Second Amendment
News pertaining to the second amendment
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NY SAFE Act Puts 34,500 New Yorker’s on No-Guns / Confiscation List
A newly created database of New Yorkers deemed too mentally unstable to carry firearms has grown to roughly 34,500 names, a previously undisclosed figure that has raised concerns among some mental health advocates that too many people have been categorized as dangerous. The database, established in the aftermath of the mass shooting in 2012 at…
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‘Gun Laws of America’ Proves Common Sense Gun Laws Already Exist
Gun Laws of America sets out in print all the federal gun laws and explains them in clear plain English. It takes all the guesswork out of federal gun law, explaining clearly how the whole thing works. Covers the hard-to-find “proper authorities” laws, the Militia, the National Guard, citizens, dealers, importers, collectors, global disarmament, explosives,…
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Crayon Gun Subjects 5-year-old to Suicide/Homicide Screening & Non-Violence Contract
E.R. Dickson Elementary School in Mobile, Ala., has introduced two new vocabulary words into their kindergarten curriculum: homicide and suicide. Local media outlets report that a 5-year-old was forced to fill out a bizarre safety agreement and risk assessment questionnaire containing those words after making an innocent gesture with a crayon. The kindergartner’s mother told…
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DEMOCRATS: ‘Gun Groups, Not Obama, To Blame For Spread Of Ebola’
Liberal commentators and Democrats are blaming gun rights supporters for the spread of Ebola…? Seriously. Their so-called logic goes like this: Republicans blocked Vivek Murthy’s nomination for Surgeon General due to his extreme anti-gun views. If there were a surgeon general in place, he would be helping to stop the spread of Ebola. Therefore, gun…
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Federal Court Strikes Down Ban On Firearms On Army Corps of Engineers Property
Plaintiffs challenge regulations promulgated by the Army Corp of Engineers that govern the possession of firearms on property administered by the Corps. Plaintiffs argue that the regulations violate their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The regulations govern over 700 dams — holding back more than 100 trillion gallons of water — built…
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DO WHAT? Watervliet, NY Asks Pistol Permit Applicants for Facebook Passwords
The photo below shows an application for a pistol permit as used by the Watervliet, New York police department. It comes to us from “Mazz,” a member of the nyfirearms.com forum [registration required]. As you can see the app asks applicants for their “Facebook & Password.” Considering the document’s homemade look and the absurdity of the request, I called…
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Four Gun Laws I Would Repeal First (If I Was a Benevolent Dictator)
Back when I was young, naive and not yet wise to the ways of the world, about two weeks ago, I was fantasizing about being elected Benevolent Dictator of the Universe. You know, just like President Nine Iron. Since I view the whole gun issue as a great barometer for individual liberty and personal accountability,…
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Are Black People Carrying Guns Public Enemy No. 1?
So claims Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle University. From CNN: “Whites walking down Main Street with an AK-47 are defenders of American values; a black man doing the same thing is Public Enemy No. 1,” says Gallagher, a professor at La Salle University in Pennsylvania. Fortunately, we know that Charles Gallagher is wrong.…
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CNN: NRA Making Matters Worse By Keeping Americans Ignorant On Ebola
On October 15 2014 CNN ran a segment on Newsroom in which they claimed Americans are ignorant on Ebola because of the National Rifle Association. CNN joined a long line of mainstream voices–MSBNC and the Los Angeles Times among them–who have blamed the NRA for the Ebola crisis. In fact, a guest on the October…
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Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Releases Report Riddled With Errors
The July report by billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s funded gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety is “riddled with errors,” including mistakes in the number of shootings reported, the extent of the shooter’s mental illness and even where the attacks occurred, according to an analysis by gun researcher John Lott. Since 2009 through mid-July of this year,…
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Moms Demand Action Lies About Gun Laws, Again…
Shannon Watts and her gun prohibitionist bullies at Moms Demand Action have a very bad problem of being almost completely unable to tell the truth. The murder of Jitka Vesel is a horrible story of a jilted ex-boyfriend turned stalker named Dmitry Smirnov who hunted down and killed Vesel for rejecting him, but Moms Demand…
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Police Officer Robbed of his Gun and Badge
In the United States, armed citizens are seldom robbed. When they are, it is usually because the robber does not know that they are armed, and simply makes a mistake in victim selection. That may be what happened with an Illinois police officer. It happened on 7 September, 2014. From wgntv.com: An off-duty Harvey…
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POLICE STATE USA: Creation Of The Department Of Homeland Security
An inverse relationship exists between power wielded by Government and a Citizenry’s freedom from Government’s exercise of that power. As Government accumulates power, there is a concomitant loss of freedom and liberty in the Citizenry. The Founders of the American Republic knew this. As power waxes unchecked in Government, the liberties and freedoms of Americans, written in stone in the Bill…
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The FBI’s bogus report on mass shootings
It’s disheartening to see the FBI used to promote a political agenda, but that’s what we got with the bureau’s release last month of a study claiming to show a sharp rise in mass shootings, a la Newtown, Conn. The FBI counted 160 “mass” or “active” shootings in public places from 2000 to 2013. Worse,…
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Americans Say ‘Gun Violence’ is Criminal Justice, Not Public Health Issue
More than eight out of ten Americans say that the misuse of guns in violent crimes is a matter for the criminal justice system, not a public health issue, and that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) should not spend resources on the study of “gun violence” but instead concentrate on viruses and disease. These…
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The Supreme Court, Not Supreme Wisdom
I am not a lawyer, but I have read the Constitution and I cannot find any indication that the Founding Fathers intended the guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” in the 14th Amendment to include same-sex marriage. The idea would have been regarded as an abomination to the men who created the Constitution. To…