Firearms Owners Against Crime

Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action

Latest News

Pediatrician Group Urges Florida Doctors to Break "Docs vs. Glocks" Law :: 07/31/2014

In the meantime, the APP is urging members to keep asking parents if they keep guns in the home.

more


Seized guns resold by police Upper Darby's department is under investigation for past sales of confiscated and surrendered weapons to shops. :: 07/31/2014

This article first appeared in philly.com on 20 May 2014. Selling firearms that have been seized is perfectly legal, but both Pennsylvania and the BATFE have stringent rules regarding those sales. It appears that Upper Darby, where the mental patient was shot by a health care professional, thus saving lives, may have ignored the law.

more


Suspect in fatal USC attack entered country illegally, feds say :: 07/31/2014

This is an exceptionally long read, and we encourage you to consider the problems we will continue to face until illegals, not undocumented, are deported to their home countries. With 11 million here, and more poring in every day, we cannot afford them, particularly those of a criminal mindset.

more


To each what he deserves :: 07/31/2014

I know that some dislike the use of concentration camps and Nazi atrocities when we talk why we need a Second Amendment, but when we have active Gun Control groups who have no problem with concentration camps in this country of ours  and that even a massacre of innocents is a good thing for the country as long as they eventually, sometime in the future they are vindicated in court.

more


6 Philadelphia Cops Arrested In Corruption Probe That Commissioner Calls One Of The Worst Cases I've Ever Heard :: 07/30/2014

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Six Philadelphia police officers who served in the narcotics squad were taken into custody by FBI agents early this morning as part of a federal corruption probe.

more


Everytown Domestic Abuse ad bombs with The View and Moms Demand are horrified. :: 07/30/2014

The View is a show that cannot be called Conservative by any stretch if the imagination. On Tuesday, the ladies played the Everytown latest video showing a domestic incident where the woman gets killed by the ex-boyfriend and to most people’s surprise, three out of the four panelist were for having a gun to defend themselves.

more


New Ranges in Colorado :: 07/30/2014

This is a long read, but well worth it. Click on the hyperlink to see the entire article.

more


Straw purchases of 32 guns lead to criminal charges against pair from Dauphin County, state police say :: 07/30/2014

State Police have charged two with straw purchase violations. Please click on the link to Title 18, Section 6111 to see how many years they may spend in prison.

more


Sen. Bob Casey on Guns. He's all for hunting and even self defense, or so he says. :: 07/29/2014

You may wish to disable your b******t meter, as the following response to your faithful editor could break the needle off.

more


Washington DC Judge 'stays' Federal Court Ruling Legalizing the Carrying of Guns :: 07/29/2014

A federal judge Tuesday put on hold the decision he issued over the weekend banning enforcement of a key law Washington, D.C. police and federal law enforcement officials use to control the possession of handguns in the nation's capital.

more


Appeal court upholds 'docs vs. glocks' gun law :: 07/28/2014

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court has upheld the state's "docs vs. glocks" law, overturning an earlier court ruling that had blocked part of the measure from being enforced.

more


Boston Police Commissioner and Governor-Who NEEDS a Gun? :: 07/28/2014

Writing for a majority of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right under the Second Amendment to possess firearms for self-defense, Justice Scalia observed: "The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government … the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon."

more


Chan Lowe: Docs vs. Glocks the law of the land :: 07/28/2014

Thank you, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, due to your two-to-one ruling, there are two things to which Florida doctors have no right under the First Amendment: to shout “Fire” in a crowded theater, and to ask any questions to a patient about gun ownership.

more


Firearms Dealer cannot account for almost half a million firearms. :: 07/28/2014

Firearms Dealer cannot account for almost half a million firearms. Don't worry. It is not Bubba’s Tackle and Gun Shop or your local FFL dealer, but the Good Old US Government.

more


Gun Dealer Financial Attack - 'Operation Choke Point' - Stopped :: 07/28/2014

Victory against Operation Choke Point: Gun retailers are no longer on a hit list deemed "high risk" by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after the banking regulator formally withdrew Monday the list it put together that outlined what merchants may be considered risky for banks to do business with as part of the Obama administration's "Operation Choke Point."

more


40% of Guns Sold without a background check? :: 07/25/2014

COLORADO NEW GUN LAW NOT GIVING THE NUMBERS PROMISED.
Lawmakers drafting the background check requirement, aimed at keeping firearms away from those with a criminal history, relied on information from a non-partisan research arm of the Legislature that predicted about 420,000 new reviews over the first two years. Accordingly, they budgeted about $3 million to the agency that conducts the checks to handle the anticipated surge of work.

more


Federal court upholds Florida's docs vs. glocks law :: 07/25/2014

A Florida law restricting what doctors can tell patients about gun ownership was deemed to be constitutional Friday by a federal appeals court, which said it legitimately regulates professional conduct and doesn't violate the doctors' First Amendment free speech rights.

more


NYC fare beater pleads guilty, faces 25 years, in police shooting :: 07/25/2014

A man who shot a New York City police officer trying to apprehend him for not paying the fare on a city bus faces 25 years in prison under a plea deal reached on Friday, prosecutors said.

more


Three children killed, three others injured in Philadelphia carjacking. :: 07/25/2014

Three children were killed and three adults, including their mother, injured on Friday when a carjacked SUV swerved out of control in Philadelphia, striking a sidewalk church fundraiser, police said.

more


UPS driver charged with stealing dozens of guns :: 07/25/2014

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California UPS delivery driver was arrested Friday for stealing dozens of shipped guns that were sold on the black market, federal prosecutors said.

more


15158 Total News Items

first page first page 700   701   702   703   first page  first page

back to top