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D.C. Circuit: Let’s Go To Trial on Nonresident Citizen Gun Purchase Ban
The question in this case is whether a citizen who permanently resides outside the United States has a right under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution to purchase a firearm for self-defense while he is temporarily visiting this country. Dearth alleges that 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(9) & (b)(3) and implementing regulations, 27 C.F.R. §§ 478.29a, 478.96, 478.99, 478.124, are unconstitutional because the provisions, in effect, prohibit citizens not residing in any state from purchasing firearms.
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Guns.com: Judge’s Ruling Threatens Upheaval of Puerto Rico Gun Laws
Taking control of Puerto Rico’s strict firearms statutes is Judge Lugo Anibal Irizarry, sitting in the Court of Salinas, who found the U.S. territory’s Ley de Armas unconstitutionally prohibitive and in violation of the Second Amendment as part of a class action lawsuit brought by 850 plaintiffs.
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Business Insider: Democratic 2016 Candidate Martin O'Malley Campaigns for Gun Control Following Charleston Massacre
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) seems set to make gun control a cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign. He kicked off what his aides describe as a “major push” on the issue last week with an email to supporters where he declared he was “pissed” by the mass shooting in South Carolina.
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Reason.com: Obama Wonders If Dylann Roof, Who Passed a Background Check, Could Have Been Stopped by a Background Check
But as CNN reported the day of Obama’s remarks, Roof bought the .45-caliber Glock Model 41 handgun he used in the church attack from a Charleston gun store in April, shortly after his 21st birthday (which was on April 3), with money his father had given him as a present. That means he passed a background check.
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Carly Fiorina says Obama Post-Charleston Gun Control Demands ‘Inappropriate’ and ‘Ironic’
“I did not think it was the appropriate time,” Fiorina told TheBlaze Saturday. “I think we have seen a pattern of politicians and President Obama in particular using tragedies to advance a political agenda.”
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Sacramento Bee: Obama Urges Mayors to Back Gun Control
In his second call for tighter gun restrictions since nine people were killed Wednesday inside a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Obama told about 300 mayors that gun regulations could save lives.
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CNN: Clinton, Obama Seek Gun Control in Wake of Charleston Massacre
President Barack Obama and other top Democrats -- including Hillary Clinton -- find themselves in a familiar place following the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday: Pleading for gun control while knowing it's unlikely to happen.
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Several Anti-Gun Bills Under Consideration in Rhode Island General Assembly
Twenty-nine firearms-related bills were introduced in this session of the [Rhode Island] General Assembly. Two of these can be termed gun friendly and one, having to do with poaching elephants, has nothing to do with firearms. The rest of the measures are usually described as “common-sense solutions to gun violence." All were held in committee “for further study."
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The Hill: Congress Pursues Misguided Legislation to Mandate Smart Gun Technology
What is particularly confounding is why this bill was introduced in the first place, let alone, re-introduced. While there are some aspects worth salvaging (such as R&D grants), the positive aspects are sadly undermined by the continual and misguided venture into mandates that has had the net effect of retarding tech development, subverting the markets and dissuading investment.
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Coinbase: No Bitcoins for Gun-Related Retailers
Then several months ago, without warning we stopped receiving any Bitcoin payments. We thought it was a problem with our website and spent quite a bit of time trying to figure what was wrong. Coinbase support initially indicated that they did not know what the problem was. Everything looked normal on our account. Then today, we received the email below stating “due to recent changes in the regulatory environment we are unable to provide services to firearms dealers.”
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Dear President Obama: You could be a leader. But we know better.
Your support of victim disarmament policies and “gun free zones”–spaces shielded by nothing more than invisible lines and wishful thinking–is not simply irrational, it is outright dangerous.
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Washington Post: President Obama Calls Charleston Shooting ‘Senseless,’ Criticizes Gun Laws
"....I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now," he said. "But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. And at some point it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively."
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Can Concealed Gun Laws Vary by County?
If the lawyers arguing both sides of a controversial concealed weapons case agreed on one thing Tuesday, it was that the constitutional right to bear arms extends outside the home.
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CT Post: Bridgeport, CT launches New Gun Buyback Program
It’s interesting that politicians are more concerned with removing guns from their cities, than they are with illegal guns to be turned in with no questions asked.
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The Bulletin, Letter: New Oregon Gun Law will Be Useless
But wait. How can felons have firearms? Federal and state law prohibits felons from having firearms. So why do they have them? How can they get them? Why doesn’t the law prohibiting them from having a firearm prevent them from having a firearm?
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Guns.com: Showdown for Bill to Curtail Gun Speech in California Schools
“We certainly don’t oppose the criminal prosecution of people who make true threats against innocent students, teachers, and school staff,” Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, told Guns.com. “Our concern is that the measure, as it stands, is overly-broad and could chill or criminalize First Amendment protected speech.”
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Rasmussen Reports: Americans Prefer Living in Neighborhoods With Guns
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters would feel safer living in a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun over one where they could have a gun for their own protection. Sixty-eight percent (68%) would feel safer in a neighborhood where guns are allowed, while 10% are not sure.
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Bloomberg Funded Journalism Site to “Change the Conversation about Guns”
A new “journalism startup” funded by anti-gun advocate Michael Bloomberg debuts this week promising to change the debate on guns in America — though the direction is a secret.
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Oregon Legislature Considering Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill
The state Senate is considering a bill, House Bill 3093, sponsored by Rep. Bill Post, R-Keizer, that would allow concealed handgun licensees from other states to also carry in Oregon.
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AP: Abbott Signs Open Carry, Campus Carry into Law
Gov. Greg Abbott stopped at a gun range to sign into law bills letting Texans carry concealed handguns on college campuses and openly carry them virtually everywhere else.
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Bearing Arms: Radical Democrats Push Restrictive Federal Handgun Licensing
For every essential freedom, there is an equal and opposite Democrat reaction. The Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act of 2015, introduced yesterday, is a perfect example of their insatiable desire to constrict your liberties.
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FPC Backs Bill to Protect Second Amendment Civil Rights, Limit Executive Over-Reach
“The Second Amendment was not enacted to simply protect the ‘sporting purposes’ of firearms,” explained Combs. “It enshrined the pre-existing right of self defense and guarantees the People of the United State an opportunity to defend themselves against unjust force.
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FPC Announces Support for Second Amendment Rights Restoration Appropriation
When the program is funded, “the Attorney General may grant such relief if it is established to his satisfaction that the circumstances regarding the disability, and the applicant’s record and reputation, are such that the applicant will not be likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety and that the granting of the relief would not be contrary to the public interest.” If their application is denied, applicants can “petition with the United States district court for the district in which he resides for a judicial review of such denial,” where the court “may in its discretion admit additional evidence where failure to do so would result in a miscarriage of justice.” (18 U.S.C. § 925(c).)
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FPC Files Opposition to California Senate Bill 456
Your FPC submitted this opposition letter explaining how SB 456, in its current form, likely violates the First Amendment protections against government infringement of the right to free speech.
