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Guns.com: Alabama Governor Lifts Gun Free Zones at State Rest Areas
The governor’s move came following a back and forth between Alabama Department of Transportation and state lawmakers over the legality of banning guns at rest areas for all those other than law enforcement.
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AP: Bernie Sanders Calls for “Common Sense” Gun Laws
Sanders said Americans must find agreement on gun laws, such as improved background checks to prevent gun sales to people with criminal records or a history of mental instability or domestic abuse.
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Opinion: Obama's Social Security Gun Grab is an Overreach
There’s a big difference between being unable to handle one’s finances — a common plight for senior citizens — and posing genuine danger to oneself or others. Congress must ensure that the Obama administration makes that distinction as it seeks to restrict the gun rights of Social Security recipients whose benefit checks are handled by fiduciaries.
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Breitbart: Lafayette Theater is a Gun Free Zone, Bans Firearms for Customers with ‘Permits’
According to the “Conduct Policy” for all Grand Theatre locations, the “possession of firearms or weapons of any kind” are completely banned and the ban applies regardless of whether the firearm or weapon is carried “openly or concealed, with or without a permit.”
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70 Sign on to Rigell’s Call for Lifting Gun Ban
The Virginia Beach Republican has argued that service members must be able to protect themselves in transit and at recruitment centers, noting the fatal shootings of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week.
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Ammoland: Massachusetts Gun Owners’ Action League Sets Sights On Gun Free Zones
“This legislation would analyze our current laws about ‘Gun Free’ zones here in Massachusetts. In light of the recent attacks in Tennessee, it’s extremely important that we evaluate our current laws and see if there are better ways to protect the public,” said Representative John Velis.
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NJ.com: Gov. Chris Christie Says U.S. Doesn’t Need to Pass More Gun Laws
The Republican governor — speaking in Hilton Head along the coast in South Carolina, home to the first presidential primary in the south — said the government should focus on prosecuting criminals to stem violent shootings.
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Federal Judge Denies Injunction in Gun Dealer Speech Lawsuit in Spite of Likely First Amendment Violation
The order, issued by District Court Judge Troy L. Nunley, found that the ban is probably unconstitutional, likely doesn’t materially reduce crime, and likely irreparably harms plaintiffs’ First Amendment right to express themselves the way they wish to. Nonetheless, the judge allowed the restriction to temporarily stand, while the case progresses further.
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New Game: Replace the Word “Firearm” with “Abortion”
How do you think these same legislators would feel about measures that restrict abortion, book sales, or speech in the same way that law-abiding people are bullied, hassled, and forced into government-mandated invasions of privacy just to exercise their fundamental, individual Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms?
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KRON: New San Francisco Measure Aims to Videotape All Gun and Ammunition Sales
Supervisor Mark Farrell is set to put in a public request at today’s San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting to begin drafting legislation that would require the videotaping of all gun and ammunition sales within San Francisco, and require the regular storage and electronic transmission of ammunition sales data to the San Francisco Police Department.
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California: FIRE MISSION (SB 707, AB 1134)
Two extremely dangerous anti-gun bills will be heard tomorrow morning. We need you to do 4 very simple things TODAY — they’ll take just a few minutes — that could very well kill these two bills.
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What Law would have Prevented Dylann Roof from Acquiring a Firearm?
Even if gun prohibitionists got their wish (they won’t) and gun control policies were so expansive that virtually all people acting through legitimate channels were under the government’s all-knowing (and remembering) thumb, they would still fail to prevent the underground (“black market”) sales of firearms and ammunition. And their growingly-ominous and paternalistic policies will undoubtedly drive more and more otherwise law-abiding people to that underground market, putting more firearm transactions outside the reach of government knowledge and undercutting the already de minimis (at best) value of gun control regulations.
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Free Beacon: Gun Rights Groups Criticize Ban on Gun Carry on DC Metro in Wake of Murder
“Gun free zones like the District of Columbia’s public transit system are really victim disarmament zones and a magnet for violent criminals to prey on unarmed people who have no means of protecting themselves,” SAF founder Alan Gottlieb said.
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Breitbart: London Times Launches Coded Attack on US Gun Laws
The Times newspaper has waded into the US Second Amendment debate, blaming gun crime in Britain on the sale of blank-firing pistols sourced from across the Atlantic.
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WT: Nancy Pelosi goes after Guns in Wake of Charleston Shootings
Mrs. Pelosi’s coalition, backed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and advocates who rode 10 hours by bus from Charleston, told GOP leaders to hold a vote on a bipartisan bill by Reps. Peter King, New York Republican, and Mike Thompson, California Democrat, that would expand background checks to cover all commercial firearm sales, including at gun shows and sales over the Internet or through classified ads.
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Seattle Times: Seattle City Council President Proposing Tax on Gun Sales
“Gun violence is very expensive,” Burgess said, noting that the direct medical costs of treating 253 gunshot victims at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center last year surpassed $17 million, with taxpayers covering more than $12 million of that. “It’s time for the gun industry to help defray those costs and this is a very reasonable way to do it.”
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FPC Files Opposition to Anti-Gun California Senate Bill 707; Recent Amendments Make Bill Even More Dangerous for Law-Abiding People
Earlier today, your Firearms Policy Coalition filed a supplemental letter of opposition to the dangerous anti-gun California Senate Bill 707 (authored by Sen. Lois Wolk, (D) Davis). FPC previously filed a full letter of opposition to the bill on June 23 that highlighted the many policy and constitutional defects in SB 707. Today’s letter addresses some new additions to the measure, many of which are flatly unconstitutional.
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Chris Cheng Performs ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ with a Suppressed Ruger 10/22 Rifle
There’s nothing that says freedom like shooting the Star Spangled Banner with an integrally suppressed rifle.
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Op-Ed: Why I Love the Freedom to Bear Arms
The right to bear arms is a blessing not given to many people in other countries. I knew a Russian immigrant many years ago who purchased a gun once he came to the United States, but never shot it. He said he bought it just because he couldn’t own one in the Soviet Union.
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Fox News: DC Gun Carry Applications more than Triple in Wake of Federal Court Ruling
Between January 1 and May 18, the city received 45 permit applications, according to Sean Conboy fo the Metropolitan Police Department. However, after Judge Frederick Scullin ruled that the “good reason” clause contained within the city’s carry law was unconstitutional on May 18, applications increased significantly.
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FPC Submits Floor Alert Opposition Letter on Anti-Gun California Senate Bill 347
Senate Bill 347 would add several new offenses to the list of violations that result in ban on firearms and ammunition for a full decade, including many non-violent technical violations of California’s voluminous existing gun laws, stripping people of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
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New Federal Regulation could Ban 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints from Being Posted Online
“This is a direct action on behalf of the Obama administration to control public speech about guns on the Internet,” Wilson told FoxNews.com. “They cynically redefine any posting of any technical data to be an ‘export,’ and thereby claim that it isn’t speech. It’s surreal and they’re getting away with it.”
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Guns.com: California Lead Ammunition Ban in Effect
Hunters are now required to use non-lead ammunition on all state Department of Fish and Wildlife lands and while hunting bighorn sheep anywhere in the state.
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SFGate.com: Ex-Sen. Leland Yee may be Headed for a Plea Deal
Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who until now has denied charges of political corruption, money laundering and racketeering, is scheduled to change his plea in federal court Wednesday.
