The Truth About Guns

The left is already pushing for more gun control even before the release of information on the shooter or possibly shooters at the Super Bowl Parade.

Authorities reported they caught three men, one person died, and over twenty others were injured. They haven’t said anything about who they have in custody or confirmed that they were the shooters. Two bystanders tackled one alleged shooter as he was running away.

NEW: The man who tackled a shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs parade speaks out, says he didn’t hesitate when he saw the shooter running by.

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Sergeant Eugene Colter slouched immobile alongside 27 of his mates inside the dark cavernous interior of the big C-47 cargo plane as it droned hypnotically through the predawn darkness toward occupied Europe. He was one of only three young paratroopers onboard the plane who was not chain smoking Camels, Chesterfields or Lucky Strikes. He had trained for nearly two years for this moment, and he was utterly terrified.

He was a member of the 101st Airborne—the Screaming Eagles—and he was about to take the fight to Hitler.

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Despite legal challenges taking place against similar legislation across the country including a strong possibility of a Supreme Court review looming, two Denver Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban the purchase, sale and transfer of a large number of semi-auto firearms. The move is merely a reheated plate of gun control that failed to get approved in the state last year. House Bill 1292 aims to restrict the same firearms the failed measure did.

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We told you recently about a measure under consideration in New Mexico that would place a waiting period on gun purchases even after the buyer had passed the federal background check.

On Feb. 12, a somewhat watered down but equally unconstitutional background check bill, which had been amended in the state Senate, was approved by the state House of Representatives and is now headed to anti-gun Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk for nearly certain approval.

Continue reading New Mexico Waiting Period Bill Heads To Governor at The Truth About Guns.

This came out last week, but one of the leading and loudest voices calling for more gun control is getting increased scrutiny after she spent nearly $1 million on private security for herself, all while calling for law-abiding citizens to lose their rights and proclaiming avowed support for the “defund the police” movement.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) confirmed to media that she is now facing criminal investigations by the U.S.

Continue reading “Suck It Up” Anti-Gun Congresswoman’s Private Security Costs Come Under Rightful Scrutiny at The Truth About Guns.

Speaking to a packed arena at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this past weekend, Trump reiterated his commitment to the Second Amendment, declaring to thousands of sportsmen and woman, a number of them NRA members, “no one will lay a finger on your firearms.” Trump pledged to eliminate every Biden administration attack on gun owners and manufacturers, a promise that was met with robust support from the standing room only crowd. The NRA is a title sponsor and organizer of the nine-day show, one of the largest in the country.

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His future now in the hands of a grand jury, a 21-year-old Houston man had just left a downtown restaurant Sunday evening when he noticed a man following him. The man doing the following had an ice pick in his hand and reportedly approached the 21-year-old in an aggressive manner. Feeling threatened, the would-be victim told police, he drew a handgun and shot his alleged attacker.

Details of the incident in several local news accounts all seemed hazy, but two things are clear: people armed with ice picks should never attempt to challenge a person with a gun or it’s simply not wise to walk up to people in the dark with an ice pick in your hand.

Continue reading Attacker “Picks” the Wrong Victim at The Truth About Guns.

U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert’s office announced that 32-year-old Joshua Markanson of Victorville, California, has pleaded guilty to various charges related to the unlawful manufacture and dealing of firearms. The charges include conspiring to unlawfully manufacture and deal firearms, unlawfully manufacturing and dealing in firearms, engaging in the business of manufacturing and dealing firearms without proper registration and tax payments, possession of unregistered firearms and possession of unserialized firearms.

Court documents reveal that between Nov.

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The tradition of arms for Black Americans has always been different. “Black codes” were implemented in many states, which were designed to keep Blacks from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. In Florida, for example, whites could enter Black-owned homes and search for weapons without a warrant. In Louisiana, Blacks could be stopped and searched for weapons at any time. If they refused to comply, they could be shot.

Over the years, even prominent Black leaders were denied their Second Amendment rights.

Continue reading Gun Nation, One Nation: Celebrating America’s Black Second Amendment Scholars at The Truth About Guns.

As of today, Michigan’s new spate of gun laws take affect and gun owners can now be fined and even incarcerated should their guns find their way into the wrong hands because they were not properly stored according to the requirements of the law. The state passed the storage and other laws in an attempt to bolster the safety measures surrounding the purchase, storage, and ownership of firearms, yet is an obvious sign of government overreach and serves up obvious constitutional challenges.

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In an expected move, national gun advocacy groups have taken action to challenge Illinois’ restrictive ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines at the U.S. Supreme Court level. The Colorado-based National Association for Gun Rights and the Nevada-based Firearms Policy Coalition filed petitions on Monday urging the highest court in the land to overturn a ruling by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. This appellate court had decided in a 2-1 vote against issuing a temporary injunction on the Illinois law, controversially suggesting that the constitutional rights enshrined in the Second Amendment have their limits.

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A new legislative proposal in Colorado, SB24-066, is stirring controversy with its intention to introduce Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) specifically for firearm sales. These four-digit identifiers, common in the retail sector to classify the nature of transactions, are at the heart of a debate that extends far beyond their apparent administrative function. While proponents argue that assigning unique MCCs to gun and ammunition retailers could aid in identifying suspicious purchasing patterns, critics are raising alarms over privacy and Second Amendment rights.

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In answer to many of the questions that remained from yesterday’s active shooting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, police have identified the shooter and the child that was with her. What was originally shared was that a female shooter with a young child in tow opened fire at the church before being quickly killed by off-duty law enforcement officers working as security in the building. The church was between services at the time the woman entered the building.

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As pro-gun lawmakers in South Carolina press on with their efforts to make the Palmetto State the 28th in the nation to allow lawful citizens to carry firearms for self-defense without a permit, the proposal’s future is still uncertain.

House Bill 3594, formally called the “South Carolina Constitutional Carry/Second Amendment Preservation Act of 2023,” was passed by the state Senate last week. That’s the good news. The not so good news is the Senate passed it with a number of amendments.

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A recent post by Navi of Boomhandia (a well-known name in the 3D-printed gun community) about the politics and culture of 3D-printed guns really impressed me, and I think it bears sharing and discussing further here. It came after a dustup where some said that LGBT (especially the T) enthusiasts were too loud about 3D-printed guns, and thus were discouraging people from getting into it.

Instead of taking a side, Navi took the high road, and explained that one of the key benefits to a truly open and free gun community is that nobody can dominate it, chase people off, or gatekeep one way or the other.

Continue reading Culture Wars Can’t Take Root In 3D-Printed Gun Culture at The Truth About Guns.

A Richland County, South Carolina, woman, defending herself and her two small children, stopped an intruder over the weekend shooting him dead after he busted through the door to her apartment and came at her.

The woman told police she heard banging at the door of her residence in the early morning hours of Sunday. As he approached the door to see what the commotion was about, the main crashed through the door and into her apartment.

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Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, one of the largest and most watched on television church services, was the scene Sunday of an active shooting. Authorities say just before 2 p.m., as the church was between services and about to begin a Spanish-language service, a woman dressed in a trench coat and carrying a backpack entered the church with a rifle and a 5-year-old child in tow and began opening fire. Off-duty police officers working security at the church quickly engaged the woman, killing her before she could harm anybody.

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A measure recently introduced in the Idaho legislature seeks to keep companies that discriminate against firearms-related businesses or groups from receiving contracts from the state government.

Senate Bill 1291 was introduced in the state Senate earlier this week. The measure would prohibit public contracts with individuals or companies that are boycotting those that engage in or support the manufacture, distribution, sale or use of firearms, and would also require companies that contract with the state to disclose if their policies discriminate against the firearms industry.

Continue reading Idaho Bill Bans Public Contracts For Companies That Discriminate Against Gun Industry at The Truth About Guns.

A recent video from Mark Smith at The Four Boxes Diner on YouTube sheds a lot of light on a recent filing with the Supreme Court. While it’s not very likely that the Supreme Court will go for it, I’ll argue that it should, because it would put an end to increasing lawlessness in the lower courts.

But first, let’s take a look at the video so you can see what the overall situation is:

In short, the Fourth Circuit is playing games.

Continue reading The Supreme Court Has An Opportunity to Clean House at The Truth About Guns.

While there are plenty of people in the world who wouldn’t piss on a cop if they were on fire, there are still many of us who would be willing to put ourselves in harm’s way to help. But, stepping up to assist law enforcement is something that almost nobody really trains for.

Even if we wanted to prepare for that, how would we go about it?

Continue reading Things To Think About Before Helping Police at The Truth About Guns.