Second Amendment
News pertaining to the second amendment
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Other Democrat-Run Cities Join Baltimore With Surging Gun Crime
On July 9 2015, Breitbart News reported that gun crime was surging in the Democrat-run cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans, and St. Louis. We can now expand that list to include Democrat-run Houston, Philadelphia, and New York City too. According to USA Today, the “number of murders in 2015″ is up by more than 30…
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Mass Shootings Rare, Government Study Says
Anti-gun groups would like to portray mass shootings as being most often committed with “assault weapons,” the CRS study found that between 1999 and 2013, less than 10 percent of mass shootings were committed with any firearm capable of using a detachable magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
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Seattle City Council Committee Advances Legislation to Tax Gun Owners
This week the Education and Governance Committee of the Seattle City Council unanimously advanced legislation to implement a $25 tax on firearms and a $0.05 per round tax on ammunition sold at retail, and to force gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm within 24 hours. The city council has moved forward with the…
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Freedom Advocates & Pro-Gun Senators Unite to Oppose the Obama Administration
As we reported in June, the Obama Administration’s State Department (DOS) proposed a revision of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) on June 3 that would require anyone seeking to make certain types of information about firearms publicly available to first obtain government approval. Prior restraints of the sort contemplated by the proposal are…
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Baltimore Sun Claims Individual Right To Keep, Bear Arms Created In 2008
The Sun points out that the two America’s still exist and it claims the “epidemic of white police officers drawing their weapons on African-Americans in routine traffic stops” has thrust questions about America’s gun culture into the spotlight again.
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A “Ghost Gun” Was Used In Murder Suicide
Murders are committed with numerous different weapons/tools/objects. Hands and feet are commonly used without any other implements. Murder rates are driven by culture, not weaponry.
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Oregon State Police Now Collecting Info on Gun SELLERS
Just a few days before the universal gun owner registration bill kicks in, it appears that the Oregon State Police are planning on collecting data on sellers of guns, not just buyers. We’ve been telling you all along that SB 941 was never intended to be anything but a vast database of gun owners and…
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[VIDEO] A Tale of Two Shootings, Discussion with Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt
Pratt explains how gun control is failing to stop massacres in other countries from occurring and lays out several of the threats to our gun rights here at home.
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Who’s Packing In New York City?
If ever there existed a testament to the need for universal concealed handgun license reciprocity, New York City is glaring proof of it.
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Congressional Study Shows No Mass Shooting ‘Epidemic’
A Congressional Research Services (CRS) study released on July 30 is devoid of evidence to back gun control groups’ claims of an “epidemic” of “mass public shootings.” In fact, counter to claims of “207 mass shootings” in the first 207 days of 2015–a claim CNN’s Fareed Zakaria suggested is “almost literally true“–the CRS study shows…
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Former Justice Stevens: 14th Amendment Protects Gay Rights, Not Gun Rights
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said the 14th Amendment protects gay rights but rejected the claim that the 14th Amendment protects gun rights too.
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Gun Control Group Would Endanger Military by Politicizing Firearm Procurement Process
As if misguided anti-gun policies that leave our fighting men and women defenseless stateside weren’t enough, some gun control advocates are intent on reviving a Clinton-era gun control tactic that would pose a danger to our military in the field.
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Pres. Candidates, Members of Congress, and Governors Call for Military Right to Carry
The governors of Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas have directed the adjutants general of their National Guards to authorize Guardsmen to be armed in their states.
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With Nincompoops in Charge Lawlessness Runs Wild
When the incompetent occupy important positions: As Baltimore continues to spiral downward, the City of Baltimore has now asked for assistance from Feds in investigating homicides. Ten agents from various Federal alphabet-soup agencies are now assisting Baltimore Police Department with their overwhelming pile of unsolved/unresolved cases. It will ultimately require many more than that! Since the…