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DALLAS — A federal judge has struck down one of Texas’ few remaining firearm restrictions, finding a law that barred adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. Continue reading “Federal judge strikes down Texas handgun age restriction”
President Joe Biden’s new rule to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program clarifies that illegal aliens with criminal records will not be automatically disqualified from securing work permits and deportation protections. Continue reading “Biden’s DACA Rule: Illegal Aliens with Criminal Records Not Disqualified from Work Permits, Deportation Protection”
A law enforcement officer and a suspect were among four people who were killed Thursday in Arizona after the officer tried to serve an eviction notice, authorities said. Continue reading “Four dead after suspect opens fire on officer serving eviction notice in Arizona”
Daily Reckoning – by James Rickards
The war in Ukraine has been dragging on for six months with no end in sight.
Russia is slowly and systematically advancing, while the Ukrainian military is being ground down in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Continue reading “Into The Black Hole”
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations has seized more than 1,000 firearms and 140,000 rounds of ammunition from the property of two brothers who were fatally shot by law enforcement during a nine-hour standoff Saturday. Continue reading “Over 1,000 guns, ammo seized from home of Knox County brothers killed in police standoff”
After a three-month-long investigation into the gun manufacturing industry in the wake of a string of mass shootings this year, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., is introducing two pieces of legislation targeting the manufacturers of assault weapons. Continue reading “Assault weapon manufacturers would see 20% tax under proposed legislation”
Aug. 18—State Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls, announced legislation Thursday morning meant to combat gun violence, making another try at some of the “Strong Ohio” proposals that his own party has ignored since 2019. Continue reading “New gun laws bill announced today would make significant changes in Ohio: Here’s what it would do”
PHOENIX – Three Arizona parents were arrested Friday after scuffling with law enforcement as they tried to get into an elementary school to pick up and protect” their children during a school lockdown, police said. Continue reading “Arizona parents arrested, tased trying to get on campus to protect kids during school lockdown”
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal prosecutors over previous spills in two other states cracked open and released more than 45,000 gallons (205,000 liters) of fuel, state regulators and a company representative disclosed Friday. Continue reading “Pipeline break spills 45,000 gallons of diesel in Wyoming”
Joe Biden can’t even put his own jacket on. This is just sad. And it keeps getting sadder. pic.twitter.com/RWxt1FTvJq
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 8, 2022
Taiwan announced its own live fire drills Tuesday, a day after China’s military announced it is extending ongoing exercises surrounding the democratic-run island past the scheduled end date of Sunday. Taiwan’s defense ministry said the new defensive drills are intent on simulating repelling an attack of the island in the event of a Chinese invasion. Continue reading “Taiwan Holds Own Live Fire Drills, Warns That China Prepping Future Invasion”
Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill to ensure our nation is better prepared for high-consequence events, regardless of the low probability, such as new strains of disease, biotechnology accidents, or naturally occurring risks such as super volcanoes or solar flares that though unlikely, would be exceptionally lethal if they occurred. Continue reading “Peters Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Ensure Federal Government is Prepared for Catastrophic Risks”
Law enforcement responding to the fatal shooting of Elwood police officer Noah Shahnavaz found the 24-year-old officer with multiple bullet wounds inside his patrol car and 36 rifle casings lying on the road. Continue reading “Officer Shahnavaz died in hail of bullets, never unholstered firearm, court docs state”
Epoch Times – by Jackson Elliott
A New York judge overturned a law that allowed the state government to place even healthy citizens in quarantine camps for an indefinite time without review. Continue reading “New York Judge Throws Out State’s Quarantine Camp Law Declaring It Unenforceable”
Senate Democrats are admitting defeat in their efforts to slip an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into an upcoming budget reconciliation package.
While Senate Democrats and Republicans are currently negotiating a reconciliation package — a filibuster-proof budget that only needs majority support to pass — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted that amnesty for illegal aliens will not make it into the final deal. Continue reading “Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Not in Budget Package”
A left-wing group linked to billionaire George Soros has won a nearly $172 million federal contract from President Joe Biden’s administration to help young border crossers avoid deportation, a report revealed this week. Continue reading “Soros-Linked Group Wins $172M Contract from Biden to Help Border Crossers Avoid Deportation”
In April the EU’s top law enforcement agency Europol warned that smuggling of weapons from the Ukrainian battlefield to the black market outside the warzone had likely already begun. For five months the West, especially the US and UK, has been pumping more and more weapons into the conflict. There’s also the concern that “criminal gangs” will continue using them long after the war ends. Continue reading “Officials Reveal Haphazard, Chaotic Way Western Arms Are Being Distributed In Ukraine”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has released the first images of what could be the suspect from the attack on the state’s Guidestones monument. Continue reading “First image emerges of suspect in Georgia Guidestones bomb attack”
San Diego is witnessing the largest exodus of police officers from the city since 2009 and the majority of them are quitting because of the city’s continued obsession with covid vaccine mandates. Continue reading “San Diego Loses 22% Of Its Police Force Due To Vax Mandates”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -On the heels of last week’s landmark ruling expanding individual gun rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out several lower court rulings that had upheld gun restrictions including bans on assault-style rifles in Maryland and large-capacity ammunition magazines in New Jersey and California. Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court throws out rulings upholding gun restrictions”