A Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group has sent an email blast to supporters, lamenting that “Some sheriffs around Washington State” are refusing to enforce provisions of gun control Initiative 1639, the billionaire-backed measure passed by about 60 percent of voters last November, but already being challenged in U.S. District Court on constitutional grounds. “This is […]
Brutal Knife Attack Leaves Seattle Anti-Gunners in Quandary
A brutal broad daylight triple-stabbing on a downtown Seattle street Tuesday leaves anti-gun city leaders and Washington state’s billionaire-backed—and Seattle-based—gun prohibition lobbying group in a quandary. They can’t call it “gun violence.” They can’t blame the National Rifle Association, or use it in one of their weekly fund-raising email blasts. They certainly can’t exploit it […]
‘Presence Filled a Room’—Ross Perot Dies; Did He Help Elect Bill Clinton?
H. Ross Perot, the bigger-than-life self-made Texas billionaire whose 1992 independent presidential bid was blamed by many for assuring Bill Clinton’s victory over then-President George H.W. Bush, has died. The 89-year-old Perot, who once described the movement of U.S. jobs to Mexico as “a giant sucking sound,” according to the Las Vegas Review […]
‘NRA On Its Heels’ Says Gun Control Group as VA Guv’s Gun Session Looms
Declaring that the National Rifle Association has been in “a perpetual state of turmoil” recently, the billionaire-backed Everytown for Gun Safety—Michael Bloomberg’s gun prohibition lobbying group—says “NRA is on its heels and we can keep it there” as Virginia lawmakers prepare for Gov. Ralph Northam’s gun control special session Tuesday. Northam’s agenda was detailed by […]
Concealed Carry Hits New High in Evergreen State
There are now more active concealed pistol licenses in Washington State than ever before, according to new data from the state Department of Licensing, showing more than 5,000 additional CPLs issued in June and more than 13,750 since Jan. 1, going along with the growing national trend toward more concealed carry. There are now more […]
Trump Tweets to Defense of NRA, Rips NY AG over ‘Harassment’
President Donald Trump, who likely owes much of his 2016 victory to the National Rifle Association, came to the defense of the embattled organization Tuesday with an early morning twitter statement about NRA’s current troubles with the State of New York, where the organization is incorporated. “People are fleeing New York like never before,” the […]
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