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MN: Former Police Chief Says He's Not Guilty Of Sex Assault Charges
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Jason Mindrup appeared in Mower County Court Thursday morning to face two felony sex charges.
The former Brownsdale Chief of Police entered not guilty pleas on both counts after being accused of sexual assault from an alleged incident in late August.
A criminal complaint against Mindrup said he sexually assaulted a woman in his personal vehicle after picking her up as she left a bar in Waltham August 31.
The Brownsdale City Council voted to fire Mindrup from his former job after a Minnesota State BCA investigation found there was enough evidence to charge him with first and third degree criminal sexual conduct.
Mindrup's next scheduled court dates will be in March 2014 for both his pretrial conference and his jury trial. |
NH: Handgun Safety Workshop for Women to be Held
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Women interested in learning about handguns can sign up now for a women’s handgun course through the New Hampshire Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) Program. BOW is teaming up with Sturm Ruger and the Sunset Mountain Fish and Game Club to offer the course, which will be held from 6 PM to 9 PM on Tuesday evenings January 7, 21, 28 and February 4, with a snow date of February 11, 2014, at the Sunset Mountain Fish and Game Club, 17 West Road in Canterbury, N.H. Participants must attend all four sessions. |
CT: UConn Law Holds Panel on 2nd Amendment and Gun Control
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On Friday, UConn School of Law hosted a panel discussion about the second amendment and gun control in the wake of high-profile tragedies like the Newtown school shootings.
The student-run journal, The Connecticut Law Review, organized the day-long panel at William F. Starr Hall on the Hartford campus.
Connecticut's Governor Dannel Malloy gave opening remarks. He told the audience of legal scholars and practitioners that Connecticut supports the constitutional right to own firearms but he says no right is without its limitations. |
Dems pull gun control to deflect attention from O-care nightmare
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With Obamacare in a shambles – and Republicans incredibly voting today to put it on life support for a year when they should have allowed it to implode – Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi need to turn the spotlight away from that political train wreck. They trotted out the specter of a “universal background check” bill being passed. Sure, that will get people looking in another direction. They used Wednesday's Brady Law anniversary event to launch their effort. |
IL: Local church offers concealed carry course
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Guns and God. A local pastor believes his congregation should have a Biblical understanding of what concealed carry means for them.
That's why they are holding an open concealed carry training course this weekend that's both safety-based and spiritual.
Pastor Troy Benitone is confident and convinced a weekend concealed carry seminar is what his congregation needs.
"The mission of the church is to equip the believer," he said, "The church needs to quit being shy about educating people." |
3D Printing Stocks and Gun Advocates — Strange Bedfellows
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The populist appeal of 3D printers fits perfectly in line with many gun rights advocates. The idea that you can create something on demand, without a big corporation as a middleman, is incredibly appealing to those who place a premium on self-determination.
And while having the freedom to make your own widgets to sell is very different than having the freedom to create your own guns for self-defense, philosophically, it’s all about affordable access. |
Second Amendment Foundation Making A Difference for Right To Keep & Bear Arms
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We are currently challenging the Arkansas Statute that, “completely prohibits resident legal aliens from the concealed carry of guns, in public, for the purpose of self-defense.”
In a separate case in California, GLOCK Inc. has joined to support SAF in our case challenging the state handgun roster requirements that include microstamping and magazine disconnects.
We constantly have to battle to protect our Second Amendment rights. As long as patriots like you can keep our doors open we will never stop fighting. It is imperative we collect as many resources as possible to challenge anti-gun rights laws from coast to coast. WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW! |
Join the fight with Heller Commemorative Bulldog
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Charter Arms has designed a limited Heller Commemorative .44 Bulldog. This fully engraved .44 Special revolver commemorates the historic win of the U.S. Supreme Court case Heller v. D.C.
In the landmark case, the Supreme Court struck down Washington D.C.’s handgun ban and affirmed the Second Amendment as an individual right. |
FL: Citizens Should Not Have Assault, Military-Grade Weapons
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The National Rifle Association's name says it all — rifle.
It does not say assault weapons. Assault weapons were created for use in combat. They are not used in hunting and very seldom used in home defense (although I am sure it has happened somewhere).
Availability of assault weapons outside of the military is akin to making atomic weapons available to the general public.
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Assault weapons first came into use outside of the military and police by gangsters to outgun the police. The Thompson submachine gun was the forerunner and then the mass produced Russian AK-47 and the Uzi created the market. |
CO: Gun control advocate threatens to ‘shoot and kill’ recall activists
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After September’s recall of Colorado Sen. Angela Giron and Senate President John Morse over their anti-gun stance, a group called Recall Hudak Too is trying to extend its success by tossing Hudak out of office, according to Capitol City Project.
While collecting signatures in front of the public library in Arvada, Colo., a man riding by on a bicycle can be heard to say, “I’m going to go home and get a gun and come back and kill you m****r f****rs. Would you like that?” |
MI: Murder Charge in a Shooting on Doorstep
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After a two-week investigation, the prosecutor here charged a white suburban homeowner on Friday with second-degree murder in the killing of an unarmed young black woman. The prosecutor rejected the man’s assertion that he had been acting in self-defense when he opened his front door and fired a shotgun at the woman through a locked screen door, striking her in the face. |
Armed American Radio Parent USCCA Closes In On 1.5 Million Facebook Fans
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Armed American Radio parent company U.S. Concealed Carry Association ( USCCA, Inc. ) recently surpassed the one millionth Facebook fan and is now quickly closing in on 1.5 million.
The unprecedented growth of the entire organization yields incredible marketing power for the USCCA, its flagship publication Concealed Carry Magazine and Armed American Radio as it continues its explosive growth.
AAR national host and Concealed Carry Magazine columnist Mark Walters had this to say at a recent speaking engagement: |
Intelligence Squared debate over current usefulness of Second Amendment rights
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Intelligence Squared held a debate Thursday night on whether the “Constitutional right to bear arms has outlived its usefulness” or if it is as equally pertinent today as it was at its conception.
Those for the motion include Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Alan M. Dershowitz, and Professor of Law and of Government at the University of Texas Law School, Sanford Levinson.
Those against the motion include Research Director of the Independence Institute, David Kopel, and Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, Eugene Volokh.
In the nearly two-hour long discussion the men talk about the Second Amendment, the correlation between gun ownership and homicide rates in the U.S., and the evolution of firearms and our country. |
Guns and Mental Illness
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...people with mental illness aren’t a homogenous group — mental illness includes such disparate conditions as attention deficit disorders, anxiety, autism, dementia, depression, insomnia, learning disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and tic disorders.
Most mentally ill people, even most who hear voices, are no more violent than the rest of us. Mental health professionals know that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Thus, the best warning that Navy Yard shooter, Aaron Alexis, might commit a violent act was his history of arrests for gun violence, not the voices in his head. Furthermore, to suggest the Second Amendment does not apply to people with mental health problems is, frankly, discriminatory. |
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