[ad_1] NRA-ILA Texas State Director Tara Mica presented State Sen. Charles Schwertner with NRA’s Defender of Freedom Award this week at the Texas Capitol. Sen. Schwertner authored SB 19, legislation prohibiting corporations which discriminate against the firearms industry from obtaining contracts with Texas governmental entities. He also sponsored HB 1927, the historic Constitutional Carry bill, in the Senate. Dear
[ad_1] Dear Texas House District 135 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Jon Rosenthal, voted against NINE of them. He voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST banning banks with policies that discriminate against the firearms industry from doing business with the State of Texas; AGAINST prohibiting anti-gun
[ad_1] Dear Texas House District 113 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Rhetta Bowers, voted against NINE of them. She voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST allowing victims of abuse aged 18-21 to apply for a License To Carry to
[ad_1] Dear Texas House District 65 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Michelle Beckley, voted against ELEVEN of them. She voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST allowing victims of abuse aged 18-21 to apply for a License To Carry to
[ad_1] Dear Texas House District 47 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Vikki Goodwin, voted against ELEVEN of them. She voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST allowing victims of abuse aged 18-21 to apply for a License To Carry to
[ad_1] Gabriela Pesqueira When the coronavirus pandemic struck last year, people throughout the developed world raced to buy toilet paper, bottled water, yeast for baking bread, and other basic necessities. Americans also stocked up on guns. They bought more than 23 million firearms in 2020, up 65 percent from 2019. First-time gun purchases were notably
[ad_1] The gun I dream of buying keeps popping up in my head in a recurring fashion. It never reaches fever pitch but loses velocity and intensity. It curls around my brain and then falls asleep, only to reawaken some later date when the air is full of menace. The reason for my wanting to
[ad_1] The gun I dream of buying keeps popping up in my head in a recurring fashion. It never reaches fever pitch but loses velocity and intensity. It curls around my brain and then falls asleep, only to reawaken some later date when the air is full of menace. The reason for my wanting to
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After this giant mess in Afghanistan – what’s the response from the White House? Boy did we screw up! But look how we fixed it! Talk about fixed: this is a mess so screwed up it will have reverberations for many years. Which means, the person
[ad_1] On May 11, 2021, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a decision dismissing the Chapter 11 case of the National Rifle Association and certain of its affiliates. The high-profile New York-based non-profit sought bankruptcy protection in Texas on Jan. 15, 2021 and immediately
[ad_1] Let’s start with the obvious: “Basket of deplorables” is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There
[ad_1] None of the half dozen reports of Taliban gun confiscation I’ve reviewed mention the letter writer’s claim Afghan gun owners are also being imprisoned or killed. The confiscations are, of course, decried by the corrupt NRA and its greedy ilk as the first step toward tyranny. Ironically, in America, the Second Amendment was enacted
[ad_1] One of the fake news heavyweights, The Washington Post, wrote a profile on former NRA spokesperson and current conservative radio host Dana Loesch and, remarkably, it didn’t make her sound like “a first class monster.” For the left, that’s something to get steamed over. In his Monday piece, The Washington Post’s Manuel Roig-Franzia painted a
[ad_1] INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Former Indian River County Hospital District TrusteeTracey Zudans wants to follow in her husband’s previous footsteps. Zudans, wife of former Mayor Val Zudans, is among three candidates who has have filed to run for the Vero Beach City Council. Two seats, currently held by Vice Mayor Rey Neville and Dick Winger, are up
[ad_1] Governor Roy Cooper, who is no friend to the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, also ignores the recommendations of law-enforcement. Today, he vetoed House Bill 398, NC Sheriffs’ Association-backed legislation to repeal the pistol permit in favor of the federal NICS background check. This is the second piece of pro-Second Amendment legislation Gov.
[ad_1] As part of the campaign to stigmatize firearms and legitimate firearm owners, gun control advocates and their allies on the left have targeted anything that resembles or is used as a proxy for a gun – partially chewed pop tarts, fingers (a “level 2 lookalike firearm”), Halloween costume props, and ordinary toys. There are more examples than we could possibly list
[ad_1] OUTSIDE OF DALLAS – Dana Loesch strides with purpose in chunky black unlaced boots. Past the wrought-iron chandelier and red upholstered dining-table chairs that evoke some medieval castle. Alongside the “predator wall” of horned creatures (mostly fakes), then a leopard-print banquette that seems only slightly smaller than a compact car. She was once the
[ad_1] As part of the campaign to stigmatize firearms and legitimate firearm owners, gun control advocates and their allies on the left have targeted anything that resembles or is used as a proxy for a gun – partially chewed pop tarts, fingers (a “level 2 lookalike firearm”), Halloween costume props, and ordinary toys. There are
[ad_1] Before being declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden was unabashed in his support for restricting Second Amendment rights. A lengthy section of his campaign website described his ambitions for new gun control, with headings such as “Keep guns out of dangerous hands” and “Make sure firearm owners take on the
[ad_1] The federal government has rarely made a habit of covering itself in glory, but in recent weeks it seems determined to engender mistrust among the American public. In only the last month, three fresh examples of the federal government’s inability to secure sensitive data have come to light. These examples of official incompetence have
[ad_1] The Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government published a policy brief promising “Policy Solutions to Address Mass Shootings.” The Rockefeller Institute is a think tank within the State University of New York system and founded by the governors of northeastern states to offset the supposed lack of research from
[ad_1] PORT ANGELES — A Sequim man who is charged with a racially motivated attack on Ediz Hook has been ordered to 90 days of mental health treatment at a state psychiatric hospital. Samuel Elliot Ketchum, 39, was found not competent to stand trial Friday for an alleged assault in which he was accused of
[ad_1] “China has invested heavily in new technologies, with a stated intent to complete the modernization of its forces by 2035 and to field a ‘world-class military’ by 2049,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified in June. The United States, he assured the Senate Armed Services Committee, continues to possess “the best joint fighting force
[ad_1] SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 2,155 new coronavirus cases, nearly matching a record daily increase set earlier this month amid an alarming spread of infections. With Wednesday’s report, the country has tallied more than 1,000 new cases for 50 consecutive days, including a record 2,221 on Aug. 11. The virus has
[ad_1] Recall the killing of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old Black man. In July 2016, two police officers pulled him over in a Saint Paul, Minnesota, suburb. When Castile, buckled into his seat, reached for his ID, he informed one of the officers, Jeronimo Yanez, that he had a gun — one that he was legally
[ad_1] Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is a hyper-conservative Republican and self-proclaimed “man of God,” Since his election as the state’s Lieutenant governor last year, he instituted a task force to review public school systems and the teaching styles used in them to compile the “Indoctrination in North Carolina Public Education Report.” That report, Robinson claimed,
[ad_1] Annette Meeks | Your Turn It was disappointing to read former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger’s July commentary on these pages defending the multi-state lawsuits being pursued by several states’ attorney generals including Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison. Durenberger (R-Minn.) says in that column that “taxpayers are unfairly shouldering costs of climate change” and that these lawsuits against the
[ad_1] Yesterday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee took up the suspense file and passed SB 264, with amendments that narrow the scope of the bill to prohibit firearm, ammunition, and parts sales in the 32nd District Agricultural Association (Orange County/Costa Mesa), and SB 715, legislation that limits when a hunting license can be used for firearm purchases. These bills will now head
[ad_1] Once upon a time, before the ascent of the National Rifle Association, when politics was not a full-time job and men sought election to public office so they could govern, a time before 24/7 news coverage — not to mention social media — changed the definition of newsworthy while altering the whole nature of
[ad_1] U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is restarting the agency’s discontinued gun violence research program, expanding the bureaucracy’s mission beyond controlling and preventing infectious disease to include studying what President Joe Biden has called a “gun violence public health epidemic.” In an interview with CNN published Friday, Walensky called gun