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SWAT Team Used to Arrest Man Charged With Possessing 38 Rounds of Ammo Without a Permit
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (294+ words) In Illinois, possessing so much as a single round of ammunition without a Firearms Owner ID (or FOID) card is a serious crime." Well, residents of Lake in the Hills, Illinois got a first hand view of that law being…...
New York Lawmakers Propose 10-Day Waiting Period for Gun Purchases
18+ hour, 5+ min ago (616+ words) The state of New York has never really been pro-gun, but it wasn't as anti-gun as it has become over the last handful of years. Mostly, they left much of the gun control up to New York City, and since…...
Note to Grand Rapids Mayor LaGrand: Maybe People Like YOU are the Ones Who Should Be Ashamed
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (614+ words) By now, you're probably familiar with Grand Rapids Mayor David LaGrand. He's the one who thinks we should be made to feel ashamed for having guns. Then he defended his comments by claiming that there was no actual plan in…...
Two Gun-Related Moves by Iowa Lawmakers Shows They Need a Lesson in Rights
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (544+ words) If there's one thing I think most of us can agree on, the concept of "rules for thee, but not for me" is the epitome of the worst thing lawmakers can do. That's actually true, more or less, across partisan…...
Dexter Taylor Redux? Long Island Senior Citizen Busted for Making His Own Guns
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (318+ words) Taylor may soon have company after police on Long Island busted a 67-year-old man for having his own home-built cache of firearms, along with several thousand rounds of ammunition and an illegal switch to convert semi-automatic firearms into full-auto machine…...
Virginia Poll Shows Widespread Disapproval of Dems' Gun Control Agenda
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (303+ words) I started off today's posts with the news of two gun control bills heading to Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's desk, so I think it's fitting that my last post of the day focuses on a new poll that found the…...
Florida House Approves Bill Allowing Some College Professors to Carry on Campus
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (397+ words) A bill expanding Florida's School Guardian Program to include public colleges and universities in addition to the K-12 schools where armed school staff and volunteers are already in place sailed through the state House on Wednesday, but the bill might not…...
Walz's Gun Control Pitch Not Sitting Well With Some On His Side of the Fence
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (623+ words) Tim Walz has been pushing gun control since the moment he decided he wanted to run for statewide office in Minnesota. It's funny how often someone who gets elected at a regional level is pro-gun, then suddenly becomes anti-gun when…...
Gun Owner Sues Police After Spending Almost 24 Hours in Jail for Legally Possessed Pistol
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (517+ words) An idiotic mistake by a Louisiana police officer led to a nearly 24-hour jail stay for a legal gun owner, who's now suing the department for arresting and detaining him without genuine cause." 18-year-old Maddox Livingston was pulled over by…...
Michigan Mayor: Second Amendment Thwarting His Anti-Gun Ambitions
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (360+ words) Grand Rapids, Michigan Mayor Dave LaGrand is getting hammered for his recent comment that gun owners should be "ashamed of themselves", with the National Rifle Association among those blasting his remarks." I'm guessing LaGrand is getting an earful from Grand…...