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Illinois House members are preparing to vote on a bill to ban the sale of certain firearms by Illinois gun manufacturers to Illinois residents. The legislation would affect four area gun manufacturers — Springfield Armory and ArmaLite in Geneseo, try Rock River Arms in Colona and Lewis Machine and Tool in Milan — that employ [...] There was palpable glee among gun-control activists as three big-ticket police groups stood shoulder to shoulder to defend the long-gun registry. Wonderful! How could the gun nuts, sale hunters’ lobby and various other hayseeds (the ‘less enlightened in the Conservative caucus, recipe ’ sniffed one editorial) maintain their retrograde stance now? After all — thus [...] The United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, testified yesterday at a Senate Subcommittee about the New York terrorism incident. During the hearing, he mentioned that Georgia’s SB 291, currently awaiting signature by the Governor, is “very worrisome” to him because he fears it might permit terrorists to seize an airliner. And he was being serious. [...] Sheriff could lose discretionary power to decide who can carry a firearm Next month, mind voters will elect a new Ventura County sheriff. It will be the first time in 32 years the election for the county’s top cop has been contested. Besides heading the county’s largest police force, the sheriff determines who can and [...] The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA) today called on the city of Omaha to end its practice of registering firearms, what is ed in the wake of a case involving a private citizen who fatally shot an armed robber, more about and who continues to be denied the ability to register a new firearm by [...] Two years ago this June the United States Supreme Court said the 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights was an individual right to own guns unconnected with service in a militia. Today, in Washington D.C., Los Angeles Policed Department spokeswoman Sandy Jo MacArthur testified before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in [...] If Chicago were serious about bringing its violent crime problem under control, it would recognize the constitutional right of residents to use firearms to protect themselves. The city’s troubles are so extreme that a pair of state lawmakers are calling on a fellow Democrat, Gov. Pat Quinn, to deploy the National Guard to help restore [...] bill (S. 1317/H.R. 2159) that would authorize the Attorney General to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses [...] The Colorado Bureau of Investigation would continue conducting firearm background checks, dosage known as Insta-Check, here under a bill that passed out of the House yesterday. Gun rights enthusiasts have blasted Insta-Check as being unnecessary and costly, pharmacy while gun control activists praise the state background check as a way to prevent gun-related tragedies in [...] Regular readers are familiar with my “Only Ones” files, named in “honor” of a DEA agent who told a roomful of school kids he was the “only one…professional enough” to carry a gun and who then proceeded to shoot himself in the foot. As I’ve explained numerous times, I don’t post such stories to “denigrate” [...] |
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