Monthly Archives: April 2013

Gun control reform still possible, Manchin says

By BOBBY CERVANTES | 04/28/2013 09:27 AM EDT | Updated: 04/28/2013 11:01 AM EDT Sen. Joe Manchin was optimistic on Sunday that the Senate could take another shot at passing a narrow gun control bill that focuses specifically on mental … Continue reading

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How Anti-Gun Media Plans to Smother Your Rights…”

By Tim Schmidt USCCA Founder Just when I was unsure whether or not the media could stoop any lower than ground level, they outdid themselves again. The San Francisco Gate ran a story this week about the two Boston bombing … Continue reading

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Poll: Support for gun control slips

By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 4/23/13 8:35 AM EDT Five months after 20 children were killed in ab elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the public’s appetite for gun control is waning, according to a poll released Tuesday. Only 49 percent want … Continue reading

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Report: Suspects not licensed for guns

By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 4/22/13 6:09 AM EDT Updated: 4/22/13 8:50 AM EDT The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon and engaging in a massive firefight with police last week weren’t licensed to own guns, according to a … Continue reading

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WOUNDED KNEE- IF EVER YOU PASS ONE ALONG, LET IT BE THIS ONE

This should be required reading by every citizen of this country. Think about this… December 29, 2012 marked the 122nd Anniversary of the murder of 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South … Continue reading

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8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt

Posted: Apr 18, 2013 11:17 PM EDT Updated: Apr 19, 2013 4:27 PM EDT By Charlo Greene – email When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment … Continue reading

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Joe Manchin: Don’t give up on gun plan

By KEVIN ROBILLARD | 4/18/13 8:13 AM EDT The public face of a failed amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases promised to continue pushing his legislation Thursday, saying he’ll work with skittish Democrats who voted against the bill. … Continue reading

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Harry Reid: ‘Pause and freeze’ on gun control

By TARINI PARTI | 4/18/13 3:48 PM EDT President Barack Obama and Democrats have decided to “hit a pause and freeze” on gun control legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday afternoon. Reid officially pulled gun legislation from the … Continue reading

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Obama: gun defeat ‘shameful day for Washington’

By REID J. EPSTEIN | 4/17/13 6:01 PM EDT President Barack Obama blamed a gun lobby that “willfully lied” and senators who “caved to the pressure” for the Senate’s defeat Wednesday of a bill to expand background checks. “All in … Continue reading

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Joe Manchin: Won’t get votes today on background checks

By JOHN BRESNAHAN and KEVIN ROBILLARD | 4/17/13 8:29 AM EDT Updated: 4/17/13 10:57 AM EDT West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin privately admitted on Wednesday morning what many on Capitol Hill already believed — that a proposal to expand … Continue reading

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