While the Democrat-controlled Washington State House of Representatives was passing a Senate gun control bill to ban open carry at permitted rallies and on the west Capitol grounds in Olympia, a “planned right wing protest and Antifa counter-protesters clashed at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, and Salem police were urging people to stay away. […]
9th Circuit Ruling ‘Reduces RKBA to mere inkblot,’ Says Scathing Dissent
In a 127-page majority opinion, an 11-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to openly carry firearms for self-defense. In a spirited dissent, Judge Dairmuid F. O’Scannlain wrote, “This holding is as unprecedented as it is extreme. While our sister circuits […]
Gun Control in National, NW Spotlight; Seattle Takes New CPL Apps
While Democrats in the U.S. House appear poised to launch a major gun control offensive with universal and so-called “enhanced” background checks on the front burner, anti-gun lawmakers in the Pacific Northwest are also putting on the pressure. Lawmakers in Olympia, Washington are moving a bill to prohibit open carry of firearms “and other weapons” […]
2A Activists Outnumber Anti-Gun Supporters of WA Legislation
When the Seattle-based, and billionaire-backed Alliance for Gun Responsibility—a gun prohibition lobbying group supporting Evergreen State gun control legislation—reported that “hundreds of Washingtonians” had signed up to support two extremist bills in the State Senate, they were only telling half a story. The other part, which they overlooked, is that those favoring Senate Bills 5078 […]
Seattle-Based Gun Prohibition Lobby Announces 2021 WA Wish List
The Seattle-based Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group responsible for two multi-million-dollar gun control initiative efforts, has announced its legislative agenda for 2021 in Washington state, targeting magazine capacity and open carry. There is no small irony in the fact that homicides in their headquarters city have doubled this year over […]
Rasmussen: Majority Oppose Cutting Local Police Budgets
Amid demands from protesters in the wake of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis to “defund” police departments, a new Rasmussen survey released Tuesday says 59 percent of American adults “are opposed to cutting their local police budget.” Only 27 percent of the survey respondents want to reduce police budgets, and 14 percent are […]