Examiner Gun News
Latest News and Articles from David Codrea as Gun Rights Examiner.
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Bloomberg’s racial disarmament proposal a key to distancing supporters
Cities need to get guns out of the hands of minority males up to the age of 25, Everytown boss Michael Bloomberg told a “sold out” audience at the Aspen Institute Friday. In other words, based on race...
Child demanding entrance to gallery captivates ‘Freedom Knocks’ activists
“That looked like a waste of time and effort. All they did was lock the doors," an anonymous troll on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog posted in comments underneath the text of Mike Vanderboegh’s Saturday speech...
Vanderboegh speech highlights gun advocate divide
Much is being made of Mike Vanderboegh calling an unsafe demonstrator a “moron” in a preliminary talk he gave before his main speech yesterday at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia. Contrary to some of the arguments being...
Bratton ‘resisting arrest’ proposal a ploy to strengthen police state
Attempting to further bolster a de facto monopoly of violence in New York City, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton proposed additional edicts to tip the power scales even more in favor of enforcers over citizens, the New York Observer reported...
Grassley puts hold on judicial nominee involved in Dobyns case
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley held up the nomination of a Department of Justice attorney for a federal judgeship, citing recently unsealed documents in the case of retired agent Jay Dobyns against the Bureau of Alcohol,...
Saturday rally to illustrate new paradigm in gun rights advocacy
“Gun Owners Prepare for Arrest at WA State Capitol,” Kit Lange of The Patrick Henry Society reported Monday. “Liberty activists and gun owners organized by Liberty for All and The Patriots Stand are converging at the...
‘Hobbit ring’ school suspension merits closer look
“A Kermit [Texas] parent said his fourth-grade student was suspended Friday for allegedly making a terroristic threat,” the Odessa American reported Friday. After seeing “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” nine...
Carter SecDef nomination raises concerns for gun owners
Senate hearings are scheduled to begin next week on Barack Obama’s nomination of Ashton Carter for Secretary of Defense, Fox News reported Sunday. And while the primary thrust of those hearings will be in determining the nominee&rsquo...
School FOIA response points to law violation by anti-gun filmmaker
The producer of an anti-gun “public service announcement” video appears to have violated California law regarding either real or imitation firearms on school premises, a Freedom of Information Act response by the North Oakland...
‘Vindictive prosecution’ subjects self-defense to ‘community standards'
A Marin County doctor who had charges dismissed against him earlier this month is still facing a grand jury indictment obtained by a prosecutor determined to see him convicted, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday. Dr. James Stephen Simon...
Dobyns prepares ‘21 questions’ for indifferent-to-date legislators
Determined not to let a thus-far deliberately indifferent Congress ignore the wider implications of “fraud upon the court” by Department of Justice lawyers in his case, retired ATF Agent Jay Dobyns has prepared a list of 21...
Revoked judgment in Dobyns case reveals further government misconduct
Starting out quoting Shakespeare and ending up citing Kafka, Judge Francis M. Allegra’s conclusions about ATF conduct that led him to rule in favor of retired agent Jay Dobyns in a breach of covenant suit are scathingly revealed...
Chicago pol paves way for Surgeon General Murthy to break phony pledge on guns
“[T]he gun lobby’s campaign against Murthy isn’t really about his record, or him at all,” Zoë Carpenter of The Nation told her “progressive” readers last March, meaning Opposite Day warnings should...
Informed choices problematic for 2015 NRA Director election
The ballot for voting members of the National Rifle Association is included in the February issue of the member magazine, along with Nominating Committee recommendations and biographies of all of the candidates. Members (Life or higher, or annual...
Judge alleges ‘fraud on the court’ by government attorneys in Dobyns case
Commenting on revelations about Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Department of Justice (DOJ) actions in the case of retired agent Jay Dobyns against his former employer, attorney David Hardy equated them with “a...
Virginia Lobby Day highlighted effective gun rights activism
Wednesday, this column published the text of the speech I delivered at the General Assembly in Richmond on Monday for Lobby Day. Now that a video has been released, it's embedded above. I’d been invited...
Powerful New York gun ban politician arrested for bribery, kickbacks
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been arrested on a five-count federal complaint charging him with accepting millions of dollars in exchange for using his political influence, New York Daily News reported Thursday. The charges are...
Speech commends Virginia's grassroots leaders, defies gun-grabbers
The following is the transcript of my speech delivered to activists on Monday's "Lobby Day" gathering at the General Assembly in Richmond, organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League. I plan on following up later in...
Black mug shot police targets show double standard of silhouette exemptions
The North Miami Beach Police sniper team using mug shots of African American men as targets has elicited an angry response from an Army National Guard Sergeant, who saw her brother’s picture being used when she went to...
Washington ‘rights’ rally to headline supporter of ‘gun control’ politicians
Taking a different approach than December’s “I Will Not Comply” rally, in which participants defiantly flouted I-594 prohibitions against “unapproved” firearm transfers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep...