The Motley Fool – by Leo Sun

2016 looks like it will be a record year for gun sales. The number of NICS background checks for firearm purchases has risen annually for 18 straight months, hitting 22.2 million at the end of October versus 23.1 million in 2015.

Analysts expect Smith & Wesson (NASDAQ:SWHC) and Sturm Ruger (NYSE:RGR) — the only two publicly traded gunmakers in the U.S. — to respectively grow their revenues by 26% and 13% this year. Let’s take a look back at the five top selling handguns of the year, as listed by Gunbroker.com, and what they tell us about today’s American firearm market.   Continue reading “The 5 Best-Selling Handguns of 2016”

Black Friday – the name elevates images of people standing in long lines, fighting the crowds to grab the best bargains of the year, and filling the shopping carts to the rims. From another perspective Black Friday is the day when retailers try to push their sales to the last limits in order to maximize their profits, i.e. move from red (loss) column to the black (profit). While the shoppers try to grab the best bargains of the year, the retailers, on the other hand, try to achieve their Black Friday sales targets, this battle continues till the end of the day to mark the winners and losers of this battle.   Continue reading “The Battle of Black Friday: Winners and Losers”

Newsmax – by Brian Freeman

Unaccompanied minors are being used as deportation shields in the newest strategy by illegal immigrants to sneak into the country, an expert on the subject told The Washington Times.

Internal Homeland Security documents reviewed by the newspaper show that adults trying to illegally cross into the U.S are pairing up with unrelated children to pretend to be families and fabricate heart-breaking stories in order to convince border agents to admit them.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants Set Record By Using Children As Deportation Shields”

Charlotte Observer

WICHITA, KAN. When Shane Cox began selling his homemade firearms and silencers out of his military surplus store, he stamped “Made in Kansas” on them to assure buyers that a Kansas law would prevent federal prosecution of anyone owning firearms made, sold and kept in the state.

The 45-year-old Chanute resident also handed out copies to customers of the Second Amendment Protection Act passed in 2013 by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback, and even collected sales taxes. His biggest selling item was unregistered gun silencers that were flying out of the shop as fast as Cox could make them, prosecutors said later. One of those customers — 28-year-old Jeremy Kettler of Chanute — was so enthusiastic about the silencer that he posted a video on Facebook.   Continue reading “Kansas man’s homemade gun silencers clash with federal law”

CNN

President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will not pursue further investigations of Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or the Clinton Foundation, Trump’s former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday, a significant break from a major campaign promise.

“I think when the President-elect, who’s also the head of your party, tells you before he’s even inaugurated that he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content” to fellow Republicans, Conway said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”   Continue reading “Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton”

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Anna Von Reitz

The election is finally over. Thank goodness and mercy for small favors. And Hillary
didn’t win, which would have been four more years of the same old nasty, corrupt,
self-serving disaster. So a hearty “Thank God!” for that. And now we are embarked
on another chapter in United States, Inc.—- not American— history.

This is an important distinction for everyone to learn.   Continue reading “So Trump is President- Elect”

Washington Post – by Amy B Wang

In his first round of Sunday show interviews since the election, Vice President-elect Mike Pence did not rule out the possibility that President-elect Donald Trump could reinstate waterboarding as an interrogation technique during his administration.

On CBS Sunday, “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson brought up Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his comments Saturday at the Halifax International Security Forum. At a panel discussion there, McCain vehemently insisted that any attempt to bring back waterboarding, which simulates drowning, would be quickly challenged in court, the Associated Press reported.   Continue reading “Mike Pence doesn’t rule out waterboarding under Trump administration”

New York Post – by Marisa Schultz

Donald Trump praised Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday and took a parting shot at the New York Democrat’s soon-to-be predecessor, Harry Reid.

Trump used his kind words about Schumer as a swipe against the retiring Senate minority leader, Reid, one of the president-elect’s most vocal critics during the campaign.

“I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning about Schumer, the soon-to-be Senate minority leader. “He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news!”   Continue reading “Trump: I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer”

Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, the first selections to his Cabinet as his transition continues to build momentum.

Trump also confirmed that he has selected retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn as his national security adviser, news that had been reported a day earlier.   Continue reading “Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director”

CNS News – by Hans von Spakovsky

Vanita Gupta, the acting head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, apparently has been working in violation of federal law for more than a year and a half.

That may render all of the official actions she has taken during that period—lawsuits, demand letters, hires, you name it—“void” and of no effect.   Continue reading “DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Head Is Violating Federal Law and Her Actions May Be Void”

Reuters

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Ford Motor Co Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr told him the automaker would not move a Kentucky plant to Mexico, but the firm said it informed him the decision was to keep one vehicle in U.S. production.

On Thursday, Trump posted on Twitter: “I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!”   Continue reading “Ford tells Trump no Lincoln SUV production going to Mexico”

King 5 News

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state Republican Senator Doug Ericksen announced Wednesday plans to introduce a bill that would lead to stricter penalties for those involved with or participating in illegal protests.

Ericksen, R-Ferndale, said he has prepared a bill for the next legislative session that would create a new crime of “economic terrorism.” If approved, it would allow felony prosecution of those who intentionally break the law in an attempt to intimidate or coerce private citizens or the government by obstructing economic activity.   Continue reading “‘Illegal protests’ criminalized under WA senator’s proposed bill”

Fusion

MEXICO CITY— The Mexican government is scrambling to adjust its strategy from carefully confronting candidate Trump to defending itself against President-elect Trump.

It’s not an easy task. There’s not much Mexico can do at this point to dissuade the Trump administration from following through on its campaign promises to build a wall, impose trade tariffs, renegotiate NAFTA and deport undocumented immigrants.   Continue reading “Mexican government launches 11-point plan to deal with Trump”

CNBC News

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will meet with Donald Trump this weekend to discuss the secretary of state position, a source close to the president-elect with direct knowledge of his thinking told NBC News.

In March, the former Massachusetts governor called Trump “a phony” and “a fraud” when discussing the then-candidate. Trump, who endorsed Romney in 2012, has called him a loser, adding that Romney begged for his endorsement and “would’ve dropped to his knees” for it. He has also said that he “choked like a dog” during his 2012 presidential campaign against President Barack Obama.   Continue reading “Romney and Trump to discuss secretary of state position, NBC source says”

New York Post – by Daniel Harper

So much for Swiss neutrality.

An agency overseen by the Swiss foreign ministry made a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation — at the same time the US and Switzerland were in the midst of a diplomatic struggle over tax evasion.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation shelled out about $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2011, money earmarked for a program that sought to lower mortality for mothers and infants in Liberia, the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper discovered on Sunday, according to The Local.   Continue reading “Switzerland not so neutral with Clinton Foundation donation”

Fox News Latino

During fiscal year 2016, which ended Sept. 30, border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas apprehended about 500 undocumented immigrants per day.

“McAllen station is actually the busiest station in the whole country for illegal entries,” said Supervisor Border Patrol Agent Marlene Castro during a ride-along with Fox 7.

Castro is one of the border patrol agents securing the 1,254-mile border in Texas.   Continue reading “In their patrols, agents find many border crossers who want to be apprehended”