The North Stokes High School baseball team in Danbury, N.C. is once again raffling off seven very nice guns in a fundraising effort, sold through Betty’s Outdoors. The drawing will be held on March 10, 2023. Keep in mind that the prizes can be picked up or traded for actual cash value for other items from Betty’s Outdoors, Inc. And since they are an FFL, all applicable laws will be strictly followed.
You would be correct in saying, “So what?,” or “Where can I buy a ticket?”
Authorities in Houston, Texas say they’ve now spoken with the man who shot and killed a robber at a Houston taqueria last Thursday evening, and have not taken him into custody or arrested him. Instead, police say they’ll refer the results of their investigation to a grand jury, who will determine whether the armed patron should face any charges in connection with the incident.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has not released many details about his proposed mandatory gun buyback program, which was announced nearly three years ago. Despite the silence, government documents hint at an expensive program with too much administrative overhead for what it’s worth.
Police in Canada seized more than 100 3D-printed guns last year, with some jurisdictions seeing big increases in this type of weapon and even busting manufacturing rings for the first time.
In Calgary, for example, police seized 17 3D-printed guns in 2022, compared to just one each in 2021 and 2020.
“I wasn’t a big proponent of putting a lot of resources into 3D-printed guns here in Calgary when we first started [the unit], because we just didn’t see them,” said Ben Lawson, acting staff sergeant of the Calgary Police Service Firearms Investigative Unit.
DOCUMENTS: Feds' gun buyback is to start in #PEI this year on a trial & error basis with final costs unknown: "Prince Edward Island will be used as a pilot." https://t.co/uKtbqZ6wng #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/h6T9uo82Bo
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) January 9, 2023
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A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.”
Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of operation: semi-automatic, fully-automatic or in three-shot bursts.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is “looking at a variety of options” to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms — including enlisting outside help.
Canadian police chiefs have urged the Liberal government not to rely on resource-strapped police forces to deliver the coming gun buyback.
“Stephen Gutowski at The Reload, one of the rare honest voices in firearms-related journalism, published some bombshell revelations two weeks ago. What was uncovered, in my opinion, is the biggest Second Amendment story of 2022. The extent and depth of what happened at the CDC is flat-out alarming.”
A federal judge has once more found the state’s ban on carrying a gun in church, even by those with permits, violates New Yorkers’ rights.
Judge John Sinatra of the Western District of New York, a Trump appointee, again found the state’s ban unconstitutional on Thursday. The judge sided with the pastor of a church in his challenge against the state’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA) in Spencer v. Nigrelli. He ruled the ban violated worshipers’ gun rights and infringed on the free exercise of their religious beliefs.
Twenty-eight percent of Canadian firearm owners hunt for food, while another 39 percent target shoot as a hobby, according to research by the federal Public Safety department that paints a picture of typical gun owners in the country.
Half of gun owners own just one firearm, and 44 percent said they have owned their firearms for more than five years. Eight percent of firearm owners have owned their guns for less than a year. The majority have purchased their firearms legitimately from official retailers.
The CDC isn’t likely to be on many gun owners’ Christmas card lists this year. Not after revelations that they removed defensive gun use statistics at the behest of gun control advocates. The decision to do that made it very clear that while the CDC may have been prohibited from advocating for gun control, that didn’t mean they wouldn’t help push it any way they can.
In Dale Clark’s estimation, the money brought into New Brunswick by non-resident hunters — Americans or others — has never been fully appreciated.
“It is a multi-million dollar industry in the province that is not being recognized by our government, federal or provincial,” said Clark, president of the New Brunswick Professional Outfitters and Guides Association.
“We have been put on — I don’t know how you say [it] — the backburner.”
Violent crime has been a huge issue since the pandemic. Things seemed to be fine when everyone was locked down, but the moment people found an outlet to get out of the house, it seemed like a lot of them lost their damn minds.
Now, of course, we’re knee-deep in a discussion on violent crime. Democrats tend to favor gun control as the only viable solution.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently conceded that it is up to society to figure out how to define an assault weapon, saying that, “There are people who will have, right now, guns that are on the line, that are probably more powerful or more convenient than you’d really need for hunting … as a society, we have to figure out where that line is going to be.”
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States on June 24, much of the ensuing commentary expressed at least grudging respect for the Republican Party’s skill at playing “the long game.” The constitutional right to abortion, after all, was something conservatives had been chipping away at since Roe was decided back in 1973; securing its overturn, nearly five decades later, was testament to the power of staying stubbornly fixated on a political goal.
