May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CBS CHICAGO — Illinois State Police say they’re trying to deal with a huge backlog of applications for Firearms Owner Identification cards. The agency received more than 28,000 applications for cards during April alone. That’s on top of an existing backlog of nearly 76,000 applications. The state police say they are dealing with a record ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Fifteen of the gun's 16 pieces are constructed on the $8,000 Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer. Excerpted from The Guardian: The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer. The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS The world's first 3D-printed handgun, The Liberator, has had its liberty taken away by the government. Plans for the working handgun were posted online Monday by Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, potentially allowing anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a firearm from plastic. The plans, which had been in ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES The Senate beat back a new gun rights push Wednesday, defeating a proposal to expand the rights of gun owners to carry their weapons on federal lands. Still, Wednesday’s vote drew more support than last month’s efforts to impose new gun controls in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, suggesting that momentum ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Facing a wave of intense criticism and plunging poll numbers after opposing a bill to expand background checks on gun purchases, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte tried some damage control in an op-ed published Monday. “Out of state special interests are running false ads attacking me and even lying about my efforts to prevent ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from HOT AIR And there is, of course, a rational reason for this — even according to the Department of Justice, gun violence has dropped by 39% over the last twenty years. Despite the media attention that gets fixed on gun crimes such as Sandy Hook and Aurora (but curiously not in Chicago, home ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their peak in 1993, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress’ battle over whether to tighten restrictions on firearms. The findings throw cold water on one of the main arguments made by gun control advocates, that more firearms ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
CNN — The annual festival of conspiracy theorizing, belligerent fist-shaking and anxious masculinity known as the National Rifle Association convention came to Houston over the weekend, and it was everything the organizers hoped it would be. Tens of thousands of attendees perused 500 booths where you could look at guns, buy guns, learn about guns, talk about ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL A firearms collector has been accused of making 'gun porn' after posting almost daily photographs of his 115 weapons online. Almost 40,000 people follow the Instagram account of Chris, known as @Gun_Collector. Followers are encouraged to share pictures of their own weapons and can win gun-related prizes for the best entries. One picture on his ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — Vice President Joe Biden has a commandment for pastors, rabbis and nuns: He wants them to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may have to wait until Congress wraps up work on an immigration overhaul. Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from PEW SOCIAL TRENDS National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday suggested he could reverse his opposition to legislation expanding background checks for gun purchases. Flake told CNN on Tuesday that he voted against a Senate amendment on background checks negotiated by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) because it would have made background checks on ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Update: The “A Whole Lot of People for John Morse” committee gets slightly bigger than six people. Update at the bottom. As Colorado lawmakers entered the last frenzied 72 hours of the legislative session — 90 bills were still on the docket when the legislature was called to order Monday morning — ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Gun control will now have to wait for immigration reform, Vice President Joe Biden told religious leaders Monday. Biden told a meeting of about 20 representatives from faith-based organizations that the White House push on gun control won’t happen until after the Senate completes an immigration reform package, people who attended the ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) announced a new television attack ad Monday against Republican New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte, who joined with five Senate Democrats last month in voting against the Manchin-Toomey bill to expand background checks on gun purchases. MAIG’s ad, entitled “Gone Washington,” will ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
NY DAILY NEWS Sarah Palin showed up at the NRA convention -- hunting for attention or relevance. Related Stories NRA head Wayne LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns, never’ Sarah Palin blasts President Obama and ‘elite media’ at NRA convention in Houston – gets standing ovation ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNN – The National Rifle Association said Monday they saw a record number of attendees at their annual meeting in Houston last weekend with 86,228 attending, up almost 15,000 from last year's annual meeting in St. Louis, according to the group's spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. The NRA had estimated 75,000 would attend.Former President David Keene rounded ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Defense Distributed’s Wiki-Weapons project fired the “Liberator,” its .380 handgun that was created completely with a 3D printer. The 15 of the 16 parts created using the technology took just 24 hours to print. The blueprint for the Liberator has ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WAPO At least two Republican senators who recently voted against a bipartisan proposal to expand the national gun background check system have approached Democrats in recent days about possibly restarting debate on the issue, according to two senior Senate aides familiar with the talks. The aides, who asked not to be identified because they were ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NYT Sixty-five million Americans have criminal records that might cause them to be denied jobs, even for arrests or minor convictions that occurred in the distant past. Last year, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reaffirmed a longstanding ruling that it was illegal to screen out employees unless the offense was directly related to ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NY DAILY NEWS Sen. Charles Schumer says 3D printers will soon be able to make real — and untraceable — guns. He showed off a picture of such a device at a press conference Sunday. Related Stories Pro-gun senators slammed in polls, country at ‘turning point,’ says Sen. Chuck Schumer ...
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