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Michael Bloomberg’s bought-and-paid-for new Virginia majorities have wasted no time introducing an extremist bill that would make the Commonwealth one of the most hostile states for law-abiding gun owners. House Bill 2, introduced by Delegate Kenneth R. Plum (D-36), would criminalize almost all private transfers of firearms. Not merely restricted to doing so for sales, Virginians …
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You hear the same call for action in the wake of almost every tragedy involving a firearm: “We need background checks,” the gun haters say. “It’s a cure-all that will wipe out all such crime in our country.” So about 20 years ago, the anti-gun crowd no doubt whooped when …
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Whether you like them or not, background checks are here to stay for gun owners and gun purchasers – but they are not the saving grace that some make them out to be. Background checks for gun purchases can only do so much and are not the permanent solution to keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and keeping Americans safe from gun violence. More concerning is that they give the state an ever-growing list of private citizens who own guns, and such a list has historically been used for subsequent gun confiscation attempts.
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This is more attempts at undermining the Constitution, infringing on your rights and advancing a Communist-style gun confiscation agenda.
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A joint effort by research organizations has found after a study during a 10-year period that the rates of firearm-related death did not change after comprehensive background check and violent misdemeanor polices were passed in California.
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Government has no problem with young adults under 21 serving in the military and dying for their agendas.  Government would allow individuals barred from owning guns privately to carry firearms while serving in the military to further their agenda.  Remember, gun control leading to confiscation means unarmed private citizens, but the government, military and police hold all the firearms.
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So-called “universal” background checks have become a go-to gun control push for anti-Second Amendment politicians. They come out of the woodwork to push such checks each time a high-profile firearm-based crime occurs. The fact that the vast majority of high-profile attackers already acquire their guns via background checks matters not; …
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Second Amendment supporters have always warned of the “slippery slope” that leads to all out gun control. That analogy is never more appropriate than when the subject of California’s gun laws comes up. By all appearance the state has hit that slope hard, and won’t stop tumbling, which is the …
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Article first appeared at Shooting Illustrated. Numbers released this week by the FBI indicate that 2,613,074 firearms-related background checks were performed through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for the 29 days of February, reflecting a record number for the shortest month of the calendar year. February 2016 …
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Following the Sandy Hook escapade, not only did Barack Obama issued 23 executive actions which were unconstitutional (given the Second Amendment’s protections of the people’s rights from infringements by government), but also states such as New York and Connecticut stepped in with pretended legislation to force gun owners to register …
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