“There are few things I hate more than getting up first thing in the morning and learning there’s been a mass shooting somewhere overnight.
It’s not because it creates work for me or even necessarily that it renews the gun debate. It’s the senseless loss of life that takes me back to a moment I wish I could forget.”
Beginning in April 2023, Discover will become the first credit card issuer to track gun purchases made by their cardholders.
On September 11, 2022, Breitbart News noted that Visa caved to pressure from gun control groups and New York Democrats, agreeing to flag gun and ammo purchases via a new sales categorization. The Associated Press observed that Mastercard and other major credit cards also agreed to flag gun sales.
From the wild west we bring you a funny case study in firearms news coverage: Global News, seizing on a remark by Edmonton’s chief of police, is sounding the alarm about “ghost guns” in the Alberta capital. Shooting incidents are at an all-time high in the city, and Chief Dale McFee is rightly keeping one eye on seizures of privately made guns, issuing a table of stats indicating the variety and quantity of the problem. The brief TV version of the story highlights the phenomenon of the 3D-printed gun, which can conceivably be made in a home workshop out of non-metallic polymers, raising the spectre of streets flooded with high-tech weaponry.
They neglect that true psychopaths, like the perpetrator of the Michigan State tragedy, cruise through background checks and red flag screenings.
Whenever there is a horrific mass shooting somewhere in the country, the liberal chattering classes begin the usual mantra. Calls for red flag laws and a ban on assault weapons flood the op-ed pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, even if the crime in question would not have been prevented by such legislation. The recent tragedy on the campus of Michigan State University is a case in point. The shooter, Anthony McRae, did not use an assault weapon, and a red flag law would not have worked in his case. McRae was despondent over the death of his mother but was not previously violent, nor had he threatened anyone before the shooting. If depression or mental illness became a criterion for disarming an individual, most of our country’s citizens — including at least one serving senator — could be disarmed at some point in their lives.
On the surface, the two cases seemed almost identical, the resident of a house responding both times with lethal violence to an invasion by multiple thieves.
Kyle Rittenhouse vows to ‘prove my innocence again’ after man he shot in the arm during 2020 Kenosha riots sues him for ’emotional distress and humiliation’ despite testifying that he pointed his firearm first
Kyle Rittenhouse has vowed to ‘prove my innocence again’ after the man he shot in 2020 sued him for ’emotional distress and humiliation’.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who testified that he had pointed a pistol at Rittenhouse and was then shot during the 2020 Kenosha riots, is suing the 20-year-old for ‘damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims.’
Grosskreutz ‘must live with the physical and emotional wounds inflicted by Defendant Rittenhouse and the Defendants who deputized and enabled him,’ the lawsuit says.
A man has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting a home invader on Feb. 19 in Milton, Ont., the latest in a string of similar confrontations across Canada.
This sounds like a legitimate application of reasonable force.
Kris He walked into Arcadia Firearm & Safety in Arcadia, California, three days after his gun license became official.
The 22-year-old immigrant from mainland China walked past a Trump flag, past the rifles, and headed to the glass case displaying handguns. He didn’t grow up around guns, but after seeing the gun store’s website in Chinese, he hoped owner David Liu would answer some of his questions.
“I speak Mandarin and Cantonese. They can use their mother tongue and talk to me. I will try to explain to them about the law and about the safety of firearms,” said Liu.
The Republican-led Missouri state house on Wednesday voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision.
The proposal to ban children from carrying guns without adult supervision in public failed by a 104-39 vote. Only one Republican voted in support.
A federal law barring marijuana users from possessing guns violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled.
The decision cites last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling that affirmed an individual right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
The ruling came as challenges to gun laws across the nation have escalated since the Supreme Court struck down a restrictive New York firearms law in June 2022. The high court held that there is a constitutional right to carry a gun outside the home, leading states such as New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois to respond by doubling down on firearms restrictions.
Conservatives were beaming on Friday after the Liberal government quietly and suddenly abandoned its hotly debated attempts to expand firearms restrictions through Bill C-21.
“My Conservative team and I have forced Justin Trudeau into a temporary but humiliating climb-down today,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre crowed.
It was a “climb-down” and it was “humiliating” — that much seems beyond dispute. But if Conservative criticism was a deal-breaker for this government, the Liberals would have a hard time getting much of anything passed.
‘I was never a gun guy,’ the applicant said, ‘but it’s getting alarming.’
After receiving only a handful of applications for permits to carry a concealed weapon in the past decade, the city of San Francisco is being flooded with them as property crime skyrockets. Last week, the first of those applications was finally approved.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling last year in the Bruen case, which made it easier for gun owners to get concealed carry permits, it is now much easier for residents of San Francisco to obtain a license to carry weapons in public. That right may be short-lived, however, as the state moves to rewrite gun laws to comply with the court’s ruling.
The government has withdrawn a controversial amendment to its proposed firearm legislation — one that critics warned could have restricted access to hunting rifles.
The Liberal amendment to gun law reform Bill C-21, which was tabled in a committee meeting in November, faced questions about how far it would have expanded the scope of weapons that are prohibited in Canada.
Internal polling must have sucked bad.
Philadelphia and other cities suffering from surging gun deaths are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into solutions that don’t work
In a recent mayoral debate at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Helen Gym, who had been an outspoken opponent of increasing the city’s policing budget in 2020, called gun violence the “single greatest threat to everything that we have ever hoped for in this city.”
Gun violence is ravaging Philadelphia, just as it is Rochester, Indianapolis, Columbus, Louisville, Austin, and six other major cities that suffered record-breaking homicides in 2021—a crisis that shows little sign of waning. Philadelphia has something else in common with those cities: Its officials have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into anti-violence initiatives that have failed to make a dent in the surging levels of violence. It’s a very American approach to a very American problem, as politicians pump money into opaque social initiatives that provide jobs to midlevel bureaucrats who fail to do anything at all.
“Everybody can get a grant, everybody gets paid,” said Jamal Johnson, a former Marine and anti-violence activist in Philadelphia. “It’s the new hustle.”
This sounds awfully like Toronto.
Say what?