UPDATED: In what some might consider a stunningly frank editorial, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette verbally spanked Mayor Bill Peduto this week following the city’s loss in its attempt to create its own gun control laws—a reaction to last year’s tragic Tree of Life Synagogue shooting—in spite of Pennsylvania’s Uniform Firearms Act. That’s the Keystone State’s preemption […]
Pittsburgh Council Okays Gun Control Despite Lawsuit Threat
Essentially ignoring energetic opposition from local gun owners, plus the threat of a lawsuit, and the existence of a state preemption statute, the Pittsburgh City Council has approved a trio of gun control ordinances in reaction to last year’s attack at the Tree of Life synagogue that claimed 11 lives and left others wounded. According […]
Hundreds Rally for Rights v. Proposed Pittsburgh Gun Control
Hundreds of Second Amendment activists from as far away as Chicago and Cincinnati descended on downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. Monday to deliver a message to Mayor William Peduto and the Pittsburgh City Council about their proposed gun control measures: Don’t do it. There was no mistake about where these gun owners stood on the […]
Pelosi Predicts Dem Victory; Earlier Promised Gun Control Priority
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is already planning a return to the Speaker’s position, predicting on The Late Show to host Stephen Colbert, “We will win,” as reported by Fox News. This could inspire even more conservatives, especially gun owners, to head to the polls next Tuesday, and millions more across the country have already […]
Anti-Gunners Blame Rifle for Pittsburgh, But Cops Had Them, Too
The Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group behind gun control Initiative 1639 launched an email blast Monday evening that blames the AR-15 rifle for the deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue, apparently ignoring two facts: the suspect is described as an anti-Semite, and police officers responding to the shooting were armed with the same […]
WA Anti-Gunners Scramble to Exploit Pittsburgh in I-1639 Push
UPDATED: Evergreen State gun prohibitionists moved quickly to exploit the tragic hate crime shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in their effort to justify gun control Initiative 1639, a proposal they now claim in a fund-raising email blast would “address the root causes of mass shootings.” Saturday’s shooting left 11 people dead and others, including four […]
