(Los Angeles Times) – Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at taking handguns and assault rifles away from 20,000 Californians who acquired them legally but have since been disqualified from ownership because of a criminal conviction or serious mental illness. The measure, the first of several gun-related bills to reach the governor, allocates [...]
(Breitbart) – Speaking to FOX NEWS’ Chris Wallace on April 28, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he is “absolutely” going to bring his gun control bill to the Senate floor for another vote. The bill, the Manchin-Toomey background check ‘compromise,’ was tabled by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on April 17 after failing to get [...]
(AP) – Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Arizona Sen. John McCain probably would have beat his boss in the 2008 presidential election had the economy not collapsed. Biden’s comment about McCain and President Barack Obama came during the opening dinner of an annual forum among the Red Rocks of Sedona in northern Arizona. [...]
(CNS News) – Gun shops across the country are reporting ammunition shortages as many Americans continue to stock up on whatever they can get their hands on. Jeff Dillard, who runs National Armory in Pompano, Florida says, “I have never seen ammo so impossible to get.” FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Don’t Let The Government Take Your [...]
(New York Post) – An NYU psychology student turned his Manhattan dorm room into an air rifle factory and was arrested on illegal weapons possession raps Monday, law enforcement sources told the Post. Bernard Goal, 20, was busted after a startled maintenance crew spotted a pair of realistic looking rifles on his bed while he [...]
(The Wall Street Journal) – General Electric is quietly cutting off lending to gun shops, as the company rethinks its relationship to firearms amid the fallout from the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. This month, Glenn Duncan, owner of Duncan’s Outdoor Store in Bay City, Mich., said he received a letter from GE Capital Retail [...]
(Breitbart) – On Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Constitution would have to be reinterpreted in order to curtail civil liberties to prevent terrorism. Bloomberg likened such reinterpretation to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which he says allowed for greater gun control to preserve public safety. At a [...]
(CBS News) - Ammunition sellers and manufacturers say there’s been a run on bullets and they can’t keep their shelves stocked. Jeff Dillard who runs National Armory in Pompano says it’s the worst he’s ever seen. SPECIAL: Join TeaParty.org to Fund “Youth Firearms Training Initiative” “I have never seen ammo so impossible to get,” said [...]
(WOWK TV) – When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school this morning he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights. “I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don’t see a problem with this, there [...]
(Washington Examiner) – The head of the National Rifle Association mocked President Obama’s Rose Garden “tantrum” after losing the gun control fight in the Senate, charging Thursday that Obama suffered the worst defeat of his presidency because “he bit off more than he could chew.” David Keene told Secrets that the president and his team [...]