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A push is under way by lawmakers, historians and educators to give George Washington his birthday back instead of “diminishing the memory of the greatest American” by honoring it with a three-day weekend. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., is sponsoring a bill to change the holiday to Feb. 22 from the third Monday in February. That [...] The District has moved one step closer to showing due respect to the Second Amendment. Potential gun owners will now save hours of their time and hundreds of dollars as a council committee voted to eliminate hurdles meant to discourage the law-abiding from keeping arms in the nation’s capital. The newly-drafted legislation eliminates the five-hour [...] The suggestion by a University of Texas law professor that Monday’s deadly school shooting in Ohio was a “typical exercise of the Second Amendment” is an outrage, clinic the Second Amendment Foundation said today. Calvin Johnson teaches law at UT in Austin, and his comments appeared in an e-mail that was exposed by a reporter [...] A recent spate of armed robberies has brought to light the inability of Washington, D.C. residents to carry concealed weapons. So far in 2012 there have been twice as many robberies at gunpoint than at this time last year. The sharp rise in brazen criminal activity has brought on the usual round of increased police [...] The President’s wants to end the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program (FFDO), web also known as the armed pilots program. If Congress were to follow President Obama’s recommendation contained in his $3.8 trillion FY2013 budget proposal, they would be making a huge mistake. This anti-terrorism program has been a success and a cost effective means [...] The Obama administration “is seeking advice and consent” for Senate ratification of an international small arms treaty, page and also supports the inclusion of small arms in the UN Register of Conventional Arms, sale the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms learned today. The disclosure is found in the text of [...] Following a recent spree of crime, one Goshen man took matters into his own hands. Michael Morse was about to become the city’s latest victim of a burglary. That was, until he pulled out a legally owned handgun on two thieves trying to break into his home around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night. On Saturday, criminals [...] Within the next month, Congress will be taking actions that will impact our Second Amendment rights. Here’s what we’re facing. On or about September 30, Congress will consider a “continuing resolution” (CR) to fund the government from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012. Well, you can be sure about this — when it comes [...] Federal authorities seized more than 1,200 firearms and nearly 2 million rounds of ammunition when they raided a family-run gun shop in New Mexico last month as part of a multi-agency investigation into illegal gun sales and smuggling. The Albuquerque Journal reported Sunday that the tally of weapons seized was laid out in search warrant [...] Authorities confirm a weapon from the failed ATF program ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ was found at a violent crime scene in Maricopa, Ariz. in 2010. This is the latest in a series of cases where Fast and Furious guns have been linked to violent crimes across the U.S. and Mexico. The two guns found at [...] |
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