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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach answered questions from members of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. While mostly focused on budget and appropriations matters, committee members asked the director a range of questions, including about the Final Rule defining stabilizing arm braces attached …
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In the movie Casablanca (1942), when Rick (Humphrey Bogart) shoots Maj. Strasser to stop him from preventing Victor and Ilsa’s airplane from taking off, Capt. Louis Renault gave officers arriving on the scene their marching orders when he delivered the now-famous line: “Round up the usual suspects.”  While rounding up …
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On April 19, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 23-15 to advance H.J.Res.44, which would reign in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ attempt to regulate pistol stabilizing braces. The resolution employs the Congressional Review Act, which grants Congress the authority to disapprove of new federal agency …
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Proponents of gun control routinely call for “assault weapons” to be banned, most notably, and probably most frequently, President Joe Biden (D). So when Steve Dettelbach, who Biden nominated to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was asked to define what, exactly, an “assault weapon” is, …
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Once again, evangelicals are proving themselves to be absolutely worthless in the preservation of our God-ordained liberties. This time it is the Southern Baptist Convention. While usually quiet on the gun debate [in other words, offering no resistance to burgeoning anti-freedom gun control measures], Southern Baptists have now spoken out about …
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s botched chief judge nomination process has been a blow to her first term as elected governor. It just got worse. For the first time since governors began making the chief judge nomination in 1970, the New York Senate Judiciary Committee rejected her first nominee, Hector LaSalle, as …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, praises South Dakota’s Gov. Kristi Noem for signing an Executive Order prohibiting state agencies from entering into contracts with corporate banks that discriminate against the firearm industry. Governor Noem’s order will prevent “woke” corporate banks with discriminatory policies against firearm industry members from …
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For the 44th month in a row, March saw more than one million firearm purchases that resulted in the FBI processing the new owner’s name and information through its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The bureau’s facility in Winchester, WV, also handles clearances for concealed carry permits, their …
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(HB 129, HB 565, HB 761, HB 781, HB 925, HB 996, HB 1072, HB 1331, HB 1388, HB 2075, HB2275, HB 2744, HB 2916, HB 3087, HB 3088, HB 3996, HB 4364 & HB 5188 — to view the text of any of these bills, visit https://house.texas.gov/research/) During the 2023 Texas legislative session, more …
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In Los Angeles, the local transit agency has resorted to the desperation tactic of playing classical music in a downtown subway station to see if it has any impact on the crime, vagrants, drug users, and calls to police from transit customers. Even as violent crime (robbery, aggravated assault, and rape) in …
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