Month: June 2022

Last week, the United States Supreme Court handed down a huge victory for gun owners, confirming what has been known all along: that the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right and should not be treated as such. However, the California legislature is continuing their quest to completely undermine this inherent right to self-defense.

PolitiFact | Barnes partially right on claim that Johnson has received $1.2 million from gun lobby Stand up for the facts! Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info I would like to contribute Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his

The Second Amendment has been the ongoing excuse for allowing private citizens to own military-style assault weapons. The conservative Supreme Court justices who are strict constitutionalists must know that when it was adopted in 1791, the Second Amendment covered only knives, muskets, long rifles, flintlock pistols and the like. Following the latest slaughter of innocent

Republican Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson has been criticized for remarking that arrows could be used for mass shootings if guns are banned in a clip that has now gone viral. While speaking to CNN‘s Pamela Brown on Sunday, Davidson dismissed the idea that mass shootings would not happen without guns. The clip has so far

WASHINGTON ― Republicans involved in bipartisan gun safety negotiations sought to undo lifetime bans on gun ownership for certain domestic abusers as part of the package. Prior to the deal becoming law on Saturday, federal restrictions banned gun ownership for those convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor against a spouse or intimate partner with whom

New Jersey’s acting Attorney General, Matthew J. Platkin, issued a directive “clarifying requirements for carrying firearms in public” a day after the historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen on June 23. That ruling struck down as unconstitutional the handgun permitting regime in neighboring New

Predictably, the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the gun carnage in our schools, the street shootings, and suicides by firearms bring us the cacophony of well-intentioned editorial writers, reporters, academics, political activists and politicians who blame the judges, the NRA, social media, the paucity of mental health, and the court itself. Then

Every year, sepsis and gun violence kill a similar number of Americans, according to the American Psychological Association. Yet, between 2004 and 2015, gun violence research received only 0.7% of the same funding as sepsis research. The reason researchers say why? Politics and concerns that information would allow fact-based research to inject itself into the

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Consequences for justiceswho deceived Congress Thomas Jefferson, in his letter to the Baptist Association, referred to the First Amendment as erecting a wall between church and state. The Supreme Court now thinks otherwise. There must be repercussions for one who

The House and Senate both passed a new bipartisan gun safety law, and while it was signed by the president and supported by two branches of government, there’s a fear that the Supreme Court will attempt to overrule the law. A Slate report expressed the concern on Monday after President Joe Biden signed the bill

New York’s registered Democrats and Republicans are voting in primaries Tuesday that will determine the parties’ choices for governor. While Governor Kathy Hochul is comfortably ahead of her two Democratic opponents, the result of the four-way Republican primary is less clear. Hochul wants to be elected to a full four-year term as governor, after replacing

WASHINGTON — The booing didn’t bother him. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who was viciously jeered by hundreds of Texas Republicans at the party convention in Houston this month, said he had an inkling that might happen given his high-profile role negotiating the Senate’s bipartisan gun legislation. But the visceral intraparty criticism didn’t affect the final

This article was paid for by Raw Story subscribers. Not a subscriber? Try us and go ad-free for $1. Prefer to give a one-time tip? Click here. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chris Murphy may still look like a kid, but he doesn’t legislate like a sophomore these days. In 2006, he was first sent to Washington

As they battle over a 2018 Florida law that raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy rifles and other long guns, attorneys for the state and the National Rifle Association are trying to use a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster their arguments. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a

WE MUST MEET’S NEW OTT PLATFORM ‘CINEMA ON WEB’ TO SCREEN HOLLYWOOD & BOLLYWOOD MOVIES – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Monday, June 27, 2022 · 578,736,712 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases

TALLAHASSEE — As they battle over a 2018 Florida law that raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy rifles and other long guns, attorneys for the state and the National Rifle Association are trying to use a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster their arguments. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck