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Guns.com: New law exempts retired reserve officers from California magazine ban
The measure, AB 1192, passed the legislature last month by wide margins. The bill was sponsored by Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey of Palmdale, a 28-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, and Brown signed it without comment.
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Red State: Was it a trap? CADOJ sued over non-functioning assault weapons registration website
Thousands of California gun owners attempted to comply with the state’s assault weapons registration scheme in the weeks before the June 30, 2018 deadline, but for many it was an exercise in futility. Users reported being unable to access the online registration site at all, or spending hours on the glitchy site only to have the site freeze without saving their information.
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BREAKING: Xavier Becerra, DOJ Withdraw Latest “Assault Weapon” Proposed Regulation After Strong Opposition from FPC, Gun Groups
The California Department of Justice has withdrawn its latest proposed “assault weapon” regulation after facing opposition and litigation from many gun rights groups, including Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), The Calguns Foundation (CGF), and California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees (CAL-FFL).
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BREAKING: Gun Rights Groups Sue Calif. Attorney General Xavier Becerra, DOJ in New Lawsuit Over “Assault Weapon Registration Disasters”
The lawsuit argues that DOJ’s “bullet-button assault weapon” registration system was defective, often “crashing” completely, and the various failures prevented many gun owners from complying with the laws—potentially turning people into felons overnight.
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Fox: Las Vegas cop 'terrified with fear' as gunman murdered dozens, body camera footage shows
An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop's actions -- and inaction -- are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Caught on Camera: Tedra Cobb Tells Supporters She Wants ‘Assault Rifle’ Ban But ‘Cannot Say That’ in Public
When the woman pushed back on Cobb keeping quiet on how she feels about banning certain firearms, Cobb said coming out in favor of a gun ban would lead to her losing her bid against Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik.
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Guns.com: Hawaii governor signs bills banning bump stocks, upping gun control
The bills, SB 2046 and SB 2436, outlaw a host of bump stocks and similar accessories while cutting the time allowed for mandatory firearm surrenders down from 30 days to a week. Both proposals passed the state legislature with broad support.
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Circa: As companies cut ties with guns, firearms inventors turn to crowd funding for investment
Gun Dynamics is a crowd-funding website created by firearms entrepreneur and inventors, for firearms entrepreneurs and inventors. It was started by Larry Lopata, an inventor who couldn't secure backing for a trigger he created for popular 1911-style handguns. He figured a crowd-funding site like Kickstarter would be a good option, but he soon found out most of them do not not allow firearms products. So Lopata figured he would create his own, and founded Gun Dynamics with his partners earlier this year.
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CA Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Gun Storage Bill Into Law in Victory for Gun Owners
Firearms Policy Coalition is pleased to announce that California Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 1382 by Senator Andy Vidak (R-14), a bill making it easier to transport firearms, into law.
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Vox: America's love for guns, in one chart
A new analysis from the Small Arms Survey, a gun research group based in Geneva, Switzerland, estimated civilian gun ownership by country using a mix of surveys, data from federal registries, expert opinions, and other research methods. It found that the US has by far the highest rates of civilian gun ownership in the world.
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Guns.com: Washington court blocks 2A groups' bid to derail gun control ballot measure
Court Commissioner Michael Johnston on Tuesday denied a motion filed last week by Second Amendment groups seeking to contest the petitions used by organizers of I-1639. Johnson came to the conclusion that the gun rights organizations didn’t have legal standing to challenge the initiative during the petition process, and the court could not force Secretary of State Kim Wyman to invalidate the current signatures gathered.
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Reason: The Second Amendment 'has become optional"
Ten years ago this week, the Supreme Court for the first time explicitly recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to armed self-defense. Since then the Court has revisited the subject only twice, while it has heard about 45 cases involving the Fourth Amendment and about 60 involving the First.
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Baltimore Sun: Gun laws won't prevent another mass shooting, but conceal carry would
In 2012, there were 218 homicides in Baltimore. In 2017, four years after passage of the Firearms Safety Act of 2013, there were an astounding 343 homicides. The largest city in a state that brags about its strict gun control laws now leads the nation in per capita homicides.
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Ammoland: After MD shooting, now shotguns are on the "Must Ban" list
The “List” of guns to be banned from ownership by us peons grows by the day, but pump-action shotguns were never slated for prohibition, until now! With the MD shooting, however, many liberals are now finally prepared to tell us the real truth: They Want To Ban All Guns, And Always Have!
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Kansas State University: Few issues in first year of campus carry
Campus police with Kansas State University, the oldest public university in the state and home to more than 22,000 enrolled undergraduates, reported filing no criminal cases regarding handguns on campus in the past year, according to The K-State Collegian, the school’s paper.
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Guns.com: Lawmakers in 2 states ask iconic sporting goods retailer to curb gun policies
A group of Democrats in Maine and New Hampshire want Kittery Trading Post to stop selling “assault-style” rifles and eliminate gun sales to those under age 21.
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California "Bullet-Button Assault Weapon" Registration: Key Facts & Stats About CA's Latest Gun Control Debacle
How many people registered "bullet-button assault weapons" before the deadline? How long will it take DOJ to process them? Find out here!
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AP: Baker signs 'red flag' gun bill
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a bill that will allow for the temporary removal of guns from people considered a danger to themselves or others.
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Fox: The Second Amendment had nothing to do with slavery
For 20 years now, a well-meaning law professor has been peddling the fiction that the Second Amendment – guaranteeing the right of Americans to keep and bear arms – was adopted to protect slavery. He first proposed this in a 1998 law review article and trotted it out again in a recent New York Times op-ed.
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Range 365: Coming Soon: AA-12 Shotgun in Semi-Auto for Civilians
The AA-12 shotgun is a beast. It’s a fully-automatic 12 gauge shotgun originally designed back in the 1970s by Max Atchisson (the AA stands for Atchisson Assault) specifically to be a low-recoil option for law enforcement and military personnel.
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Press Herald: As corporate policies turn anti-gun, firearm industry recoils and seeks legal protection
With Gary Ramey’s fledgling gun-making business taking off in retail stores, he decided to start offering one of his handguns for sale on his website. That didn’t sit well with the company he used to process payments, and they informed him they were dropping his account. Another credit card processing firm told him the same thing: They wouldn’t do business with him.
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Baltimore Sun: Maryland's strict gun laws could not prevent Capital Gazette shooting, spurring talk of changes
The weapon used in the attack has been described by police as a pump-action shotgun. While “long guns” like shotguns and rifles are less tightly regulated than handguns, a purchaser nonetheless must undergo a criminal background check to buy one from a dealer, as Jarrod W. Ramos did. But Ramos was never convicted of a crime serious enough to bar such a purchase.
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Guns.com: California gun owners run into problems with registration deadline
Some trying to comply with California’s latest gun control mandates were left scratching their heads after the state’s website bogged down approaching the deadline.
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Dallas News: Trump's proposed bump stock ban draws 97,000 comments weighing gun rights against fears of violence
A regulatory agency received more than 97,000 comments on a proposed nationwide ban on bump stocks, the device used in a Las Vegas concert massacre that left 58 people dead last October.