Defense bill could lift restrictions on guns on military bases
Congress has an opportunity to vote to lift a ban on military personnel carrying guns at bases in the aftermath of last week’s attack in Chattanooga, Tenn. Long-overdue details here…
Category: Gun Control
NRA Family Debuts
Fairfax, VA — NRA Publications, your leading source for news and information about firearm ownership and the shooting sports, is pleased to announce the debut of its newest web property: NRA Family (www.nrafamily.org). NRA Family, previously known as NRA Family InSights (www.nrafamilyinsights.org), is a free website updated daily with articles, blogs, videos and news. NRA Family is designed to cater to the unique needs of American families that own guns, with realistic how-to advice on topics such as safe firearm storage, introducing new shooters and hunters to the sports, outdoor family destinations and entertainment, personal protection tips, historical firearms and figures, gun and gear reviews, news for NRA families, Olympic shooting sports and more. Read more
SAF Rips Obama Plan to Strip Millions of Gun Rights
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today responded to published reports that the Obama administration is pushing to prevent citizens collecting Social Security benefits from owning guns if they have problems managing their own affairs as proof the president wants to strip as many people as possible of their Second Amendment rights while he remains in office.
“This could possibly disqualify millions of people from owning firearms and might prevent many others from seeking help,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, himself a U.S. Army veteran. “It’s unconscionable that someone who might have problems balancing a checkbook or managing their finances would suddenly find himself or herself stripped of their right to keep and bear arms.” Read more
Obama looks to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns
President Obama wants to stop people, who are collecting Social Security benefits from owning guns, if it is determined they are unable to manage their own affairs, the Los Angeles Times reported. More gun control efforts by the lame duck dictator in charge here…
Ammunition Background Checks Suspended in New York
They were billed as a centerpiece of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2013 SAFE Act, but in a default victory for New York gun owners, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that background checks for New York ammunition purchases have been scrapped.
An agreement between Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Director of Operations Jim Lamatras on Friday suspends this section of the SAFE Act. The agreement goes on to stipulate that no state money will be used to implement the database, meaning the ban on internet sales of ammunition is also discontinued. The New York State Police also acknowledged there is a “lack of technology” for supporting the database.
The Gun Free Zone Debate
Lansing’s Mayor, Virg Bernero, spreads it on thick, as he spews liberal nonsense about gun control. Nothing new here, but his answer to gun-free zone shootings is to keep the status quo, as if current laws will work to stop killers. It hasn’t yet, but a gun in the hands of one honest armed citizen has worked before – even if he’s unable to face the facts. The video debate is here…
CCRKBA Applauds Washington Post Expsure of Anti-Gun Falsehoods
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding Monday’s exposure by the Washington Post of questionable data about school shootings used by the gun prohibition lobby to stoke public emotion against Second Amendment rights.
The newspaper’s fact checker confirmed what was first suggested last year following an Oregon incident: Anti-gunners use an overly broad definition of “school shooting” to pad the data. This followed a claim by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) that since Sandy Hook there has been, on average, one school shooting a week. By the newspaper’s math, that would put the total around 128 incidents. The newspaper said the source for the claim is a report by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.
“Anti-gunners have essentially been cooking the books,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This isn’t the first time a newspaper has called Everytown on this claim and it should cause the press, and the public, to wonder what other misleading claims the gun ban crowd has been making.”
The Washington Post gave Murphy’s claim a whopping “Four Pinocchios,” an allusion to how the famous cartoon character’s nose grew when he told a fib. It is “tantamount to calling something a bald-faced lie,” Gottlieb said. Read more
Gun-free zones an easy target for killers
Time after time, we see that these killers tell us they pick soft targets. With just two exceptions, from at least 1950, all the mass public shootings have occurred in these gun-free zones. John Lott spells it out – again, right here…
Gun-free zones continue as easy target for killers
Another mass killing in a gun-free zone – the perfect scenario for another perverted mind. And, the idealists wonder why anyone would want to carry concealed in a place such as a church? Wonder no more about a failed attempt to make us feel safe. Details of the misconception are here by John Lott.
NSSF Supports H.R. 2710 ‘Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act’
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, applauds the introduction yesterday of H.R. 2710, the Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act of 2015, by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT), chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
The bill would revise the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended, to replace the “sporting purposes” and “sporting use” sections with modernizing language used to better define whether firearms and ammunition can be lawfully imported, possessed and transferred. NSSF considers the “sporting purpose” and “sporting use” provisions to be outdated and a hindrance to bringing lawful products to market. The 2008 Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller noted that the core purpose of the Second Amendment is self-defense, and the language of H.R. 2710 will more accurately reflect this core meaning of the right to bear arms.
H.R. 2710 would prevent narrow interpretations of federal law, such as reclassifying certain rifle ammunition as “armor piercing.” Lack of a clear definition of what “sporting purposes” and “sporting use” mean has allowed, for example, the Obama Administration to try to circumvent Congress and attempt to ban a popular type of ammunition for modern sporting rifles. Read more