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KTUU: Concealed Carry Courses Popular After Mass Shootings and Rising Crime
After recent mass shootings nationally and rising crime in Alaska, many people are seeking out self-defense training. At a local shooting range, around 19 people gathered in freezing temperatures Saturday evening to acquire a concealed carry permit. James Henry, the founder of Spectre Tactical, an Anchorage based company, says he’s seen a surge of business since 2015. From individuals to companies that organize specialized classes for their employees.
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The Greenfield Recorder: Massachusetts State Rep Says Gun Ownership is a Privilege, Not a Right
Allowing the use of silencers and the attorney general’s authority to regulate firearms were hot topics at a Public Safety Committee hearing Thursday that saw lawmakers and gun rights advocates tangle over the Second Amendment.
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Dallas News: How the Sutherland Springs Good Guys With Guns Transformed the Politics of Mass Shootings
The fact that a bystander armed with his own rifle chased and shot at the perpetrator in Sutherland Springs crucially transforms the terrain of the political interpretation of the shootings.
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The Daily Caller: Obama Rarely Prosecuted Criminals Who Sought To Buy Guns Illegally
More than 100,000 convicted felons or other “prohibited persons” tried to buy guns each year during President Barack Obama’s administration by lying on their applications, but the Justice Department only considered prosecuting about 30 to 40 people each year, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
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Michigan Live: Gov. Snyder Plans to Veto Concealed Carry in Gun Free Zones
Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill that would have allowed concealed guns in schools in 2012, and a rekindled discussion on it hasn't changed his position. The Michigan Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to allow people to carry concealed weapons in traditionally gun-free zones like bars, stadiums and schools.
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East Bay Times: Revelation of Gun Ban for Tehama County Shooter Revives Enforcement Criticisms
The Tehama County mass shooter was barred from having firearms, and he once surrendered his rifle at the behest of a judge. But Kevin Janson Neal still ended up with homemade and borrowed weapons he used to kill five people, it was learned Wednesday — reviving questions on whether strict laws and police can effectively keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
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Gun Grabbers Are Coming After Muskets
Yes you read that headline correctly. Giffords has announced that her group is going to attack binary triggers, trigger cranks, "high capacity" shotguns, AK and AR style pistols, pistol arm braces, pistol blade stabilizers, "incendiary, tracer, and armor piercing" ammunition, and yes, muzzleloaders.
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Guns.com: Wisconsin Measure Aims to Increase Regulations on Gun Stores
The proposal, LRB-3860, requires firearms retailers to lock all guns in a secured safe or steel gun cabinet or on a secured rod or cable when the when the business is closed or unattended. The sponsor said it comes as a response to a series of high-profile gun store burglaries in the state.
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John Lott: Good Guys With Guns Saving Lives
It is only too bad that someone with a concealed handgun permit wasn’t already at the church. We may never have heard of the shooting — national news stories are virtually never done on permit holders stopping mass public shootings.
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Washington Post: Mass Shootings in Gun-Free Nations
The global history of mass shootings demonstrates that the vast majority of these crimes are perpetrated in places where citizen firearms ownership is close to nil. While people can argue about cause and effect, the facts are indisputable.
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Boston Globe: Hand Over Your Weapons
In the aftermath of the Texas church shooting last week, Democratic lawmakers did what they always do: They skewered their Republican colleagues for offering only “thoughts and prayers,” and demanded swift action on gun control.
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Michigan Live: Here Are the Gun Bills Pending in the Michigan Legislature
House Republicans outlined “defending second amendment rights” as one of their priorities for the 2017-2018 session. Senate Republicans, too have introduced a number of related bills, and more could crop up from either side in the future.
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CNS News: Biden Says Man Who Shot Texas Terrorist ‘Shouldn’t Be Carrying’ That Gun
Stephen Willeford shouldn’t have had the gun he used to shoot the mass murderer at the Sutherland Springs, Texas church shooting Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday.
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Peoria Public Radio: Despite Attempts, Illinois Gun Laws Remain Unchanged in 2017
After recent mass shootings, some Illinois lawmakers reacted by filing legislation that would tighten restrictions on guns. Fall veto session is over and gun laws remain unchanged.
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New York Post: Upstate Church Encouraging Worshippers to Bring Guns
An upstate church is encouraging its worshippers to come armed following the massacre at a Texas chapel on Sunday, “We are not a gun-free zone,” reads the latest sign in front of the Lighthouse Mexico Church of God in Oswego County, which is about 30 minutes north of Syracuse, according to Spectrum News.
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Cleveland News: Gov. Kasich Says There Needs to Be Conversation Between Gun Owners, Backers of Control Measures
Ohio Gov. John Kasich says gun owners and backers of gun-control measures need to find common ground on ways to reduce violence.
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Ventura Star: California’s Gun-Confiscation Program Gets Spotlight After Texas Massacre
The Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) program, proposed in 1999 and updated in 2006, makes California the first and only state in the country to establish an automated system for tracking firearm owners and to provide the legal authority to proactively disarm convicted criminals, people with certain mental illnesses, and others deemed dangerous.
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Dana Loesch: We Need to Enforce the Laws That Are Already on the Books
"The NRA has fought for 20 years to make sure that people who are adjudicated mentally unfit, that these records are added to the system," Loesch said. "Then we keep seeing these occurrences that are taking place and people are able to purchase a firearm because of human error or because they fell through the system."
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National Review: Gun Control and Magical Thinking
In the wake of Sunday’s horrific Texas church shooting, America’s chattering classes promptly responded with silent, respectful, and somber reflection, holding off on divisive and caustic political debates for the day.
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Dianne Feinstein Introduces a Disastrous New Gun Ban!
Senator Dianne Feinstein is at it again. This time she has introduced the most freedom-infringing bill we have ever seen.
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The Hill: Texas AG Says Texans Can Use Concealed-Carry Laws to Stop Mass Shootings
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said Sunday that the state's concealed-carry law could help Texans confronted with mass shooters like the one at the church in Sutherland Springs.
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IJR: Texas Pastor Reveals Proposal to Save Lives Following Church Shooting
Ron Smith, pastor of Church of the King in McAllen, Texas, has a plan that Lone Star State residents — and any pro-Second Amendment American — can get behind.
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Ben Shapiro: Government Action Is Not the Answer to Mass Shootings
We know that the Texas church shooter should not have been able to own or obtain a gun under federal law. He had a long history of mental illness and criminal behavior: He escaped from a mental institution in 2012, threatened his superior officers and attempted to smuggle weapons onto a military base to carry out those threats, cracked the skull of his infant stepson, beat his wife, abused a dog. He was convicted of domestic violence and did twelve months in the brig and was busted down in rank to E-1. The Air Force failed to inform the FBI, and so the shooter successfully bought four weapons in four years.
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Drastic Anti-Gun Bill Passed And Signed In Massachusetts
Under cover of darkness and using legislative parlor tricks, the Massachusetts legislature passed an extreme anti-gun bill last week that was signed by the Acting Governor the next day.
