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And Then They Came For The Bolt-Actions :: 09/19/2014

You can find them in every gun store in even the most restrictive states in the nation, and with good reason; bolt-action rifles are among the most ubiquitous rifles in the United States, and have been in deer camps and military arsenals in the United States since the Palmer carbine was used in the U.S. Civil War.

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Anti-Gun Brady Campaign Caught In Fundraising Scandal :: 09/19/2014

A fundraising email sent out by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this morning and signed by the organization's President Dan Gross is attempting to fundraise by claiming credit for sporting goods giant Cabela's expanded participation a gun safety program started by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the ATF more than a dozen years ago.

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'Action hero' Neeson proves to be typical Hollywood hoplophobe :: 09/17/2014

Actor Liam Neeson, who has starred in numerous box office hits where he used guns to save the day, is actually afraid of them, The Independent revealed in a Friday profile.

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Busting The Top 3 Myths About The Second Amendment :: 09/17/2014

Adherents to gun control typically respond with emotional arguments. However, on those occasions when they attempt to respond with "logic" regarding the Second Amendment itself, those arguments typically take the same tired forms. Here are three of the most popular, and how to dismantle them instantly.

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Can the Veterans Administration Revoke Your Second Amendment Rights? :: 09/17/2014

This letter from the VA revoking Second Amendment rights based on a PTSD diagnosis was sent to me by a reader and appears to be legitimate. I don't recall ever seeing this type of revocation being challenged in the courts. As the decision is a bureaucratic one, not one made via due process through the courts, a challenge other than the appeal process they describe might hold promise . . .

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Obama urges new gun laws in wake of Navy Yard shooting :: 09/17/2014

A year after a mass shooting took 12 lives at the Washington Navy Yard, President Obama on Tuesday renewed his call for new gun control laws.

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Prosecutors form coalition to combat gun violence :: 09/17/2014

As concerns mount over shootings and mass killings, prosecutors from 23 jurisdictions have formed a coalition to combat gun violence by sharing information on programs that work and copying effective state laws.

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Charles Krauthammer, Shannon Watts and the Assault Weapon Ban :: 09/16/2014

On April 5th, 1996, Charles Krauthammer gave his reasons for supporting the 1994 Clinton Assault Weapon Ban.  The column was called "Disarm the Citizenry, But Not Yet." in the Washington Post.

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'Forty-percenters' get drubbing, again, this time in Nevada :: 09/16/2014

Fresh on the heels of Washington CeaseFire's Ralph Fascitelli twice using a discredited statistic about the number of gun transactions that occur without a background check in this country last Friday night, Saturday’s Reno Gazette-Journal - discussing an initiative effort in Nevada to expand background checks - also hammered down on the anti-gun myth.

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Obama administration forcing new gun buyers to declare race, ethnicity :: 09/16/2014

The Obama administration quietly has been forcing new gun buyers to declare their race and ethnicity, a policy change that critics say provides little law enforcement value while creating the risk of privacy intrusions and racial profiling.

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Rabbis reject calls for 'gun control' by Jewish religious groups :: 09/16/2014

UPDATE: The JPFO Alert was reissued to emphasize the following statement: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JFPO IS NOT A SPONSOR. THE JOINT STATEMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED ONLY BY THE RABBIS AND GOLANI CLUB WHO SIGNED IT.
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Rejecting calls for more federal gun laws by the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Union, a dozen rabbis have issued a joint statement rebuking the position of those groupsJews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership announced Monday in a member alert and press release.

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Assault Weapons Revisited :: 09/15/2014

Today—20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse—the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the primary focus of the national gun debate.

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The Assault Weapon Myth :: 09/15/2014

OVER the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition: The sale of assault weapons should be banned.  That idea was one of the pillars of the Obama administration's plan to curb gun violence, and it remains popular with the public. In a poll last December, 59 percent of likely voters said they favor a ban.

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Why Public Health Needs a New Gun Doctrine :: 09/13/2014

I am a public health professional, educated at the vaunted Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. I like guns, and I believe the Second Amendment clearly secures the rights of individuals to own firearms.

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A gun rights advocate willing to compromise :: 09/12/2014

Jim Wallace didn't grow up shooting and was in his 30s before he took a serious interest in politics, but this unconventional activist has become one of the leading voices for gun owners' rights in a state with some of the country's tightest gun restrictions.

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Alexander: Democrats and Obama Propose to Restrict Free Speech for Everyone But the Really Rich :: 09/12/2014

PoliticalNews.me - Sep 12,2014 - Alexander: Democrats and Obama Propose to Restrict Free Speech for Everyone But the Really Rich

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Baylor Student Senate To Consider Vote To Allow Guns on Campus :: 09/12/2014

WACO (September 11, 2014) The Baylor University Student Senate is considering making a historic vote.  The senate is discussing whether to allow CHL or licensed concealed weapon carriers to carry their guns on campus.

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Missouri lawmakers expand gun rights in schools :: 09/12/2014

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers expanded the potential for teachers to bring guns to schools and for residents to openly carry firearms, in a vote Thursday that capped a two-year effort by the Republican-led Legislature to expand gun rights over the objection of the Democratic governor.

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Missouri veto override a victory for armed citizens, but ignites hypocrisy :: 09/12/2014

When Missouri lawmakers last night overrode Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of legislation that will prohibit local governments from banning open carry, it was a victory for Show Me State gun owners, no matter how they choose to carry, but another override has Seattle liberals fuming, and reveals a moral double standard of monumental proportions.

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Anti-gun bias at the Boston Globe? Say it ain't so! :: 09/11/2014

When the Boston Globe yesterday editorialized that a Michigan man convicted of murder last week was "a victim of America's sadistic gun culture," the newspaper pointed fingers at the National Rifle Association and the firearms industry because Theodore Wafer fired a shotgun at an unarmed woman who apparently pounded on his door in the middle of the night.

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