Second Amendment
News pertaining to the second amendment
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Homicides per 100,000 in G-8 Countries
You can see from the chart below that Russia has about twice as many homicides per hundred thousand as the United States, even though Russia has very restrictive laws on possession and carrying of firearms. If you look at the chart below created by ABC, the United States seems to be an outlier. No data…
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Election Official Says the Three Pro-Gun Letters on This Man’s Baseball Cap Make a Political Statement, So They Made Him Remove It
Are “people’s perceptions” enough of a reason to ban pro-gun apparel at polling places? The National Rifle Association may not be a political party, but apparently in some places elections officials will make you remove or cover clothing emblazoned with three letters — NRA — because of, they claim, the pro-gun group’s political overtones. That’s…
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[VIDEO] Open Carry Advocates March Through Downtown St. Louis
Dozens of armed demonstrators have marched through the downtown St. Louis to confirm their right to carry firearms openly in public. Only some 10 policemen watched the march without much interest, even after the group met counter protesters. A heavily armed crowd of over 40 people marched on Saturday afternoon from the Citygarden to the…
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WASHINGTON POST: ‘Thank God’ a Good Guy Had a Gun to End Terror Attack in Canada
The Washington Post (WaPo) published a story on October 23 expressing thanks to God that Canadian Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers saved an untold number of lives and further carnage in Canada’s Parliament. He drew a gun and shot and killed Michael Zehif-Bibeau, the recent Islamic convert who had shot and killed a Canadian Forces reservist and…
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[VIDEO] BACKDOOR GUN CONTROL: D.C. sets impossible hurdles for carry permits
The District’s newly minted concealed carry laws require gun owners seeking permits to complete 18 hours of firearms training. One problem: As of Wednesday, the day before a court-ordered deadline for the permitting process to begin, no instructors had been approved to teach the compulsory course. The disparity is emblematic of the city’s reluctant scramble…
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Another Michigan Public School Adopts Compliant Weapons Policy, Allows Guns
Last night, Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS ) adopted a new weapons policy and it’s good news for Michigan CPL holders. The new policy appears to respect Michigan law and your rights, by allowing those “permitted by law” to carry at TCAPS facilities and events. Earlier this year TCAPS learned that Open Carry on…
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More Crazy Gun Laws From…California
In California, we recently passed a law that lets a doctor take away your guns. Now a mental health professional can ask a judge for a firearms restraining order. So can a cop or a family member. They get to take away your means of self-defense; every gun, bullet and gun part. This new legal…
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Super Model Chrissy Teigen Responds to Canadian Attack by Criticizing America
With one attacker dead and up to two more still on the loose in Ottawa on October 22 2014, super model Chrissy Teigen tweeted a joke about gun control in America and defended the joke by tweeting that she was unapologetic. The tweets began at 8:34 a.m., when Teigen wrote: “active shooting in Canada, or…
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UK Gun Owners Now Subject to Surprise Warrantless Firearm Storage ‘Inspections’
A new firearm policy from the United Kingdom Home Office, put in force on October 15 2014, has accelerated the once-proud nation’s devolution into a police state. The Home Office’s October 2014 “Guide on Firearms Licensing Law” adds a new rule allowing for police to conduct warrantless surprise inspections of a gun owner’s firearm storage…
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D.C. Council Presses Forward with Backward Concealed Carry Law
This week, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced that the District would soon begin accepting applications for licenses to carry a concealed pistol. It’s questionable if many applicants will actually receive a license because of the nearly unfettered discretion given to the chief under the temporary law that is currently in effect. That law has…
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New UK Gun Policy Should Be A Warning To American Gun Owners
A new policy announced by the British Home Office recently to allow unannounced searches of the homes of registered British gun owners should raise alarms among Americans who are threatened with increasingly restrictive gun laws pushed by wealthy anti-gunners including billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said…
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Defensive Gun Use and Ebola
The possibility of infection during and after a defensive gun use has long been a matter of concern. On the positive side, guns give you some “stand off” distance; they are effective without coming into direct contact with the attacker. On the negative side, if you have to shoot someone, there will be lots of…
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Woman Arrested for Protecting Children from Snake
Who would have thought that it would be illegal to defend children from a poisonous snake? This is where the insanity of extreme gun restrictions have brought us. In Florida, a mother was at a school event during a football practice session. A water moccasin was discovered on the practice field, but attempts to kill…
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NY SAFE Act Puts 34,500 New Yorker’s on No-Guns / Confiscation List
A newly created database of New Yorkers deemed too mentally unstable to carry firearms has grown to roughly 34,500 names, a previously undisclosed figure that has raised concerns among some mental health advocates that too many people have been categorized as dangerous. The database, established in the aftermath of the mass shooting in 2012 at…
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‘Gun Laws of America’ Proves Common Sense Gun Laws Already Exist
Gun Laws of America sets out in print all the federal gun laws and explains them in clear plain English. It takes all the guesswork out of federal gun law, explaining clearly how the whole thing works. Covers the hard-to-find “proper authorities” laws, the Militia, the National Guard, citizens, dealers, importers, collectors, global disarmament, explosives,…
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Crayon Gun Subjects 5-year-old to Suicide/Homicide Screening & Non-Violence Contract
E.R. Dickson Elementary School in Mobile, Ala., has introduced two new vocabulary words into their kindergarten curriculum: homicide and suicide. Local media outlets report that a 5-year-old was forced to fill out a bizarre safety agreement and risk assessment questionnaire containing those words after making an innocent gesture with a crayon. The kindergartner’s mother told…
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DEMOCRATS: ‘Gun Groups, Not Obama, To Blame For Spread Of Ebola’
Liberal commentators and Democrats are blaming gun rights supporters for the spread of Ebola…? Seriously. Their so-called logic goes like this: Republicans blocked Vivek Murthy’s nomination for Surgeon General due to his extreme anti-gun views. If there were a surgeon general in place, he would be helping to stop the spread of Ebola. Therefore, gun…
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Federal Court Strikes Down Ban On Firearms On Army Corps of Engineers Property
Plaintiffs challenge regulations promulgated by the Army Corp of Engineers that govern the possession of firearms on property administered by the Corps. Plaintiffs argue that the regulations violate their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The regulations govern over 700 dams — holding back more than 100 trillion gallons of water — built…
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DO WHAT? Watervliet, NY Asks Pistol Permit Applicants for Facebook Passwords
The photo below shows an application for a pistol permit as used by the Watervliet, New York police department. It comes to us from “Mazz,” a member of the nyfirearms.com forum [registration required]. As you can see the app asks applicants for their “Facebook & Password.” Considering the document’s homemade look and the absurdity of the request, I called…
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Four Gun Laws I Would Repeal First (If I Was a Benevolent Dictator)
Back when I was young, naive and not yet wise to the ways of the world, about two weeks ago, I was fantasizing about being elected Benevolent Dictator of the Universe. You know, just like President Nine Iron. Since I view the whole gun issue as a great barometer for individual liberty and personal accountability,…