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Hawaii's New "Public Nuisance" Law Aims to Put Gun Makers Out of Business
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- Hawaii's New "Public Nuisance" Law Aims to Put Gun Makers Out of Business
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- 10 months ago
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- The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane joins Cam with an update on the anti-gunners' efforts to do an end run around the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through "public nuisance" laws, including a newly-filed challenge to Hawaii's recently enacted statute targeting the firearms industry.
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- New Regs for NC Gun Trainers Would Wrap Them in Red Tape
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The head of the 2A group Grassroots NC is warning that new regulations imposed (potentially in violation of state law) could lead to fewer concealed carry courses and an invasion of privacy for gun owners who do undergo the training. GRNC's Paul Valone joins Cam with the details, as well as an update on the group's lawsuit challenging needless delays in issuing carry permits in the state's most populous county.
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- GOA Sues Over ATF's Gun Store Shutdowns
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- 10 months ago
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- The ATF's "zero tolerance" policy on gun store inspections is leading to the revocation of federal firearms licenses for even minor paperwork errors, according to Gun Owners of America. GOA's Erich Pratt joins Cam to detail a newly filed suit in federal court alongside a North Dakota gun shop that's been targeted for closure by the agency.
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- Ten Rounds is Too Many for the Gun Grabbers
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- 10 months ago
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- What exactly is a "large capacity" magazine? Depends on who you're asking. In California it's 10 rounds, while in Colorado it's 20. And in Massachusetts, a coalition of gun grabbers are demanding Congress enact a new ban on so-called assault weapons and all ammunition magazines that can hold more than five rounds; a move that would gut the Second Amendment's protections for arms that are in common use.
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- Kansas City Mayor Blames Lack of Local Gun Laws For Murder Spike
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- 10 months ago
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- Homicides in Kansas City, Missouri are up nearly 20% this year, and Mayor Quentin Lewis says the state's firearm preemption law is partly to blame by blocking local gun control ordinances. But as Cam notes, there are plenty of cities around the country that are seeing big declines in murders, even in states with firearm preemption and permitless carry laws in place.
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- Legacy Media Downplaying Armed Citizen Stories?
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- A self-defense story out of Chicago has received scant attention from the local legacy media, and it's not the first time in recent weeks we've seen media and officials downplay or ignore armed citizens protecting themselves and others from violent encounters.
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- Philly DA Scapegoats the Second Amendment
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner says an "absurd interpretation" of the Second Amendment is to blame for the city's high violent crime, including the mass shooting on Monday, but his blameshifting ignores his own policies and practices, which have returned many violent offenders to the streets after charges were dropped or sweetheart deals were handed out.
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- San Diego's 'Red Flag' Push Fails to Bring Down Crime
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- 10 months ago
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- San Diego's aggressive use of "red flag" laws has led to hundreds of firearms being seized from individuals deemed by a judge to be dangerous, but it doesn't appear to have made an impact on violent crime, with a new report issued by the county documenting a 56% increase in firearm-involved homicides and an even larger spike in gun-involved crimes.
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- The Unfounded Panic Over Permitless Carry in Florida
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- 10 months ago
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- Blood in the streets. The Wild West. Absolute anarchy. For gun control activists, Florida's new permitless carry law is apocalyptically bad news, but as Bill Cawthon of the Second Amendment Society of Texas explains, data shows permitless carry doesn't lead to a surge in violent crime anymore than universal background check laws reduce homicides.
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- Future of California Gun Law in Doubt after Ninth Circuit Hearing
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appeared highly skeptical of a California law that restricts speech supposedly aimed at enticing minors into purchasing and possessing firearms at a Wednesday hearing, and attorney Anna Barvir of Michel & Associates joins Cam with an inside look at why the court appears ready to strike down the statute.
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- Richmond Wastes Time and Taxpayer Dollars on Bogus Gun 'Buyback'
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The city council in Richmond, Virginia, has unanimously approved a plan to waste some $80,000 in stimulus funds on a gun "buyback"; part of a broader strategy focusing on "root causes" of crime instead of cracking down on violent offenders.
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- Massachusetts Gun Bill a Monstrous Infringement on 2A Rights
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Gun Owners Action League head Jim Wallace joins Cam with the details of what he's calling the "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act"; a new bill in Massachusetts aiming to gut the Second Amendment rights of residents, from live fire training requirements before purchasing a firearm to mandatory registration of all firearms and magazines.
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- Illegal Drugs, Not Guns, Top Concern of Seattle Residents
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- While Washington State Democrats have made gun bans and other restrictions aimed at legal gun owners their top legislative priority this year, a new survey of Seattle residents shows far more concern over illegal drug use than "gun violence", including among younger residents in the city.
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- 2A Week in Review with Cam and Stephen Gutowski
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- 11 months ago
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- The Reload's Stephen Gutowski joins Cam to break down a busy week in 2A news, from Hunter Biden's plea deal to the next Second Amendment case to come before the Supreme Court for consideration.
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- NY Congressman Wants 5,000 ft 'Gun Free Zones' Around Every School in U.S.
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Rep. Ritchie Torres is proposing to expand the federal Gun Free School Zones Act's current 1,000-feet "gun free zone" around schools to 5,000-feet around every public, private, charter school and "early childhood education centers"; a move that could result in millions of lawful gun owners inadvertently breaking federal law and potentially serving years in prison for simply bearing arms in public.
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- Hunter Biden and the Double Standards at DOJ
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- 11 months ago
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- Want to avoid prison time for being an unlawful user of drugs and a gun owner? Easy... just be the son of the sitting president. For everyone else, however, prison is definitely a possibility. Armed American Radio's Mark Walters joins Cam to dive into the plea deal for Hunter Biden and what it means for Joe Biden's anti-gun agenda going forward.
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- New Orleans Arrests Are a Textbook Case for Constitutional Carry
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Carrying a firearm you can legally own without a government-issued permission slip isn't a crime in more than half the country, but thanks to Republican leadership in Louisiana, the non-violent possessory offense is still on the books and is being used more often than ever in New Orleans, though the Times-Picayune reports that while police are making more arrests, prosecutors are dismissing more of the cases outright.
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- Anti-gunner Bashes High School Clay Target League
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Clay target shooting is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the nation, and it's especially booming in Minnesota, where 350 of the state's high schools are fielding teams. It's hard to find anyone critical of teaching high schoolers how to be safe and responsible with firearms while having a great day at the range... unless you talk to gun control activists who despise the idea of teenagers learning real gun safety and having fun doing so.
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- Biofire and the Politics of "Smart" Guns
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer joins Cam to discuss the launch of the company's "smart gun", its outreach to gun owners, and whether it can pick and choose its battles in the gun control culture wars.
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- Circuit Split Could Lead to a SCOTUS Showdown over Prohibited Persons
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Are individuals convicted of non-violent felonies (or misdemeanors in some cases) still a part of "the people" who possess the right to keep and bear arms? The Biden administration says no, and a three judge panel on the 8th Circuit has agreed, but a 3rd Circuit decision rejecting the DOJ's argument has led to a circuit split and could result in the Supreme Court soon weighing in on the issue.
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- Anti-Gunners Aim at Missouri Preemption Law
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- 11 months ago
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- There's a new push underway in Missouri to undo the state's firearm preemption laws and allow counties and the city of St. Louis to impose their own restrictions on legal gun owners; not through legislation (which is likely to go nowhere in the GOP-controlled legislature) but through a voter referendum, which would only require a simple majority of voters to undo this critically important protection for the right to keep and bear arms.
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- Sixteen Months for a Carry License?
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- 11 months ago
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- The number of concealed carry applicants is plunging in at least one New York county in the wake of the Bruen decision, while those who are trying to exercise their fundamental right to bear arms are being subjected to unconscionable delays of 16 months or more in many cases.
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- Gun Control on Trial in Oregon
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Are ammunition magazines "arms" protected by the Second Amendment, or just an accessory that can be regulated or banned without infringing on anyone's rights? As Cam details, that's one of the questions at the heart of the federal trial over Oregon's Measure 114 taking place this week.
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- Illinois' Intolerable Act
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- 11 months ago
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- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democrat lawmakers are making it harder to challenge their unconstitutional infringements on the right to keep and bear arms with a new law limiting where those legal challenges can take place; forcing downstate residents to travel hundreds of miles to the state capitol of Springfield or Chicago in order to defend their fundamental civil liberties.
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- Clyde: House Could Soon Vote on Pistol Brace Resolution
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) joins Cam with an important update on H.J. Res 44, a resolution that is designed to put a halt to the ATF's new rules on pistol stabilizing braces. After Clyde revealed on Friday that GOP leadership tried to tie a vote on the resolution to Clyde's support for the debt ceiling agreement, the congressman tells Bearing Arms that leadership is now feeling the heat from 2A groups and gun owners across the country.
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- Protest to Ban Gun ownership Off to a Slow Start
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Anti-2A activist Saira Rao declared that tens of thousands of her fellow gun prohibitionists would flood the state capitol in Denver, Colorado at 5 a.m. Monday morning to demand Gov. Jared Polis sign an executive order banning gun sales and gun possession in the state, but hours after the sit-in began in earnest, the crowds had yet to materialize in the numbers she predicted.
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- NYC Gun Laws Under the Microscope After Queens Shooting
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Attorney Peter Tilem joins Cam to discuss New York City's ridiculous gun laws, which have now ensnared a 65-year-old man who shot a mugger. While the armed citizen isn't yet facing any charges in connection with the shooting, authorities have charged him with more than two dozen felony counts of illegal gun possession for not registering some of his collection with the city.
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- Family of Mugger Shot in Queens Shooting Blames the State, Not the Armed Citizen
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The D.A. in Queens, New York, has charged a 65-year-old man who shot a suspected mugger with illegally possessing his handgun and is weighing murder charges, but the family of the suspected assailant says they blame the state for putting their troubled relative on the streets when he needed serious help with his mental illness.
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- Connecticut Democrats Are Gunning for the Second Amendment
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Holly Sullivan of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League joins Cam with an update on a massive anti-gun bill expected to receive final approval in the state Senate this week, as well as what gun owners can do to start changing the anti-gun political environment in the state.
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- Are gun control activists weaponizing training mandates?
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- According to one reporter for the Michael Bloomberg-funded outfit The Trace, the answer is yes. Alain Stephens says he believes there's been a political move to discourage gun ownership by limiting or prohibiting gun ranges... even as anti-gunners mandate extensive training requirements to carry a firearm or simply keep one in your home.
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- We Don't Need to Sacrifice Our Liberty to Protect Our Kids
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Bearing Arms contributor, Second Amendment advocate, school safety activist, and Florida Board of Education member Ryan Petty joins Cam to detail what Florida is doing to keep students safe without infringing on the constitutional rights of residents.
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- Anti-gunner uses Uvalde anniversary to call for gun confiscation
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- It was one year ago that a cowardly killer ran into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas and senselessly murdered 19 schoolkids and two of their teachers. Anti-gun activists insist that the only way to stop these attacks is by banning and confiscating so-called assault weapons, and as Cam details, they're using misinformation, outright falsehoods, and emotional exploitation to push their prohibitionist agenda.
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- Michigan's New 'Red Flag' Law Already Meeting Resistance
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- A new law establishing an "Extreme Risk Protection Order" is coming to Michigan, but dozens of counties are already objecting to the measure and encouraging local police and sheriffs to take a hands-off approach to enforcement.
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- Columnist Confuses Criminality for 'Gun Culture'
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- 12 months ago
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- Columnist LZ Granderson says the NBA (and the country at large) has a problem with "gun culture", but as Cam explains, what he's really describing is a culture of criminality far removed from responsible gun ownership.
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- Clearing Up the Anti-Gun Spin on SCOTUS and the Illinois Gun Ban
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Did the Supreme Court uphold a ban on so-called "assault weapons" this week or deliver gun control advocates a historic victory? Not at all, but you'd never know it by listening to the absurd narrative advanced by the anti-gun media.
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- New Life for the Second Amendment in New Jersey
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Bearing Arms contributor, firearms instructor, and New Jersey concealed carry holder John Petrolino joins Cam to break down Tuesday's decision halting enforcement (at least for now) of several parts of the state's "carry killer" anti-gun legislation.
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- Memphis Moves to Defy Constitution, State Law
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The Memphis City Council is set to roll out a referendum on gun control that could go before the city's voters in 2024 that includes a ban on the sale of so-called assault weapons; an idea that's not only a violation of our fundamental rights (and Tennessee's firearm preemption law), but is likely to lead to an increase in sales of the very guns lawmakers want to ban.
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- Virginia Case Could Restore 2A Rights to Young Adults Nationwide
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Corey Fraser and his attorney Elliott Harding join Cam to discuss the hugely important decision by a U.S. District Judge last week that found the federal government's prohibition on retail handgun sales to adults under the age of 21 is a violation of Fraser's (and others) Second Amendment rights.
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- Minnesota Dems Play Chicken With Public Safety, Gun Control
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- 12 months ago
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- Rob Doar of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus joins Cam to talk about the devil in the details of an omnibus public safety bill that includes major infringements to the Second Amendment rights of residents; from a "red flag" law with no due process protections and a "background check" measure that could result in a 30-day waiting period for some gun transfers.
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- As More Violent Crimes Go Uncharged, Criminals Are Getting Away With Murder
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Homicide clearance rates are at an all time low across the country, but instead of working to ensure there are consequences for violent crime blue-state and big city Democrats are pushing ineffective and unconstitutional gun control measures that make it harder for citizens to protect themselves from violent criminals who are literally getting away with murder.
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- Anti-2A Activist Says the Road to Repeal Starts in Colorado
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- An anti-gun activist says she's committed to repealing the Second Amendment and has set her sights on Colorado, where she's hoping hordes of "white women putting their bodies on the line" will show up for a sit-in at the state capitol until Gov. Jared Polis signs an executive order banning all gun sales and implementing a mandatory "buy back" of all lawfully-owned firearms.
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- 'Red Flag' Laws Aren't the Solution to Dangerous People
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Michigan Democrats are poised to enact a "red flag" law in the coming days, but as Cam details, while they may be popular in public polling, their gun-centric approach does nothing to treat or stop those who are a legitimate danger to themselves or others.
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- NIMBYism and the Second Amendment
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- 1 year ago
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- Not only do we have to deal with anti-gun locales trying to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms, but our ability to acquire arms for self-defense as well. Cam details the ongoing fight to block gun shops from opening in one California community, and why the Supreme Court may soon have to decide whether restrictive zoning laws designed to keep communities gun store-free are constitutional.
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- 2A Advocate Shoots Down Plan to Make Downtown Detroit a 'Gun-free Zone'
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- 1 year ago
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- Detroit firearms instructor and Second Amendment advocate Rick Ector says it would be a violation of the Second Amendment as well as state law for the city of Detroit to turn its downtown area into a "gun-free zone", but tells Bearing Arms Cam & Co that the anti-gunners on the city council may be floating the idea in an attempt to undo the state's firearm preemption law altogether.
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- Anti-2A Activists See Sex in Gun Shirt
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Anti-gun activists are being widely mocked by their 2A counterparts after claiming a firearm-themed hoodie featured in a tweet from Sen. Rand Paul actually depicts "AR-15s having sex", is full of sexually explicit and misogynistic imagery, and is grooming kids to become gun-lovers.
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- The Second Amendment Is Not a Second-Class Right
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- But as gun owners know all too well, in blue states the Second Amendment is still being treated as a second-class right at best, and all too often a privilege to be doled out by the state. Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace joins Cam with a firsthand report at what's happening in Massachusetts when it comes to the Second Amendment, and why he believes this is the most important civil rights fight of our time.
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- WaPo touts non-existent "wins" on gun control
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Washington Post claims that Democratic AGs are "using the courts to win" on gun control, but their reporting fails to mention even a single case in recent months where judges have sided with anti-gunners and ignores the multiple decisions that have kept many newly-imposed gun laws on ice while they're being litigated.
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- It's Not Selfishness Driving Opposition to 'Assault Weapons' Bans
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- One Washington State editorial writer is sounding awfully defensive about the state's new ban on so-called assault weapons by asserting that the only reason to oppose the ban is selfishness on the part of gun owners; rhetoric that doesn't match the reality of the growing opposition to bans, even among non-gun owners.
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- Interest in Armed School Staff Soaring in Colorado
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- FASTER Colorado's Laura Carno says she's hearing from school districts across the state who are adopting policies allowing for armed school staff, with the Covenant School shooting in Nashville serving as a painful wake-up call for many educators concerned about keeping kids safe on campus.
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- What Tennessee's Governor Doesn't Get About "Red Flag" Laws
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's done some good things for Second Amendment supporters, including signing constitutional carry into law. But as Cam explains, the governor's call for a special session to pass a "temporary mental health restraining order" bill is off-base and out of step with both public safety and our fundamental civil rights.