A national debate has emerged over gun sale tracking as states adopt conflicting laws regarding the use of retail codes for firearms transactions. As reported earlier, a California law went into effect today that mandates credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to assign special retail codes to gun stores, enabling banks to track their … Read more
Iowa is not only set to enact a law that prohibits financial institutions from using specific merchant codes on credit card transactions for gun purchases with firearms retailers, but will take it a step further and outright ban “state and local governmental agencies from keeping a record or registry of privately owned firearms”. The legislation, … Read more
Newsweek breathlessly reports on a Christian School in Iowa that’s training up some of its teachers to pack heat in their schools. The purpose, of course, is to provide an active response to a murderous lunatic, terrorist or criminal until law enforcement can arrive. In other words, give teachers and staffers the ability to use … Read more
The “Newtown Action Alliance,” yet another gun control shill group funded by dark money came out minutes after news of the Perry, Iowa, mass casualty incident. The turn to their well-worn playbook to screech, “if Congress just passed a ban on popular self-defense firearms and the magazines that feed them we could all live happily … Read more
Lori Lightfoot’s increasingly lawless Chicago reached a grim milestone on Thursday: 500 homicides so far this year. That’s more than 38 entire states tallied for the entire year of 2019. In fact, at the current rate, Murder City USA will likely reach homicide numbers not seen since the early 1990s. Violent criminals and gang members … Read more
When an apology just isn’t enough (see our original story on this here): Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate recorded a video apologizing to members of the Iowa Firearms Coalition for his office’s failure to meet a requirement that would have advanced a pro-gun amendment to Iowa’s Constitution. The error set the gun rights amendment back … Read more
What would you say if there was a shooting range next door to your high school? I would have said ‘hell, yes!’ and joined said range in a heartbeat. It would have given me a place to shoot when I wasn’t in school, and place to leave my car and shotgun while I was in class. It would have been a win-win for me and my friends, but some people don’t see it that way . . .
Rodney Long was a ruthless criminal dirtbag with no conscience or remorse. omaha.com reports that last Friday Long escaped from a minimum-security Iowa prison while serving a sentence for burglary. Long story short, the convict shot a deputy who tried to apprehend him. He then stole the deputy’s car and led police on a high-speed chase, finally taking an elderly couple hostage in their Bedford home. The couple was armed. “At about 2:10 a.m., Jerome Mauderly took a shotgun from the kitchen and shot Long in the chest. Rodney Long was what cops would call a ‘skell.’ Now he’s what we call a ‘corpse.’ At the risk of editorializing a hard news story, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Maine’s Manchester Union Leader is attempting to hold the Hillsborough County Sheriff Department’s feet to the fire for its failure to remove firearms from a man they were ordered to disarm. On October 20, 2009, the Department arrested Manchester resident Jonathan Charbonneau for nearly strangling his wife to death. “The next day, two Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies served him with a restraining order. That order required Charbonneau to turn over all deadly weapons to the deputies. The deputies were supposed to confiscate any weapons right then and there. They didn’t. They left, and Jonathan Charbonneau maintained possession of his hunting rifle. The next day he shot his wife to death with that rifle.” And wounding his father-in-law. And killing himself. “Four days later, Hillsborough County Sheriff James Hardy released a statement saying, ‘I am actively reviewing this agency’s involvement, actions and the circumstances related to the matter involving Jonathan Charbonneau.’ Two months later, Hardy said his review was expanding to include a review of protective orders in general and would be done in a few weeks. Since then? Nothing. The public has not heard a peep out of the sheriff about that incident.” The Leader calls for the Sheriff’s report. Meanwhile, over in Iowa . . .
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