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Exclusive: Rep. Matt Gaetz Blasts ATF for Allegedly Retaliating Against Congressional Witness :: 09/10/2023
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is blasting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for allegedly retaliating against a Congressional witness.
Report: Liberty Safe Parent Company Donated Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Gun-Control Democrats :: 09/10/2023
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk used a post on X to report that FEC filings show Liberty Safe’s parent company donated over $400,000 to gun-control Democrats.
"Defund the police" MN Democrat beaten in carjacking :: 09/09/2023
Tom Wolf once said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. That’s because sometimes, theory runs smack into reality and people come to discover that things they thought were deep-seated principles were far more malleable than they originally believed.
More reason to rethink getting a Liberty Safe :: 09/09/2023
I’m glad I don’t run Liberty Safe this week.
New Mexico governor says she's banning concealed carry in state's biggest city :: 09/09/2023
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is begging for a lawsuit and putting lives in danger with a new executive order issued on Friday afternoon that bans both open and concealed carry in Albuquerque for at least the next 30 days.
You are Safe at Home and at School- facts and emotions in a non-violent world :: 09/09/2023
Let me start at the end. I know that I’m doing this wrong. I should try to inflame your emotions with the latest disaster so you’ll give me more clicks as you share this article with your friends. I’m not a mainstream journalist. We can set aside the inflammatory outrage and take a deeper look at the world. I struggle with the same reactions that you do as I read the news. For me, finding a sense of proportion is everything as I take in the news stories. Keeping perspective is intellectually hard because the news media doesn’t give us all the relevant facts. It is also emotionally difficult to know how to react because the media deliberately sells us shock and outrage. We’re left in an uncomfortable position between feeling like we’re being manipulated or feeling that we’re being overly reserved in the face of obvious tragedy. There are other alternatives, but we need to know more than what we read in the headlines.
Biden Administration Ratchets Down Another Notch v. Second Amendment :: 09/08/2023
The Biden-Harris administration—according to a statement from the White House—has taken what it claims to be “another life-saving step” to keep guns out of “dangerous hands,” this time by proposing a new “rule” to essentially shut down gun shows and make it more difficult for gun owners to buy or sell their personal firearms.
Canada’s Gun Control Measures: Expensive, Ineffective, Political Posturing :: 09/08/2023
More than three years have passed since Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban and mandatory confiscation (“buyback”) of what he called “military-grade assault weapons,” which was followed by a national handgun “freeze” and other gun control measures.
Democrats continue their broken record of gun control :: 09/08/2023
In theory, the gun debate is supposed to be nonpartisan. After all, every lawmaker swears an oath to “support and defend the Constitution,” which in theory also means they swear to support and defend the Second Amendment.
Editorial board needs a lesson on liberty :: 09/08/2023
Sometimes, you have to be careful about evaluating headlines for various stories. The journalist may write the story and suggest a headline, but that ultimately falls to the editor who may or may not accept the suggestion.
Liberty Safe makes customer-friendly policy updates; what about other safe manufacturers? :: 09/08/2023
Yesterday, there was a controversy in the gun owning community over Liberty Safe’s disclosure of an electronic safe’s passcode to the FBI. There were quite a few unanswered questions: Are Liberty Safe’s factory passcodes unique to each safe? Does Liberty Safe keep a database of those passcodes? How secure is that database? Did the disclosure result from a verbal request by the FBI or a search warrant? If it was a search warrant, who was the subject of that warrant?
Gun control efforts don't seem to be helping Chicago :: 09/07/2023
The city of Chicago has long been the poster boy of our violent inner cities. Where Los Angeles held that distinction during the turbulent gang wars of the 1990s, the Windy City gets that today.
Gun industry not to blame for other nations' crime :: 09/07/2023
The gun industry and gun rights are linked to one another. After all, what good are gun rights if we can’t actually find guns to buy? For the industry, what good is it to make firearms if you’re going to have a market limited to government agencies?
Hunter to finally face gun charges :: 09/07/2023
Hunter Biden is the poster boy for privilege. After all, he’s the president’s son and grew up as the son of a United States senator. He’s had everything essentially handed to him and has seemingly gotten away with just about anything.
Is liberty safe with Liberty Safe? :: 09/07/2023
Last week, an Arkansas man was arrested in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Nathan Earl Hughes has four charges pending against him, including a felony count of interfering with police during a civil disorder. Arkansas Online has an article (archived links) detailing the investigation and the charges against him.
Laws like this may actually help reduce gun deaths :: 09/07/2023
Gun control advocates like to use “gun deaths” when they talk about the need for anti-Second Amendment measures. That’s because the term encompasses any death resulting from a gunshot. Many of those are suicides, though, which is troubling.
On guns, some animals are more equal than others :: 09/07/2023
I don’t like gun laws as a general rule. I find the majority of them to be infringements on the Second Amendment.
Relevance of UNC shooting is drastically overstated :: 09/07/2023
The UNC shooting was going to garner headlines. After all, you have a major university go on lockdown due to what was said to be an active shooter. That’s going to gather attention.
Giffords' Senior Counsel smears the gun industry in a trippy op-ed :: 09/06/2023
It’s common to see gun controllers smear the entire gun industry and gun owners. It’s part of their schtick. Sometimes, however, you run into something on a whole different level that makes you wonder what you just saw. One such piece, an op-ed by Allison Anderman, a Senior Counsel at the gun control group Giffords Law Center, was published in Newsweek (archived links).
How anti-gunners torture facts to push gun control :: 09/06/2023
The gun control side of things tends to look at the Second Amendment as an obstacle if they even bother to acknowledge it.
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