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The Biden administration is zeroing in on repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) and White House officials are enlisting help from antigun state lawmakers to do it. The White House released a read out of a meeting held by Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Senior Advisor to the President and …
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The American Firearms Association is in Kansas City this week going head-to-head with anti-gun Attorney General Merrick Garland in federal court, who’s launched a full-on attack on Missouri’s recently enacted Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA). Missouri’s SAPA law says that Missouri law enforcement WILL NOT enforce Biden’s tyrannical gun control …
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A few months ago, I wrote about how Joe Biden plans to use executive actions and enforcement authorities to wage war on America’s gun owners and the industries that support them. Subsequent events have only confirmed that analysis, none more so than Biden’s latest choice to run the Bureau of Alcohol, …
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As the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) celebrates its golden anniversary this month, it’s a shame that we can’t send them well wishes. Unfortunately, on this occasion of the federal agency’s 50 years since it was officially established as an independent bureau within the Treasury Department in …
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On Thursday, the U.S Senate passed a sweeping package of gun control measures. The text of the legislation was only unveiled Tuesday evening. And while much of the 80-page bill did indeed seek to address underlying issues with our nation’s mental health system and funding for improved school security, the …
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Current Law Most law-abiding Americans over the age of 18 enjoy the right to purchase a firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL or gun dealer) following an instant background check through the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS). A minority of law-abiding adults, who may share personal characteristics …
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At present, federal law generally bars anyone who is convicted in any court for a domestic violence felony, or any felony for that matter, from possessing firearms. But federal law also imposes a lifetime firearm possession prohibition on those who have been convicted in any court of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” (MCDV). Under …
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On May 14, 2022, Payton S. Gendron, a white supremacist, opened fire on black people in a New York supermarket. The next day, thousands of miles away in California, David Wenwei Chou, a militant supporter of Communist China, opened fire in a Taiwanese church. While Gendron’s mass shooting has been …
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun control agenda isn’t going as planned, yet he is already doubling down. His latest gun grab move is a ban on another entire class of firearms. Calling it a “last resort,” Prime Minister Trudeau wants to ban all handguns in his country. That’s right …
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Recently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) – under the direction of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland – has been on a tear of upsetting settled understandings and changing enforcement policies. But pro-gun members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have taken note and …
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