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This de Blasio administration official set one heckuva bad example for the teens she was hired to keep out of jail. Reagan Stevens, a deputy director in the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and two young men were arrested for illegal weapons possession while sitting in a double-parked car near the scene of a Saturday night shooting in Queens, cops said. A loaded, 9-mm. semiautomatic pistol with its serial number defaced was hidden in the car’s glove box, and there was a spent shell casing on the floor

A Marine is behind bars for defending himself and his family from an armed thug. It was an ordinary evening for Joey Nelson. He was at home with his fiance, their 3 week old child, and a couple of friends. Then, all of a sudden, they were startled by violent pounding on the front door, and someone trying to force their way in. Nelson grabbed his gun and told the thug to leave. That’s when things turned violent. snip Michael Wilson, the criminal shooter who started the shootout. He is now considered the “victim” after shooting at Nelson and his...

A national newspaper chain with nearly 100 publications and 1.6 million readers is considering building “state-by-state databases” on concealed weapons permit holders, according to an internal e-mail. The plan, laid out in an email from a top editor at North Carolina-based Civitas Media, could be similar to a controversial project a New York state newspaper carried out in 2012 which included an online map that identified gun owners in two counties by name and address. Civitas' database project was detailed the plan in a Jan. 19 e-mail to newsrooms in 11 states, including Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

DENVER — Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced Monday afternoon that the group seeking to recall Sen. Angela Giron turned in enough valid signatures to force a special recall election later this year. That makes Giron, D-Pueblo, the second state lawmaker who could be recalled for her support of a Democratic package of gun control legislation earlier this year. Senate President John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, is also facing a recall. Of the 13,466 submitted by the group Pueblo Freedom and Rights, 12,648 were deemed valid, enough to clear the11,285 signature threshold — 25 percent of the votes cast in...

The words of the Second Amendment are likely to be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court soon. We are doing important research to that end and are asking for immediate help. What we need: 1) Scanned images from old dictionaries -- 1750 to 1825 -- of certain definitions. 2) Dictionaries from 1750 to 1825 donated to us for use in this research. If a nearby library has very old dictionaries, we need your help! Please scan the FRONT COVER, TITLE PAGE (and any other page with publication date) and the PAGE WITH THE DEFINITION of the words below. The definitions...

Just wanted to let everyone vent at this idiot governor who couldn't get a gunlock off a gun in a well lit conference room, other than Grey out probably the most Anti Gun Governor going, I told his secretary I'm damn pleased the piece of sh!t that pays no attention to government criminals is leaving.