Gun control groups excel at lying and deceit. Thanks to their collusion with the media, they’re also successful at spreading their lies far and wide. That’s how they manage to keep support for gun control alive in the public.
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Texas Store Owner Shoots & Kills Two Armed Thugs during Failed Robbery
A pack of armed thugs’ “jugging” attempt failed miserably when a Texas store pulled his own gun and defended himself during a botched robbery attempt.
The owner of Ruiz Cash & Carry managed to gun down two out of three of the gang of armed robbers.
The Houston Police Department believes that the armed thugs killed outside of a family-owned convenience store were trying to rob the owner in a “jugging” attempt.
Jugging – A crime where a suspect observes a customer at a bank or high-end store and then follows the customer after they leave the establishment in order to steal their money or valuables.
Feds’ Firearms Policies Not Backed by Evidence: Report
The Liberal government’s approach to gun control to reduce violence is not backed by evidence, says a new report by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).
The report released on Aug. 14 goes over the various measures implemented by the government in recent years, from the ban of so-called “assault-style” firearms to the freeze of handgun transfers, and the introduction of Bill C-21.
Inexpensive Add-on Spawns a New Era of Machine Guns
Popular devices known as “switches” are turning ordinary pistols into fully automatic weapons, making them deadlier and a growing threat to bystanders.
Caison Robinson, 14, had just met up with a younger neighbor on their quiet street after finishing his chores when a gunman in a white car rolled up and fired a torrent of bullets in an instant.
“Mom, I’ve been shot!” he recalled crying, as his mother bolted barefoot out of their house in northwest Las Vegas. “I didn’t think I was going to make it, for how much blood was under me,” Caison said.
The Las Vegas police say the shooting in May was carried out with a pistol rigged with a small and illegal device known as a switch. Switches can transform semiautomatic handguns, which typically require a trigger pull for each shot, into fully automatic machine guns that fire dozens of bullets with one tug.
US Supreme Court restores Biden ‘ghost gun’ rules – for now
The US Supreme Court has allowed restrictions against untraceable “ghost guns” to stand while an appeal by the White House is pending.
In July, a Texas court blocked a 2022 rule requiring self-assembled “ghost gun” kits to have serial numbers – legally making them a firearm.
Gun rights groups and gun owners had sued to stop the new rule.
The decision comes as the White House faces pressure to take more action on gun violence.
As extremist threat rises, Latino Texans say gun ownership is ‘matter of survival’
On a crisp Sunday afternoon in Royse City, Texas, 32-year-old Cesar Hurtado unzipped a hardshell case to reveal a custom-built AR-15-style rifle in his living room. Emblazoned on the side of the gun is the tagline “no war, no gods, no masters”.
Hurtado’s interest in firearms started with hunting, but after the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso that targeted Latinos, Hurtado felt he had to embrace firearms for his own protection. “For white gun owners, they feel they have a right to a gun,” Hurtado said, “but for Latino gun owners, it’s a matter of survival and safety.”
About those 116 gun deaths per day…
Headlines over “gun deaths” will always draw eyes. Some people will immediately click the link, then share it all over social media, just so they can say, “See! I told you guns are bad!”
There are usually problems with this, though.
For example, these reports rarely provide any context and they also tend to involve a fair bit of sensationalism in presenting all firearm-related fatalities as the same.
NY Times Unearths Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: ‘The Secret History’ of the NRA
“The Secret History of Gun Rights: How Lawmakers Armed the N.R.A.,” the prominently displayed 5,000-word lead story in Sunday’s New York Times, was the work of investigative reporter Mike McIntire, who spent the Obama years hassling the Tea Party and the GOP with hostile investigations before turning his attention to the National Rifle Association, the oldest civil rights group in America which defends the Second Amendment rights of citizens.
The online subhead read: “They served in Congress and on the N.R.A.’s board at the same time. Over decades, a small group of legislators led by a prominent Democrat pushed the gun lobby to help transform the law, the courts and views on the Second Amendment.”
Murder charge dropped in case of Milton, Ont., man accused of killing armed intruder
A murder charge that was laid against a Milton man accused of killing an armed intruder earlier this year has been dropped.
The Crown withdrew the second-degree murder charge laid against Ali Mian Monday, saying there is no reasonable prospect of a conviction.
Study Shows Gun Laws Don’t Matter, Race Does
Gun control and blaming racism are no substitute for personal responsibility.
33 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Urban gangland violence like that is what real “mass shootings” look like and finally a Journal of the American Medical Association paper addressed the problem by shifting the blame to something it calls “structural racism”.
The First Smart Gun Is Finally Coming to Market. Will Anyone Buy It?
Sasha Wiesen sleeps with a .40-caliber handgun in a safe by his bed. The commercial real-estate broker from Florida recently preordered a new type of firearm he hopes will make the safe unnecessary.
The new weapon is the Colorado startup Biofire’s 9mm Smart Gun, which can only be fired if it recognizes an authorized user with a fingerprint reader on the grip or a facial recognition camera on the back.
Gage Haubrich: New Zealand’s gun buyback suggests Ottawa’s won’t work
In May 2020, the federal government announced a ban on 1,500 types of what it called “assault-style” firearms. As part of this ban, it has promised to provide “fair compensation” to gun owners whose firearms it confiscates.
The ban’s aim is to keep Canadians safe. “Enough is enough,” said then-minister of public safety Bill Blair. “Banning these firearms will save Canadian lives.” But will this scheme actually make Canadians safer? And what will it cost? The government of New Zealand recently completed its own gun ban and buyback. It provides a good case study of the effects such a program can have.
Police arrest 45, seize 440 weapons in Canada-wide raids targeting 3D-printed guns
MONTREAL – A Quebec-based anti-gun unit says 45 people have been arrested and 440 guns have been seized in raids targeting manufacturers of 3D-printed or “ghost” guns across eight provinces.
The squad, called the L’Équipe intégrée de lutte au trafic d’armes, told reporters today in Montreal that more than 20 police forces were involved in Canada-wide raids that took place Tuesday.
Time to arrest farmers and seize their Tractor & Combine Ghost Gun machines.
Why the Liberals are suddenly talking about ‘ghost guns’ — and why Conservatives say it’s a cynical distraction
OTTAWA — The Liberals’ legislation to tighten gun restrictions started out as a bill largely focused on banning handguns.
Then, it expanded into a sweeping ban on hundreds of long guns so broadly seen as a direct attack on hunters and sport shooters that the Liberals simply had to walk that aspect back.
Now, in the version of C-21 they hope to pass before summer, the Liberals are promoting an additional showpiece: measures to crack down on the untraceable weapons known as “ghost guns.”
Gangstas celebrate 1st Annual Gun Grab Day
1st National Day Against Gun Violence to be marked in Canada
The federal government is proclaiming a National Day Against Gun Violence, to be held annually on the first Friday of June.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and representatives of the Toronto Raptors basketball team are set to discuss the plans Thursday at an event in Toronto.