Disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner entered a guilty plea Friday in a Manhattan federal courtroom to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, and the judge told the once-rising liberal star he would have to register as a sex offender. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska presided over the hearing, during which […]
Congressional Circus Stalling Important Gun Reform Measures?
Is the political circus now playing on Capitol Hill providing anti-rights Democrats with a strategic distraction that is delaying, if not completely preventing progress on two important gun law reforms? Congressman Jeff Duncan’s H.R. 367, the National Hearing Protection Act that would remove restrictions on the ownership of suppressors (“silencers”) has 141 co-sponsors, but it […]
Startling Revelation About Chicago Crime Guns
A significant source of firearms involved in Chicago crimes is not gun shows or even straw purchases from neighboring states, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times, but from gun shop burglaries around the Prairie State. The revelation may poke a hole in the claim by gun prohibition lobbying groups that gun shows are […]
ABC Story Says Mount St. Helens ‘Recharging’ on 37th Anniversary
Thirty-seven years after Mount St. Helens erupted explosively with a massive landslide that took off the top of the picturesque peak in Washington State’s west-central Cascades, a report on ABC News suggests the volcano is “recharging” as the Evergreen State observes the anniversary of the May 18, 1980 cataclysm. The most recent eruption was nine […]
‘Gun Buyback’ Notice Pulled by Facebook; Karma, Perhaps?
A handful of gun rights activists in Massachusetts and Washington state are chuckling today because a notice about a June 3 so-called “gun buyback” sponsored by a gun control group and clergy organization has apparently been pulled from Facebook because it violates the social media giant’s standards. When the post appeared on the Facebook page […]
Gun Control Lobbying Group Fights Federal Gun Law Reforms
A gun control group headed by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, have been joined by what the Washington Post described as “a group of law enforcement leaders” to oppose gun law reform bills that have been introduced on Capitol Hill. But according to a 2016 survey by the National Association […]
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