By Larry Keane With three early states completed and 47 primaries to go, the results look shockingly good for America’s most popular socialist millionaire U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and surprisingly bad for the former frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden. Going into the South Carolina primary, Sen. Sanders has a lead with 34 delegates and […]
By Alex Ooley Many states around the country, like Virginia, have been making a push to implement stringent gun control measures that include, among other things, universal background checks, magazine capacity limits, and so-called “assault weapons” bans. These attempts to regulate firearms are nothing new, but the efforts to implement these sorts of laws and regulations […]
By Theresa Inacker 100 years after Prohibition, it’s still a doomed proposition There is an uncanny parallel between anti-gun rights groups like Moms Demand Action, which continually seeks more ineffective gun control laws, and the infamous women of the temperance movement, which brought about the failed experiment of Prohibition. In 1920, Prohibition outlawed the sale, manufacturing […]
Reader Corey Roberts writes: The calls to ban ‘assault weapons’ never seem to subside. Images of AR-15s, the media’s favorite rifle to demonize, flash across countless headlines, and Moms Demand an end to “weapons of war on our streets.” Countless celebrities tweet and make pleas to ban these evil rifles designed to do “just one […]
From the CCRKBA . . . Targeting what it calls “harmfully misleading” information, Twitter has identified a tweet from presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders that shows he was all wet when he claimed 40 percent of gun sales in the U.S. didn’t include a background check, so the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep […]
From the Second Amendment Foundation: The Second Amendment Foundation is cautioning the public about a new “toolkit” for gun control lobbying groups to help them campaign for passage of so-called “red flag” laws that create “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” designed to take firearms from people based on allegations from family members, intimate partners or others, […]
By the Associated Press Bills that would have limited how many rounds can be stored in gun magazines and what guns can be sold did not pass in Olympia. KING-TV reports neither bill was approved before Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Lawmakers knew earlier this month the proposed ban on firearms defined as assault weapons did […]
By Rachel Malone Did you see the news about a recent home invasion and shooting in Austin? Here’s the style in which it was reported: There was a shooting at a local apartment. Two people died, still looking for a motive. Unfortunately, because a bill that just passed, we may not be able to punish the […]
By CCRKBA Anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg is continuing what appears to be an attempted “leveraged buyout” of the Second Amendment as Everytown for Gun Safety—the group he co-founded and bankrolled—has pledged to spend $8 million in Texas; just part of the $60 million that group has vowed to spend in order to elect anti-rights politicians […]
By Michael Probst, AP Eight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau late Wednesday, officials said. A local broadcaster said the attacks took place at two hookah lounges. Authorities were searching for the perpetrators early Thursday, hours after the shootings that police said also wounded about five people. Police said a […]
By Larry Keane Go west, young man. That’s what California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife is telling hunters and anglers. That is, of course, as long as hunters are willing to pay a fee for the privilege to purchase ammunition in the Golden State and pass a state-required background check. There are a couple more […]
[ED: What this AP story doesn’t mention is that this celebrated “prison reform advocate” had spent ten years in a Tennessee prison for attempted murder, armed robbery, and attempted aggravated robbery.] From the Associated Press: A longtime prison reform advocate was preparing to stage a jail break when he hid loaded guns and ammunition in […]
