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Federalist: J.D. Martinez's Second Amendment stance isn't 'controversial,' it's patriotic
Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted a picture of Adolf Hitler featuring the quote, “To conquer a nation, first disarm it’s [sic] citizens.” Martinez captioned the post, “This is why I always stay strapped! #thetruth.”
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ABC: Kent State says planned Second Amendment rally violates university policy
According to Kent State, the university told Kaitlin Bennett that she must "cease and desist" from advertising her planned rally on campus because she has not registered the event or received the approvals required by university policy.
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Armed school security officer removed from school for his pro-gun stance
“With the stroke of a pen, from the ivory tower with the gold top, you’ve decided to create me to be a felon,” Cinque said during a 2013 town hall. “Since we’re going down the course of China, why don’t we pass a law from the ivory tower up there where you can only have one child. Do I have to choose which of my two (children) I have to kill, since I can only have one child now?”
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NBC: Gabby Giffords group spending $1 million to criticize Virginia Republican congresswoman on guns
Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona Democratic congresswoman who retired after she was shot at a constituent event, is out with a new ad campaign that accuses Virginia Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock of having "failed" to prevent gun violence.
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Liberty Park Press: Ground Zero: Washington Rights Activists Energized, Organizing
In the five days after the Washington State Supreme Court overturned a Thurston County Superior Court ruling on Initiative 1639 to restore the measure to the November ballot, Evergreen State gun owners have been a busy bunch, organizing opposition to the billionaire-backed gun control scheme.
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Reuters: Baghdad gun shops thrive after Iraqi rethink on arms control
The latest initiative came into force this summer and allows citizens to own and carry handguns, semi-automatic rifles and other assault weapons after obtaining official authorization and an identity card that also details the individual’s weapons.
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The Washington Times: Shock study: U.S. had far fewer mass shootings than previously reported
A shock 2016 study argued that the U.S. accounted for nearly one-third of all mass shootings, sparking global headlines about the dangers of an American gun culture.
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Dayton Daily News: Juvenile conviction can prevent someone from owning a gun as an adult, Ohio Supreme Court rules
In a 6-1 ruling issued Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court said that a juvenile conviction can be used to keep an adult from legally owning or possessing a firearm.
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FLACCID: DICK'S SHRINKS, NOT A GROWER OR SHOWER IN LATEST EARNINGS REPORT
Dick's Sporting Goods plunged as much as 14% in pre-market trading on Wednesday as a slowdown in Under Armour sales weighed on top-line results.
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ABC: 3 shots fired on accident? Residents react to Chattanooga police officer's firearm mishap
The release says police told the man to lower his weapon, but the man refused before shooting and killing himself. According to police, an officer then accidentally pulled the trigger of his gun three times. They say one of those bullets hit the man who had just taken his life.
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National Review: Britain’s Failed Weapons-Control Laws Show Why the Second Amendment Matters
Despite very severe anti-knife laws, Great Britain has been suffering from a surge in knife crime. Some Britons propose making the laws even harsher. Others are offering more constructive solutions to get to the root causes of the problem.
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NPR: The School Shootings That Weren't
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates. But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
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CBS Sacramento: Lodi Teen Kicked Out Of Class Over NRA Shirt
An angry mother is speaking out after she says a Lodi High School history teacher targeted students wearing T-shirts advertising the National Rifle Association.
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Breitbart: ‘Gun-Free’ Britain: 10 Shot in Multicultural Manchester During ‘Caribbean Carnival’
Ten people, including two children, have been hospitalised after gunshots were fired in Manchester on Sunday morning, as the multicultural city celebrates its ‘Caribbean Carnival’.
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The Gun Feed: Federal Judge Allows Lawsuit To Proceed Against Michigan DHHS
A federal district court judge in Michigan has allowed a Second Amendment Foundation lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to move forward, challenging the agency’s requirement that foster parents keep firearms and ammunition locked up, so as not to be immediately accessible, and thus useless for self-defense.
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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.
