Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

On Wednesday, 25 November, 2015, President Barack Hussein Obama signed the National Defense Authorization act.  He had vetoed the first version of the bill to reach his desk on 22 October, 2015, about a month ago.  In the latest version, S. 1356, there is a section, 1087, which re-authorizes the Civilian Marksmanship Program to sell surplus 1911 and 1911A1 pistols and their parts and accessories to the public.  The sales are limited to 10,000 per year.  There are about 100,000 of these pistols available that are surplus, so they should be available for several years.   Continue reading “Obama Signs NDAA; DCM to Sell Surplus .45s”

Ammoland – by David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “We need to close the loopholes that still remain in the background check system and finish the job that Jim and Sarah Brady started so many years ago,” New York Senator Chuck Schumer threatened at a Brady Center awards function. “We are going to bring the universal background check bill to the floor of the senate, early next year, and with your help we’re going to win!”

As usual, he’s lying. The “job” the Bradys took over, now under the “stewardship” of current president Dan Gross and a new crop of totalitarian lobbyists, was articulated by the organization’s founder, Pete Shields, back before the group decided they had to change their name from “Handgun Control, Inc.” to something that hid their true intentions.   Here’s what Shields told The New Yorker back in 1976:   Continue reading “There is No ‘Finishing the Job’ with Schumer and Gun-Grabbers Always Demanding More”

BBC News

President Barack Obama has said he is “deeply disturbed” by a police video that shows a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times in Chicago.

Officer Jason Van Dyke is charged with the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was stopped by police after slashing car tyres.   Continue reading “Laquan McDonald case: Obama ‘disturbed’ by dashcam video”

Daily Mail

A new dashcam video shows Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke in pursuit of Laquan McDonald for 30 seconds before he fatally shot the teenager.

The footage is taken from the white officer’s police car as he pulled through a Burger King parking lot and McDonald, 17, bounded out in front of him before running down the road. It appears he is carrying a knife in his hand at the time.    Continue reading “Dashcam video shows Jason Van Dyke chasing Laquan McDonald before shooting”

Breitbert – by Dr. Susan Berry

University students in Massachusetts who were upset by an image of a Confederate flag sticker on another student’s laptop were offered counseling services at Framingham State University.

The offer came after the university’s “chief diversity and inclusion officer,” Sean Huddleston, described the display of the small Confederate flag sticker as a “bias incident.”   Continue reading “University Students Comforted with ‘Counseling’ after Seeing Confederate Flag on Laptop”

ABC News

The white Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager was the subject of 18 civilian complaints over 14 years, including allegations that he used racial epithets and excessive force, police and court records show.

Complaints against police are not uncommon. But the number filed against Jason Van Dyke was high, and at least one was linked to a civil trial where jurors awarded damages to someone he arrested.   Continue reading “Chicago Officer Who Shot Teen Amassed 18 Civilian Complaints”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Seattle’s city council and mayor seriously considered getting rid of traditional neighborhoods of single family homes in an effort to encourage or pressure people to live in apartments and other types of multi-family housing.

A rejected change to the city’s zoning regulations would have allowed the construction of multi-family housing such as apartments and duplexes in all of the city’s neighborhoods.   Continue reading “A Ban On Single-Family Homes?”

Oregon Live – by Ted Sickinger

The region’s only commercial nuclear plant, located just north of Richland, Wash, has a fuel leak in the reactor core that has led engineers to take four of its 764 fuel assemblies out of service.

John Dobken, a spokesman for Energy Northwest, the utility consortium that operates the Columbia Generating Station, confirmed there was a “fuel defect” at the plant but said it posed no safety risk to workers or the public. Radioactive gases detected in the coolant water were “barely detectable” and below the limit reportable to nuclear regulators, he said, though onsite inspectors and the board of Energy Northwest have been notified.   Continue reading “Nuclear fuel leak at Columbia Generating Station poses “zero safety risk,” operators say”

The New American – by Warren Mass

FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson have both expressed concerns about the American SAFE Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038) introduced by the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Representative Mike McCaul (R-Texas). The bill, which would require that background investigations be completed prior to the admission of “certain aliens as refugees,” was passed by the House by a vote of 289-137 on November 19 and sent to the Senate.   Continue reading “FBI Director, DHS Secretary, Oppose House-passed Refugee Screening Bill”