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New York’s SAFE Act has been on the books for almost seven years now, which is long enough for folks to form an opinion about how well the package of gun control laws is working in the state. New York University law professor James Jacobs has been studying the law and its effects for years, and...

Why does it seem that liberal extremists are pursuing new infringements on gun rights seemingly unchecked? Why do we have an escalated situation in Virginia where liberal politicians seek to further infringe the Second Amendment rights of its citizens, threatening imprisonment and even violence...

Congratulations Gun Owners, we’re making it happen! The National Instant background Check System (NICS) for October 2019, showed record levels of background checks. In essence, the firearms community is buying more guns than ever before. Regardless of how you look at the NICS background check...

Good read on Progressivism. https://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-judges-ignore-law-and-constitution.html

Nobody would disagree that Baltimore, Maryland has a huge problem when it comes to violent crime. After all, the city recently surpassed 300 homicides for the fifth year in a row, and violent criminals seem to act with impunity on the city’s streets on a daily basis. Now, Baltimore officials...

Police arrested five people, including the alleged gunman, in connection with a shooting at a crowded New Jersey high school football game — violence triggered by “petty vengeance,” officials said Saturday. Alvin Wyatt, 31, of Atlantic City was charged with 3 counts of attempted murder...

Late Friday afternoon (11.08.19) the Secretary of State released a “certified” ballot title from the Attorney General for Ballot Measure 40, the “ban on self defense act” of 2020. Under this measure, not only will you be required to render your self defense firearms inaccessible and useless...

http://www.looserounds.com/2019/11/12/weapons-seized-from-cartels/

A class action lawsuit was filed in a New Jersey court last month to challenge the constitutionality of red flag laws that take away firearms from an individual deemed a threat without due process following an arbitrary judicial decree. Albert J. Rescinio is a New Jersey attorney representing...

The parents of a dead armed robber are very angry over his death, and are demanding to know why his innocent victim was allowed to be armed. https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/11/03/parents-dead-robber-really-mad-victim-gun/

Petitions to disarm individuals deemed a threat to themselves or the public are pouring into New York's court system since the state's so-called "red flag" law went into effect on Aug. 24. There were 129 active protective orders barring...

A Bellefontaine Neighbors man is accused of shooting a teenager for breaking into neighborhood cars. Neighbors support 41-year-old Charles Bams, saying he has right to protect his property. But that's not what the law says. Another resident told Fox 2 a group of teens was roaming the block...

You can travel from wherever you live in the United States to wherever you want in the United States, and your freedom of speech still exists, along with your right to peaceably assemble, petition the government, be secure in your person and property, or have a jury trial if you’re arrested. You...

Refusing to be discouraged by the multiple failures of his AndyLand economic-development “investments,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo dropped another one last week: $16 million in public funds to two companies for a promised 430 new jobs in Syracuse. Between them, Bankers Healthcare Group and JMA Wireless...

Local residents of a Martha’s Vineyard town in Massachusetts are up in arms after a revered school crossing guard has had his legally owned guns and carry license confiscated by police. Stephen Nichols is an 84-year old Korean War veteran who served as a police officer of Tisbury, Massachusetts...

There’s been a standoff between New York City and utility company National Grid going on since May of this year. As you may recall, plans for a new natural gas pipeline from New Jersey were killed off by the state government under pressure from environmental activists. As a result, National Grid...

A Kansas middle school girl who formed her fingers into a gun and pointed it at several of her classmates after another student asked her who would she would kill was arrested and charged with a felony. The incident happened on Sept. 18 at Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, about 13...

General Bill by Massullo Threats: Prohibits threats to use firearm or weapon with specified intent. There is no exception for using of a firearm trying to stop a forcible felony. Florida: HB 311: Illegal to say “If you don’t stop your forcible felony, I will have to shoot you.”

A man accused of orchestrating a mass shooting at a bar in Kansas City, Kansas last weekend could have been sentenced to nine years in prison for trafficking in contraband while behind bars, but a Kansas judge gave the murder suspect probation instead. Hugo Villanueva-Morales is still on the run...

Coming soon to New Yorkistan. You’d think at this point California would have run out of gun control laws to put on the books, but as it turns out legislators have sent quite a few proposals to Governor Gavin Newsom this year, and time is running out for the governor to veto any of the...

A Warren County man is one of the first gun owners in the state to surrender his firearm under the state’s new Red Flag law after he sent threatening letters to public officials. Mario Hepp, 75, surrendered his handgun after a judge in Warren County issued a temporary suspension order for his...

New York State "Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act" To Define Hate-Fueled Murder with the Intent to Cause Mass Casualties as an Act of Domestic Terrorism with Penalty Equivalent to Other Acts of Terrorism Cuomo Also Calls on Congress to Enact a Federal Domestic Terrorism Law, Including Banning...

In a shocking display of real-world, in-your-face, wake-up-America tyranny, gun-wielding government agents across the state of New Jersey shot into action in September to grab privately owned firearms to the tune of one-per-day by mid-month -- which gives us a lot to consider... According to...

It took a federal judge to reign in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s fiercest strikes against his good government critics, ending a three-year court battle over a state law that would have required the watchdog groups to disclose their donors. Manhattan federal court Judge Denise Cote sided with a coalition...

You can call Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of state Medicaid outlays “reckless” — if you want to be kind. Yet this seedy pattern of pay-to-play merits far harsher terms. As The New York Times reports, the gov OK’d a $140 million-a-year bump in Medicaid reimbursements for hospitals soon after the...

A law firm hired by the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in 2016 amid the sprawling "Buffalo Billion" investigation received a $1.2 million contract extension in February. But the original purpose for contracting with the criminal defense firm has quietly morphed. It's now being used to...

Florida’s new red flag law – created to protect the public from future mass shooters – has temporarily stripped gun rights from more than 2,500 people across the state, including at least 100 kids, an I-Team review found. I-Team Investigator found law enforcement seeking orders to take away gun...

The former vice president, who is among the Democratic candidates calling for reinstating a ban on assault weapons, said claims that such guns would protect against the government ignores the power and machinery available to the U.S. military. “If you need weapons to protect yourself from the...

In 1963, the CIA had this document. It was declassified in 2004: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300540023-8.pdf https://www.mom-at-arms.com/post/gun-control-today-they-tried-to-warn-us-56-years-ago-and-they-were-right

Sen. Ted Cruz is warning that President Donald Trump making a deal with Democrats on gun legislation might cause conservative voters to stay home in 2020. “If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights,” the Texas...

Yesterday, Save The Second board member Rob Pincus attended the NRA Board Meeting…for about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, he was the only one of 5 Million NRA members who showed up to try to learn the truth about what was going on inside the NRA Board and to lobby for reform inside the troubled...

House Democrats this week advanced a new measure to encourage states to pass “red flag” laws, known as extreme risk protection orders, that authorize removing guns and ammunition from dangerous individuals. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee amended the measure during a Wednesday...

he Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. Two years later, McDonald v. Chicago made that right enforceable against state and local governments. The McDonald Court declared that the Second Amendment is...

Vara Safety, a Latham startup that makes a handgun holster that has a biometric lock, has shipped its first batch of orders to customers after quickly selling out its initial supply. The company was founded by Timmy Oh, a former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student from Orange County...

Leaders of 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate on Thursday, urging the legislative body to take action on gun safety. The letter notes recent gun violence in Chicago, Newport News, Virginia, and other places, calling it a “public health crisis.” But the leaders also say that gun violence...

While district attorney for San Francisco, Kamala Harris withheld evidence that could have exonerated defendants on multiple occasions, in violation of a key due process ruling by the Supreme Court. Between 2004 and 2010, Harris’s office failed to inform defense attorneys about criminal and...

Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you. That’s because Apple and Google have been ordered by the U.S. government to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun...

Governor Cuomo is pushing to upend the presidential primary calendar, making New York jump close to the head of the line by having voters head to the polls in February instead of late April, sources tell NY1. Cuomo is considering vetoing a bill that would set the presidential primary on April...

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman announced Thursday he has introduced legislation that would allow New York students to take mental health days. According to Hoylman, New York law currently requires schools to develop their own attendance policy and determine which absences are excused and...

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (D) revealed that she did not think the left was “so mean” and “lied like this” until she ran for president as an outsider candidate. “I know this sounds naive. I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this,” Williamson...

The largest U.S. arms retailer also said it would discontinue handgun sales in Alaska, the only state where it sells these guns. Walmart will stop selling short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber after clearing current stock. While this type of ammunition is...

A 14-year-old boy has confessed to killing all five of his family members at their Alabama home, authorities said Tuesday. WAFF-TV reported that the teenager, who has not been identified, confessed to shooting his father, stepmother and three siblings. The incident occurred at the family's home...

A Pennsylvania man broke the law when he pretended to point a gun at his neighbor, using his thumb and index finger to create the shape of the weapon, an appeals court has ruled. Stephen Kirchner was convicted of disorderly conduct last fall, but appealed the decision. This week an appeals court...

There’s still no cell for Shel. Some 474 days after former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted — for the second time — of peddling his office’s influence in exchange for millions in kickbacks, he remains a free man. Silver, 75, still hasn’t spent a single night behind bars, as...

A white Florida man was convicted of manslaughter after shooting a black man during an argument over a handicapped space in a convenience store parking lot. Michael Drejka confronted Markeis McGlockton’s girlfriend while McGlockton was inside the store. Security footage showed McGlockton exit...

The city of San Francisco is trying to change the public’s perception of criminals by introducing new language to refer to someone who committed a crime. The Board of Supervisors put the changes in place in July. So, from now on, according to Fox News, a “convicted felon” will be referred to...

Democrats newly in control of New York State government this year pushed for and then passed a host of gun control measures. And they have made it clear they aren't finished. “I just think we need to have fewer of these guns that nobody uses for hunting and get them out of our houses and out...

Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings. “The Republican Party is going to focus on what the problem is, and the problem is not the gun; the...

The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Friday it will cut short its summer recess and meet on Sept. 4 to consider new gun control legislation in response to back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The panel will prepare a series of bills for consideration by the full...

— A left-leaning political organization that publicly backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her insurgent victory last year was also quietly plotting to penetrate another New York City power source — labor unions. The New York City branch of the Democratic Socialists of America presented its...