Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Texas shooter bought gun in private sale, after ban due to mental illness: ABC :: 09/04/2019
(Reuters) - The gunman who killed seven people and wounded 23 others in a rampage across West Texas on Saturday obtained the assault-style rifle used through a private sale after he was banned from having a firearm because he was diagnosed with a mental illness, media reported.
A Comparison of Techniques in Defending the Second Amendment :: 09/03/2019
United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- In the past months, I have emphasized that it is not enough to fight hard for our Second Amendment rights, Second Amendment supporters need to fight smart, too. In today’s very hostile media climate, the approach we use in defending our rights will define how we come across to our fellow Americans.
Did Walmart's CEO Forget About These Armed Heroes Who Stopped Massacres at His Stores? :: 09/03/2019
Earlier today Walmart CEO Doug McMillon officially announced a number of firearms and ammunition will no longer be sold at stores nationwide. The statement was quite incoherent, but here it is.
Fighting gun trafficking gets ensnared in political fight :: 09/03/2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Pennsylvania lawmakers were rushing to wrap up the session’s business in June, aides to state Attorney General Josh Shapiro came to them with a request: expand the office’s authority to pursue gun-trafficking crimes across the state.
Following Mass Shooting In Odessa, Trump Announces His Intentions On Gun Control :: 09/03/2019
I haven’t made a secret of the fact that I don’t trust our president when it comes to guns. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t see a lifelong New Yorker understanding how important gun rights are to many in this great country. He’s expressed more willingness to “compromise” on guns than I’m comfortable with as well.
Gun rights advocate takes stand against new gun control measures :: 09/03/2019
Daniel McMonigle knows a little bit about guns. He's been around them all his life. He's a certified firearms safety instructor. And, even today, as the nation reels from another mass shooting in Texas, he questions much of the discussion about gun control measures.
Walmart to stop Alaska handgun sales, end sales of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammo nationwide :: 09/03/2019
Walmart is set to end sales of handguns in Alaska and will discontinue the sale of short-barrel rifle and handgun ammunition in stores nationwide, the super chain's president and CEO announced Tuesday afternoon.
Democrats Gun Buy-Back Plan Would Backfire Horrifically :: 09/02/2019
Compelling Americans to surrender their so-called assault weapons has become “the newest purity test” for Democratic presidential candidates, according to the Washington Post. Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Kristin Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio have all endorsed mandatory buy-backs of assault weapons as a key step to reducing gun violence. But while such plans might be politically profitable in a left-wing primary, in practice they could end in catastrophe.
Gun Ownership on Trial: John Lott's Incredible Defense :: 09/02/2019
Gun ownership was on trial at FreedomFest 2019, an annual festival where smart and open-minded people get together to exchange ideas and debate hot-button topics.
Pennsylvania Court Rules Gun Like Hand Gestures Are Criminal :: 09/02/2019
Once upon a time, I played basketball. I wasn’t a good basketball player, but because of school rules, I was still on the varsity team my senior year. I was the last guy off the bench, but we were a pretty good team so I got to play a fair bit.
Who's to Blame for Evisceration of the Second Amendment? :: 09/02/2019
Gun owners across this country continue to wail and complain about more and more gun-grabbing laws. More laws gutting the Second Amendment by scheming political whores in both Congress and state capitols.
Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing :: 09/01/2019
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 in a case that sparked a national immigration debate.
Here's the Best Example Yet of Why Red Flag Laws Are a Terrible Idea :: 09/01/2019
If you want the best example yet of why conservatives pushing red flag laws are wrong, here you go.
Man's Gun Collection May Be Destroyed By Authorities :: 09/01/2019
Most of our readers have guns. Based on the average number of guns reported per firearm owner, our readers have a lot of guns. This warms my heart and makes me damn proud to be an American.
Texas Student Searched For Gun After Non-Threatening Social Media Post :: 09/01/2019
A couple of days ago we had the kid in Colorado who was temporarily barred from school after his mom took him target shooting and he posted about it on social media. A student who saw the social media post utilized the state’s Safe2Tell hotline and contacted authorities, leading to a visit by police and a threat assessment by the school before junior Nate Evans could return to school.
Despotic Judiciary Assaults Second Amendment :: 08/31/2019
Another appellate court has failed to defend Americans’ Second Amendment rights. On Thursday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Cook County, Illinois’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Last year, a U.S. district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the 2006 Blair Holt Assault Weapons Ban, which means a fine for Cook County residents of up to $10,000 and sentences of up to six months in prison if they are found to be in possession of so-called “large-capacity magazines” or “assault weapons.”
How 'red flag' laws violate the Bill of Rights :: 08/31/2019
Most people now understand that “red flag” laws violate the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and many Republicans, including the president, now seem willing to join Democrats, after the recent shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Denton, Texas, by left-and right wing extremists, to put dents in the Second Amendment hoping these laws “might” somehow help.
Nothing Exemplifies the Political Divide More Than The Issue Of Firearms :: 08/31/2019
New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Radical New Progressive Left abhors guns as much from an aesthetic standpoint as from a political, social, and ethical one. Thus, they never fail to use a particularly tragic albeit rare instance of misuse of a firearm by the criminal and the occasional lunatic to denounce firearms ownership and possession generally, vociferously, and this is reflected in the question they ask and the manner in which they ask it: How can society protect itself from the “scourge” of guns?
You Can't Give Away the Right of Self-Defense :: 08/31/2019
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- It is neither moral nor practical for you to give away the right of self-defense. It isn’t our right of self-defense; it is yours, as in one to a customer. Most of us couldn’t give it away we tried. The idea of outsourcing our defense is so foreign that we hardly know what it looks like.
DRGO: Kangaroo Courts & PAWS :: 08/30/2019
On Tuesday, I joined my fellow Virginian defenders of the Second Amendment and testified before the Virginia Crime Commission.
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