Firearms Owners Against Crime

Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action

Latest News

PA - Officials call for stronger law on illegal gun possession :: 08/21/2014

AS A GROUP of law-enforcement and elected officials called yesterday for a mandatory two-year sentence for people convicted of illegally carrying a firearm, kids in the South Philadelphia neighborhood watched and played.

more


Bloomberg group goes after Kroger for open carry ban :: 08/19/2014

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has set its sights on grocery giant Kroger, petitioning the national chain to prohibit the open carry of guns in its stores.

more


Gun Tech - POF Puritan piston-driven uppers now sold separately :: 08/19/2014

Recently, the Patriot Ordnance Factory introduced the Puritan series piston-driven AR-15 rifles. The Puritan is a features-light take on its high-end P416 rifles designed to deliver the same quality and function at a reduced price.

more


Instant Background Check System Fails to Keep Guns from Mentally Ill :: 08/19/2014

While the National Instant Criminal Background Check System remains the only square inch of compromise between the nation's divided gun camps, the costly federal program is failing to keep guns away from the dangerously mentally ill.

more


Kelly: When domestic violence laws clash with gun rights :: 08/19/2014

When they sped to a quiet neighborhood of well-trimmed lawns on a recent Friday morning after a 911 call, Saddle Brook police figured they were about to confront an angry wife who had reportedly stabbed her husband.

more


Meanwhile in the Gun Control Capital of New York City: 15 Shot in 8 HOURS :: 08/19/2014

No city in the United States has stricter gun control laws than New York City. Is is ridiculously hard for normal law abiding citizens to own a firearm for self defense inside their home, let alone carry one outside of it.

more


Member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Facing Felony Bribery Charges :: 08/19/2014

It looks like problems continue for Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group. Yet another member of the group has been arrested, this time on bribery charges.

more


Reporter Who Thought Earplugs Were Rubber Bullets Causes Most Hilarious Twitter Discussion Ever :: 08/19/2014

As was reported yesterday, the justice reporter for the Huffington Post, Ryan J Reilly, tweeted a photo of foam earplugs with the caption, "I believe these are rubber bullets, can anyone confirm? #Fergurson"

more


Three Good Reasons Not to Carry a Gun Every Day, And How to Overcome Them :: 08/19/2014

No one knows how many Americans carry a gun on a daily basis. Florida has issued the greatest number of concealed carry permit holders; some 1.2m of the Gunshine State's 19.5m residents are good to stow. How many of those practice everyday carry (EDC)? I'd be surprised if it was ten percent. Why? I'm not sure. But I can guess.

more


Two California Teenagers Arrested Over Plot to Commit Mass Shooting at Their High School :: 08/19/2014

In this case, two teenagers in California were arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at their high school. The plot was reported to authorities by school officials, although it hasn't been revealed exactly how they learned about the plan.

more


UPDATE: 12+ Witnesses All Say Michael Brown Attacked Officer Before Being Shot, Killed :: 08/19/2014

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Christine Byers is reporting that the Ferguson Police Department has over 12 witnesses whose account of the Michael Brown shooting matches the description the officer allegedly gave.

more


New impetus in gun debate, but where will it lead? :: 08/18/2014

First in a series - Twenty months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., some would say little has changed when it comes to guns in America.

more


Obama VA Is Trolling Veteran Community For Gun Owners :: 08/18/2014

The Obama VA may be running a back door gun registry under the guise of a "free gun lock" program.

more


SOWELL - Up Front and On Target As Usual :: 08/18/2014

I don't know why we are spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being determined on television -- and even punishment is being meted out by CNN's showing the home and address of the policeman accused in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting.

more


Stand Your Ground states see increase in homicides, report finds :: 08/18/2014

A national group of attorneys recommended last week that states with stand-your-ground laws either repeal or at least refuse to enact them in a published report that found increases in homicide rates associated with the laws.

more


Could Your Router Get You Raided By A SWAT Team? :: 08/17/2014

A 68-year-old Evansville, Indiana woman and her 18-year-old adopted daughter really wish they had put a password on their wireless router.

more


What I Did After Police Killed My Son :: 08/17/2014

After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago - and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing - an African-American man approached me and said: "If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, imagine what we've been going through."

more


Disarming American Women :: 08/16/2014

The Left's weapon of choice against rapists: pens, urine, vomit, tears.

more


'Government monopoly on force,' as demanded by CSGV, on display in Ferguson, MO :: 08/16/2014

In the wake of the police killing of unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis), outraged protestors suspect that Brown's capital "crime" was "walking while black."

more


Interview: 52 Days in Honduran jail for Americans on bogus gun charges :: 08/16/2014

Guns.com first reported on the plight of six American salvage workers in June who were arrested on gun charges following a boarding of their U.S.-flagged vessel by the Honduran Navy. The men, who had gone to a remote part of the country on a prearranged project to improve the plight of Miskito Indian fisherman and divers, found themselves mired in a legal standoff with a local judge and prosecutor over the guns that wound up with them. They were imprisoned and their boat seized.

more


15158 Total News Items

first page first page 695   696   697   698   first page  first page

back to top