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on January 18, 2016 in Gun Page World News

The Clinton Files II

by Dave Hardy On Nov. 19, 2015, Brady Center president Dan Gross (left) and New York Governor (and New York SAFE Act author) Andrew Cuomo (right) present Hillary Clinton with the Mario M. Cuomo Visionary Award for her leadership on gun control. Last month, we outlined the Bill Clinton administration’s plans for gun control, including a plan to use lawsuits against gun manufacturers to force a settlement that would have imposed gun registration, bans on magazines holding more than 10 cartridges and many other forms of gun control, all without going through Congress. Those were not the only gun control… View Article

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on January 16, 2016 in Gun Page World News

The Demographics of Today’s NRA – Bad News for Haters

by Justin Stakes United States -(AmmoLand.com)- Gun owners are leaving the Democrat party. That decline in people who identify as Democrat is due to their attacks on gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment. They may never go back and will not ever vote against gun rights. The anti-gun left will tell you the NRA is made up white guys over 60. 15+ years ago they were right. Today and over the past 15-20 years, the make-up of the NRA has changed. This has ramifications for the upcoming election and the nation as a whole. So what does the NRA membership… View Article

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on January 16, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Law enforcement looking into gun confiscation law

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player By Madison Wade, [email protected] REDDING, Calif. – The new California ‘friends and family’ gun confiscation law that went into effect at the beginning of this year has local law enforcement looking into the parameters. The law, AB 1014, allows law enforcement to confiscate guns belonging to people who have been reported as unstable or dangerous by family or friends. Officers can’t take anyone’s legally-owned guns with just one report because a judge needs to sign a temporary gun restraining order. Once the order has been signed, then the guns can be taken away, but only for… View Article

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on January 16, 2016 in Gun Page

The Gun Debate ‘Didn’t Used To Be This Extreme,’ One Activist Says

By Krystina Martinez & Rick Holter The gun debate became front and center last week when President Obama announced his executive actions on gun violence. At the same time, Texas began allowing the open carry of handguns. Last week in the Friday Conversation, we heard from C.J. Grisham, the head of Open Carry Texas. That group helped convince the Texas Legislature to allow open carry. The discussion on guns continues with Andrea Brauer, the executive director of Texas Gun Sense. Her group promotes what it calls “sensible gun reform.” nterview Highlights: Andrea Brauer … … On the notion that gun… View Article

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on January 16, 2016 in E News

CRPA Newswire January 15, 2016

Gun purchases up despite California’s strict firearms laws San Francisco Chronicle via CRPA Even as California has enacted some of the toughest gun laws in the country, firearm purchases in the state have steadily increased. The number of handguns sold in California more than doubled between 2010 and 2014, with nearly a half-million transactions being recorded last year, according to state Department of Justice records. READ MORE Santa Cruz County gun retailers report sales soar after Obama address, San Bernardino attack Santa Cruz Sentinel via CRPA President Barack Obama had hardly closed his emotional address outlining executive actions on gun… View Article

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on January 10, 2016 in World News

Sacramento Sheriff Opposes Feinstein on Gun Bill

by Joel B. Pollak Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has declared his public opposition to a new bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)to prevent people on a government terror watch list from buying guns. Feinstein’s bill, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015 (S. 551), would notify the U.S. Attorney General if a person on a “terrorist watch list” tries to buy a gun, and would allow the Attorney General to prevent that purchase. In December, Feinstein Feinstein page the support of several leading law enforcement officials from across the state and around the country for her legislation. But… View Article

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on January 10, 2016 in Gun Page

Armed Citizens Remind Bad Guys That ‘Bullets Go Both Ways’

by AWR Hawkins During the January 10 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said armed citizens remind bad guys that “bullets go both ways.” Trump’s statement came after host Chuck Todd asked Trump about moving from a favorable view of “some gun control” in the 1990s to one that is strongly anti-gun control now. Trump admitted he used to hold different views in the 1990s, and said, “I’ve changed.” He then pointed to Ronald Reagan, who was “somewhat of liberal Democrat” before he saw the error of that position and moved toward conservatism. Trump talked about… View Article

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on January 9, 2016 in Gun Page

Poll: Americans Oppose Obama’s Executive Order on Guns

A majority of Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s use of executive powers to enact new gun control initiatives — and they don’t believe the controversial move will reduce the number of mass killings that have rocked the nation in recent months, a new Rasmussen Reports poll has found. According to the poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters, 58 percent say the government should only do what the president and Congress agree on in gun control matters. Only 34 percent of those surveyed believe the commander-in-chief should take action alone if Congress does not approve the initiatives he has proposed. Rasmussen… View Article

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on January 9, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Bad News for the Left: Obama Admits Second Amendment Guarantees Gun Rights

by AWR Hawkins During his January 5 speech expanding background checks to cover more private sellers, President Obama made a startling admission: he believes the Second Amendment does indeed guarantee a right for individuals to keep and bear arms. He even backed up this assertion by referencing his tenure of teaching in the university. Obama said, “I taught constitutional law, I know a little bit about this — I get it.” This may come as a shock to leftists at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and other outlets that have been working feverishly to push the belief that… View Article

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on January 8, 2016 in World News

Grandmother Shoots Alleged Attacker, Says Obama’s Not Taking Her Gun

by AWR Hawkins On January 4, a 65-year-old grandmother in Manchester, New Hampshire, shot a man who followed her home from the gas station. The incident occurred just after 11:30 p.m. Speaking on WFEA Radio, the grandmother — who is remaining unidentified by her choice — left work late at night, stopped by a gas station to put fuel in her car, then began driving home with an unknown vehicle following her. Along the way, the vehicle behind her moved erratically but remained behind her through turns and stops. When the grandma pulled in “the lower parking lot where [she]… View Article

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