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Gun Control is About Stripping Rights NOT Stopping Crime
Economics has a concept called “revealed preference.” The gist is that a person’s observed actions reveal more about their preferences than what a person might profess to prefer. As applied to anti-gun politicians, despite all the noise they might make about stopping the criminal misuse of guns, their actions reveal …
New York Times: Gun Control Less Popular Than Advertised
By now you’ve seen the claim countless times. According to gun control advocates and their media lapdogs, some 90-percent of Americans support the criminalization of private firearm transfers – misleadingly termed by its proponents as “universal background checks.” In a rare instance of journalistic integrity, the New York Times has …
FOLLOWING LATEST TRAGIC MURDERS GUN INDUSTRY REMAINS DEDICATED TO REAL SOLUTIONS®
Some politicians in Washington, D.C., are trying to pass meaningful legislation that would help prevent future atrocities, following the tragic murders in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Others, unfortunately, prefer to bluster. NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, will work with those in Congress who are dedicated to serious, …
Those Calling For Disarming You Aren’t Anti-Gun, They Are Very Pro-Gun When They’re In The State’s Hands
America is currently in the midst of a horrible string of mass shootings that seems to be endless. In Ames, Iowa, two innocent people were slain outside of a church before the shooter killed himself on Thursday. On Wednesday, four people were killed at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical building, ten …
N.Y. REPUBLICAN DROPS RE-ELECTION BID AFTER BUCKING HIS PARTY ON GUNS
In the wake of deadly mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, Representative Chris Jacobs of New York, a soft-spoken congressman serving his first full term in the House, stunned fellow Republicans by embracing a federal assault weapons ban and limits on high-capacity magazines… Rep. Chris Jacobs (R- NY) Buy …
Press Release: NRA is NO SHOW for Gun Control Hearing
For Immediate Release June 3, 2022 Contact: Patrick Parsons, [email protected] Washington, DC — The National Rifle Association was a NO SHOW at yesterday’s gun control hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, where Jerry Nadler and the Democrats rammed through the most draconian gun control legislation ever seen in the Congress, …
The Moral Idiocy of Gun Control
I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada. “There was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,” he told me, shaking his head. We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings …
Virginia: Budget Passes Without Northam’s $27 Million Anti-Gun Proposal
Yesterday, the General Assembly passed Virginia’s two year budget. Back in December, outgoing Governor Ralph Northam had proposed $27.4 million of taxpayer money to go towards anti-gun propaganda to further erode Second Amendment rights. Former Governor Terry McAuliffe had run for another term with that same idea. The budget that passed instead …
The Lore & Lure Of The Lone Star State: Collecting Texas Guns
One of the more interesting facets of gun collecting is the various sub-categories it offers the enthusiast. For example, there are those who only collect World War I issues of the Colt Government M1911, or pre-’64 Winchester Model 1894s. But one of the most vibrant and enthusiastic of these sub-categories is that of collecting “Texas guns.” That …
BEYOND NRA: THESE ARE OTHER GUN-RIGHTS GROUPS SPENDING MILLIONS IN WASHINGTON TO INFLUENCE GUN LAWS
Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs at Gun Owners of America, asserted in an interview Tuesday that the organization is “the only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington DC.” “That means that we’re not going to stop fighting to defend the Second Amendment and to restore it to an uninfringed state, …