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Let’s Look at Sandy Hook Promise, One of America’s Biggest Gun Control Operations
By Lee Williams
On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old madman stalked the halls of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 young children and six adults. Just 14 days later, the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise was founded by three Newtown residents, Mark Barden, Nicole Hockley and Tim Makris.
Barden’s son Daniel was killed during the mass murder, as was Hockley’s son, Dylan. Makris’ child was at the school, but was not physically injured.
Let’s Take a Look at Who Will Be Running Biden’s New Ministry of Gun Control
The White House made a much-ballyhooed announcement that they were caving to gun control special interests by installing a new Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The office will have little to do with preventing actual crime and everything to do with using taxpayer dollars to attempt to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights.
Still, there are questions about just what this office will do and who are the people staffing it at taxpayer expense.
Maybe TX Rep. Cuellar Should Have Been One of the 1.1 Million Americans Who Bought a Gun Last Month
As we noted earlier, a US Congressman was carjacked at gunpoint on the streets of our nation’s capital last night. As the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Mark Oliva told us . . .
The despicable and violent attack on Congressman Henry Cuellar serves as a reminder why Americans continue to choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Crime rates are unabated and criminals prey on innocent Americans without consequence. Americans are choosing a different path.
ATF Sends .50 BMG Warning to Border State FFLs
The ATF does a decent job of keeping FFLs on their toes when it comes to threats of theft, fraud, and more. For instance, emails go out to all FFLs within a certain radius of an FFL that’s been the victim of a robbery or burglary. If protests or civil unrest are anticipated somewhere, that will trigger proactive emails and sometimes phone calls to alert FFLs in the affected area
The email I got dtoday was a new one for Texas FFLs.
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Texas Democrat Congressman Carjacked at Gunpoint in Washington, DC
Police activity after alleged car jacking of Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar https://t.co/0e6Dog5B3A pic.twitter.com/dLZUFodWgv
— Matt VanHyfte (@MattVanHyfte) October 3, 2023
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar was carjacked by three armed attackers but was unharmed, the Texas Democrat’s office said.
Cuellar’s chief of staff Jacob Hochberg released a statement Monday night saying: “As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle.
Fifth Circuit Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking Brace Ban Enforcement Against Plaintiffs in Mock v. Garland
For those of you keeping score at home, back in May, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction blocking the ATF from enforcing its new rule effectively banning pistol stabilizing braces. This was after a lower court judge concluded that the plaintiffs weren’t likely to prevail on the merits of the case.
The Fifth Circuit concluded that not only were the plaintiffs in Mock v.
Better Angels of our Nature: Of Love, Gun Control and Armed Self Defense
By Rob Morse
I hope you’ve fallen in love at some point. It’s an exciting time when your new partner is simply beautiful and the world is full of possibilities. Eventually, the honeymoon ends and you find out that all relationships take work. When you begin to see you see your partner’s flaws, you wonder how you overlooked them before.
The theory of gun control might be a beautiful utopian vision to some, but the reality of disarming the good guys is heart-breakingly ugly with any examination at all.
Sounds and Fury Signifying Nothing: N.J. Governor Emotes Over Challenge to ‘Sensitive Places’ Law
New Jerseys Governor Phil Murphy lashed out in response to a ten day old filing by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, in the challenge to the state’s “carry-killer” Bruen response law. The 2022 law signed by Murphy eviscerated the ability of Jerseyites to exercise the Second Amendment and currently is sitting on the chopping block of a legal challenge.
One of the most egregious provisions of the law created new so-called “sensitive places” where carrying firearms is prohibited.
The Truth About Suppressors – How They Work and What They Really Do
By David Lewis
This project is a comprehensive look at silencers with testing data that shows exactly what difference a suppressed firearm can make on sound levels while shooting.
Understanding How Firearm Silencers/Suppressors Work
When you fire ammunition from a gun, the ammo generates hot pressurized gases that need a place to escape.
As these turbulent gases exit the firearm, the dramatic change in pressure causes a loud blasting sound.
Judge Orders New York to Pay Almost Half a Million of NRA’s Bruen Legal Expenses
In a case decided last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that a New York public carry licensing law was unconstitutional and that the ability to carry a pistol in public was a constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
The NRA was a party in that case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, and last week a New York judge ordered the state to pay $447,700.82 in legal fees.
Heritage Manufacturing Releases a Trio of Rimfire Lever Guns
Heritage Manufacturing is known for their affordable single action revolvers but their latest release, while staying true to that Old West theme, is something new. While they’ve done some neat revolving carbines before their first true foray into rifles is appropriately enough a lever action. Three of them in fact.
The Settler family consists of a 20 inch rifle, a 16.5 inch carbine and a 12.5 inch Mare’s Leg (which is actually a pistol).
With a New Term Starting Tomorrow, the Supreme Court Will Clarify Its Stance on Guns and Regulation
By Morgan Marietta, University of Texas at Arlington
The first Monday in October, the traditional date for the beginning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term, is almost here: On Oct. 2, 2023, the court will meet after the summer recess, with the biggest case of the term focused on the limits of individual gun rights.
The other core issue for the coming year is a broad reassessment of the power of the administrative state.
Do You Know the Difference Between a Flash Hider, a Compensator and a Muzzle Brake?
I hear the terminology for different muzzle devices misused and mangled frequently. As in…a lot. And it’s not just newbies who are guilty of mis-identifying these things. Plenty of “gun guys” don’t really know the difference.
So to help alleviate the problem and clear up some confusion, here’s the difference between the most commonly used muzzle devices in use today.
Flash Hider
When you buy an AR-15, or any modern rifle with a threaded barrel, the default muzzle device is typically some kind of flash hider.
‘The Nation’ Contemplates the Horror of Due Process Applying to Gun Owners and Their Rights
Conservatives try to mask the horror of what the Fifth Circuit has done [in US v. Rahimi] by making a due-process argument. They say that a restraining order is vastly different from a criminal conviction and that people should not have a fundamental constitutional right taken away from them without the full benefit of a trial. There is a version of this argument I could agree with: I don’t, for instance, think people should lose their voting rights based on a prosecutorial indictment.
CRPA Files Motion in Federal Court to Block New California Carry Restriction Laws
By Chuck Michel
Governor Newsom held a press conference Wednesday at which he signed almost two dozen new gun control laws all designed to make it harder and more expensive to buy or have a gun to defend yourself or your family in California. Two of those bills have gotten the most attention – Senate Bill 2 and Assembly Bill 28. Legal challenges to those two bills, and others, are already in motion.
District Court Judge Blocks Part of Maryland’s ‘Sensitive Places’ Concealed Carry Ban Law
A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has granted in part a motion for a preliminary injunction in two cases—including one involving the Second Amendment Foundation—challenging Maryland’s “sensitive places” law, which is supposed to take effect Sunday.
The case, known as Novotny v. Moore, was filed earlier this year against the law, which places broad restrictions on where a legally-licensed private citizen may carry a firearm for personal protection.
Gun Controllers Like Dianne Feinstein and the Clinton ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Made the AR-15 America’s Rifle
Although AR-15-style rifles have been sold commercially since the 1960s, for a long time there was barely a market for them. In 1990, they accounted for just 1.2 percent of all firearms manufactured in the United States.
But starting in the mid-2000s, after the assault weapons ban expired, their appeal grew. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq gave AR-15-style rifles a certain cachet — people wanted the same guns the soldiers were using.
Senate Joins House in Overturning Administration’s School Hunting Program Cuts, Biden Says He’ll Sign It
From the CCRKBA . . .
Only hours after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms blasted the Biden administration’s attempt to eliminate funding for school hunter education and archery programs, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to prevent the cuts, and now the White House has confirmed President Biden will sign the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act.
The bill passed the House 424-1 Tuesday.