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Jersey City, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- According to a recent Associated Press Story, it seems that one New Jersey City police department needs new guns, so with their typical ‘Request For Proposal’ (RFP) they have also added a “Social Responsibility Requirement“.
Mayor Steven Fulop says he wants municipalities to use their purchasing power to influence America’s gun-safety “conversation“. Continue reading “Jersey City, NJ Adds Gun Ethics Questions To Police Gun Purchase Bid Requirements”
Personal Liberty – by Bob Livingstone
The New York City Board of Health is set to vote today on new rules pushed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would force children as young as 6 months old to be immunized annually against influenza if they attend a licensed day care or preschool program.
Citing bogus statistics, the Board — packed with mayoral appointees — produced a notice claiming influenza results in 20,000 hospitalizations and 30 to 150 deaths in children under 5 nationwide each year. There is little or no option to opt out. The vaccination would be required “unless the vaccine may be detrimental to the child’s health, as certified by a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state, or the parent, parents, or guardian of a child hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary to the practices herein required.” But history shows jumping through the hoops necessary for exemptions are always daunting. Continue reading “Nanny Mayor’s Parting Shot: Forced Medication Of Children”
CENTRAL VALLEY, N.Y. — Law enforcement counter-terrorism teams will be on patrol at shopping malls and commuter trains stations in a three-county area north of New York City.
New York State Police say Counter-Terrorism Action Teams will be conducting random checks Wednesday in Orange, Rockland and Sullivan Counties. Continue reading “Counter-terrorism patrols set for 3 NY counties at Malls, Train Stations”
Northboro, MA – -(Ammoland.com)- December 2, 2013 Update, this story became larger news – see Gun Owners’ Action League Executive Director Jim Wallace discussing the issue here on Fox 25 TV Boston below.
San Diego, CA –-(Ammoland.com)- The only thing cigarettes and guns have in common is that they both produce smoke. But if a pack of duplicitous San Francisco lawyers gets their way, your guns will soon be classified as a public health hazard and regulated like seat belts and Marlboros.
On November 14th, 2013 the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV) held a public meeting that was streamed live to fellow anti-gun activists around the nation. The panel was composed of their own leadership, “journalists” from Mother Jones, and a set of activists who were previously neck-deep in campaigns against drunken driving and leading the anti-tobacco movement. Together they made unambiguous statements that signaled the next strategy in the assault on gun ownership, the canard that “smart laws lead to a healthier society.” Continue reading “Anti-Gun Lawyers Blowing Smoke While Planning to Restrict Your Human Rights”
Texas –-(Ammoland.com)- Folks – as much as I’d like to say we made these up – these are actually things that have been heard at a Local Gun Shop – I almost wish they were made up!
10 – You can rack this one much faster -as the sales person racks the slide on a Taurus 709 violently demonstrating the racking capability to a 65 year old elderly lady Continue reading “Top 10 Greatest Things Overheard at a Gun Shop”
Huffington Post – by Catherine Taibi
The ruling facing Fox News reporter Jana Winter was dismissed on Tuesday, sparing her from having to reveal confidential sources she consulted for a story on the Aurora movie theater shooting.
New York State’s Court of Appeals voted to knock down an earlier decision which would require Winter to appear in front of Arapahoe County District Court in Colorado to disclose the source who gave her information about a notebook that the gunman, James Holmes, gave to his psychiatrist just prior to the shooting, Fox News reported on Tuesday. Winter reportedly said that she would go to jail before revealing such information to a judge. Continue reading “Jana Winter Will Not Have To Reveal Her Sources: NY Court”
North Korea announced on Monday the dismissal of Jang Song Thaek, the once powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, for what it described as a string of criminal acts including corruption, womanising and drug-taking.
South Korea’s spy agency last week said it believed Jang, long regarded as the second most powerful man in the secretive state, had been relieved of his posts in November. Continue reading “North Korea says Kim’s uncle dismissed for ‘criminal acts’”
Last year, the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) made over $500,000 in loose change that travelers left behind at airport checkpoints. Now, there’s a legislative battle over who gets that half million in funds.
In its “Unclaimed Money At Airports” report, which was released earlier this year, the travel safety agency announced that it had collected a whopping $531,395.22 in pocket change from harried travelers. The amount represented a $44,000 increase from 2011, according to USA Today. Continue reading “The TSA Found More Than $500,000 In Loose Change. Now What?”
NBC News – by Mike Brunker and Noelle Walker
SAN FRANCISCO — An 85-year-old American war veteran detained for more than a month in North Korea arrived in the United States on Saturday, a day after he was unexpectedly released by Pyongyang for “humanitarian” reasons.
“I’m delighted to be home,” Merrill Newman said in a brief statement to reporters after arriving in San Francisco on a flight from Beijing shortly after 9 a.m. local time (noon ET). “It’s been a great homecoming and I’m tired, but ready to be with my family now — and thank you all for the support we got and I very much appreciate it.” Continue reading “American veteran detained for a month in North Korea arrives home after ordeal”
PRINCETON — Princeton University is getting ready to administer the first doses of a vaccine against meningitis.
The Ivy League school has experienced an outbreak of type B meningococcal disease, which is sometimes life-threatening.
The vaccine for that particular strain is only licensed for use in Europe and Australia but not in the U.S. Continue reading “Princeton to begin meningitis B vaccinations”
Huffington Post – by Alissa de Carbonnel and Pavel Polityuk
KIEV, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Crowds toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in the latest mass protests against President Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with Russia.
The statue’s felling – a symbolic rejection of Moscow’s power – came after opposition leaders told hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to keep up pressure on Yanukovich to sack his government. Continue reading “Kiev Protesters Toppled Lenin Statue”
A storm Sunday into Monday will hit areas of the coastal Northeast, largely missed by Friday’s snow and ice. The storm threatens to bring travel delays throughout the region and power outages to thousands inland.
On Sunday, slippery conditions from snow and ice are likely over much of Virginia to southern Pennsylvania. Continue reading “First Accumulating Snow Aims for NYC, DC, Philly and Boston”
The Hartford Courant – by DON STACOM
Alarmed by Metro-North‘s seven-month-long string of train wrecks and derailments, the Federal Railroad Administration on Friday issued emergency orders to make the nation’s busiest commuter railroad operate more safely.
The new rules force Metro-North to modify its signals and train-control systems to prevent the kind of high-speed crash that killed four passengers and injured 75 others in the Bronx on Sunday, when a Hudson Line train jumped the tracks at 82 mph on a curve with a 30 mph speed limit. Continue reading “U.S. Orders Safety Improvements At Metro-North”
NY Daily News – by Denis Slattery , Rocco Parascandola AND Barry Paddock
An emotionally disturbed man was shot by police in Brooklyn Saturday morning after he attacked them with his cane, police sources said.
The 27-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, started pounding on an empty marked police car parked on Broadway and Lewis Ave. under the elevated subway tracks in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his wooden cane about 10:35 a.m, police said. Continue reading “Cops shoot emotionally disturbed man who attacks police car, officer — with his cane”
One evening this past August, an employee at a Staples office supply store in a Wake Forest, N.C., strip mall heard a bang, and then a woman’s cry for help.
The worker and another shopper rounded a corner to discover Danielle Hayes, 29, bleeding from her hand. The pistol she kept in her purse had accidentally discharged as she was trying to keep it away from her 2-year-old son, Hayes said. Continue reading “The New Front In The Gun Control War Is Your Local Shopping Mall”
Huffington Post – by Foster Klug
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang.
North Korea made the decision because the 85-year-old Newman, who was detained since late October, apologized for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. Continue reading “Merrill E. Newman, American Vet Detained In North Korea, Reportedly Deported”
David,
I read your article and the Esquire piece on Batemen and got furious. I wrote him and the banter is below.
I am waiting to reply to his arrogant response. I am thinking that waging war on law abiding US citizens is not treason? Did we not fight the Revolutionary war on the basic principles we are being subjected to today? Does he really think this Congress would declare a war given the track record of their reluctance to do so ever since Korea? Continue reading “Lt. Col. Robert Bateman’s Response to A Patriot”
A firestorm has been started on Esquire’s The Politics Blog with a Tuesday opinion piece by Lt. Col. Robert Bateman titled “It’s time to talk about guns and the Supreme Court.” He not only takes SCOTUS and Justice Antonin Scalia to task for their Heller decision interpretation of the Second Amendment, but goes on to propose citizen disarmament edicts that dispense with false assurances given by some in the gun ban camp that nobody wants to take our guns away.
Bateman does, big time, and makes no bones about it. In a way, he’s done us a service by giving a glimpse of the end game less candid incrementalists are inching toward. Continue reading “Military officer calls for nationwide gun-grab”
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