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Lott calls out FBI data on good guys stopping mass shootings :: 09/06/2023
While they account for only a tiny fraction of the firearm-related fatalities each and every year, mass shootings seem to be what more people are worried about.
Some lament backpack rules over gun control :: 09/06/2023
I don’t think we’ll ever get rid of the gun control crowd.
Mass Shootings Have 'No Correlation to Gun Laws,' says Report :: 09/05/2023
U.S.A. — Washington, D.C.—a jurisdiction with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country—leads the nation with “the highest rate of mass shootings per capita,” according to a report in the Daily Mail, citing new research released this week by medical researchers in Colorado.
No Bail in Non-Violent Gun Free School Zone Case in Montana :: 09/05/2023
On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, Gabriel Cowan Metcalf was arrested at his home. Federal agents of the ATF arrested Metcalf for possessing a firearm in a federal Gun Free School Zone in Billings, Montana. Gabriel Metcalf had a Rossi single-shot break action 20 gauge shotgun in a scabbard on his lawn mower. A search warrant was executed during the arrest. The warrant shows the agents also seized six rounds of ammunition and a Samsung phone.
Far More Gun Owners than Gun Banners Like to Pretend :: 09/04/2023
Part of the gun control advocates’ narrative includes the claim that the number of gun owners in the U.S. is falling. The obvious goal of this messaging campaign is to convince policymakers that they need not consider the rights or the democratic will of this supposedly diminishing portion of the population. A new study has revealed that survey data purporting to show the number of gun owners in the U.S. is of dubious value and is likely a severe undercount.
OMG ..No, Children Are Not More Likely To Die By Guns Than Cars :: 09/04/2023
In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms has become semiannual.
Florida Adopted Red Flag Law After Parkland that Failed to Prevent Jacksonville Shooting :: 09/03/2023
Then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control package that included a red flag law less than a month after the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting, but that red flag law did not prevent Saturday’s Jacksonville attack.
Joe Biden Pushes More Gun Control After Murder in UNC Gun-Free Zone :: 09/03/2023
President Joe Biden reacted to Monday’s murder in a University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill gun-free zone by pledging to pursue more gun control and calling on Congress to do the same.
ATF Goes Around Congress: Publishes Universal Background Check Rule :: 09/02/2023
President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.
White House Describes DOJ's Universal Background Check Rule as 'Life-Saving' :: 09/02/2023
The White House released a Fact Sheet on the universal background check rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Thursday, describing the rule as “life-saving.”
Bribery case against Apple’s Chief Security Officer shows why NYSRPA v. Bruen was correctly decided :: 09/01/2023
Power corrupts, as the old saying by Lord Acton goes, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power, big and small, can and will be abused by government officials. Setting up a corruption-resistant government involves limiting, splintering, containing, and managing power; it’s like designing a tamper-resistant product.
Different day, same tired "Stand Your Ground is license to kill" argument :: 09/01/2023
There will always be people who don’t understand Stand Your Ground laws to some degree or another. The same can be said about any law, of course, but this one is different.
Giffords Gun Control Tries ‘Ill’ Fundraising Scheme :: 09/01/2023
Turns out, the stereotype of ambulance-chasing lawyers holds true at the gun control group Giffords Law Center. They just want you to hold on long enough to alter your will or living trust to fork over whatever money you won’t need in the afterlife to their favorite cause – stripping Americans of their Second Amendment freedoms.
Study Finds That Constitutional Carry Laws Reduce Murder Rates :: 09/01/2023
A new study by John Lott and John Moody has found that concealed carry laws may reduce murder rates in the long run. The study, which was published in the journal Economic Inquiry, found that the effect of concealed carry laws on murder rates takes time to manifest but that it is negative and statistically significant in the following years. When you read “negative,” understand that means concealed carry is reducing the murder rate.
Biden Administration Brief on Rahimi Case about Due Process and Restraining Orders :: 08/31/2023
Biden’s Proposed Rule Will Eliminate Private Gun Sales :: 08/31/2023
President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice announced a proposed rule to change who will need a federal firearms license (FFL) to sell firearms.
Congress Must Act to Stop Biden Administration Abuse of Veterans, FBI NICS :: 08/31/2023
The Biden administration continues to find ways to break faith with America’s veterans. Beyond the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the unanswered questions left after 13 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing in the final stages of evacuations from Kabul, Afghanistan, White House officials are robbing veterans of the rights they fought to protect.
Democrats Defund Firearm Education Nationwide :: 08/31/2023
In what seems to be another attempt at discouraging firearm activities, the Department of Education has decided to withhold the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funds from hunting and archery education programs nationwide.
Despite the Rumor, You CAN Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater :: 08/30/2023
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff’s deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon Bailey’s home in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, with their guns drawn, ordered him onto his knees with his hands on his head, and arrested him for a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The SWAT-style raid was provoked by a Facebook post in which Bailey had made a zombie-themed joke about COVID-19.
Gun controllers are losing the long game :: 08/30/2023
On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we’re highlighting an insightful piece from Reason‘s J.D. Tucille about why even polls showing majority support for gun control measures offer little comfort to the anti-gunners themselves. As Tucille points out, those polls are likely to undercount the actual number of gun owners in this country, but are also contradicted by other surveys showing growing and bipartisan mistrust of the government.
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