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Is United Nations Geneva trying to tell us somethin’? Heh. Hey man, we all ‘typo’ when we tweet … it happens. And we’ve seen some silly gun-grabbing tweets but this one? WOOF and YIKES all in one. If you’re tweeting for say some very large even GLOBAL organization you might want to double-check what your tweet says beyond just spellcheck. Not to mention hashtags are a different beast entirely so check, check, and check again. They tweeted this in response to the Allen, TX shooting (and it was up for several hours): Why is the UN promoting #IncestInPeace? Incest? pic.twitter.com/TDOYDkXqzZ...

According to an April report released by watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com, the Internal Revenue Service has spent $10 million since 2020 on guns, ammunition, and other tactical gear in an effort to militarize the agency. The report revealed that the IRS and 102 other agencies outside the Department of Defense invested a combined total of $3.7 billion since 2006 – adjusted for inflation – on weapons, ammunition, and military-style equipment. OpenTheBooks.com stated that 76 of the 102 are rank-and-file regulatory agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services. “There are now more...

U.S.A. — In the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal Judge Stephen P. McGlynn has issued a well-reasoned and argued opinion covering several challenges to the “Protect Illinois Communities Act” (PICA). The opinion puts in place a temporary injunction against the enforcement of PICA.PICA bans the ownership of over 190 models of firearms and criminalizes the possession of magazines that hold over 10 rounds, among other things. Judge McGlynn filed the opinion on April 28, 2023. The opinion is straightforward. In the fifth paragraph, after describing the events...

The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900, by David Kopel and Joseph Greenlee, Law review article, 165 pages, 2021. The Supreme Court, in the seminal Bruen decision, held: once the clear text of the Second Amendment is implicated, the burden falls on the government to prove there were widespread and accepted statutory restraints in history which are very similar to the restraints the government is defending.The law review article by Kopel and Greenlee is the most comprehensive compilation of the laws on ownership and regulation of arms from medieval England through 1900, especially on weapons bans, yet...

Video at https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1640739808543662080Last Friday, a transgender woman from Colorado who posted a video loading an AR-15 after a conservative extremist called for eradicating “transgenderism” was fired from her federal job. Kayla Denker says sacking her from her job exemplifies a double standard where right-wingers can pose with guns, but transgender women cannot. A video of Denker went viral in March. The 36-year-old is holding a legally purchased AR-15 long gun. She repeatedly racks the weapon and shows off the loaded clip. “While advocating for trans people to ‘arm ourselves’ is not any kind of a solution to the genocide we...

Police were called to a bar fight early Sunday with 70 to 80 people in Trumbull County that involved a gun, according to a report. When police arrived at Faces Lounge in Newton Falls at about 2:30 a.m., a bouncer had a suspect pinned on the ground. Police immediately moved to arrest the suspect, according to reports. New details emerge in former YSU basketball player’s arrest When police interviewed a witness, the witness said the suspect had been at the bar earlier. Later, he returned and reportedly was looking for a gun he left at the bar. Police identified the...

Let’s face it: Many armed Americans are deathly — and irrationally — afraid of others. And so they have become a menace to the rest of us. According to a 2021 Gallup Poll, as many as 88 percent of gun owners are apparently terrified of being harmed, since they say the guns are for self-defense. Yet very, very few gun owners end up defending themselves and their families from the sort of random crime they fear. According to The Trace, fewer than 3 percent of gun owners ever use a weapon in self-defense, and apparently some of those involve misrepresentation...

While many find it inexplicable that the FBI would be investing so much effort to monitor the activities going on in America's churches, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va) does not. "Let me remind those ignorant of history that this isn't the first time that Christians have posed a serious challenge to government authority," Kaine said. "Two thousand years ago they were active spreaders of disinformation and disloyalty toward those responsible for maintaining public order. Their chief agitator was so disruptive that it was necessary to make an example of him. But his followers were so fanatical that they remained undeterred and...

CNN anchor Don Lemon abruptly ended a segment with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after a tense back-and-forth about gun rights and black Americans. What happened? During an interview on "CNN This Morning," co-host Poppy Harlow asked Ramaswamy about his speech last week at the NRA convention. In that speech, Ramaswamy connected gun control laws and the campaign to oppress black Americans after the Civil War. We fought a civil war in this country to give black Americans the equal protection under the law that we failed to secure them in 1776. But then, you want to know what happened?...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democratic lawmakers killed an ambitious bill Thursday that would have banned the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, citing promises made to their constituents and concerns over the sweep of the ban even in a state still reeling from a mass shooting in Colorado Springs months earlier. Washington state's Democratic-controlled Statehouse cleared a ban on semiautomatic rifles Wednesday, joining the blue bastions of California and New York. But Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature was split on the issue, underscoring the state's purple roots, tensions between urban and rural constituents, and an ongoing push-and-pull between progressive and moderate Democrats...

Last we heard from Harvard’s David Hogg, he was working on a paper on the Second Amendment for his constitutional law class. He’ll probably get an A+ for the same reason Harvard granted him admission over much more gifted young people. Hogg’s takes on the Second Amendment are universally terrible, but Keith Olbermann got triggered by a tweet Thursday that led him to lay down the hammer on gun ownership. House Judiciary GOP @JudiciaryGOP #BREAKING: The Judiciary Committee just voted to repeal the ATF’s unconstitutional ban on pistol braces. Big win for the Second Amendment. 1:10 AM · Apr 20,...

A Colorado House committee on Wednesday began an estimated 12 hours of testimony from approximately 500 witnesses who registered to testify on a bill that would ban the sale of so-called assault weapons in the state. House Bill 23-1230 would prohibit the manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling or transferring ownership of an assault weapon. It also would prohibit a person from possessing a rapid-fire trigger activator. Individuals, gun show vendors and licensed firearms dealers would face civil penalties for violating the law. The bill also would make it a misdemeanor offense to possess, manufacture, import, purchase, sell, offer to sell or...

The Nebraska Legislature passed LB77, the Constitutional Carry bill today at 11:28. The vote was 33 to 14 for the third cloture vote. Each closure vote requires 33 votes to move the legislation forward. Nebraska Governor (R) Jim Pillen has said he will sign the bill. Nebraska will be the 26th state to restore Constitutional Carry. Florida has enacted permitless carry. There are 27 permitless carry states. All Constitutional Carry states have permitless carry, but Florida does not allow general open carry, so is not a true Constitutional Carry state.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee spent Monday’s Manhattan field hearing blaming guns, not people, for crime. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee spent Monday’s Manhattan field hearing blaming guns, not the criminals behind them, for the nation’s crime epidemic. The committee held a field hearing in Manhattan as New York City deteriorates from an American centerpiece of capital ingenuity into a treacherous urban jungle where far-left prosecutors allow criminals to control the streets. “Today’s hearing is about the administration of justice, and keeping communities safe, something that has always been a central focus of the House Judiciary Committee,” opened...

from Pew Research: You are five times more likely to be murdered with a knife vs. a rifle. More than half of all firearm deaths are due to suicide. In countries where firearms are banned/outlawed, the number of knife deaths skyrockets. (It’s not a firearm problem; it’s a people problem.) The U.S. has the highest rate of firearm ownership, yet ranks 28th in the world for firearm deaths. Cities with the strictest firearm laws also have the highest firearm crime rate. As for the 2nd Amendment: You seem to have ignored the part about “shall not be infringed.” And militia...

Alec Baldwin has been allowed to skip the preliminary hearing in the “Rust” shooting case, a judge has ruled. Baldwin was due to appear in court for the two-week preliminary hearing, set to kick off on May 3. The hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western flick, “Rust.” Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot on the movie set outside Sante Fe, N.M., on Oct. 21, 2021, after Baldwin’s prop gun discharged a live round and struck her in the chest....

The hideous laws designed to violate almost all parts of the Bill of Rights are finally being struck down as unconstitutional.The Supreme Court of the State of New York, the state's second highest court, recently ruled the state's so-called "red flag" law unconstitutional. These unconstitutional gun confiscation schemes go by different designations, but they are colloquially known as red flag laws. The gun-grabbing ghouls of the far left are creative in describing their operation.Anyone supportive of individual liberty and our commonsense civil rights has been horrified at how these authoritarian abominations violate almost all aspects of the Bill of Rights....

It's been 'dumped' out there that Joe Biden wears diapers all the time. I don't know the true story but let's assume it is true that Joe wears "Depends" or whatever. For starters I would say Biden's diapers have US Constitution and Bill of Rights printed on the inside. Biden dumps on them all the time his Banana Republic prosecuting Trump and arresting people on flimsy grounds like the Pro-Life activist Mark Houck found not guilty by a federal court jury. The internet censorship revealed by the Twitter Files the SOP of the Biden Administration with the journalist Matt Taibbi...

There are many fierce, hungry tigers living near your home and they are stalking your children. How best to protect your young ones: declaw the tigers, or equip your home with strong defenses so they cannot enter, and if they do they will be stopped dead? This is the essential question tragically raised once again in the bloody wake of the Tennessee Christian elementary school massacre. Anti-gun media talking heads, Democrat legislators, government officials, teachers’ Union chieftain Randi Weingarten, and Democrat gun-haters in general as usual are claiming the only way to stop these horrific attacks is declaw the tigers...

Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider okayed the use of the band’s music by gun control groups who are organizing a push to ban “assault weapons.” On Tuesday, Snider gave the okay in response to a Twitter user who is organizing the gun control push: He also gave the okay to a Twitter user who wants to use the song in conjunction with a Moms Demand Action gun control push: These tweets come one day after transgender shooter Aubrey Hale killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville. In other tweets, Snider noted that he keeps a .45 caliber pistol by...