Category: FPC Newslinks
Ind. State Representative: More Gun Laws won’t Cut Violence
Indiana State Representative Jim Lucas (R-Seymour) gets it. Via the Indy Star: There are about 33,000 deaths by firearms each year, or about 1.3 percent of the 2.6 million deaths every year in America. The vast majority of these, over 21,000, are suicides. America ranks... Read More
Nevada Attorney General Comes Out Against Background Check Ballot Measure
The New York anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg-backed anti-gun ballot measure in Nevada, Question 1, has received further opposition. State Attorney General Adam Laxalt joined Governor Brian Sandoval to oppose the Bloomberg-funded measure that would expand background checks. Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “As the state’s chief... Read More
Federal Approval, Background Checks Causing Delays for Gun Buyers
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System is not so instant these days… Via WKBN: The Second Amendment is always a big issue around election time and this year, gun sales are brisk. However, a delay in the purchasing process has been occurring for about... Read More
Rendon, DeLeon Secretly Lobbied Gov Brown to Sign Gunpocalypse
Calif. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, in a recent interview about his role in the Gunpocalypse process, admitted that he secretly lobbied Governor Jerry Brown for his support in signing the anti-gun bills. Rendon was aided by Senator Kevin “Ghost Gun” De Leon. Via the Los... Read More
Gun Shop Kicked Out of Comic Convention
A Chicago-area gun store was removed from a comic convention floor over concerns that “real guns” would be exhibited. The store was intending to feature replica guns and advertise safety courses. Via the Chicago Tribune: A Chicago-area gun shop that wants to exhibit at comic... Read More
Healey Done with ‘Tired Arguments’ from Pro-Gun Groups
Mass. AG Maura Healey banned ARs and AKs in Massachusetts by executive fiat, but now she doesn’t even want to hear “tired arguments” from gun rights groups. And what exactly are these tired arguments? Just that the Second Amendment supersedes the edicts of a bureaucrat.... Read More
Cops Won’t Comply: CA Legislature Creates Second Class Cops
AB 2165 creates second class cops, while continuing to shaft Californians who just want to purchase safe, modern handguns. Via Cops Won’t Comply: Let me preface this by saying I absolutely abhor the California “Safe Handgun Roster.” It is the biggest, multifaceted scam ever perpetrated... Read More
Bloomberg-Backed Gun Control Measures on the Ballot in Four States
Voters in California, Washington, Maine and Nevada will be deciding on gun control measures heavily funded by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety group this November. The Hill reports: In Maine and Nevada, voters will decide whether to expand background check requirements to... Read More
After Heartbreaking Losses, US Shooter Kim Rhode Makes Olympic History
Olympian Kim Rhode made history this weekend when she became the first woman to medal in six straight Olympics. Rhode’s first Olympic medals were earned in the 1996 Games in Atlanta, when she was just 17 years old. Since then she’s medaled in Sydney, Athens,... Read More
Guns.com: Gun Maker Boosts LGBT Firearm Training Efforts
After the horrific terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando this June, a gun maker in Connecticut has partnered with tactical training companies and the LGBT gun rights organization Pink Pistols to provide firearms training to the LGBT community. Via Guns.com: Standard Manufacturing Company,... Read More