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Single Mother Arrested for Carrying Gun to Protect Her Children
A mistake could separate a single mother from her children and send her to prison for three years. Her crime? Unlawfully possessing a gun in New Jersey that she could legally possess and carry in her home state of Pennsylvania. Shaneen Allen, a single mother with two children, planned to spend the weekend celebrating her… -
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In This State, Gun Groups Won’t Protest Target’s New Gun Ban
CULLMAN, Ala. — Alabama gun groups don’t plan any demonstrations inside Target stores like those seen in Texas, and some even argue those protests were “counterproductive” to the open carry cause. Target last week asked its customers not to carry firearms into its stores, including in communities where open carry—when the gun is visible, instead… -
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Target to Customers: Please Leave Your Guns at Home
Target announced Thursday that it is implementing an anti-gun policy, “respectfully” requesting that customers don’t bring guns into their stores. “Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create,” Target CEO John Mulligan wrote in a statement. >>> Senator Reid’s Gun Control… -
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Union’s Free Spending Raised Free Speech Concerns at Issue in Court Case
Union leaders based in Chicago racked up more than $13,000 in hotel charges to attend President Obama’s second inauguration and more than $6,000 to purchase booze for a Christmas party the month before. If the bosses of the Service Employees International Union plan to continue spending in that fashion, though, they may have to find… -
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The United Nations’ Gun-Control Efforts Are Failing
The Fifth Biennial Meeting of States for the United Nations “Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects” (PoA) is being held this week in New York City. Supposedly, the point of the PoA is to improve international cooperation on monitoring and… -
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This Proposed Amendment Would Violate Your Right to Free Speech (But Not the Media’s)
Imagine if Congress passed and the president signed a law making it a crime to utter “false, scandalous and malicious” statements “against the government.” Do you think that would violate your right to free speech? Of course it would. It’s startling to realize that such a law was, in fact, enacted at one time. In…