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Everytown Makes Generous In-Kind Donation to Trump-Vance Ticket
Everytown for Gun Safety (a.k.a. Gun Control), er really, Everytown for No Guns For Little People has put into words what we all knew would come. Only they did it even faster than we thought possible. In a single meme, they gave American gun owners lots of reasons to vote for the Trump-Vance “Make America Great Again” ticket.
What’s more, Everytown does this something like 48 hours after a radical Act Blue donor shot President Trump in the ear, narrowly missing a head shot assassination.
New Hampshire Joins States Pushing Back Against Credit Card Codes for Gun-Related Purchases
On Friday, July 12th, Governor Chris Sununu (R-New Hampshire) signed HB 1186, “an act relative to firearm purchaser’s privacy,” into law. Thanks to the tireless work of leading New Hampshire gun rights advocate Rep. Jason Janvrin (R-Rockingham District 40) and the strong support of NRA members, New Hampshire becomes the seventeenth state to protect the privacy of law-abiding gun buyers by prohibiting financial institutions from collecting and misusing their personal information. The NRA and its members thank Governor Chris Sununu, Rep.
Trump V.P. Pick J.D. Vance Solid On Second Amendment
If you thought it wouldn’t be possible for former President Donald Trump to pick a running mate that gun-ban groups would hate as much as Trump himself, well, think again.
On Monday, Trump named Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate in his quest for a second term. And a look at Vance’s record on guns and gun control reveals that he is a very strong proponent of gun owners’ rights.
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Trump Dodges Another Bullet
Just two days after Saturday’s failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump has dodged another bullet.
On Monday, a district judge dismissed Trump’s classified documents case, citing the illegality of special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment as prosecutor in the matter.
In the 93-page option dismissing the charges, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division, agreed with defense attorneys that Smith’s appointment as special counsel violated statutory authority.
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Secret Service Director Says All Is Well As Republican Gathering Set To Begin
Amid widespread speculation of underperformance following Saturday’s attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the director of the U.S. Secret Service has released a statement to try to reassure Americans before the start of the Republican National Convention.
The statement, released Monday by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, said the agency had things under control on Saturday and will continue its diligence in protecting the former president.
“Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald Trump,” Cheatle said in the statement.
Let’s Not Give The Shooter What He Wanted
Details are still coming out after an attempted assassination of former President Trump, but one thing we’re sadly already seeing are people on all sides trying to peddle the usual nonsense. Conspiracy theories, blaming broad swaths of societies for what one person ultimately did, and general hatred are already floating around. I know most readers here are better people than that, and I’m glad that I know that.
So, it’s us who are going to need to be the peacemakers and voices of reason right now.
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VA Official Says Agency Won’t Follow Law Protecting Veterans Gun Rights If Passed
Debate over federal legislation designed to protect veterans from having their gun rights infringed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs simply for having someone help them with their finances is getting contentious.
A U.S. House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday focused on the “Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act,” which would reverse the policy for reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) when a veteran has appointed a financial fiduciary to handle his or her monetary affairs.
Carry Laws Don’t Increase Gun Theft or Gun Crimes
Gun control groups campaign against right-to-carry laws by claiming that guns carried in public pose a substantial threat to public safety, and that concealed carry permitting laws lead to more violent crime, not less. Giffords, for instance, alleges that “the dangers of permissive public carry laws” include an increase in gun thefts and “other undesirable outcomes,” with absolutely no counterbalancing public safety benefits.
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) have just released an updated paper, How Does Concealed Carrying of Weapons Affect Violent Crime?
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Providence or Luck? Trump Dodges a Bullet…Mostly
Speaking to Fox News following the attempted assassination Saturday of former President Donald Trump, Israeli Special Ops veteran Aaron Cohen may have said it best.
“God must have been watching down on the president,” he said. “Snipers are typically trained to shoot into the cerebral cortex of the cerebellum at the top of the brain stem. It incapacitates you; it keeps your hands from moving… It’s about the distance of the shot. One hundred-thirty yards.
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Gun Owning America is Larger Than Surgeon General Thinks…And They Don’t Agree with His Views
There are many concerns with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent declaration that “gun violence” is a public health “crisis.” First among them is that the voting public largely disagrees.
Two thirds of voters, or 66 percent, polled think that criminal misuse of a firearm is a criminal justice issue and not a public health issue. In other words, they see right through Surgeon General Murthy’s election-year announcement that “gun violence” should be treated as a public health matter.
S&W Releases 2 More Pistols, the M&P 9 Shield Plus and SD40 2.0
Smith & Wesson is on a roll this summer with new releases. Hot on the heels of the new Carry Comp pistols are two more new product drops for EDC pistols. This time it’s the SD40 2.0 and the M&P 9 Shield Plus with threaded barrel.
SD40 2.0
The SD series was Smith & Wesson’s evolution of the Sigma line. The Sigma was Smith’s Glock competitor in the days before the M&P line came along.
Hawaii Bans Ammo For Those Under 21
Young adults in Hawaii just lost the ability to buy ammunition for self-defense. Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Josh Green signed a bill banning ammo sales to anyone under age 21. Clearly Josh Green can’t read the 2nd Amendment or Supreme Court decisions in Heller and Bruen or lacks the capacity to understand them.
Hawaii Public Radio shared the great news for their gun control loving readers:
Selling firearm ammunition to anyone younger than 21 years old is now illegal in Hawaiʻi.
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SilencerCo Branches Out, Purchases Zev Technologies
A top manufacturer and seller of firearms suppressors has jumped into a new market—the firearms market, to be exact.
On Thursday, SilencerCo announced it had acquired Zev Technologies, well-known maker of many Glock aftermarket parts and, lately, complete firearms. Both companies have a storied past.
SilencerCo was founded in 2008 and continues to focus on exceptional customer service and industry-leading products crafted by people with the utmost dedication to the firearms industry.
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BALDWIN WALKS! Judge Dismisses Shooting Death Case Against Actor
In a surprise move late Friday afternoon, the judge presiding over the Alec Baldwin manslaughter trial dismissed the charges against the actor.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the charges with prejudice, meaning Baldwin cannot be tried again for the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust back in 2021. “There is no way for the court to right this wrong,” Judge Sommer said in dismissing the charges.
Baldwin had been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Hutchins, a charge the movie’s armorer, Hanna Guiterrez-Reed, was found guilty of back in March and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The Walther PPK/S: Back in .32 ACP
The Walther PPK is a legendary design that paved the way for a half-century of handgun development. Like the real life and fictional heroes and villains that carried it, the PPK has become something of an archetype. It exists and has been little changed since it was introduced in 1931. But the landscape the PPK exists in did change. The end of World War II brought PPK production out of Germany for the first time.
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Biden’s Anti-Gun Quips Show Us That The Campaign’s On The Ropes
When it comes to U.S. politics, there are two big phases in a campaign: the primary and the general election. During the primary season, a candidate has to prioritize appealing to the people in his or her own party. This means that most candidates will appear more extreme, because winning that primary means building a coalition of people in the party.
But, once the primary is over, the rules of the game change.
AP Gun Article Relies on Inaccuracies, Reveals Bias in Reporting
Founded in 1846, the Associated Press describes itself as “the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.” More than half of the world’s population is exposed to AP stories every day, the wire service claims.
Associated Press members, traditionally newspapers, pay an annual fee based on their circulation for access to AP wire stories. Larger newspapers pay more, sometimes millions of dollars.
New Jersey Congresswoman Says What Many Gun Banners Won’t
During a debate over a proposed amendment aimed at removing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) ability to establish a national gun registry, U.S. Rep. Bonnie Coleman, D-New Jersey, said what most gun-banners think but are hesitant to actually say out loud.
“I think it is a wonderful idea that we have a registry of every gun that is owned by a civilian in the United States of America because then we could have, perhaps, less killings in our neighborhoods, less killings at our supermarkets, less killings at our concerts, less killings period in the United States of America,” Coleman said.
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KAK Industry Releases 7.62×25 Tokarev Complete AR Uppers & Barrels
Okay, I’ll admit right out of the gate this is an odd one, but I like oddball stuff, so I’m intrigued. KAK Industry has been teasing 7.62x25mm AR barrels and uppers on social media recently, and they’re now officially here.
The 7.62x25mm Cartridge
On the off chance you aren’t familiar with the 7.62x25mm round, it’s the cartridge that the Russian Tokarev pistol and PPSh-41 and PPS-43 submachineguns were chambered in. Those, along with the myriad of clones of those made throughout the former Comblock and China, as well as some unique designs like the Czech CZ-52 pistol and Sa-23/25 subguns.
Washington Post Gaslights Readers With Demagoguery and Deceit
Rachel Weiner over at the Washington Post treats the ever-shrinking readership to over 2,000 words of demagoguery and deceit when it comes to her analysis of the Bruen decision. That’s right, she tells readers how the Supreme Court didn’t really mean what it wrote in Bruen. “The Supreme Court said it has been misunderstood,” she wrote.
Here’s the Democratic Party activist with a byline’s highly sensationalistic opening to her gaslighting extravaganza.