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TX: Journey to Tokyo: Texas teen earns Olympic spot in shotgun skeet
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Shooting competitively for just six years, Texas teen Austen Smith will represent America in the women’s shotgun skeet at the Olympics. While her accomplishments may seem astonishing, in her mind, her sights have always been set sky high.
“It’s hard to explain really,” said Smith. Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you’ll land on a cloud. “It’s just that I’ve been working so hard this past year to get to this point and just be among to other amazing women who’ve competed.”
At just 18 years old and a senior in high school, Austen Smith qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in shotgun skeet in March of 2020.
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Trouble Knocks at Your Door.. and Then Assaults You – More Self Defense Gun Stories
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It is 4 AM Saturday when you hear your roommates shouting. You get up to see them arguing. Your 19-year-old roommate is threatening to kill everyone. One of your roommates already called the police.
The angry 19-year-old male roommate attacks a male roommate. Everyone shouts for him to stop. You get your gun. When you come back, you see the 19-year-old strangling the other man. You shoot the attacker. The 19-year-old stops strangling his victim and the male victim collapses. The 19-year-old attacks one of your female roommates. He is strangling her when you shoot the 19-year-old attacker for the second time. Now the attacker lets her go and he collapses. You call 911. |
MO: State Senators Are Looking At Bills Related To The 2nd Amendment
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State Senators in Jeff City are talking about the Second Amendment to the U-S Constitution.
Senator Eric Burlison of Battlefield brought Senate Bill 39 to the floor of the Missouri Senate, his proposal would create the Second Amendment Preservation Act “Governments too often turn to tyranny and they attack individual rights, when their Governments grow to large. This results in the loss of individual rights and lives.”
Supporters say their idea comes because of executive actions from Washington, D.C. |
TX: Texas pushes closer to dropping handgun license requirement
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But in a span of just weeks, Texas has suddenly pushed ever closer to becoming the largest state in the country with unregulated or “permitless" carry — a move that is alarming law enforcement and has some Republicans staring down a vote they'd rather avoid. It has also disheartened lawmakers from El Paso, which is still recovering from one of the worst mass shootings in the nation's history, when a gunman at Walmart killed 23 people in 2019. |
ME: Gun Bills Scheduled for Public Hearing
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On May 3rd, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will hold public hearings on numerous anti-gun and pro-gun bills. It is critical that committee members hear from NRA members and Second Amendment supporters. Please act now! Contact members of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee and ask them to SUPPORT NRA-backed LD’s 1052 and 1315, and to OPPOSE LD’s 976, 999, and 1454. |
Meet the gun owners who support (some) gun control
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Jeff Kelman grew up in a progressive Massachusetts home, the son of two mothers. He had no idea people could even own guns until he was in middle school. But in high school, he started shooting for sport – and developed a sharp eye.
As a Jewish man whose wife is Chinese American, he is keenly aware of racial discrimination, and the potential for that to turn into violence. So, he carries a gun for self-defense. |
LA: Multiple Pro-Gun Measures Advance in the Legislature
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Wednesday, the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee passed Constitutional Carry Legislation, House Bill 596, as well as concealed carry clarification measure, House Bill 124. Yesterday, the Senate passed their own version of Constitutional Carry Legislation, Senate Bill 118, by a 27 to 11 vote. Please contact your State Representative and ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 118, House Bill 596, and House Bill 124. Also, please ask your Representative to OPPOSE House Bill 55. |
Gun control won’t solve the anger
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I have sympathy for lawmakers who wish to introduce legislation pertaining to gun control, although I personally support the use of firearms for sport and self-defense at the least. But I do not think gun control will solve the problem. While someone on a rampage will likely kill less innocents with a blade than with a gun, I think we need to get to the true root of the problem. In other words, what is making people so angry? |
.410 Handgun: The Pros and Cons of These Heavy-Duty Revolvers
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These niche .410 wheelguns have been popular for a decade, but they have plenty of haters.
A little more than 10 years ago, two gun companies made a lot of noise with a new kind of revolver. The Taurus Judge and the Smith & Wesson Governor debuted around the same time, creating waves across the self-defense market. Both guns are double-action revolvers that can fire both .45 Long Colt centerfire ammunition, as well as 2.5-inch .410 shotshells. |
KS: Kansas Veto Session Starts Next Week
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On Monday, the Kansas Legislature returns for a veto session, where they will consider overriding Governor Laura Kelly’s vetoes, which include two pro-gun bills. Please continue to contact your lawmakers and ask them to OVERRIDE Gov. Kelly’s vetoes of House Bill 2058 and House Bill 2089. |
NY: Upstate concealed carry case sets stage for major gun rights review
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Gun rights activists are hoping a New York legal battle headed to the nation's highest court will determine whether residents have the same right to concealed carry permits as people in 42 other states with less restrictive firearms laws.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other proponents of stringent gun control statutes are hoping New York's statute giving discretion to the permit issuing authority in each county will be upheld.
The case is expected to produce the most significant ruling on Second Amendment rights since 2010. |
Barrett and Gorsuch Have to Choose Between Originalism and Expanding Gun Rights
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The decision this week of the Supreme Court to hear its first major Second Amendment case in more than a decade is momentous in many ways. Scholars and jurists have been clamoring for years for the court to clarify its landmark, but opaque 2008 decision, District of Columbia v. Heller. The core holding in Heller has not been much disputed in the intervening years. According to Heller, the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to have a functional handgun in the home for reasons of self-protection. |
Lummis introduces handgun bill
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis introduced legislation on Tuesday that would reinstate the right for people between ages 18 and 20 to legally purchase a handgun from a federally licensed dealer.
Sen. Lummis announced the Second Amendment Mandates Equality Act, or SAME Act, with six Republican co-sponsors in the Senate and one in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would repeal an existing law that prevents adults under 21 from purchasing a handgun. |
Gun culture is a uniquely American phenomenon. Is there a way to pass legislation despite it?
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Now, Obert is an assistant professor of political science at Amherst College, who researches and writes about gun rights and violence in American culture. (His current book project is entitled Arming the Body Politic: The Economic Origins of American Gun Rights.) He defines gun culture specifically as “people really seeing something of their own identity in the possession and use of guns,” at least from the white perspective. (Obert acknowledges plenty of other communities have a very different relationship to and cultural significance associated with guns. But for the purposes of this article, we are talking about it in terms of the white experience.) |
NE: County commissioners to take action on Second Amendment declaration
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The York County Commissioners will take action Tuesday, on a resolution that makes York County a designated “Second Amendment County.”
The board members discussed the topic during their last meeting and it appears they will be moving toward approval when they meet in regular session next Tuesday, May 4.
More than 70 of the state’s 93 counties and the state itself have been declared Second Amendment Sanctuaries.
The proclamation is symbolic and reaffirms the state’s and counties’ support for the right to bear arms. |
WY: Big Horn commissioners study Second Amendment sanctuary status
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With more and more groups approaching the commissioners about Big Horn County becoming a Second Amendment sanctuary, a listening session has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, May 3 at the Weed and Pest building west of Greybull.
Rep. John Winter, Sheriff Ken Blackburn and Deputy County Attorney Jennifer Kirk participated in the discussion on April 20 that led to the commissioners agreeing to schedule the listening session. |
IL: Illinois State Rifle Association says FOID card backlog violates Second Amendment
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The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Police (ISP) for failure to process firearms permit renewal applications within the lawful 30 days, which they call a Second Amendment violation.
Holders of expired Illinois Firearms Owners Identification (FOID) cards or Concealed Carry Licenses recently received another 150-day extension because the ISP is still trying to overcome an extensive application backlog.
“The FOID card enables you to exercise a fundamental right which is your Second Amendment right, and a right delayed is a right denied,” ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson said. “Some of these people have been waiting 18 months, a year, two years, 10 months.” |
PA: Campus divided on gun control as College Republicans look to Second Amendment celebration
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After multiple shootings across the United States this past year, including a shooting outside of a Wawa on the outskirts of Allentown last week that left two dead and another injured, calls for gun control have never been louder. But the issue remains divisive across the country as well as on Lafayette’s campus, where many students continue to support the right to bear arms.
Both the College Republicans and Democrats often discuss the Second Amendment in their club meetings. Garan Comfort ’21, a member of the College Republicans, explained that they discuss gun rights and mass shootings when they occur and that they encourage open and free discussion about gun laws and violence. |
2A Incrementalism vs All or Nothing: Restoring Second Amendment Rights
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The other group of Second Amendment supporters argued Second Amendment rights could be restored bit by bit. Pass legislation first, for a permit system. Keep reforming and improving the permit system. Reduce requirements, reduce fees, reduce “gun-free zones”. Keep on incrementally improving the law, until Second Amendment rights were fully restored. They were/are the “Incrementalists”. In the middle 1990’s it was not clear if either approach would be effective.
Twenty years later, it was clear. Second Amendment Incrementalism worked.
One of the all or nothing group was talented author Claire Wolfe, who made a splash with her book “101 Things to do ‘Til the Revolution” #ad, published in 1999. |
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| By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country. For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |
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