Month: October 2024

EVER SINCE the US Supreme Court handed down a paradigm-shifting ruling two years ago, Massachusetts policymakers have had to retool their approach to making and defending laws regulating weapons, trying to become passable historians as much as lawmakers. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, or Bruen, the US Supreme Court

Why did Idaho Gov. Brad Little appoint the longtime spokesman of the scandal-plagued National Rifle Association to run two of the state’s most image- and management-sensitive cash cows — the Idaho Lottery and the state liquor dispensary? It’s a good question that the governor’s office isn’t answering. On Aug. 22, with no fanfare, Little announced

The newest head of the National Rifle Association was charged for torturing a fraternity house cat decades ago. Back in 1980 Douglas Hamlin pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty brought against him and four of his fraternity brothers in 1980, when he was an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan

By Dylan Wells Updated October 15, 2024 — 8.08amfirst published October 14, 2024 — 7.45pm Sleepy Eye, Minnesota: Governor Tim Walz returned to Minnesota at the weekend to kick off pheasant season and to attend a high school football game as the campaign makes more overt efforts to court male voters. Here, at the site

Republicans spent the better part of September falsely smearing migrants as sadistic pet torturers in their bid to stoke fear about immigration. Yet for a party seemingly concerned with the welfare of animals, they raise few objections when cruelty takes place within their own ranks.   According to a Monday report from The Guardian, the National

By COLLEEN LONG Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to help schools create active shooter drills that are less traumatic for students yet still effective. The order also seeks to restrict new technologies that make guns easier to fire and obtain.The president has

In a lame attempt to run away from her radical anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment record, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has spent the last several weeks claiming that she is a gun owner. This, of course, is irrelevant to her extreme record of attacking gun rights. In fact, Harris isn’t even the first anti-gun politician

America’s voters don’t care for gun control. That much is obvious even to the Democrats’ presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. Harris previously campaigned for radical gun control laws and, as Vice President, oversees the “White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention,” which uses the power and funding of the federal government to further an anti-gun agenda.

Over the past several months, Youngsville Gun Club has partnered with your North Carolina NRA-ILA Grassroots Team and has been working tirelessly on Second Amendment activism ahead of the critically important upcoming elections. As this year has proven to be an especially important time to fight for our Second Amendment rights, Youngsville Gun Club has

By Germania Rodriguez Poleo, Chief U.S. Reporter Published: 16:19 BST, 14 October 2024 | Updated: 20:02 BST, 14 October 2024 The National Rifle Association’s new boss was involved in the brutal torture and killing of a cat when he was a fraternity brother in college. Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed NRA CEO this year, pleaded

View image in fullscreen NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to animal cruelty over 1979 incident in which fraternity cat was tortured and killed Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal at the

By Dylan Wells October 14, 2024 — 7.45pm Sleepy Eye, Minnesota: Governor Tim Walz returned to Minnesota at the weekend to kick off pheasant season and to attend a high school football game as the campaign makes more overt efforts to court male voters. Here, at the site of the Minnesota governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener,

Vice President Kamala Harris recently drew the ire of Second Amendment advocates after claiming she owned a “Glock” handgun, which contrasts with her previous support for bans and restrictions on these types of guns. “I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time,” Harris said during a recent interview with CBS’ “60