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Get out the pro-gun rights vote Submitted by: Stripeseven	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
It�s clich� but true. Whoever gets their people out to vote will win the election. If nothing else, President Trump�s win in 2016 proved that using past models to predict elections is a failed idea. Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. No Republican candidate has taken those three states since Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984, setting a record with 525 electoral votes

Profiling an Active Killer Submitted by: Stripeseven	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
What motivates a person to become a mass killer? Using reason and logic may only give us a headache as we try to deduce the motive of an unreasonable and illogical rogue human. It may not be any easier if he survives. Profiling such a rogue would be difficult for most.

The Anti-Gun Media Skews Public Opinion Submitted by: Robert Morse Website: http://slowfacts.wordpress.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A murderer killed 11 at a Pittsburgh Synagogue. If you read the posts on social media after that attack then you would think that guns are pure evil. Most people don�t know that firearms are life saving tools because the US news media hides that story from us. What voters don�t know can move elections. Ignorance can cost lives.

Second Amendment gun rights invoked in birthright citizenship debate
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President Trump�s challenge this week to the long-held understanding that the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born on U.S. soil, even if their mother was in the country illegally, has invoked another hotly debated constitutional right � to bear arms.

Gun control advocates have long questioned whether the Constitution�s seemingly straightforward Second Amendment �right of the people to keep and bear arms� really means that the lady next door can legally keep a semiautomatic rifle in her bedroom. Courts and constitutional scholars have long sided with gun rights advocates who say it does.

Gun Control Fails Again at the Pittsburgh Synagogue
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The murderer purchased his firearms legally. That means he passed his background checks with the FBI when he bought his firearms in a gun store. He also passed state background checks to buy his three handguns. Those FBI background checks failed to stop a mass murderer who was not a criminal until he killed. The Pennsylvania state background check failed as well. The so called �universal� background checks would fare no better because background checks contain a fatal flaw; looking backwards doesn�t predict the future. We have looked at past mass murderers to see if proposed background checks would have stopped them.

Back to Basics: Running the Single-Action Revolver
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One hundred sixty-three years after its introduction, the single-action (SA) revolver remains a very popular tool for those of us who want some lightning in our fists. There are several reasons why this is true. First, the SA revolver is among the strongest and most robust handguns extant. They can be very accurate. The SA revolver is just as handy to carry today as it was at its introduction. SA revolvers are often the first choice for backwoods and wilderness travelers because of their reliability and simplicity, and more than a few prefer it for concealed carry despite its comparative slowness in delivering a follow-up shot.

MO: Missouri Republican Josh Hawley targeted by illegal mailer on gun rights despite NRA endorsement
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Josh Hawley, the Republican Senate hopeful in Missouri, has been targeted by an anonymous and illegal campaign mailer, the second such incident to emerge targeting GOP hopefuls in the run-up to the midterms.

The mailer encourages voters to back Libertarian or Independent candidates, seemingly as a way of siphoning off enough Republican votes to help Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill. The Hawley campaign accused McCaskill's team of being behind the mailers, a charge she denies.

IN: Here's why a hoodie got this guy kicked out of the Indianapolis Zoo Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Anthony Edmonson was heading into the dolphin exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo on Sunday when a zoo employee stopped him to talk about his hoodie. His black sweatshirt depicted an image of a bullet and a play on words involving a sexual innuendo. "Just the tip," the sweatshirt read. "I promise."

NY: Attempted Robbery Suspect Fatally Shot By Store Owner
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Police are investigating an attempted robbery that left a suspect fatally shot by a bodega owner. According to the NYPD, 43rd Precinct police responded to a call of a robbery in progress inside of 1260 Morrison Avenue on Sunday, October 21 at 10:32 p.m. Upon entering J Market, police officers discovered Daniel Meeks, a 32-year-old Soundview resident, unconscious and unresponsive after sustaining a sunshot wound to his head.

SC: �I would�ve killed him if I had to�: Mother of 3 shoots home invasion suspect Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A mother of three in South Carolina said she used her firearm to protect her family when a stranger tried to enter her house. Ashley Jones told FOX Carolina she heard someone banging on the door of her home in Anderson County around 6 a.m. Thursday.

The Left Gets Triggered
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It was the Sunday after the terror-filled week that culminated in the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue. Oso was sitting with a handful of other members of the North Georgia branch of the Socialist Rifle Association, a new, swiftly growing left-wing gun group, in the backyard of an Italian restaurant in a gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood. (None of them wanted their last names used; Oso, Spanish for �bear,� is a nickname.)

The mission of the S.R.A. is �to arm and train the working class for self-defense.�

Meet the Rabbi Who Offers Firearm Training to Rabbis and Congregants For Self-Defense
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But there are some out there who agree that to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again, you need to arm rabbis, spiritual leaders and those who attend worship services. Guess who else thinks so? A rabbi.

Rabbi Gary Moskowitz �offers gun training to synagogues, teaching rabbis and employees to use firearms with the idea of arming them inside the house of worship,� according to CBS 2 News.

Wall Street Journal: �How Many Guns Do Americans Own?� Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
In an improbable article from an unlikely source, Wall Street Journal writer Joel Eastwood asks an impertinent question, �How Many Guns Do Americans Own?� Eastwood answers the rhetorical question himself: No one knows because of a lack of a central database. �With no central database,� he states, those interested in finding out �are left to make their own tallies.�

PA: Toughen up the gun laws or innocents will continue to die
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Whenever there is a mass shooting in America, and unfortunately that is a too frequent occurrence, rational people call for better gun control. But because of the politics of guns in this country, nothing changes.

So people keep getting slaughtered in mass shootings. Bullets in America keep earning frequent flier miles. Violence broods in the air as we all nervously perch on the precipice of carnage.

MO: The number of guns stolen out of cars in Springfield has quadrupled
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A man parked his Toyota Prius at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center in March and left his gun bag in the car.

Inside the bag was a $2,000 stainless steel handgun with white ivory grips.

It was an unseasonably warm afternoon with a light breeze and no surveillance cameras around. Someone busted out the rear window, reached in, grabbed the gun bag and took off.

This type of crime � stealing a gun from a car � used to occur less than once a week in Springfield, police say.

NY: Suspect in �Scream Mask� on Loose After Shooting Two in Gun-Controlled NYC Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Witnesses said the suspect was wearing a �Ghostface,� which is �the longfaced, sunken-eyed haunt adopted by several characters of the cult horror series Scream. NYC has universal background checks, gun registration requirements. a �high capacity� magazine ban, an �assault weapons� ban, and a very onerous process for acquiring permit to carry a gun for self-defense.

TX: A Black, NRA-Certified Instructor Talks Self-Defense, Pittsburgh And Botham Jean Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
RJ Young was trying to win over his future father-in-law. So, he started shooting guns. Young is a black gun owner and NRA-certified pistol instructor. But, that decision was borne out of anger. He went to a gun range with his father-in-law who joked at him not to hold a gun sideways. It was there he decided to be the best he could be at shooting guns.

TN: Using Your Gun to Defend Your Car: Just Don�t Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
This story comes out of Chattanooga TN last week, and involves a man who fired shots at his receding automobile as it was being driven away by a car thief. That man has now been hit with felony charges, and ironically enough found himself locked up in the same jail as the car thief. This as reported by local NBC news station WRCBtv.

How President Trump has Supported the Second Amendment
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President Donald Trump is the most vocal supporter of the Second Amendment to the Constitution that has ever inhabited the White House.

Before 1934, there were few restrictions on firearm purchases and virtually none at the federal level. It is not surprising that before 1934, presidents said little about the Second Amendment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was blatantly anti-Second Amendment. He showed it with his court picks and the attempt to register and license all handguns in the United States. While the attempt failed, the first serious federal gun law, the National Firearms Act, was passed as a compromise.