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MO: Fatal Shooting By Republic Officer was Justified Self-Defense
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Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson said Tuesday that he believes a fatal shooting by a Republic police officer last February was legally justified. Sgt. John Tinsley shot Destry Meikle after Meikle ran his car into two garages and then seemed to back up as if he was going to run over Tinsley. Patterson said he reviewed the Greene County Sheriff�s Department's investigation of the shooting on Feb. 16. He said it was a legally justified use of deadly force in self-defense.

OK: Homeowner Shoots Man in Self-Defense Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
One man is currently in critical condition after police say he was shot by a man in self-defense. Monday night officers responded to call for a suspicious person on South 69th East Avenue. While officers searched for the possible suspect, they heard two shots fired on the next street over.

NC: School Board Bans Pepper Spray
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A North Carolina school board has repealed its decision to allow high school students to carry pepper spray, a weapon one board member had said could have been useful for students encountering transgender classmates in the bathroom. The Rowan Salisbury Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to overturn a May 9 vote to allow high school students to carry sprays and disposable razors for personal protection, news outlets reported.

NJ: Court Says 2nd Amendment Doesn�t Trump State's Strict Gun Laws
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A Bergen County man has lost his bid to fight the confiscation of his guns and ammunition following a domestic violence arrest and charges that he had high-capacity magazines and hollow-point ammunition. An appellate decision on Tuesday upheld a Superior Court judge�s earlier ruling that Arthur Vinogradsky was no longer qualified to be a gun owner even though the charges against him were eventually dropped.

Stand Your Ground Against Gun Violence Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has a life or death decision to make. Last week the state�s legislature passed a bill that would dramatically increase the rights of gun owners in the state. The legislation now awaits Nixon�s signature � or his veto. If Nixon signs the bill, he will practically be ensuring that more Missouri residents will die from gun violence.

Should Hillary Run On a �Repeal the Second Amendment' Platform Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Yesterday the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post both ran editorials ripping presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for asserting during a speech last Friday to members of the National Rifle Association that Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment.

EVERYTHING You Heard About A Jacket Stopping NYPD Bullets Is Absurdly False Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Late last week the New York Post ran a story that would be the stuff of nightmares for every law enforcement officer in the United States. ... There is simply no way that the story reported by the Post is true. A 9mm bullet moving at over 1,200 feet per second isn�t going to be slowed, much less stopped, by anything less than soft body armor.

HI: State Could Be First State to Put Gun Owners in Federal Database
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Yet others say gun owners shouldn't have to be entered in a database to practice a constitutional right. "You're curtailing that right by requiring that a name be entered into a database without doing anything wrong," said Kenneth Lawson, faculty at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law.

Legal experts say the bill could face challenges, but would probably hold up in court. Recent Supreme Court rulings have clarified states' ability to regulate gun sales, said David Levine, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Submitters note: What is wrong with liberals that they need to continually harass law abiding citizens?

Critics Fire Back at Seattle Gun, Ammo Tax They Claim is Aimed At Killing Business
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Mike Coombs feels like he is in the crosshairs of Seattle lawmakers, who this year implemented a special tax on the guns and ammo his Fourth Avenue store has sold for more than 40 years. On January 1 Seattle began imposing a $25 tax on every gun and a 5-cent tax on every round sold within city limits. The stated objective was to raise up to $500,000 per year to fund programs to prevent gun violence. But Coombs claims the real effect is to kill his business, and a gun rights legal foundation is battling the city for figures it believes will show the law was never about taking in revenue.

FL: School Board Candidates Opposed Constitutionalism Group�s Candidate Forums
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A group called the Southwest Florida Citizens Alliance is hosting a series of school board candidate forums and publicly calling out candidates who do not attend. But those candidates are firing back, calling the group biased. Stephanie Lucarelli is running for the District 2 seat against Louise Penta and said she couldn�t attend the first forum because of a scheduling conflict. �I received an email the next day saying that I boycotted the event, which I thought was, very strong,� she said.

CA: Guns Stolen From San Carlos Store- Vehicle Used in Smash-And-Grab Burglary
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A San Carlos hunting store was burglarized over the weekend, leaving a number of handguns and ammunition in the hands of criminals. The San Mateo County Sheriff�s Office, as well as officials with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, are investigating Sunday�s smash-and-grab burglary at the Imbert and Smithers gun shop. It appears an unknown suspect used a vehicle to ram through the shop�s doors at 1144 El Camino Real around 5:20 a.m., according to Sheriff�s Deputy Sal Zuno.

CO: Duo Looking at Guns at Pawn Shop Pull Out Their Own, Try To Shoot Clerk
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Police in Colorado Springs say two men who were looking at guns at a pawn shop was just a guise when they pulled out their own and tried to shoot the clerk. It happened around 6:15 p.m. Monday at Pawn Inc., 3308 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., just west of Academy Boulevard. Police say the men asked the clerk to look at several guns in the display case. While they were handling them, one of the men pulled out a gun of his own, pointing it at the clerk.

MD: 6 Replica Guns, 3 Firearms Seized From Baltimore Home Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A Baltimore City drug bust has led to the discovery of a mini arsenal, including several replica guns. It�s the second recent arrest involving fake guns in Baltimore. WJZ�s Amy Yensi explains why it is cause for concern. The guns may not be real, buy they look real, and they�re being used in real crimes.

RI: Citing Favorable Poll, Coalition Rallies for `No Guns In Schools'
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Across the nation, people have died from gun violence that could have been prevented. Jerry Belair, president of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, doesn�t want Rhode Island to be next. The coalition started in 2013 when the Rhode Island General Assembly did not pass common sense gun legislation. Last Thursday, the coalition held a rally at the State House asking House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello to move gun control legislation out of the Judiciary Committee for a vote on the House floor.

South Carolina Companty Posts New Pro-Gun Billboards Nationwide
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After going viral in December over controversial billboards, Palmetto State Armory, a gun dealer and gun range with five locations across South Carolina, is putting up more billboards with a new message. Drivers may remember the "Silent Night" billboard featuring a gun and silencer on Pelham Road in Greenville, or others like the five golden rings billboard showing a close up of bullets in a gun. The billboards earned the company national attention, and not all of it was positive.

IL: Chicago Police Try To Predict Who May Shoot or Be Shot Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
In this city�s urgent push to rein in gun and gang violence, the Police Department is keeping a list. Derived from a computer algorithm that assigns scores based on arrests, shootings, affiliations with gang members and other variables, the list aims to predict who is most likely to be shot soon or to shoot someone. Shaquon Thomas was on it.

Hardware: Mauser Model 98 Magnum
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This is a bolt-action rifle. There are many like it, but this one is a Mauser 98. It is legendary. It is the culmination of much tinkering and testing by its creator, Paul Mauser, and the final result is a thing of strength and simplistic beauty. The Mauser 98, or Gewehr 98, was adopted as the German service rifle in 1898 and became the mother of all bolt-action rifles; Britain�s Pattern 1914 Enfield service rifle took cues from it; our 1903 Springfield copied Mauser�s design and its stripper clip so explicitly the U.S. government paid royalties to the German company in order to produce it.

WV: New Conceal Carry Laws Are Now Law
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West Virginia residents are now free to carry a gun hidden or in plain site when they move about the Mountain State. The new conceal carry act which won approval earlier this year at the legislature took effect Tuesday. Under the new law a government issued conceal carry permit is no longer necessary to pack a firearm under your clothing or in a purse in West Virginia for those over the age of 21.

Ruger American Pistol
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Ruger�s R&D guys have been quite active over the last several years. They have listened to input from both law enforcement and the private sector in the process of developing new guns and modifying older models. To this baseline of civilian and law enforcement suggestions they have added some military requirements gathered from the U.S. Military�s Joint Combat Pistol specifications and, later, the Modular Handgun System Program. The end result is Ruger�s next generation striker-fired polymer-frame pistol called, simply, the Ruger American Pistol. The company�s hope is that the new family of pistols (there will be additional models) will fill the needs of all Americans who exercise their Second Amendment rights.

NV: Why are Las Vegas Moms Getting Guns? Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
From the sounds of a baby crying to gunshots at a range, these are stark contrasts for my girlfriends. Ten years ago I didn't know a woman with a gun. Now everyone I know either has one or they're talking about it. I can easily count a dozen girlfriends who are now armed with guns. Even though their husbands have guns, they wanted their own. A few of them agreed to go on camera to talk about why.

NRA Praises Rape Survivor Who Confronted Obama On Second Amendment Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The National Rifle Association honored Kimberly Corban, a rape survivor who confronted President Barack Obama on his stance on the Second Amendment in January during a CNN town hall. Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA�s Institute for Legislative Action, recognized Corban last week at the NRA annual meeting, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Lawyer: Dismiss Conspiracy Charges in Malheur Refuge Case
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A defense lawyer in the Oregon wildlife refuge occupation case argued Monday that a federal conspiracy charge leveled against over two dozen people is constitutionally vague, could threaten free speech and should be dismissed. Attorney Amy Baggio made that argument and others on the first day of legal motions in the case stemming from the Ammon Bundy-led 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that started Jan. 2, The Oregonian reported.

MA: AG Healey Presses Congress For Gun Violence Prevention Research
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Saying there is no time to waste, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and a number of her counterparts across the country are asking Congress to treat gun violence like a public health issue. Healey and 13 other Attorneys General from across the nation sent a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday, calling on them to not only end the ban on Centers for Disease Control gun research, but also start actively funding the CDC�s research into gun violence�s causes.

GA: School Officer Bought Unauthorized Guns Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into a case of the supervisor of Hall County school resource officers who spent as much as $10,000 on unapproved purchases of guns and electronics, according to a Hall County Sheriffs Department spokeswoman.