By Don Thompson, AP California prosecutors on Tuesday asked the NFL to remove a video produced as part of the league’s Inspire Change campaign, saying it misrepresents the circumstances leading to the fatal shooting of a black man in 2018. The video shows Sequette Clark speaking about the death of her son, Stephon Clark, who […]
By Matthew Barakat, AP A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s rules for obtaining a handgun as unconstitutionally restrictive. The unanimous ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond reinstates the lawsuit, which was first filed in 2016 and tossed out of court by a federal judge last […]
By Dylan Lovan, AP Despite mounting public pressure to file criminal charges nearly five months after Breonna Taylor’s death, prosecutors may face significant obstacles to bringing homicide-related charges against police officers who were shot at when sent to her house with a warrant, legal experts said. Tensions have swelled in her home town and spread […]
Fromt he AP: A federal judge from New Jersey is publicly speaking out about a shooting at her New Jersey home last month in which authorities say a disgruntled lawyer killed her son and seriously wounded her husband. In a video statement issued Monday, Judge Esther Salas called for more privacy for federal judges in the […]
Peter C. Schechter Whether selling or buying a gun, doing so by the auction process has both risks and rewards. There is also the possibility of surprises, sometimes bad and other times good. This is a story of a recent rewarding purchase with good surprises. The result is that I now have an example of […]
By Miguel A. Faria, MD. Europeans like to decry violence in America, calling it America’s “gun culture” while forgetting their share of political mayhem in their own house, including violence perpetrated by jihadists as well as their own left-wing terrorists. But I enjoy reminding them that it was America’s gun culture that liberated Western Europeans […]
From the CCRKBA: Four more high-profile names have been added to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms “Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists” roster of businesses that support gun control by banning guns in their establishments. CCRKBA launched the educational effort earlier this month to identify businesses, and CEOs, who close […]
By Larry Keane Shotguns have a deeply rooted history in Europe among sportsmen, farmers and ranchers. Historically these firearms have used traditional components in their loadings that includes lead shot. Anti-hunting groups in Europe and the U.S. have increasingly blamed traditional ammunition for all sorts of evils, with zero evidence that the use has had an impact on human […]
From NAGR: The National Association for Gun Rights sounded the alarm this week against gun control legislation introduced by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). The “Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2020” aims to federally enact a series of gun control laws recently imposed in the state of Virginia, […]
By Larry Keane Presumed Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, called the firearm industry “the enemy” from the debate stage one year ago. Now, the rest of the party plans to follow him in that announcement with the Democratic Platform that lays out an agenda to dismantle the firearm and ammunition industry and destroy Second Amendment […]
By Elizabeth McGuigan A new study seeks to connect gun ownership levels and concealed carry laws with mass shootings and other firearm homicides. The author, Emma E. Fridel of Florida State University, attempts to compare the impact of gun ownership and concealed carry legislation on the incidence rate of mass shootings and firearm homicide in the U.S. […]
By Tom Kubiniec June’s gun sales statistics skyrocketed 136% percent over 2019 numbers. Over 2.1 million guns were sold in June alone. Notably, 40 percent of these sales are to first-time buyers. This record pace of firearms sales has been fueled first by COVID-19 and now by the rioting and civil unrest. This surge is […]