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U.S. gun manufacturers asked a Massachusetts court to drop a lawsuit the Mexican government filed against them for alleged negligence and illegal commercial practices causing their weapons to enter Mexico and encourage violence in the country. The Mexican government filed the suit in August. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said that in 2019, at least 17,000 homicides were linked to trafficked weapons. According to the Associated Press, the country's officials estimate that 70 percent of weapons trafficked to Mexico came from the U.S. In the lawsuit, the government said that the companies not only knew that their practices were contributing to...

The National Rifle Association has notched a big milestone: its 150th anniversary."For 150 years, millions of Americans from all walks of life, races, colors, and creeds have been proud members of the National Rifle Association of America. From Presidents of the United States, military heroes, those with household names to rank and file Americans like us, all have entrusted the NRA to be the guardians of their Second Amendment, their self-defense and hunting rights, and indeed their freedom as Americans," NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre exclusively told Fox News.~~~Snip~~~The NRA was officially founded on Nov. 17, 1871, by Union veterans Col....

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A legally armed delivery driver turned the tables on three men who tried to rob him in Philadelphia’s Mayfair section, killing one suspect and sending another to the hospital in critical condition. The man told police he arrived home around 12:15 a.m. on Saturday on Longshore Avenue after working his meal delivery job. After going inside his home to give his family food, he went back outside when he was confronted by three men, police said. Two of the suspects pointed guns at the man and demanded money. The man then told the suspects the money was inside his vehicle....

Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he stood behind his pledge to take away “weapons of war” from American citizens. Anchor Dana Bash said, “It was gun control, in particular, was your number one issue in your presidential campaign. I want to play something you said on the debate stage in 2019 shortly after a mass shooting in your hometown of El Paso.”

The jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has begun its deliberations. As we wait, it is worth acknowledging that this trial has come to stand for what may well be the future of criminal defense law in America. Put aside the tactical errors of the prosecutors and the trial antics of a flamboyant judge and even the radicalization of the vigilante right—what is left is a snapshot of what will happen every time jurors contemplate how guns, protests, and hair-trigger self-defense combine in public spaces. And it looks very much like passing judgment over a shootout at the O.K. Corral....

Why the Rittenhouse Case Has Changed Everything The Rittenhouse case is a clinic in exactly why Americans have a right to an AR-15.“You don’t need an AR-15,” U.S. News and World Report told readers just three and a half years ago. ThinkProgress in 2018 published a piece called, “The myth that civilian gun ownership prevents tyranny.” When Ben Shapiro justified private ownership of guns to counter potential tyranny in the United States, CNN’s Piers Morgan guffawed contemptuously. “Do you understand how absurd you sound?” Morgan asked Shapiro in 2013. Until recently, people laughed at the idea that an AR-15 could...

--(snip) "But while Nevada may not see many changes based on the Supreme Court case, we don’t have to look far to see the dangerous ramifications of sacrificing public safety on the altar of unregulated gun rights. Our next-door neighbor, Idaho, is among the worst in the nation in gun safety — a problem that was tragically illustrated when a gunman killed two innocent people at a Boise shopping mall on Oct. 25 before dying in a shootout with police. The shooter was a convicted felon who was known to law enforcement. He’d been flagged by Idaho State Police on...

The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who brought an illegally obtained AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to a chaotic street protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and shot three people, killing two of them, has the country riveted this week. The judge and the prosecutor have been at each other's throats, the top prosecution witnesses turned out to be more helpful for the defense, and defense attorneys unexpectedly put the baby-faced Rittenhouse on the stand, where he breathlessly sobbed like a toddler. Meanwhile, the judge got a phone call as he sat at the bench, revealing his ring tone to be Lee Greenwood's...

God, Family and Guns takes a close look at guns, ammo and personal protection tactics and equipment, and how to protect your family. 100's Of Illegal Guns Trafficked To Washington D.C.

Guns, violence and political extremism are on the rise. And America risks disaster — sooner than later. That’s the view of a longtime University of California firearms researcher whose hard-hitting report was published recently in the journal Injury Epidemiology. “Upward trends in firearm purchasing, violence and political extremism are converging to put the USA at risk for disaster in the months ahead,” Garen Wintemute warned in introducing the report. “We have no time to waste if we are to prevent the loss of thousands of lives and emerge with our democracy intact.

This year has seen the largest increase ever in the number of concealed handgun permit holders—more than two million, for a total of 21.52 million. That is a 48 percent increase since 2016. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of NYSRPA v. Bruen, which has a chance to further increase this total and make permitting rules more similar across states. Six states now have more than 1 million permit holders: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Florida is the first state to have more than 2.5 million permits. Alabama has the highest rate of adults with...

An elderly retired firefighter in Chicago with a concealed carry license fatally shot a robber in broad daylight, according to police. The unidentified 77-year-old man was in a parking garage in the West Chesterfield neighborhood of Chicago at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The robber, who was also armed, pulled into the garage and demanded the elderly man fork over his possessions. The man then produced his firearm and shot the robber in the head and chest, killing him, according to police. Chicago police said the man had a valid Firearms Owner Identification Card and a Concealed Carry License. The Chicago...

I discovered this series titled “What the Progressive Socialist Liberals Have in Store for Conservatives” only yesterday, and I read all six parts in a row non-stop. This is a masters-degree-level course on the history and lessons of government-sponsored genocide. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Some of the many embedded images are gut-wrenching, but this lecture series does not hold back any punches. The hosting website permits you to save these lectures as PDF files, and I recommend that you do so. The powers-that-be in the coming years will not want people to be armed with this knowledge. This...

Biden's ATF obtained more than 54 million gun owner records in 2021 alone The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy...

The City of Boston has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and other plaintiffs over delays in accepting and processing.

Ever since the night of Aug. 25, 2020, when two people were shot dead in the streets of Kenosha and a third person seriously wounded, the question hasn’t been who did it but whether Antioch teenager Kyle Rittenhouse would get away with it. As the first week of his murder trial came to a close, I must report that you shouldn’t be surprised if he does. I’ve always believed it would be difficult to find 12 jurors who would agree to convict Rittenhouse of the most serious homicide charges against him if only because the case is an intersection of...

Gun violence is an endemic problem in the United States -- once again getting worse in some areas after many years of declines and persistent at high levels in others. Despite being one of the leading causes of death, one thing that that's difficult to know is the scope of the problem, fueled in part by a more than a two-decade-long prohibition -- recently changed -- on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using federal funds to "advocate or promote gun control." It wasn't always this way -- the CDC in 1983 adopted a public health approach to gun...

This post was updated on Nov. 3 at 5:15 p.m.When Wednesday’s oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen drew to a close after roughly two hours of debate, it seemed likely that New York’s 108-year-old handgun-licensing law is in jeopardy. But the justices’ eventual ruling might be a narrow one focused on the New York law (and others like it), saving broader questions on the right to carry a gun outside the home for later.The law requires anyone who wants a license to carry a concealed handgun to show “proper cause” for the license. Courts...

A man involved in a deadly road rage incident last year in Golden Gate Estates is immune from civil action under the “Stand Your Ground” law, a judge in the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in Collier County ruled. Circuit Judge Blake Adams dismissed a wrongful death suit on Friday, filed by the family of David Norgard, 24, of Golden Gate Estates, who died after he sustained two gunshot wounds to the chest near 16th Avenue Southwest and 23rd Street Southwest around 9 p.m. March 1, 2019. The shooter was cleared of criminal wrongdoing a few months after the incident by...