Second Amendment
News pertaining to the second amendment
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Background Check Bill Seeks to Create Backdoor Gun Prohibition
Background Check Bill Seeks to Create Backdoor Gun Prohibition, While Bloomberg Group Piles On Demonstrating why he’s rated an “F” by the NRA, anti-gun Representative James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would in effect vastly expand federal prohibited person categories. Worse, he is exploiting a recent tragedy and misinformation reported in the…
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Denying You’re In A War Doesn’t Make War Go Away
Here we go again, this time in TN: Several members of our “unarmed forces” were gunned down by a lone terrorist at a recruitment center in Chattanooga, TN. Few details at present, but there is little doubt victims were selected because they were wearing US military uniforms. We’ve already heard the standard condemnations and hand-wringing…
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Time To End Ban On Military Men And Women Defending Themselves
Targets Of Islamic Extremism Should Be Able To Be Armed Like Every Other American. Move America Forward, the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization says it is time to end the ridiculous policy of denying military men and women the opportunity to defend themselves in the United States against Islamic extremists. “In the wake of another…
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Chattanooga Proves That Military Must Rethink Gun-Free Zones
After gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a Muslim immigrant from Kuwait, allegedly shot and killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, former NYPD detective Harry Houck said the military’s “gun-free zone” mindset has to change. Speaking to CNN Newsroom, Houck said, “I’m a Marine. And this really is hitting me a little harder here than normal that [these Marines]…
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Another Oregon Sheriff Says ‘NO’ To Enforcing Universal Background Checks
The latest numbers are in from the State Police, and they once again prove what a massive fraud the background check system is and how much worse things will get when SB 941’s firearms transfer provisions kick in in early August. While 129 transactions were denied in June (including 95 “felons”, 13 people actively “wanted”and 5 adjudicated…
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Robbery Victim & Former CNN Reporter, Lynne Russell, On The Second Amendment
The United States of America is a great country. You can debate absolutely anything, whether or not it has merit, and whether or not it’s any of your business. But guns? There’s nothing to debate. Throw out all the numbers and expert opinions. I’ve got your expert right here, and it’s called EXPERIENCE. Just before…
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Obama’s Social Security Administration to Strip Millions of Americans of Their Second Amendment Rights
As the L.A. Times reported, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is currently developing a program to strip the Second Amendment Rights of over four million Americans currently receiving SSA benefits through a “representative payee.” Not only would this amount to the largest gun grab in American history, but according to the published report, would take…
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The Case For Universal Concealed Handgun Reciprocity
Survival is a basic instinct of every living organism. The impulse to survive is biological and absolute. And, for man, the desire to survive is also a moral imperative. A threat to one’s survival activates the “fight or flight” response. If a person cannot reasonably flee from a threat to his or her survival, that…
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Moms Demand Action Protests Cabela’s Over Concocted Gun Sales Loophole
On July 13 2015, Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launched another shame campaign like others they ran against Starbucks, Staples, and Kroger. This time, however, the target is Cabela’s, and the goal of the campaign is to pressure the Nebraska-based retailer into refusing to hand over guns to customers if…
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Increase In Syracuse Shootings Prove So-Called SAFE Act A Public Policy Failure
According to the Post-Standard, shootings in Syracuse are up 50% for the first six months of the year compared with the same time last year. When compared to the five-year average, city shootings are still up 3%. When presented with these statistics, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association President Tom King made this statement:…
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Obama Using the Charleston Tragedy to Infringe on Your Gun Rights
“Who really thinks that a top-down approach to controlling weapons will be any more effective than Prohibition was in the early 20th Century or the war on drugs has been today?” — GOA’s Erich Pratt in an upcoming USA Today oped Background Checks are failing miserably. The Obama Administration is redoubling its efforts to clamp down on…
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Guns Returned To Nebraska Man After Help from NFOA & SAF
Criminal charges have been dropped against a Nebraska man, with a Firearms Purchase Certificate, whose expensive firearms collection was seized in a case stemming from city of Lincoln ordinances which significantly impede Nebraska citizen’s 2nd Amendment Rights. Citing a misdemeanor conviction several years ago for carrying a knife that was an eighth-inch too long, the…
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Diverse Chicagoans Exercise Their Right-To-Carry
A recent report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals the diversity of the Chicagoans choosing to exercise their Right-to-Carry, offering some rare good news regarding the city’s beleaguered gun owners. According to a Sun-Times analysis of Right-to-Carry permit data obtained from the Illinois State Police, the city zip codes with the most permit-holding residents span from…
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Gun Free Zones a.k.a. Self Defense Prohibited Zones
If you’re reading this, odds are about the same as Evander Holyfield whoopin’ Mitt Romney in the ring that you already know Gun Free Zones suck. Seriously, how much thought does it take to realize that people intent on doing harm could give a rat’s @ss about a flag in the ground claiming a Gun…
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Open Carry Cell Phone Holder Concerns New Jersey Prosecutor
This model is carrying the “edgy” cell phone holder in about the worst or *best* way to make it sensational. The choice of black holder, black phone and black shorts does the most to make the holder look as though a pistol is in the back pocket. It does not hold up to close inspection. …
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Tax Seattle Politicians…Until the Hurting Stops
The Seattle City Council proposed a tax on guns and ammunition. I propose a different tax…on politicians. Despite the fact that local gun laws are pre-empted by Washington state law, the city council says they need a gun tax due to the high social cost of guns. I get it. City councils across the country…
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Ammunition Background Checks Suspended in New York State
In a default victory for Empire State gun owners, background checks for ammunition purchases, a centerpiece in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2013 SAFE Act, have been scrapped for now. An agreement announced late Friday signed by Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Director of Operations Jim Malatras suspends this section of the SAFE…