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A record number of people are legally carrying handguns in Minnesota. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says sheriffs issued more than 71,000 permits to carry last year.  That’s a dramatic spike since the year before, when about 45,000 people received the permit. Shooting off a lunchtime round at Bill’s Gun Shop and Range in Robbinsdale, we found Heather Evans. She has been carrying for five years. “For me I do a lot of solo backpacking so I carry with me for safety purposes, not only from people but from animals,” Evans said. She’s teaching her friend Stella, who is considering getting...

PITTSBURGH - An armed man who was attempting to rob a business Friday morning on Pittsburgh’s South Side was shot by an employee, authorities told Channel 11 News. The incident was reported just before 8 a.m. at the Subway restaurant in the 2700 block of East Carson Street. Authorities said the armed man entered the Subway and demanded money. One of two Subway employees told officers that he felt threatened and shot the man in the chest. "One of the employees who has a concealed carry permit and has a firearm apparently felt threatened for him and the other employees...

You see a Govt car driver acting out on the freeway. There's no agency sticker. Where are our 5th Amendment Guardians of Free Speech with an online searchable database so you can report this misbehavior to the only authority un-firable Govt. workers are scared of -- their Risk Management Dept, a combination of lawyers and insurance?Of course, progressives and their news media brainwashers don't care about this, they WANT the Govt. to run everything.(My solution: Hack the news media, publish THEIR home addresses.)

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday tried to reassure skeptical gun owners that she’s not interested in rolling back Second Amendment rights or hatching a scheme to take Americans’ firearms. Speaking just outside Denver, Colorado, Mrs. Clinton again said she’ll make gun control legislation a top priority of her administration, vowing to fight the “gun lobby” and enact stricter rules, such as expanded background checks. But in fighting for votes across rural America, where gun rights remain a key issue, the former first lady also must tread carefully. The National Rifle Association already has endorsed her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, and many...

WeatherProof Roofing in Colorado will offer clients that purchase a new roof before Oct 1 a certificate redeemable for a gun. The new "Get a Roof, Get a Gun!" promotion is the only offer of its kind, owner James Webb told Denver's Fox31 news: “We are the only roofing company in the country that is offering this. We figured we take a stand on what we believe,” Webb said. “We help protect the outside now we empower people to protect the inside." The promotion runs until Oct. 1. Webb is partnering with a local gun club to run the appropriate...

Accidentally, of course. A "glitch", if you will. When discussing any issue for which Barack Obama is proposing action there is an axiom which has to be remembered- Obama lies about everything- the Iran deal, Fast and Furious, health care, rewriting history, Libya, you name it. Gun control is no different. What he wants, accompanied by our resident idiot Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, is nothing less than the ability to suspend your Constitutional rights. Here he is in a town hall whining about his inability to stop those on a no-fly list from purchasing guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6imFvSua3KgWhat he's really...

Friends, while I'm not going to discuss the particulars of my sister's divorce or what I was told about how she was cheated on, battered, and abused during her marriage. My concern is for her safety these days. This is because her soon-to-be-former-husband has made a number of threats against her life. And friends, these are not "alleged" threats simply because I've seen them and verified them to be real.  Fearing for her safety and security even more so in recent months, my sister has gone to the El Dorado County Court to request and obtain a Restraining Order...

I am a volunteer for the Tim Donnelly Congressional campaign in the San Bernardino. We will be walking house to house in the Victorville, CA area this Saturday 4/23/16. We need and would love to have fellow patriots come out and help talk with voters during the afternoon. The walks are a lot of fun and we really spread the message of protecting our constitutional rights. Tim Donnelly has a great track record of supporting his fellow American and he needs your help to deliver our message to the people in Washington. Please come by and meet Tim and help...

An interesting small step maybe.

You know what's dangerous about a minor-league baseball team marketing person watching a Miss Universe Pageant gone terribly wrong? Ideas start happening. That was the case for Nathan Barnett, who works in the front office of the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers' Double-A affiliate. On Sunday, Barnett saw pageant host Steve Harvey announce the wrong winner. As anyone with marketing in his blood will do, Barnett immediately reached for his cellphone. "It was not one person's idea, really, but I saw the gaffe happen live and texted [Roughriders director of marketing and promotions] Matt Ratliff that we had to invite...

Did you ever notice that pretty much everything is a recruitment tool for ISIS? Ever notice that disagreeing with Obama on anything helps ISIS? Ever notice that pretty much anything can radicalize some people? Gitmo is a recruiting tool for ISIS Barack Obama says Republicans rejecting Syrians are 'potent' ISIS recruiting toolGOP rhetoric is a potent recruiting tool for ISIS Hillary Clinton can't resist the demagoguery: Republican "Clash Of Civilizations" Rhetoric Is A Recruiting Tool For ISIS Clinton goes so far as to blatantly lie: ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in...

Germans, facing an influx of more than one million asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are rushing to arm themselves. All across Germany, a country with some of the most stringent gun-control laws in Europe, demand is skyrocketing for non-lethal self-defense weapons, including pepper sprays, gas pistols, flare guns, electroshock weapons and animal repellants. Germans are also applying for weapons permits in record numbers. The scramble to acquire weapons comes amid a migrant-driven surge in violent crimes — including rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults — in cities and towns throughout the country. German authorities, however, are going...

Democrats ramped up their push Thursday for more firearms restrictions even as alarm over recent mass shootings, including one linked to Islamic terrorism, fueled calls for citizens to play a greater role in their own protection. The Senate defeated two gun control amendments, one that would have expanded background checks for guns purchased online and at gun shows, and another that would have prohibited suspected terrorists from buying firearms.

Senate Democrats will offer a pair of gun-related amendments to a budget bill on Thursday, seeking to put Republicans on record on the charged issue in the aftermath of Wednesday's mass shooting in California. At a special caucus meeting on Thursday morning, Democratic senators agreed to offer Legislation that would make it harder for people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns, and a re-vote on universal background checks that failed in 2013, senators and aides said. The votes could become major campaign fodder in next year's Senate races. A third amendment proposed by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid...

San Bernardino police announced tonight that the Islamic killers who slaughtered 14 people at a community social services building were wearing GoPro cameras. The male and female were wearing protective vests and carrying several firearms when they were gunned down by police after the massacre. ** The couple had a six month old child. The San Bernardino shooting suspect was identified tonight as Syed Farook – a father, husband and devoutly religious Muslim. Local officials reported the name of the female suspect in San Bernardino shooting as – Tashfeen Malik. They were wearing GoPro cameras when they were killed. The...

I respectfully submit the following for your consideration this early morn: After 7 long years of the Obama's FAILED national Socialist agenda, the left wants to pretend it doesn't exist as exemplified by this tweet from Hillary: Dan Merica Verified account@danmericaCNN Clinton: "It is time we get back to where we were before the Republicans came in and messed it up again."https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/671060997956878336? On top of this they want to double down on this with more of the same. There is the dire threat from Islamic radical terrorists, and the nation's socialist left wants to leave the border open to anyone...

"Chatting" with a FB friend and discussing the 2nd. Send me to wikipedia for a quick view and noticed the following: "There are actually two different versions: As passed by the Congress and preserved in the National Archives, with the rest of the original hand-written copy of the Bill of Rights prepared by scribe William Lambert:[29] (p) A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State:[30] A well regulated...

Following the news of the heinous attack on Inland Regional Services complex in San Bernardino, California, Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera tweeted that the “2nd Amendment is stupid” and asked Americans not to “rationalize” otherwise.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is an outspoken proponent of gun control (in a district which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation). So, when asked by 60 Minutes how people should respond to being near an active gunman, Lanier's response was bemusing as The Washington Times reports, saying that the "best option for saving lives before police can get there” would be for citizens to try to subdue, or even kill, the gunman.

Spike Lee’s new movie “Chiraq” has an interesting take on how to end the violence in Chicago: Withhold sex from men to stop the carnage.