Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co
Blue state Dems set to impose new (and unconstitutional) carry bans
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- Blue state Dems set to impose new (and unconstitutional) carry bans
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- 27:34
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court decision in NYSPRA v. Bruen warned against states trying to declare broad swathes of publicly accessible places as "sensitive spaces" where guns could be banned, but that's exactly what Democrats like New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are trying to do by imposing new restrictions on where gun owners can lawfully carry, including virtually all privately-owned businesses unless (in limited circumstances) business owners "opt in" to allow it.
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- 2A activists take aim at California gun control laws
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- 29:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- California Rifle & Pistol Association president and Second Amendment attorney Chuck Michel joins Cam to lay out the top priorities for the 2A group in the wake of last week's historic Supreme Court decision, including efforts to defeat anti-gunners' attempts to use "sensitive places" and "good moral character" requirements to block most Californians from accessing their right to bear arms in self-defense.
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- Gun store owner and congressman wants to repeal all taxes on arms and ammo
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- 20:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia joins Cam to talk about his new RETURN (Repealing Excise Tax on Unalienable Rights Now) our Constitutional Rights Act, which would remove ALL federal taxes on firearms and ammunition, including the $200 tax stamp for NFA items.
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- SCOTUS decision on right to carry is a huge win for gun owners
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- 20:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association doesn't just declare all "proper cause" requirements for a concealed carry license unconstitutional, it casts major doubt on the constitutionality of gun control laws like bans on AR-15s and "large capacity" magazines that have no analogue in American history or the text and tradition of the right to keep and bear arms.
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- FL Congressman explains why he's a "no" on the Senate gun deal
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- 26:59
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida joins Cam to discuss the details of the gun deal reached by the Senate and his objections, as well as what he believes can and should be done to prevent attacks like the horrific murders at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas without letting our emotions override our logic, common sense, and Constitution.
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- Senate rushes to get gun deal in place
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- 15:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- With the Senate set to adjourn for two weeks on Thursday afternoon, negotiators are rushing to put a bill on the floor for a vote, but will there be time to actually read the legislation brokered by Democrats and Republicans in response to the shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas before that vote is held?
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- A "sensitive" question about the right to bear arms
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- 16:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- If the Supreme Court strikes down New York's "may issue" carry laws in the coming days, anti-gun politicians and the gun control lobby are working to get a backup plan in place: banning the carrying of firearms in many publicly accessible areas by calling them "sensitive places" off-limits to our Second Amendment rights.
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- Bloomberg columnist says Biden should go big on anti-gun executive order
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- 21:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Bloomberg columnist Timothy O'Brien thinks he's found a way to stop the sale of modern sporting rifles without the need for Congress to cast a vote, but as Cam points out, there are a few flaws and unintended consequences in his gun ban plan.
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- Mag sales soar ahead of WA ban
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- 16:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Democrats in Washington State approved a ban on so-called large capacity magazines earlier this year, but ahead of the law taking effect on July 1st gun stores around the state are reporting a massive increase in sales.
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- Democrats aim to bankrupt gun industry through junk lawsuits
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- 18:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- From California to New Jersey, anti-gun Democrats are pushing new laws allowing for gun makers to be sued for the actions of criminals despite a federal law that was designed to prevent these politically-motivated lawsuits from going forward. The intention is clear; to bankrupt the firearms industry and deprive law-abiding Americans of access to their right to keep and bear arms.
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- Can the Senate gun deal be stopped?
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- 34:49
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- With 10 Republicans agreeing in principle to a deal that includes increased spending on mental health and school security as well as offering grants to states that adopt "red flag" laws and including juvenile crime records in background checks on young adults who purchase firearms, there's a lot of momentum at the moment, and if 2A activists are going to successfully sideline the legislation, we can't just talk to ourselves.
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- Swearer sounds off on House gun control hearing
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- 27:54
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Heritage Foundation's Amy Swearer was one of a handful of Second Amendment supporters invited to testify during Wednesday's House committee hearing on "gun violence" (and more importantly, gun control), and joins Cam to discuss her appearance and her frustration with the lack of interest by Democrats in looking for answers that don't involve restricting the right to keep and bear arms.
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- Surge in interest in armed school staffers
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- 20:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- While most of the media's attention is focused on gun control efforts on Capitol Hill, away from the spotlight many school districts are quietly investigating the possibility of having armed school staff members in place. FASTER Colorado's Laura Carno tells Cam that the group has been overwhelmed with interest on the part of school districts, and are hoping to train hundreds of educators and staffers before the end of the year.
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- Anti-gun researcher admits background checks just first step
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- 22:11
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Johns Hopkins University researcher Daniel Webster has admitted in an interview that even "universal background checks" won't have much of an impact on shootings and homicides, and should be seen as just the first step in a bigger round of restrictions on gun owners, including a gun licensing regime and mandatory waiting periods.
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- Gun banners cling to "evolving" view of the Second Amendment
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- 21:17
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- But does their argument hold up? As Cam explains, the bulk of the historical evidence shows that Americans have embraced their individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense since before the founding of this nation, and continue to do so today.
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- Research shows armed teachers save lives
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- 26:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Dr. J. Eric Dietz with the Homeland Security Institute at Purdue University joins Cam to talk about his latest research into the effectiveness of both school resource officers and armed school staff in stopping targeted attacks on schools, which he says can reduce casualties by more than 70%.
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- Gun owners aim to improve mental health access
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- 29:49
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- While politicians in Washington D.C. are looking to find some sort of gun control "compromise" in the wake of the horrific murders in Uvalde, Texas, gun owners and Second Amendment advocates involved in the grassroots effort known as Walk The Talk America are taking on the challenge of improving access to and removing the stigma around mental health and gun ownership. WTTA founder Michael Sodini joins Cam to talk about the program and how it's helping to save lives.
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- Parkland dad rips gun control grifters
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- 29:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, says he's "held his tongue" for four years, but can no longer be silent about the lies and rewriting of history on the part of anti-gun activist David Hogg. Petty joins Cam to set the record straight, as well as what he'd like to see Congress do in response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
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- Murphy: We need to pass gun control to "show we care"
- Runtime
- 23:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy says he's willing to "bend over backwards" to find a compromise on gun control after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, but his motivation appears far less about effective policies and much more about political posturing.
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- Three big questions ahead of NRA's Annual Meeting
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- 28:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The NRA's first full-scale Annual Meeting since 2019 is kicking off this weekend in Houston, and Cam talks about some of the big unanswered questions heading into the gathering with The Reload's Stephen Gutowski.
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- Is Eric Adams gun control's next big thing?
- Runtime
- 20:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The New York City mayor is allegedly eyeing a run for president in 2024, and the city's rising crime rate and his embrace of gun control may make him an attractive candidate for the gun control lobby.
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- Trio of Democrats unveil federal gun licensing bill
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- 21:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A gun control proposal by Sens. Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, and Robert Menendez would require all gun owners to be licensed by the federal government, and that's just the start of the unconstitutional infringements on our 2A rights contained within the newly introduced legislation.
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- Canada's gun owners fear confiscation under new law
- Runtime
- 16:30
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While anti-gun activists in the U.S. are calling on Congress to pass Joe Biden's gun ban plan, Justin Trudeau's liberals are set to inflict new restrictions on Canadian gun owners starting tomorrow, and many gun owners worry that confiscation is just around the corner.
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- Senate Democrats shy away from pushing vote on gun control
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- 20:36
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While Joe Biden is repeating his call for Congress to pass his proposed ban on modern sporting rifles and "large capacity" magazines, it sounds like Senate Democrats are unlikely to hold a vote that's doomed for failure... though they're still looking for ways to make political hay out of the horrific murders in Buffalo, New York.
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- The Buffalo shooting and the human right of self-defense
- Runtime
- 25:21
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Second Amendment activist Tony Simon, who founded DiversityShoot.com, sits down with Cam to talk about the Buffalo shooting and why he believes it will actually lead to more Americans from all walks of life coming together in support of their shared right of armed self-defense.
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- Why are "smart guns" always a step away from the market?
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- 22:28
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A six-year old "smart gun" company just received $17-million in funding from investors, despite the fact that it doesn't have a product ready for market. In fact, despite multiple companies displaying their own "smart guns" at this year's SHOT Show, it doesn't appear as if any of them are yet ready to sell in stores.
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- Firearms industry fights back against financial discrimination
- Runtime
- 28:05
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Anti-gun banks and woke corporations seeking to impose their own restrictions on companies within the firearms industry are now facing pushback from the industry itself in the form of the FIND Act; legislation that blocks companies that discriminate against the firearms industry from doing business with state governments. NSSF's Darren LaSorte sits down with Cam to explain how the bill works and where it could be soon enshrined into law.
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- It's not Constitutional Carry they hate, it's the right to bear arms
- Runtime
- 16:34
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Constitutional Carry may be the latest pro-2A law that anti-gun nuts are objecting to, but as Cam demonstrates on today's show, their real issue is the right to bear arms itself, even in "shall issue' states.
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- How serious is DeSantis about passing Constitutional Carry?
- Runtime
- 17:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Florida governor has reiterated his support for Constitutional Carry but isn't making any promises about signing a bill into law this year, saying it's up to the legislature to get a bill to his desk.
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- The coordinated campaign to put more local gun laws on the books
- Runtime
- 20:11
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- As the website Complete Colorado has documented, city council members across the Denver suburbs are working with groups like Giffords and Everytown for Gun Safety to impose a host of new local laws aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens.
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- Federal judge rejects D.C.'s attempt to go soft on felons-in-possession
- Runtime
- 16:59
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A federal judge has denied the District of Columbia's bid to keep federal prosecutors away from handling felon-in-possession cases in the city; a decision that could keep more repeat, violent offenders behind bars for a longer period of time.
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- NY Times tries to "name and shame" gun stores
- Runtime
- 22:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The New York Times is out with a hit piece on "bad apple" gun dealers, uncritically promoting a new report by the gun control group Brady that claims a handful of gun stores in the Philadelphia area are arming a majority of the city's criminals.
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- Mile-high madness: Denver debates new carry ban
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- 21:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Denver Mayor Michael Hancock wants to ban law-abiding gun owners from carrying in public parks and government buildings, even as statistics show violent crime is getting worse in the Mile-High City.
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- Study examines gun owner privacy and crime rates
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- 19:10
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- What happens to burglary rates when local media publish the names and zip codes of concealed carry holders? According to one new study, a significant (if short-lived) decline in burglaries where there are high rates of carry licenses, and on today's show Cam weighs in on whether that's worth the invasion of privacy of gun owners.
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- Anti-gunners still dreaming of Second Amendment's repeal
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- 22:14
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- There's a better chance of Will Smith and Chris Rock co-hosting the Oscars than the Second Amendment being repealed and replaced by anti-gun language, but the dreams of gun control activists die hard, especially when they're losing ground across the country.
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- Gun control activists already panicking over SCOTUS carry case
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- 26:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- We're still probably at least a month away from the Supreme Court issuing its decision in a case challenging New York's "may issue" concealed carry permitting scheme, but anti-gun activists from Giffords and Everytown are already starting to not-so-quietly panic over what the Court could say about the right to bear arms.
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- Biden shoves acting ATF Director out the door
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- 15:59
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Acting ATF Director Marvin Richardson has been unceremoniously demoted months before his scheduled retirement, according to The Reload's Stephen Gutowski, who joins Cam to talk about the latest move by the Biden administration to weaponize the ATF into a gun control group with law enforcement powers.
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- GOA explains what the left gets wrong on "ghost guns"
- Runtime
- 24:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Gun Owners of America's Erich Pratt is out with a new op-ed on the real agenda behind the push to ban "ghost guns" in the Philadelphia Inquirer as the city's far-left District Attorney calls for new laws aimed at banning the 3D-printing of gun parts.
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- Don't blame crime spikes on "2A Absolutism"
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- 23:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The editors of the Houston Chronicle have a new scapegoat for the age-old problem of violent crime: "Second Amendment absolutism." As Cam shows, however, their anti-gun rationale simply doesn't stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny, and their calls for criminalizing our right to keep and bear arms would only make us less safe.
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- Gun control activist fails to qualify for congressional primary
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- 18:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Andy Parker vowed to defeat Republican congressman Bob Good when he announced his own congressional campaign earlier this year, but the gun control activist won't be a part of the Democratic primary in Virginia's 5th District after failing to submit 1,000 valid signatures in support of his campaign.
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- Gun industry reacts to Biden's new anti-gun push
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- 23:47
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Matt Manda of the National Shooting Sports Foundation joins Cam to respond to Joe Biden's announced (but not yet published) rules on "ghost guns" as well as the nomination of Democratic politician and former U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach as permanent director of ATF.
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- Lightfoot's million-dollar gun grab
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- 17:32
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a new plan to cut crime; getting corporations and private donors to pony up a million bucks for two gun "buybacks" to be held later this year. The biggest problem with that idea is that there's absolutely no evidence that these compensated confiscation events actually do anything to reduce crime, suicides, or accidents involving firearms.
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- A Second Amendment sea change in CT?
- Runtime
- 19:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Connecticut Citizens Defense League's Holly Sullivan joins Cam to talk about why Gov. Ned Lamont's gun control bill ended up gutted in a Democrat-majority legislative committee, and what it means for the gun debate going forward.
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- Survey: Americans trust GOP on gun policy, not Dems
- Runtime
- 20:51
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll offers more evidence that the Democratic Party's enthusiastic push for more gun control laws is turning off voters and could have a major impact on the midterm elections.
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- NJ carry case on hold pending SCOTUS ruling
- Runtime
- 16:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A federal judge has agreed to a stay in a case challenging New Jersey's "may issue" laws; a stay sought not only by the plaintiffs in the case, but by the state's acting Attorney General as well.
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- Biden wants billion dollar boost to ATF budget
- Runtime
- 21:51
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- $1.7 billion to be exact; more evidence that the administration wants to weaponize the federal agency and turn it into a gun control organization with law enforcement powers.
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- New licensing bill based on ignorance.. or outright stupidity
- Runtime
- 17:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Minnesota Sen. John Marty claims his bill requiring gun owners to be licensed would stop juveniles from getting ahold of guns, despite the fact that state and federal law already prohibit minors from acquiring weapons.
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- Support for Second Amendment soars after invasion of Ukraine
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- 20:34
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A new poll of voters shows that 2/3rds of respondents say the Second Amendment is more important than ever after watching the Russian army's invasion of Ukraine. SAF's Alan Gottlieb joins Cam to discuss the survey's findings, which are unquestionably bad news for anti-gun Democrats.
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- Columnist compares U.S. guns to Putin
- Runtime
- 19:51
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Gun control activists are desperate to find some way to use Russia's invasion of Ukraine to bolster their attacks on our Second Amendment rights, but Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham's latest column is a bizarre new low.
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- ABC News shills for Biden's "ghost gun" rules
- Runtime
- 15:59
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The ATF's final rules on unserialized firearms are expected to be released in just a few weeks, and ABC News is helping to set the Biden administration's approved narrative in a new report touting the pending restrictions on home-built guns.
