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Reese family files settlement agreement with government on seized property
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"Attempting to bring an end to an ordeal that began in 2011, former gun dealers Rick and Terri Reese filed a settlement agreement with the U.S. government Friday ... In addition to over $11,000 and property, the government, if it adheres to arbitration negotiations between attorneys, will be keeping 'approximately 1,191 firearms' and 'approximately 4,761 ammunition magazines.'"
"The family will get to keep real property including 85 acres with structures in Deming, gold and silver coins, four vehicles and 17 gun safes. A specific condition that 'items being released to Claimants shall be in substantially the same condition they were in when they were seized' is the result of previously seized vehicles being returned with damage ..." ... |
Gun Owners of America leads coalition opposing Lynch confirmation
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"Predicting that confirmation of Loretta Lynch for Attorney General will constitute 'the Supreme Court’s fifth vote in waiting,' Gun Owners of America posted an alert Thursday urging members and supporters to contact their senators, especially Republicans, to oppose the nomination process 'at every step.' The key, GOA asserts, will be if Majority Leader Mitch McConnell requires the Lynch nomination to 'clear a 60-vote hurdle ... rather than just passing with a mere 51-vote majority.'"
"... In a letter sent to Senator McConnell on Monday by a coalition of gun rights leaders, he was reminded Senate rules established under Harry Reid still apply." ... |
Websites, Like Guns, Should Include Tough Licensing and Registration Requirements. Or Not.
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"The chairperson of Gods Before Guns penned an editorial for cleveland.com entitled Guns, like cars, should include tough licensing and manufacturing requirements. 'Many of the same kinds of regulations that are making steady progress in motor-vehicle safety could also be effective in reducing the toll of shootings,' Dave Eggert asserts. 'And because guns, unlike vehicles, are specifically designed to kill, additional measures are also appropriate. These include universal background checks, special protections for children and youth, and special measures to keep guns away from criminals and domestic abusers.' Yup, this again. For those of you who just joined us . . ." ... |
Happy Birthday, 2nd Amendment: It’s Patriot’s Day
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"Today is Patriots Day, the 240th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the bloody first attempt at government gun control on American soil, and they’re celebrating today and tomorrow in Massachusetts, a state with some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Go figure."
"Where is Capt. John Parker when the country could really use him? He was the commander of the militia group that formed on Lexington Commons, and, according to popular history, uttered a phrase that today is the flash remark for political and philosophical fury: 'Stand your ground.'" ... |
Speakers ignore or change any realities they don't like
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"One of the wonders of modern times is that reality is often seen as a social construct and therefore optional." ...
"Gun control advocates argue that stricter gun control laws would reduce murders. They ignore the fact Brazil, Mexico and Russia have some of the strictest gun control laws but murder rates higher than ours."
"On the other hand, Switzerland and Israel have higher gun ownership rates than we but much lower murder rates. These are realities that gun controllers ignore."
"Another reality completely ignored in the gun control debate is the reason the Founding Fathers gave Second Amendment protections." ... |
Gun Control: A Death Sentence
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"Advocates of gun control may argue that 'America is such a violent country' or 'the UK bans guns and they have almost no homicides.' What they may not tell you about are the 21,603 murders that occurred in Russia, which has ten times less guns in circulation than America, while America has half the number of murders and ten times more guns. They would also leave out Chicago, which has the strictest gun laws and the highest crime rate in the United States. Point being, gun control is a shortsighted view of how we can fix crime problems in the United States." ... |
Gear Review: Bump Fire Systems’ Eponymous Bump Fire System
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"Slidefire was the first to recognize that there’s a market for a device that allows the average shooter to bumpfire their rifles, and they’ve dominated the market ever since. But as with all things, there are cheaper alternatives appearing on the market all the time. One such alternative comes from Bump Fire Systems, a company out of Miami, Florida that is selling a competing stock with the same features for damn near half the price. They sent us one to review, and after a little while on the range playing with it I’m back to report — and ice down my burned thumb." ... |
Magpul Announces Recall for GLOCK Magazines
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"At the SHOT Show this year, Magpul unveiled their latest creation: replacement GLOCK magazines. Designed for the G17, these mags will fit anything in that same line including the popular G19. Their main claim to fame is that they’re cheaper than the factory GLOCK mags and made of a single material instead of the composite metal and plastic magazines that GLOCK offers. Things were looking peachy as the first batches left the factory, but there were apparently a few minor errors that are causing problems, and as a result Magpul is replacing every magazine free of charge . . ." ... |
10mm Ammo Test: DoubleTap 165gr Bonded JHP (video story)
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"Since converting my GLOCK 21 to 10mm, I’ve tested a few different types of ammo from it, but the requests just keep coming — everyone wants to see DoubleTap ammo tested in 10mm. The reason is simple — most major manufacturers are selling 'watered-down' versions of 10mm ammo. A simple example is Federal’s Hydra Shok. The 10mm version is barely, scarcely any more powerful than the .40 S&W version. ..." ... |
Violence Policy Center on NRA Convention: No Fun!
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"Two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different. One person can look at one thing and see two totally different things. We’re talking the NRA convention and the works of M. C. Esher [not shown]. Of the two, the NRA convention is the more germane. Which why the TTAG team attended the Nashville get-together of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. We saw proud manufacturers and peaceful gun owners celebrating their gun rights. Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center probably didn’t attend the Convention. But that didn’t stop him from portraying NRAAM as a gathering of unregulated death merchants and their willing enablers. ..." ... |
Head of Gun Control Org Kicks Single Mom to the Curb
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"The Philadelphia Inquirer will never be mistaken for a pro-gun publication, but even their editorial board found the travails of Shaneen Allen — a single mother of two who ran afoul of New Jersey’s Kafkaesque firearms laws — appalling. 'Allen’s case illustrates the danger of relying on prosecutors for restraint, a consequence of any mandatory minimum sentence. Tough gun laws can save lives, but rigid penalties for sometimes minor crimes risk needlessly ruining lives, along with the rationale for those laws.' . . ." ... |
Gun violence initiative unsure of ramifications, politicized mission
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"As Washington University prepares to hold the first event of a year-long focus on gun violence, the chancellor and his wife, whose experiences sparked the initiative, seem to be at odds over the mission."
"Chancellor Mark Wrighton says that the University is not pursuing a legislative agenda against guns, but instead is trying to find a way to make firearms safer." ...
"Risa Zwerling Wrighton, his wife, came up with the initiative after a student she had been tutoring for seven years was shot and killed. She said she does intend for the initiative to have a political agenda."
"'Our goals include getting legislation passed, but that is just one prong of a multi-pronged approach,' Zwerling Wrighton said in an interview ..." ... |
intentionally ineffective background checks
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"I am struck by the glib contradiction that underlies advocacy for background checks for firearms purchases."
"Part of the contradiction stems from the oft-quoted recitation of 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' 'the people' doesn't have any modifiers, and is read elsewhere to apply to all people. Yet background checks are intentionally designed to infringe on the rights of many people, and there is no statutory or judicially-defined limit ... on the number of people whose rights may be infringed by background checks."
"The other part of the contradiction is that background checks don't work to limit access to guns by people whose possession of a gun should give you the willies. ..." ... |
Ted Cruz: What the Times Doesn’t Get about the Second Amendment
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"On Friday, the New York Times stated, in a blaring headline, that my support for Second Amendment rights is 'strange.'"
"In particular, the writer took issue with my statement that 'the Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty.'"
"In addition to 'strange,' the NYT described this view as 'ridiculous,' 'silly,' and 'absurd' (methinks the Old Gray Lady doth protest too much)." ... |
WV: Joe Manchin Pulls Out Of West Virginia’s Governor Race
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"On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation to announce the he has decided not to run for governor of West Virginia in 2016."
"Ironically, Manchin’s announcement comes just two weeks after The State reported that the NRA’s Chris Cox said, 'The NRA is more popular than Joe Manchin in West Virginia.'"
"Manchin’s gun control reputation precedes him. He opposed recent efforts in the state to establish Constitutional Carry by doing away with a concealed carry permit requirement. He did this by suggesting the Second Amendment is not a sufficient carry license. He believes people have to be 'properly trained' before they can exercise their right to keep and bear arms." ... |
Sen. Grassley to AG Eric Holder: Why Are So Many Veterans on the NICS Gun Ban List?
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"Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is requesting an explanation for why nearly all of the names on the Justice Department’s gun ban list in the 'mental defective' category belong to veterans or their dependents . . ."
"'It’s disturbing to think that the men and women who dedicated themselves to defending our freedom and values face undue threats to their fundamental Second Amendment rights from the very agency established to serve them. A veteran or dependent shouldn’t lose their Constitutional rights because they need help with bookkeeping,' Grassley said." ... |
The Bigot Game
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"It worked with Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It worked with Ferguson. It's being used to bludgeon hapless Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy into submission. And now it's being used to try to overcome Second Amendment opposition to the confirmation of Loretta Lynch."
"It's the BIGOT GAME."
"And here's how it works."
"Senate Republicans have a real problem with AG nominee Loretta Lynch. She was, to put it charitably, weasely under oath. She's anti-gun, and will surely use the powers of her office to implement a semi-auto ban, which she favors, by executive fiat. And she indicated that she will throw out the law and the Constitution to carry out Barack Obama's unlawful orders." ... |
VT: Vermont Backs Away from Universal Background Checks
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"Vermont, a 'constitutional carry' state, currently has few restrictions on guns, but that could change soon. An important gun control bill is close to passing the Vermont legislature. The state’s house gave initial approval for the passage of one bill that has already passed the senate. The House voted 79-60 in favor of the bill (SB 31) and a final vote is expected today. As TTAG mentioned before, this bill would allow the prosecution of some convicted criminals for firearm possession and require the 'dangerously mentally ill' to be added to the federal background check system, therefore denying them firearms . . ." ... |
OH: Bill would loosen restrictions on concealed carry
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"A disturbing pattern at the Statehouse is just how easily Republican majorities in both chambers bend to the will of the gun lobby. Time and again, an expansive view of Second Amendment rights has trampled reasonable objections, even from representatives of police departments and sheriff’s offices."
"The latest example is a bill that would do away with permits, training and background checks to carry a concealed weapon. Introduced by Ron Hood, a Republican member of the Ohio House from Ashville, the legislation would allow those 21 and older and not otherwise banned from having a weapon to carry a concealed firearm." ... |
CO: Colorado gun legislation misses the mark
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"On April 13, the House State Affairs Committee shot down six bills aimed at reversing restrictive gun legislation passed in 2013."
"The rejected bills included propositions targeted at annulling background checks for private gun transfers, restrictions on magazine capacity and limitations on where firearms may be carried."
"... Rep. Bob Rankin ... said he is not surprised by the committees’ decisions."
"'It’s generally known as the kill committee,' he said. 'The committee where they send bills to die.'"
"Rankin is not on the ... Committee and did not have an opportunity to vote on the legislation. However, he said he supports efforts to repeal legislation limiting the Second Amendment rights of his constituents." ... |
TX: Open Carry Of Handguns In Texas Geared Up For Governor’s Approval
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"Texas is poised to allow the 'open carry' of handguns, after the House voted 96-35 on Friday, for legislation which would allow licensed gun owners to openly carry handguns in shoulder or belt holsters. Since the Senate passed a similar bill last month, the differences between the two will be smoothed out before landing on the desk of Governor Greg Abbott, who has indicated that he will support any legislation that expands Second Amendment rights." ... |
Ohio Deputy's case is latest to highlight bad laws, unreasonable prosecutions, unequal justice
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... "The case is a frustrating to everyone. Prosecutors are protesting the 'light' sentence handed down by the judge. Spicer maintains that he was trying to abide by the country’s convoluted gun laws and that his prosecution was malicious. Law enforcement critics point to the light sentence as another example of special consideration for police, and rights advocates continue to question why laws, agencies, and the courts waste resources focusing on people who are not violent criminals, but who have just gotten tangled in the red tape of the system." ... |
CO: 2 TSA officers fired after plotting to grope attractive men, police say
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"Two Transportation Security Administration screeners have been fired after conspiring to grope attractive men at Denver International Airport, Denver police said."
"Here's how police say the scheme worked: When the male TSA officer noticed a man he found attractive, he would alert a female TSA officer."
"The female officer would then tell the screening machine that a female passenger -- not a male -- was walking through. And that information would trigger a machine to register an anomaly in the groin area, prompting the male TSA officer to pat down the passenger, police said, citing a TSA investigation." ... |
MO: Prosecutors aren't holding their fire against 'gun rights' amendment
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"When Amendment 5 was put before voters last August, 602,863 Missourians cast their ballots in favor of a measure aimed at bolstering the Show Me State’s gun rights."
"It’s safe to say St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce was not among those voters."
"'Amendment 5 is a disaster,' said Joyce during a recent episode of the Politically Speaking podcast. 'I mean, that was just an inexplicably bad thing that happened in the state.'"
"Months after Amendment 5 passed with nearly 61 percent of the vote, two of the state’s top prosecutors – Joyce and Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker – are pulling no punches. They contend that the amendment ... is making it harder to combat gun violence in the state’s urban areas." ... |
TX: Eye in the sky: Local constables using drones to fight crime (video available)
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"The Harris County Precinct 1 Constable's Office is doing something that no other agency in Harris County is believed to have done yet: Use drones to help fight crime."
"It's an eye in the sky for law enforcement, without giving up the element of surprise."
"'It could absolutely save lives,' says Constable Alan Rosen."
"Rosen says the agency's two new $1,200 drones, which have been in use for three weeks, are game changers in getting intel before serving search warrants, on SWAT situations and even looking for escaped inmates."
"'You're not gonna detect that the drone is there because it's so quiet,' Rosen said." ... |
MO: Reaction to new gun law mixed
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"Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill that will allow Mississippians to carry a gun in a purse, briefcase or other fully enclosed satchel without having to obtain a state-issued license."
"In addition, people on active-duty military service and current or honorably retired law enforcement officers won't need a license to carry a concealed gun. ..."
"Meridian resident Linda Marks likes the new law."
"'People in our society can choose to protect themselves as the second amendment allows without paying exorbitant fees or having to go through licensing for what our Constitution already allows,' Marks said. ..."
"John Drinkwater – a firearms instructor – said while he supports the law, he feels caution should be exercised." ... |
Australia: Latest Australian Gun Grab Effort Defeated
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"Australian firearms owners scored a resounding victory in response to a Senate Inquiry that attempted to place blame on them for a perceived increase in firearms crime as we reported last week. The Senate Committee report entitled, 'Ability of Australian law enforcement authorities to eliminate gun-related violence in the community,' initiated and chaired by Australian Greens Senator Penny Wright last October after a siege in Adelaide, unanimously found that . . ." ... |
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