Month: June 2020

Gun shop owners in West Palm Beach, Fla., say the city’s State of Local Emergency is forcing them to turn away customers. West Palm declared the emergency last Sunday amid George Floyd protests. A State of Local Emergency prohibits the sale of firearms and alcohol. Stores cannot intentionally display ammunition or guns. During a State of Local Emergency, it

Four bills, each described by the National Rifle Association as “pro gun” have passed through the Louisiana state legislature and are now awaiting the approval of Governor John Bel Edwards. In a public statement, the NRA said, “Four pro-gun bills have been passed by the Louisiana Legislature and will now be sent to the desk

Tomorrow, the Alexandria City Council will consider banning firearms in certain public locations. Second Amendment supporters are encouraged to attend this meeting remotely, which will be conducted by video conference starting 6PM, to OPPOSE File 20-0902. Click here for information on how to attend this meeting remotely and make your voice heard. For decades, Virginia’s

June 8, 2020 The Kremlin has been emboldened by its successful attack on the 2016 election, and is coming back for more. Here’s everything you need to know: Will Russia interfere again?It never stopped. The Russian trolls and military hackers who undermined U.S. democracy in 2016 have continued their efforts to confuse and divide Americans,

A modern reboot of the classic “Looney Tunes” cartoons on the new streaming service HBO Max will feature all of the Acme fun but none of the gun violence, according to a new report. “We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, the series’ executive producer and showrunner, told The New York Times. “But we can do

FAIRFAX, Va. – The National Rifle Association is pleased to announce their endorsement of A-rated Oklahoma state Representative Sherrie Conley in the Republican primary on June 30. “Rep. Conley has proven herself to be a staunch defender of our Second Amendment freedoms,” said NRA Oklahoma state Director Travis Couture-Lovelady. “The people of Oklahoma’s 20th House

May saw yet another record-breaking month for background checks. May 2020 is officially the third-busiest month for the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) with 3,091,455 total checks run. That is also the new record for the month of May, beating May 2019 by nearly three-quarters of a million checks. Every month so

Unscripted Joe Biden, as we have all come to realize, is must-watch TV. When the presumptive Democrat Presidential candidate speaks off-the-cuff, his message regularly goes off the rails. We all anticipate Biden will say something odd, confusing, or even incomprehensible during interviews and live appearances, but we are often still shocked by what comes out

On June 4, the Florida Supreme Court declared [https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/content/download/637052/7237090/file/sc19-1266.pdf] an effort to ban commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms through a ballot measure invalid, describing the proposal as ”misleading” and a violation of state law. Anti-gun group Ban Assault Weapons Now (BAWN), a project of several gun control groups including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and David Hogg’s March For Our Lives,