Category Archives: Gun Rights

May 18, 2013

Press Conference: 54 Colorado Sheriffs File Suit Against Anti-Gun Bills (Video)

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The Independence Institute held a press conference on May 17, 2013 announcing the lawsuit against the new anti-gun bills passed by the Colorado legislature and signed by Governor John Hickenlooper.


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Posted in Gun Rights, Law & Courts

May 15, 2013

PoliceOne’s Gun Control Survey: 11 key lessons from officers’ perspectives

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Never before has such a comprehensive survey of law enforcement officers’ opinions on gun control, gun violence, and gun rights been conducted.

In March, PoliceOne conducted the most comprehensive survey ever of American law enforcement officers’ opinions on the topic gripping the nation’s attention in recent weeks: gun control.

More than 15,000 verified law enforcement professionals took part in the survey, which aimed to bring together the thoughts and opinions of the only professional group devoted to limiting and defeating gun violence as part of their sworn responsibility.

Totaling just shy of 30 questions, the survey allowed officers across the United States to share their perspectives on issues spanning from gun control and gun violence to gun rights.

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Breaking down the results, it’s important to note that 70 percent of respondents are field-level law enforcers — those who are face-to-face in the fight against violent crime on a daily basis — not office-bound, non-sworn administrators or perpetually-campaigning elected officials.

1.) Virtually all respondents (95 percent) say that a federal ban on manufacture and sale of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds would not reduce violent crime.

2.) The majority of respondents — 71 percent — say a federal ban on the manufacture and sale of some semi-automatics would have no effect on reducing violent crime. However, more than 20 percent say any ban would actually have a negative effect on reducing violent crime. Just over 7 percent took the opposite stance, saying they believe a ban would have a moderate to significant effect.

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Posted in Gun Rights, Law & Courts

May 14, 2013

Video: Guns (Virtual State of the Union 2013)

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In this segment of his Virtual State of the Union, the Virtual President talks about why politicians want to talk about gun control rather than crime control, and delivers the factual evidence and historical truths that make the case for the Second Amendment self-evident.


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Posted in Bill Whittle, Gun Rights

May 13, 2013

Rand Paul: Obama is working with ‘anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.’

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“To the petty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN, the United States of America isn’t a ‘shining city on a hill’ — it’s an affront to their grand designs for the globe.” Rand Paul

The New York Times calls Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) one of the Republican Party’s “rising stars.” The Daily Beast says he’s “a smoother, more pragmatic political operator” than his father, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex.). All that seems true. So riddle me this: What’s the upside for Paul to put his name on e-mails like this one, which landed in my inbox this morning?

It’s one thing for no-name pols to work on the fringes. But Paul, at this point, has a lot to lose. Yet here he is, suggesting the current president of the United States is working with “anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.” And for what?

Here’s the whole e-mail. It’s on behalf of the National Association on Gun Rights, and it leads you to this Paul-centric splash page.

Dear fellow Patriot,

Gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.

You see, only hours after re-election, Barack Obama immediately made a move for gun control…

On November 7th, his administration gleefully voted at the UN for a renewed effort to pass the “Small Arms Treaty.”

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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Gun Rights, Obama, Radicals, Rand Paul

May 11, 2013

Video: Ted Nugent Complete NRA Speech 2013

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Ted Nugent NRA Speech, Unedited, Houston, Texas, May 2013.


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Posted in Gun Rights, Ted Nugent

May 9, 2013

Guns.com talks to Gunny R. Lee Ermey: “Gun commercials can be funny” (Video)

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Although Ermey still works in Hollywood (or “Hollyweird” as he calls it), he has been a spokesman for Glock for a number of years. Recently Glock introduced a serious of commercials that mesh well with Ermey’s brand of humor, and the gun community has really taken a shine to them as well.

At the 2013 NRA annual convention, Guns.com sat down with R. Lee “The Gunny” Ermey and discovered the secret behind the hugely popular and successful Glock commercials.

While Ermey is most notable for his unforgettable performance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in “Full Metal Jacket,” he has played in more than 100 titles. His presence on camera is often of an authoritative or comedic role, or both. His brand of humor is often crude, disgusting and politically incorrect, but hilarious nonetheless.

He said he developed his sense of humor while growing up on a farm in Kansas with five brothers and no relief and then he joined the Marine Corps, another setting where he’s surrounded by young men and what’s often a tedious routine. And with the hopes of breaking the day-to-day monotony, young men do what young men do: they push the limits of acceptable human behavior and physicality, sometimes cultivating a unique sense of humor in the process.

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Posted in Entertainment, Gun Rights

2013 NRA Annual Meetings: Glenn Beck (Video)

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Radio host Glenn Beck speaks at the NRA Stand and Fight Rally, an event of the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings in Houston, Texas. In his highly-anticipated keynote speech, Beck conveys his message through stories often ignored by the mainstream media of law-abiding citizens defending themselves with firearms, and the cold, hard facts about gun control that have been rejected by the political elites. “So what is this gun, good or evil? It is nothing! A gun is only a reflection of the people that use it,” he declares.


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Posted in Glenn Beck, Gun Rights

May 8, 2013

ESPN Host: Palin Addressed ‘Dumb,’ ‘Angry,’ Phony Patriots at NRA Convention

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Mike Lupica, the ESPN host and regular panelist on the network’s Sunday “The Sports Reporters” program, wrote in a column that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin addressed “mean,” “dumb,” “angry,” and phony patriots at the NRA convention last Friday in Houston, Texas.

In a New York Daily News column published late Sunday evening, Lupica also called NRA attendees the “craziest and creepiest gun lovers on the planet” who are also “phonies” who think “they’re patriots and brave defenders of the Second Amendment.”

Outraged that Palin rightfully called out those like Lupica who have shamelessly tried to exploit senseless tragedies like Sandy Hook for more gun control, Lupica wrote NRA convention attendees were “contemptible people.”

In a column dripping with vitriol, the liberal columnist who has used his platform on ESPN to himself exploit gun-related tragedies to his political agenda wrote that the “leaders of the NRA don’t speak for responsible gun owners in America, and never have.”

“They don’t even speak to the spirit of the Second Amendment, written about a thousand years ago for single-shot muskets,” he wrote. “They just continue to pound away at the same insane theme: Gun control is the beginning of the government coming to take their guns.”

Lupica’s gun control commentary on ESPN prompted the left-of-center sports site Deadspin to say he made Bob Costas, who went on his soapbox to push for gun control the night after the tragic murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher, look like a “right-winger.”

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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Gun Rights, Sarah Palin, Sports

May 7, 2013

Video: Judge Jeanine Pirro Speech at NRA 2013 Houston

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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro addresses the crowd at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, an event of the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings in Houston, Texas. Pirro, who was a victim of the Journal News interactive gun owner map, criticizes the media for attempting to demonize gun owners. “You [do] not blame all gun owners for the actions of a few,” says Pirro.


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NRA’S 142nd annual freedom party a huge success by Ted Nugent

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Americans celebrate 2nd Amendment in Houston.

I raced off stage in Tampa after throttling my 6511th high energy rockout, mopped up as much dripping sweat as I could, changed into dry clothes, grabbed a Gatorade and a sack of food, hung onto my gorgeous wife Shemane and headed to the airport lickity split.

We landed in Houston an hour and half later, met by a commando in a black SUV and raced to the hotel across from the jam-packed Sam Brown convention center.

Greeted by smiling, friendly families, cops, military heroes and wonderful Texans galore, we settled in for the night and prepared for what we surely knew would be a grand day of ultimate freedom celebration with great Americans from all fifty states.

Early Sunday morning, just like the last twenty or so years in a row for us, we gingerly walked into a record setting attendance of more than 80,000 NRA member families, united to stand up and fight for our sacred God-given, individual, Second Amendment-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.

The positive energy is always a glorious force to reckon with at these NRA events, but this year, in the face of the most blatant, unambiguous attack ever on our rights, the mood was more up-beat and determined than I have ever seen before.

When the president of the United States has the audacity to dare claim that NRA members and law-abiding, gun-owning families in America don’t care about saving innocent lives because we didn’t fall for his counterproductive background check scam, one need’s to look no further for inspiration to stop the vicious lies and push back hard against such indecency.

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