Chicago saw a violent weekend, with 30 shootings between Friday evening and Sunday night.
Thirty-four people were shot and eight were murdered, according to statistics from the Chicago Police Department.
Gun Control
Iowa Governor Signs Bill Into Law Letting Residents Buy, Carry Guns Without Permits
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law on Friday lifting some restrictions to buy or carry a handgun in the state for law-abiding citizens.
The NRA-backed legislation named “House File 756” will take effect on July 1 and eliminates the requirement for law-abiding Iowans to obtain a permit to purchase a handgun from private non-licensed sources. Additionally, to carry a weapon, people will no longer need to have a permit as well.
BAROOTES: Trudeau’s made-in-America obsession with guns does nothing to keep us safe
You know a federal election is in the air when a Liberal government starts to dream up a new suite of exotic and invasive gun laws.
In the past year alone, the Trudeau government has announced a federal buy-back program for a list of firearms they have now deemed to be illegal. They introduced new legislation that will allow municipalities to ban law-abiding Canadians from owning restricted firearms, which could also ban airsoft sports. And, most recently, they have introduced Bill C-22 to eliminate a number of mandatory minimum penalties for firearms offenses that keep communities safe.
For those keeping score at home, this means the Trudeau government is now treating people who obey the law like criminals, people who break the law like victims, and people who work for municipalities as if they work for the federal government instead.
PBS’s Contempt for Gun Owners: Republicans ‘Don’t Have a Conscience’ on Guns
On Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co., the PBS show not only did its part to spread anti-gun misinformation, but also to demonize Republicans who dispute the value of more gun control. Host Christiane Amanpour and her guests made several blatantly false claims about the significance of background checks and the prevalence of so-called “assault weapons.” She also allowed one of her guests to sneer that Republicans “don’t have a conscience” when it comes to guns.
Can a government ‘buyback’ get these guns out of Canadians’ hands? Why some owners say they’re not selling
Cassy Parker owns many guns.
One that is near and dear to her heart is her Ruger Mini-14 Ranch rifle, a lightweight, semi-automatic gun, which her husband and five kids got her a couple of years ago for Mother’s Day.
Parker, who co-owns a gun shop called K.K.S. Tactical Supplies in a small strip mall in Prince George in northern British Columbia, says she has used her Ruger both for recreation and as part of her community-sanctioned “predator-management” efforts — killing some of the wolves and coyotes that prey on livestock animals, such as calves, and wildlife, including caribou, deer and moose.
MSNBC Spreads Anti-Gun Propaganda While Smearing Conservatives
On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur used her show to to misinform viewers about gun violence while wrongly accusing gun rights advocates of spreading “lies.”
After alluding to some of the gun control laws that have been passed in Colorado in the past decade, Tur allowed Colorado Democratic State Senator Rhonda Fields to complain that her state’s residents could still get guns from Wyoming or Utah without offering any evidence that this has happened in any recent shooting.
White House Confirms Biden Will Sign Gun Control Executive Orders
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Friday that President Joe Biden intends to sign executive orders instituting increased gun control.
“Yes,” Psaki flatly stated in response to a question on the subject during Friday’s press briefing. “I can’t give you an exact time frame in part, because they have to go through a review process, which is something that we do from here.”
Getting the Facts Straight on the ‘Boulder Gun Ban’
After another tragic mass shooting, the Left peddles its usual anti-gun propaganda, facts be damned.
Even in a country full of politicians, activists, and pundits who mislead and obfuscate, few public policy conversations come with more heat and less light than those surrounding “gun control.” Unsurprisingly, this is especially true during the emotion and trauma following a horrific event such as Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket on Table Mesa Road in Boulder, Colorado.
White House Officials, Including VP Harris, Want Mandatory Buybacks For ‘Assault Weapons’
Several of the top people in President Joe Biden’s administration – including Vice President Kamala Harris – want mandatory gun buybacks and have said they support seizing so-called “assault weapons.”
US Appeals Court Rules States May Restrict People From Openly Carrying Guns in Public
An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that states may restrict people from openly carrying firearms in public—upholding a Hawaii gun regulation that bans residents from openly carrying guns without a license.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 that restrictions on carrying guns in public except for hunting do not violate the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.
Biden admin calls on SCOTUS to let police enter homes, confiscate guns without a warrant
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case about whether law enforcement officers can enter people’s home and confiscate guns without a warrant, Forbes reported.
This comes in the wake of two mass shootings in the past eight days that have renewed the gun control debate, which has been relatively dormant throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Race Baiters Delete Tweets, Issue Corrections After Frenzied Effort To Pin Boulder Shooting To White Supremacy
Police revealed Tuesday morning the shooter was 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. The suspect was injured during a shootout with police and taken to the hospital. The new information led some users to issue corrections or delete their posts, which assumed the shooter’s race and motives.
CANADA: Trudeau hints at openness to gun bill changes after criticism from victims’ families
The letter to Trudeau says the buyback must be mandatory to ensure the measure cannot be easily overturned by the Conservatives, should they form government, given the party’s opposition to the firearms ban.
New Zealand Crime Rates Spike Despite ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban
Gun-related crime is spiking in New Zealand a full two years after the country instituted a nationwide ban on most semi-automatic firearms. The Parliament rammed through the ban and buyback (confiscation) program in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch attack, but the laws have had no positive effect on gun-related crime.
Sticking to Your Guns
Justin Trudeau’s gun restrictions have had massive implications for Canadian gun owners and firearms businesses, but to the gun control lobby, they are a “dismal” effort that doesn’t go far enough. True North’s Andrew Lawton warns that the Liberals are going to side with gun alarmists over gun owners every time.
Also, the upcoming trials of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor prove Canada’s policy of appeasing China has accomplished nothing.