Category: Guns

Surprise: Obama Used Navy Yard Shooting Memorial For Partisan Anti-Gun Speech

Posted on by William Teach

If you were betting that for once (NMP) Obama would keep it on topic and avoid sermonizing politically, sorry, the man can’t help continuing the Neverending Campaign at every turn (Politico) The best way to memorialize the 12 killed at the Navy Yard massacre, President Barack Obama said Sunday, is by enacting the new gun […]

 

How gun free zones and liberal policies contribute to mass shootings

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Aaron Alexis was allowed to walk into a Navy Shipyard last week and systematically execute 12 people because his prior arrests for gun possession were never prosecuted and his cries for mental help were never addressed. Instead of prosecuting Aaron Alexis on two separate crimes involving a firearm our politically correct judicial system instead issued […]

 

School Textbook Says Only Military Allowed to Have Guns in USA

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A textbook in Texas has been discovered teaching that Americans have no individual right to keep and bear arms, essentially telling kids that only the military–or an organized militia–can have arms under the Constitution. Thanks to TheBlaze, a school book in Denton, Texas has been found giving kids an incomplete definition of the Second Amendment. […]

 

BOYCOTT: Starbucks CEO Lies About Not Being Anti-Gun

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The CEO of Starbucks Coffee shops has made a decision. He wants customers with the legal right to carry a gun to stay out of his coffee shops. But he lies when he says he is not anti-gun. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has made a policy decision saying that his company is “not a policy […]

 

California Uses Environmentalist Pretext to Go After Bullets

Posted on by Dave Blount

When moonbats aren’t attacking our essential liberties in the name of the children, they are doing it in the name of the planet. From California, the moribund canary in the coalmine of freedom: California is on the verge of becoming the first state to impose a full ban on hunting with lead bullets — with […]

 

Exploiting Crime: Liberals Blame Guns, One NOT Even Used in Navy Yard Shooting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Before they had any facts at all, a handful of liberals in politics and the media immediately jumped on TV using the Navy Yard shooting to blame so-called “assault rifles,” and the AR-15 in particular, and others used the crime to push their political ideology. As it turned out, though, there was no AR-15 used […]

 

Clinton’s Other Legacy: Disarming Military Bases

Posted on by Dave Blount

Besides serving as a pretext for authoritarians to immediately start screeching about curtailing our indispensable gun rights, the Navy Yard massacre has something else in common with every mass shooting in this country since at least 1950 with the sole exception of Tucson: it happened in a gun-free zone. Due to our inability to learn […]

 

In Wake Of Navy Shooting, Usual Suspects Come Out For Doing Something

Posted on by William Teach

By Doing Something, they mean “passing restrictive gun laws that won’t actually Do Something, and won’t stop mass shootings because criminals will Find A Way, and most of these shootings are by people who would never have passed a background check in the first place, or might possibly have passed all sorts of background checks […]

 

Why Do 70 Federal Agencies Have Armed Agents?

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s much more worrisome that 70 federal agencies have weapons than it is that law abiding American citizens have guns. The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies — including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement […]

 

Not Learning from Colorado Recall, California Looking to Impose Harsh New Gun Laws

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California already has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation and if the state’s extremist Democrats get their way, they are going to make those laws even harder on law abiding citizens. Democrats are sending several new, highly restrictive laws to Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown in hopes of further limiting Californian’s Second […]

 

Left-Wing School Officials Ban School Rifle Team From Yearbook

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Parents of kids on Pennsylvania high school rifle team want to know why their kids’ activity was banned from appearing in the school’s yearbook. When Parents of kids on the Emmaus High School championship rifle team got news that their kids’ activity didn’t show up in the Hornet, the school’s yearbook, not even a mention […]

 

Colorado Dem Senators Get Recalled, PPP Polling Throws Out Own Poll Foreshadowing Results

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today we have a great example of a polling firm allowing its political ideology to get in the way of its work. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, two anti-Second Amendment State Senators in Colorado were recalled by huge margins. In the days before the recall vote took place, Public Policy Polling (PPP) had conducted a poll […]

 

Two Democrat State Senators In Colorado Get Recalled Over Pro-Gun Control Stance

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a reason Democrats have been scared to death of the gun control issue up until they were dumb enough to tackle it again recently. This shows you why that’s the case. Colorado residents on Tuesday voted to recall both Democratic Senate President John Morse and state Sen. Angela Giron over a number of gun […]

 

Harvard Study Finds Repressing Gun Rights Does Not Reduce Violence

Posted on by Dave Blount

Even Ivy League eggheads have figured out that restricting gun rights does not reduce violent crime: A Harvard Study titled “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” looks at figures for “intentional deaths” throughout continental Europe and juxtaposes them with the U.S. to show that more gun control does not necessarily lead to lower death […]

 

Obama Attacks Gun Owners With New Executive Orders

Posted on by Dave Blount

We can’t say we weren’t warned. If Congress wants to provide a helpful rubber stamp, fine. If not… Unable to overcome opposition to new gun laws from Republicans and a handful of conservative Democrats, the White House has resorted to issuing executive orders which do not need Congressional approval. The new orders ban Americans from […]

 

Democrats In Congress Introduce New 20% Gun Tax & 50% Ammo Tax

Posted on by John Hawkins

Liberals never get tired of trying to take guns away from law abiding Americans. The Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013, was proposed by U.S. Reps. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill., and Bill Pascrell, D-N.J. The bill seeks to raise the tax rate on gun sales from 10% to 20%. Perhaps even more […]

 

James O’Keefe Humiliates Anti-Gun Liberal, Piers Morgan

Posted on by John Hawkins

Conservative investigative journalist James O’Keefe loves to point out liberal hypocrisy and anti-gun crusader, Piers Morgan, proved to be an irresistable target. O’Keefe taunted Morgan on Twitter yesterday. Hey, @piersmorgan, can you please explain these signs on your Beverly Hills property? http://t.co/OvPpUy2ZpX — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 2, 2013 Don’t you love these limousine liberals […]

 

UNBELIEVABLE: Instead of Guns, University Spends $60,000 on Bulletproof Whiteboards

Posted on by John Hawkins

Is a bulletproof whiteboard better than nothing? Maybe yes, maybe no. Keep in mind that there’s a reason our soldiers carry guns into combat, not whiteboards. UMES faculty members will be issued the 18-inch by 20-inch Bulletproof Whiteboards for use in their classrooms. Like first-generation whiteboards, they can serve as portable writing tablets during delivery […]

 

Liberal OUTRAGE As Gun Permits Issued In Newtown On Pace to DOUBLE After MASSACRE

Posted on by John Hawkins

When a bad person does something with a gun, the first impulse from liberals is to take guns away from law abiding people. On the other hand, when a normal person hears that a bad person does something with a gun, the first impulse a normal human being has is, “I need to make sure […]

 

Authoritarians Use Grief as a Weapon

Posted on by Dave Blount

It isn’t your imagination. Whenever there is a tragic shooting, liberals deliberately exploit it to attack our constitutional right to bear arms. This conscious strategy is spelled out in “Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging” (PDF), a document created by Beltway consultants at the behest of gun control advocates. From Opposing Views: The document states […]

 

Crime Drops as Gun Sales in Virginia Soar

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The saying, “More Guns Less Crime,” seems to be coming true if the Commonwealth of Virginia is any indication as gun sales have soared there even as crime rates have fallen. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has the story, noting that, “Major gun crime collectively dropped for a fourth consecutive year statewide, while firearms sales climbed to […]

 

Virginia: Gun Crime Drops As Gun Sales Soar

Posted on by William Teach

Well, who could have seen this coming. (Fox News) Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing. Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates […]

 

Husband Blows Away Bank Robber Who Kidnapped Him & His Wife

Posted on by John Hawkins

If Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama got their way on gun control, this couple in Texas would probably be dead today while the bank robbers that kidnapped them would be enjoying the money they stole. Fortunately, Nancy, Harry and Barack aren’t getting their way and so… It was an extremely scary situation when […]

 

Mayors Bail Out of Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Gang

Posted on by Dave Blount

Wannabe dictator Michael Bloomberg’s national campaign against our precious constitutional right to bear arms appears to be encountering resistance from within: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is losing part of his arsenal of local leaders as more and more long-time members of his gun-control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns say they aren’t happy with the […]

 

The Buckeye Firearms Foundation’s Raises $12,000 To Buy Guns & Security System For George Zimmerman

Posted on by John Hawkins

However you feel about how George Zimmerman’s trial, he had his day in court, he was acquitted and now the trial is over. However, the death threats against Zimmerman and his family have not ended. So, the Buckeye Firearms Foundation has decided to do something about that. The $12,150.37 check that the group wrote to […]

 

Pelosi: We Need To Uphold The Constitution By Enacting Gun Control

Posted on by William Teach

Not many people will argue that a few basic, common sense regulations regarding firearms is a Bad Idea. Surely we would like to keep them out of the hands of criminals, gang bangers, and others who would look to use them in a Bad Way. Surely we would like to keep people like, say, Eric […]

 

Senator Cruz Calls Obama’s Shameless Trayvon Statement An Attack On 2nd Amendment

Posted on by William Teach

I’m sure you’ve read the news and analysis regarding Obama’s “hey, Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago” (if Obama was in to street fighting, marijuana, illegal guns, taking naked pictures of underage girls, and taking drugs like DMX and Lean) comment, unsurprisingly making the issue about himself, along with all the race […]

 

Vancouver Man Cites “The Biden Rule” Over Shooting

Posted on by William Teach

As Obama once said “just words“, meaning that words can have a big impact. (KOIN) A Vancouver man who fired a shotgun to chase away alleged car prowlers pleaded not guilty Wednesday and cited Vice President Joe Biden as the reason he did this. Jeffery Barton, 52, pleaded not guilty to one count of illegal […]

 

Zimmerman’s Lawyer Going After NBC News ‘ASAP’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now that the trial to determine whether or not he was guilty of a malicious murder is over, George Zimmerman’s lawyers are stepping up their lawsuit against NBC News for airing edited audio that allegedly made their client look like a racist. Last December, Zimmerman filed the lawsuit against NBC for airing what many outlets […]

 

Loathsome NYC Mayor Calls For End To “Shoot First” Laws

Posted on by William Teach

Imagine a scenario: you come home and your significant other is being sexually assaulted. The perp starts pulling out a gun. You have your gun. You have to wait for the perp to shoot first. Welcome to Michael Bloomberg’s world (Politico) New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, one of the faces of national gun-control efforts […]