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As the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) celebrates its golden anniversary this month, it’s a shame that we can’t send them well wishes. Unfortunately, on this occasion of the federal agency’s 50 years since it was officially established as an independent bureau within the Treasury Department in …
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On Thursday, the U.S Senate passed a sweeping package of gun control measures. The text of the legislation was only unveiled Tuesday evening. And while much of the 80-page bill did indeed seek to address underlying issues with our nation’s mental health system and funding for improved school security, the …
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Current Law Most law-abiding Americans over the age of 18 enjoy the right to purchase a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL or gun dealer) following an instant background check through the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS). A minority of law-abiding adults, who may share personal characteristics …
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At present, federal law generally bars anyone who is convicted in any court for a domestic violence felony, or any felony for that matter, from possessing firearms. But federal law also imposes a lifetime firearm possession prohibition on those who have been convicted in any court of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” (MCDV). Under …
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On May 14, 2022, Payton S. Gendron, a white supremacist, opened fire on black people in a New York supermarket. The next day, thousands of miles away in California, David Wenwei Chou, a militant supporter of Communist China, opened fire in a Taiwanese church. While Gendron’s mass shooting has been …
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun control agenda isn’t going as planned, yet he is already doubling down. His latest gun grab move is a ban on another entire class of firearms. Calling it a “last resort,” Prime Minister Trudeau wants to ban all handguns in his country. That’s right …
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Recently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) – under the direction of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland – has been on a tear of upsetting settled understandings and changing enforcement policies. But pro-gun members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have taken note and …
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A group of 20 U.S. senators sent a scathing letter to the U.S. attorney general and the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) outlining what the senators call enforcement of “secret guidance” concerning so-called forced reset triggers (FRTs) and devices the agency claims are suppressor “parts kits.” The …
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has a poignant pen. His public letters to the Obama administration demanding answers about its gun-running scandal, Operation Fast and Furious, after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was murdered in 2010 are still a must-read for anyone who wants to try to understand that strange and …
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Joe Biden was in New York City earlier today RAILING on your Second Amendment rights and it’s not good. Standing with anti-gun Attorney General Merrick Garland and Socialist New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Biden announced BILLIONS of dollars in new spending aimed directly at registration and confiscation! Sure, he …
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