Category Archives: 2nd Amendment

Plastic Gun Law Sunset: The Next Big Fight?

Democrats and Mr. Obama love to create a fight when things should be simple (The Hill) Guns that cannot be detected by X-ray machines will no longer be banned if Congress does not renew the decades-old prohibition by Dec. 9. The 1998 Undetectable Firearms Act will sunset that day, ending the prohibition at a time […]

Raleigh Gun Rights Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Anti-gun Signs

Grass Roots North Carolina is not happy about Raleigh Parks and Rec lollygagging (Raleigh N&O) North Carolina’s most vocal gun rights group is threatening to sue Raleigh if it doesn’t update signs in city parks that tell visitors firearms aren’t allowed. Grass Roots North Carolina sent a letter to the Raleigh City Council this week, […]

Students Suspended, Face Expulsion Over Air-Soft Gun Usage On Private Property

Yet it’s extraordinarily difficult to terminate tenured teachers who commit crimes. Where’s the Schoolkids Union when you need them? (WAVY) A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun. Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo […]

Surprise: Obama Used Navy Yard Shooting Memorial For Partisan Anti-Gun Speech

If you were betting that for once (NMP) Obama would keep it on topic and avoid sermonizing politically, sorry, the man can’t help continuing the Neverending Campaign at every turn (Politico) The best way to memorialize the 12 killed at the Navy Yard massacre, President Barack Obama said Sunday, is by enacting the new gun […]

Strange: Law Stopped Aaron Alexis From Purchasing Scary Looking Rifle, Instead Bought “Law Enforcement Syle Shotgun”

I wonder if Piers “Musket” Morgan will mention this on his show tonight for his 10 viewers? And, shockingly, this appeared in the NY Times. The content editors must have started their cocktail hour early The suspect in the killing of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test-fired an AR-15 assault rifle […]

In Wake Of Navy Shooting, Usual Suspects Come Out For Doing Something

By Doing Something, they mean “passing restrictive gun laws that won’t actually Do Something, and won’t stop mass shootings because criminals will Find A Way, and most of these shootings are by people who would never have passed a background check in the first place, or might possibly have passed all sorts of background checks […]

Hooray! California OKs Licenses For Illegals, Restricts Gun Ownership

It’s hard to believe what an upside down nation we have become, especially in the People’s Republik Of California (LA Times) Laboring late into the night Thursday to finish their work for the year, state lawmakers acted to allow many more immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain California driver’s licenses, a measure […]

What Say To $60k For Bulletproof White Boards For Schools?

Because nutjobs hell bent on murder can’t shoot around them (via John Hawkins) (BizPacReview) While some say arming teachers or placing armed guards in schools is the best way to keep students safe, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is taking a different approach to security — by purchasing bulletproof whiteboards. “UMES is the first university […]

Virginia: Gun Crime Drops As Gun Sales Soar

Well, who could have seen this coming (Fox News) Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing. Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates […]

Shooting The Largest Caliber Rifle In The World

This is the .950 JDJ. Each bullet costs $40. Only three were ever made.

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