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented Thursday morning on gun control measures following Tuesday's Texas elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two adults.

In a tweet, Musk gave his opinion that assault rifles should, at minimum, require a special permit, where the recipient is extremely well vetted.
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Schumer blocks Senate GOP school safety bill, angering Republicans
Published On 7/7/2022
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday blocked a school safety bill that has Republicans crying foul.

After the horrific mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked for the Luke and Alex School Safety Act to be passed by unanimous consent.
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Biden to call for gun control, meet victims' families during visit to Buffalo
Published On 7/6/2022
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Buffalo, New York on Tuesday to meet with family members of the victims in the horrific shooting that left 10 people dead and three injured at a Tops grocery store.
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Texas shooting: Retired NYPD lieutenant calls for school resource officers to be armed
Published On 7/6/2022
Criminal justice expert Darrin Porcher assessed how politicians and law enforcement can better reinforce soft targets to prevent mass shootings in the wake of the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
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The Hard Truth about ‘Tougher Background Checks
Published On 7/6/2022
On the menu today: Yet another horrific school shooting, and yet another call for legal changes that, had they been in place before the shooting, would not have changed the outcome.

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A few months ago, the National Institute of Justice, the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and The Violence Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center, completed what they called the most comprehensive study ever done of mass shootings in the U.S. from 1966 to 2019. Among the report’s conclusions:
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Don’t Surrender To Do-Somethingism On Guns
Published On 7/6/2022
Before we even knew how the killer of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, had obtained his guns, Chris Murphy was engaging in his customary performative emotionalism on the Senate floor, literally begging Republicans to “compromise.”
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Please return your ballot by 7:00 PM today.
Published On 6/28/2022
All of those who support the Second Amendment have a duty to make our voices heard at the ballot box in every election.

Please return your ballot by 7:00 PM today.
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CD 03
Published On 6/28/2022
CSSA endorsed Congresswoman @laurenboebert because she is exactly the kind of unapologetic proponent of 2A that Colorado needs in Congress and she just won her primary in the 3rd Congressional District. Congratulations Congresswomen! We are honored to have you as an ally in the fight against anti-gunners in Washington.
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CD 08
Published On 6/28/2022
Congratulations to CSSA endorsed State Senator @Kirkmeyer4CO in her primary victory! Kirkmeyer will represent Colorado’s new district well and stand strong for 2A in Washington.
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US Senate
Published On 6/28/2022
Joe O’Dea (@ODeaForColorado) is pro-Second Amendment and poses a serious threat to anti-gun Senator Michael Bennet now that he has taken victory in the primary. Congratulations Joe O’dea! We look forward to working with you in the fight against Washington infringements on 2A.
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SD 09
Published On 6/28/2022
Senator @Paul_Lundeen is endorsed by CSSA because he consistently votes to uphold the Second Amendment and reliably supports other pro-gun candidates. He just won the nomination in Senate District 9. The Colorado State Shooting Association congratulates him. We look forward with optimism knowing he will fight for the right of the people in Senate District 9 to defend themselves and their families.
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HD 51
Published On 6/28/2022
Leader Hugh McKean (@hmckean) is a hunter, competitive shooter and concealed carry instructor who earned CSSA’s endorsement by successfully spearheading the effort to pass the Hunter Education Bill and consistently leading his caucus to oppose every anti-gun initiative. We congratulate him for his primary victory in House District 51 this evening.
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HD 44
Published On 6/28/2022
CSSA endorsed candidate Anthony Hartstook won his primary election in House District 44. He is a true advocate for 2A and we look forward to working with him to defend the rights of all responsible gun owners.
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HD 45
Published On 6/28/2022
Congratulations to CSSA Endorsed candidate @lisa_frizell for winning the nomination in House District 45! The Colorado State Shooting Association is eager to work with you to preserve Coloradans’ second amendment rights.
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HD 18
Published On 6/28/2022
CSSA endorsed candidate Shana Black (@Libertyy1776) won the primary in House District 18. She has profound knowledge of the need for 2A and excels at communicating the importance of it. The Colorado State Shooting Association is enthused to have such a compelling voice fighting for gun owners in House District 18.
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HD 21
Published On 6/28/2022
The Colorado State Shooting Association endorsed Representative Mary Bradfield (@BradfieldFor) because she reliably votes in opposition to anti-2A initiatives and she sponsored the Hunter Education Bill. We congratulate her for winning the nomination in House District 21.
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HD 14
Published On 6/28/2022
CSSA endorsed candidate Rose Pugliese (@RoseforCO) won her primary in House District 14. Way to go Rose! You will be a great addition to the growing pro-gun caucus in the Legislature.
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Vote!
Published On 6/22/2022
Colorado ballots for the primary are due on the 28th of this month.

All of those who believe in defending the Second Amendment should cast their ballot this election and in every election.

Make sure to cast your ballot to ensure the continued pressure for elected officials to hear from responsible gun owners all across our state.
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CSSA Endorsement: HD 44
Published On 6/21/2022
CSSA Endorsement: HD 44
Anthony Hartstook is a decorated combat veteran with first-hand knowledge of the importance of responsible gun ownership. He also actively encourages and advances responsible gun training. He will be a strong addition to the Colorado State House of Representatives, and the Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to announce our endorsement of Anthony Hartstook for House District 44.
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CSSA Endorsement: HD 45
Published On 6/21/2022
CSSA Endorsement: HD 45
Lisa Frizell is an honest leader committed to preserving our right to keep and bear arms. She is a proud gun owner and has introduced her family to responsible gun ownership. She will be an articulate and compelling voice in the growing pro-gun caucus. The Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to endorse Lisa Frizell for House District 45.
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CSSA Endorsement: CD 03
Published On 6/20/2022
CSSA Endorsement: CD 03
From her time as a small town business owner to her ascension to Congress, Lauren Boebert has long been a fierce advocate of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. She not only has the courage to defend our rights, but the tenacity to advance them, and the conviction to do so in the face of considerable opposition.
Amidst sky-high crime, bare shelves, and soaring inflation, anti-gunners like those in the White House have made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for the Second Amendment. To keep them from getting their way, we need leaders who are unwilling to apologize for our rights, refuse to empower the enemies of those rights, and can take some heat without bending. There are few such leaders, but Lauren Boebert is one of them.
Congresswoman Boebert doesn't need anyone's approval, but she has ours. The Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to endorse Rep. Lauren Boebert for Colorado Congressional District 03.
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False Claims
Published On 6/20/2022
Some have made the false claim that the Colorado State Shooting Association is not the official state association for the NRA. This line is being pushed by a candidate who failed to receive CSSA’s endorsement.

You can see that the NRA recognizes CSSA as its Colorado state association here:
https://stateassociations.nra.org/find-your-state-association/

CSSA is led by an all-volunteer board committed to a pro-gun agenda in Colorado. We sued Boulder and won, we pushed for the hunter’s ed bill, and we helped defeat the anti-hunting bill this year. While politicians posture, we’ll continue fighting for freedom.
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CSSA Endorsement. HD 18
Published On 6/8/2022
CSSA Endorsement. HD 18

Shana Black is the candidate for gun owners in House District 18. She not only knows how to talk about firearms but she is a prime example of a responsible gun owner. She understands that the Second Amendment is not just about hunting deer in kevlar vests but is about personal defense and the protection of all individual rights. Her ability to articulate the need for the Second Amendment and her understanding of the laws around firearms set her up to be a champion for our rights. The Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to endorse Shana Black for House District 18.
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Watters: The left is trying 'capitalize' on the Buffalo, NY shooting to divide the country
Published On 6/8/2022
JESSE WATTERS: Not Waukesha or Brooklyn. What do you think the difference is? Well, we know what the difference is. Both of those shooters were black supremacists with black nationalist ideologies, both equally as repugnant as the Buffalo shooter. So why is the left capitalizing on this attack and ignoring the others? Well, we have an idea. Rolling Stone lays the playbook out perfectly. Quote, "The Buffalo shooter isn't a lone wolf. He's a mainstream Republican." And there you go. The goal is to conflate white supremacists with the Republican Party. This is done to shame Republican voters and galvanize Democrat voters, especially African-Americans. It's about as dirty as a political move as there is in American politics.
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Texas school shooting: Former FBI deputy assistant director calls for armed police officers in schoo
Published On 6/8/2022
DANNY COULSON: I guess you had on the SWAT team commander from Oklahoma, I think. He talked about what they do. Something much better than that is to have armed police officers inside the school protecting our kids. Seven of my eight grandchildren are in schools in Texas, and they're this age. We just gave $40 billion to Ukraine. Why don't we allocate money to protect our own citizens, to put policemen in our schools, to protect our children from these monsters?… I'm really angry about this. I'm saddened. And frankly, I'm a lot afraid.
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CSSA Endorsement. HD 14
Published On 6/7/2022
Rose Pugliese is a proven fighter and liberty defender. She has a proven record here in Colorado and would be a great addition to the pro-gun caucus in the state house. She will not only vote the right way but will be a leader in the effort to protect our right to keep and bear arms. The Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to endorse Rose Pugliese for House District 14.
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The Babylon Bee Presents: 9 Rules Of Gun Safety
Published On 6/7/2022
1) Never put your finger on the trigger: Are you crazy?! You could kill somebody!

2) Never point your gun at the Director of Photography when rehearsing a movie scene: (Alec Baldwin only)

3) Make sure the target has a name in red above them: If they're on your team you'll get kicked from the server for friendly fire.

4) Audibly say "pew" while shooting to warn others: PEW PEW PEW!

5) Holding the gun sideways for maximum accuracy: It will also add +5 damage.

6) Never sneak up on people at the range and shout "HOOBAJOOBA!" while jumping out in front of the muzzle of their weapon: That's just rude!
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Biden demands gun control following Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting
Published On 6/7/2022
President Biden called for changes to gun laws Tuesday and expressed his heartbreak in his address to the nation following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

"To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away," said Biden, who learned of the shooting at Robb Elementary School while on Air Force One returning from his trip to Asia. "There's a hollowness in your chest, you feel like you're being sucked into it, never able to get out. Suffocating. It's never quite the same."
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CSSA Endorsement. SD 09
Published On 6/7/2022
CSSA Endorsement. SD 09

Senator Paul Lundeen is a longtime defender of individual liberties, including those protected by the Second Amendment. He not only votes the right way but he fights for other pro-gun leaders to be elected to defend the Second Amendment. His work ethic, persistence, and principled defense of gun-rights makes this endorsement simple. The Colorado State Shooting Association is proud to endorse Senator Paul Lundeen for Senate District 09.
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CSSA Endorsement: U.S. Senate
Published On 6/6/2022
CSSA Endorsement: U.S. Senate

Joe O’Dea is a proven leader, not a flip-flopping politician. He will support the 2nd Amendment. Joe said it well: “The American people have a God-given right to protect their homes and families.” We agree and urge gun owners to support Joe O’Dea for Senate.
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CSSA Endorsement. HD 21
Published On 6/6/2022
Representative Mary Bradfield is a proven gun rights leader dedicated to protecting the 2nd Amendment. She is a proud gun owner, sponsored and supported the Hunter Education bill, and consistently votes against infringements on 2A. The Colorado State Shooting Association is honored to endorse Representative Mary Bradfield for House District 21.
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CSSA Endorsement: House District 51
Published On 6/3/2022
CSSA Endorsement: House District 51

Leader Hugh McKean has delivered a rare win for Colorado gun owners by sponsoring, supporting, and pushing through to victory HB22-1168 (Hunter Ed Bill). He ensured that his caucus fought against every anti-gun bill. He is a hunter, competitive shooter, and a concealed carry instructor. The Colorado State Shooting Association is honored to endorse Leader Hugh McKean for House District 51.
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Denver passes bill banning concealed carry on city property to final reading
Published On 6/2/2022
Denver City Council approved on first reading Monday night a bill restricting concealed carry in buildings owned, leased by or leased to the city, as well as Denver parks. The bill will need to pass a second vote before being enacted.

The proposal is part of Mayor Michael Hancock’s 2022 Public Safety Action Plan. Assistant staff from the city attorney’s office previously said the proposed legislation is part of the national conversation to reduce gun violence and came about after the legislature passed SB21-256, allowing local governments to prohibit firearms in certain parts of a government’s jurisdiction.
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Liberal Think Tank Recommends Dealing with ‘Root Causes’ – Not Guns – to Combat ‘Gun Violence’
Published On 6/2/2022
ANALYSIS – In the latest news on the ‘gun violence’ front, a major liberal-leaning think tank report recommends numerous solutions to the ‘gun violence’ surge plaguing our nation’s capital.

And in a typically written news story, the reporter sees no irony in repeatedly using the liberal ‘gun violence’ term even when none of the solutions being proposed have anything to do with guns.

In the old days it was simply called violence, or ‘shooting,’ if you wanted to be more specific. Now it is ‘gun violence.’ All part of the liberal campaign to weaponize language to achieve political goals.
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Biden demands gun control following Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting
Published On 6/1/2022
President Biden called for changes to gun laws Tuesday and expressed his heartbreak in his address to the nation following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

"To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away," said Biden, who learned of the shooting at Robb Elementary School while on Air Force One returning from his trip to Asia. "There's a hollowness in your chest, you feel like you're being sucked into it, never able to get out. Suffocating. It's never quite the same."
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Boozman, Cotton Lead Senate Effort to Stop Biden’s New ‘Firearms’ Parts Registry
Published On 6/1/2022
Boozman, Cotton Lead Senate Effort to Stop Biden’s New ‘Firearms’ Parts Registry
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Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows
Published On 6/1/2022
t never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic incidents in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, in early August 2019.
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Boulder moving forward with drafting gun violence prevention legislation
Published On 5/12/2022
Boulder is proceeding with a number of gun violence prevention measures, including reinstatement of the city’s assault weapons ban.

In its Tuesday study session, the City Council offered direction on a legislation package that, if approved in a future public hearing, would do everything from prohibiting open carry and carrying in sensitive areas to requiring a 10-day waiting period after the initiation of a background check for a licensed firearms dealer to deliver a firearm to a purchaser.
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Kopel: A letter to the Denver City Council on licensed concealed carry
Published On 5/12/2022
Dear Denver City Council:

This letter is to address some of the questions about licensed concealed carry raised at the April 13, 2022, meeting of the Committee on Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness. This letter is also being made available to the public.

What are crime rates for persons with licensed carry permits?
A concealed handgun permit (CHP) is issued only to persons 21 and over. Roughly speaking, among the Colorado population 21 and over, an adult with a concealed handgun permit is about 39 times less likely to be arrested than an adult without a CHP. The data are as follows.
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Research Proves That Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day
Published On 5/12/2022
Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired, and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Every year, 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms.
60 percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed. Forty percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.
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Investigators Claim David Used Illegal ‘Ghost’ Sling In Lethal Assault Against Goliath
Published On 5/11/2022
BET SHEMESH, ISRAEL—Investigators working with the Israel Antiquities Authority have claimed David used an illegal "ghost" sling in his famous battle with Goliath. Experts allege the ghost sling would have been untraceable, which would account for why Goliath was caught off guard so easily.

"Goliath, a man who stood about 7'10" by modern reckoning, would not have been defeated so easily if David had a legal sling registered with the proper authorities," said Dr. Phil Gath, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "David probably used a 3D printer or something, maybe he just stole some leather and grabbed some stones to put something together himself. We're not sure where the sling came from."
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Biden Announces Huge Gun Restrictions, Dealers Forced to Stamp Guns with New Serial Numbers in Some
Published On 5/10/2022
The Biden administration is going after so-called ghost guns — privately made firearms without serial numbers — in an attempt to revive President Joe Biden’s stalled domestic agenda.

As part of its efforts to revive the anti-gun agenda upon which Biden ran for the White House, the administration also announced Monday its nomination of Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Biden to Nominate ATF Director, Announce Order on ‘Ghost Guns’
Published On 5/10/2022
President Joe Biden is set to make another nomination for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and announce new executive actions restricting “ghost guns.”
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Biden to Nominate ATF Director, Announce Order on ‘Ghost Guns
Published On 5/10/2022
President Joe Biden is set to make another nomination for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and announce new executive actions restricting “ghost guns.”
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Experts slam NYT's claim legal gun sales partly to blame for rapid increase in violent crime
Published On 5/10/2022
Violent crimes like murders have plagued the U.S. over the last two years, and many experts blame the fallout from the pandemic and 2020’s summer of protests and riots following the death of George Floyd.

The New York Times recently argued that 2020’s skyrocketing increase in legal gun purchases has also contributed to the spikes, an explanation experts are pouring cold water on.
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Denver City Council Committee Delayed Vote on Concealed Weapon Prohibition in City-Owned Buildings
Published On 5/10/2022
Will Denver become a safe space for civilian disarmament?

On April 13, 2022, the Denver City Council’s Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee delayed its vote on a bill that would limit concealed carry in buildings owned, leased by or leased to the city, in addition to Denver parks. Now the vote is set for April 27.

This proposed change forms part of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's 2022 Public Safety Action Plan. Assistant City Attorney Reggie Nubine stated this legislative proposal is part of a broader national push to reduce gun violence. The Colorado state government's recent decision to pass SB21-256, which grants local governments the power to ban firearms in certain places of a municipality's jurisdiction.
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Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert announces resignation
Published On 5/10/2022
Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert announced Monday he will resign his Senate District 30 seat at the end of May. Twenty days after Colorado's legislative session ends, the Douglas County Republican will move to Florida.

Holbert began his legislative career in 2010, when he was elected to represent House District 44. He served four years in the House before being elected to represent Senate District 30. He would have been term-limited at the end of 2022.
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TOWERING RECLAIMED RIFLE STATUES NOW ON DISPLAY AT CMP FACILITIES
Published On 5/10/2022
As part of its federal charter, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is provided surplus U.S. Army rifles from past conflicts, like the World War II M1 Garand, that are sold to qualified purchasers from around the country. The rifles are assembled from a stock of parts that are sorted and quality inspected, with the excess left sitting without purpose within CMP’s warehouse – until now.
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President Biden will not be satisfied until no civilian can defend themselves against the crime wave
Published On 5/10/2022
President Biden has had incremental success at implementing gun control through executive action, rolling out a rule last year to regulate pistol-stablizing braces, directing his Justice Department to target gun traffickers, and announcing a new crackdown on "ghost guns" Monday.

While the president touted his administration’s actions, he also said that "this should be just the start" and called on Congress to pass laws on gun control, a politically contentious issue that has been deadlocked in the legislature for the past decade.
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Senile Old Man Spotted With A Gun Spouting Wild Demands On White House Grounds
Published On 5/10/2022
WASHINGTON, D.C—The White House grounds have entered a lockdown following the sighting of a senile old man wandering around waving a gun and making outlandish demands.

"Look folks, no more automatic weapons! You hear me, I'm serious! And no more gramblegrawp!" said the old, confused man while pointing his gun at everyone. "I traveled 1700 miles, million miles, so c'mon and listen up! Ghost guns are banned. No Congress needed."
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Georgia Gov. signs major constitutional carry bill into law
Published On 5/10/2022
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed a bill into law Tuesday removing the license and background check requirements for gun owners to carry a firearm in public, drawing high praise from gun owners in the state.

Joining supporters outside Gable Sporting Goods in Douglasville on Tuesday, the Republican governor celebrated the new law, saying it will ensure citizens’ rights to protect themselves in public, Fox 5 of Atlanta reported.
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To Boulder’s anti-gun bigots, I will not comply with your hate law
Published On 5/10/2022
To Boulder’s anti-gun bigots, I will not comply with your hate law
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Colorado: Governor Signs Hunter Education Legislation into Law
Published On 5/9/2022
Today, Governor Jared Polis signed important Hunter Education Legislation, House Bill 22-1168.

House Bill 22-1168 allows local education providers, upon entering into an agreement with an individual or entity that offers hunter education courses certified by the division of parks and wildlife (division), to provide a hunter education course (course) to all seventh graders. The course must satisfy the requirements of a hunter education course certified by the division; except that hands-on activities are not required. The course must be taught by a division-certified instructor. A parent or legal guardian must provide permission for a student to participate in any hands-on activities that are offered as part of the course.

Thank you to Rep. Hugh McKean and those legislators who voted in favor of HB 22-1168 for helping to get this passed. Also, thank you to NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters who continued to contact their lawmakers in support of this import Hunter Education m
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The firearm industry supports nearly seven thousand jobs in Colorado.
Published On 5/9/2022
The firearm industry supports nearly seven thousand jobs in Colorado.
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Firearm Industry Experiences Significant Growth in Economic Impact Over the Past Decade
Published On 5/7/2022
The American firearms industry is alive and well.

According to a report by Jim Grant of AmmoLand, the total economic impact of the firearm industry went from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $70.52 billion in 2021. Similarly, the total number of full-time equivalent jobs grew from roughly 166,000 to over 375,819 in that same time period, which represented a 126% increase.

These figures were drawn from a report that the National Sports Shooting Foundation recently released.
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Lithuania is Buying Guns in Droves
Published On 5/6/2022
Applications for gun licenses have doubled and sales have increased by around 8-fold. Lithuanians are preparing themselves for what might come next.

Lithuania borders Belarus. They have been accommodating thousands of refugees. Russian shelling continues to kill civilians in the Ukraine and strike fear into their neighbors. Lithuanians just want to protect their homes, their families, and their livelihoods.
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Did the ATF Just Make Silencer Applications Impossible?
Published On 5/6/2022
The ATF Form 1(ATF Form 5320.1) is the application to make and register a firearm, recently the ATF has denied 850 of these applications from the makers of suppressors. This form is intended for those who are not already a licensed manufacturer of NFA firearms.

These denials were made due to changes in ATF policy regarding suppressor “parts kits”. The ATF is alleging that they were denying the applications of those looking to make “parts kits” for suppressors.
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Ohio Passes Concealed Carry
Published On 5/6/2022
Ohio will soon become the 23rd state to allow concealed carry without a permit.

On June 12, Ohio residents will no longer need permits to carry concealed firearms. The state is the latest in a growing wave of Constitutional Carry laws across the country.
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Pro-Gun Members of Congress Demand Answers from ATF on Mass Suppressor Application Denials
Published On 5/6/2022
Recently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) – under the direction of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland – has been on a tear of upsetting settled understandings and changing enforcement policies. But pro-gun members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have taken note and are now demanding answers of their own.

Gun owners by now are used to the drill, although it never gets more justifiable or legitimate. An anti-gun White House and attorney general assume control, and suddenly years of practice, precedent, and agreed meaning go out the window at ATF.
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This anti-gun elitist is trying to buy another term and he knows his policies will comeback to hurt
Published On 5/5/2022
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is reserving a little over $1 million worth of fall TV advertising for his reelection bid, a spokesman for the Democrat's campaign tells Colorado Politics.

It's the first substantial general election advertising reservation announced by a Colorado candidate this cycle. While ad reservations can be canceled, committing to a sizable ad buy early gives Weiser the chance to lock in lower rates and secure the most desirable time slots.
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Biden’s Push for Universal Firearm Registry Meets Resistance
Published On 5/5/2022
The government has a massive registry of legal gun owners in the country. The Biden Administration is trying to expand it. Republican Representative Michael Cloud of Texas is introducing legislation that would stop him.

Biden’s law would require gun owners to keep records of purchase in perpetuity. That information would then be transferred over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Then, the United States federal government would compile information about your firearms purchases into a detailed registry. Even if a store shuts down, records would be immediately transferred to the ATF.
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Alabama Finally Honors The Second Amendment
Published On 5/5/2022
Alabama is the latest state to protect constitutional carry. After a 10 year battle, Alabama finally removed the permit requirement for citizens to concealed carry firearms.

House Republican Rep. Shane Stringer sponsored the bill and The House approved the legislation on a vote of 70-29. The Senate then voted in favor by 23 – 6. Most of these votes were divided along party lines. On Thursday, March 10th, Governor Kay Ivy voted Constitutional carry into law.
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Texas School District Approves Concealed Carry for Teachers
Published On 5/5/2022
A small Texas county with only 1,200 students is moving to allow teachers to carry firearms. The Grand Saline Independent School District is allowing teachers to concealed carry firearms.

This plan didn’t just pop up out of nowhere either. The district held discussions and plans to enact this for 3 years prior to approval. 300 other districts in Texas allow their teachers to carry in some capacity. Superintendent Micah Lewis said that 95% of residents in the district support arming teachers.
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90% of New Gun Owners Are Minorities and Women
Published On 5/5/2022
Around 7.5 million Americans became new gun owners in 28 months starting in January 2019. The vast majority (90%) of these new gun owners were female and minorities.

Democrats are losing votes in droves because of their focus on gun control. In 2021, trucker Edward Durr won in New Jersey partially because of his Second Amendment stance. The Hill reports that Biden’s gun control stance might further help republicans in the midterms.
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Rep. Massie cites Constitution to slam Biden's upcoming 'ghost gun' rule: 'Congress makes laws'
Published On 5/5/2022
Rep. Thomas Massie and Second Amendment advocates are pushing back against the Biden administration's upcoming rule on "ghost guns," characterizing the rule to rein in privately made firearms without serial numbers as unconstitutional.

"The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm. This a fact that has been recognized for 200+ years. Also, Article 1, Section 1 (literally the first operative sentence in the Constitution) says Congress makes law, not POTUS!" Rep. Thomas Massie tweeted Sunday.
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The Bill That Would Bar the Biden Admin From Stockpiling Records on American Gun Owners
Published On 5/4/2022
A bill circulating through Congress would stop the Biden administration from stockpiling records on American gun owners by altering federal law to allow firearm dealers to destroy sales records.

The bill, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, is a response to the Free Beacon's January report detailing how the Biden administration's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has amassed nearly one billion records detailing American citizens' firearm purchases, a figure that is far higher than Congress and the public has been aware of.
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Ukraine gave out 18,000 assault rifles to civilians in Kyiv in one day
Published On 5/3/2022
Some real heroes who felt that they had no other alternative.
In about a day, the Ukrainian government gave out 18,000 machine guns to civilians in a country where gun ownership is very rare and they weren’t previously allowed to own machine guns.

An estimated 18,000 assault rifles, variants of the Kalashnikov, have been distributed in Kyiv since Thursday.
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 22 Cases During October 2021
Published On 5/3/2022
The shooting was reported near the 100 block of Iron Street in south St. Louis about 8:30 p.m. Monday…

During their initial investigation, police said the man was trying to break into a car when he was shot. On Thursday, they added that he had pointed a gun at the man who eventually fired the deadly shot.

The 39-year-old man who fired that shot was taken into custody and then released while officers continue their investigation, police said
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Yet more examples from CBS and NBC of Television police shows having criminals use machine guns
Published On 5/3/2022
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey did not even mention fully automatic weapons. A similar finding is available from the FBI UCR report where 2.6% of all murders involve rifles of any type and 0.3% of all murders involve unspecified “other guns.” There is a reason for that. Since 1934, there was only one possible known use ever of a civilian using a machine gun in a murder. And even before 1934, they were very rare.
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Armed Civilians save two sheriff’s deputies who were shot in Bellingham, Washington
Published On 5/3/2022
The Good Samaritans described as protecting Whatcom County deputies during a gunfight, said they were fully prepared to injure the suspect in order to defend themselves, their families and the deputies.

Two Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies were shot during a confrontation with Joel Young during a gunfire exchange in a residential neighborhood in Peaceful Valley on Thursday. Jesse Marshall and Cody Deeter live down the street from Young, who on Friday was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder and is being held on $5 million bail.

“He stepped out, with a gun, being a threat. I’m a veteran. I’ve been to combat. I know how to handle it, it’s not fun,” Marshall said.
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Biden calls for ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines in SOTU speech
Published On 5/3/2022
President Joe Biden renewed his call for the banning of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in his State of the Union address.

"I ask Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence," Biden said during his first official State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. "Pass universal background checks. Why should anyone on a terrorist list be able to purchase a weapon? Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."
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A Gallup survey on gun ownership shows that asking if people own a gun in their home is not the same
Published On 5/2/2022
We have done a lot of work on the biases in surveys of gun ownership (see here and here). But we should point out that a Gallup survey shows that simply asking people if they own a gun in the home, they are missing a couple or few percent of people who may own a gun someplace else. Just a warning that a gun in the home won’t account for all the guns that someone may own.
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CPRC discussed extensively at Fox News: Gun crimes grab most media attention, while gun use in self-
Published On 4/23/2022
Americans across the country have used legal guns to defend themselves and thwart crimes, but the reports often fly under the radar and most people are unaware how often guns are used in self-defense cases.

“Having a gun is by far the safest course of action when people are facing a criminal by themselves,” Dr. John Lott, an economist and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital. He pointed to women in particular, who “behave passively” and are “about 2.4 times more likely to end up being seriously injured than a woman who has a gun to protect herself.”
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Ukraine to Give Weapons to Anyone Who Wants to Defend Country: President
Published On 4/22/2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday morning that the government would provide anyone with weapons from a Russian invasion that was launched in the early morning hours.
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American gun sales continue to surge, new research finds
Published On 4/21/2022
American gun sales remained strong in 2021, with nearly 19 million firearms sold legally in the U.S., the second-highest total over the past two decades, according to new research from the home and personal safety group SafeHome.


Sales fell 13% from the high of 2020, but were still 40% higher than 2019, annual data compiled by SafeHome.org reveals.

"On an overall and population-adjusted basis, more people are buying guns in almost every state," according to the organization.
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Tennessee bills would expand where some gun owners could carry by designating them as law enforcemen
Published On 4/21/2022
Two controversial bills introduced this month in Tennessee would expand where enhanced handgun carry permit holders could carry by technically designating them as "law enforcement" in certain situations, according to reports.

It would allow permit holders to carry their weapons where only off-duty law enforcement officers can, such as restaurants or stores that don't normally allow them, WTVF-TV in Nashville reported. It wouldn't include courthouses or schools.

"This is trying to open it up so that people who go to the extreme to get this extra permit can have the right to defend themselves in more places," Republican state Sen. Joey Hensley told ABC News on Thursday. He introduced the state version of the bill.
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Washington State Approves Ban on Magazines Over 10 Rounds – Governor Expected to Sign
Published On 4/21/2022
As California continues to fall to the weigh-side due to far-left policies making the state increasingly unlivable, the states these ex-Californians are fleeing to are passing the very policies that destroyed their former home.

In recent years, tens of thousands of Californians have fled to Washington State, and in recent days the state has passed a ban on firearm magazines over 10-rounds in response.

Senate Bill 4078 prohibits “the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of large capacity magazines, and by providing limited exemptions applicable to licensed firearms manufacturers and dealers for purposes of sale to armed forces branches and law enforcement agencies for purposes of sale or transfer outside the state.”
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New Optics-Ready Handguns From Smith & Wesson
Published On 4/21/2022
Smith & Wesson has seen a lot of success in their M&P line of firearms, their handguns have sold exceptionally well at gun stores across the country. Now this brand might be even more popular as the company has release several new versions of the M&P9 M2.0 pistols that are optics-ready.
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Soros-Funded State Attorneys General Are Joining Mexico’s Lawsuit to Destroy America's Gun Industry
Published On 4/21/2022
Will treasonous state attorneys general join with Mexico in destroying the Second Amendment?

According to a post by Larry Keane, the Senior Vice President for Government and Public Affairs at the National Shooting Sports Foundation ​​(NSSF),​​ 14 states are working with Mexico in siding with the Latin American country to sue American firearms manufacturers. This anti-gun coalition’s goal is to bankrupt them.

One of the most clever ways the anti-gun Left has pursued a slew of its pet policies is by buying off district attorneys who do not care for the rule of law and allow criminals to run loose. 14 attorneys general filed amicus briefs backing Mexico’s legal actions against American gun manufacturers.
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Does the United States need stricter gun control laws?: Most Americans say “No” by a 49% to 42% marg
Published On 4/20/2022
Rasmussen Reports has a new survey on support for stricter gun control laws. They interviewed 1,000 Americans from January 30-31, 2022 and the margin of error in the survey was +/-3%. By a 49%-to-42% margin, Americans opposed stricter gun control. This is slightly larger than a recent Quinnipiac University Poll from last November that found Americans oppose stricter gun control laws by a 49% to 45% margin.

Those groups who were clearly in favor of more regulations were blacks, Democrats, people earning more than $200,000 per year, and government workers. Those who clearly opposed more regulations were men; people aged 40 to 64; whites; Republicans and others; married; people who worked for private companies, retired and others; and investors.
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POLL: Americans Don’t Want Additional Gun Control
Published On 4/20/2022
Has Gun Control Inc. met its match?

The record-breaking gun sales of 2020 and 2021 have created a new reality in American politics, where many Americans are now beginning to recognize the value of the right to bear arms. Especially, when law enforcement bodies and political leaders have become negligent when it comes to protecting the citizens they allegedly serve.

In a new poll conducted by Rasmussen, 63% of Americans support enforcing current gun laws instead of passing new civilian disarmament schemes.
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Ukraine to Declare State of Emergency, Grant Citizens Right to Bear Arms
Published On 4/20/2022
Preparing for the possibility of a large-scale Russian invasion, the Ukrainian government has moved to declare a 30-day state of emergency, grant citizens the right to bear arms, and conscript military reservists between the ages of 18 and 60, adding nearly 200,000 troops to the country’s defense as Russian troops continue to enter the Donbas region.

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Zelensky said in a televised speech that there was no need for a “general mobilization” of civilians, however “we need to promptly replenish the Ukrainian army and other military formations.”
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Even in Liberal Massachusetts, Carry Permit Carry Applications are Increasing
Published On 4/20/2022
Push residents of even the most leftist blue states, and they’ll eventually recognize the importance of the right to bear arms.

Tom Knighton detailed this in a post for Bearing Arms, where he highlighted how Massachusetts has witnessed a recent surge in citizens applying for firearms permits.

It was announced earlier this month that carry permits in Massachusetts reached a four-year high.

Per the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, 54,263 residents of Massachusetts filed applications for new License to Carry (LTC) permits in 2021. This represented an increase from 2020, when there were 54,082 applications for licenses were made.
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Arizona State House Approves Bill Prohibiting the State from Contracting with Businesses that Discri
Published On 4/20/2022
On February 23, 2022, the Arizona State House passed legislation to sanction businesses that refuse doing business with firearms companies by excluding them from state contracts.

This bill, House Bill 2473, was passed with strong Republican support, but with no Democrats on board. The banking industry strongly opposed HB 2473, whereas gun groups and the firearms industry supported the bill.

State Representative Frank Carroll would mandate companies signing on to contracts worth over $100,000 with state or local governments to confirm they won’t boycott firearms companies.
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San Jose Mayor Talks About Seizing Guns from Owners Who Don’t Pay City Fee
Published On 4/19/2022
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) spoke to Slate about seizing firearms from people who refuse to pay the city’s new $25 gun owners’ fee or comply with the city’s new liability insurance requirement for gun owners.

Breitbart News reported that San Jose’s city council passed the fee ordinance and the liability insurance ordinance on January 25, 2022.

Slate notes the city fee is $25 and quotes Mayor Liccardo saying the funds collected will go to a foundation overseen by “Stanford professors, an epidemiologist who has been focused on gun harm, and nonprofit experts who understand domestic violence prevention programs, suicide prevention.”
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At Newsweek: Biden’s Rhetoric on Guns is Far From ‘Reasonable’
Published On 4/19/2022
Fact-checkers keep assuring Americans that President Biden doesn’t want to ban guns, but simply wants “reasonable” gun regulations. Yet judging by the president’s rhetoric, Biden either doesn’t know much about guns (a concerning possibility given his constant push for more regulations) or is calling for a complete ban on the vast majority of guns sold in the U.S.
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Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Acci
Published On 4/19/2022
After the Columbine school shooting 20 years ago, one of the more significant changes in how we protect students has been the advance of legislation that allows teachers to carry guns at schools. There are two obvious questions: Does letting teachers carry create dangers? Might they deter attackers? Twenty states currently allow teachers and staff to carry guns to varying degrees on school property, so we don’t need to guess how the policy would work. There has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6 AM and midnight at a school that lets teachers carry guns. Fears of teachers carrying guns in terms of such problems as students obtaining teachers guns have not occurred at all, and there was only one accidental discharge outside of school hours with no one was really harmed. While there have not been any problems at schools with armed teachers, the number of people killed at other schools has increased signif
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Newsom blasted over tweet warning of 'vile' 'weapon of war' made to look 'cute' for kids
Published On 4/8/2022
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was slammed on Twitter over a post warning Americans about a "vile" gun that was made to look "cute" with an inscription of a skull and crossbones with a pacifier.

"This is VILE," the California Democrat tweeted Wednesday night. "A skull & crossbones with a pacifier on weapon of war. Made to look ‘cute’ to appeal to kids. The manufacturer calls this a ‘JR-15.’ Every NRA-backed politician should condemn this."
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Pizza delivery driver shoots armed carjacker in Kensington, police say
Published On 4/8/2022
According to investigators, a 39-year-old delivery driver was delivering food on the 3300 block of H Street just after 7:30 p.m. when he was approached by an armed carjacker. The 35-year-old suspect allegedly pointed a gun at the delivery driver and demanded his car, police said. That’s when the driver pulled out his own gun and fired multiple rounds at the suspected carjacker, according to authorities.

“Pizza delivery driver shoots armed carjacker in Kensington, police say,” Fox 29 Philadelphia, January 27, 2022.
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In the Los Angeles Times: You don’t have to shoot someone to use a gun defensively
Published On 3/30/2022
Dr. John Lott has a letter responding to the absurd claim in the Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News that there are only 2,000 defensive gun uses per year.
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Connecticut’s Democrat Governor Unveils Multi-Million Dollar Gun Control Push
Published On 3/30/2022
Everytown for Gun Safety ranks Connecticut as having the fifth most stringent gun control laws in the country, but Lamont wants to make them even more stringent.

The Hartford Courant quoted Lamont saying, “I’ve just been shocked over this last couple of years. We have more damn guns in the street than ever before in this state right now. We have more legal guns. We have more illegal guns. They’re coming in from out of state. More guns in the street, more guns in the home means more gun violence.”

He added, “You’re not tough on crime if you’re weak on guns. We’re going to continue to stay tough on guns.”
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Virginia House Passes Bill to Repeal Red Flag Gun Confiscation Law
Published On 3/28/2022
Will Virginia repeal its draconian red flag gun confiscation law?

On February 16, 2022, the Virginia House of Delegates voted 52-47 for House Bill 509, a bill that would have repealed Virginia’s red flag gun confiscation order which was passed in 2020.

In doing so, the Virginia State House became the first chamber of any state government that had passed a repeal of its kind.
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KYLE RITTENHOUSE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO HOLD DISHONEST MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE, DROPS NAMES WHO MAY WANT TO LA
Published On 3/28/2022
Kyle Rittenhouse gained notoriety when liberals and the media (but I repeat myself) needed a narrative in 2020 to help with Joe Biden's election. There was a social justice riot. Kyle was there. He was put into a position where he needed to end two lives to save himself. But because of Kyle's complexion and the fact he exercised his second amendment rights, Kyle was put on trial for multiple homicides. Even as the FACTS of what happened came out in the trial, the media couldn't stop lying.
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Here are 10 times legal gun owners recently thwarted crimes in life-threatening situations
Published On 3/28/2022
Expert emphasizes importance of training, knowing laws surrounding justifiable gun use
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Gun Control Activist and BLM Supporter Tried to Assassinate a Louisville Mayoral Candidate
Published On 3/26/2022
You simply cannot make this up. Is this the greatest boomerang hit of all time? Liberals will eventually eat each other. Their agenda items will lead to internal conflict. There is nothing principled about liberalism, but this story takes it to a new and deadly level. Should we be shocked that an anti-gun activist ended up shooting a mayoral candidate? Maybe not since liberals are also insane, but should we be shocked or nah? In Louisville, that’s exactly what happened.
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Massive crime spike stems from social unrest, COVID lockdowns destabilizing communities: expert
Published On 3/26/2022
Massive crime spike stems from social unrest, COVID lockdowns destabilizing communities: expert
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American Gun Company Announces “Break-Up” With Mark Zuckerberg in Gab Video on Valentine’s Day
Published On 3/26/2022
American firearm manufacturer Shield Arms celebrated Valentine’s Day by announcing their break-up with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The video, posted to the free-speech social network Gab, shows a series of text messages with “Zuck,” where they call their relationship “toxic.”

Their video concludes with a text message stating that they’ve “found someone better,” before sending an image with Gab’s logo.
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Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke Flip Flops on Gun Control
Published On 3/26/2022
Is Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke changing his tune on gun control?

Back in 2019, during his failed presidential run, O’Rourke gained national attention by declaring that he would confiscate AR-15s.

When he was asked if he would confiscate certain rifles during a presidential primary debate on September 12, 2019, O’Rourke said “Hell yes! we’re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
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CREEP BUYS 15-YEAR-OLD'S PHONE NUMBER AND STALKS HER AT HOME, BUT HER DAD HAD A GUN AND THE CREEP'S
Published On 3/26/2022
The only thing I don't hate about this story is that the dad shot the stalker preying on his daughter. That, and because he moved from New Jersey to Florida where they have "Stand Your Ground" laws, the dad is enjoying a Miller Lite by the pool and is not in jail right now. Everything else makes me angry. Ava Majury is a fifteen-year-old TikTok "star." Rob is her father and a retired police officer. Eric Rohan Justin was an 18-year-old stalker. "Was" being the keyword here. Justin is now a corpsicle.
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Remington Reaches $73 Million Settlement With Sandy Hook Parents
Published On 3/23/2022
Family members of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut years ago on Feb. 15 announced a $73 million settlement with Remington Arms Company.
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Sandy Hook Families, Gun Manufacturer Remington Reach $73 Million Settlement
Published On 3/22/2022
The families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting that saw 20 children and six teachers murdered at an elementary school in Connecticut have reached a settlement with gun manufacturer Remington.

The perpetrator used a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle made by Remington — which the families argued should have never been available on the public market — to carry out the shooting. Remington had previously proposed a $33 million settlement, but a lawyer for the victims’ families stated that they ultimately agreed to $73 million.
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Moms Demand Action Founder: Gun Owners Only Hate Us ‘Because We’re Women,’ Not Because We Want to Ta
Published On 3/11/2022
Moms Demand Action Founder Shannon Watts has a victim complex only rivaled in size by the insane amount of Michael Bloomberg money she spends trying to force her anti-gun agenda onto America. She proved that this month by complaining in an Elle Magazine op-ed about how gun owners hate her, not because she has spent the last decade trying to pass radical gun control, but because she is a women!

“To be clear, pro-gun activists don’t disagree with us because they actually believe we want to take their guns away,” Watts wrote. “They hate us because we’re women.”
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CSSA Board Votes To Endorse State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer for CD 08
Published On 3/11/2022
CSSA Board votes to endorse gun rights champion State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer for her run in Congressional District 08. Colorado can use a fighter like Kirkmeyer to defend the Second Amendment in Washington D.C.
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Election worker protections, gun restrictions at voting locations among Secretary Griswold’s legisla
Published On 3/9/2022
Secretary of State Jena Griswold outlined a 2022 legislative agenda that focuses on increased protections for election workers and safety at physical voting locations as the state, like most of the country, experiences an uptick of harassment towards election officials.

“Our system works. But across the nation, American democracy is facing unprecedented risks,” she said during a press conference on Tuesday.

She pointed to the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass voting rights legislation earlier this year, an increase in voting restriction legislation across the country and the rise in elected officials who promote the conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen as examples of those risks.
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Secretary of State seeks private security through Colorado state budget
Published On 3/9/2022
The Colorado House has advanced a request from Secretary of State Jena Griswold seeking a boost of $120,800 for the Department of State to provide her private security and monitor threats against her.

The mechanism by which Griswold is seeking that funding is House Bill 1182, a supplemental appropriation for the 2021-22 fiscal state budget.
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Los Angeles County DA Asks Credit Card Companies to Halt Gun Kit Purchases
Published On 3/9/2022
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is asking three major credit card companies not to approve payments for gun kits purchased online.

Gascón is tying the purchase of gun parts kits to the construction of “ghost guns.”

Gascón released a statement Tuesday, the Pasadena Star News reported, which said:

American Express, Mastercard and Visa have the ability to go beyond what any law enforcement agency, legislature or city council can accomplish. We are asking these companies to join us in stemming the flow of ghost guns into our communities by preventing a ghost gun kit from being sold with a few mere clicks on a smartphone or computer.
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New Mexico is Pushing New “Safe Storage” Anti-Second Amendment Legislation
Published On 3/8/2022
The land of Enchantment is now being possessed by an anti-gun spirit that will likely recquire a pro-freedom exorcism for it to shake off.

On February 2, 2022, the House Judiciary Committee considered House Bill 9 by New Mexico State Representative Pamelya Herndon.

The legislation in question created civil fines and misdemeanor penalties for parents or guardians whose minors gain illegal access to their firearms. The only exception is in the case of burglary. This bill also features a provision that allows parents to take other parents to court to slap the $1,000 fine on them if they launch allegations of a minor gaining access to their firearms.
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13 States and D.C. Have Teamed Up with the Mexican Government to Sue U.S. Gun Companies
Published On 3/8/2022
Democrats have failed miserably when it comes to passing gun control via legislative means. As a result, they’re desperately finding every avenue possible to carry out their anti-gun agenda.

The new strategy they’re using is lawfare. Specifically, using lawsuits to go after manufacturers and sellers of firearms by undermining the current immunity protections they enjoy from lawsuits.

From there, these companies can be held liable for crimes committed with the firearms they sell.
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OREGON: Gun Grabbers Introduce Bill to Tax Guns as Luxury Items
Published On 3/7/2022
The anti-gun crowd will stop at nothing to make gun ownership as difficult as possible. Earlier this month, gun grabbers in Oregon filed a first-in-the-nation bill that would tax many firearms as “luxury items” to meet that end.

HB 4079, known as the Oregon Freedom Pilot Program, would add a 3% tax on items deemed a “luxury,” and then hand that money to low-income individuals.

The money would be pooled, and then given in $750 monthly increments to those who qualify, specifically targeted at low-income pregnant women and adults who have aged out of the foster youth program.
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Biden’s ‘Guns First’ Violent Crime Plan Ignores Fact That 92% Of Violent Crime Doesn’t Involve Guns
Published On 3/7/2022
During a recent Gun Violence Prevention Task Force meeting in New York City, Joe Biden made it clear that violent crime is out of control, which is true. But his solution to the issue, targeting firearm ownership, is not just misguided, but counterproductive.

Biden called for more funding for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), shutting down so-called “rogue gun dealers,” and bans on so-called “assault weapons” among other schemes.
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Rep. Jim Jordan: Second Amendment under attack by Biden administration
Published On 3/4/2022
This is frightening. You’ve got the FBI going after parents; you’ve got the DOJ [Department of Justice] setting up a domestic terrorism unit and now we find out that the ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] are going after law-abiding gun owners. I mean, I think about this: Hillary Clinton destroyed 30,000 emails while she was under investigation and now every single gun purchase by a law-abiding American is being preserved. So what?
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Ohio gas station owner turns table on alleged armed robber: report
Published On 3/4/2022
An Ohio gas station owner stopped a would-be robbery after he pulled out his own firearm and scared away the suspect earlier this month, authorities said.

Raj Patel, who owns a BP gas station in Mount Sterling, was forced to defend his business and potentially his life when police said the suspect entered the building with a firearm, WPTA reported.
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President Biden, NYC Mayor Eric Adams release plans to curb gun violence
Published On 3/4/2022
With gun violence on the rise in major cities across the country, including New York City, elected officials are scrambling to come up with solutions.

President Joe Biden and New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently released their own proposals to reduce gun violence. On Thursday, the two met with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to discuss their strategies and speak with community members who have been caught in the crossfire.
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How Guns Made America Great …(and Rich)
Published On 2/18/2022
Iown guns. Not as many as some people, but enough to make people who don’t know about guns—but have strong opinions anyway—uncomfortable. While these people are not always easy to reason with, it might reassure at least a few of them to know that my favorite gun is no more likely to turn up at a mass shooting or even a drive-by than a Nerf gun, water pistol or, for that matter, a frying pan.

Still, it is the gun I especially like to shoot, and when I hold it, I feel like I have American history itself in my hands.
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More bucks harvested in 2020-2021 deer season than in past 21 years
Published On 2/18/2022
According to a recent report, the 2020/2021 season was the best season for deer hunters across the United States in a decade. This news comes as some states are starting to report slightly lower deer harvests for the most recent season.
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Biden Repeats Debunked Lie in Assault on the Second Amendment
Published On 2/17/2022
During a Thursday speech in New York City that was billed as addressing the crime crisis laying siege to cities across the country, President Biden sounded more like a broken record of debunked claims that have been repeatedly rated false by even his friends in the liberal media.

And while Biden's alleged focus on rising crime is certainly merited, his administration has belittled and mocked Americans who are struggling as cities grow more dangerous, the U.S.-Mexico border remains basically wide-open, and fentanyl overdoses continue to claim young lives. Rather than talking tough about the criminals running city streets, illegal immigrants streaming across the border, or mayors in his party who've already defunded police, Biden targeted law-abiding firearm owners and the Second Amendment itself.
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Biden’s ‘guns first’ approach to violent crime ignores basic facts: Over 92% of violent crimes in Am
Published On 2/17/2022
With violent crime increasing over the last two years, Americans want a solution. But President Joe Biden constantly frames violent crime as only a gun problem. Again, it was the sole focus of Biden’s speech in New York City on Thursday. Even when he mentions police or prosecutors, it was in terms of enforcing gun control laws.

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But this “guns first” approach ignores a basic fact – over 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms. And while Biden blames guns for the increase in violent crime, the latest data show that gun crimes fell dramatically.
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What constitutional carry provisions would mean for Alabama
Published On 2/16/2022
Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Alabama becomes the 22nd state to adopt so-called constitutional carry rules that would allow law-abiding adults who legally own a handgun to conceal-carry it without a permit. Thirty-four states already allow open carry without a permit.

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Alabama and other states faced the same predictions of disaster when they first adopted right-to-carry laws, which now exist in 43 states. None of the dire predictions came true. These predictions are occurring again when states adopted constitutional carry. But not a single one of these states has seen the need to reverse the laws. Indeed, none have even held a legislative hearing on undoing these laws, let alone a vote.
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Changes in Crime and Killings of Police After Constitutional Carry Adopted
Published On 2/16/2022
With Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, and other states are seriously considering adopting Constitutional Carry laws, Professor Carl Moody, our research director, has done some empirical work on the changes in crime rates and police killings after Constitutional Carry laws have been adopted.
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California jewelry store owner takes matters into his own hands and stops smash-and-grab attempt
Published On 2/14/2022
One Bay Area jewelry store owner took matters into his own hands and stopped would-be smash-and-grab robbers from taking any merchandise.

The attempted smash-and-grab robbery of the Maaz Jewelers store happened on Jan. 21 at 1:06 p.m. inside the Tanforan Mall., according to a press release by the San Bruno Police Department.

Five males approached the store, according to the press release, and one of them pulled out a crowbar when entering the jewelry store. The owner shouted at the male to stop, but he continued to smash a glass display case.
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President Biden should follow the science, states with higher gun ownership and more gun rights have
Published On 2/14/2022
NEW YORK — Running through a grim tally of recent gun deaths, President Joe Biden pledged to New Yorkers and the nation on Thursday that the federal government would step up its fight against gun violence by working more closely with police and communities to stop the surging bloodshed.

“It’s enough. Enough is enough," Biden told police, law enforcement officials and lawmakers gathered at the city's police headquarters. “We can do something about this.”

But Biden’s crimefighting strategy relies heavily on buy-in from state and local officials as he suggests ways to spend federal dollars and expands on initiatives already under way. The modest initiatives demonstrate the limits to what he can do when there is no appetite in Congress to pass gun legislation.
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Bill to ban sport hunting of wildcats fails after a three-hour hearing state Senate committee
Published On 2/14/2022
A bill to eliminate recreational trapping and hunting of mountain lions, bobcats and lynx in Colorado went down to defeat Thursday after encountering plenty of opposition from a coalition of 20 hunting, angling and wildlife conservation groups and their members. The bill would ban hunting for sport, but allow hunting to protect people or for scientific purposes.

Thursday's hearing was almost as much a strong show of support for the state Division of Parks and Wildlife and its wildlife management plan as it was about the bill itself.

Canadian lynx, which is included in the bill, is not legally hunted in Colorado and at least 13 other Western States. The species, classified as a threatened species by the federal government, was just reintroduced in 2011 in Colorado.
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Chuck Schumer Announces New Gun Grab Program
Published On 2/14/2022
On January 30, 2022, Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to grant New York at least $1.5 billion to assist getting illegal guns off the streets.

Schumer argued that the new Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns, which is being led by Governor Kathy Hochul, will only work if federal officials and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has the necessary resources to “choke off crime.”

“The ABCs of beating back the scourge of gun violence depends on three federal letters: A, T and F,” he asserted at a press conference in Manhattan.
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ATF Gun Registry Database Expands to Nearly 1 BILLION Under Biden Administration
Published On 2/11/2022
The government and their allies in the mainstream media want you to believe that the existence of a federal gun registry is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. But in a bombshell development, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have admitted that they manage a database of 920,664,765 firearm purchase records.

This news was uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, and shows that the database includes both digital and hard copies of these transactions, in violation of longstanding federal statutes.

For decades, the ATF has been insistent that they do not maintain searchable records of firearm transactions, as the following video shows:
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Biden Admin Has Records on Nearly One Billion Gun Sales
Published On 2/11/2022
The Biden administration is in possession of nearly one billion records detailing American citizens’ firearm purchases, far more than Congress and the public has been aware of, according to new information from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The ATF disclosed to lawmakers that it manages a database of 920,664,765 firearm purchase records, including both digital and hard copy versions of these transactions. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. The practice has contributed to the fears of gun advocacy groups and Second Amendment champions in Congress that the federal government is creating a national database of gun owners, which violates longstanding federal statutes.
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‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush Employs Pro-Gun Private Security Firm
Published On 2/11/2022
Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), a leading socialist member of Congress who wants to defund the police, spent tens of thousands of dollars on a right-wing private security firm that promotes the Second Amendment.

Bush, a member of the far-left "Squad," spent more than $90,000 on Peace Security LLC, a private security firm, since she took office last year, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. She spent more than $50,000 on the firm in the last quarter alone.

The hiring of the security firm contrasts with the anti-police, pro-gun control agenda Bush promotes on Capitol Hill. Although Bush says that restricting the public’s access to firearms will make Missourians safer, her private security force regularly shares Facebook posts expressing right-wing views on gun control.
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Lawmakers Investigate Biden Admin Over Database Containing One Billion Gun Sale Records
Published On 2/11/2022
A coalition of Republican lawmakers is investigating the Biden administration over its stockpiling of nearly one billion records detailing Americans’ firearm purchases, according to a copy of the investigation that accuses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) of planning to "sweep up records of every gun sale in America."

The probe, spearheaded by Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas) and backed by 35 of his colleagues, comes on the heels of a Washington Free Beacon report detailing how the ATF maintains a database of 920,664,765 firearm purchase records—far more than has previously been publicly disclosed. The massive number of records, most of which are digitized in a searchable database, sparked concerns the Biden administration is violating federal laws that bar the government from maintaining a national gun registry.
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At SHOT Show GOP Governors Said Anti-Second Amendment Banks Should be Punished
Published On 2/10/2022
Cam Edwards of Bearing Arms gave a brief recap of the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade show. While SHOT show is mostly known for its events that showcase the latest products in the firearms industry, it does have a political component to it. Because let’s face it, there are powerful interest groups who want to undermine this right.

One way that Gun Control Inc wants to threaten our God-given right to self-defense is by using banks to de-bank gun manufacturers and related organizations. As a result of this, several governors have stood up against this corporate form of gun control and have promised to use whatever tools they have at their disposal to stop this practice.
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Report: ATF Seizes Firearms from Amish Dairy Farmer
Published On 2/10/2022
Lancaster Online reported Tuesday that agents with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, (ATF) seized firearms from an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania’s Leacock Township.

The seizure of the firearms occurred earlier this month.

Lancaster Online indicates the ATF’s action revolved around the farmer, Reuben King, allegedly selling firearms without a license.

King admitted that he had sold some firearms, but stressed that they were mostly long guns that other Amish could use for hunting. He noted that he sold some to non-Amish too.

He added, “I was not dealing in handguns, positively not.”

The Blaze noted that King “[did not] advertise the sale of his guns online and was not aware of how the ATF became aware of the activity.”
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Democrats Pushing Gun Registry as Precursor to Gun Ban
Published On 2/10/2022
Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has collected nearly one billion firearm purchase records. The government has now created a searchable digital database containing 866 million of these transactions, including some 54 million made in 2021 alone.

This massive data collection effort encompasses information on all guns sold by licensed gun dealers, and on all legal gun transfers in states with so-called universal background checks. So, federal officials will have the name of everyone who legally obtained a gun. Now, President Biden wants to make universal background checks nationwide so he can have an even more complete registration list.
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Gun Owners Oppose Federal Tracking, Fear Confiscation
Published On 2/10/2022
Most gun owners don’t want the U.S. government compiling information on Americans who own firearms, and believe this could lead to all weapons being confiscated.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters think the federal government should keep track of who owns guns in the United States, while an equal number (44%) disagree and 12% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Maryland guts gun-control ‘ballistic fingerprints’ program after zero hits in 15 years
Published On 2/10/2022
Maryland has quietly ended a requirement that firearms manufacturers fire their handguns before being sold and submit the “ballistic fingerprints” to state authorities after the program failed to provide investigators with unique data in 15 years.

The Responsible Gun Safety Act of 2000 was intended, in part, to provide police investigators with a database of bullet fragments and shell casings to help trace the ownership of handguns used in crimes in the state. Maryland State Police collected and cataloged hundreds of thousands of casings and fragments at a cost of millions of dollars over the past 15 years.
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MILLER: Dick Heller challenges D.C.’s gun registration, files for summary judgment in Heller II
Published On 2/10/2022
The District of Columbia will do anything to stop law-abiding people from owning firearms to defend themselves.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that D.C.’s 30-year handgun ban was unconstitutional in the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller decision. In response, Washington’s city council put in place the most onerous gun registration requirement in the country.

So Dick Heller is taking D.C. to court again in a case known as “Heller II.”
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CPRC in the Sunday Washington Post: “Maryland’s long-overdue goodbye to ballistic fingerprinting”
Published On 2/10/2022
Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun use were supposedly numbered.

It didn’t work.

The registration of ballistic fingerprints never solved a single crime in Maryland or New York. New York scrapped its program in 2012. This month, Maryland announced it was following suit.
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Chicago gun shop sees skyrocketing sales following lockdowns, crime spikes
Published On 2/10/2022
Firearm sales skyrocketed at a Chicago-area gun shop following COVID-19 lockdowns and crime spikes in the city.

Dan Eldridge, the owner of Maxon Shooter's Supplies and Indoor Range in Des Plaines, Illinois – located just 20 minutes outside Chicago – told Fox News that his shop had seen more than a 200% increase in firearm sales since the height of the pandemic and stay-at-home orders.

"The addresses … where people previously felt safe in their doorman building or a townhome in a good neighborhood – suddenly they didn't, and that's understandable," Eldridge said.
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25 States Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Maryland’s Far-Reaching Gun Ban
Published On 2/9/2022
A bloc of 25 states, led by Arizona, is urging the Supreme Court to take up a case that challenges Maryland’s unusually restrictive gun-control laws, which the states argue were enacted in defiance of the high court’s landmark Second Amendment rulings.
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Top 8 Reasons To Stock Up On Ammo RIGHT NOW
Published On 2/9/2022
1) You'll need enough ammo to defend yourself from the zombie hoard caused by the next Wuhan lab leak: We heard COVID-20's a doozy.

2) To fill up those new 700-round drum magazines you just bought for your AR-15: Next year they're coming out with a 1000 round drum! 'Merica!

3) Just in case you get dirt on the Clintons: If you get dirt on Hillary, you need to be prepared to defend yourself against a full military strike.

4) It's time for us to buy what we have been buying and that time is every day: Wise words from Kamala Harris!
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San Jose Passes First Law Mandating Gun Owner Insurance, Annual Fee To Own Gun
Published On 2/7/2022
The gun-grabbing left’s war on the Second Amendment has just reached a new low in San Jose, California. On Tuesday, the anti-gun radicals on the city council voted to force gun owners to obtain liability insurance and pay a yearly fee to practice their Second Amendment right.

In the city of about one million people, the insurance requirement would affect the around 55,000 households which are believed to own firearms. Mayor Sam Liccardo believes the requirement will encourage those citizens to have gun safes, install trigger locks, and take gun safety classes.
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Ellen Kessler, controversial appointee to state vet board, resigns after calling ranchers 'lazy,' 'n
Published On 2/7/2022
Animal rights activist Ellen Kessler, a gubernatorial appointee to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, submitted her resignation from the board at 3:26 p.m. Monday.

Kessler's letter, released by the governor's office, said her resignation would be effective at the close of business on Feb. 11.

"I realize that some of my actions have caused anger and discomfort and that I was unprofessional in my judgment," Kessler wrote. "I apologize to you and the citizens of our great state and wish you the best of luck as you continue to make Colorado the best in the nation."
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‘Wake Up Call’: Maryland County Returns Police to Schools After Shooting
Published On 2/7/2022
Maryland's Montgomery County became the latest Democrat-run jurisdiction to reverse its decision to remove police officers from schools after it suffered the first school shooting in the county's history last week, in which a 15-year-old boy was shot last Friday by a classmate.

The district announced on Monday after the shooting that police would temporarily return to every high school in the county, a reversal of a March 2021 decision by county lawmakers to yank funding from its longstanding School Resource Officer program. The lawmakers voted to replace in-school law enforcement with mental health resources, including 50 new social workers and 40 restorative justice training sessions in the county. The shift was designed to keep students "safe, holistically," according to Montgomery councilman Will Jawando.
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San Jose Approves First U.S. Law Mandating Liability Insurance for Gun Owners
Published On 2/7/2022
The San Jose, Calif., City Council has taken a major step toward passage of a law that would require gun-owning residents the of city to hold liability insurance.

The law would also require gun owners to pay a $25 annual fee, to be collected by a noprofit and disbursed to other organizations toward gun-safety training, domestic-violence prevention, suicide prevention, and mental-health services. With an estimated 50,000 to 55,000 gun owners in San Jose, the fee could bring in roughly $1.3 million, the San Jose Spotlight reported.
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Trophy hunting of bobcats, Canada lynx, mountain lions would be banned under proposed Colorado bill
Published On 2/7/2022
Colorado state representatives introduced a bill last week to ban trophy hunting of certain wildcats.

If passed, Senate Bill 22-31 would prohibit shooting, wounding, killing or trapping a bobcat, Canada lynx or mountain lion. The bill was sponsored by Democratic state Sens. Sonya Jaquez Lewis and Joann Ginal and state Reps. Judy Amabile and Monica Duran.
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Schumer Announces $1.5 Billion Push for Interstate Gun Task Force
Published On 2/7/2022
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing for the federal government to provide his state with at least $1.5 billion to deal with illegal guns.

Schumer said the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns, headed by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, will only work if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and other federal officials have the resources.

“The ABCs of beating back the scourge of gun violence depends on three federal letters: A, T, and F,” Schumer said during a Jan. 30 press conference in Manhattan.
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Tennessee State Representative Bruce Griffey Puts Forward “Kyle’s Law” to Compensate Those Wrongly P
Published On 2/4/2022
Tennessee State Representative Bruce Griffey is advocating for “Kyle’s Law” to cover the costs of legal and court fees for any Tennessean who is prosecuted in cases of self-defense.

According to a WJHL report, Griffey offered his thoughts on Kyle Rittenhouse’s prosecution, declaring, “I think we all saw what happened. He was attacked. He was defending himself and the jury found that. And despite that – he was still prosecuted for a murder charge. This law is intended to sort of protect that from happening in the future.”

Griffey added, “I think it’s a reasonable response to make sure citizens are protected from malicious prosecutions or being prosecuted when there’s not really enough evidence in the case to pursue a criminal charge against them. They have to go through hiring a lawyer, hiring experts, lost wages – all costs to them. That’s not a fair system.”
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Iowa Second Amendment Preservation Act Passed in Senate Subcommittee
Published On 2/4/2022
When the federal government does not even bother to protect the Second Amendment let alone expand gun rights, state legislatures must pick up the slack.

One way pro-Second Amendment state legislatures can stand up for the Second Amendment is by nullifying federal gun control laws.

The Iowa General Assembly has gotten this message as it has moved forward with the Second Amendment Preservation Act. The passage of the bill in a three-member Senate subcommittee on January 19, 2022 represents a significant step towards Iowa mounting a solid form of resistance against the federal government.
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California Judge Orders Gun Owners' Personal Info to be Handed to Anti-Gun Activists
Published On 2/4/2022
Pro-gun activists in California are no stranger to being given bad news, considering their state’s halls of political power are overwhelmingly controlled by gun-grabbing lunatics. But following a Judge’s latest ruling, now even their person information isn’t secure.

U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns ruled against gun owners requesting a temporary restraining order to block a recently signed law allowing their personal information to be shared with academic research centers.
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Committee in Wisconsin Senate Passes Constitutional Carry
Published On 2/4/2022
On January 13, 2022, the Senate Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry passed Senate Bill 619, Wisconsin’s Constitutional Carry bill.

As a result of this vote, the bill can now be debate on the floor in the full Senate.

Like other constitutional carry bills filed nationwide, SB 619 allows lawful adults who are legally able to possess a firearm to carry a handgun for self-defense without having to beg the government for permission.
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Attorney General Phil Weiser draws challenge from Republican DA John Kellner
Published On 2/4/2022
Republican District Attorney John Kellner, the top prosecutor in Colorado's 18th Judicial District, declared on Thursday that he's challenging Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is seeking a second term.

Kellner announced his long-anticipated run in a Colorado Politics opinion article that attempts to link Weiser to the state's rising crime rate.

"Make no mistake, our crime wave will only get worse unless people in leadership roles are willing to stand up for public safety all the time, not just when their job is on the line and regardless of the political affiliation of our governor," Kellner said.
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Twenty-five states urge Supreme Court to hear case fighting Maryland firearms ban
Published On 2/4/2022
Arizona and West Virginia are leading a group of 25 states urging the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland's strict firearms law.

"Americans do not require approval from a local jurisdiction to exercise their constitutional rights," Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a press release. "We must vigorously oppose this type of misguided overreach at all levels of government."
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NSSF: More Than 5.4 Million First-Time Gun Buyers in 2021
Published On 2/4/2022
The NSSF report, which Breitbart News has in its possession, also shows that 33.2 percent of those first-time gun buyers were women.

Moreover, nearly 45 percent of retailers reported seeing an increase in the number of black Americans purchasing firearms in 2021 vs. what they saw in 2020.

The 2o21 increases in first-time gun purchases by women and black Americans in 2021 is important because it comes on the heels of 2020, when a similar phenomenon occurred. On August 4, 2020, Breitbart News reported NSSF numbers showing purchases by women and black Americans were up 58 percent from 2019.
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As Gun Sales Soared, the Number of Violent Crimes Committed with Guns Plummeted
Published On 2/3/2022
With violent crime soaring over the last two years, Americans want a solution. Over and over, President Joe Biden and gun control advocates frame violent crime as a gun problem. Relying on public health researchers, articles such as this one in the Atlantic and in local news stories this week point to increasing gun sales as the cause. But reported gun crimes fell in 2020, so the writers ignore the obvious explanation for rising crime, that law enforcement isn’t being allowed to do its job.

Gun sales increased dramatically in 2020 before receding some in 2021. Background checks on gun sales soared from 12.4 million in 2019 to 20.3 million in 2020 and declining back to 17.6 million in 2021. Meanwhile, murder and aggravated assaults rose in 2020. In 2020, they increased double-digit rates (29% for murder and 12% for aggravated assaults).

To many, the connection seems obvious. Gun sales increased, and murder and aggravated assaults rose, though robberies fell.
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There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.
Published On 2/3/2022
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them.

On May 15, an attacker at an apartment complex in Fort Smith, Ark., fatally shot a woman and then fired 93 rounds at other people before a man killed him with a bolt-action rifle. Police said he “likely saved a number of lives in the process.”

On June 30, a 12-year-old Louisiana boy used a hunting rifle to stop an armed burglar who was threatening his mother’s life during a home invasion.

On July 4, a Chicago gunman shot into a crowd of people, killing one and wounding two others before a concealed handgun permit holder shot and wounded the attacker. Police praised him for stepping in.
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Chinese Communist Spokesperson Blasts the Second Amendment
Published On 2/3/2022
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the People’s Republic of China is no bastion of human freedom.

Under the Chinese Communist Party, there is no free speech, no right to bear arms, or other foundational civil liberties for the average Chinese person to enjoy. On the right to bear arms, the US remains unique among nations for its defense of this principle.

In its quest to become a world power, Communist China has used unconventional means to take swipes at the US and try to discredit it on the world stage. One way it has done so is by attacking the US for its alleged gun violence problem.
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Campus Carry Legislation Moves Forward in Arizona Senate
Published On 2/3/2022
Arizona is a Second Amendment leader among states in the Union. It’s passage of Constitutional Carry in 2010 helped spark the seemingly unstoppable wave of Constitutional Carry that has swept across the nation.

Even with its passage of Constitutional Carry, Arizona lawmakers are not complacent. They are still working to expand Second Amendment rights in the state.

For example, State Senator Wendy Rodgers put forth a campus carry bill, SB 1123, that would allow lawful students to carry handguns on campus. Earlier this week, on January 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee allowed for individuals to testify in support and opposition to this bill.
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5.4 Million Americans Purchase Guns For First Time in 2021: NSSF Survey
Published On 2/3/2022
An industry trade group has found that at least 5.4 million Americans purchased a firearm for the first time in 2021 (pdf), based on retailer surveys and background checks, with one in three buyers being women.

Out of all firearm buyers, nearly 30 percent were first-timers. This is a decrease of 10 percent from 2020 when nearly 8.4 million people bought a gun for the first time out of 21 million background checks. Correspondingly, over 40 percent of new buyers were women in 2020, according to data (pdf) collected by The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
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Philly Health care worker defends himself against armed carjacker
Published On 2/1/2022
Reporter Steve Keeley: An 18-year-old shows up and points a gun, taps a gun muzzle on the window of the car. What he doesn’t know is what a lot of robbers and carjackers are finding out, that a lot more people these days are going to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon because of the crime situation that is out of control, particularly in Philadelphia.

From Fox 29 Philadelphia: Police say a driver turned the tables on an armed carjacking suspect in North Philadelphia Monday night when he shot the suspect multiple times with a firearm he was licensed to carry. Officials said a 32-year-old healthcare worker pulled up in front of a home on the 1700 block of West Folsom Street, Monday night, just before midnight. He was in possession of a valid license-to-carry and pulled a firearm, shooting at the 18-year-old through his window and striking the 18-year-old.
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Mexico’s Military Gun Trafficking Problem
Published On 2/1/2022
Mexico is going to have to answer a few basic questions when their lawyers finally step in front of a judge to claim that U.S.-based manufacturers are somehow responsible for their own lack of law enforcement on their side of the border.

First question: where are all the firearms that went missing from the Mexican military? That would be those firearms supplied by U.S. manufacturers pursuant to U.S. State Department-approved export licenses to meet foreign defense contracts but have somehow walked off Mexican military bases.
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In the Omaha World-Herald: Fears about carrying guns without permits are unfounded
Published On 2/1/2022
Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Nebraska becomes the 22nd state to adopt so-called Constitutional Carry rules that would allow law-abiding adults who legally own a handgun to conceal-carry it without a permit. Thirty-four states already allow open carry without a permit.

Nebraska and other states faced the same predictions of disaster when they first adopted right-to-carry laws, which now exist in 43 states. None of the dire predictions came true. These predictions are occurring again when states adopted Constitutional Carry. But not a single one of these states has seen the need to reverse the laws. Indeed, none have even held a legislative hearing on undoing these laws, let alone a vote. And all but one of Nebraska’s neighbors already have Constitutional Carry.
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There’s More to Mexico’s Gun Trafficking Problems than Meets the Eye
Published On 2/1/2022
Mexico has a lot of explaining to do when it comes to the lawsuit that it’s filing against American manufacturers.

In its lawsuit, the Mexican government alleges that American firearms manufacturers are responsible for the country’s rampant crime. The Mexican government’s assertion that American firearms are solely responsible for its instability ignores a lot of the home-brewed institutional rot present in the country.
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Colorado: Denver City Council Passes Ban on Custom-made Firearms
Published On 1/31/2022
Yesterday, the Denver City Council voted to pass a bill banning custom-made firearms, referred to as “ghost guns.” The measure now heads to the desk of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Please contact Mayor Hancock and ask him to OPPOSE this “ghost gun” measure.
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NY AG: “In Some Parts of New York State, You Can Find a Gun More Easily Than You Can Find an Apple”
Published On 1/31/2022
A local paper quoted New York State Attorney General Letitia James as saying, recently, “What’s so tragic is that in some parts of New York State, you can find a gun more easily than you can find an apple.”

Problem is, New York State is flush with apples. According to the U.S. Apple Association, out of the 32 states that grow apples commercially, New York State is the second largest producer of the fruit in the country. Last year, for example, the yield was an estimated 1,385,000,000 pounds of apples. The New York Apple Association even has a “find apples” search feature on its website.
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California: Stay Issued in 9th Circuit Magazine Ban Ruling, Allowing Californians to Continue Posses
Published On 1/31/2022
Yesterday, a stay was granted in the case of Duncan v. Bonta after an en banc panel upheld California’s ban on magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition. With this stay, the Ninth Circuit has decided to allow Californians to continue possession of any magazines that were acquired during “Freedom Week” or prior to the ban taking effect—for the time being.

The court agreed to stay the mandate from its decision for 150 days, to May 19, 2022. The court’s order further stays the mandate until the U.S. Supreme Court disposes of a petition for certiorari, should one be filed.
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The Common Denominator
Published On 1/31/2022
The supermarket tabloids were right – the rich and famous ARE just like us. Crime has increased throughout the country. All anyone – from struggling single parents to ultra-wealthy Hollywood elites – wants is a chance to defend themselves and their loved ones. Evidence from the last two years, and the last few months in particular, shows that the 2nd Amendment is not bound by socio-economic status.

LA Magazine ran an article documenting the “Arms Race of the Affluent” as violent home invasions, robberies, and other crime increase in the exclusive suburbs of Los Angeles. Beverly Hills Guns owner Russell Stuart reported most of his daily stream of customers are arming themselves for the first time.
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“You’ve Reached 911, Please Hold …”
Published On 1/31/2022
A standard talking point of gun prohibitionists is that in these modern times, ordinary people don’t need their own firearms because the police will protect them from criminals. Last year, no less than David Chipman, President Biden’s failed nominee to lead the ATF– employed then as as a senior policy advisor for the Giffords anti-gun group – mocked first-time gun owners as delusional because the “zombies” weren’t about to attack.

That argument, specious at best, is even less compelling now, when law enforcement resources are stretched to the breaking point and beyond due to the combined impact of factors like “defund the police,” a sharp rise in violent crime, and, in many jurisdictions, employee vaccine mandates that have resulted in thousands of first responders resigning, being placed on unpaid leave or fired.
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Firearms in Common Use
Published On 1/31/2022
Think of the foremost applications of a firearm. Self-defense and protection have become the primary motivation for Americans’ acquisition of firearms, but the prevalence of defensive gun use remains disputed. New research, conducted in support of a brief for the Supreme Court, offers more evidence that a large number of Americans have used a firearm to defend themselves, their loved ones, or their property.

Professor William English offered this summary of his research in his brief:

“Based on a comprehensive online survey of 16,708 adult firearms owners – an unprecedented sample size in the area of scholarly firearms policy research – amicus English recently and reliably concluded that lawful carriage of firearms for self-defense and defensive gun use are statistically common phenomena. In fact, a majority of the over 80 million adult firearms owners in the United States carry a handgun for self-defense under at least some circumstances.
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Growing the Gun Community in Unlikely Places
Published On 1/31/2022
We mentioned a Beverly Hills gun shop last week in an article about the continued increase in background checks and gun sales. We spoke with the proprietor of that shop, and he offered a very humanized take on a story often told with large numbers and broad strokes concepts.

Russell Stuart is the owner of Beverly Hills Guns. Stuart has appeared in several media interviews in the last few weeks, perhaps because his shop sits in one of the most exclusive zip codes in the country. Beverly Hills may seem an unlikely place for a gun shop to thrive, given the state’s zealously anti-gun policies and the perception of the city’s residents as wealthy celebrities in gated communities. Beverly Hills, like a lot of other areas, is suffering from an increase in crime. The glitz and glamor Beverly Hills make for a clickbait headline but gun stores serve a real need, and shops in seemingly unlikely places offer an opportunity to grow our community.
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Has Gun Control Become an Unpopular Issue Among the American public?
Published On 1/31/2022
For years, the corporate press has attempted to convince people that gun control is overwhelmingly supported by the public and its passage is an inevitability. But when such measures are not passed, the gun controllers will blame the evil gun control lobby for throwing a wrench in their plans.

Perhaps, the reason we only see radical gun control passed in solid blue states is the fact that there are vast swathes of the American population — regardless of their partisan affiliation, race, creeds, socio-economic status, etc. — who support the right to bear arms, or at least are not down with radical leaps towards civilian disarmament.
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Anti-gunners Ignore the Obvious, Lamely Try to Blame Gun Sales for Rise in Homicide Rates
Published On 1/31/2022
Last week, two gun control advocates – who described themselves as a “crime analyst” and a “data scientist” -- published an article in the anti-gun publication The Atlantic blaming the 2020 spike in homicide rates on that years’ surge in gun sales from federally licensed dealers (FFLs).

In other words, they want readers to believe that Americans were buying guns from FFLs and then quickly turning around and using them to kill other people.

This is a remarkable assertion for several reasons.
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Firearm Use by Offenders
Published On 1/31/2022
Approximately 203,300 prisoners
serving a sentence in a State or
Federal prison in 1997 were armed
when they committed the crime for
which they were serving time. An
estimated 18% of State prison inmates
and 15% of Federal inmates reported
using, carrying, or possessing a firearm
during the crime for which they were
sentenced. In 1991, 16% of State
inmates and 12% of Federal inmates
said they were armed at the time of
their offense.
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Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016
Published On 1/31/2022
Based on the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates
(SPI), about 1 in 5 (21%) of all state and federal
prisoners reported that they had possessed or
carried a firearm when they committed the offense
for which they were serving time in prison (figure 1).
More than 1 in 8 (13%) of all prisoners had used
a firearm by showing, pointing, or discharging it
during the offense for which they were imprisoned.
Fewer than 1 in 50 (less than 2%) of all prisoners had
obtained a firearm from a retail source and possessed,
carried, or used it during the offense for which they
were imprisoned.
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Detroit restaurant employee who was stabbed shoots attacker dead inside steakhouse
Published On 1/28/2022
A Detroit steakhouse worker who was stabbed early Sunday fought back against his attacker, fatally shooting the knife-wielding man inside the restaurant, according to local reports.

The attack unfolded just after midnight inside the upscale Prime and Proper steakhouse on the 1100 block of Griswold Street in the heart of downtown Detroit, WDIV-TV reported, citing police.
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A Year in American Gun Ownership
Published On 1/28/2022
This is the season of holiday festivities, family gatherings, and retrospectives. We don’t operate on seasons, though. Gun owners didn’t wait for a holiday to air their grievances; they took every opportunity to let their legislators and the ATF know where they stood on infringement. Americans exercised their 2nd Amendment rights every day. This isn’t hyperbole – we leave that to the experts – but statements based on data and reality.

Nearly 36 million law-abiding Americans gifted themselves a NICS background check in the first 11 months of 2021. We’re probably not going to break the record for most NICS checks in a year that we set last year (with 39,695,315 checks) but we’ll likely get close. This year is already the second-busiest year ever for the NICS office…and has been for several months. Through the first 11 months of this year, there have been 7,007,556 permit checks and 15,881,092 checks related to firearm sales (exclusive of pawn shops, rentals, and private sales).
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Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2021/11/most-secure-atf-comment-survey-ever-new-tool-shows-break
Published On 1/28/2022
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A viewer of my YouTube channels by the name of Wes coded a program that graded comments about the two proposed BATFE rules submitted to the National Registry as “support,” “oppose,” or “neutral.”

The program, which is viewable here, breaks down the comments into categories and breaks the submitted public comments down to each day. The program gives us an insight into the workings of both sides of the debate. The creator, who only wants to be identified as Wes, decided to design the program because he was concerned about the government’s handling of the comments.
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Colorado: Denver Mayor Signs Anti-Gun Measure
Published On 1/28/2022
This week, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock signed a bill banning custom-made firearms, referred to as “ghost guns.” As amended, the measure will go into effect on October 1st, 2022.

Last year, Governor Polis signed SB21-256 into law, giving cities and local governments in Colorado the authority to establish their own gun regulations that are more stringent than state law. Using this authority, the Denver city council has now criminalized custom gun makers and their customers by passing a bill banning “ghost guns.” Repealing the state preemption law gave the anti-gun-controlled city council the opportunity to push their encroachment on the Second Amendment, instead of tackling the real issue of crime.
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What You Need to Know about ATF’s New eForms System
Published On 1/28/2022
On December 23, ATF launched a new system for applicants to complete various forms that ATF is responsible for administrating. For most gun owners, this change will primarily impact how applications for firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act (“NFA”) are processed.

Anyone who has submitted an NFA application in recent years is familiar with the long wait associated with acquiring any firearm regulated under the NFA. This wait is in large part due to the antiquated process used to process NFA applications combined with the recent growth in acquisition of NFA firearms.
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Will Indiana be the Next State to Pass Constitutional Carry?
Published On 1/27/2022
Could Indiana become the next Constitutional Carry state?

According to Tom Knighton of Bearing Arms, Indiana Republican elected officials are reintroducing legislation that allow lawful residents of Indiana to carry a handgun without a permit.

A number of elected officials in both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly are crafting legislation to scrap the permit requirement for carrying a firearm in the Hoosier State.
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Elderly Pennsylvania man shoots, kills half-naked home intruder who assaulted his wife, police say
Published On 1/27/2022
An elderly homeowner in Pennsylvania shot and killed a half-naked home intruder after the intruder attacked him and his wife, authorities say.

The suspect, identified as Steven Shaffer, 54, entered the home of a couple in their 70s in Berwick Township, Pa., wearing only a T-shirt and assaulted the couple before being shot multiple times by the husband and killed, Pennsylvania State Police said, according to FOX 43 of York, Pa.
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Biden Administration Finalizes “New” Firearm Storage Rule
Published On 1/27/2022
On January 3, the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would be finalizing a new rule on firearm storage for Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs). The DOJ additionally announced an update to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFs) “Best Practices” Guide for FFLs.

The new storage rule, which was first proposed by the Obama Administration in 2016, makes four substantial changes to federal firearms law.
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No, Gun Culture Has Not Been Radicalized
Published On 1/27/2022
In a single issue in March of 1961, Guns & Ammo ran ads for a “Sniper Model” Enfield Match rifle, a French 8mm machine gun (“used in two World Wars”), a Mannlicher military pistol, a U.S. .30 M1 carbine, and a police-ordnance Ingram Model 6 submachine gun chambered in .45 ACP (only $49.95!). If you’re surprised that these machine guns and high-powered military rifles were marketed to hunters in the 1960s, you might have unconsciously accepted a flawed but popular narrative about American gun culture.

According to this story, gun owners have only recently become “militarized,” thanks to the machinations of the National Rifle Association and its infamous leader, Wayne LaPierre. That military-style attitude has further resulted in a recalcitrant stance toward gun control and an obsession with armed self-defense.
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Border Patrol Agents Call on Americans to “Utilize Your Second Amendment” for Safety
Published On 1/24/2022
If there is a group of law enforcement agents in America that support the Second Amendment, it’s Border Patrol.

Border Patrol veteran Roy Cantu believes that the border crisis taking place under the Biden administration’s watch could worsen and has called on Americans to “utilize your Second Amendment” for safety.
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Second Amendment Supporters Must Stop University Efforts to Indoctrinate the Masses Into Embracing G
Published On 1/24/2022
As the year comes to a close, we should review some of the most bizarre developments that have taken place in American gun politics.

It’s no secret that universities are hostile towards the Second Amendment. After all, these are institutions that are thoroughly leftist in nature.
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Florida is on Pace to Becoming the 22nd Constitutional Carry State
Published On 1/24/2022
According to a report by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Florida could potentially become the 22nd constitutional carry state in the country.

Per the Sentinel report, Constitutional Carry is a “priority” for the Republican-controlled state legislature.

Republican State Representative Anthony Sabatini already introduced HB 103, Florida’s Constitutional Carry legislation. This bill would repeal the concealed carry permit requirement that is imposed on otherwise lawful Floridians. In a similar vein, open carry without a permit would also be legalized by Sabatini’s bill.
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Los Angeles’ Wealthiest Scramble to Acquire Guns for Self-Defense
Published On 1/20/2022
No matter how anti-gun Left may be, it’s richest constituents will absolutely be finding ways to arm themselves.

The dirty secret about gun control is that it’s a classist policy that overwhelmingly hurts the poor. Gun control regulations effectively price out the poor through their onerous compliance costs and hurdles that they must go through.

But for the rich in Hollywood, gun control regulations are just mere inconveniences that they can afford to leapfrog.
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Federal Ammunition: 100 Years Strong
Published On 1/20/2022
The Federal Ammunition factory in Anoka, MN, is a 700,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art facility in which 1,400 employees produce millions of rounds of centerfire, rimfire and shotshell ammunition each day. The plant runs around the clock, seven days a week in an operation founder Charles L. Horn would never recognize. He was, after all, only shopping for machines to make paper tubes in 1922 when he stumbled across a closed company too promising to ignore.

Harry and Lewis Sherman brought a wealth of knowledge and experience when they moved to Minnesota to open the Federal Cartridge and Machine Company on Sept. 15, 1916. By the time construction on the 31-acre plot in Anoka was complete, however, World War I was winding down and military orders for shotshells were scarce.
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Dumbest Ways We Train with Firearms
Published On 1/20/2022
I don’t know whether it comes from watching too many videos online, too much TV or too much pontificating by trainers who have never actually pointed a gun at someone with the thought that they were really going to have to pull the trigger. Regardless of the reason, we do some things when we train that could be considered nonsensical or even stupid. These are things that sound good on the range and may even look good on paper, but in reality, they just don’t hold up to practical scrutiny.
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The Truth Behind the Russian Ammo Ban
Published On 1/20/2022
The price of Russian-made, usually steel-cased ammunition went up overnight with the Sept. 7 U.S. State Department announcement that new or pending applications for its importation will be denied. Although officially labeled as an expansion of sanctions in response to alleged violation of the “Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991,” industry experts warn stateside gun owners are the real victims.

Ammunition manufactured in the Russian Federation is an inexpensive and reliable alternative, often the first choice for budget-conscious enthusiasts who shoot in high volume. The number of steel casings at any range confirm that fact, and it won’t be long until those gun owners will be purchasing other brands—your favorite loads among them. The development jeopardizes supply that has only begun to emerge from the serious shortage of 2020.
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CBS’s S.W.A.T. Again Shows another Civilian Defensive Gun Use Gone Wrong
Published On 1/19/2022
Television show bias against guns is never ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the crime to getting in the way of police to continually having the gun stolen and use in a crime to it being used in an accidental shooting), and this episode of CBS’ SWAT is no different (Season 5, Episode 6, November 12, 2021). In this episode, right after a pro-gun woman explains that not having a concealed handgun with you leaves you as a sitting duck, a group of armed men attack the television studio that she is in. When she pulls out her gun to stop the attack, she is fatally shot. The lesson is clearly that she would have been safer if she simply didn’t have a gun.
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Nevada Court Rules that Ghost Gun Law is Unconstitutional
Published On 1/19/2022
Did a Nevada court just deal a body blow to the anti-gun Left?

Last year, on June 7, 2021, the Nevada State Assembly passed a law AB 286, that tried to prohibit the possession, sale, or transport of an “unfinished frame or receiver”. This is part of anti-gun Democrats’ efforts to crack down on so-called “ghost” guns, which they view as the boogieman.

Dean Weingarten of AmmoLand correctly noted that “definition of something which is unfinished is problematic.” He then asked the following questions: When does a process start? At what point does it become “unfinished”? Does it start with molten metal, the combination of chemicals in a mold, or the first cut of a saw or turn of a drill?
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