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ND: Building discipline and marksmanship skills with art of Trap Shooting
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Building discipline is essential for youth development, and hunting is fun. But an easy way to build the skills required for good marksmanship and responsibility also can be found in the Dickinson Trap Club, where a team from Dickinson is honing their skills and another team of 10 students from Killdeer comes in for practice.
Blaine Dukart is the head coach of the team and the president of the Dickinson Trap Club, and he has been involved with shooting since he was 11 years old and he has been running the league for the last four. Like everybody, the team was forced to take a year off for the COVID pandemic, but the team has been back up and running and is going strong now. |
Making Politicians Smarter in Tennessee
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There was a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville this year. The press asked Tennessee Governor Lee what he was doing to �protect the children�. Lee needed a sound bite answer so he proposed more gun-control. That is sad, and it could be tragic. We can help fix it. According to a recent poll, we know better.
We know how to protect our children in school, but more voters have to hear about it or it will never happen in Tennessee. |
Guns for domestic abusers? Skirts at school? A look at what may be next at the Supreme Court
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A federal appeals court in Louisiana earlier this year sided with Rahimi and tossed his conviction. The appeal is an early test of the scope of the Supreme Court's ruling last year that made it more difficult for the government to impose gun regulations. In that 6-3 decision, the court ruled that gun prohibitions must be consistent with the nation's "historical tradition of firearm regulation."
In Rahimi's case, the federal appeals court said the law was a historical "outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted." The Biden administration appealed in May. The Supreme Court justices meet to discuss the case, U.S. v. Rahimi, on June 22. |
FL: Radical Anti-Gun Florida Man Gets 15 Months for Threatening Pro-Gun Congresswoman
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A 39-year-old South Florida man who is an ardent anti-gunner was sentenced last week to 15 months in federal prison and one year of probation for threatening U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, in a series of social media posts that targeted the Congresswoman for her strong Second Amendment support.
In 2021, Matthew Lee Comiskey sent five threatening tweets to Boebert that mentioned firearms and encouraged readers to do her harm. Comiskey originally faced five counts of making an interstate threat but pleaded guilty last year to one count. |
WA: Leslie Moreno to face retrial on first-degree manslaughter charge, returns to Walla Walla jail
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Moreno argued self-defense in the first trial, which the jury seemed to accept.
Carlson Straube requested � and was granted � self-defense related jury instructions on first- and second-degree murder, and on second-degree manslaughter. But not on first-degree manslaughter, stating later that such a defense is not allowed for that charge.
The court of appeals said Carlson Straube was not correct.
That charge was the one charge Moreno was convicted on.
Moreno has been serving a 10�-year prison sentence since she was sentenced by Walla Walla County Superior Court Judge M. Scott Wolfram in 2021. |
ME: Pro-Gun Lawmakers Block Waiting Period Bill
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This week, the Maine Senate and Maine House held floor votes on LD 60, legislation to impose a 72-hour waiting period on all gun sales in Maine. Thanks to the strong response of NRA members and Second Amendment supporters, the bill was defeated. NRA-ILA would like to thank all lawmakers who defended the Second Amendment for law-abiding citizens in the Pine Tree State.
LD 60 would have delayed Second Amendment rights by imposing a three-day waiting period before an individual may receive a firearm that they lawfully purchased, with limited exemptions. There is no evidence that waiting periods reduce violent crime. Instead, they simply deny someone the ability to buy a firearm for urgent self-defense. |
CA: Self-serving or not, Newsom�s 28th Amendment is a threat to the rights of all
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Setting that aside, Newsom�s rhetoric is still dangerous for a couple reasons. First, while Newsom�s campaign is, at face value, a poorly disguised political stunt and fundraising effort for his political ambitions, it continues to paint gun control as �popular� and those standing in its way as responsible for violence. Newsom quite literally called those opposing his proposed amendment �Merchants of Death.� This rhetoric continues to push gun control activists� twisting of language to psychologically manipulate the public and advance the activists� cause. It aims to shift public perception until enough people will assent to the authoritarian regulation of all individual�s natural rights. |
NC: Despite polarization on guns, one �common sense� issue gains bipartisan support in NC
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In an effort to bridge this gap on safe firearms storage, Gov. Roy Cooper this month announced a gun storage initiative called NC SAFE. Using existing state funding, the campaign centers around educating North Carolinians about secure firearm storage and distributing gun locks and safes. The governor�s program was a great start to promoting firearms storage safety, said Becky Ceartas, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, but there�s still room for improvement. Namely, she said, the program should be extended past the slated endpoint in January to ensure more people can learn about safe storage.
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WA: Seattle Illustrates National Failure of Gun Control Mentality
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The brutal June 13 broad daylight slaying of a pregnant Seattle businesswoman in the city�s Belltown neighborhood is once again providing gun prohibitionists with yet another statistic in their crusade to push more gun control schemes, while one key factor will likely be ignored because it tends to show why those schemes are doomed to failure. |
CA: Fight over Sacramento County ban on firearms along American River Parkway heats up
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A Sacramento judge has issued a tentative ruling that Sacramento County�s prohibition on carrying firearms along the American River Parkway is unconstitutional but stopped short of issuing a final ruling with that finding as lawyers battle over another issue. In a tentative ruling June 8 in Sacramento Superior Court, Judge Shellyanne Chang wrote that the prohibition on firearms �improperly infringes upon the rights guaranteed by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.� But Chang held off on issuing a final ruling to give both sides a chance to argue the matter before her the next day and allow her to issue a final decision.
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CO: 'Undeniable, heartbreaking crisis of gun violence' in metro Denver
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Denver Police Department Chief Ron Thomas disputes the notion downtown is not safe, saying violent crime is happening all around the Denver metro area and the proliferation of guns is largely to blame.
"Downtown Denver is still a safe place to come," Thomas said during a press conference Thursday after the downtown shooting near the parade route. "Unfortunately, we have far too many guns in our society and far too many individuals who act irresponsibly with guns ... We continue to take measures to keep the downtown areas safe. |
NY: Right Thinkers to meet Monday in Allegany
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Monday night�s Right Thinkers meeting will focus on the Second Amendment, gun control, school shootings and crime.
The meeting, held at The Hall on Fourth Street, begins at 6 p.m. Doors open at 5 o�clock for pizza and a meet and greet.
Speakers for Monday�s meeting include Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb, Assemblyman Dave DiPietro, former U.S. Rep. Joseph Sempolinski and Allegany County S.C.O.P.E. Chairman Jim Krywalski. A question and answer session follows the panel discussion, ending at 8 p.m. All are welcome. |
CT: Biden, speaking near site of Sandy Hook shooting, renews call for assault weapons ban
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Highlighting Connecticut�s role as a national leader in gun safety, President Joe Biden traveled Friday to West Hartford to hail the most comprehensive gun law in the past three decades and renew his call for a federal ban on assault weapons.
As the marquee speaker at a major national gun summit, Biden celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which he signed into law.
More than 600 people gathered at the University of Hartford�s Lincoln Theater, a small venue that was chosen for the invitation-only summit long before Biden was confirmed as the main attraction. All seats were filled, and supporters were standing against the wall on the theatre�s far side. |
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
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Family members of individuals killed by guns that had been listed on the online firearms marketplace armslist.com sue, alleging that the website was negligently designed to encourage and assist firearms buyers and sellers in circumventing federal and state law. Are the negligence claims barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? Seventh Circuit: No need to answer that question, because plaintiffs haven't adequately pleaded a claim for negligence.
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Eighth Circuit: Since we decided a few days ago that permanently denying non-violent felons from owning firearms doesn't violate the Second Amendment we're going to say the same for this defendant. Dissent: I disagree but "[m]ore to come." |
NRA Announces Return Of The World Shooting Championship, Presented By Walther Arms In 2024
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The National Rifle Association of America is excited to announce that the NRA World Shooting Championship, presented by Walther Arms will take place at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, April 4-6, 2024. Being held for the seventh time, the NRA World Shooting Championship is the ultimate all-encompassing tournament which crowns the undisputed �World Shooting Champion� from amateur and professional shooters. More than $250,000 in cash and prizes are available to the field of competitors, with $25,000 awarded to the World Shooting Champion and $1,000 going to the winner of each stage of competition. The NRA, match sponsors and the State of Indiana are again showing their continued commitment to supporting competitive shooting and the Second Amendment. |
NY: 'Red flag' orders soar after Buffalo mass shooting; Suffolk leads state
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The use of the �red flag� law to allow New York judges to confiscate weapons from people deemed dangerous has soared over last 13 months � with Suffolk County by far the most active jurisdiction across the state, new data shows.
The wave corresponds to mid-May 2022, when Gov. Kathy Hochul � responding just days after the Buffalo supermarket massacre � signed an executive order and the red flag law requiring law enforcement to more aggressively to pursue what�s called "extreme risk protection orders."
Between August 2019 and May 17, 2022, an ERPO was filed against 833 individuals across New York. Since then, the number is 4,709 � a nearly sixfold increase.
The rate of increase has been even higher in Suffolk.
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NJ: Garden Full Of Weeds
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They don�t like concealed carry in New Jersey, where the state is fighting to protect its restrictive concealed carry law against two federal lawsuits.
If anybody needs a living definition of stubbornness, look no further than New Jersey, where last month a federal judge granted in part a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the state�s new gun law � Chapter 131 � and the state immediately filed an appeal.
Provisions of the law, challenged by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and partners in one lawsuit, and by the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC) and several citizens in another, are unconstitutional. |
The Highest Cites In The Land
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The two law review articles Thomas cited in this passage clarify the importance of historical examples in legal reasoning surrounding modern law. The purpose these citations serve is to bifurcate Thomas� position with support from outside of case law for making a logical connection between two scenarios separated by a long stretch of time. Citations to law journal articles often play this role of supporting positions where case law alone does not provide the foundation the justice seeks. These citations also create a feedback loop where law professors (generally) see the importance of their work and attempt to provide more clarification for the justices who then cite these articles in more opinions. |
IL: Striving for peace at Freeport Church
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...disagree with those who want a gun for self-defense, but our point is why does any individual need an assault rifle to protect themselves? Why does anyone need several assault rifles and several handguns to protect themselves? Are guns and money more important than lives? What happened to the sixth commandment, �Thou shalt not kill�?
Some people argue that it is a mental health issue. It is possible, but what about other countries? Don�t they have mental health issues? They do! Yet the other countries do not face the devastating gun violence and killing of innocent people and kids as much as we do in the United States. It is not the hand that presses the trigger that kills people; it is the gun that kills several people in one shot. |
CO: Cashier defended herself against man robbing store, then was fired, Colorado suit says
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Iris Halpern, who is representing Moreno, told McClatchy News that Moreno feared for her safety during the robbery and shouldn�t have been penalized for her reaction. �Companies should value the lives of their employees more and understand that in a physically dangerous situation, an employee has the right to defend themselves if they�re afraid of being attacked,� she said. Losing her job at Circle K has negatively impacted Moreno�s life, according to the lawsuit.
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NY: Daniel Penny indictment
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I feel this indictment is a travesty of justice because this appears to be a case of self-defense. Jordan Neely acted belligerently toward fellow passengers, and when many aboard feared for their safety, Daniel Penny intervened.
But who is really to blame for Neely�s death? In my opinion, the blame belongs to society, the city and the social workers who did not do enough to help this mentally ill homeless man. |
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