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City of Brooklyn Center Agrees to Pay Daunte Wright’s Family $3.2 Million in Wrongful Death Settlement
From the Associated Press . . .
A suburban Minneapolis city has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused her gun for her Taser.
The tentative settlement also includes changes in police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that resulted in Wright’s death, according to a statement Tuesday night from attorneys representing Wright’s family.
The Latest Target in the Biden Administration’s War on America’s Gun Owners: AR-15 Ammunition
President Joe Biden doesn’t like a lot of things about guns. He castigates modern sporting rifles (MSRs), as “weapons of war.” He’s also pretty angry about privately made firearms PMFs – or those scary “ghost guns,” that have existed since before America was founded. Forget accessories. Standard capacity magazines completely creep him out.
None of that, though, makes him as angry as ammunition. President Biden really doesn’t like it at all. There’s no other way to explain why he and his administration are determined to tangle with ammunition.
John Cornyn Delivers A Bipartisan Senate Gun Control Bill Anti-Gun Democrats Can Love
You know how gun right orgs are always criticized and ridiculed for claiming that anything that moves toward more gun control is just a first step on a slippery slope to civilian disarmament? Yeah, well there’s a good reason for those warnings.
Democrats and their accomplices in the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex and the media (but I repeat myself) have pushed for decades, working around the edges to limit, to ban, to inconvenience, and to harass firearm owners and trim their Second Amendment rights.
Biden to Anti-Gun Governors: Pass More Gun Control Laws! Ban All the Things!
By Lee Williams
The Biden-Harris administration is telling sympathetic Democratic governors to pass more gun control legislation with the apparent belief that if more states pass restrictive anti-gun bills, it will be easier for the administration to push for similar legislation at the federal level.
The White House has already contacted governors in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, California and Delaware. The bills they have come up with are similar in concept and some even use similar language.
Rifles and a Ballistic Shield: The Uvalde Shooting Police Response Story Changes…Again
From the AP . . .
Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while a gunman carried out a massacre of 19 elementary students and two teachers, according to a Monday news report that marks the latest embarrassing revelation about the failure of law enforcement to thwart the attack.
The officers with heavier firepower and tactical equipment were there within 19 minutes of the gunman arriving on campus — earlier than previously known, according to documents reviewed by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV.
The New Rules: Only Anti-Gun Groups Are Allowed To Use Fear to Market Their Product
A recent op-ed at the New York Times explores the marketing of firearms. The Gray Lady is horrified that the firearms industry works to “target buyers with rhetoric of fear, machismo and defiance.” As the three-man team who braved the wilds of the internet to report the terrifying details have uncovered . . .
Gun companies have spent the last two decades scrutinizing their market and refocusing their message away from hunting toward selling handguns for personal safety, as well as military-style weapons attractive to mostly young men.
The White House Issues A Non-Denial Denial of Our Lake City AR-15 Ammunition Story
It seems that our story on the Biden administration’s big brain idea for putting the screws to America’s AR-15 owners has caught the attention of someone who has full command of his mental faculties at the White House. The story is evidently of enough concern that White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates felt the need to issue this tweet today . . .
This story isn’t true. We will not let this plant close.
New York’s New Body Armor Ban Doesn’t Cover the Plate Carrier Worn by the Buffalo Supermarket Killer
By Maysoon Khan, AP
New York’s new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians doesn’t cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit its effectiveness in deterring future military-style assaults.
During the May 14 attack, Payton Gendron wore a steel-plated vest, an armor strong enough to stop a handgun round fired by a store security guard who tried to halt Gendron’s rampage.
How Many Russian Invaders Will Ukrainian Soldiers Kill With Zip Guns From Miami?
By Kevin Sona and Lee Williams
When the Miami Police Department’s “GUNS 4 UKRAINE” gun buyback first began Saturday morning, the public and members of the pro-gun media were allowed to stand next to three tents where the transactions were taking place.
However, when it became obvious that turnout was poor and the event was fizzling, police started pushing onlookers back farther and farther away – a total of eight times.
Bushnell Announces New Performance Eyewear Line
From Bushnell . . .
Bushnell, an industry leader in performance optics, in license agreement with Mirage Occhiali a leading sunglass design and manufacturing house for performance sports eyewear, announces that Spring / Summer 2022 Bushnell Performance Sunglasses are now available.
Built for the pursuit with quality and innovation Bushnell Performance sunglasses evolved from three key pillars of design – performance, protection, and comfort. Designs encompass all the features needed to perform at the highest caliber and ensure a competitive advantage for shooters, hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts.
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Pro Tip: A Good Scope is a Durable Scope
While organizing my safe recently, I placed a Leupold VX-3i LRP rifle scope mounted in a ZRODelta DLOC mount on top of an upright rifle box. While leaning down and diving back into the safe, I hip-checked the box with my thicc curves and sent the scope flying.
It fell like a box of rocks from my full shoulder height of about five feet onto the hard floor below.
The scope landed squarely, precisely on the objective lens with a heart-skip-inducing CRACK.
Continue reading Pro Tip: A Good Scope is a Durable Scope at The Truth About Guns.
The New Carbon Sinister Rimfire Precision Rifle from Vudoo Gun Works
From Vudoo Gun Works . . .
Vudoo Gun Works, leader in precision rimfire rifles announces the release of the Carbon Sinister rifle. The Carbon Sinister brings extreme precision rimfire performance in a lightweight crossover rifle profile.
The Carbon Sinister by Vudoo Gun Works marries the high performance V22 and Three 60 actions with premium carbon fiber barrel options and carbon fiber stock. The Sinister has served as a crossover rifle for customers looking for a single rifle that will serve well in competition but will also shine in the field as a hunting or plinking rifle.
Caveat Lector: Gun Owners Should Be Wary of Elon Musk
When I’m not writing for The Truth About Guns, getting people through a concealed carry qualifier, or enjoying time outdoors, I also write for a website that focuses on electric cars, solar power, and micromobility (things like electric bikes and scooters). I’m into off-grid technology, which is of growing importance to anybody interested in emergency preparedness. One inescapable aspect of that whole industry is the wealthiest man on the planet, Elon Musk.
Having been front row to most of the things the guy does publicly for the last several years, I’ve seen a lot change.
Continue reading Caveat Lector: Gun Owners Should Be Wary of Elon Musk at The Truth About Guns.
Boot: The Republican Gun Cult Is What’s Infected America’s Culture
[A]s if denying that heavy rain causes flooding, Republicans continue to insist that the prevalence of guns has nothing do with the prevalence of shootings. They blame doors, video games, mental illness, “emasculated” men, family breakdown, demons, the lack of prayer in schools, Ritalin, antidepressants, social media, social isolation — anything and everything except the weapons used in these crimes.
All such explanations ignore the obvious rejoinder that our culture is pretty similar to those of Canada, Australia, Britain and other countries that don’t have anywhere close to the same levels of gun violence.
Happy Ending: New York’s High Court Rules an Elephant in the Bronx Zoo is Not Human
New York’s highest court — the New York Court of Appeals — rejected by a 5-2 decision the anti-hunting group Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) lawsuit claiming Happy the Elephant isn’t an animal and instead had “personhood” rights and is being held by the Bronx Zoo against her will.
“While no one disputes the impressive capabilities of elephants, we reject petitioner’s arguments that it is entitled to seek the remedy of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf,” Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote.
Home State Blowback: John Cornyn is Loudly Booed at the Texas Republican Convention Over His Gun Control ‘Compromise’
As we’ve been covering here at The Truth About Guns, there’s an effort afoot by a group of Senate Republicans to give Second Amendment opponents something they dearly want: more gun control laws (and a rare election year win). Not only did they apparently make no effort to get anything in return for their “compromise,” but they don’t seem to understand that giving in to Senate Democrats is the wrong move if they care about the long term security of our rights.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Makes a Great Case Against Red Flag Laws
Red flag laws allow us to take action when someone who has a gun begins to act erratically.
Red flag laws still require due process, and any removal of weapons is temporary. pic.twitter.com/IVPHgbrvhD
— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) June 16, 2022
The absolute ignorance of our justice system and its operations it would take to genuinely post this and to think it makes a good point is jaw-dropping.
Gun Meme of the Day: Big Bills Edition
I mean, it ain’t getting any cheaper, that’s for sure! Thankfully everything else we all buy has set all-time year-over-year price increase records. So…we got that going for us.
Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Big Bills Edition at The Truth About Guns.
Uvalde Police Haven’t Committed to Cooperating With Texas House Committee Investigation of School Shooting
From the AP . . .
Police in Uvalde still haven’t committed to speaking to a Texas House committee investigating the May 24 massacre at an elementary school and the law enforcement response that day, the lawmaker leading the probe said Friday.
Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows said his committee was in conversations with the Uvalde Police Department and hoped to announce soon whether members of the force will appear as witnesses.