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Pittsburgh's Anti-Gun Mayor Loses Re-Election Primary :: 05/19/2021
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has spent the last few years painting himself as a gun control champion. He even passed local gun control in defiance of the state’s preemption law. In a blue city like Pittsburgh, one would think that would go a long way toward solidifying support for him.
Columnist's Trust Issues With Masks Accidentally Makes Case For Concealed Carry :: 05/18/2021
It’s been interesting to watch the reaction on the Left to the CDC’s new guidance on masks, with some states declaring that no longer will they “trust the science” coming out of the government agency and will keep their own restrictions in place for at least several more weeks. Some fully-vaccinated individuals are even saying they’ll continue wearing masks indefinitely, even though the vaccines offer far more protection than the masks themselves.
Media Betrayal and the End of the Trust Society :: 05/18/2021
We learn more when we listen than when we speak. I sat with some young lawyers who are far smarter than I am. After a while, they politely asked about my interests, and then asked me about mass murder with a firearm. We were both interested by what they knew and by what they didn’t know. We learned that the media failed them. What does it mean if the media has failed some of the brightest people we can find?
SCOTUS Decision on Warrantless Gun Seizure Isn’t What It’s Being Touted To Be… :: 05/18/2021
Yesterday, the internet was ablaze with articles on the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Caniglia v. Strom, et al., docket no. 20-157, and people cheering that the U.S. Supreme Court announced the death knell not only to warrantless searches of one’s home and seizure of one’s firearms but also to red flag laws. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth and it is telling that none of the articles I have seen actually link to the decision (and three concurring opinions) or paste important parts of the decision and concurring opinions. So let’s actually review what Justice Thomas wrote for the Opinion of the Court and what the three Concurring Opinions declare.
AL: Legislator fired from Mobile Sheriff’s Dept. for Support of Second Amendment :: 05/17/2021
On 14 May, 2021, Alabama Representative Shane Stringer was fired by Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran because Representative Stringer is a strong proponent of Constitutional Carry in Alabama. From policetribune.com:
Phil Rizzo Running for NJ Governor is 2A Friendly, Unlike Democrat Murphy :: 05/17/2021
)- As the gubernatorial race is just getting off the ground, I had the opportunity to chat with Phil Rizzo, one of the candidates eyeing the GOP ticket. To give you some background information on Rizzo, he is a New Jersey businessman, pastor, and one of the few holders of a New Jersey Concealed Carry Permit. Within hours of Rizzo announcing that he was running, the New Jersey gun-related social media pages were burning with questions about his stance on the Second Amendment.
Report: John Cornyn Still Talking Gun Control Behind Closed Doors :: 05/17/2021
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking “compromise language” for Democrat gun control, the Washington Post reported.
Bad Advice Over Parental Gun Talks :: 05/16/2021
Once upon a time, I wouldn’t really have worried about the parent of one of my kid’s friends wanting to have a gun talk with me. What I mean by “gun talk” is the conversation where the other parents ask if I have guns and if they’re kept away from curious hands. I wouldn’t have worried about it because, well, people weren’t so almost universally demonized for being pro-gun.
Uh Oh: Will GOP Infighting Kill Texas' Constitutional Carry Bill? :: 05/16/2021
Constitutional carry looked like a done deal in Texas. It wasn’t.
Biden's Proposed Ghost Gun Rule Still Not Officially Published :: 05/15/2021
It was a week ago Friday that the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced a new proposed rule to broadly redefine “frames” and “receivers” under the Gun Control Act of 1968, a move that some critics say goes too far and amounts to the agency rewriting the law itself, which is up to Congress, not the executive branch.
Subway Slashers Illustrate the Need for Armed Self Defense in New York City :: 05/15/2021
From the CCRKBA . . .
The CDC's Mask Mess Reveals Why They Can't Be Trusted On Guns :: 05/15/2021
With the Centers for Disease Control belatedly coming to the conclusion that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks (something that’s been obvious to the rest of us for months now), it’s become clear that the only “science” the agency’s been following for months is political science. The mishandling of the agency’s guidance, and the willingness of businesses, blue state politicians, and bureaucrats to continue to adhere to it even when it was clearly overcautious to the point of paranoia is all the reason we need to keep the CDC far away from the gun control debate.
Analysis: Dogs Can't Smell Serial Numbers and the Dangers of Mindlessly Repeating Police Narratives :: 05/14/2021
Dogs, no matter how well trained, can not tell if a gun has a serial number engraved into it or not.
Media Bias: Three more episodes of The Rookie obsessed with Machine Guns, misleading claims about crime :: 05/14/2021
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. Here ABC’s The Rookie has three episodes that are obsessed with criminals using machine guns, or “assault weapons” as the show calls them (Season 3 E11 April 18, 2021; E12 April 25, 2021; and E14 May 9, 2021). These clips are just a small part of the machine guns shown being fired in these episodes.
Miami Police Missing Dozens Of Department's AR-15s :: 05/14/2021
To hear some politicians describe it, the AR-15 is the ultimate murder-death-kill machine, capable of destroying a tank or fighter jet with a single round. Plus, that round is apparently a heat-seeking round that will hunt you down and kill you, then your family, then your prom date from years before. And, it seems, the Miami Police Department is missing a number of them.
The Hypocrisy Of Preemption Opposition :: 05/14/2021
There are a lot of people out there who are opposed to the preemption of gun laws in a state. They don’t like that local governments can’t infringe on our rights without going through the state legislature. In some states, they know that’s not going to happen, so they want the laws that keep local governments from doing so repealed.
Experts Paint Grim Picture for NRA After Bankruptcy Gamble Goes Bust :: 05/13/2021
America’s largest, most influential gun group is facing down a dark future.
Gun Controllers Fail Because They Don’t Understand America’s Geographical and Cultural Ties to Fiearms :: 05/13/2021
The anti-gun Biden administration and a seemingly never-ending spate of mass shootings have resulted in renewed calls for gun control. Like so many previous failed efforts, attempts to increase restrictions on civilian gun ownership are doomed to failure. One reason for this is that proponents of increased regulations and gun control laws continually fail to understand the geographical, historical and cultural values of America’s gun culture.
Gun Historian Ashley Hlebinsky Drops Truth Bombs in ‘Ghost Gun’ Hearing :: 05/13/2021
(AmmoLand.com)- If U.S. senators were hoping to give a lift to the Department of Justice’s proposed rule to redefine a firearm, they underestimated Ashley Hlebinsky.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Can federal judges alter the Constitution? :: 05/13/2021
"No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." -- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Last year, a detainee at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed a writ of habeas corpus in a federal district court in Washington, D.C. -- to which all cases from Guantanamo have been assigned -- and it was denied because he was not in the United States.
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