Examiner Gun News
Latest News and Articles from David Codrea as Gun Rights Examiner.
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Daily Mail Fast and Furious report repeats unsubstantiated claim
In a Thursday report on a 2011 Phoenix “gang-style shooting” in which a gun from the Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scheme was used, Mail Online repeats unsubstantiated claims that give cover to the administration...
Koch money and GOP access may discourage pairing amnesty with gun rights
Claiming to be “a conservative on economic matters,” billionaire David Koch told ABC News in a Sunday interview that he considers himself “a social liberal.”“Koch, who supports abortion rights and gay marriage, said...
Law-breaking teen ‘vigilante’ causes North Carolina ‘gun death’
A 14-year-old Mecklenburg County boy shot and killed an 18-year-old "youth" and threatened his 22-year-old brother with “gun violence” in a case of death-dispensing “vigilante” action, WSOC...
Anti-gun politician convicted over teen staffer vowing revenge
Democratic Virginia State Delegate Joe Morrissey “is on a leash,” Henrico County Sheriff Michael Wade told CBS 6 in a Tuesday report on the jailed politician’s work release arrangement. Morrissey, 57, was convicted last week...
Virginia’s McAuliffe proposes 2A infringements on Bill of Rights Day
As with almost everyone else with establishment influence in government and media, current Virginia Governor and former Democrat National Committee Chair and Clinton campaign honcho Terry McAuliffe was silent on his official commonwealth website...
Jihadist hostage-taker enabled by Australian gun laws
An Islamic gunman who took Sydney cafe employees and customers hostage is among the three people reported dead after automatic weapon-wielding police using flash grenades stormed the building early Tuesday morning Australian time, Fox News is...
Bill of Rights Day largely unnoticed by government and media
December 15 is Bill of Rights Day, Russia’s Sputnik.com reported Monday. It commemorates the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, adopted to allay anti-Federalist fears and to ostensibly guarantee individual rights...
Olympia rally draws defiant gun owners to protest new edict
A crowd of gun rights activists, many armed, estimated at 1,000 by the Washington State Patrol and at up to 3,000 per a photo gallery caption accompanying The Seattle Times’ report, gathered at the State Capitol in...
Pew poll confirms amnesty a danger to gun rights
Survey results made public Wednesday by Pew Research Center show public support for protecting gun rights on the rise across all demographics except for two notable categories, “liberal Democrats” and “Hispanics.”...
Republicans leaving anti-rights restoration provision in appropriations bill
Despite a big win in November, Republicans are ceding to the wishes of Barack Obama while alienating their conservative base, political commentator James Simpson noted in a Thursday American Thinker analysis of the 2015 spending bill being...
Nevada gun rights group says Secretary of State ignored petition laws
A statewide grassroots gun rights group told Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller official acceptance of petition signatures as “sufficient” to qualify for a ballot measure on background checks was in violation of state law. Nevadans...
Florida open carry case tests recognition of bearing arms
A conviction being contested in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal will challenge the state’s recognition of the meaning of the right to bear arms, NBC’s WPT5 in West Palm Beach reported Monday. Unknown...
Nevada accepts Bloomberg ‘gun control’ ballot measure despite irregularities
Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has certified that proponents of a Michael Bloomberg-backed 2016 ballot measure on “background checks” have submitted the required number of signatures The Washington Times reported Monday. The...
Push to destroy toy guns raises questions media not asking
A protest was held Sunday evening at Cudell Recreation Center, where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer after video showed the youth brandishing what turned out to be an airsoft gun. Fox...
Gun disability relief funding ban could be challenged in spending bill
House and Senate negotiators are nearing a $1.1 trillion spending deal to avert a government shutdown, Politico reported Sunday. Their goal is to file the measure today and bring it to a floor vote by Thursday, when the current...
Wahlberg pardon bid ignores outstanding gun questions
Actor Mark Wahlberg is seeking pardon from the state of Massachusetts for crimes he committed as a young man, Fox News reported Friday. Wahlberg, convicted of assaulting one man with a stick and another with his fist in a 1988...
If gun owners demanded it, NRA could lead repeal of Obamacare
With the new Senate majority set to take their seats in January, the potential to repeal Obamacare is now within reach. The key to making that happen is the National Rifle Association.Why should they? Association management only pursues what...
Activists defy new Washington gun law to demonstrate its unenforceability
Defying the recently-passed Washington State Initiative 594 requiring background checks on gun sales, videographer and citizen journalist “LaughingAtLiberals” and an unidentified accomplice made a point of defying the law as soon as it...
Oath Keepers reject orders, refuse to stand down, remain on Ferguson rooftops
Members of Oath Keepers, a national group that includes current and retired military and law enforcement personnel, have rejected orders from St. Louis County Police to abandon posts on top of private businesses that invited their protection, the...
Anonymous Baltimore gun tip reward line creates new dangers
Clear Channel and Metro Crime Stoppers have teamed up on a “gun tip hotline,” to “get the illegal, functioning fire arms off the streets of Baltimore City,” NBC’s WBAL TV 11 reported Tuesday. The...