Tag Archive: gun rights

on September 26, 2014 in World News

Bloomberg Not Getting The Same Bang For His Gun Control Buck

Bloomberg Not Getting The Same Bang For His Gun Control Buck On September 25 Forbes magazine ran a column by Frank Miniter tracing the effect of the millions Michael Bloomberg has spent on gun control and showing that he is no longer getting the same bang for his gun control buck. According to Miniter, Bloomberg’s gun control groups–Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in American, etc.–saturated the marketplace of ideas with so many inconsistencies and unverified claims that they finally hit a tipping point where researchers John R. Lott, Jr., and even pro-gun control outlets, seized… View Article

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on September 25, 2014 in Right Edition

Brant Scott – DC Mayor Befuddled

Brant Scott – DC Mayor Befuddled SCOTT, Brant (Barney) (1952- 2014) It is with profound sadness that we must announce the sudden and unexpected passing of the unique and irrepressible Brant Scott on September 16, 2014. Brant was the truly devoted husband of his beloved and best friend, Susan (Presley) and the loving and immensely proud father of Graham (23) and Mary (21). He is pre-deceased by his parents, Robert Scott and Jule (Petman) and survived by his brother Gilbert (Barbara), sister Barbara (Ray), in-laws Charles and Joan Presley, brothers-in-law Michael (Carole), Sean (Tina) and a bevy of nieces, nephews… View Article

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on September 24, 2014 in World News

Obama talks tough about gun control, but prosecutions plummet on his watch

Obama talks tough about gun control, but prosecutions plummet on his watch Policy shift drives decline in ATF cases since Newtown tragedy While President Obama decries gun violence and presses for more laws to restrict ownership, his Justice Department has prosecuted 25 percent fewer cases referred by the main law enforcement agency charged with reducing firearms violence across the country, a computer analysis of U.S. prosecution data shows. Federal prosecutors brought a total of 5,082 gun violation cases in 2013 recommended by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, compared with 6,791 during the last year of George W…. View Article

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on September 24, 2014 in World News

Feds Arrest Cartel Gun Buying Ring Along Texas Border

Feds Arrest Cartel Gun Buying Ring Along Texas Border A group of over a dozen U.S. citizens are facing federal weapons charges for allegedly running a conspiracy throughout the southern Texas border to buy and smuggle weapons for the Gulf Cartel. Young, good looking and wearing fashionable clothes, Ilse Alejandra Chazco and Antonio Rafael Ruvalcaba went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ignacio Torteya earlier this week who formally notified them that a grand jury had charged the two with multiple gun smuggling charges and ordered they be held without bond. The two are the most recent arrests made by the Bureau… View Article

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on September 23, 2014 in World News

Why Is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns?

Why Is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns? “Submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W, ambidextrous safety, semi-automatic or 2 shot bur[s]t trigger group, Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore grip) and scope (top rear), stock-collapsib[l]e or folding, magazine – 30 rd. capacity.” In May, the USDA’s Office of Inspector General filed a request for these weapons. But why exactly do they need them? According to a USDA press rep, the guns are necessary for self-protection. “OIG Special Agents regularly conduct undercover operations and surveillance. The types of investigations conducted by OIG Special Agents… View Article

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on September 20, 2014 in World News

Admitting That Gun Control Doesn’t Work, D.C. Mayor Calls For More Gun Control

Admitting That Gun Control Doesn’t Work, D.C. Mayor Calls For More Gun Control Gun control is population control The great thing about arguing gun control with leftist ninnies is that you don’t have to argue at all; they talk themselves into a corner leaving us pro-2A types free to sit back and laugh. Yesterday at a Navy Yard shooting memorial Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray made an impassioned speech about the need for more gun control, all the while providing proof that tough gun laws do nothing to reduce crime. “Residents of our city lost friends and neighbors; they lost… View Article

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on September 20, 2014 in World News

Baylor University Student Senate Approves Concealed Carry On Campus

Baylor University Student Senate Approves Concealed Carry On Campus The Baylor University Student Senate has approved concealed carry of handguns on campus “for students, faculty, staff and guests who hold concealed handgun licenses.” The Waco Tribune-Herald reports the measure was sponsored by Baylor senior Gannon McCahill, who watched news of a gunman on Seattle Pacific University in June. That university is near his hometown and he was bothered by the students’ inability to defend themselves. McCahill said: Our whole purpose…[with] this bill was to increase safety on campus, and the best way to do that, as we see it, is… View Article

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on September 15, 2014 in World News

Gun Control for Women’s Sake Now

Gun Control for Women’s Sake Now On September 12, TIME magazine ran a column by gun control proponent Gabby Giffords, in which she argued that gun control must be expanded for women’s sake. Giffords’ starts the column by revisiting the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) under Bill Clinton. She says that law has been good–“annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by more than half” since its passage–but she does not think it goes far enough. She wants a more stringent VAWA, one that expands gun control beyond marriage and into dating relationships. This would include new… View Article

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on September 15, 2014 in World News

‘Assault Weapons’ A ‘Myth’ Democrats Created In 1990s

                      ‘Assault Weapons’ A ‘Myth’ Democrats Created In 1990s On September 13, the 20th anniversary of the signing of the federal assault weapons ban, The New York Times ran a column explaining that the very term “assault weapon” is one the “Democrats created” in the 1990s in order to ban “a politically defined category of guns.” Moreover, the Times points out that the threat posed by the private ownership of “assault weapons” is mythological in comparison to FBI stats on the actual use of such guns in crime. According to… View Article

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