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Everything you need to know about what gun and ammo makers face.~~~Firearms manufacturers are certainly in the crosshairs as both the Democrat's campaign website and his stump speeches have specifically targeted the industry. So let's see what a Biden presidency might mean for gunmakers and potential sales.Shooting through the roof Industry observers dubbed former president Barack Obama the greatest gun salesman ever because sales soared during his administration due to fear he would enact strict gun control legislation. FBI criminal background checks more than doubled during his eight years in office, rising from 12.7 million in 2008 to over 27.5...

Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Florida man jumped into a pond to rescue his puppy from the jaws of a hungry alligator that had grabbed the canine and dragged him under water. Richard Wilbanks said he was outside his family's Estero home when he heard Gunner, the puppy he had only recently adopted, crying out in distress. Wilbanks rushed to the back of the house, where he saw an alligator had grabbed Gunner and was dragging the dog under water. A Florida Wildlife Federation surveillance camera recorded the moment Wilbanks jumped into the water to pry open the gator's jaws,...

I’m sorry for the vanity, but this seems like a VITAL question that nobody’s talking about. Have the voting irregularities in Michigan not just victimized Trump, but also an AFRICAN-AMERICAN CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE? I’m talking about GOP candidate John James. If so, shouldn’t the GOP have had John James at the press conference with Rudy and the other lawyers last week? The Democrat Party systematically disenfranchised black voters in the South for decades after the Civil War. Have they tried to do so this year for supporters of a black US Senate hopeful?

Attorney L. Lin Wood, who has been filing lawsuits for President Donald Trump challenging the election results, called on Republicans to withhold their votes for two GOP senators in an upcoming runoff election that will decide which party holds the majority of the Senate, Mediaite reports. In a series of weekend tweets, Wood asked Georgians not to vote for Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue unless they help overturn the election results in the state.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A 230-meter (755 feet) tall wind turbine in Arctic Sweden came crashing down on the snow during the weekend as high winds swept across the region, officials said Monday. No one was injured. She added that she believed it was the first time such an incident took place in Sweden. It was not clear whether the collapsed wind mill was working or whether it was under construction at the time of the collapse.

What we saw in the lead up to the elections, and what we’ll witness for years to come, is utter contempt for Trump voters and conservatives in general.American satirist Ambrose Bierce defined the presidency as “the greased pig in the field game of American politics.” If ever there was a year in which that is true, surely it is 2020. Most of us, in one way or another, have looked about as foolish and flummoxed as participants in a country pig scramble.Yet if I were to offer a vote for most absurd, it would be those who indulged in sanctimonious...

Ardern said Biden wanted to pursue the discussion on New Zealand’s response further. But she cautioned that the nation’s model may not be able to be replicated everywhere. “While New Zealand has a number of natural advantages that have assisted us in managing the virus, I do absolutely believe that international cooperation continues to be key to getting the virus under control,” Ardern said. “We are happy to work with any country to share our knowledge and data if its helpful.” Biden praised Ardern’s “extraordinary leadership” following a 2019 mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques,

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named former Secretary of State John Kerry as special envoy to lead his administration’s efforts to fight climate change. Kerry will be the “climate czar” for the incoming administration, coordinating programs that are expected to stretch across multiple agencies while leading efforts at a White House that may need to look for avenues beyond Congress to advance climate priorities. “America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. I'm proud to partner with the president-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement...

MADISON, Wis. — In response to the surging COVID-19 case numbers and hospitals being overwhelmed with incoming patients, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new emergency order and public face covering order on Friday for all residents over the age of five to wear coverings in all indoor settings, with some exceptions.

Regardless of whether Biden would find a loophole or merely attempt to cajole Congress, it remains concerning that there are many people who want him to force taxpayers to bail out the well off.Will a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden make taxpayers pay off $50,000 in student debt for everyone who has it? That’s what Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for, according to recent reporting.Although Biden does have a plan to make taxpayers pay $10,000 a year for each college debt-holder for up to five years of work for government or non-profit organizations, he dodged the question...

Yet another witness has come forward to say that she witnessed VOTER FRAUD in Detroit on election day. This news is being actively suppressed by the Michigan Attorney General, social media companies, and by dishonest ‘fact-checking’ organizations that play word games and rely on partisan Wayne County judges to ignore dozens of witnesses who describe the same things. Even Republican Senators are saying they see “no evidence of voter fraud.” GOP leaders say there is no observable voter fraud. And yet somehow the Gateway Pundit seems to keep finding it and reporting it every single day. Articia Bomer was a...

Frustrated residents confronted New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), as captured by a viral video posted Sunday, calling him a “----” upon noticing him dining out with his maskless family — a public dinner that occurred after he opted to tighten coronavirus restrictions and urged people to keep their holiday gatherings “as small as possible.” “Hey, how ya doing?” a woman in the video asks the governor, who appeared to be startled by the confrontation:

An English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department paid U.S. media companies nearly $2 million for printing and advertising expenses over the past six months, even amid heightened scrutiny over Beijing’s disinformation efforts in the West.China Daily paid The Wall Street Journal more than $85,000 and the Los Angeles Times $340,000 for advertising campaigns between May and October 2020, according to a disclosure that the propaganda mill filed this week with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).China Daily also paid Foreign Policy magazine $100,000, The Financial Times, a U.K.-based newspaper, $223,710, and $132,046...

President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday secured a legal win after the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals granted an expedited review of their appeal from a Pennsylvania court, according to Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis.According to the order, Trump’s “motion for emergency expedited review is granted at the direction of the court.” Their brief now needs to be filed by 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, and more have to be filed by 4 p.m. on Tuesday. “The court will advise if oral argument desired,” it said. Pennsylvania’s 67 counties are scheduled to certify their election results by the...

Kansas is preparing to launch a media campaign aimed at getting more of its residents to wear masks so that the coronavirus doesn’t keep spreading rapidly. Some officials are skeptical that it will move the needle much. A mask mandate from Democratic Governor Laura Kelly is set to take effect Wednesday, but Kansas law allows the state’s 105 counties to opt out. The governor is asking each county to develop its own local mask order, and if they don’t do so by Wednesday a statewide order will be in effect. The state has set aside $1.5 million for television, radio,...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) warned on Sunday that certain areas of New York City are heading toward tighter coronavirus restrictions, including the most restrictive “red zone” which prohibits all gatherings deemed “non-essential.” The Democrat governor stated some areas, namely Staten Island, Long Island, and parts of Manhattan, are “in the warning track” and could soon face additional restrictions due to concerns over rising infection rates and hospital capacity.

At least five counties home to about 800,000 voters will not have election results certified when they're due Monday to the Pennsylvania Department of State, though three of them expect to wrap up within the next couple days. Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn't affect the overall certification process statewide — in part because the Pennsylvania's election code doesn't set a hard deadline for statewide certification by the Secretary of State, which is normally a formality, voting law experts say. Of 43 counties to respond to WITF's inquiry, ten with a combined 546,000...

The Washington Post just published an article called: "Washington’s aristocracy hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again." They quickly changed it to "Washington's establishment." Someone must've worried how the plebes might react: " Original Headline: Revised Headline:

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Politics incentivizes making simple questions complicated, so, inevitably, we will turn to asking whether Douglas Emhoff, a 56-year-old, robustly male American attorney who is permanently leaving his law firm for his wife's career, can handle the job of being married to Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris... which he already does. It is not, in itself, a completely absurd question. Being the vice president's husband carries with it more burdens than the average lout married to more a capable woman; call it the Homer Simpson Continuum. In truth, though, the question of how Emhoff will handle being the first "second gentlemen" is...