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Willamette Week: Family of Oregon teen denied gun by Walmart wants same fine that was handed dow to anti-gay wedding cake bakers
An Oregon teenager who filed a discrimination complaint with the Bureau of Labor and Industries after Walmart refused to sell her a rifle asked for $135,000 in a settlement—the same amount an Oregon baker was fined after refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.
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Guns.com: A third of the counties in Illinois are exploring 'gun sanctuaries'
Last week the Logan County board approved a measure to place a sanctuary vote on the ballot in November, bringing the number to at least 26 counties where such moves are afoot, according to The Lincoln Courier. Currently, the Illinois State Rifle Association list some 39 counties that have sanctuary language adopted or pending, noting that “we expect to see more in the coming weeks.”
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Salon: Democrats file “emergency” amendment to block Betsy DeVos from arming teachers
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is reportedly looking to use a legal loophole to allow federal funds to buy guns for teachers — and Democrats appear determined to stop her.
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Guns.com: 16-year-old pro-gun activist sues school over treatment during Parkland rally
A lawsuit filed in federal court argues school officials supported a walk-out by students advocating gun control while attempting to muzzle opposition. Named as defendants in the suit are a host of Hononegah Community High School administrators in Rockton, Illinois who, as outlined in court filings, allowed one group of students to protest in response to the Feb.14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida while at the same time marginalizing a smaller group of youth who felt differently.
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Willamette Week: Oregon Labor Commissioner says Walmart broke law by refusing gun sale to teen
Hannah Brumbles, 18, of Deer Island, Ore., filed a civil rights complaint with the state agency in April. She says Walmart discriminated against her by refusing to sell her a rifle, even though Oregon law says individuals over 18 may legally purchase firearms. BOLI agrees.
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Guns.com: Dem aims to drop voting age to 16, citing youth gun control advocacy
The mechanism for the proposed constitutional amendment, H.J.Res.138, was introduced by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng earlier this month. The amendment would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, the biggest change to the voting age since it was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1971.
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National Review: Corporate Gun Control Might Be the Worst Threat to Gun Rights
But another threat looms, one that can stretch across the entire American landscape, is immune to the filibuster, and is largely sheltered from judicial review. It’s a threat that can choke off financing for the gun industry, stifle speech about guns, and lock the gun-rights community into offline (and small online) ghettos that restrict their ability to communicate.
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'Large-scale illegal gun factory' found in UK
Rob Hickinbottom, head of the national firearms threat centre at the NCA, said on Wednesday afternoon: "We believe we have disrupted a group involved in the criminal production of firearms, and as a result we have prevented a potentially large quantity of weapons from getting into the hands of criminals and being used in violence on our streets."
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Report: Federal education dollars could go to buy guns for schools
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is on the receiving end of flak from the activists on the heels of a New York Times article that reported the long-running Student Support and Academic Enrichment grant program could be expanded by order of DeVos to fund purchases of guns for school security efforts. While a spokeswoman for the Education Department declined to comment on “hypothetical scenarios,” others were not so restrained.
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AP: Montana governor stands by semiautomatic weapons ban comment
Montana's governor is standing by his recent comments that he'd support a ban on some semiautomatic weapons, saying Tuesday that it's one of several measures that should be considered to curtail gun violence.
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Salt Lake Tribune: The University of Utah reassigned a graduate assistant after her syllabus restricted students with concealed guns to a ‘Second Amendment zone’
A graduate assistant at the University of Utah has been reassigned from teaching a class this semester after handing out a syllabus that said bringing a concealed carry gun to class “is absurd, antisocial, and frightening behavior” and that any of her students who have one — even if permitted — would be forced to stand in a “3x3 taped square” in the back of the classroom.
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Breitbart: Louisiana Attorney General Denies $600 Million to Citibank, Bank of America Over Gun Control
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and the state’s Bond Commission denied $600 million to Citibank and Bank of America over the gun control stance adopted by both companies.
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NY Daily News: Amazon takes down California gun group website for posting 3D printer plans for homemade handgun
A group of California gun nuts hoping to disseminate 3D printer plans for a homemade handgun via the internet suffered a misfire Wednesday when Amazon took down their website.
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MSN: Gun Rights Activists Defy Court Ruling, Post 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Online
Gun rights activist groups found a way around the temporary halting of 3D-printed gun blueprints by publishing another set of blueprints on a new website Tuesday, which they say is activity protected under the First Amendment.
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SD Union-Tribute: California gun group posts internet 3D printer plans for guns after federal judge issues injunction
A group of tech savvy California gun nuts thumbed their noses Tuesday at a Seattle federal court judge’s temporary restraining order that bars the distribution of gun making plans for 3D printers.
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WSJ: Gun advocates to post 3-D weapon plans on new site
Hours after a federal judge forced a group in Texas to remove online blueprints for 3-D printed firearms on Tuesday, gun-rights groups in California said they were publishing the files on a separate website.
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Fox News: As 3D-printed weapons row escalates, gun rights activists post blueprints online
Nonetheless, plans for a number weapons have appeared on CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, which describes itself as “a publicly-available website for truthful, non-misleading, non-commercial speech and information that is protected under the United States Constitution.”
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Huffington Post: Gun rights activists defy court ruling, post 3D-printed gun blueprints online
Gun rights activist groups found a way around the temporary halting of 3D-printed gun blueprints by publishing another set of blueprints on a new website Tuesday, which they say is activity protected under the First Amendment.
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NBC: Officials across the country fear a new era of untraceable firearms
A federal judge on Tuesday, however, granted a request for a temporary restraining order that prevents Wilson from publishing the plans for how to make the untraceable guns. But a coalition of gun rights groups created a website and posted similar gun blueprints later Tuesday night, seemingly in protest against the judge's ruling.
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Gun Free Zone: The gun control study that really happened and you never saw
In the study, led by epidemiologist Anthony Fabio of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, researchers partnered with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police to trace the origins of all 893 firearms that police recovered from crime scenes in the year 2008.
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The Washington Free Beacon: Online Retail Platform Terminates Cody Wilson Account Without Explanation
An online retail platform terminated the account for gun rights activist Cody Wilson's company without explanation on Monday.
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Guns.com: Over 450 Floridians have been hit with orders to give up guns under new law
The law is a byproduct of the sweeping Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act signed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott within a month of the Parkland shooting. Since then, the law has been used at least 467 times as of July 24, with some agencies establishing dedicated task forces to process the orders and remove guns, WFTS reported.
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Guns.com: Brett Kavanaugh set for Supreme Court confirmation hearings
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin hearings on President Trump’s second Supreme Court nomination on Sept. 4, leaving Democrats in Congress with heartburn.
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Truth About Guns: 7.14% of Americans have carry licenses, up 273% since 2007
John Lott has released a new report that has a lot of bad news for the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex. His research shows that 7.14% of Americans now have concealed carry licenses. Incredibly, that number has exploded 273% since 2007. Clearly more and more Americans vote with their wallets when it comes to guns and gun ownership.
