A majority of elected county sheriffs in Nevada oppose a Michael Bloomberg-backed gun control measure on this fall’s ballot, and many of those lawmen and women argue that the initiative places restrictions on Second Amendment rights for honest citizens while not really having an impact on violent crime. Perhaps Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly put […]
Did Oregon Clergyman Violate State Gun Law?
An Oregon clergyman who spent $3,000 of his church’s “discretionary funds” on tickets to win an AR-15 rifle that was being raffled by a girls’ softball team may soon understand the downside of extremist gun control laws. According to the Lake Oswego Review, the Rev. Jeremy Lucas of the Christ Church Episcopal Parish in […]
Bad News for Pacific Northwest Gun Control Lobby
There was some bad news Monday morning for Pacific Northwest gun prohibitionists. Washington State has added more than 44,700 active concealed pistol licenses to the rolls since the first of this year. If the trend continues, the state will be close to topping 600,000 legally armed citizens by the end of December. By no small […]
Clinton vs. Trump: Maybe The TV Ratings Tell The Story
The Hollywood Reporter on Friday revealed some interesting statistics on the viewing audience disparity between who watched Hillary Rodham Clinton’s acceptance speech and who tuned in for Donald Trump’s speech a week earlier. It was Trump by more than a million viewers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Trump’s speech was watched by 34.9 million viewers. […]
What FBI Chief Comey Said About Terrorists Should Raise Alarms
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday issued a warning that “hundreds of terrorists will fan out to infiltrate western Europe and the U.S. to carry out attacks on a wider scale” than we have so far witnessed, and the timing could not be more important to the political situation now unfolding in this country. With […]
New Gun Ban Push Launched In Washington, Oregon
Gun prohibition lobbying groups in Oregon and Washington have launched an effort to push for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” in the respective state legislatures next year, and a Northwest-base gun rights organization says the proposal is all flash and no substance. Washington Ceasefire and Ceasefire Oregon held a Wednesday press conference in Seattle […]