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A report by Global Times, an official Chinese Communist Party propaganda outlet, claims China is readying a focused push against “global gun proliferation.” Continue reading “Report: China Readying Push Against ‘Global Gun Proliferation’”
Twenty-four Republican attorneys general sent a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express Tuesday warning them to drop plans to code and compile gun sales in America.
Breitbart News reported that the credit card companies were under pressure from New York Democrats — including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) — to recategorize gun sales so they could be flagged. Continue reading “24 Attorneys General Sign Letter Warning Visa to Drop Plans for Tracking Gun Sales”
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who previously served as the company’s head of security, testified before the Senate yesterday — here at four key takeaways from his testimony. Continue reading “4 Key Revelations from Twitter Whistleblower’s Senate Testimony”
News Target – by Mary Villareal
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is about to force millions of gun owners to register their pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, which will be regulated by the National Firearms Act. Continue reading “ATF to force millions of gun owners to register arm brace pistols or face felony charges”
Visa caved to the demands of New York Democrats and gun control groups and will recategorize gun purchases in a way that allows them to be flagged. Continue reading “Visa Caves, Will Recategorize Gun Purchases so Democrats Can Flag Them”
The Guardian – by Samira Asma-Sadeque
Credit card purchases of firearms in the US can now be tracked and purchases deemed suspicious can even be shared with law enforcement, according to a new measure approved by an organization that sets parameters for business transactions. Continue reading “Guns bought through credit cards in the US will now be trackable”
National Catholic Register – by Paul Kengor, January 12, 2017
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
So declared Barack Obama in Columbia, Missouri, on Oct. 30, 2008, on the cusp of his historic presidential election. Continue reading “How Barack Obama Fundamentally Transformed the United States”
Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is calling on major credit card companies to flag gun and ammunition purchases.
Giffords posted a tweet Sunday, which said, “The shooters in at least 5 mass shootings have stockpiled guns & ammo using credit cards and killed 145 people. Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have the power to flag suspicious purchases and save lives. Call on them to act.” Continue reading “Gun Control Groups Ask Major Credit Cards to Flag Gun, Ammo Purchases”
Frantic parents of the children murdered in their Texas school screamed at law enforcement officers to enter the school and discussed storming the building to rescue their kids, harrowing footage shows, as it emerged that the gunman was only stopped when authorities obtained a key to open the classroom door. Continue reading “Parents frustrated with ‘unprepared’ police outside Texas massacre school debated storming the building”
U.S. Army veteran Mike Durant, the current frontrunner in Alabama’s U.S. Senate Republican primary race, once suggested applying military philosophy to restore “law and order” in some U.S. cities by disarming the population.
In 2011, Durant discussed the violence initiated by United Nations forces going door to door to seize firearms in a speech before the U.S. Army War College. Continue reading “AL GOP Senate Hopeful Mike Durant in 2011: Disarming the Population ‘Would Be a Pretty Good Step Toward Law and Order’ in U.S. Cities”
Firefighting efforts to quell the flames on the burning Felicity Ace ship full of luxury vehicles are complicated by the fact that electric car battery fire can’t be easily put out with water. The SMIT Salvage company hired to save the burning ship says they’ve never had a case like that before due precisely to the electric cars on board. Continue reading “Burning Porsches on the Felicity Ace ship prove electric car batteries are a fire hazard for sea transport”
Elle published an article by Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts in which she claims that the “overlap between gun extremists and men who hate women is alarming.”
Watts’ article is part of the left’s effort to pressure Congress into expanding the prohibited purchasers/possessors list for firearms in America. They are specifically pushing to expand prohibitions against ex-spouses to include ex-boyfriends and dating partners. Continue reading “Shannon Watts: ‘Overlap Between Gun Extremists and Men Who Hate Women Is Alarming’”
Washington Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo
The Biden administration is in possession of nearly one billion records detailing American citizens’ firearm purchases, far more than Congress and the public has been aware of, according to new information from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Continue reading “Biden Admin Has Records on Nearly One Billion Gun Sales”