Poor Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Michigan’s gun rights-hating authoritarian governor has suffered through some bad days of late. Her most recent cry for help? On Tuesday, she bemoaned how her family can see men with “automatic rifles” from the front window of her home. And she’s not talking about the Michigan cops on her protective detail. … Read more
The National Rifle Association has canceled several shooting championships scheduled for this summer and is no longer sanctioning matches beyond April 30, according to a notice on the association’s Competitive Shooting Programs webpage. The canceled national events include the 2020 NRA Precision Pistol Championships, July 1-5, 2020; 2020 NRA High Power Championships, August 9-25, 2020; … Read more
America has edged closer to tyranny this year. We’ve seen, first hand, how far too many of our governors, state officials and even local law enforcement stand ready, willing and able to trample Americans’ fundamental constitutional protections. And they’ve used the coronavirus as an excuse to do it. Regrettably, we’ve also seen nosy neighbors call … Read more
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order last week requiring residents to wear masks in public effective May 1st. However, the order puts gun owners in jeopardy with Illinois firearms laws. From the May 1, 2020 executive order . . . “Wearing a face covering in public places or when working. Any individual who … Read more
Portland, Maine has failed to learn some important lessons from other jurisdictions that have tried to close gun stores during the COVID-19 outbreak. Last week the city council passed a revised State of Emergency Order. 3. The business, production and service sectors identified in Exhibit A are hereby designated as “COVID-19 Essential Services.” All of … Read more
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. In response to President Trump asserting that he has the authority to end the COVID-19 lockdown nationwide, NBC’s Dartunorro Clark has decided that pesky Tenth Amendment actually … Read more
An Albuquerque, New gun shop has had enough of New Mexico Governor Michelle Grisham’s heavy-handed authoritarianism. Louie Sanchez, owner of Calibers gun shop, says the Constitution trumps the governor’s pandemic over-reach. He plans to open his gun shop regardless of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s empty decrees and threats. “Unless, somehow, she got a magical power … Read more
Michigan’s governor has done a wonderful job of roiling people across the nation with her petty, tyrannical responses to the Chinese virus pandemic. And as much as she doesn’t like guns, though, she has not moved to close gun shops. Yet. This, despite not naming firearms retailers as “essential” in her executive order shuttering non-essential … Read more
Like someone else who ruled with a phone and a pen, Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen “Half” Whitmer has decreed that gun shops have no “essential” purpose during a national emergency. As such, she wants to close the retailers and cease firearm sales across Michigan in the face of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Whitmer, the woman who … Read more
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