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Charles: Blacks Should Reject Guns Because the 2A Hasn’t Guaranteed Their Freedom Or Safety
Despite the ways that gun violence disproportionately affects communities that bear the scars of structural inequality, gun rights activists would have you believe that gun control of any kind represents the “real racism.”
To accept that the same crowd that opposes such things as Critical Race Theory, voting rights, and athletes kneeling on sidelines is genuinely concerned about protecting the liberties of Black Americans requires a level of mental gymnastics that would humble Simone Biles.
Gun Meme of the Day: Assembling a Ruger MkII Edition
It’s actually not that hard*.
… * if you have a third hand
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FL Governor Ron DeSantis Calls For Constitutional Carry. Why Has The Republican Legislature Blocked It?
March 3, 2022: Governor Ron DeSantis, while at a press event in Panama City, was questioned by a reporter on the status of Constitutional Carry law in Florida. The governor’s response was simple . . .
“Put it on my desk; I’ll sign it.”
But it hasn’t been sent to his desk. The Florida legislature, under Republican supermajority, has not advanced constitutional carry at all this session nor has it advanced constitutional carry since it was first introduced in the legislature three years ago.
AMMO Inc. To Donate One Million Rounds of 5.56 Ammo To Ukraine
Joe Biden’s so-called diplomacy with Russia to avert an invasion of Ukraine didn’t really work out. Not even a day after Kamala Harris flexed her diplomatic muscles, Russian troops rolled over the border. When Biden offered the Ukrainian president safe passage out of the country, he declined the offer with a now-famous reply . . .
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.” – @ZelenskyyUa on the US evacuation offer.
NRA and Ackerman McQueen Settle Their Lawsuits a Day Before They Were Due in Court
If you remember your history, the depth and breadth of the scandals that have consumed the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, and many NRA officers and directors spilled into public view when a rift opened between the association and its longtime advertising and marketing firm Ackerman McQueen. Ackerman had been running the wildly expensive and severely underperforming NRA TV for the association. They also employed the NRA’s president at the time, Oliver North.
Gun Meme of the Day: Deer In Kevlar Vests Edition
That deer-in-kevlar joke was hilarious last night at Uncle Joe’s SOTU address, eh? It fell flat on its face the first 143 times President Biden told it over the last few years and, sure, it intentionally obfuscates the reason our Second Amendment exists in the first place, but boy that 144th delivery cracked me up but good.
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Former Cop Found Not Guilty in No-Knock Raid Shooting That Killed Breonna Taylor
By Dylan Lovan, AP
A former Kentucky police officer was found not guilty Thursday on charges he endangered neighbors the night he fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment during a botched drug raid that resulted in Taylor’s death.
The panel of eight men and four women delivered its verdict for Brett Hankison about three hours after it took the case following closing arguments from prosecution and defense attorneys.
None of the officers involved in the March 13, 2020, raid were charged with Taylor’s death, and Hankison did not fire any of the bullets that killed the 26-year-old Black woman.
NSSF: President Biden Repeats His Gun Control Lies In First State of the Union Address
It’s a tale as old as time. If President Joe Biden is giving a major speech, he’s going to lie about the firearm industry and the Second Amendment. Like clockwork, the president rattled off his favored laundry list of gun control requests and included several falsehoods in his first State of the Union address to the American people.
The president and his handlers continue to peddle the lies even as record numbers of Americans are lawfully purchasing firearms and support for more gun control erodes.
ATF Goes After Homemade Silencers Through Mass Form 1 Disapprovals
Before manufacturing one’s own silencer or other NFA item, one must file an ATF Form 1 for registration and approval and receive said approval. Through a leap of logic, ATF has begun disapproving Form 1s en masse and it has angered, scared, and confused the homemade silencer market.
Suspicions arose last month, as more and more applicants began to share stories of their eFiled Form 1s taking an oddly long time for approval.
Iftin: Our Goal Should Be Global Gun Control To Disarm Tyrants Like Putin
Think about the lasting effects gun violence can have on Americans. That brief moment when someone opens fire at a school, a restaurant or in the mall, and people die while others are traumatized by what they hear and see.
Shootings over the last years have sparked a debate on gun control in the United States. But how do we start a debate about global gun control to put pressure on someone like Putin to stop waging wars on innocent people?
Gun Meme of the Day: I Dunno About This One Edition
Look, first of all, 20? You gotta pump those numbers up, man. Those are rookie numbers.
Second…there’s pretty much nothing about this meme that I like haha. You’re welcome. Can’t win ’em all.
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Judge Rules New York Attorney General Can’t Dissolve the NRA
After serial revelations of alleged corruption that pervaded (pervades?) the highest levels of the National Rifle Association, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued to have the association dissolved after a long investigation into Wayne LaPierre and the association he’s run for decades. However, despite the AG’s desire to euthanize the pro-gun rights org, the New York law places a high bar over which the state must jump to make the case that a non-profit should get the corporate “death penalty.”
Today, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that James has failed to make that case.
NSSF: Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee And The Firearm Industry
By Larry Keane from the NSSF . . .
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer gives him his first chance to put a lasting stamp on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Jackson, who was only recently elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has authored just two opinions on the merits, both in the past month. Her judicial record tells us truly little about her views on the Second Amendment or about the firearm industry.
NRA-ILA, Gun Control Orgs Weigh In On Biden Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Joe Biden really loves his ice cream and as such was sorely disappointed to hear of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. At the same time, even Stevie Wonder could see that Old Joe would nominate someone far to the left of the political center to fill the SCOTUS seat. Someone who supports laws that keep Americans on the gun control plantation.
Thanks in part to a reported agreement that was struck during his presidential run, Biden promised to choose a black woman to fill the next high court opening and now Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson has gotten the nod.
NICJR Study Proves Politicians, Law Enforcement Should be Targeting Criminals, Not Guns
By Larry Keane
A new study from the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform revealed who is driving the vast majority of criminal firearm misuse in the Nation’s Capital. Go figure it’s a small number of lawbreakers and not law-abiding gun owners.
Stating that gun crimes in Washington, D.C., are shown to be committed by a “very tightly concentrated” group of individuals, the study’s author said, “This very small number of high risk individuals are identifiable.
Gun Control: Rich White Liberals Sniffing at Normals Wanting to Defend Their Own Lives
Let’s talk about gun congrol. Banning or restricting firearms is the most white privileged idea ever. Rich liberals scoffing at the notion that a person might need to defend their own life is a tower so ivory you can’t look at it in direct sunlight. It’s the personal safety equivalent of saying, ‘Just have the maid do it.”
— Seen on Twitter
Gun Meme of the Day: AR-15 Starter Pack Edition
Just drove the gun right through a Pep Boys and everything stuck to it.
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Gun Control Law Fail: Restraining Order Failed to Keep David Mora-Rojas From Murdering His Children, Another Man, Then Committing Suicide
By Kathleen Ronayne and Stefanie Dazio, AP
A man who was under a restraining order and not supposed to have a gun fatally shot his three daughters, a chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a California church, officials said Tuesday.
Investigators were trying to piece together the father’s motive and how he got the weapon used in the shooting that occurred at about 5 p.m. Monday.
Man Open-Carrying in Alabama Walmart Has Gun Snatched and a Shot Fired at Him
Open carry requires practitioners to maintain a heightened sense of situational awareness, especially when carrying in a non-retention rig. Why? Because drunks do stupid things and because criminals might try to snatch your handgun. That’s what happened recently at a Homewood, Alabama Walmart where a man traveling with his family had his (openly) carry gun snatched after an altercation.
The man who grabbed the gun fired off a shot at the gun owner.
Gun Reviews: Tokarev USA TX3 12HD Retro Riot Gun
I’m the shotgun nerd around these parts, and that lead me to the SDS Imports and Tokarev USA booth at SHOT Show’s Range Day 2022. There, I handled their TX3 12HD, aka the Retro Riot Gun. Anytime you slap a bayonet on a shotgun, I’m going to pay attention.
I shot the stainless and standard model and walked away impressed. I exchanged cards with the owner and reached out when I got home.
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