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Breaking News: Mole helps Rep. Issa whack Justice Dept. :: 06/07/2012
With the help of a mole, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has turned the tables on Attorney General Eric Holder.
Court: I-70 Drug check ruse not cause for police stop :: 06/07/2012
A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a drug checkpoint ruse is not sufficient grounds to justify law enforcement authorities stopping vehicles, a decision that has far-reaching implications for the constitutional rights of motorists.
Jesse Jackson vows attacks on most successful part of economy :: 06/07/2012
Townhall's Katie Pavlich noted yesterday that Jesse Jackson, speaking in Racine, Wisconsin Sunday night, announced his intention to march on gun shops (which he has long blamed for "gun violence"), and also his intention to demand more jobs:
Philadelphia Reporter Advocates Loss of 2nd Amendment Rights WITHOUT a Conviction :: 06/07/2012
City scene: Everybody's got a gun
Issa: Wiretaps show 'immense detail' about questionable Fast & Furious tactics :: 06/05/2012
A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration's Operation Fast and Furious that suggests high-ranking officials know more than they are telling Congress about the flawed weapons sting.
Issa: Wiretaps show 'immense detail' about questionable Fast & Furious tactics :: 06/05/2012
A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration's Operation Fast and Furious that suggests high-ranking officials know more than they are telling Congress about the flawed weapons sting.
Canadian Gun Laws (Similar to England) Turn Citizens into Targets :: 06/03/2012
Chaos erupts at Toronto mall as gunman shoots one man dead and wounds eight others
Cops Can Confiscate Money And Property From Law Abiding Citizens :: 06/01/2012
Prepare to be outraged. If you've ever traveled with a large sum of money, police can legally confiscate it. It's a burgeoning trend known as "policing for profit," and law enforcement agencies are using it to bolster their budgets.
Despite 'Castle Doctrine,' defendant is convicted in slaying :: 06/01/2012
A PHILADELPHIA JUDGE said Wednesday he was convinced that a disabled, retired Marine was being attacked in the moments before he fatally stabbed a man last October, but he concluded that the stabbing was still a criminal act rather than self-defense.
MAIG Tries Desperately to Maintain Relevance :: 06/01/2012
MAIG is at it again, trying to convince people that dangerous weapons[1] are going to fall into the hands of dangerous people[2] leading to more violence, mass shootings, blood in the streets, crop failures, cats and dogs living together. Or something. Their latest release (FBI Data Show Gun Background Checks Still Undermined By Information Gaps Six Months After Senate Probed Flaws ) starts out, "Many states and federal agencies are still failing to share records about dangerous individuals with [NICS]" . . .
The BS-O-Meter is on the Fritz Again :: 06/01/2012
He muffed his statement; the U.S. guns were involved in Mexican crimes, not necessarily drug trafficking. But officials in both governments say U.S. -sourced guns make up a large proportion of guns carried by drug traffickers.
MILLER: SWAT rampage destroys Iraq vet's home over guns :: 05/30/2012
While Army Sgt. Matthew Corrigan was sound asleep inside his Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of his home. SWAT and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams spent four hours readying the assault on the English basement apartment in the middle of the snowstorm of the century.
AK Rep. Young assured by ATF 'Bound Book' request 'won't happen again' :: 05/26/2012
Alaska Congressman Don Young has been assured by Tom Brandon, deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that an attempt by local ATF agents in Alaska to make copies of "bound book" transactions at retail gun shops in the 49th State will not happen again.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns sells tyranny to city taxpayers :: 05/26/2012
That the rabidly anti-gun group "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" (MAIG) has received a fair amount of attention in these pages should come as no surprise, given the fact that anti-gun St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay represents one third of Missouri's MAIG delegation. Florida Carry executive director Sean Caranna, though, has made a discovery that will perhaps surprise people--at least those people who do not expect their local taxes to be spent on efforts to trample their Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
THE CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY: Boehner said to be blocking Issa committee vote on contempt. :: 05/25/2012
What Zimmerman, Martin medical reports tell us and the media didn't :: 05/17/2012
The new medical reports on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case tell us a lot. And it is not just for what they find, but also what they don't find.
MILLER: Injured vet's guns stolen by D.C. :: 05/15/2012
After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns.
Report: Guns used in Mexico lawyer's murder traced to Operation Fast and Furious :: 05/04/2012
By Diana Washington Valdez \ El Paso Times El Paso Times
NH bill makes gun licenses optional :: 05/02/2012
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The Senate is considering making permits optional to carry concealed, loaded guns anyplace where gun possession is legal in New Hampshire.
Organizers hope to make Michigan fifth "Constitutional Carry" state :: 05/02/2012
The Citizens League for Self-Defense plans to hold a "Constitutional Carry" rally in Lansing on May 19.
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