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Sacramento Wants You to Turn In Your Gun for a $50 Gas Card

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“Sacramento police want your guns in exchange for gas money,” says a May 6 Sacramento Bee headline. The department asks residents to give away their firearms, which the Second Amendment authorizes them to keep and bear, for...
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Brady’s Jonathan Lowy is Very Upset About the Gun Control Industry’s Latest Court Loss

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  This ruling is outrageous and without precedent. Americans have the right to enact strong laws to protect their families and communities from gun violence, and the Second Amendment was never intended to force us...
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Technology: Using the Urban Dictionary to Solve Gun Crimes

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Detectives sometimes use Urban Dictionary to translate slang when investigating deadly gun crimes. Pole, strap, gat, drill, stick, glizzy and metal are all words used to describe guns. A “stain” is another word for a robbery, according to...

CA’s Age-Based Discrimination Banning Semi-Auto Rifle Sales to Adults Under 21 Was Always Unconstitutional

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  America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army. Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the...

Baltimore Sun: Compelled Speech is a ‘Common Sense’ Price Gun Sellers Should Pay for...

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Constitutional rights are always a balancing act. The right to free speech famously is offset by the threat posed by falsely yelling, “Fire!” in a crowded theater, which could provoke a potentially deadly stampede...
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Canes Look a Lot Like Rifles in Arizona and That’s That

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A day after a Kingman school was placed on lockdown following an unconfirmed report of a man with a firearm in the vicinity, Bullhead City police were notified by two callers of a...
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Fernandez: An Armed America Caused My Anxiety, Isolation, Impotence, and Directionless Rage

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  The “armed, self-reliant citizen” has meanwhile become ever more so, especially as various states have enacted ingenious laws allowing residents to carry handguns with no permit or training. As of 2017, there were already...
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It’s Easier to Blame ‘Ghost Guns’ in New York City Than to Put and...

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Ghost guns are the bugbear of the moment, because only a lunatic would defend them. And because it is much easier, and far less controversial, to blame them for New York’s blood-spattered sidewalks than it...
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Sorry, Civilian Disarmament Advocates, but Guns Aren’t Going Away in America. Ever

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wznc0mdNKXc There's no reason that guns will become less important (in American culture) than they've been historically because the same things that motivated gun ownership, again, from the seventeenth century all the way until today,...
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Greenlee: Americans Shouldn’t Have to Prove They Have the Right to Keep and Bear...

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  Professor Charles mistakenly asserts that “ and arguments like those about self-made guns imply that government always regulates to the outer limits of its power.” To the contrary, THT analyzes centuries of history...
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Avis: Sorry, Ma’am, the Gun You Found in Your Glove Compartment Is Not Our...

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said she was stunned when she found a gun in the glove compartment of her Avis rental car on Sunday. She wanted to get the firearm out of her possession, so she immediately called...
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Coordination: The Anti-Gun Left Goes After Permitless Open Carry

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What a weekend I have had from right wing trolls. Why? Because I correctly stated there is no such thing as Constitutional Carry. It is a made-up marketing term designed to avoid saying permitless...