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Breitbart: Neighbor Shoots Knife-Wielding Man Trying to Drown Babies in Bathtub
June 05, 2017
On Friday an Ada, Oklahoma, man shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect who was trying to drown two babies in a bathtub in a nearby home.
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KC Star: Kansas Legislature Approves Bill Allowing Public Hospitals to Ban Guns
June 05, 2017
“I’m not asking you to abandon your long held principles about guns, I’m just not,” Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, a Kansas City, Kan., Democrat told lawmakers during the House debate. “I’m asking you to recognize that there are some places where guns just don’t belong.”
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Guns.com: May Gun Sales Jump 6 Percent, Resists the Slump
June 03, 2017
National gun sales have continued to resist the slump predicted to ensue after Republicans took control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, according to federal data published Thursday.
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New Gun Control Bill in Salem
June 02, 2017
SB 1065 would increase the amount of time a gun purchase can be delayed without cause -- and also place increased barriers on your ability to obtain a concealed handgun license.
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Lonestar Voice: Texas Legalizes All Knives, Swords, and Spears, Barring Veto
June 02, 2017
But the Bowie knife wasn’t the only illegal knife in Texas statute. Pretty much everything with a blade besides a common pocket knife was illegal for carry.
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Volokh: Judge in Katie Couric ‘Under the Gun’ Libel Case Calls Argument Against Background Checks ‘Sophistry’
June 02, 2017
Hawes’s response is simply that we should prevent misconduct by the threat of punishment, not by prescreening — of course, a controversial position, but hardly a sophistic one. The other response is a legitimate, and not at all sophistic, challenge to the premise of the question.
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News Tribune: Under Pressure from Gun-Rights Group, Tacoma Might Drop its Taser Ban
June 02, 2017
The Sacramento-based Firearms Policy Coalition has successfully pressured other cities into dropping their bans.
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BREAKING: 9th Circuit Rules 3-0 Against Gun Owners in DROS Fee Lawsuit
June 02, 2017
Interestingly, the Court found that the "[Armed Prohibited Persons System] program is, in essence, a temporal extension of the background check program. The APPS program therefore, can fairly be considered an 'expense[] of policing the activities in question....or an 'expense incident to . . . the maintenance of public order in the matter licensed'..."
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Guns.com: Michigan Constitutional Carry Bills Advance to House Floor
June 02, 2017
A package of bills backed by Republicans to allow law-abiding Michigan residents to carry concealed handguns without a permit passed a key House committee Tuesday.
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LA Times: Ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to Three Years in Prison in Jail Corruption Scandal
June 01, 2017
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, once a towering, respected figure in policing, was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to obstruct an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails, marking an end to a corruption scandal that has roiled the Sheriff’s Department for several years.
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Sac Bee: California Assembly won’t Renew Contract with Eric Holder’s Firm
June 01, 2017
Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, announced the $25,000-a month contract with Holder’s firm in January.
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Anti-Gun Senator Yee Charged With Gun Trafficking
June 01, 2017
State Senator Leland Yee is the poster child for the anti-gun movement in California. And now he has taken it to a whole new level, as he was arrested by federal agents on charges of corruption, bribery and WEAPONS TRAFFICKING!
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Guns.com: Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly Start Ohio-Based Gun Control Group
June 01, 2017
Mark Kelly debuted the Ohio Coalition for Common Sense at the Columbus Metropolitan Club on Wednesday with the avowed purpose to bring community leaders together to address gun violence in the state.
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They Want to Sneak SB 719 Through in Oregon
May 31, 2017
Since they’ve announced that “sine die” (adjournment) is imminent, the rules have changed - and they are not required to give us as much notice as they did earlier in the session before a hearing is held.
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Breitbart: NY Dem Pushes Bill Labeling Traditional Guns as ‘Child Operated Firearms’
May 31, 2017
According to the official New York State Senate website, S3444 “Proscribes persons, firms or corporations engaged in retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms.”
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FPC Scores Major 2A Victory Over Westminster, MD
May 31, 2017
FPC and Firearms Policy Foundation had recently sent Westminster a letter threatening legal action if the unconstitutional ban was not repealed in full.
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Guns.com: North Dakota Supreme Court Invalidates Restraining Order Against Gun Owner
May 30, 2017
Justice Daniel J. Crothers, who authored the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last week, agreed her behavior didn’t qualify as “intrusive or unwanted acts, words, or gestures that are intended to adversely affect the safety, security, or privacy of another person.”
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Breitbart: LAPD Chief Warns of Apocalypse if National Concealed Carry Passes
May 30, 2017
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck warns that national reciprocity for concealed carry will be a disaster in California.
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Guns.com: Illinois Lawmakers Propose ‘National Gun Violence Awareness’ Day and Month
May 30, 2017
Companion measures were introduced last week in both chambers of Congress to promote an awareness campaign backed by gun control groups.
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AP: Governor Signs Law Making Texas Gun Fees Nation's Lowest
May 26, 2017
Gov. Greg Abbott has visited a gun range to sign a law reducing Texas' fees for licenses to carry handguns to the lowest in the nation.
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Guns.com: Second Amendment group prods Tacoma, WA to repeal Taser ban
May 26, 2017
The Firearms Policy Coalition is holding Tacoma to task over its local ordinances against the sale, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing or carrying of any “electroshock device” by a law-abiding resident, visitor or traveler.
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press: Minnesota Gun Rights Legislation Fails to Get Far, Despite Republican Legislative Control
May 26, 2017
Both proponents and opponents of gun-rights bills expected strong backing this year, given that Republicans had just taken control of both houses. But Republican leaders of key committees say they didn’t want to push the bills when they were also working to craft a $46 billion budget for the state.
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ALERT: California Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Two Anti-Gun Measures, Kills One
May 26, 2017
Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee met for the final time before the Legislature takes their summer break. And while we were able to score one victory over an anti-gun bill and the passage of a few pro-gun measures, two of the worst anti-2A measures were moved forward.
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Chicago Tribune: New Gun Range Rules Approved by Chicago City Council
May 25, 2017
The action came after the federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down previous, stricter provisions that only allowed ranges in isolated industrial areas that covered just 2 percent of the city.
