Tag Archive: gun rights

on January 9, 2014 in World News

Study Shows Gun Bans Result In More Murders

Study Shows Gun Bans Result In More Murders John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center has released a report that will make the gun grabbers cringe. He points out that, “every place that guns have been banned, murder rates have gone up.” In Great Britain after their 1997 ban, there was nearly a 50% rise in homicide rates. Violent crime also skyrocketed in Australia after their ban on certain guns. And of course “gun free zones” have been a hot bed for shootings. Schools are gun free zones and it is clear as a result they remain a target… View Article

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on January 9, 2014 in World News

Grandmother Shoots Armed Robber to Defend Granddaughter

                    Grandmother Shoots Armed Robber to Defend Granddaughter On January 5th, 63-year-old grandmother Elzie Pipkins shot and killed an armed robber who was targeting her house for the second time in a matter of weeks. The robber, Devon Antonio Young, had robbed Pipkins’s Shreveport, Louisiana, home in mid-December, stealing her .38 revolver. Thereafter Pipkins went to a pawn shop and bought another revolver so she would be able to “protect her own.” According to the Shreveport Times, on Sunday night Pipkin heard her granddaughter talking about a man walking toward the front… View Article

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on January 8, 2014 in World News

Democrats Ask Bloomberg to Back Off Gun Control Push

                    Democrats Ask Bloomberg to Back Off Gun Control Push As Michael Bloomberg moves beyond his push for expanded background checks to actually targeting Senators who did not support more gun control in 2013, Democrats are asking him to back off. They politically cannot afford to have him focus attention on the failed, Democrat-led push for gun control. According to Mediate.com, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) do not want Senators like Mark Pryor (D-AR) “targeted” for opposing gun control. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell noted that Bloomberg… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Shooting rampages could be stopped by quick-thinking civilians

                            90% of shooting rampages could be stopped by quick-thinking civilians: expert Police eye new tactics, quicker response to halt shooters Mass shootings like the ones that have occurred in recent years in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., have tripled in recent years, according to a study set to be published next week for the FBI. Researchers looked at active shootings in public settings where the primary motive appeared to be mass murder and at least one victim was unrelated to the shooter, according to Yahoo News,… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013

                      Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013 Virginia State Police say background checks for gun sales in 2013 “represented the highest volume of transactions since the inception of Virginia’s background check program” in 1989. Gun sales on Black Friday “also set a record.” According to the Huffington Post, “gun transactions in Virginia totaled 479,253 for the year.” This is nearly an 11 percent increase over the previous sales record of 432,387 transactions in 2012. Gun store owners say the continuing gun control rhetoric coming from President Obama and the… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Concealed Carry Saves Lives, Assault Weapon Ban Ineffective

                      Study: Concealed Carry Saves Lives, Assault Weapon Ban Ineffective A new study published in the latest issue of Applied Economic Letters lays low nearly every claim made by gun control proponents and shines a light on the successes of concealed carry on a state-by-state basis. Specifically, the study shows that less restrictive concealed carry laws save lives, while gun control can endanger them. It also shows that gun control measures like “assault weapons” bans do not reduce state-level murder rates. The author of the study is Quinnipiac University economist Mark Gius. In… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Executive Actions on Gun Background Checks

                        Obama Bypasses Congress with Executive Actions on Gun Background Checks On January 3rd the Obama administration announced two new executive actions concerning background checks on firearm purchasers. These come just over four months after Obama last used executive actions to bypass Congress and just weeks after Vice President Joe Biden said the White House was shifting its focus away from gun control. According to Fox News, Biden now says the administration is issuing two executive actions to broaden access to mental health records during background checks. One of… View Article

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on January 2, 2014 in World News

Gun re-registration begins in D.C

Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation First law in U.S. to require renewal with fingerprints and fees For the first time in the United States, a citizen who has legally registered a gun will have to submit to a renewal process. The consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific 60-day window are dire. Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C. resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted. The Metropolitan Police Department estimates there are… View Article

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