California has some of the nation’s tightest gun control laws and virtually no session of the Legislature ends without additional restrictions being enacted. In polling and by their votes, Californians have heartily endorsed making gun purchases and ownership increasingly more difficult. As California’s restrictive laws proliferated, however, the state’s current and would-be gun owners complained that
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The modern American gun debate began in 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles. In California there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public. That soon changed. The Panthers’ efforts to “police the police” already had led Republican Assemblyman
By Kevin Byrne It’s one thing for politicians and candidates to say they “support the Second Amendment.” It’s another thing for candidates to demonstrate they support the Second Amendment and the rights of law-abiding gun owners. As an assemblyman, I didn’t just talk the talk – I walked the walk. I didn’t bow down to
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has introduced a bill to award Kyle Rittenhouse the US legislative branch’s highest honor – the Congressional Gold Medal.A summary of the bill, introduced on Tuesday, states that the measure would “award a Congressional Gold Medal to Kyle H. Rittenhouse, who protected the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black
Taylorville, IL — Rodney Davis, a Republican from Taylorville, announced today he is running for re-election to Congress in the newly-drawn 15thCongressional district, which includes his home in Taylorville and much of the district he currently represents. He is the only incumbent member of Congress who resides in this district following the Congressional redistricting process.
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court handed California Gov. Gavin Newsom a victory Tuesday, upholding a ban on high-capacity ammunition gun magazines. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in a divided 7-4 ruling, wrote that the ammunition ban is “a reasonable fit for the important government interest of
Topline The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a 2016 California law that banned possession of large-capacity magazines for firearms after a lower court struck down the ban in 2017 in a lawsuit by large-capacity magazine owners who claimed the law violated their constitutional rights. Key Facts The court ruled
STATELY BIRD? — A Northern mockingbird, or Mimus polyglottos, airs out its wings. The mockingbird was chosen to be Florida’s state bird by the Legislature in 1927. Over the years, legal challenges have tried to replace the state bird with the Florida scrub jay. PHOTO COURTESY ANDY MORFFEW ON FLICKR BY CRAIG PITTMAN There is
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended with him walking free on essentially a technicality. Even after shooting three people at a racial justice protest last summer with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle, Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges earlier this month because of vague self-defense laws. Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the shooting, and
I’ve come, I know this is obvious, but it is still important not to forget: an important reason why gun culture is so mature in the United States is the heavy use of gun battles in movies and TV. Westerns. Crime show. Spy movie. War pictures. Most action movies. Many of these dramas have normalized
Museveni has asked Ugandans to concentrate on wealth creation because the country has built great capacity to crush the ADF and soon work will be done By Yoweri Museveni (President) President Yoweri Museveni has assured Ugandans that all will be well and advises them to concentrate on their wealth creation mission. He said ADF is
A large faction of the U.S. population (overwhelmingly conservative Republicans) have convinced themselves that they need to be prepped for either an over-reaching government or an anti-fascist takeover. According to Pew Research, while 41% of Republicans and 44% of right-leaning independents own guns, a paltry 16% of Democrats own one. After decades of assassinations and
The strangest thing about Donald Trump and the GOP’s increasingly open embrace of political violence is how unnecessary it is, even by the right’s own grotesque standards. Ever since Trump’s failed coup that culminated in the January 6 insurrection, Republicans have been carefully laying the groundwork for a bloodless destruction of democracy. They’ve commandeered election offices
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‘It’s sickening’: Furious Kyle Rittenhouse brands ADA Binger a ‘corrupt person’ out for himself who ‘wanted to lie and put me in prison for defending myself’ Kyle Rittenhouse hit out at Thomas Binger, the Kenosha prosecutor in his trial He called Binger a ‘corrupt person’ who ‘just wants to make a name for himself’ Former
A longtime Chick-fil-A executive ensured Russian official Alexander Torshin got onto the guestlist for the event. He also helped Butina get in. “Internal documents of the Fellowship Foundation suggest that The Family’s role was largely unscrutinized at the time and greater than has been previously reported,” said TYT. The post noted that The Family and
The Georgia GOP’s map is designed to increase the number of congressional districts the party controls from eight to nine, leaving Democrats with just five. According to an analysis by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Though Georgia’s voters are split between the two political parties, none of the state’s 14 congressional districts would be competitive.” It’s not
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! I went to my first University of Hawaii football game, Saturday’s wild, high-scoring squeaky win against Colorado State (“University of Hawaii football team closes home slate with high-scoring win over Colorado State,” Star-Advertiser, Top News, Nov. 20). As spectacular as the game was UH honoring not