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Washington, DC Judge Declares John Hinckley Jr. a Free Man
[ED: Note that the name of James Brady, Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, appears nowhere in this Associated Press report. Brady was shot in the head during John Hinckley Jr.’s attempt to assassinate President Reagan in 1981. Brady’s death in 2014 was ruled a homicide, having never recovered from his injuries.]
By Ben Finley, AP
John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
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Criminal Enterprise: Saturday’s Miami GUNS 4 UKRAINE ‘Buyback’ Will Break State and Federal Firearm Laws
By Lee Williams
The Miami Police Department plans to hold a gun buyback this Saturday at Miami City Hall, which it is calling “GUNS 4 UKRAINE.” Police are offering gift cards in exchange for the weapons: $50 for a handgun, $100 for a shotgun or rifle and $150 for what the department calls a “high powered rifle (.223 caliber, AR-15, AK-47).”
According to Miami Police Public Information Officer K.
Gun Control Advocates’ Lies and Duplicity Are Right There for Everyone to See
There’s an interesting phenomenon occurring with those demanding gun control lately. They’ve abandoned pretenses of “common sense.” Now, it’s not gun control. It’s gun rights elimination.
President Joe Biden leads the gun control charade parade. The president chides gun owners for not supporting his gun control agenda while at the same time expanding his gun ban wish list.
President Biden spoke to the American public from The White House on June 2 to explain his desire to push for expanded gun control.
We’re Just Getting Started – Dems Admit Senate Gun Control Deal is Only the Beginning
By Lee Williams
Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) admitted something we all knew last weekend at the March for our Lives rally in Parkland, Florida, when she was asked about the gun control “framework” that a bipartisan group of 20 Senators have said they support.
It’s just the beginning, she said, and more “significant” gun control is coming.
“We were expecting moderate reform at best, I wasn’t expecting anything of significance,” Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC’s Alex Witt.
The Senate Deal is Just a Start: Here’s What’s Still on Gun Controllers’ Wish Lists
The bipartisan group of Senators who have been “negotiating” our rights is all the talk right now. “Negotiating” is in quotations because only one side is giving anything up here, as usual. TTAG’s Jennifer Sensiba has a rundown of that if you need to get up to speed.
The deal announced over the weekend is still just a “framework.” No legislation has been written. It’s basically an agreement to consider a bill, but gun owners aren’t the only ones who are unhappy.
Obscure Objects of Desire: Savage M1907 Pistol in .32 ACP
It all started when the United States military wanted to move from revolvers to semi-automatics and wanted a .45 caliber pistol. As we all know, the M1911 won the contract, but one of the pistols submitted for the trials was a new design by Savage.
The Savage entry didn’t win, but that didn’t mean the pistol was canned. Savage realized the gun would work well as a pocket pistol, thus, the Savage M1907 came into being.
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Dan Wesson’s Compact 1911 Pistols in .45 ACP and 9mm
From Dan Wesson . . .
Specific characteristics are essential when it comes to a concealed carry handgun. The Dan Wesson Enhanced Compact Pistol (ECP) and Tactical Compact Pistol (TCP) check all the boxes for reliability, accuracy, ergonomics, and weight. Both compact 1911 pistols deliver serious firepower in 9 mm and .45 ACP configurations.
The Enhanced Compact Pistol is a traditional 1911 design with modern styling and enhancements. The ECP sports a stainless-steel slide and a forged aluminum frame, keeping the weight to a mere 29 oz.
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Ohio Governor Signs Bill Allowing School Districts to Arm Employees
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Mark Gillispie, AP
Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law Monday by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.
The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed, and up to eight hours of annual training. The training programs must be approved by the Ohio School Safety Center, and DeWine announced he’s ordering the center to require the maximum 24 hours and the maximum eight hours.
Scalise: We’re Not Having the Tough Conversations We Need to Have About School Shootings
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) pointed to a lack of school prayer when talking about gun violence.
“We had AR-15s in the 1960s. We didn’t have those mass school shootings,” Scalise said during a press conference Wednesday.
“Now, I know it’s something that some people don’t want to talk about. We actually had prayer in school during those days,” Scalise continued. “We had other things going on in our society where we took a different approach to our young kids.
Gun Meme of the Day: Why Won’t You Compromise Edition
Keep sharing little slices of your pie and eventually you won’t have any pie. They’ll never stop eating it. In the immortal words of Dilated Peoples, “Give ’em an inch they’ll take feet. Give ’em feet they’ll take the street.”
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Gun Review: Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey Semi-Auto Shotgun
Let me start by saying I’m not a turkey hunter. That’s why when Dan assigned me the Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey shotgun at SHOT Show, I wasn’t expecting much that would hold my interest. What I found was a truly awesome shotgun that will not only take gobblers with ease, but would also be a practical home defense shotgun and a mighty nice tactical shotgun.
Mossberg produces both an 18.5-inch and 24-inch versions of the 940 Pro Turkey.
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Silencer Shop Gets ATF Approval for Remote eForm 4 Completion
From Silencer Shop . . .
Silencer Shop, the nation’s largest NFA distributor, is pleased to announce an improvement to the ATF eForm 4 submission process. Until recently, ATF required Individual registrants to complete the eForm 4 “while physically present” at the dealer. Silencer Shop has been in communication with ATF and working hard to remove that instruction. This month, ATF confirmed in writing to Silencer Shop that the instruction would be removed and last week, it was officially deleted.
While the Media are Already All-In on the Senate Gun Control Deal, It Still Has a Long Way to Go
By Lee Williams
If the legacy media had their way, your front door would explode and seconds later you’d be hip-deep in armed gun-grabbers delivering butt-strokes to your noggin until you surrendered the combination to your gun safe. That’s the level of anti-gun bias today’s legacy media uses whenever they report on anything related to guns or the Second Amendment. Their recent stories on developments in the Senate are no exception to this rule.
FN’s Upgraded Five-seveN MK3 MRD Pistol Has an Optics-Ready Slide, Better Ergonomics
FN has updated their popular, powerful FN Five-seveN 5.7×28 pistol. The new Five-Seven MRD is now optics-ready and ships with a series of plates for virtually any optic you’ll want to mount.
I got to spend some range time with the upgraded Five-seveN MK3 MRD a few months ago. The ergonomic changes make a big noticeable difference in the pistol’s shootability and FN’s out-of-the-box optics mounting plate system make adding a red dot quick, easy and simple.
BREAKING: Senate Reaches Gun Control Compromise Deal With 10 Republicans Signing On
A group of Senators have announced that they’ve reached a bipartisan deal on a framework for legislation they say will do something about “gun violence.” According to The Hill, “The framework includes funding for school safety measures and mental health, a requirement to review juvenile records for firearm buyers under 21 years old and incentives for states to implement ‘red flag’ laws.”
The deal was pushed through by Connecticut’s Chris Murphy and Texas’s John Cornyn.
Mass Shooters Are Fueled by the Hatred and Division Sewn by the Politics of the Left
By Miguel A. Faria, Jr, MD
We could say that all mass shootings are inspired by hatred, but many are carried out by deranged individuals, susceptible to violence and possessing no clear and distinct political or religious motives. These disturbed, mentally unstable people are unhinged by the strain of the postmodern age and what they see and experience.
They are receptive to the influences of the perverse degeneration of the popular culture, media sensationalism, and the pursuit of celebrity status, even if they pay with their own lives to achieve the dubious notoriety they seek.
Chronic Wasting Disease and How It’s Killing Deer and Elk in North America
By Allan Houston, University of Tennessee
Chronic wasting disease, a deadly neurological infectious disease that affects deer, elk and moose, is spreading across North America. Most recently detected in North Carolina in March 2022, CWD has been confirmed in 30 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, as well as Norway, Finland, Sweden and South Korea. Dr. Allan Houston, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Tennessee’s 18,400-acre Ames AgResearch and Education Center in western Tennessee, explains what is known about CWD and what wildlife scientists are trying to learn.
Shoot or GTFO – What Would You Do?
Let’s say you’re visiting a relative and they step out to run an errand, leaving you alone. Then a total stranger boldly walks into the house without permission. Then they become “disruptive.”
What do you do?
A Miramar, Florida man faced exactly that situation earlier this week and shot the intruder, killing him. It turned out that, according to media reports, the homeowner knew the man. Exactly what that means isn’t clear.
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