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Back in November, following the Las Vegas shooting, Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Steve Benjamin proposed a city ordinance which would ban the use of bump stocks and trigger cranks.  Well, the city did it and now they are facing a lawsuit from an attorney who claims it’s a violation of the Second …
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All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.  –Article I, US Constitution Following the Las Vegas shooting, bump stocks came under attack, even though you can bump fire a semi-automatic rifle without a …
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You really just can’t fix stupid in this country and Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin is just the latest example of this. On Wednesday Benjamin said that he is planning to propose a city ordinance which would ban the use of bump stocks and trigger cranks. These two devices simulate automatic firing …
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It’s almost funny to me that we have to even sit through these pieces of legislation when our own Constitution is clear in that the God-given right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  However, instead of simply enforcing those words and not requiring a permit to either …
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At best, one could say that Texas church shooter Devin Kelley was a deeply disturbed individual. At worst, one could say he was an animal, a sociopath whose way of relating to the world and those around him was almost sure to lead to great harm to himself and others …
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“If the central government has the authority to tell a state it must accept permits from all the other states, then it also has the authority to tell a state it may not accept a concealed permit from any other states. If the central government can do these things it …
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Gun control groups expend an awful lot of ink, time and money advocating for “common-sense public safety laws” like “universal” background checks because such restrictions, they claim, will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and other dangerous people. It’s peculiar, then, that many of these entities don’t do …
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Information collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) indicates an unprecedented surge in the number of concealed carry permits, with the largest one-year increase on record occurring between May 2016 and May 2017. The CPRC tracks permit numbers across the country and publishes an annual report on concealed carrying …
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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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On Wednesday, May 24, 2017, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced H.R. 2620, the “Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act.” This bill would remove ATF’s authority to use the “sporting purposes” clauses in federal law in ways that could undermine the core purpose of …
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