Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co
The Name And Blame Games Making Philly Unsafe
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- The Name And Blame Games Making Philly Unsafe
- Runtime
- 28:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Does Philadelphia have a "gun violence" problem, or a murder, attempted murder, and aggravated assault problem? Former police officer and public safety expert Benjamin Maness joins Cam to discuss the name and blame games being played by Philly officials, and why their refusal to call a murder a murder is making the city unsafe.
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- Chicago Mayor Wants To Sue Gang Members Over Violence
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- 21:36
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a new plan to tackle gang violence: sue gangs in civil court and take their assets. As Cam details, there are a lot of problems with the mayor's proposal, including the fact that the city should be bringing violent offenders to criminal, not civil, courtrooms.
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- After Chipman Disaster, What's Left For Biden's Anti-Gun Agenda?
- Runtime
- 31:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The decision by the White House to pull gun control activist David Chipman's nomination as ATF director doesn't mean that the Biden administration is done pushing gun control, but as The Reload's Stephen Gutowski tells Cam, Joe Biden and his anti-gun allies have been dealt a serious setback, and gun owners can celebrate a significant win.
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- Is Texas' New Anti-Abortion Law Bad News For Gun Owners?
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- 18:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Could the new anti-abortion law in Texas lead to anti-gun states to put similar restrictions in place that allow for civil suits against gun store owners or manufacturers? As Cam explains, the gun control lobby's already been working to put laws like that on the books long before the Texas law took effect.
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- Houston Mayor Misleads On Constitutional Carry
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- 27:17
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is entitled to his own opinion about Texas' new Constitutional Carry law, but he's not entitled to make up his own facts.
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- Texas Gun Store Owner Weighs In On Constitutional Carry
- Runtime
- 21:15
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Central Texas Gunworks owner Michael Cargill says he's excited to see Constitutional Carry take effect in Texas today, and he's celebrating with customers with a unique giveaway at his Austin gun shop.
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- Gun Control Activists Downplay Chicago Gang Violence
- Runtime
- 22:52
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A new report from Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun news site The Trace claims that data shows gang violence isn't nearly as prevalent in Chicago as you might think, though there are some fundamental flaws with the figures.
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- Can California Require Mandatory Psych Evals For Gun Owners?
- Runtime
- 22:03
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Apparently so, though not every county sheriff and police chief take that dystopian step before signing off on permits to carry a handgun. As Second Amendment reporter John Petrolino details, however, in Murietta, California, the police chief's policy is to force every applicant to fork over $150 and undergo evaluation by a psychiatrist before they can be approved.
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- Home-Built Guns Get Boost With New Documentary
- Runtime
- 26:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Earlier this summer, the inaugural Gun Makers Match was held in St. Augustine, Florida, and a reporter from the typically anti-gun news site Vice was on hand to not only cover the event, but participate as well. Now Vice's documentary is online, and as match organizer and 2A activist Rob Pincus tells Cam, the result is a surprisingly fair and positive piece on the gun-making community.
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- Los Angeles City Council Moves To Ban "Ghost Guns"
- Runtime
- 17:09
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- With shootings and homicides on the rise in Los Angeles, local politicians want to show they're "doing something" to address the concerns of residents, but as Cam reports, their big idea will do absolutely nothing to stop criminals.
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- Gun Owners Still Engaged Against Biden's 2A Threat
- Runtime
- 17:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb says Joe Biden's recent comments about wanting to ban 9mm handguns have gun owners fired up and engaged, giving him hope that the grassroots army of 2A activists can block the president's anti-gun agenda in both Congress and the courts.
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- Firearms Industry Responds To Latest Attacks By Biden Administration
- Runtime
- 39:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The National Shooting Sports Foundation's senior vice president and general counsel Larry Keane joins Cam with details on the Biden administration's new sanctions on the imports of Russian firearms and ammunition, as well as the next step in the AFT's attempt to redefine frames, receivers, and even firearms themselves via a rule change instead of a vote by Congress.
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- DOJ Takes Aim At Missouri 2A Preservation Act
- Runtime
- 20:55
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Biden administration is showing its support for a state-level challenge to Missouri's Second Amendment Preservation Act, arguing in a new legal filing that the law forbidding state and local police from enforcing federal gun control laws violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause.
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- Biden's Gun Gift To The Taliban
- Runtime
- 17:51
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While Joe Biden is still pursuing a ban on "assault weapons" here at home, his botched pullout of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has turned into a gun giveaway to the Taliban, with fighters picking up actual battlefield weapons of war left behind or handed over by the surrendering Afghan army.
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- Polling On Afghanistan Should Give Biden Second Thoughts About His Gun Ban Plans
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- 22:21
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A pair of new polls shows cratering support for Joe Biden's pullout of military forces in Afghanistan, and as Cam explains, the same thing is likely to happen with gun control if and when the president decides to press forward with his anti-2A agenda.
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- Biden Not Cutting And Running From His Gun Ban Plans
- Runtime
- 18:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Overwhelming public opposition isn't stopping the Biden administration from moving ahead with a plan to redefine firearms, unfinished firearms, and even phrases like "readily" in an attempt to implement a backdoor gun ban without a vote in Congress. And as Cam reports, time's running out to comment on the first of two proposed rules that could have a major impact on your right to keep and bear arms.
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- The Dangers Of Taking Gun Owners For Granted
- Runtime
- 27:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Newsmax host Carl Higbie tells Cam that some Republicans are courting electoral disaster by simply assuming that gun owners will automatically cast their vote in support, even if the candidates themselves are staying silent on 2A issues.
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- Michigan Prosecutor Backs Off Gun Possession Cases
- Runtime
- 19:49
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- After discovering that black residents are far more likely than their white counterparts to face arrest and prosecution for carrying a gun without a license, the Ingham County prosecutor says her office will dial back its use of the charge in court.
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- Activists Offer Lame Defense Of David Chipman
- Runtime
- 20:38
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- With the nomination of gun control activist David Chipman as head of the ATF in serious jeopardy, far-Left activists have launched a decidedly unserious campaign to discredit his critics.
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- Gun Safety Advocate Busted For Illegal Gun Sales
- Runtime
- 19:20
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A California gun store owner who's been a reliable voice for more gun control laws is now facing years in a federal prison after stealing the identities of law enforcement officers in an attempt to get around a Golden State gun law that blocks the sale of most new models of handguns to anyone but police.
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- Is The Endgame Near For Chipman Nomination?
- Runtime
- 29:12
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Reload's Stephen Gutowski joins Cam with the latest on the nomination of gun control activist David Chipman as head of the ATF, including a hint that the Biden administration may be getting ready to throw in the towel if Chipman isn't confirmed before the Senate recesses this weekend.
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- As Homicides Soar, Richmond Mayor Blames Legal Gun Owners
- Runtime
- 23:46
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Two months ago, Richmond, Virginia officials like Police Chief Gerald Smith weren't even willing to acknowledge that the city was becoming less safe. Now Smith and Mayor Levar Stoney admit shootings and homicides are soaring, but they're placing the blame on legal gun owners and lost and stolen firearms.
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- No Summer Slump For Gun Industry
- Runtime
- 22:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Typically, the summer months are the slowest time of year for the firearms industry, but with the National Shooting Sports Foundation reporting another month of well over 1-million firearms sold, it's clear that there's no summer slump in 2021. The NSSF's Mark Oliva joins Cam to break down the latest numbers, and how the industry's reacting to the surge in demand from gun owners new and old.
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- Meet The Louisville Man Pairing Firearms & First Aid Training
- Runtime
- 27:45
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Army veteran, 2A supporter, and Louisville native Darwin Belliard is putting his skills and training to work for the people of Louisville by hosting weekly basic firearms and first aid instruction. Cam sits down with Belliard to find out what's motivating him to make a difference in the community he calls home.
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- US Attorneys Trying "Workaround" With Mizzou's New 2A Preservation Act
- Runtime
- 16:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland claim the 2A Preservation Act is unconstitutional, they've yet to challenge the new law in court. Now, the Kansas City Star reports that a U.S. Attorney's office is trying to work within the confines of new 2A protections, though federal prosecutors may be stretching the limits of what the law allows.
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- Detroit Firearms Instructor Bringing Training To The Masses
- Runtime
- 19:10
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Detroit firearms instructor Rick Ector has been hosting free firearms training for women annually for the past ten years, and he's scheduled the biggest event to date for August 21-22: 4,000 women receiving basic pistol instruction over the course of two days.
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- Public Defenders Side With Second Amendment In Challenge To NY Carry Laws
- Runtime
- 25:24
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- As Supreme Court pore over dozens of briefs filed in support of that legal challenge to New York's "may issue" licensing laws, one of the strongest arguments against the state's licensing regime is coming from public defenders and legal aid lawyers, who have first-hand experience in seeing the damage done by the gun control restrictions.
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- Gov't Imposed Second Amendment Slowdown In Connecticut
- Runtime
- 27:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Holly Sullivan, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, joins Cam with the latest details of the group's legal efforts to get gun sales moving again in the state after an "upgrade" to the state's background check system has led to long delays. Plus, Kurt Schlichter joins Cam with a sneak peek at the latest Kelly Turnbull novel, "The Split".
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- SCOTUS Hears From 2A Supporters In Right To Carry Case
- Runtime
- 21:03
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb joins Cam to discuss a pair of amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court in support of a challenge to New York's draconian and subjective carry laws, and why he's feeling increasingly confident the Court will strike down New York's statute as a violation of the 2A rights of residents.
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- Police Chief Calls For Gun Tracking To Cut Down On Crime
- Runtime
- 21:31
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Norfolk, Virginia police chief Larry Boone says there's no way to reduce crime without maintaining a "paper record" of every firearm transaction, though data shows that the states with the lowest rates of violent crime don't have any licensing or registration laws on the books.
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- The Best Way To Fight Crime Doesn't Involve Gun Control
- Runtime
- 17:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- And shockingly, one of the nation's largest gun control groups is quietly admitting that's the case. On this edition of Bearing Arms' Cam & Co, Cam takes a closer look at "Community Violence Intervention," and how programs targeting violent offenders are doing far more do reduce violence than banning guns or restricting the 2A rights of citizens.
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- New Arguments In SCOTUS Carry Case
- Runtime
- 33:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Oral arguments are still several months away in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, but this week has seen the filing of several important written arguments in the case, including a key brief by plaintiff's attorney Paul Clement, which argues that under the history, tradition, and text of the Second Amendment, New York's "may issue" carry laws violate the rights of residents.
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- Dems Latest Anti-2A Push? A Ban On Gun Stores
- Runtime
- 17:52
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Anti-gun Democrats in one Massachusetts town have settled on a new strategy; blocking gun stores from opening for business. As Cam explains, however, the activists themselves are still arguing over the best way to implement their attempt to curtail the exercise of a civil right.
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- Red State Dems Feeling Heat Over Chipman Nomination
- Runtime
- 16:40
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Several Democrats from red states like Montana and West Virginia say they're still undecided on Joe Biden's nomination of former ATF agent turned gun control activist David Chipman to head up the agency overseeing the nation's gun laws and regulations; but gun owners need to keep up the pressure if Chipman's nomination is going to go down in defeat.
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- LA County Sheriff Running Against "Woke Left"
- Runtime
- 17:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is running for re-election as a far more conservative sheriff than when he was first elected in 2018, including touting a five-fold increase in the number of concealed carry permits issued by his office. As Cam explains, however, if the sheriff's serious about the Second Amendment rights of residents, he has a long way to go.
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- Activist Demands 20-Year Ban On Gun Making
- Runtime
- 21:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The gun control lobby can't get any of their bans and infringements through Congress at the moment, but that's not stopping one anti-gun activist from calling for a 20-year ban on firearms manufacturing; an idea that Cam says is as unfeasible as it is unconstitutional.
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- Gun Industry Fires Back At Cuomo's 2A Attack
- Runtime
- 19:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Mark Oliva says the firearms industry is getting ready to sue over a new law signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that's designed to bankrupt the industry through the filing of junk lawsuits seeking to hold gun makers responsible for the actions of criminals.
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- California Democrats Take Aim At Gun Shows
- Runtime
- 17:39
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- A bill to ban gun shows from all state-owned property could have a big impact on the Second Amendment rights of residents, but the attack is also aimed at chilling the First Amendment rights of gun owners as well.
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- If Gun Control Works, Why Is Crime Spiking In Connecticut?
- Runtime
- 29:49
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Less than a decade ago, then-Gov. Dannel Malloy proclaimed that the sweeping gun control bills he signed into law would make the state a safer place. Now, however, cities like Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport are seeing violent crime soar. Newsmax host, retired Navy SEAL, and Connecticut resident Carl Higbie joins Cam to talk about the failures of the state's gun control regime and why he believes the damage won't be easily undone.
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- Oakland Police Chief Opposed to Armed Citizens Along With Defunding Police
- Runtime
- 19:26
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While many conservatives are praising Oakland Police Chief LaRonne Armstrong's withering criticism of the move to defund the city's police department by nearly $20-million during a crime spike, they shouldn't forget that just a few months ago Armstrong was just as outspoken against armed citizens protecting and defending themselves and others from the city's violent criminals.
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- Has Change The Ref Lost The Plot?
- Runtime
- 27:29
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, is blasting a new stunt by the anti-gun group Change the Ref that misled 2A supporters into thinking they were addressing a high school graduation, only to see their words become part of a gun control advertisement.
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- AOC Is Incoherent On Crime And Gun Control
- Runtime
- 19:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says she doesn't want people to get "hysterical" over the increase in violent crime in places like New York City, but the Democrat's embrace of "reimagining policing" and looking for ways to reduce crime without involving armed law enforcement doesn't jibe with her eager embrace of new gun control laws.
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- Firearms Industry Responds To Biden's Bizarre Gun Speech
- Runtime
- 38:30
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane and Central Texas Gunworks owner Michael Cargill join Cam to discuss Joe Biden's latest threat to use the ATF to target "rogue gun dealers," and why every gun owner and Second Amendment supporter should be concerned.
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- 2A Attorney Weighs In On Biden Gun Store Crackdown, CA Mag Ban Case
- Runtime
- 29:38
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- California Rifle & Pistol Association president and Second Amendment attorney Chuck Michel joins Cam with his take on the Biden administration's coming crackdown on gun stores as well as a closer look at Tuesday's oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit regarding California's ban on "large capacity" ammunition magazines.
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- Schumer Attacks 2A In Defense Of HR 1
- Runtime
- 23:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Senate Majority Leader knows the Democrat-backed voting bill is DOA in the Senate, but that's not stopping him from using ridiculous arguments to try to drum up support; including his claim that Republicans are making it easier to buy a gun than to vote.
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- Missouri AG Ready To Defend New 2A Preservation Act
- Runtime
- 27:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- In an interview with Bearing Arms' Cam Edwards, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says he wasn't really expecting the Biden administration to weigh in on the state's new Second Amendment Preservation Act, but he's ready and willing to defend the law in court if the administration or localities like St. Louis decide to challenge the legality of the new measure, which prohibits state and local police from cooperating with the feds in enforcing any new gun control laws, regulations, or executive orders coming from Washington, D.C.
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- Missouri's Devastating Response To DOJ Attack On 2A Preservation Act
- Runtime
- 18:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Biden administration's attempt to challenge Missouri's new 2A Preservation Act is off to a rocky start after Gov. Mike Parson and Attorney General Eric Schimitt laid waste to the DOJ's objections in a 7-page letter that explains the constitutionality of the new law and declares the state ready to "fight tooth and nail" for the Second Amendment rights of residents.
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- Abbott Signs 2A Sanctuary Law As Biden DOJ Issues Warning
- Runtime
- 18:01
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott officially signed Constitutional Carry and Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation into law on Thursday, even as the Biden administration is taking aim at a new law in Missouri that, like the 2A Sanctuary legislation approved in Texas, prohibits state and local police from enforcing any new federal gun control laws.
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- The U.S. Has A Crime Problem, Not A Gun Problem
- Runtime
- 24:17
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Traffic fatalities increased last year, even though fewer Americans were behind the wheel. Drug overdose deaths are soaring from California to New York, with fentanyl flooding American cities. Carjackings have doubled in cities like Oakland and Chicago, where there are already restrictive gun control laws on the books. As Cam highlights, politicians who are myopically focused on "gun crimes" are missing the bigger picture and are putting all of us at risk.
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- Missouri's New 2A Preservation Act A Warning To Gun Grabbers
- Runtime
- 22:36
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- While one opponent of the state's new 2A Preservation Act calls the law an attempt to secede from the Union, in truth the act simply tells the federal government the state won't be a party to enforcing any restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.
