This shouldn’t come as news to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last eight years: Obama’s relentless gun purge – “The Obama administration began looking for loopholes in the Constitution, all to limit gun ownership with executive orders, reinterpreted regulatory requirements and whatever else creative bureaucrats could devise to harass gun owners and gun dealers. Many of these new restrictions are far from reasonable and unless Democrats can deliver on their promise to turn the court into an instrument of ‘progressive’ liberalism, will no doubt be struck down.” Unless? It looks like they’re doing just that.
Rebel groups in Iraq, Syria using remote-controlled guns – “Remotely-operated sniper rifles and machines guns are becoming a powerful weapon for rebel groups in Iraq and Syria — including the Islamic State — allowing fighters to kill with the ease of pressing a button.” Really? A Sturmgewehr? He couldn’t find an AK lying around to hack?
It ain’t cheap to defend yourself after a lethal self defense shooting. No matter how straightforward the case is.
Wildcatting against a civil right: University of Kentucky Coach: Even Football Players with ‘Legal Permit’ Barred from Handgun Ownership – “During an August 31 SEC football coaches’ teleconference, University of Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said he does not allow players on his football team to own a handgun, even if they possess a “legal permit” for it.”
The life of a registered sex offender isn’t an easy one: Armed Protesters Wait For Brock Turner’s Arrival At Ohio Home – “Armed protesters have been waiting for Brock Turner to arrive at his parents’ home in Ohio, where the former Stanford University student-athlete is expected to live after serving three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last year.”
Winchester Honors Kim Rhode – “To celebrate Rhode’s history-making achievements, Winchester is once again featuring Kim Rhode on boxes of AA target loads. The standard AA loads, AA128, will be in the commemorative boxes and available at Winchester retailers.”
Exclusive: Brazil’s Taurus sold arms to trafficker for Yemen war, prosecutors allege – “Federal prosecutors in southern Brazil charged two former executives of Forjas Taurus (FJTA4.SA) in May with shipping 8,000 handguns in 2013 to Fares Mohammed Hassan Mana’a, an arms smuggler active around the Horn of Africa for over a decade according to the United Nations. The handguns were allegedly shipped by Taurus to Djibouti and redirected to Yemen by Mana’a, according to court documents.”
No Guns on Campus: In Protest of Concealed Carry of Guns on College Campuses – “If college campuses are to remain the intellectually free and challenging sanctums they are meant to be, guns have no place. Safety should remain he responsibility of the university and the police force, and not the prerogative of 21-year-olds.” Five of the current eight Supreme Court justices are Harvard alums. All are from the Ivy League.