Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Idaho gunman kills 3 in multiple shootings :: 01/11/2015
Investigators are probing the background of a suspect in a shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, that left three people dead and another critically wounded.
New PA Preemption Law Pushes Local Communities to Comply with 40 Yr. Old Law OR Pay Legal Fees :: 01/11/2015
Barely a week after taking effect, a novel state law that makes it easier for gun-rights groups to challenge local firearms measures in court is already sparking change: Nearly two dozen Pennsylvania municipalities have agreed to get rid of their potentially problematic ordinances rather than face litigation.
PA Preemption - Novel new law prompts towns to agree to rescind gun measures :: 01/11/2015
Barely a week after taking effect, a novel state law that makes it easier for gun-rights groups to challenge local firearms measures in court is already sparking change: Nearly two dozen Pennsylvania municipalities have agreed to get rid of their potentially problematic ordinances rather than face litigation.
Debate erupts over armed journalists after Paris attack :: 01/10/2015
Something of an Internet snit has erupted over the idea of journalists carrying guns in the wake of the bloody attack in Paris, and a story in Wednesday’s Washington Examiner quoting author Emily Miller and opinion columnist Jed Babbin seemed to spark the debate.
Despite lawsuit threat, Lower Merion won't revise code addressing firearms in parks :: 01/10/2015
ARDMORE >> With passage of a new Pennsylvania law this past fall, townships and boroughs across the Commonwealth have hastened to revise or repeal local gun regulations.
France has strict gun laws. Why didn't that save Charlie Hebdo victims? :: 01/10/2015
When American audiences read of a dramatic event in a foreign country, they often frame it in terms of the political debates occurring at home. As such, it was no surprise that after shootings at the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week, some Americans began to wonder about gun control laws.
Grand jury recommends criminal charges against (PA Atty. General) Kane :: 01/09/2015
The special prosecutor and grand jury investigating allegations that Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane leaked secret information to a newspaper have found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that she be criminally charged, according to numerous people familiar with the decision.
How do you say 'Second Amendment' in French? :: 01/09/2015
Paris and another mass murder in a gun-free zone. Another incident where well-armed criminals shot at people who could only scream and watch their colleagues gunned down without mercy.
Judge Napolitano: In Gun-Free France, Terrorists Were 'Shooting Fish In A Barrel' [VIDEO] :: 01/09/2015
Fox News judicial correspondent Judge Andrew Napolitano said on “Special Report” Thursday that with no armed cops or legal gun ownership, the Paris terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo were “shooting fish in a barrel.” (VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: Someone In The White House Committed A Felony)
Terrorists, loons or bangers; when shots fired, shoot back :: 01/09/2015
Yesterday saw the release of two videos involving police a half-world away from one another, one from France showing the cowardly slaying of a French officer during the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and the other from a Seattle Police dash cam showing the south Seattle New Year’s Eve incident in which nobody was apparently hurt.
Thomas Massie sets sights on inaptly-named "Gun Free School Zones" :: 01/09/2015
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has decided to take aim one of America’s biggest public policy failures: the Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) of 1990.
Chaffetz renews Holder 'Fast and Furious' subpoena :: 01/08/2015
New House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz took his first action for the new congress by renewing the subpoena to compel Attorney General Eric Holder to produce documents related to Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking,” the congressman announced Tuesday on Twitter. The tweet included a photo of the congressman signing the renewal.
Exclusive: The Devil You Know - Escapades of the BATF :: 01/08/2015
“The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would be eliminated under a bill in the works from US Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner,” Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel reported. “Citing ATF’s recent operational failures and its overlap with other federal law enforcement, [the bill would] dissolve the agency and have existing agencies in the US Justice Department take on its duties.”
N.H. House OKs concealed weapons in Statehouse :: 01/08/2015
CONCORD (AP) — House Republicans prevailed in bringing their guns back to the House floor Wednesday, but failed in an attempt to bring back their old leader.
PBS: Obama Admin Trusted Manchin to Beat NRA on Gun Control :: 01/08/2015
PBS’s new special, Gunned Down: The Power Of The NRA, makes it clear the Obama administration trusted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to beat the NRA on gun control in 2013.
Ares Armor Fires Back at ATF Using Coloring Book Illustrations :: 01/07/2015
The ATF simultaneously is and is not the most idiotic and useless appendage of the federal government. There are some good people within the ATF that genuinely understand the law and are working towards making things better, and then there’s B. Todd Jones.
Attkisson files lawsuit v. DOJ; What about criminal charges? :: 01/07/2015
Former CBS award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s lawsuit against the Justice Department yesterday has been making headlines over the past 24 hours, with several stories stating that the action alleges “illegal surveillance” of her work “while she was reporting on administration scandals.”
"Common Sense" Gun Laws Revealed :: 01/07/2015
The civilian disarmament industrial complex has adopted the phrase “common sense” to describe any gun control law which they favor. Which is any gun control law. In other words, the antis consider all gun control laws a matter of “common sense.”
ATF position on equipment use threatens private gun-making :: 01/06/2015
In its first ruling of 2015, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has held that businesses may not allow individuals to use their equipment to further process incomplete firearm blanks, frames and receivers, attorney Joshua Prince reported Saturday. Such businesses may not assist or provide machinery access to unlicensed individuals without being licensed firearms manufacturers.
Gun Prohibitionists' Intellectual Dishonesty: Advocacy Without Consequences :: 01/06/2015
When the Progressive Era’s Anti-Saloon League pushed forth their prohibitionist agenda, the cry then — as today — was: something MUST be done! A problem was identified. The “problem” of (male) alcoholism in the post-WWI period was many orders of magnitude greater than any present day gun “problem” that could be described.
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