https://freerepublic.com/tag/secondanendment/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2026 02:13:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386819/posts Critics say the administration is weakening public safety. Proponents say regulations would be where they were before President Joseph R. Biden took office. The Trump administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions. The drastic retrenchment at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws, was not entirely unexpected: President Trump campaigned as a champion of gun rights. In the view of critics and even some A.T.F.... The New York Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386819/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2026 02:13:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3092517/posts Hollywood producer and Obama donor Harvey Weinstein said the United States is "embarrassing" because of its adherence to the Second Amendment and lack of universal healthcare.  Appearing on Piers Morgan Tonight Friday, Weinstein said "this is the only the country in the world where we don't have health care. Countries embarrass us around the world." "And this is the only country in the world where we don't have a gun law. I watched you, you know, talking about that," he said. "You know, quite frankly it's embarrassing. Obama's not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing." Morgan asked Weinstein during the show's Friday installment "if... breitbart https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3092517/posts#comment Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:13:57 GMT