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OK: It�s Time to Arm the Teachers
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For the first time in our history, GOA staff � with the help of our partners � will be providing hands-on firearm training to school staff in Oklahoma, so they can legally carry firearms in the classroom and be the first line of defense for their students.
Even better, this training will be at no cost to the teachers and staff.
GOA is proud to partner with We the Female and State Representative Jay Steagall of Cloverleaf Precision to provide the firearm instruction. |
WA: WA Attorney General sues Federal Way gun store for illegal sales
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A gun retailer in Federal Way is the subject of a lawsuit from Attorney General Bob Ferguson after an investigation found that the owner was illegally selling high-capacity magazines despite state bans.
The store and its owner allegedly sold high-capacity magazines, which became illegal in Washington state this year due to legislation supported by Ferguson himself.
The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation sued the state over the ban, citing 2nd and 14th amendment violations in its claim that the ban is unconstitutional and questions what the plaintiffs contend is an arbitrary number of ten rounds. |
VA: Reader takes issue with Delegate Jenkins� comments
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In the Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Brunswick Times-Gazette, page 4; Delegate Clinton Jenkins stated that �we must�pass good, safe policy regarding guns here in Virginia.� As Delegate Jenkins well knows, it is already illegal to murder a human; it is already illegal to possess firearms in the �Gun Free Zones� existing in schools, courts, some government buildings, etc.
Exactly what �good, safe policy regarding guns here in Virginia� would Delegate Jenkins suggest? I will guess that his intention is to create infringements on the lawful exercise of the Second Amendment by honest law-abiding citizens. Why would I guess that? Mr. Jenkins tips his hand with his use of good sounding, though unenlightening words, such as �good, safe policy�. |
CO: Here are the post-Club Q gun laws Colorado must adopt
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Better yet: The Legislature should outright ban assault weapons. An assault weapons ban was briefly discussed among some state lawmakers after the Boulder King Soopers shooting. But the proposal quickly disappeared � likely due to behind-the-scenes discouragement from the office of Gov. Jared Polis, according to some sources � and lawmakers have since refrained from mentioning it, or they�ve argued it�s a measure better instituted at the federal level, as when a national assault weapons ban was in effect from 1994 to 2004. |
MN: A solution to gun violence
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�Arms� are generally defined as anything a single soldier can bear. So obviously, there is precedent for Second Amendment infringement. �Arms� of mass destruction and terrorism, such as machine guns, pipe bombs, pressure cooker bombs, grenades, etc. are already banned. Justice Antonin Scalia also stated that the Second Amendment is not without limits. |
Black Guns Matter
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We know about Black Lives Matter. My new video is about a group called Black Guns�Matter.
Maj Toure, a Philadelphia high school dropout turned activist, tells me he started it after he got tired of hearing people endless chanting, �Black lives matter� but saying nothing �when it�s time for black people to defend their lives.�
Toure carries a gun wherever he goes.
�This is my human right,� he says. �If anybody wants to come chase me down about that, let�s go to court.�
He encourages others to arm themselves, especially people who live in high crime neighborhoods. |
�Old Way� Will Enrage Gun Control Crowd
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The upcoming western, debuting Jan. 6, 2023 in theaters, stars Nicolas Cage as a reformed gunslinger trying to raise his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). When an outlaw gang threatens his family, Cage�s character schools his daughter in the art of self-defense, and that means Firearms Training 101.
�The Old Way� co-stars Nick Searcy (�Terror on the Prairie,� �Gosnell�), Clint Howard (�Apollo 13,� �Far and Away�) and Noah Le Gros (�A Score to Settle�).
The film continues the western genre�s quiet resurgence, given recent oaters like �Prairie,� �Dead for a Dollar� and the modern western �Yellowstone� series. |
OR: Measure 114 remains in legal limbo; state police plan to release temporary rules
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The day before new voter-passed gun laws were set to go into effect, their fate remains in legal limbo. The administrative rules guiding the implementation of Measure 114, if it is allowed to go forward, are also being wrapped up at the last minute.
Harney County Circuit Court Judge Robert Raschio issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, blocking Measure 114 from going into effect on Thursday. Less than 24 hours later, the Oregon Department of Justice filed an appeal to the state Supreme Court saying Raschio committed fundamental errors and requesting an immediate review of his decision.
Ed.: The state Supreme Court ruled in favor of the TRO. Measure 114 is *not* in effect as of this writing. |
MT: Court docs: Patron at Billings restaurant pointing gun at man when he was shot
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Surveillance footage captured a patron pointing a gun at a group of people last week at the front entrance of the Montana Club when he was shot in the chest by another patron, Yellowstone County prosecutors stated in charging documents Wednesday.
One man in the group, identified only as D.E., told police that he was "staring down the barrel of a gun" and believes that the man who shot the patron saved his life, according to court documents. |
NY: Deer harvest results slow a bit
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A Girl & A Gun (AG & AG) is a membership organization whose events are successful stepping stones for thousands of women entering the shooting community by fostering their love of shooting with caring and qualified instructors who coach them. AG & AG breaks barriers for women and girls in self-defense, and in pistol, rifle, and shotgun shooting sports by welcoming beginners to learn the basics of safe and accurate shooting and providing experienced shooters with advanced-level opportunities. The club has ranges throughout the United States. |
Assessing and Mitigating Legal Risk: Emerging Trends and Challenges to the PLCAA
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Recent developments may cause firearms manufacturers to reevaluate their business and marketing practices to lessen their legal exposure. As we wrote previously, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) provides only limited immunity to firearms manufacturers. Claims that the PLCAA provides blanket immunity, unique to the firearms industry, are both factually and legally inaccurate as found by multiple fact checkers, including the Associated Press and CNN. |
Democrats push firearms purchasing ban for people who voluntarily give up their 2A rights
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House Democrats on Wednesday advanced legislation that would establish a federally controlled list of people who voluntarily agree to be blocked from buying guns.
The bill is aimed at preventing gun suicides, which supporters of the legislation say is claiming the lives of more than 25,000 Americans each year. The proposal from Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and John Curtis, R-Utah, would let anyone who fears they might take their own life with a gun to enroll themselves on a list of people who would then be blocked from buying a firearm. |
OR: Oregon high court declines to overturn decision on gun law
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The Oregon Supreme Court late Wednesday declined to overturn a lower court judge�s decision and allow a tough new voter-approved gun law to take effect this week.
Chief Justice Martha Walters denied the emergency motion to intervene filed earlier in the day by the state Attorney General Ellen Rosenbaum.
The measure, which includes a ban on the sale and transfer of high-capacity magazines, was due to take effect Thursday, but Harney County Judge Robert Raschio blocked it on Tuesday, just hours after a federal court ruled in favor of the law. |
Democrats block potential release of documents on FBI's secret forms used to strip gun rights
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House Democrats vetoed a resolution demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland turn over records related to the FBI's usage of previously secret forms that waived away the gun rights of Americans.
In October, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and over a dozen GOP members of Congress urged Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide evidence that the FBI has stopped stripping people's gun rights with the forms. However, a further attempt to obtain evidence by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) was quashed on Wednesday afternoon by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. |
IL: Illinois governor aims to get assault weapon ban proposal �done in the first half of the year�
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who made banning the sale of assault weapons a key component of his successful reelection campaign this fall, for the first time voiced support for the recently unveiled proposal by Illinois House Democrats that includes outlawing the sale of certain assault-style guns, barring most people under 21 from getting gun permits and banning large-capacity magazines.
Pritzker, in his first public comments on the measure since it was filed last week, said he wants the legislation to be passed by the state House and Senate and placed on his desk to be signed into law before the Fourth of July 2023. |
OR: State judge places hold on Oregon gun safety law
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A ruling by a state court judge placed Oregon�s tough, new voter-approved gun law on hold late Tuesday, just hours after a federal court judge allowed the ban on the sale and transfer of high-capacity magazines to take effect this week.
The ruling by Harney County Judge Robert Raschio threw the implementation of Measure 114 � set for Thursday � into limbo, and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said on Twitter that her office will urgently appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court. That filing is likely to come Wednesday morning.
Ed.: The state Supreme Court upheld Rashio's ruling; Measure 114 is *not* in effect. |
Biden: 'We Can' Ban Assault Weapons Before GOP Leads House
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday renewed vows to secure a new ban on assault weapons in the United States as he turns up heat on lawmakers to pass legislation before his party loses control of Congress next month.
Lawmakers have shown little inclination to outlaw assault weapons since a ban on high-capacity firearms expired in 2004, but Biden is hoping to seize on outrage about the regularity of shootings to lead to greater pressure on them to change their mind. |
Rush to Ban �Assault Rifles� Is �Political Posturing�; Oregon Court Chaos
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In the month since the �red wave� didn�t materialize, Joe Biden has renewed his push to ban so-called �assault weapons,� but an Op-Ed in The Hill suggests such an effort is more flash than substance while noting that the semi-auto rifles the president loathes really aren�t as big a public risk as he contends.
This discussion has essentially erupted as the multiple challenges to a restrictive Oregon gun control law have made the situation in that state somewhat chaotic. At least four federal and one state level cases are intertwined, with a federal court ruling going one direction while the state level case went the opposite direction. More about that in a moment. |
NJ: Cruz Attacks �Discrimination� in Gun Control Bill
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Cruz started off by explaining his background: �I was born and reared in Paterson, New Jersey, and I was once classified a juvenile delinquent, yet here I am now speaking in front of you guys, but only because something plagued me in the last few weeks.�
�Does anyone really want to put more firearms in the hands of folks who reside in Paterson, Newark, Elizabeth, and Camden to say, oh, the money you�re charging isn�t fair?� asked State Assemblyman John McKeon. As outrageous as those comments were, they had no place being said. A definition, please. That residents in Paterson and Newark cannot have any guns or cannot apply for a concealed permit?� |
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