[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] 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

[ad_1] Gun Control In the days leading up to the hearings, others not as keen on joining the usual throng of demonstrators — some wearing red “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America” T-shirts, and others the yellow “Gun Control Doesn’t Work” shirts from the 2nd Amendment Coalition — sent written testimony. The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE — Senate President

[ad_1] click to enlarge Photo via News Service of Florida Marion Hammer Call it the end of an era. Marion Hammer, a titan of gun-rights advocacy who played an outsized role in shaping Florida’s gun laws as a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, retired this week. Hammer, 83, spent 44 years as a lobbyist

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[ad_1] ELDRED, Ill. — It was a Friday fish fry night at American Legion Post 1135 and about three dozen people had gathered at the invitation of local Republicans to talk politics and candidates over cold beer, fried buffalo fish and baked beans. The Legion hall was situated in the tiny town of Eldred, located

[ad_1] People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken issue with a controversial California animal shelter that refuses to let pro-gun people adopt its pets, Fox News reported. What’s the background? TheBlaze previously reported on the Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks and its strict policies against working with certain Second Amendment backers.

[ad_1] I often joke that I was born with a shotgun in one hand and a rifle in the other. To many people in America, that might seem shocking after the shooting tragedies we’ve witnessed in Uvalde and Buffalo, but it’s not all that far from the truth. I grew up on a rural western

[ad_1] With regard to the right to bear arms, doesn’t anyone realize that in the year the Second Amendment was drafted, AR-15s and automatic rifles were never anticipated to exist? Muskets and flintlock rifles that could shoot only one bullet at a time were the arms in 1791. Our forefathers would be astonished to learn

[ad_1] One of the most terrifying things John Calvert knows he has to do is teach Kansas police officers just how long four minutes last. Calvert, director of the Kansas State Department of Education’s Safe and Secure Schools Unit, and specialist Jim Green regularly travel to the state’s school districts to work with them on

[ad_1] Buffalo suspect hears U.S. charges BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket made his first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges Thursday, and the judge urged prosecutors to quickly decide whether to pursue the death penalty given the “substantial” cost of such

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Animal rights nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) pushed back against a California animal shelter’s decision to turn away potential pet adoptees based on their opinions about gun control. “We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the

[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. PG&E fealty to investorsendangers customers Investor-owned utilities like PG&E must make a profit but also provide gas and electricity users with reliable, safe and reasonably priced service. The increased electricity rates — recently requested by PG&E (NEM 3.0) and

[ad_1] Debbie Bruell Lynn-Wood Fields grew up hunting with her father in rural Montana, putting food on their table. Her father instilled in her the importance of weapon safety. And like most gun owners, he was a supporter of basic gun safety regulations. Fields still lives in Montana, still owns a gun, and is now

[ad_1] One of the nation’s most prominent gun rights advocates will hang up her holsters — at least in the public realm. Marion Hammer, a former National Rifle Association President, announced her retirement as Florida’s top lobbyist for the NRA Institute for Legislative Action in the state. “It has been an honor to serve NRA

[ad_1] Since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, Congress has littered the American landscape with failed gun control measures. A decade later, after a supermarket rampage and another school massacre, a Senate coalition of ten Republicans and ten Democrats is either trapped in the legislative equivalent of “thoughts and prayers” or on the cusp of the

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[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load Good morning, Early Birds. Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate. Tips: earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. In today’s edition … Pence walks a tightrope between owning Jan 6. role and courting Trump voters … Poll Watch from Emily Guskin: The U.S. economy may not be in a

[ad_1] HOT SPRINGS — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson continued to hint at a presidential run as he told a group of attorneys Wednesday that he was starting to “lay the foundation” for a 2024 campaign. Hutchinson, speaking at the Arkansas Bar Association annual meeting in Hot Springs, talked about a range of topics, including his

[ad_1] Will pending congressional legislation measurably reduce the number of firearm slayings and injuries that plague our country?  That metric, more than anything else, should guide how we assess the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan framework on gun control – and to a lesser extent, the competing bill that already passed the House of Representatives.  Gun-control supporters

[ad_1] A prophetic protector has become a political panderer. Back in December 2016, Sheriff Joe Lombardo of Clark County, Nevada, called for restrictions on high-capacity gun magazines. “I’m a very avid hunter, I was in the military myself, and there’s no need to have a high-capacity magazine for any practical reason,” Lombardo told the Las

[ad_1] A bipartisan majority of voters strongly support stricter gun legislation, a national Fox News poll found in the wake of several mass shootings that have rocked the country. Voters are overwhelmingly in favor of requiring background checks to purchase a gun, with 88% of responders saying they support them. A whopping 84% say they

[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load When it comes to the negotiations now taking place on Capitol Hill after a recent spate of mass shootings, Congress’s most outspoken proponents of gun control and the devoted cadre of hard-line Second Amendment activists battling against them agree on virtually nothing. Except for this: Both say that passing

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Wayne LaPierre sent a letter on June 14 to the group’s members assuring them the NRA is standing strong for school safety and real action while remaining opposed to “soundbite solutions” from gun controllers. The letter begins: For over 150 years, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has

[ad_1] OPINION: Analysis of the gun control “deal” Senate Republicans and Democrats struck last week will focus on the so-called red-flag laws that have become flavor of the week favorites of politicians and gun control activists. Red-flag laws sound good in concept. Who would disagree with the wisdom of disarming those in the midst of

[ad_1] By Randall Upton Uvalde tells Biden to “do something.” This was the front-page headline of the Memorial Day edition of the Times-Call. The accompanying story reported that when President Biden left a church service in Uvalde, Texas, to meet privately with persons who lost family members in the Robb Elementary School carnage on May

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[ad_1] Once a week, I gather with friends at the Broadway Brewery to solve the ills of the world over food, drink and talk. We rarely succeed. My friend Steve recently asked a serious question during one of our gatherings: What makes a person think it is right to enter a grade school and murder