The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware has upheld the right to keep and bear arms provision of the State Constitution, which was enacted in 1987, passing through two separately elected legislatures.
Progressive infatuation with gun control and population disarmament stems from their foundational premises about the nature of reality. Progressivism was born out of the end of the frontier and of frustrations with the restraints of the Constitution. Politicians wanted more power than the Constitution allowed.
The Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of certiorari in the appeal of Maryland’s ban on certain semi-automatic rifles and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The ban includes non-detachable magazines, but exempts rimfire firearms. The State Police list 200 firearms manufacturers with numerous models that are banned by the law, including some of the most popular rifles in the United States.
Chief Joseph P. LaSata of the Rockledge Police Department, made clear the intervention of the armed citizens was responsible for stopping the murderer. Two employees were shot, one killed, in the parking lot. Then two armed employees intervened.
He turned to his left, and saw an adult mountain lion up hill from him, and less than 20 feet away. As he shouldered his rifle, the mountain lion hissed and took two steps toward him.
Many self defense shootings are not reported in the media. Many are not entered as justified homicides in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). A self defense shooting, which included a justified homicide, occurred in the 800 block of Waugoo Avenue, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin,at night, on November 5th, 2017.
The Boston Globe recent ran an article where it acknowledged the obvious: the long term goal of the gun control movement (recently relabeled as “gun safety”), is to confiscate a large number of Americans’ firearms. The Globe has almost everything else wrong in its article, but they are honest about the desire for gun confiscation.
The hunter had a rifle, but chose to use bear spray instead. He got ready for the bear with the bear spray. The bear came back.
Rampage shootings and Rampage shootings with semi-automatic rifles have increased in the last couple of decades. The rifles have been available for over a hundred and ten years. What caused the increase? It isn’t the availability of the rifles. Before 1968, the rifles were available by mail order.
The Trump era NICS checks are continuing the trend to become the second highest year for NICS checks on record. 2016 is the current record holder, with 27,538,673 NICS checks for the year. The next highest year was in 2015, with 23,141,970. 2,030,391 NICS checks were done in October, 2017.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has stated the obvious about the mass murder at the First Baptist church in Sutherland, Texas. People who gather together will have to consider polices to defend against these mass killers. Paxton suggested that Texas consider carrying weapons to protect themselves.
Not only does the document lack any numbers for guns that were not traced, it conflates the numbers of traced guns with those of all confiscated guns.
On 24 October, 2017, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed bill A. 5667A, a reform of New York State’s antiquated and misused gravity knife law. The law has been popular with almost everyone in the state but the Governor and those who are profiting off of the suffering caused by the misapplication of current law.
New Jersey is close to dismantling its total ban on stun guns for people who are not government agents. The ban was put in place in 1985. Stun guns or Tasers, are commonly available to New Jersey Police officers.
The reporters claim that “the agencies” say that more than 7,000 children are killed every year in the United States “from” unsecured guns. The truth is far far different and apparently inconvenient for the so called reporters.
At the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Dallas, Texas, I noticed a significant amount of the open carry of sidearms. This would not have been legal as late as December of 2015.
There is a stray bullet investigation ongoing in the south of Michigan, in Northville Township. A window was shattered on about the 10th or 11th of October, 2017.
In a virtue signaling display common on the left, the Washington Post published an article critical of a church for raffling two rifles for charity. Amy B. Wang, a writer for the post, made a national story of the dislike of a leftist for the raffle of two AR-15 type rifles.
