UPDATED, 3/22 at 1:55 p.m. Two days after a Portland-based “interfaith religious group” launched a ballot initiative campaign to ban so-called “assault weapons” in Oregon, a Seattle Times editorial is calling for the same effort in neighboring Washington, effectively turning the Pacific Northwest into a gun rights battleground. The original Oregon proposal, Initiative Petition 42 and […]
Will Seattle Mayor’s Gun Control Proposal Collide with State Law?
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Wednesday her desire for legislation requiring so-called “safe storage” of firearms and “increased civil penalties…for not reporting lost or stolen firearms,” but will that effort collide with Washington State’s 35-year-old preemption law? State preemption, adopted in 1983, puts sole authority for gun regulation in the hands of the State […]
2A Allies Promote ‘#WhyICarry’ Hashtag as Student March Looms
As this Saturday’s “March For Our Lives” – the student protest against “gun violence” that has turned into something of a business venture with merchandise and marketing – looms, another less noticed effort is underway in the firearms community. This effort uses a hashtag – #WhyICarry – to unite the firearms community. One of the […]
Maryland Incident Deflates ‘No Guns in School’ Argument
Tuesday morning’s school shooting incident in Maryland that left the teen gunman dead after being confronted by an armed school resources officer (SRO) dramatically undermines the argument from anti-gunners that armed security in schools is a bad idea. The shooter, identified as 17-year-old Austin Wyatt Rollins, was reportedly chased down by St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s […]
Report: FL Officials Wanted Rampage Suspect ‘Forcibly Committed’
The Associated Press and several other news agencies are reporting that newly-revealed documents show that some school officials and a sheriff’s deputy had recommended that accused school shooting rampage suspect Nikolas Cruz be “forcibly committed” in 2016, but those concerns were never acted upon. Instead, for more than a month since the shooting, the gun […]
Gallup: 18% of Teachers Willing to Carry Guns in Schools
A new Gallup survey revealed this week that 18 percent of America’s teachers would be willing to carry guns in school buildings, a fact that runs against the grain for a majority of educators, but might be typical of any group in which there is a small percentage of people who step forward for any […]
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