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[ad_1] Anti-gun New Jersey politicians have never been bashful about slapping restrictions on Second Amendment rights in the Garden State.  However, this latest, brazen campaign inches the state even closer to an outright ban on the Second Amendment.  In a state that basically doesn’t observe right–to–carry at all, the state Senate is now poised to
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[ad_1] The NRA is in trouble. The National Rifle Association filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and is facing multiple lawsuits for allegedly misusing funds for personal use and violating campaign finance laws. NPR’s TIM MAK spent four years investigating the powerful gun rights organization and found rampant corruption, greed, and mismanagement at the top, notably around NRA President Wayne
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[ad_1] Last week, the Sixth Circuit failed to achieve the majority necessary to correct the ATF’s shifting classifications of bump stocks as “machine guns.” NRA-ILA’s amicus brief opposed the ATF’s legal authority to arbitrarily criminalize legal firearms. Because the judges split 8-8, the flawed bump stock rule is being reinstated. This is only one of several
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[ad_1] OPINION: With many Americans focused on headline-grabbing U.S. Supreme Court cases, it would be easy to miss a critically important case that has flown under the radar: Shinn v. Jones and Ramirez. Despite the consolidated case’s low-profile, it has the potential to fundamentally reshape the criminal justice system in a manner that should offend conservatives’ core sensibilities —
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[ad_1] A wise and illustrious woman once stated that “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” The paralyzation by our legislatures from the act of domestic terrorism in Oxford bring these wise words from Audre Lorde to my mind. America is paralyzed by the epidemic of gun violence. It is estimated that three
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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]   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] 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] 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] 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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[ad_1] The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended with him walking free on essentially a technicality. Even after shooting three people at a racial justice protest last summer with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle, Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges earlier this month because of vague self-defense laws.  Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the shooting,
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[ad_1] A large faction of the U.S. population (overwhelmingly conservative Republicans) have convinced themselves that they need to be prepped for either an over-reaching government or an anti-fascist takeover. According to Pew Research, while 41% of Republicans and 44% of right-leaning independents own guns, a paltry 16% of Democrats own one. After decades of assassinations
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[ad_1] https://sputniknews.com/20211125/greene-sponsors-bill-to-award-hero-kyle-rittenhouse-a-congressional-gold-medal-1091012612.html Greene Sponsors Bill to Award ‘Hero’ Kyle Rittenhouse a Congressional Gold Medal Greene Sponsors Bill to Award ‘Hero’ Kyle Rittenhouse a Congressional Gold Medal Kyle Rittenhouse was earlier cleared of charges of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony… 25.11.2021, Sputnik International 2021-11-25T10:31+0000 2021-11-25T10:31+0000 2021-11-25T10:31+0000
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[ad_1] The strangest thing about Donald Trump and the GOP’s increasingly open embrace of political violence is how unnecessary it is, even by the right’s own grotesque standards. Ever since Trump’s failed coup that culminated in the January 6 insurrection, Republicans have been carefully laying the groundwork for a bloodless destruction of democracy. They’ve commandeered election
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