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Gun Sales Set Records, Likely to Continue

Friday, 06 May 2016 10:23

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, May 6, 2016:

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According to the FBI, more than two million gun-purchase background checks were conducted in April, 400,000 more than in April a year ago. In fact, every month since last May, background checks have set new records, putting 2016 on track to beat 2015 for the number of checks conducted by the National Instate Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

In its report the FBI noted that there is no direct one-to-one correlation between background checks and gun sales, but it’s close. Especially if one tracks the performance of stocks of Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson in the last 12 months.

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Obama Progressing in Plan to Make “Smart Guns” Operable Only by Owners

Tuesday, 03 May 2016 05:21

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 2, 2016:

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On Friday President Obama posted on his Facebook page the progress being made in his attempt to develop “smart gun” technology that would make guns inoperable unless fired only by their owners. He claimed it was all about preventing accidental shootings and tracking down stolen guns. He asserted:

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Are Voters Beginning to Reject Obama’s and Clinton’s Gun Control Agenda?

Tuesday, 03 May 2016 05:00

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, May 2, 2016:

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For months now national polls of likely voters in November have given Hillary Clinton high single- or low double-digit leads over Donald Trump, allowing Clinton to push her anti-gun agenda with impunity. She bragged last week on MSNBC that, once elected, she would take on the gun rights crowd (read: NRA, GOA, JPFO, The 2A Foundation, the NAGR, the CCRKBA, etc.) from the very first day:

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Exposing Judge Merrick’s Anti-gun Bias

Saturday, 19 March 2016 05:07

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, March 18, 2016:

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The United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States in 2006.

Merrick Brian Garland, nominated by President Obama on Wednesday to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court with the untimely passing of Antonin Scalia, has left footprints. They tell of a judge who isn’t interested in supporting the rights America’s citizens enjoy under the Second Amendment.

In 2007, Garland voted to rescind a D.C. Circuit court’s decision that invalidated Washington D.C.’s strict ban against handgun ownership. That law, which even prohibited guns citizens might keep at home for self-defense, was struck down by a three-judge panel, but Garland voted

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Business Owner Requires Employees to Carry in the Office

Friday, 26 February 2016 06:34

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 25, 2016:

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Taurus’ The Judge revolver, chambered to fire both .45 Long Colt and .410 Bore shot shells.

After WSBTV aired the story of a business owner in the Atlanta Metro area who requires all of his employees to get a permit and carry a firearm in the office for self-defense, it went viral and reporters inundated him with questions as to his reasoning.

Lance Toland, who founded Lance Toland Associates in 1975, has three offices near downtown Atlanta, staffed and run mostly by professional women. The company insures corporate aircraft and represents a number of main-line aviation insurers.

One of his employees, Mary Brannon, has been with Toland for nearly 30 years and was about to retire. Also an NRA instructor, Brannon talked with Toland about how his employees could best protect themselves in the future.

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After Being Tied up and Robbed, Colorado Homeowner Shoots and Kills Fleeing Suspect

Friday, 29 January 2016 06:54

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, January 28, 2017:

On Tuesday, David Martinez made a fatal decision. He and a friend tried to pull a Craigslist caper that went south. That decision cost Martinez his life.

According to Fox News, Martinez and his friend contacted a homeowner (whose name isn’t being released) who was offering several items for sale on Craigslist. Just after 9 a.m. on Tuesday, they arrived at his home in Littleton, Colorado,

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Massad Ayoob Riding the Wave of CCW Permit Holders Wanting Firearms Training

Sunday, 10 January 2016 06:13

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, January 8, 2016:

Massad Ayoob likes to tell people that he’s been carrying concealed since he was 12 years old – that’s 55 years now – and he’s just getting started. Ayoob, whose Arab grandparents immigrated to the United States 115 years ago, worked in his father’s storefront and watched as his father defended himself and his business from criminals. It made an indelible impression on the young man, and he has created an impressive resume in the field of self-defense. He wrote his first book, In the Gravest Extreme: the Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection, in 1980, which continues as a standard reference in the field. A year later he founded the Lethal Force Institute (LFI) in Concord, New Hampshire, which he directed for nearly 30 years. He now directs the

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Defensive Gun Training Classes Increasingly Popular

Friday, 08 January 2016 06:54

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, January 7, 2016:

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During her training class given by Sage Dynamics, Alexandra Wilson experienced a moment of clarity that has altered her life and may just extend it. She is now on “yellow” alert from the moment she gets up in the morning until she retires at night. She used to be “white” — oblivious to everything and everyone around her, a perfect target for someone seeking a victim.

When she goes to the theater, she picks her seat carefully,

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“Sheepdogs” Aren’t Allowed in San Bernardino, California

Saturday, 05 December 2015 05:50

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, December 4, 2015:

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Shetland Sheepdog

All it would have taken to end the massacre before it started at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Wednesday is one sheepdog. But in San Bernardino, sheepdogs aren’t allowed. Only sheep.

And wolves.

Sheepdogs – that rare breed of individuals who are willing to take on the responsibility not only of defending themselves but others as well – will be dismayed to find it

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Kansas Universities Prepare for Students Carrying Concealed on Campus

Tuesday, 01 December 2015 06:54

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, November 30, 2015:

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Effective July 1, residents of Kansas may carry a concealed firearm without any type of permit or license, except for students at the state’s universities. For them, the freedom to carry begins July 2, 2017.

The Wichita Eagle conducted a survey of students and some administration officials about the new freedom to carry and received mixed reactions. Some they called “hardliners” for taking the Second Amendment at face value and iterating the results from studies showing that more guns = less crime, including less chance of getting caught defenseless in a mass shooting.

Some they called “doomsayers” for holding the view that

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Supreme Court Could Review Chicago “Assault Rifle” Ban

Monday, 19 October 2015 14:43

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 19, 2015:

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In December 2013, Arie Friedman, M.D., a pediatrician and gun owner from Highland Park, Illinois joined with the Illinois State Rifle Association to sue in District Court, alleging that the city’s ban on “assault rifles” and their attendant large-capacity magazines (LCMs) infringed his Second Amendment rights.

The court upheld the ban, and the doctor appealed. The Supreme Court put off consideration of that appeal last week, laying the groundwork for a possible reconsideration of the case this week. Either way, whether the Supreme Court decides to look at the case or not, there are huge ramifications involved.

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Doing the Right Thing – and Paying the Price

Thursday, 06 August 2015 04:17

This article was published at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, August 5, 2015:

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English: Slide 49/50 of The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military, a presentation made by Nidal Malik Hasan during a symposium of U.S. Army physicians at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White knew exactly what he was doing. After 13 years in the Navy, being responsible for those under his command and knowing the increasing threat from jihadis who have increasingly targeted US military personnel and facilities, he decided it was more important to do what was right even if doing it might jeopardize his career.

That’s why he was carrying a personal firearm on duty as commander of the Naval service center in Chattanooga at 10:30am on Thursday, July 16, when jihadi terrorist Muhammad Abdulazeez (referred to from here on either as the “attacker” or as “MA”) rammed his rented silver Mustang through the gates and starting shooting.

White saw him coming, pulled his firearm, and returned fire. The autopsy report to be released shortly will show whether or not any of his rounds hit MA. But one thing is certain:

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Chattanooga Shooting: Lieutenant Who Returned Fire to be Charged

Monday, 03 August 2015 19:41

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, August 3, 2015:

Allen West, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida, waited to learn whether Lieutenant Commander Timothy White would be charged with violating Navy rules by carrying a personal firearm on federal property and then discharging it to defend himself and his fellow officers in the Chattanooga shooting on July 19. On Saturday, he got the news:

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Is Obama the “Gun Salesman of the Decade”?

Wednesday, 29 July 2015 05:10

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, July 28, 2015:

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The gun manufacturing industry produced about 4.5 million firearms in 2008, the year before Obama was elected president, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still known as ATF). In 2013 the industry produced 10.8 million, an increase of 140 percent in just five years.

This, according to Erich Pratt, spokesman for the pro-gun group Gun Owners of America, gives President Obama quite a distinction:

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Self-defense in the UK Is Illegal

Wednesday, 03 June 2015 04:31

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, June 2, 2015:

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British citizens seeking advice on what’s legal to use for self-defense found some answers at www.askthe.police.uk, a website sponsored and operated by the government’s Police National Legal Database:

Question 589: Are there any legal self-defence products that I can buy?

Answer: The only fully legal self-defence product … is a rape alarm.

There may be other products, according to the website, but they haven’t been fully tested and “if you purchase one you must be aware

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Another Victory in the War to Restore Gun Rights

Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:35

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Tuesday, May 26, 2015:

In his decision to issue a temporary injunction against the District of Columbia and its police chief, Cathy Lanier, U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Scullin is closing the circle on the last resistors in the long war against guns. It should now be called “the war to restore the Second Amendment.”

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller v. the District of Columbia in 2008 that “the Second Amendment guarantees an individual’s right to possess a firearm … for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home,” the ruling council in DC thought they’d found a way to restrict gun ownership: ban all guns everywhere in the District except inside the home.

That’s when the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) sued the District in Palmer v. District of Columbia over that ban. The District did everything in its power to put off the day of judgment with appeals, motions to dismiss, clarifications, and other legal maneuvers. After five years of stalling, delaying, and dithering, however, U.S. District Court Judge Scullin ruled last July

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Texas Senate Passes Anti-sharia Law Bill

Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:15

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, May 26, 2015:

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On Thursday night, May 21, the Texas state senate passed a bill that would prevent any international law from being used in Texas civil courts in deciding disputes. Radio station WOAI characterized the bill as an “anti-sharia” bill, but state Senator Donna Campbell said that her bill doesn’t mention sharia law at all, just that it guarantees that no law from “foreign courts” would be used to override American law in settling civil matters.

When pressed for clarification about just which such laws she was concerned about, and could she provide an example, she whiffed: “No foreign law [specifically].… This just provides a context for judicial discretion … that we don’t trump Texas law, American law, with a foreign law regarding family law.”

Whether Campbell knew it or not, her bill, if signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, would make Texas the next

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EMP Threats Force NORAD Back Into Cheyenne Mountain

Thursday, 07 May 2015 03:58

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 6, 2015:

News that NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) was moving back into its previous Cheyenne Mountain underground bunker in Colorado Springs first surfaced during a news conference by NORAD Commander Admiral William Cortney on April 7.

It’s moving, said Cortney, “because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain is built. It’s EMP-hardened.” EMP, short for an electromagnetic pulse, is a burst of electromagnetic energy produced by a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, considered capable of widespread damage.

NORAD is also moving because of real world threats by enemies of the United States who now possess the capabilities to launch a nuclear weapon from the south where NORAD is blind.

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U.S. Government’s Interest Costs to Quadruple in 10 Years

Friday, 06 February 2015 05:26

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 5, 2015:

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On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the federal government will be paying $800 billion annually just to service the interest on its massive debt by 2025, up from just over $200 billion currently. By 2021, those interest costs will equal what the government is projected to be spending on national defense, and on non-defense (so-called “discretionary” items), and will greatly exceed those two budget items just by 2025. The Journal also noted that “non-discretionary” items (so-called “mandatory” expenditures) will continue their inexorable march upward, from $2 trillion currently to more than $4 trillion by 2025.

Surprisingly, few eyebrows were raised over the announcement,

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John Lott Is No Longer Alone: More Guns Do Mean Less Crime

Thursday, 01 January 2015 07:57

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, December 31, 2014:

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Recent Status of Shall Issue Laws in America

With degrees from the University of Chicago, Yale, the Wharton School and UCLA in economics, it was clear from the beginning that John Lott wanted to become an academic, burying himself in esoteric econometric modeling for a narrow audience.

It was not to be. Lott became interested in how anti-gunners were using statistical analysis to prove that more guns would mean more crime, which analysis was then used to buttress political agendas to emasculate the Second Amendment.

He decided, in 1998, to write a small book entitled More Guns, Less Crime, to refute that analysis and present his own. As far as gun ownership was concerned, Lott was an agnostic.

When it was published in June, 1998, his book ignited such a firestorm of protest and indignation among the anti-gunners that he was forced to

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