| | | | | VP Harris wants Congress to enact tougher gun laws | | | | x Jan 26 2023 | | | | Vice President Kamala Harris isn't a fan of the Second Amendment. That was clear during her failed presidential campaign and her time in office in the state of California. She's vice president to another anti-gunner, so it's no surprise in the aftermath of two shootings in her home state that she'd ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | | | | | Op-ed argues for simplistic solution to mass shootings | | | | x Jan 26 2023 | | | | Once again, we find ourselves discussing mass shootings. Then again, when you have two so close together, it's kind of hard not to have a conversation about them. What that means, though, is that we find ourselves getting op-eds from people who think they've got something to offer, but generally don't. For example, ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | LA County commissioners halt "insensitive" sale of surplus guns  | | | | x Jan 26 2023 | | | | Like many law enforcement agencies around the country, the Los Angeles County Probation Office had a practice of selling surplus or older firearms that were no longer used by the department. The key word is "had", because this week L.A. County supervisors put a halt to an online auction of ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | | Is tribalism preventing answers to mass shootings? | | | | x Jan 26 2023 | | | | If some gun rights activists believed for a moment that some bit of gun control would stop mass shootings and not lead to still more restrictions, I think many would at least consider it. After all, mass shootings generally lead to more and more calls for gun control in the ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | ATF warns gun dealers on "potential civil unrest" | | | | x Jan 27, 2023 | | |  | | | | We haven't written about the death of Tyre Nichols and the five (now former) police officers who've been charged with his murder until now, largely because there hasn't really been a Second Amendment angle to it. But with Memphis police releasing the body camera footage of Nichols' beating at the ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | Gun control bill shows how useless grandfather clauses are | | | | x Jan 27, 2023 | | |  | | | | When someone wants to ban a particular type of gun, they'll often include some kind of grandfather clause. The idea is that if someone isn't about to have their personal weapon deemed illegal, they might not resist the bill as hard as if they actually stood to lose something. Such grandfather ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | Schumer, Senate Dems take aim at the "JR-15" | | | | x Jan 27, 2023 | | |  | | | | Senate Democrats may not be able to get a gun ban to Joe Biden's desk thanks to the Republican majority in the House, but if Chuck Schumer and his anti-gun allies are signaling they're going to do everything they can to target gun owners and the firearms industry while Congress ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | Cornyn warns of little chance for still more gun control | | | | x Jan 27, 2023 | | |  | | | | Sen. John Cornyn of Texas was a key figure behind the bipartisan gun control effort passed last year in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. In fact, there's little chance the bill would have passed without him. Never mind that the bill would have ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | | | | |
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