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Elsea: An Iowa State Gun is a Better Idea Than Protecting Second Amendment Rights
Iowa Republican legislators are asking us to troop to the polls Nov. 8 and vote “yes” on their “right to keep and bear arms” amendment. Forty-four other states already have fortified their constitutions that way, they say.
Not exactly. Iowa’s salute to the Second Amendment adds cryptic language that makes it dangerous. It wards off infringement by liberal judges. Only Louisiana, Alabama and Missouri have gone that far. So read up on Iowa’s amendment before voting.
It’s Time to Hold Your School Officials Accountable For Security
The school year is back in session for tens of millions of American children, including my twin boys. Keenly aware of security considerations, I like what I see at my kids’ school. Do you know much about your kids’ school…or grandkids for you older folks?
As parents, we expect these schools to proactively mitigate risk and keep our kids safe while they’re there. When visiting the school, if you as a layperson see obvious security weak points like unlocked exterior doors during school hours, there may be other issues that you didn’t notice.
After 25 Years in Prison a Kentucky School Shooter Who Killed Three and Wounded Five Will Get a Chance at Parole
By Travis Loller, AP
When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that left three students dead and five more injured at Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky, ended when Carneal put down his weapon and the principal walked him to the school office — a scene that seems unimaginable today.
Sociology Students’ First Range Trips Expand Minds, Broaden Horizons
Before going on this [range] trip, I mentioned it to a few of my friends and family. Most of them either didn’t believe me or thought I was joking. When I told them it was true and I was really going to a shooting range, I got a nearly identical response across the board; “You might be the last person I would ever expect to do that.”
This sentiment was one that even I shared myself.
Peeping Tom Pulls a Knife, Texas Dad Pulls a Gun
What happens when dear old dad discovers a pervy peeping Tom outside his teen daughter’s bedroom? On a good day, it’s a recipe for an extra-judicial tuneup. In San Antonio on Wednesday evening, dad rushed outside to “counsel” the alleged offender. But seeing a red-faced, angry dad approaching, Tom reportedly pulled a knife.
At that point dad reached for his carry piece (hint: this why you carry every day) and cracked off a couple of shots, apparently missing the knife-wielding creeper.
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NSSF Condemns US Fish & Wildlife Ban of Traditional Ammo in Wildlife Refuges
From the NSSF . . .
NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, denounced the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Final Rule that offered hunters a “bait-and-switch” deal that banned the use of traditional ammunition for opening 18 national wildlife refuges for new hunting and fishing opportunities.
USFWS claimed it “remains concerned that lead ammunition and fishing tackle have negative impacts on both human health and wildlife.” It also warned hunters that the future use on additional USFWS lands were open to evaluation.
Eric Adams Wants to Name, Shame and Blame Gun Industry CEOs for NYC’s Violent Crime Problem
When a gun crime is committed, we need the name of the gun and how that gun was obtained by the shooter. Who looked the other way. Where it was bought and who profited from that sale. Following the money is how you get to the heart of the story.
Gun violence is no exception.
Guns don’t magically appear in the hands of shooters.
Gun Meme of the Day: Martha’s Vineyard Edition
It’s literally the Holocaust.
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New York’s New Gun Conrol, Ammo Registration Laws Impacting Conservation Dollars
By Matt Manda
It’s only been two weeks since New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s expanded gun restriction laws took effect. The impacts have been immediate. Concealed carry permit holders, recreational target shooters, hunters, even historical battlefield reenactment groups, have all cried foul amidst the confusion and intrusion.
The Hochul administration is frantically responding to criticisms, trying to settle nerves from law-abiding New Yorkers but it isn’t working.
ATF’s Intentionally Vague Frame and Reciver Rule is Impacting Businesses, Gun Rights
By Lee Williams
Companies selling 80% receivers and other homemade firearm parts have been getting uncomfortable calls and questions from their credit card firms and payment processors. Their ability to process payments could soon end, they’re being told.
Grid Defense, formerly Ghost Firearms, which is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, got a call from their Mastercard payment processor Wednesday.
“We were told we may be violating some of their policies regarding ATF’s new frame and receiver rule,” said TJ, co-owner of Grid Defense.
Philly Mayor Kenney: Pennsylvania is Too Backwards to Enact Stricter Gun Control Laws
Kenney made the comments in response to an NBC10/Telemundo 62 question about his support of stricter gun laws and a shooting that happened at a school in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning.
“We’re not gonna get gun control in Pennsylvania. This is a backward state whose Legislature for the most part doesn’t care about the health and welfare of its citizens,” Kenney said.
Pennsylvania has a Democratic governor in Tom Wolf, but Republicans hold majorities in both the state Senate and House.
Gun Meme of the Day: Follow The Science Edition
That’s just The Science™, folks!
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Riton’s New 5 Tactix 1-6×24 Thunder Ranch LPVO
From Riton . . .
Riton Optics is proud to introduce the 5 Tactix 1-6×24 Thunder Ranch! A rugged, versatile and feature-rich low power variable optic (LPVO), developed in partnership with the legendary Clint Smith from Thunder Ranch.
Designed and engineered to withstand the rigors of extreme use, while offering class-leading clarity, Riton Optics built the 5 Tactix 1-6×24 Thunder Ranch riflescope specifically for Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) platforms.
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City of Aurora, CO Facing Liability for Police Shooting of Homeowner Holding a Gun Inside His Home [VIDEO]
The City of Aurora, Colorado faces a civil rights lawsuit for shooting a homeowner who holding a shotgun — by the barrel — within his own residence. The victim, Andrew Huff, claims that officers who were in plain dark clothes as they approached his home at night, only identified themselves as they opened fire. Huff took a round to the rectum.
Now he’s the one firing legal shots at the cops involved as well as the City of Aurora.
Another Win for Dick Heller: DC Repeals Limit on Rounds Carried by Permit Holders
Dick Heller has been a persistent thorn in the side of District of Columbia’s anti-gun government and police department for well over a decade and good on him for it. The 2008 decision in Heller v. DC is a Supreme Court landmark that clarified, finally, that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms. Yesterday, Heller struck another slightly less momentous blow for gun rights in the District.
MURDER CITY: Shots Fired Across the Street From Set of Chicago Fire Production Set During Filming
Young criminals with guns run the show in Chicago. Between the Soros-funded prosecutor Kim Foxx decriminalizing crime, the state’s decarceration policies, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot defunding and denigrating the local police, the bad guys victimize people with impunity. As Tucker Carlson says, “it’s what the collapse of civilization looks like.”
How bad is it in Chicago? On Wednesday afternoon, gunfire broke out across the street from the Chicago Fire television show production set directed at a group of people nearby.
Anthropologic Inquiry: The New York Times Wants to Talk to First-Time Gun Owners
“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable!” “Speak truth to power.” Those are allegedly a couple of the credos of the modern journalist. So imagine our surprise when we heard that the ink-stained stay-at-home wretches at The New York Times want to venture into the unknown and talk to some of the 10 million or so people who have bought their first gun in the last couple of years.
From their perspective on the west side, why any sane individual would choose to buy a firearm is downright puzzling.
Gun Meme of the Day: Boneless Wings Edition
Chickens have wings and wings have bones. Chickens don’t have nuggets.
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Standard Manufacturing Announces the New SG22 Semi-Automatic Rimfire Pistol
No, that’s not a Colt Woodsman, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so. That’s actually a new semi-automatic pistol from Standard Manufacturing that will remind more than a few of you of that bygone Browning-designed rimfire.
Standard Manufacturing has moved the magazine release on the SG22 from the heel position on the original to the more familiar 1911-like spot just behind the trigger. That will make many shooters very happy.