A pregnant Michigan woman is looking at a very unhappy Mother’s Day while she sits in prison after being convicted of assault and felony firearms – a term alluding to the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony – in a case from 2017 that has fired up gun rights advocates, […]
Tale of Two Taxes Shows Seattle’s Reluctance to Admit Failure
The City of Seattle is boasting about the better-than-expected success of its special beverage tax on sugary drinks, a stark contrast to the city’s reluctance to admit that another of its tax schemes – on guns and ammunition – was and remains an abject failure that required a lawsuit to force public disclosure. According to […]
Gun Control on Political Front Burner in Minnesota
Minnesota gun owners are facing an onslaught of advertising bankrolled by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund as the legislative session draws to a close in a couple of weeks, according to WCCO, the local CBS affiliate. Three television ads are being run, all pushing for so-called “common sense gun laws” […]
Anti-gun New York AG Schneiderman Out over Alleged Assaults
Anti-gun Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman quickly resigned Monday following the publication of an explosive story in the New Yorker focusing on allegations that he assaulted four women. The resignation came just three weeks after Schneiderman issued a press release touting a gun “buyback” project in White Plains in which he asserted, “Gun […]
NRA Board Change Sees Oliver North Tapped as President
The National Rifle Association announced Monday that retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North will become the next president of the association “within a few weeks,” in an unusual chain of developments that saw Pete Brownell decide not to run for a second term, and the organization’s first and second vice presidents unable to […]
NRA’s LaPierre Rips ‘Elite Media’ as Thousands Jam Convention
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivered a fiery — some might call it pure boilerplate — speech to a crowded members’ meeting Saturday focusing on one of the organization’s favorite targets: the media. Using a series of clips from past confrontations with the press and speeches over the years in which he […]
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