Author: Paul

Guns Save Lives

It looks attorney Alan Gura, who has won numerous, national gun rights cases (including the famous Heller decision), just racked up another court win for gun owners, this time in our nation’s capital, Washington D.C.

According to the decision handed down by the United States District Court of the District of Columbia in the Palmer v DC case,

In light of Heller, McDonald, and their progeny, there is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. Therefore, the Court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional.
Continue reading “Washington DC Ban on Carry Outside of the Home STRUCK DOWN in Court”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Earlier this month we reported that Remington seemingly scrubbed nearly all mention of their new pistol, the R51, from their website. There was speculation this was either a move to pull the plug on the pistol or remove its presence from their only catalog while they made improvements to the design which had taken quite a bit of criticism from the review community. It appears as though it is the latter.

Remington released a statement today saying that they are planning to make some changes to the pistol and start a new production run. Anyone who owns a current R51 will be able to return the pistol and get a new production gun in its place.   Continue reading “Remington Announces They Will Replace R51 Pistols With New Production Models”

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Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

SOLON, IOWA – This is only the 6th defensive gun use we’ve documented in the state Iowa, and it just so happens to be a 5 for 1 deal.

It all started when police tried to stop a vehicle that matched a description from a “shots fired” call. The vehicle decided not to stop and lead officers on a long chase.   Continue reading “Concealed Carrier Captures FIVE Suspects Fleeing Police”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Last month, a bill was introduced in Massachusetts that, among other gun control provisions, would give local police chiefs an enormous amount of power to determine who in their jurisdiction could own a long gun (rifle or shotgun).

The bill originated in the state House, but fortunately, the state Senate, in a moment of semi-clarity, gutted that provision from the bill.

The bill is currently being hashed out between the Senate and House to determine which version will ultimately get passed. In the meantime, MA police chiefs (who are apparently terrible), are speaking out in favor of the provision that would allow them to control long gun ownership.   Continue reading “Massachusetts Police Chiefs Say They Should Have Sole Discretion to Determine Who Owns a Rifle”

Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

ASPEN, Colo.—DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson confirmed Thursday that the Obama administration in January anticipated a surge of some 60,000 illegal children crossing the Southwest Border.

So far, only two cases among the flood of illegal immigrants this year raised concerns that terrorists were entering the United States, Johnson said during remarks to a security conference.   Continue reading “DHS Anticipated 60,000 Illegal Child Border Crossers in January”

US of ARN

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, responding to numerous media inquiries, congressional probing, and demands from Governors across the nation has released a listing of how many unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors have been released to sponsors for all 50 states and US territories.

From the start of this year through July 7th 30,340 illegal immigrant minors, most crossing into the US along the Rio Grande valley in Texas from Central America, have been handed over to the custody of a parent, relative, or family friend already in the US.   Continue reading “HHS Has Released 30,340 Unaccompanied Minors To Sponsors Across The Country In First 6 Months Of This Year”

News 10 ABC

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – Health officials say three Orange County residents who traveled to the Caribbean this year have tested positive for a mosquito-borne virus.

The Orange County Register reported Wednesday that the three traveled separately and were diagnosed with chikungunya fever between February and July.

The virus is similar to dengue fever. It is transmitted by yellow fever mosquitoes and Asian tiger mosquitoes, which are not commonly found in California but have been detected in some counties recently.   Continue reading “3 California residents have chikungunya fever”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

Initial hopes were that somehow the bad press that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (still known as ATF) has been receiving had caused the agency to pull back in its prosecution of criminal cases involving guns. But those hopes have faded.

Reports from Syracuse University showed that there were 6,791 such prosecutions recommended by the ATF in President George W. Bush’s last year (2008), while there were just 5,082 gun violation cases under Obama in 2013 — a decline of 25 percent. The all-time high occurred during the Bush administration in 2004, when 8,752 cases were brought by the Justice Department. And so far this year, prosecutions have declined even further, likely to end the year at fewer than 4,400, if the present trend continues.   Continue reading “ATF: Guns Are the Problem”

CNS News

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters on Thursday that lawmakers will leave town for their summer vacation without completing their basic budget duties. Nor do they expect to reach a deal on the immigration crisis or the VA mismanagement before the August recess.

“I expect we’re going to do a C.R. (continuing resolution) next month,” Boehner said. He expects the temporary spending measure to keep the government funded at current levels until “early December” — after the midterm election. That leaves the remaining spending decisions up to a lame-duck Congress.   Continue reading “Boehner: ‘I Expect We’re Going to Do a C.R. Next Month’”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

As we reported yesterday, it would seem that an armed doctor in Pennsylvania prevented a possible mass shooting at the hospital he was working at.

The doctor managed to land several chest hits on the suspect after he had shot another person and wounded the doctor.

However, despite his heroic, likely life saving acts, the doctor (identified as Lee Silverman), may end up unemployed as gratitude.   Continue reading “Armed Doctor Who Opened Fire on Active Shooter in Hospital Shooting Could Lose His Job”

Weasel Zippers

We’ll pass.

OBAMA: President Obama at a fundraiser last night outside Seattle: “People are anxious. Now, some of that has to do with some big challenges overseas. I am very proud that we have ended one war, and by the end of this year we will have ended both wars that I inherited … But whether people see what’s happening in Ukraine, and Russia’s aggression towards its neighbors in the manner in which it’s financing and arming separatists; to what’s happened in Syria … to the failure in Iraq for Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise … to what’s happening in Israel and Gaza” …

Continue reading “Obama Calls For Collectivist “New World Order”…”

Activist Post – by Eric Blair

Big retailers, including Amazon, have been lobbying long and hard for it, and now the Internet sales tax is back after being quietly reintroduced in the US Senate last week. 

The Marketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act would force customers to pay sales taxes for online purchases from out-of-state online merchants, and it forces online retailers to collect and remit separately sales taxes to all US territories. Continue reading “Internet Sales Tax Quietly Moving Through Congress”

Stars and Stripes – by Jon Harper

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will provide housing space for up to an additional 5,000 unaccompanied Central American children who have illegally come across the border, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said Wednesday.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel signed the authorization last week at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Hagel’s order also extends the housing assistance mission to Jan. 31, 2015. In May, the Pentagon committed to providing space to up to 3,600 children for 120 days. There are 2,500 children being housed at Fort Sill, Okla., Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., and Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, according to Warren.   Continue reading “DOD to provide space for 5,000 more migrant children until next year”