on January 15, 2014 in World News
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on January 15, 2014 in World News
Target Shooting, $10 Billion into U.S. Economy Annually
Target Shooting, $10 Billion into U.S. Economy Annually National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Steve Sanetti opened a 2014 SHOT Show press conference by mentioning that while everyone knows gun sales are generating wealth on Wall Street and main street alike, few know that “billions of dollars are pumped into the U.S. economy every year through target shooting.” Literature passed around during the press conference details what kind of money is in view. For example, 2011 sales related to “all target shooting” totaled $9,947,946,881. That money comes from about 20 million Americans… View Article
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on January 15, 2014 in World News
US govt struck deal with Mexican drug cartel
US govt struck deal with Mexican drug cartel in exchange for info – report Between 2000 and 2012, the US government had a deal with Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa that allowed the group to smuggle billion of dollars of drugs in return for information on its rival cartels, according to court documents published by El Universal. Written statements made by a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent and a US Department of Justice official in US District Court of Chicago following the 2009 arrest of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla – son of a Sinaloa leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the organization’s… View Article
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on January 15, 2014 in World News
NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance
NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance, cyber-attacks The National Security Agency has implanted software in about 100,000 computers around the world, allowing the United States to surveil those machines while creating a trail that can be used to launch cyber-attacks. Though most of the software is installed by gaining access to computer networks, the NSA can also employ technology that enters computers and alters data without needing internet access. The secret technology uses covert radio waves transmitted from small circuit boards and USB cards clandestinely inserted into targeted computers, The New York Times reported. The waves… View Article
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on January 15, 2014 in World News
More People Die from Falls in NYC Than Firearms
More People Die from Falls in NYC Than Firearms According to a UPI report, “300 [people] die as result of a fall” every year in New York City. Meanwhile, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reports 419 people were murdered in NYC in 2012, but of those murders only 239 were firearm-related. Of the 419 murders in 2012, the NYPD lists weapons used as: “Firearms (57 percent), Stabbed (21 percent), Bludgeoned (11 percent), Physical Force (6 percent), Other (5 percent).” The UPI report makes clear that falls “are… View Article
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on January 15, 2014 in World News
Handguns, not assault rifles, used in most mass shootings
Crime study: Handguns, not assault rifles, used in most mass shootings Media hype about mass shootings in America has fostered a myth that the killings are on the rise and that an assault weapon ban, expanded background checks and greater attention to the mentally ill will curb a rampaging epidemic, according to an authoritative and exhaustive study by a noted criminologist. Instead, according to James Alan Fox, author and criminology professor at Northeastern University, mass shootings have remained stagnant over 34 years, averaging 20 a year, and few were committed by the type of berserk… View Article
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on January 14, 2014 in Right Edition
Gun Control Socialists Hate Gun Owners
Real Reasons Liberals Hate Guns Power of the People vs. Power of the Government What occurred in Newtown, Connecticut on that fateful December 14th morning was and remains heartbreaking. The sorrow being experienced by the families of the twenty innocent children killed, along with the loved ones of the other individuals slain must remain overwhelming. This tragedy, purpetrated by a crazed, lone 20-year old gunman, has vaulted the debate over gun control to perhaps an unprecedented level. There is, without a doubt, some type of federal gun legislation on the horizon in early 2013, perhaps as early as Wednesday, January… View Article
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on January 13, 2014 in World News
When Did America Turn Into the Soviet Union?
When Did America Turn Into the Soviet Union? Bill Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information. A 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, Binney was the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees. Binney spent decades studying – and trying to counter – the repressive Soviet program of mass surveillance. In other words, Binney is an expert on spying in general, and Soviet spying in particular. Binney said that – after 9/11 – America implemented the same type of system used by the Soviets. Indeed,… View Article
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on January 13, 2014 in World News
ATF sting tactics ‘almost unimaginable’
ATF sting tactics ‘almost unimaginable’ Calling the ATF’s tactics appalling, alarming, disturbing and “almost unimaginable,” congressional members on Thursday slammed the agency for how it conducted storefront stings across the nation and renewed their demand for answers. The sharply worded letter is the latest salvo from members of Congress to U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones regarding the undercover operations. Members of both parties have been demanding answers from the agency and Jones since last January when a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation exposed a series of foul-ups and failures in an ATF sting in Milwaukee dubbed Operation Fearless. Thursday’s letter… View Article
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