Month: December 2021

[ad_1] On Friday, the Oakland County Michigan prosecutor announced she was charging the parents of the Oxford High School shooter with involuntary manslaughter. When MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi was asked by Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace for his thoughts on the matter, his first instinct was to warn that conservatives would make the parents
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[ad_1] Concealed Handgun Permits on the Rise in Albemarle Albemarle County has seen a surge of citizens applying for a permit to carry a concealed weapon over the last few years, in keeping with trends showing an upswing in both firearms purchases and “concealed carry” permit requests nationwide. The Virginia State Police Firearms Transaction Center
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[ad_1] With Virginia seeing rising crime rates, and residents feeling like their outgoing leaders weren’t working to protect them, incoming NRA Endorsed Attorney General Jason Miyares has committed to putting an end to Virginia’s rising crime rates, stating: “Our murder rate is the highest it’s been in two decades and I’m old enough to remember
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[ad_1]    Conservative author and radio host Dana Loesch backed Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s U.S. Senate campaign Thursday, touting his record on conservative issues.  Loesch, who grew up near the St. Louis region, said her home state would benefit from sending Schmitt and his platform to Capitol Hill.  “Eric Schmitt is a conservative fighter who
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[ad_1]   Welcome to The Hill’s annual list of top lobbyists. K Street played an outsized role in this year’s policy debates, working behind the scenes to reshape the COVID-19 relief package, bipartisan infrastructure bill and Democrats’ climate and social spending plan. The transfer of power following the 2020 election — along with trillions of
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[ad_1] That stance drew the dissent of a trio of judges appointed by former President Donald Trump: Lawrence VanDyke, Ryan Nelson and Patrick Bumatay. They underscored the national stakes by arguing “these magazines are lawfully owned by millions of people nationwide” and warning California’s law applying across America would “require confiscating half of all existing
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[ad_1] SDI Productions/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Competitive races across the country are expected to disappear as states begin to submit their re-drawn maps for this decade’s round of redistricting. While only 18 states have finished their gerrymandering process, nearly half a dozen highly competitive seats have been slashed from the last batch of congressional maps according
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[ad_1] Recent Trials should have taught you plenty. I’ve always believed in our Justice system, and the recent events & trials have re-enforced that belief. The day after the reading of the Rittenhouse verdict I held an Arizona Concealed Carry permit class with 29 students. It was exciting to me because the class represented persons
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[ad_1] Washington Watch Like many Americans, I was overjoyed by news that a Georgia jury had found three white men guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man. The jury rejected the defense’s argument that the three men were “protecting and defending” their neighbourhood and therefore were justified in using their trucks
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[ad_1] A father whose daughter was killed in a 2018 school shooting blasted the Republican Party for claiming to “stand for the sanctity of life” while not doing enough to protect children from gun violence. “Despicable fucking liars,” Fred Guttenberg tweeted Wednesday. The back-and-forth began after the account for the Republican National Committee tweeted in
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[ad_1] At first, the video offers a perspective we’ve seldom seen: an inside-the-classroom view of high-school students trying to evade an active shooter. Kids crouch below their desks and strategize in hushed tones. The lights are off. Fearing that the voice on the other side of the door is that of a killer, they flee.
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[ad_1] Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s ban against “large capacity magazines.” This decision reverses previous rulings at both the district and circuit court levels concluding the ban was unconstitutional.  NRA-ILA backed the challenge California Penal Code §32310, which effectively bans Californians from possessing magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. Criminals, by definition, ignore the ban altogether. Today, the Ninth
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[ad_1] California has some of the nation’s tightest gun control laws and virtually no session of the Legislature ends without additional restrictions being enacted. In polling and by their votes, Californians have heartily endorsed making gun purchases and ownership increasingly more difficult. As California’s restrictive laws proliferated, however, the state’s current and would-be gun owners complained
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[ad_1] Breaking 36 minutes ago FDA Panel Recommends Merck’s Covid-19 Antiviral Pill For Emergency Use Authorization“,”scope”:{“topStory”:{“index”:1,”title”:”FDA Panel Recommends Merck’s Covid-19 Antiviral Pill For Emergency Use Authorization”,”image”:”https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/61a653f6ca0bf668f3ff2309/960×0.jpg?cropX1=0&cropX2=3542&cropY1=137&cropY2=2130″,”isHappeningNowArticle”:true,”date”:”36 minutes ago”,”uri”:”https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2021/11/30/fda-panel-recommends-mercks-covid-19-antiviral-pill-for-emergency-use-authorization/”}},”id”:”ep41bje3m3kg00″},{“textContent”:” 44 minutes ago Appeals Court Reinstates California Ban On Large-Capacity Firearm Magazines“,”scope”:{“topStory”:{“index”:2,”title”:”Appeals Court Reinstates California Ban On Large-Capacity Firearm Magazines”,”image”:”https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/61a69ba782c15f66c57f2e6d/960×0.jpg?cropX1=0&cropX2=3005&cropY1=153&cropY2=1844″,”isHappeningNowArticle”:true,”date”:”44 minutes ago”,”uri”:”https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2021/11/30/appeals-court-reinstates-california-ban-on-large-capacity-firearm-magazines/”}},”id”:”amf6k5dddpl400″},{“textContent”:” 1 hour ago Author Sebold
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