[ad_1] A post shared on Facebook claims that when the Second Amendment was enacted in 1791 militiamen were limited to owning one musket and 24 bullets. Verdict: Misleading The claim appears to be misstating a 1792 law that required American militiamen to have at least one “good musket or firelock” and “not less than twenty four
Month: June 2022
[ad_1] Kari Lake, left, posing with drag queen Barbra Seville. Photo via Barbra Seville/Instagram A Trump-backed candidate for Arizona governor has joined the growing chorus of voices attacking the LGBTQ and drag communities. “They kicked God out of our schools and welcomed Drag Queens,” Kari Lake tweeted late Friday. But in the midst of her
[ad_1] June 20, 2022 7:31 AM Posted: June 20, 2022 7:31 AM Kim Kulish // Getty Images The NRA opposed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned the manufacture, ownership, or transfer of AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons. Another provision limited magazines to 10 bullets. It was prompted by a number of
[ad_1] At the end of May – two years after his unilateral imposition of an “assault weapons” ban – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced Bill C-21, a bill that proposes many firearm-related changes, the most significant of which is a freeze on the sale, transfer and import of handguns. At the same time, Marco
[ad_1] The Georgia NRA State Conference is this Saturday, June 25th, 2022, in Atlanta—Register Now! Hosted by NRA-ILA, this important meeting in support of the Second Amendment will feature various speakers, including Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto, former Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife, your Georgia state legislators, and other dynamic speakers, as well as other coalition
[ad_1] As Senate negotiators continue work on fine-tuning concepts for a gun control “framework” announced last week, one issue that has received surprisingly little attention is the potential inclusion of juvenile records in federal firearm background checks. “Who could argue with that?” one might say. “The more records available for review, the better.” The truth,
[ad_1] The California Legislature continues to fast track firearm related legislation, making bills eligible for floor votes as early as this week. Additionally, the legislature is continuing their underhanded tactics of “gutting and amending” bills. This means they replace the entire text of a bill with new language picking up in the process wherever the
[ad_1] Good Monday morning. A poll of likely Florida Democratic voters shows Charlie Crist maintaining a solid lead over Nikki Fried in the Governor’s race. St. Pete Polls’ latest survey, conducted for Florida Politics, shows greater than 49% favor Crist, a Democratic St. Petersburg Congressman and former GOP Governor. About 24% prefer Fried, Florida’s current
[ad_1] Does this add up? Does this really add up? Columnist Thomas Elias (“Expected anti-abortion ruling could boost California,”) foresees a bright future for California as an abortion magnet by attracting anti-birthing persons to kill their preborn children here, because this could increase the state’s falling population? Is the way to counteract population loss in
[ad_1] “To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society,” warned political economist Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation, published in 1944. Had Polanyi been alive today, his statement would have found prophetic validation in the
[ad_1] On May 24, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old young man, murdered in cold blood with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle 19 children at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, and two of their teachers. “The worst such incident since eight students and two teachers were killed at Santa Fe High School in Texas in May 2018,”
[ad_1] Faced with the news that a significant majority of Americans support a number of gun control measures, including a ban on assault weapons, Republican Senator Mike Lee struggled to defend his party’s staunch opposition to some of those policies. Instead, he blamed Americans, claiming they don’t understand their rights or know what an assault
[ad_1] I got into this U.S. Senate race for one reason: I have never before feared for the future of my country like I do today. I think many of you feel the same way. I’ve heard it from thousands of Alabamians while traveling our state. Jim in Muscle Shoals was worried about being able
[ad_1] Republican Michigan Rep. Fred Upton tried to downplay the concerns of Second Amendment advocates over new gun control legislation while speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. Host Dana Bash asked whether it’s possible Congress would strike a deal on gun control before the impending recess. “I want to turn to guns. A
[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Fred Upton believes Donald Trump will be a presidential candidate in 2024 and will be “hard to stop” as Trump continues to have strong support from the Republican Party’s base despite the Jan. 6 hearings. “The voters still like him a lot and we see that certainly in Michigan,” Upton, R-St. Joseph, said
[ad_1] Guns are the virus Again, we are faced with children and teachers dying in the assumed safety of their school. And, again, we hear the NRA and those with the most extreme interpretation of the Second Amendment say guns don’t kill. Please consider a pandemic analogy: A deadly virus enters a country via an
[ad_1] It’s three days before Virginia’s June 21 primary and the last day for early voting, so candidates in inter-party contests across the commonwealth are making their final pitches in the battles for berths on November’s ballot. What matters now in this 11th-hour push before Tuesday’s primary is face-time with residents on their doorsteps, in
[ad_1] Oklahoma has both its U.S. Senate seats up for election this year. Incumbent Sen. James Lankford has been serving in the Senate since 2017 and is running for reelection. He faces two challenges in the June 28 primary. Six challengers are facing off in the Democratic primary for Lankford’s full-term seat. A primary runoff
[ad_1] In 2003, policeman Dick Heller was part of a joint action in the US District Court of Washington, DC concerning the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, better known as the right to bear and keep firearms. Living near a social housing complex that was a haven for drug deals, break-ins and gang
[ad_1] by W.D. Ehrhart Back in the May 20th issue of the Gazette, readers may remember an essay of mine called “Woe Is Me!” I began by cataloguing a litany of disasters and lunacies that leave me feeling hopeless about the future of this country and the planet. But then I spent a wonderful day
[ad_1] The United States accounts for less than 5% of the global population, but owns 46% of the world’s existing firearms. The accessibility of weapons has led to what White Houe calls a “gun violence epidemic.” The racist massacre in Buffalo and the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde are just the tip of
[ad_1] “It’s, I guess I’d say, my biggest defeat in my career,” said Cochran, 67, who has been in law enforcement since he was 20. “There’s a difference between being a responsible gun owner and just a crazy gun nut.” Get Today in Politics A digest of the top political stories from the Globe, sent
[ad_1] As much as I’m enjoying the January 6th committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a dummy, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million,
[ad_1] Whenever there is a mass shooting, knee jerk reactions follow. The public entity/community involved pushes for tougher gun laws. Politicians make promises, stating this is the incident that will make a change on state and federal levels. Gun lobbyists, owners and the powerful NRA (National Rifle Association) have poured millions into the coffers of
[ad_1] So-called “Red Flag” orders, or Emergency Risk Protection Orders, are designed to empower the government to confiscate Americans’ firearms without due process of law. Aside from allowing run-of-the-mill malicious actors to indulge personal grudges against law-abiding gun owners, in the current politically-charged environment these laws enable the government to target those with First Amendment-protected
[ad_1] Every day, we see reports of more mass shootings. Politicians offer thoughts and prayers with no action to back them up. Democrats and Republicans point fingers at each other as if their negligence isn’t both bipartisan and profitable. Meanwhile, we’ve become fed up to the point of desensitization. No solution will appear while
[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load With Congress closing in on a bipartisan gun-safety deal after last month’s run of mass shootings, the Supreme Court soon will issue a ruling that could make it easier for people in at least a half-dozen states to legally carry loaded firearms in public. It will be the first
[ad_1] Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man interested in dating his daughter. It generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense
[ad_1] A longtime state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association (NRA) is retiring from her position, according to a Thursday press release from the organization. Marion Hammer has worked as a lobbyist for the NRA in Florida for more than 40 years and will continue to serve as an adviser to the organization to assist
[ad_1] The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced it opposes a California animal shelter’s decision not to provide animals to those who believe the Second Amendment allows them to buy assault-style weapons. Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks, Calif., posted a statement on its website that the shelter
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