Search Result for “Department of Justice”

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Last week, Richard Pollock reported on the fact that the Obama administration rarely prosecuted convicted felons who lied on their forms to obtain guns.  Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ordering a review of the FBI gun database to see why potential buyers are not being stopped. All of this …
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Editor’s Note:  Anyone remembers when then Vice President Joe Biden pushed for gun confiscation legislation following Sandy Hook, but when questioned about what the feds were doing concerning those who lied on their ATF form 4473, Biden said they simply didn’t have the time to prosecute them?  Oh, the hypocrisy. …
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Governor Kenneth Mapp of the US Virgin Islands illegally authorized the National Guard to confiscate privately owned guns and ammunition and any property it might need to respond to the disaster. In what is a clear violation of the Second Amendment and the Fifth Amendment Governor Mapp decided he would be …
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Back in April, NRA-ILA alerted readers to the results of the New Zealand Parliament Law and Order Committee’s “Inquiry into issues relating to the illegal possession of firearms in New Zealand,” which proposed that a raft of new gun control laws be foisted upon the peaceful island nation. Not content …
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This week, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) reintroduced the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act, a bill aimed at permanently dismantling Operation Choke Point (OCP).   This Obama era “enforcement” program billed itself as an effort to shut down fraudulent businesses by choking off their access to financial services. But the “high …
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The New York Times—which couldn’t be bothered to look into “Operation Fast and Furious,” in which the Obama-era ATF told gun store owners to let bad guys fronting for Mexican drug cartels buy all the guns they wanted—just led an investigative article this way: “Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, …
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A California Federal Firearms License holder who had his entire firearms collection of 541 guns seized with no charges filed against him, has had his guns returned. Albert Sheakalee, who lives in the Clovis area, went through mental health treatment in 2014.  He has had a clean criminal record all …
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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has written a letter to President Donald Trump, asking him to pardon two Kansans, whom the Obama administration’s policies abused their rights protected under both the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, as well as the Second Amendment Protection Act of Kansas. The letter was written by Brownback …
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Despite decades passing since Australia engaged in a massive gun confiscation scheme against its citizens, making them victims against criminals, the country has decided it will engage in amnesty program for people who own guns and offering nothing for them turning in their weapons to police, unlike they did in 1996. …
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In a tacit admission that criminals and scofflaws have had little trouble circumventing Australia’s National Firearms Agreement (NFA) and the government’s confiscation effort, Australian officials have set a date for another firearms amnesty program. The program is set to begin in July and last for three months. Despite offering no …
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