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3 Muslim Terror Plots Targeted US Synagogues in 3 Months :: 04/14/2019

On Wednesday, April 3, FBI agents converged on a Bozeman shooting range and took Fabjan Alameti into custody.

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Anti-gun Group Pressures Banks to Back Gun Control :: 04/13/2019

The New York Times has reported on a tactic now being used by a gun control group calling itself Guns Down America that pressures banking institutions into withholding financial support of gun makers, rights group and pro-Second Amendment politicians.

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Identifying the Problem of Gun Control Research :: 04/13/2019

In 2017, anti-gun researcher John Donohue and his team released a study that purported to find that Right to Carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. The paper was updated six months later seemingly to address criticism of its methodology and produced the same conclusion. Readers may be familiar with the study as an anti-gun press fawned over the results without questioning the mechanism of the effect or the methodology itself. 

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Reality And Rhetoric: How Anti-Gun Bias Distorts Truth :: 04/13/2019

By now, the typical Bearing Arms reader understands that the media isn’t necessarily to be trusted. Especially when it comes to the subject of guns. The media presents a particularly biased view of self-defense in particular.

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Editorial Calls For Compromise By. . .Enforcing Existing Laws - Bearing Arms - enforcing existing laws, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Pat Toomey :: 04/12/2019

I believe we already have too many gun laws on the books. However, I also recognize that many of those laws aren’t going to go anywhere no matter how much I might wish it. They’re now so ingrained into the fabric of our nation that trying to repeal them would be a herculean undertaking.

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Giffords Law Center Study: Guns Mishandled in Rare Incidents; They Should be Banned From Schools :: 04/12/2019

Using a “man bites dog” story bordering on the hilarious, the anti-gun Giffords Law Center overreached in its attempt to make its case that guns are dangerous, especially in schools.

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Gun rights advocates turned away in effort to file complaints over Pittsburgh firearms legislation :: 04/12/2019

Gun rights advocates were not allowed to file a private criminal complaint Friday against Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and members of the City Council.

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Toxic Media and the Rights Restrictors :: 04/12/2019

We live in the internet age where we have a world of information at our fingertips. The downside is that we’re flooded with details while we lose the larger truths. Our problem isn’t ignorance, but lack of perspective. Today, the media can shock us with something that is technically true, but intellectually meaningless. I want to show you two examples. One is boringly familiar while the other is virtually invisible to us because of media bias.

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Fact-checking Gillibrands claim NRA 'is largely funded' by gun makers :: 04/11/2019

During her CNN town hall Tuesday night, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York addressed a question on gun control and her personal shift from receiving an A-rating by the National Rifle Association during her time as a member of the House of Representatives to the F-rating she maintains as a senator.

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New Pa. gun restrictions in domestic abuse cases begin Wednesday :: 04/11/2019

In Warren County, the sheriff’s office stores about 100 guns — most of them taken from alleged domestic abusers.

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News of Self-Defense With Firearms Contradicts Gun Control Rhetoric :: 04/11/2019

Gun control advocates long have controlled the narrative about defensive uses of firearms, calling the “good guy with a gun” scenario a “myth meant to scare people into buying guns for self-defense.”

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Pennsylvania Gun Violence Activists Set Sights On New Bill :: 04/11/2019

Fresh from a victory in Pennsylvania last fall, anti-gun violence advocates are turning their attention to legislation to empower family members or police to seek the immediate, if temporary, seizure of someone's firearms.

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Why The Media Won't Drop The SPLC Despite Its Obvious Corruption :: 04/11/2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center—America’s wealthiest so-called civil rights group—is engulfed in scandal. Do not expect the establishment media to stop relying on them anytime soon.

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City of Pittsburgh, Mayor and City Council-Members Sued over New Gun Control :: 04/10/2019

PITTSBURGH, PA-(Ammoland.com)- Today, attorneys Joshua Prince and Adam Kraut of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C., filed a new lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh, Mayor Bill Peduto, and six City Council members over the City’s latest gun control legislation.

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Column Proves Some Folks Are Anti-Gun Because They're Idiots :: 04/10/2019

In my perfect world, no one is anti-gun. They understand that firearms are an essential means of self-defense, and not just from criminals but also from tyrants. The term “gun safety advocate” would be someone who talked about the need to follow safety rules, lock your guns up when unneeded, and possibly push for gun safety courses in public schools.

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Sen. Pat Toomey wants local cops informed of failed firearms background checks :: 04/10/2019

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, is taking another run at the nation’s gun laws.

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Speaker Pelosi Attempting to Expand number and Types of Prohibited Possessors :: 04/10/2019

The Democrats in the House of Representatives are attempting to expand the number of classes of people prohibited from exercising Constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights. Those prohibitions have been added to H.R. 1585, a re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The Act had not previously been used to restrict gun ownership. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has added the infringements to the current bill.

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Britain's Anti-Knife Politicians: Not Too Sharp :: 04/09/2019

Well, who didn’t see this foul up coming? For one, the British leaders who have alienated their people from their unalienable, God-given right to self-defense. Liberal politicians, displaying just how finite their wisdom is, have banned the possession of knives in public. Further, the British government is now considering banning home delivery of knives ordered online.

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Eric Swalwell on assault weapons: Just take the 15 million that are out there and buy them back :: 04/09/2019

Bay Area congressman Eric Swalwell on Monday became the latest person to join the incredibly crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race.

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Everytown spends $200K to fight Florida bill arming teachers :: 04/09/2019

Everytown for Gun Safety, the bipartisan gun-control organization created and financed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, says it’s spending $200,000 to pressure Florida lawmakers not to allow classroom teachers to carry a gun at school.

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