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Gun Meme of the Day: Well That’s a Raw Deal Edition
Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly how it went down.
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‘Real’ Governor Stacey Abrams Wants Georgia to Get Behind Her Gun Control Agenda…Good Luck With That
Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams is rolling out a gun control plan that includes restricting gun rights. It’s a gambit she believes state Republicans are ready to get behind.
Abrams wants to reverse course on several pro-gun measures signed into law by Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, including a repeal of the state’s Constitutional Carry law, enacting universal background checks for private firearm transfers and imposing so-called “red flag” laws that don’t protect Due Process rights.
New York Files Federal, State Lawsuits Against ‘Ghost Gun’ Parts Distributors
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) announces charges against 10 companies that have sold “tens of thousands” of illegal ghost gun parts to New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/mzCQ81SfU8
— The Recount (@therecount) June 29, 2022
The city and state of New York have filed separate federal and state lawsuits against a total of 15 distributors of “ghost gun” kits and parts. New York claims that selling firearm parts that allow individuals to build non-serialized firearms creates a public nuisance and is the reason for the spike in violent crime in the last two years.
Wilson Combat Announces the New Subcompact EDC X9 3.25″ 9mm Pistol
From Wilson Combat . . .
The Wilson Combat EDC X9 9mm defensive handgun is now available with a 3.25” subcompact barrel and slide assembly. This rendition of the EDC X9 is a very fast-handling defensive carry gun.
The hand-fitted 3.25” stainless-steel barrel design has the same match-grade accuracy potential as the larger EDC X9 handguns and is painstakingly tuned by our gunsmiths for flawless reliability with a wide variety of target and defensive ammunition.
Woke Politics and Bad Federal Polices That Created a War on Families Have Led to Today’s Disaffected Lone Wolf Killers
By Richard Fulmer
Too many of our nation’s young men use guns for evil. One knee-jerk response is to restrict gun ownership. But this solution ignores the most important question: What drives these young men to murder?
I’m personally all for trying to keep guns away from people with criminal records, mental illness, and histories of making violent threats. But the motives matter more than the means since a motivated person can adopt many different methods.
Gun Meme of the Day: Texas Solutions, Y’all Edition
Sometimes Texas problems require Texas solutions. Solid compromise suggestion from the folks at the Babylon Bee. For the full news article, visit “The Bee” HERE.
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Bruen Ruling Puts Gun Control Laws Based on Lower Courts’ Interest-Balancing Rationales in Real Jeopardy
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen did more than strike New York’s “may issue” subjective concealed carry permitting scheme. The ruling also told lower courts that attempting to balance the individual’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms against the government’s interest in controlling that right violates the Constitution.
In other words, the Supreme Court told the lower courts to cut it out.
The Basics of Hunting in Southern Africa
After my first plains game safari in South Africa last year, I was fortunate enough to be offered some contract work that has taken me throughout southern Africa. Since that first trip, I’ve spent about four months on the continent, mostly in short 10 to 14-day chunks. Every time I work there, I tack on some time to hunt. I’m starting to get the hang of it. The first thing to know is . .
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Kendi’s Claim That the 2nd Amendment is Racist Ignores Facts, History, and Reality
If Boston University professor and anti-racist activist Ibram X. Kendi is to be believed, millions of new first-time African American gun owners support slavery. That includes huge numbers of African American women, the fastest growing membership demographic within the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) over the past two years.
Kendi joined CBS’s Face the Nation and somehow equated support for the Secondment Amendment and supporting the freedom to own a firearm with supporting the “freedom to enslave” people.
The Cornyn-Murphy Senate Gun Control Bill – Half a Victory Lap Along With a Countervailing Setback
Dr. Jeffrey W.Swanson is part of a small community of American academics — about two dozen in all — focused exclusively on studying gun violence and how to prevent it. Washington has often stood in their way; for 24 years, Congress effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding their work. Federal law still prevents the government from giving them access to gun-tracing records that would be extremely helpful to their research.
Gun Meme of the Day: The Right to Arm Bears Edition
Oh my gosh. How dare he. Bears are truly out of control.
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Gun Review: Bergara BMR Carbon Rimfire Rifle
The break of a trigger. The fall of the rifle’s striker. Wait a bit…a puff of dust. A scurrying prairie dog. A miss. But not by much, and the next .22LR round from the Bergara BMR Carbon rifle would be already on its way.
I’ve found prairie dog “hunting” with a .22LR to be one of the best overall marksmanship challenges available, and certainly one of the most fun. They’re small, moving targets of varying size at a range of distances.
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The Effects of the Bruen Decision Don’t Stop at Shall-Issue Carry Permits…Not Even Close
By Rob Morse
Laws can be interpreted many ways. We seek guidance from the courts to know what is legal and what is not. The US Supreme Court has largely ignored the right to bear arms compared to the number of decisions the court has rendered in other areas. As a result, we don’t have enough decisions to draw a clear map of where our rights begin and end.
Now, however the court has issued an opinion on the right to bear arms in public.
Things That Don’t Suck: Tyrant Designs Two-Piece Iron Sights for GLOCK Pistols
You won’t find a lot of fans of the standard iron sights on GLOCK pistols. There’s nothing wrong with the…they’re perfectly functional. But they also seem to be one of the first things that are swapped out by those who own GLOCKS.
Tyrant Designs makes a series of nicely machined 7075 aluminum iron sight options for GLOCK pistols and I chose their gold two-piece version for my G19 Gen5 MOS.
On the left above is the stock sight GLOCK puts on their pistols.
Police Say Two Intruders Were Shot and Killed by a Phoenix Home Owner
Sometimes there are clear cut cases of the defensive use of firearms and then there are others that can fall more under the “justified, but not ideal” classification. Take, for example, this developing story from Phoenix, Arizona.
According to the fox10phoenix.com . . .
Officers responded to 911 calls coming from the area of 27th Street and McDowell Road around 7:45 a.m. Sgt. Philip Krynsky says when they arrived, they found 2 men who had been shot on the ground in front of the home.
Cohen: It’s Not the Culture, Stupid, It’s the Guns
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) gave us a hint when he said, “We had a public school in my district that was forced by the left and the courts to take down ‘thou shalt not kill’ from in front of the schools.”
By his implication, without explicit reminders of Judeo-Christian rules of moral conduct, children fail to learn that things like murder, stealing and lying are wrong. But it’s not a question of knowing the rules.
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Things That Don’t Suck: Raven Concealment Systems ModuLoader Shotgun Shell Carrier
Have you ever had an idea you thought was utter genius, something no one has come up with before…only to find out later that, yes, it’s already been done? That’s how I feel about Raven Concealment Systems and the ModuLoader. Years ago, a friend of mine was messing around making Kydex holsters and mag pouches, and we talked about building a simple Kydex platform to which we could mount velcro shotgun cards.
It turns out Raven Concealment Systems had this idea long before we did in the form of the ModuLoader.
How the Cornyn-Murphy Gun Control Law Will Harm Mental Health in America
By Hannah Cox
Last week, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a bipartisan gun control package supporters have labeled a “compromise” bill.
The gun control package includes several items: Incentives for states to pass red flag laws, a crackdown on “straw purchases,” an end to the “boyfriend loophole,” investments in mental health and suicide prevention as well as crisis and trauma intervention and recovery, an expanded requirement for who must register as a licensed federal firearms dealers, and enhanced background checks for 18-21 year olds looking to buy a gun.
Clearwater, Florida Woman Shoots and Kills a Neighbor Who Attacked Her in Her Own Bedroom
You’re allegedly more likely to be shot by someone you know. One good way to reduce that risk, of course, is to avoid breaking into an acquaintance’s home in the middle of the night. That’s a lesson a Clearwater, Florida man failed to learn.
A woman who lived next door to 26-year-old Justin William Wright woke up to find him standing in her bedroom after he broke in through a window.
The Anti-Gun Left Can’t Seem to Understand That Popularity Isn’t the Same as Constitutionality
Do not call this band of reckless revisionists on the court conservatives, by the way. Nothing about what they are doing is “conservative,” nor should you call them “strict constructionalists” or “originalists,” as their decisions disregard legal precedent, the spirit of the Constitution, and often craft citations for their decisions from whole cloth.
One recent example, last week’s decision ending New York’s restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun, offers a prime example of this.