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MI: USA trap team wins conference title
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The Unionville-Sebewaing Area trapshooting team recently took home its first conference championship hardware.

The Patriots took first place in the Michigan State High School Clay Target League Conference 4, beating out Hemlock, Reading, Marine City, Big Rapids, Reese and Unity Christian.

"This was really big for the team this year," said head coach Aaron Holdwick. "Last year, we actually finished last in the conference. To go from last to first was a very big accomplishment. We had more than half of our team that were returning shooters and they really stepped up their game this year."

USA finished with weekly scores of 448, 407, 347.5, 381, and 374, for a total of 1,958.

FL: Sheriff: Wife kills husband in self-defense Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A Winter Haven man is dead after being shot and killed Friday morning by his wife with his own gun. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the investigation is in its initial stages, but that it appears the shooting was in self-defense. Judd held a press conference Friday afternoon in front of the home on the 1800 block of 6th Street Southeast in Winter Haven.

PA: Wilkinsburg PA Shooting, Intruder Fatally Shot In Head
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KDKA TV 2 (CBS) reports 05-01-19 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania a local man was shot and killed while allegedly trying to force his way into a Franklin Avenue home around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Inspector Andrew Schurman of Allegheny County Police. said �From what we�re piecing together at this point, this is possibly some type of robbery or dispute in which the individual who perished was trying to force his way into the residence.�

TX: Journalists Stretching the Truth�Again
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Journalists who have become mouthpieces for gun control groups have loudly declared victory over the NRA following the recent adjournment of the Texas Legislature. They announced the resounding �defeat� with Texas legislators adding funds to the 2020-2021 budget for the Department of Public Safety to establish and promote a statewide safe gun storage campaign. Since the mainstream media won�t, let�s set the record straight.

USCCA Concealed Carry Expo Scam Warning
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Delta Defense, LLC and the USCCA, Inc. do not sell or otherwise provide the Concealed Carry Expo 2019 attendee registration list to any third parties. Neither Delta nor USCCA has partnered with or authorized anyone to sell or otherwise distribute the 2019 Concealed Carry Expo attendee registration list.

It has come to our attention that there is a company and/or companies contacting exhibitors in attempts to sell access to the attendee list. These companies have even been using our logo in their emails.

Disputed Facts in the Gun Debate
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The gun debate is difficult for many reasons. It is often an emotional issue. Unfortunately, there isn�t one gun debate, but perhaps dozens of �gun debates.� Even the questions that seem simple are difficult to answer well.

Are guns too easy to get?
Does a firearm in your home put you at greater risk?
How often do ordinary citizens defend themselves with a firearm?
A simple answer is easy to find.. and often wrong. There are questions hidden within questions as we look for the truth.

It�s Time For The Supreme Court To Make States Stop Ignoring The Second Amendment
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The Supreme Court has the chance to reinforce its 11-year-old message to the lower courts: the Second Amendment is not to be weighed against governmental interests. The people have a natural right to keep and bear arms. Courts must consider that right as important as our Founders and Framers did. Until that happens, governments across our republic will continue to ignore our rights, and the lower courts will not stop them.

'Black Guns Matter' Co-Founder Explains the Racist Roots of Gun Control Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Maj Toure is the co-founder of the pro-Second Amendment activist group "Black Guns Matter" and he has a clear message for America: gun control is racist. To the surprise of no one, all of the Democrats running for president are vehemently anti-Second Amendment. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has made his gun hate the entire focus of his campaign.

LA: Proposed "stand your ground" law for deadly force in churches, ban on local gun restrictions both fail
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Louisiana lawmakers shot down a proposal that would�ve prohibited gun restrictions by local governments on Friday morning, defeating the NRA-backed bill by Rep. Blake Miguez that drew fire from some municipal leaders.

A separate measure to expand Louisiana�s �stand your ground� legal protections to those using deadly force in churches or synagogues was pulled by its sponsor, GOP Rep. Beryl Amedee, of Houma, in the face of opposition from state senators.

MN: Ask the Chief: Minnesota does not allow permitless conceal/carry Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Carrying firearms comes with a lot of responsibility and accountability, and are strictly covered by law on how and where they may be carried and also their use in personal protection is codified by law. Therefore, I highly encourage anyone interested in firearms to fully study the legal responsibility that comes with that privilege.

PA: PA Supreme Court: Unconstitutional to �Stop-and-Frisk� For Firearms Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
At issue was whether someone�s carrying of a firearm could be used as reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct, and thus justification for police to conduct a �stop-and-frisk� of the gun owner. The court ruled in Hicks that such searches and seizures, in the absence of other evidence are completely unlawful.

The Second Amendment Tech Threat
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Mark Oliva, Second Amendment advocate and public-affairs director of the National Shooting Sports Foundations, called Salesforce�s anti-firearm ultimatum a �corporate-policy virtue signal� that discriminates against gun owners. �It is a very chilling effect when a company as large as Salesforce puts out a policy like this,� Oliva stated. Then again, he added, �A policy like this is not surprising from a company based in that part of the country.�

NY: Legislature Attempting to Moot Supreme Court Review of NYC Law
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On Wednesday, the Senate Codes Committee passed S.6151 (Kavanaugh) on a 9 to 4 vote. This legislation is a desperate attempt to moot United States Supreme Court review of New York City�s unconstitutional firearm travel laws in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York. The Supreme Court has already rejected New York City�s effort to moot the case by offering to amend its current regulation. Now, suddenly, there is a second effort to stop the Supreme Court from hearing this case by changing New York State penal law.

IL: Illinois gun licensing bill prompted by Aurora mass shooting fails, but supporters vow to bring it back
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A major gun licensing reform bill will not make it out of the Illinois legislature this session.

Backers of the �Fix the FOID� act, which was largely a response to a mass shooting in Aurora in February, have vowed to bring back the measure for another try.

Proponents say the bill is needed to strengthen background checks for gun owners and provide more funding to better enforce existing laws that bar dangerous people from possessing weapons.

CO: Former Colorado Governor Hickenlooper Call for Licensing a Howler
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Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper is holding himself out as a centrist and a problem-solver. Well, that�s nowhere close to the truth when it comes to Second Amendment issues. He lines up with most of the so-called �mainstream� of the Democratic Party.

In the wake of the tragic mass shootings in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater and a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Hickenlooper signed a lot of anti-Second Amendment legislation into law. This included a law setting an arbitrary cap on magazine capacity � although the bill in question was 15 rounds instead of 10. Like we�re supposed to be grateful for that. Take a gander at the Duncan decision before you give Hickenlooper any credit on this one.

TX: Brass knuckles, other self defense items will be legal to carry later in 2019 Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
If you are Texan interested in the art of weaponized self-defense, listen up. Memorial Day weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott concluded the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature. One of the bills that earned his signature was HB 446. The bill, which was primarily authored by Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, lifts the state's ban on carrying brass knuckles and kitty key chains in public.

WI: 'I was scared': Concealed carry permit owner shot man in self-defense Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Police have charged a man who was shot Wednesday outside Milwaukee Police Headquarters. Investigators determined the woman who shot the man was acting in self-defense.

NV: Police: East valley intruder killed in self defense Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Las Vegas Metropolitan police said an intruder was killed in self defense after breaking into an east valley home Friday afternoon. According to police, officers were called to the 4700 block of Marnell Drive, near East Harmon Avenue and South Mountain Vista Street, about 12:08 p.m. Officers had received calls about a possible robbery in a residential area.

A Closer Look at Federal Funding for �Gun Violence� Research
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To get an idea of how much such research is funded at the federal level, we queried the Federal RePORTER database, which lists allocation and recipient data for grants from 18 federal departments and agencies � a subset of potential funding overall, but a starting point nonetheless. Looking at FY2018 and searching on the phrase gun* or firearm*, we found 86 projects across three entities � the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Veterans Administration (VA) � totaling $43 million. Perhaps not as much as some would like, but certainly not representative of �abandoned efforts.�