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Judge Shoots Down California Ban on Handgun Ads in Gun Shops as ‘Paternalistic’
A federal judge has struck down a law banning handgun ads at gun shops as “unconstitutional on its face” and “highly paternalistic.” California officials had argued that they intended the ban to prevent advertisements from prompting state residents with “impulsive personality traits” to buy more guns, and thereby reduce the risk of “handgun suicide and… -
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The Dallas Cop Shooting Was Horrific. It Also Has Nothing to Do With the Second Amendment.
Last week, an off-duty Dallas police officer fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean inside his own apartment. The officer—since identified as Amber Guyger, a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department—was also a resident in the same apartment complex, and claims she shot Jean after walking into the wrong apartment and mistaking him for a home… -
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J.D. Martinez’s Second Amendment Stance Isn’t Controversial. It’s Patriotic.
Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted a picture of Adolf Hitler featuring the quote, “To conquer a nation, First disarm it’s (sic) citizens.” Martinez captioned the post, “This is why I will always stay strapped! #thetruth.”… -
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How Louisiana Stood Up to the Anti-Gun Corporate Elite
The state of Louisiana recently held some members of the corporate social police accountable for discriminating against law-abiding Americans. By a vote of 7-6, the State Bond Commission excluded Citigroup and Bank of America from the running for a lucrative state contract. Our reason for doing so: these corporations had introduced bank policies that restrict… -
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Why I Objected to a Bill That Would Ban 3D Gun Designs
Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public. Already spoke to NRA, doesn’t seem to make much sense!” The White House has not offered any clarification on what exactly Trump’s tweet meant, but if he is worried about plastic guns being sold to the public,… -
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The Scaremongering Over 3D Guns Has Little to Do With Reality
The newest bugaboo of the gun control crowd is the bloodcurdling “3D printer gun”—or, as anti-gun activist Alyssa Milano called it, “downloadable death.” Reporters at CNN now ask, “3D guns: Untraceable, undetectable and unstoppable?” Even President Donald Trump tweeted that he’s “looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public. Already spoke to NRA,… -
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News Media Distort Statistics on US Firearms Ownership and Mass Shootings, Gun Expert Lott Says
In a discussion that gun rights activist John Lott Jr. had with an ABC News producer for a 2014 documentary special about the risks of having firearms in the home, the producer cited a gun ownership statistic that Lott knew to be wrong. The producer told him that gun ownership had been falling in the… -
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Stricter Gun Laws Didn’t Stop This Mass Shooting in Canada
On Monday night, a 29-year-old man opened fired with a handgun on bystanders at a busy intersection in Toronto, Canada, killing two and wounding 13 before being shot to death by law enforcement officers. Although the man’s motives remain unclear, reports have circulated that he frequented Islamic State-inspired websites and may have lived for a… -
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Defend Free Speech as ‘Precious and Rare,’ Jeff Sessions Tells High Schoolers
A raucous crowd of high schoolers greeted Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he championed freedom of speech as “precious and rare” during remarks Tuesday at Turning Point USA’s annual High School Leadership Summit. After hitting the stage to the strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Sessions told the crowd of young people at George… -
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I Used to Hate Guns and the NRA. Then I Was Mugged.
I’d hated guns since I was a teenager. It was a gun that killed John Lennon, after all. Guns killed President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Get rid of the guns, problem solved—or so I thought. In December of 2012, I even tweeted President Barack Obama, urging him to repeal… -
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Woman Who Was Attacked at Restaurant Says Owning a Gun May Have Saved Her From Assault
Restaurant worker Miranda Schaeffer, who defended her co-worker with a legally owned firearm, appeared on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday and said her gun may have been the deciding factor in saving their lives. Schaeffer’s co-worker, Veronica Kaehler, was attacked behind the counter at a George Webb in Milwaukee by an unknown assailant Friday, but he… -
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To Promote Gun Control, the UN Changes the Rules
In the last two weeks of June, the United Nations held another review conference on its efforts to counter what it considers illicit dealing in small arms. The U.S. played the game well. But unfortunately, you can’t beat a cheater. In theory, this U.N. program might be a modestly useful way to promote cooperation against… -
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A Month of Data Provides Ample Evidence for Why Law-Abiding Citizens Own Firearms
There is no denying that lawful gun owners use their firearms in self-defense far more often than those decrying the “myth” of a good guy with a gun would care to admit. Firearms are, in fact, used for self-defense often and effectively. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, notorious for its anti-gun bias, acknowledges… -
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More People Use a Gun in Self-Defense Each Year Than Die in Car Accidents
This is an excerpt from “#Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting-and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back”. How is it that so many kids raised on “Harry Potter”, “The Hunger Games”, “Star Wars”, and all the Marvel action figure movies manage to miss a critical point of the stories? The lesson being:… -
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Massachusetts Governor Signs Gun Seizure Bill
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill on Tuesday allowing for temporary gun confiscation without any due process in Massachusetts. Bill H4670 enables a family or household member, which includes roommates, relatives or significant others, to remove firearms, firearm identification cards and ammunition from any individual deemed to be a danger to oneself or others. Surrendered goods… -
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Problematic Women: Women’s March Promotes Mob Harassment
While some Democrats have distanced themselves from calls for targeted harassment of Trump administration officials, the Women’s March has embraced them. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, however, is having none of it. Plus: 548 “women’s experts” from around the world label the U.S. one of the most dangerous places for women to live, and Laura Ingalls… -
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High School Second Amendment Activist Kashuv Offers Classmates Free Trip to Turning Point Summit in DC
The pro-Second Amendment activist at the Florida high school where 17 died in a school shooting in February is inviting his fellow students to attend a high school leadership summit in Washington next month. Kyle Kashuv, a rising senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recently became the director of high school… -
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California Presses Assault on Free Speech With ‘Fake News’ Panel
As the Supreme Court strikes blows against compelled speech and restrictions on free speech, California is doing its best to resist. One of the latest legislative proposals from California aims to make government the arbiter of truth. Senate Bill 1424 would create an advisory group on “fake news” to work with social media companies to… -
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‘We Need More Free Speech’: How ‘Miss Community’ Is Bringing Civility to Her City
Clovia Lawrence, known in Richmond, Virginia, as “Miss Community,” recently spoke to Daily Signal Editor-in-Chief Rob Bluey about her work in the city and why she’s passionate about bringing people together to solve problems. An edited transcript of her interview is below. Rob Bluey: You really are about bringing people together, forging strong relationships. You’ve…