The governor of West Virginia, in a stunning move that echoes the Civil War-era creation of his state, on Tuesday invited Virginia counties upset with Richmond’s liberal, anti-gun turn to shift borders and join his state. “If you out there, no matter where you be, Virginia or wherever you may be, as an individual or […]
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On a cold December day in 2012, a 20-year-old walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and fired on first-graders and staff before he shot himself. The shooter used a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle. This semi-automatic non-military version of the U.S. military’s M-16 had been illegally marketed by Remington Arms Co, the company that […]
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Image: Adobe Stock Even before one gets to the heart of the matter – namely, a) constitutional law, and b) the dangerous message of lawlessness and violence the concept conveys – it must be stated that there is something fundamentally incongruous and just plain wrong about the idea of a “gun sanctuary.” Merriam-Webster offers multiple […]
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Gun rights advocates attend a rally organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League on Capitol Square near the state capitol building on January 20 in Richmond, Virginia. Zach Gibson/Getty Images How a state’s attempts to disarm the populace could spiral out of control More than 22,000 gun owners gathered at the Virginia State Capitol on […]
Continue ReadingNearly two years ago, the governing board of Effingham County, Ill., passed a resolution declaring itself a “sanctuary county” and barring “employees from enforcing the unconstitutional actions of the state government.” Those actions? Gun control laws, which are resoundingly unpopular in the rural county some 215 miles south of Chicago. Since then, more than 400 […]
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A “March For Our Lives” rally at Arizona’s state Capitol, in Phoenix, on March 24, 2018. (Matt York / AP Photo) Last week, an estimated 22,000 people—many of them armed—flocked to Richmond, Virginia, to protest gun control efforts at the top of the newly-Democratic state legislature’s agenda: measures requiring background checks and limiting handgun buyers […]
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A pair of state lawmakers are looking to have Tennessee join a coalition of states with “red flag” laws for gun owners. Rep. Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) along with Sen. Sara Kyle (D-Memphis) are proposing bills that would allow a court to issue an emergency protection order that would temporarily keep a […]
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Activists at a gun-rights rally in Richmond last week called Virginia, a state with a pro-gun tradition now on the brink of passing restrictions, “the canary in the coal mine.” In the seven years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, pressure on lawmakers by a surging gun-control movement has resulted […]
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This map shows a 1,000-foot gun-shop free school zone that Lancaster Country Day School proposed in Manheim Township. The Manheim Township commissioners on Monday night rejected a private school’s request that gun shops be prohibited within 1,000 feet of all schools in the suburban community, a regulation that gun rights advocates said they’d fight in […]
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MANHEIM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) — A controversial proposal to ban gun sales and images of guns within one-thousand feet of schools in Manheim Township will not move forward, after a vote against it Monday night. Commissioners were tasked with deciding whether or not to send the request (which sought to amend current zoning ordinances) in […]
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