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TX: Top law enforcement official in Texas accused of rape, fired
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The Texas Department of Public Safety says its chief of intelligence and counterterrorism has been accused of raping a woman who attended a party at his house.
The agency says John Jones, 45, was arrested on a sexual assault charge and fired Tuesday.
He remained in jail Wednesday.
His bond is set at $750,000. |
OH: Firearms training for women is Saturday
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Realize Firearms Awareness Coalition will hold Women�s Day on the Range, a beginning gun safety and handling course for women at 9 a.m. Saturday at DSS Range in Deerfield.
The course if is taught by Rob Campbell and Amanda Suffecool. The program is partially subsidized and the cost per student is $20. The range is donating the facility and the instructors are donating their time. Firearms are provided but participants may bring their own firearms. The class starts with safety, the basics of ammunition, works through firearms operation and culminates with grip, stance and overall marksmanship.
To register for the class, email [email protected]. |
AK: Shooting from your hind legs � aka offhand shooting � isn�t easy, but it can be useful
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�Now you need to shoot from your hind legs,� I said to Christine.
Looking at me as if I had three heads, a look I�ve grown accustomed to, if not fond of, she said, �I don�t have hind legs, I have arms and legs, I�m not a Labrador.�
It�s a phrase I imagine I picked up from some old shooter years ago who had told me I needed to learn to shoot from my hind legs. It worked for me, and the fact it causes Christine to fret forces me to use it every chance I get when in her company.
I expect there are fair number of folks who have heard it as well. But for those who are wondering what the hell I�m talking about, it references shooting while standing with no form of support other than your arms (or front legs) and the hind legs.
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�Smart� Guns And Mandatory Storage: Two Bad Policy Ideas Cut From The Same Tattered Cloth
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Whenever a tragedy strikes that involves a firearm, no matter how statistically rare the event may actually be, you can count on anti-gun extremists to try to exploit it. The responses from those opposed to the Second Amendment upon hearing that a fatality resulted when a firearm was used by a criminal, or accessed by someone who should not have access, tend to sound fairly similar. If a ban isn�t the response selected from the handful of ideas gun control advocates have been promoting for decades, then added restrictions on law-abiding gun owners is the policy du jour. |
VA: Gun control inaction �risks Virginians� lives�
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In the wake of the mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building that claimed 12 lives in May, the worst in the Commonwealth since the Virginia Tech massacre, Governor Ralph Northam called a special session of the General Assembly to address the scourge of gun violence.
In the weeks following, my colleagues and I coordinated with the Northam administration and gun safety advocates to introduce a robust, evidence-based package of legislation to reduce senseless tragedies. |
5.11 Tactical Opens 50th Company Owned Retail Store
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5.11 Tactical�, the global innovator of tactical apparel and gear, is celebrating the grand opening of its 50th company owned retail store in Fort Bliss, Texas this week. The store marks the completion of an initiative established in 2014 to launch and expand company-owned retail stores across the country, aiming for 50 stores by the middle of this year. |
TX: Julian Castro no habla Second Amendment
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Julian Castro, though, is a little tougher to nail down. You have public statements, but mayors, especially in states with pre-emption, like Texas, often leave little more than those statements and policy proposals. What has been locatable, though, points to a candidate who gives lip service to the Second Amendment.
Lip service, though, is all law-abiding citizens who seek to exercise their Second Amendment rights would get. Here�s the scoop. In 2012, Castro and his brother were interviewed by ABC News in the wake of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. |
Gilroy shooting is yet another indictment of U.S. gun laws
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But what is known stands as yet another indictment of the country's broken gun laws. Security was tight at the festival, with the presence of armed officers and the public subject to bag searches and metal detector wands. The gunman apparently gained entry by cutting through a perimeter fence and, using an assault-style weapon, sprayed gunfire from side to side, seemingly indiscriminately. Police said they shot and killed him within one minute. Let that sink in - one minute and three people dead, others wounded, many terrified.
Ed.: If anything, it is an indictment of victim disarmament and 'gun-free' zones, once again. |
GA: Blockchains could revolutionize the use of firearms
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According to the Justifire website, �While Justifire� captures and funnels audio, video, barometric pressure, altitude, temperature and 3 axes of accelerometer, gyroscopic, and magnetic data at all times, only saving this information if specific event characteristics are met. Qualifying event characteristics such as aiming at a human target or firing your weapon instantly plug Justifires data funnel and the device automatically saves and encrypts all information leading up to and after an event.� |
OK: Be sure you�re right � but how?
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�Concealed carry is a state law regulated by your state, but I can tell you there are no exceptions under federal law for marijuana used for medical purposes,� Davis said.
House Majority Floor Leader Jon Nichols, R-Oklahoma City, is a bit more outspoken.
�The way we�re gonna handle it in Oklahoma is the same way 29 to 30 other states that have medical marijuana handled it, which is essentially, �We�re going to ignore the feds.�� |
NH: The Democrats� war in NH on our Second Amendment
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In the recent state legislative session, three bills were passed that if they become law, will restrict the Second Amendment rights of New Hampshire residents.
House Bill 109 would impose universal background checks on the sale of firearms. Under present law, all commercial sales of firearms (ones done through a licensed dealer) require a background check.
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Contact Gov. Sununu and tell him to veto House Bills 109, 516 and 564. |
UT: Why are these acceptable sacrifices?
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Imagine being careless enough and cruel enough to allow someone to punch such holes in the world deliberately, repeatedly, in the name of a lie. The lie is that we have no choice in this matter. The lie is that any effort, however common-sense, to restrict firearms or lower the capacity of magazines, is part of a vicious scheme to strip you of your freedoms. |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right. [Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846)] |
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