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NM: LAHS Graduate Samantha Miller Makes History
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Samantha Miller, a 2017 graduate of Los Alamos High School, recently signed her way into history in becoming the first to earn a scholarship for rifle from LAHS, according to LCDR Wes Shumaker. She joins another New Mexico graduate from last year, Baily Powell who graduated from Atrisco High as a member of the University of Texas-El Paso womens� rifle team.
Miller also recently qualified and competed in the women�s Junior Olympics at Colorado Springs, Colo. Qualifying at the top in women�s rifle for New Mexico, she competed in both rifle and air rifle at this highly prestigious event, Shumaker noted. Miller has qualified for the American Legion Championships in Colorado Springs which will take place in August. |
MI: Firearms ban lifted at Macomb register of deeds
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You now can pack heat if you are visiting the Macomb County's register of deeds and vital records offices. Officials removed security equipment and armed guards just days after the county clerk sued, in part, to lift a firearms ban.
Clerk/Register of Deeds Karen Spranger said she had asked for armed guards to protect her offices, but not the X-ray machine and metal detector to prevent people from bringing guns to the county-owned Talmer Building in downtown Mt. Clemens.
Spranger found the security equipment and guards gone when she arrived Tuesday morning, according to a news release from her private attorney, Frank Cusumano. The register of deeds and vital records were recently moved into renovated space in the Talmar Building. |
CA: Even the government says the government is full of it
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Oh California. First you write unconstitutional gun control bills, then your senile communist governor signs them into law, then you try to write regulations on how you'll implement the law which go far and beyond the scope of the already unconstitutional and asinine law you're tasked with enforcing, and then your own Office of Administrative Law tells you that your regulations are crap. |
GA: Concealed carry soon allowed on public college campuses
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Starting Saturday, Georgia's campus carry bill takes effect.
House Bill 280 passed the state Senate back in March.
Nicole Butler spoke with a student about their reaction to this bill and how the state's public colleges are preparing for the changes.
It's just another day at Middle Georgia State University, but on Saturday there will be some big changes coming to the campus with Georgia's campus carry bill taking effect. |
MD: How To Save Baltimore
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While the city did recently lift its ban on stun guns (in order to avoid a lawsuit it most certainly would have lost), elected officials and busybody bureaucrats still seem to think the easiest way to bring down crime in Baltimore is to make it as hard as possible for law-abiding folks to exercise their Second Amendment-protected rights. There�s been no acknowledgement in City Hall (or in the Democrat-controlled Legislature in Annapolis) that the Maryland Firearms Safety Act, passed in 2013, has been an abject failure. Self-defense still isn�t a good enough reason to receive a concealed-carry license. |
FL: Judge hears 'stand your ground' case evidence to decide whether to dismiss charges
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A judge is re-hearing evidence in the murder case against an Escambia County man who shot his stepfather as he broke into the family home in 2014.
A jury trial for James Greenwood, 35, was set to start Monday, but the case was kicked back to an evidentiary hearing under Florida's revised "stand your ground" law.
Greenwood's attorney, Christopher Klotz, filed a motion to dismiss charges under the "stand your ground" law, claiming his client was defending himself against Al Jones, his estranged stepfather. |
Fear & Loading: Today�s Major Reason for Gun Ownership�Protection
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�Two-thirds of gun owners say protection is a major reason they own a gun,� according to a recently released Pew Research Center survey. Seventy-two percent who owned a firearm said they have a handgun and one out of every four carry it outside their home�a figure that rises to 41 percent when they consider their community unsafe. Four out of 10 have a loaded gun close-at-hand in their residence. |
The �Spare Tire� Home-Defense Plan
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When I say spare tire, I mean those little �donut� spares that grace the trunks of most modern automobiles these days. While they're not full-size wheels, we're sure glad to have them if the need arises. In the same spirit as keeping a donut in the trunk, the strategies for boosting the defensive potential of less-than-ideal defensive guns provides a temporary emergency measure until something better can take its place. I�m not saying that a .22 rimfire pistol is �just as good� for home defense as a medium or large-bore center-fire pistol, but what I am striving to do here is provide those with limited resources the best edge possible�for now. |
IN: Judge rules self-defense in son's killing of his father
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A Wayne County judge has ruled a son acted in self-defense when he killed his father during an August 2015 altercation.
Mitchel Lee Legg, 34, was found not guilty of Level 3 felony aggravated battery, Level 5 felony involuntary manslaughter and Level 5 felony reckless homicide by reason of self-defense in the killing of Jimmy Legg. Judge Gregory Horn announced the verdict Wednesday, following a two-day bench trial in April. |
WA: Self-defense options expand in Tacoma after repeal of rare ban
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Tacoma has dropped its ban on stun guns, like Tasers, meaning people can now legally buy, sell, carry, manufacture and own them within city limits.
The City Council voted to repeal the ban on Tuesday.
City legal staff recommended ending the ban following a 2016 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. That ruling effectively overturned the conviction of a Massachusetts woman who was found to be in possession of a Taser.
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Earlier this year, a gun-rights advocacy group prodded the city with a letter, saying that Tacoma�s ban on Tasers and other stun guns violated the Second Amendment. |
Australia: Australia Tries Again to Eliminate �Illegal� Guns Through Amnesty Program
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Australia�s Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced two weeks ago that his government would be trying once again to remove �illegal� guns (that is to say, privately-owned firearms that the government doesn�t know about) from society. This time it would not be a mandatory buyback program such as the one that followed passage of the country�s draconian gun-control laws back in 1996, but instead an �amnesty� program where those �illegal� guns could be turned in without fear of prosecution of their owners. It starts July 1 and runs through the end of September. After that, the hammer comes down on anyone found to own one of these �illegal� guns. |
VA: No more fees for concealed carry permits in Washington County
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A local processing fee has been dropped in Washington County to give more residents an opportunity to obtain a concealed handgun carry permit.
Sheriff Fred Newman said all non-mandated fees associated with obtaining a Virginia concealed weapons permit in Washington County will be waived beginning July 1. County citizens will no longer be charged the county�s $25 processing fee and will only be required to pay the $15 fee mandated by the state.
The $25 local fee had gone into the county�s general fund. |
NRA Whittington Center: Vacation Mecca for Folks Like Us
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As I was growing up in south-central Colorado, every couple of years my family was invited by friends to drive a few hours away to an area 10 miles south of Raton, N.M., to a shooter�s paradise known as the NRA Whittington Center (WC). I never really saw the practicality in it. In my ignorance, not once did I bother to go see what all the fuss was about. But that all changed when I finally went to the WC in late December of last year. |
Supreme Court Declines to Affirm Second Amendment Rights
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The United States Supreme Court has declined to affirm the constitutional, Second Amendment rights which are guaranteed to citizens. They did so by rejecting an appeal from a lower court. That court had ruled that the state of California can impose severe restrictions on issuing permits to carry firearms.
In refusing to hear the appeal, the lower court ruling remains in effect.
Only two justices, Clarence Thomas and the newly seated Neil Gorsuch, dissented. Quoting them from Fox News, �The Court�s decision� reflects a distressing trend: the treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right,� they wrote. |
SCOTUS Rejects Peruta and Binderup
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It is extremely disappointing to report that the Supreme Court of the U.S. has rejected the petitions for their review of the cases Peruts v. San Diego County, and Binderup v. Sessions, but it's better to have the cases rejected than to have them heard and lost.
And unfortunately, winning either of these cases with the current justices wasn't anywhere close to a sure bet. |
CA: Governor Brown Signs AB 103 and Anti-Gun Bills Pass Public Safety Committees
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Today, June 27, Governor Brown signed the state budget along with budget trailer bills including AB 103. AB 103, the Public Safety omnibus budget trailer bill changes current law by significantly expanding the prohibiting categories for firearms to include persons who have a warrant for a felony or disqualifying misdemeanor. Current law prohibits a person from owning, purchasing, receiving, possessing, or having under his/her custody or control a firearm upon conviction of a felony or for ten years upon conviction of a specified misdemeanor (29085 pc). AB 103�s drastic policy change will violate an individual�s right to due process as warrants can be issued without notice or hearing. |
FL: Seminole tax collector to allow employees to openly carry firearms
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Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg soon will allow his employees to openly carry firearms, particularly those who seize property such as desks, chairs, computers, file cabinets and phones from tax-delinquent businesses.
�When we go out and seize property we don�t know what could happen,� Greenberg, who was elected last year after promising to �modernize� the office, said Wednesday. �I�m a big believer in the Second Amendment, and this is mainly to protect our staff, our customers and to serve as a deterrent.� |
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