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If you can’t change the facts, change the public’s perception of the facts. Anti-gun politicians whose constituents express concerns about crime and public safety respond with the narrative that it’s a gun problem rather than a problem of lawbreakers and criminals, a message that is amplified and reinforced by an accommodating mainstream …
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On Wednesday, the Colorado General Assembly passed multiple gun control bills out of various committees, and they are now eligible for either a vote on the Floor of their respective chambers or have been referred to additional committees for further review. House Floor The House Business Affairs & Labor Committee …
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Does your state support your 2nd Amendment rights or make it exceedingly difficult to keep and bear arms? We’ve ranked the worst states to be a gun owner below. How? By analyzing each state’s current laws, upcoming laws, concealed carry guidelines, self-defense statutes, and 2A-centric taxes in order to identify …
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DISTURBING NEWS! Despite passing both the Wyoming House and Senate by very wide margins, the GOA-backed bill to REPEAL GUN FREE ZONES has been vetoed by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon! HB0125 represented historic legislation that would have restored Second Amendment Rights to Wyoming citizens and made Wyoming a safer place. …
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Report Highlights: The U.S. has more than 82 million lawful firearm owners. 53% of the 21 states with restrictive concealed carry laws have violent crime rates higher than the national average. 55% of states with a violent crime rate below the national average have permitless carry. Between 60,000 and 2.5 …
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Last week we reported on a major breakthrough on behalf of veterans who risked losing their Second Amendment rights because of a long-running scheme by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report certain beneficiaries to the federal background check database as prohibited “mental defectives.” As we noted, a rider in the …
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Unless you and I speak out now, health bureaucrats in Washington will continue to fund research that will be used to advocate against your Second Amendment rights. For years, anti-gunners in Congress have been spending millions of tax dollars to have the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National …
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The “Dickey Amendment”—which has been included in every government funding bill since 1994—is supposed to prevent the weaponization of research at CDC and NIH to create biased, politically motivated research for politicians and bureaucrats to use to promote and advocate for gun control. It simply says that “none of the …
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On Tuesday, March 12th, the Senate Labor & Commerce Committee passed Senate Bill 2223 by a 7-0 vote, and the House Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee passed House Bill 2762 by a voice vote. SB 2223 advances to the Senate for consideration, and HB 2762 advances to the House Commerce Committee. Please …
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We generally don’t expect to see the Washington Post say anything positive about firearms or law-abiding gun owners, although there are occasional Op-Eds from pro-Second Amendment lawmakers, unbiased researchers and Constitutional scholars, and the like.  A March 4 Opinion piece from a former Post staff writer is one of those rare exceptions. The writer recounts …
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