March 25, 2013
National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre said Sunday that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to "buy America" by spending millions of his personal fortune to urge key senators to vote for gun control."He can't spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the American public," LaPierre said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "They don't want him in their restaurants, they don't want him in their homes, they don't want him telling what food to eat. They sure don't want him telling what self defense firearms to own. He can't buy America."
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March 25, 2013
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best. And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights.“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Mr. Bloomberg said, during an appearance on NBC. He made the statement during discussion of his soda ban — just shot down by the courts — and insistence that his fight to control sugary drink portion sizes in the city would go forth.
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March 25, 2013
Gun control advocates complain that Congress stopped the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from making firearms dealers conduct costly annual inventories to keep their records straight. But ATF already has the power to investigate records and inventories in a number of common sense circumstances, such as a criminal investigation or when there is a suspected violation.Common sense tells us that placing additional burdens on law abiding gun retailers will do nothing to reduce crime, but placing the full weight of our criminal justice system on lawbreakers will.
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March 25, 2013
President Barack Obama called on the Senate to vote on a controversial ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military style assault weapons, despite dim predictions from Senate leadership that such a ban will have any luck passing the upper chamber.
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March 25, 2013
In the last batch of amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign policy proposals.Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53 46 vote.
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March 25, 2013
Gov. John Hickenlooper, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, called a ban on assault weapons "a tough sell."Colorado last week adopted three gun control bills -- limiting ammunition magazines to 15 rounds, requiring universal background checks and charging gun owners for the cost of the checks.
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March 25, 2013
Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers rushed a gun-control law through in January that prohibits the sale of magazines that can hold more than seven bullets, the nation’s lowest limit.Problem is, nobody makes seven-bullet magazines.Now, state leaders are planning to suspend the prohibition, which is due to take effect April 15, until they can rewrite the measure.
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March 25, 2013
New York Rep. Charlie Rangel appeared on MSNBC this morning to opine about the assault weapons ban getting dropped from the Senate gun-control bill.He made a few claims about politics as usual and the power money can have in this type of a case, but his most noteworthy comment was about his knowledge on crime statistics.
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March 25, 2013
The effort to let Georgians carry concealed weapons in more places took another step forward Friday as the House approved the latest version of a gun bill.Senate Bill 101, as amended in the House, will allow churches to decide if concealed weapon permit holders may bring weapons into sanctuaries and will allow guns on most areas of public college campuses.
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March 25, 2013
A bill that would allow concealed carry without a permit is shooting toward passage after receiving the Senate's initial endorsement.House Bill 304 would allow people carry concealed weapons within city limits without obtaining a concealed carry permit. The measure is one of the many pro gun measures on the docket this session.
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March 25, 2013
Guns and ammo are selling briskly these days, and that means weapons makers are hiring. Some manufacturers are scrambling to find enough workers.
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March 25, 2013
A new bill moving through the state Senate, SB 224, co sponsored by Sen. Jim Davis, R-Macon, would remove a prohibition against Sunday hunting on private lands with shotgun, rifle or pistol, as long as the hunter is the landowner or has the landowner's permission.
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March 22, 2013
Senate Democrats said Thursday they will take up gun control immediately after a two week Easter vacation, and said the bill they'll bring to the chamber floor will include universal background checks for all firearms sales and a crackdown on gun trafficking and straw purchases.
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March 22, 2013
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will bring gun control legislation to the floor that includes a controversial expansion of background checks for private firearm sales. Reid said he would on Thursday evening begin the process of bringing legislation to the floor for consideration in April.
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March 22, 2013
In a case that backers vow to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a major gun rights group filed suit Thursday in federal court in Buffalo seeking to toss out the state's new gun control law on a variety of constitutional grounds.The lawsuit by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association, attacks the NY SAFE Act on several legal fronts, including claims that it violates interstate commerce protections and the Second Amendment's right to bear arms.
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March 22, 2013
Amid all the pious wailing we're reading in other papers about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to take a pass on assault weapons, Albany has given us a homegrown reminder what happens when politicians rush to exploit a tragedy.So desperate was Gov. Cuomo to beat President Obama to the punch on gun control in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown massacre, the gun law that was passed made magazines with more than seven rounds of ammunition illegal.One problem: No one seems to make seven round magazines.
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March 22, 2013
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a key provision of Maryland's gun control laws, maintaining the state's tough restrictions on carrying handguns in public places.
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March 22, 2013
Some gun dealers were greeted with a line of customers waiting to get into their business Thursday morning, the day after three new pieces of gun control legislation were signed into Colorado law. "We had a line of more than 20 waiting; not that we have much left to sell them," said Richard Taylor, manager of Firing Line in Aurora.
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March 22, 2013
A Minnesota House panel on Thursday approved background checks for firearm sales at gun shows, but the measure may not have enough to support at the Capitol to become law.
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March 22, 2013
Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder, R Abbotsford, said the proposal would deny gun owners' constitutional rights. He called it a political stunt and unnecessary. Tom Evenson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R Juneau, said the legislation won't go anywhere while federal action is pending.
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March 21, 2013
The Senate’s upcoming vote on the assault weapons ban is going to put vulnerable Democrats in a difficult spot.
Democrats facing tough reelection races will either attract the ire of the National Rifle Association or prominent gun control activists such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I). A vote against the ban could spark primary challenges that could weaken Democrats in the general election.
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March 21, 2013
“This initiative seeks to turn neighbor against neighbor and use their own tax dollars to pay for the $500 reward,” Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin told the station.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/21/new-york-state-offers-500-reward-for-reporting-illegal-gun-owners/?test=latestnews&fb_source=message#ixzz2OD7FeXUl
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March 21, 2013
The White House is still pushing for an assault weapons ban, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday, even though Senate Democrats all but sealed its fate by dropping it from the gun control package they plan to consider next month.
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March 21, 2013
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will visit a Baltimore County high school next month to discuss gun control.
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March 21, 2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg remains the sole donor to his super PAC, Independence USA, pitching in $2 million more to the group in February, new reports show.
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March 21, 2013
Bureaucrats from 150 nations are ramping up efforts to impose gun control through international pact. Here in the United States, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has become the vehicle to drive an agenda that is deeply controversial because once a treaty is ratified by the Senate, it becomes the supreme law of the land.
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March 21, 2013
Routt County Sheriff Garrett Wiggins and Moffat County Sheriff Tim Jantz say they will join Weld County Sheriff John Cooke and not enforce gun control measures signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday.Wiggins and Jantz maintain the legislation passed by Colorado's House and Senate won't keep guns out of the hands of criminals and instead will punish law abiding citizens.
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March 21, 2013
Ammunition magazine manufacturer Magpul Industries said it plans to begin leaving Colorado "almost immediately," and other firms may follow suit in the wake of a new law that limits ammunition magazine capacities.
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March 21, 2013
The farthest reaching gun control bill in the Minnesota House, which would have expanded background checks to nearly all firearm sales, has been greatly diminished, instead expanding checks to include all purchases at gun shows but not including other private gun sales or transfers.
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March 21, 2013
A Senate subcommittee passed a bill to thunderous applause Wednesday that would allow people to carry guns in public in South Carolina without a concealed weapons permit.The vote was taken after a public hearing packed with gun supporters, who listened politely and cheered anyone who spoke about protecting the Second Amendment or pointed out criminals weren't likely to follow any gun laws.
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March 21, 2013
Hundreds of gun owners are rallying at the Michigan Capitol to remind lawmakers of their right to bear arms.
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March 20, 2013
Will trampling the rights of law abiding gun owners really do anything to help keep our children safe? Will piling unnecessary weight on a federal regulatory system that's already drowning help keep guns out of the wrong hands? The answers, of course, are "no" -- which is why a so called "universal background check" system should be dismissed by any lawmaker who is serious about protecting constitutional freedom and improving public safety.A mandate for truly "universal" background checks would put the federal government squarely in the middle of every sale, loan or gift of a firearm between private individuals. In other words, it would criminalize all private firearms transfers, even between family members or friends who have known each other all of their lives.
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March 20, 2013
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said in an interview Tuesday that Senate Democrats' decision to introduce a gun control bill that doesn't include an assault weapons ban does not constitute a setback for President Obama's gun control efforts.In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, McDonough said the bill can still be brought up as an amendment and that there should still be a concerted effort to pass it."We're going to work on this. We're going to find the votes," McDonough said, according to a transcript. "And it deserves a vote and let's see if we can get it done."
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March 20, 2013
Although a majority of Americans favored major restrictions on guns or an outright ban in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, when a heavily armed gunman killed 20 young students and six adults, a new CNN/ORC International survey indicates that support has tumbled to just 43%, as more time has passed since that December tragedy.
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March 20, 2013
The Democratic governor plans to sign new limits on ammunition magazines and a landmark expansion of background checks on Wednesday in his office, surrounded by legislative sponsors and their guests.
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March 20, 2013
According to the bill, someone would need to obtain self defense insurance to provide coverage for civil and criminal defense costs in the event the person used a firearm in self defense. If gun owners did not maintain this insurance, according to the bill, they would be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
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March 20, 2013
State lawmakers are contemplating an amendment to New York's just enacted gun law that would allow people to buy 10 round magazines -- which under current law will be banned for sale on April 15.
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March 20, 2013
A poll shows more New York Republican voters for the first time disapproving of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's performance following the Democrat's push for a gun control bill.The Quinnipiac University poll finds 49 percent of Republicans disapprove of Cuomo while 38 percent approve of his job performance. That compares to 44 percent who approved and 43 who disapproved in a late January poll, a statistical dead heat.
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March 20, 2013
A House committee is resuming consideration of bill expanding criminal background checks for gun purchases in Delaware to cover sales between private sellers and buyers.
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March 20, 2013
There have been more gun control bills filed in the Florida Legislature this year than any in recent memory -- but you wouldn't know it. Despite Democrats' push to spark a "conversation" about guns after the Trayvon Martin and Newtown, Conn., tragedies, the Republican led Legislature has traditionally shown little interest in entertaining the gun control debate.
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