Vice President Joe Biden recently declared at a recent PBS event that Congress needs to outlaw "assault weapons" because the police are overwhelmed by heavily-armed criminals. Declared the Veep: 
 One of the reasons the assault weapons ban makes sense, even though it accounts for a small percentage of gun deaths, is because police organizations overwhelmingly support it because they are outgunned on the str ...

The Justice Department is taking the first steps toward carrying out President Obama’s executive actions on gun control. 
 Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday released three proposals to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which was one of the 23 actions ordered by Obama last week to tackle gun violence. The proposed regulations would give local law-enforcement agenci ...

When things are amiss and the official explanation makes little sense it is reasonable to develop alternative conclusions that better fit the facts. The Second Amendment is clear: “The right to a well regulated militia, being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”  Thomas Jefferson clarified the Framers’ intentions when he wrote; “The strongest rea ...

The Constitution's Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday. Actor Danny Glover told students at Texas A&M University the intent of the Second Amendment was to protect slavery. “I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” he said. “T ...

The following is a press release sent by the office of state Rep. David Linsky, D-Natick. State Rep. David P. Linsky announced today that he has filed “An Act to Reduce Gun Violence and to Protect the Citizens of the Commonwealth,” comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation aimed at closing loopholes in existing state laws,  requiring mental health background checks, strengthening gun storage require ...

New York State Mayor Predicts "Waco-Style Standoff" In Response to Obama Gun Confiscation 
 
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IRS credit to citizens who allow government to confiscate their firearms.  On January 13, 2013, H.R. 226 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The bill will amend the 1986 IRS code and allow a credit if taxpayers “surrender” their guns to the government. 
 Cited as the “Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for our Streets Act,” the proposed l ...

Hundreds rally for gun rights 
 
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A troubling oversight has been found within New York State's sweeping new gun laws. The ban on having high-capacity magazines, as it's written, would also include law enforcement officers. 
 Magazines with more than seven rounds will be illegal under the new law when that part takes effect in March. As the statute is currently written, it does not exempt law enforcement officers. Nearly every law enforcemen ...

A South Side alderman is asking for City Council hearings on an unorthodox gun control measure that would allow for GPS tracking of firearms. WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports Ald. Willie Cochran (20th), a former police officer, has suggested that global positioning system chips be embedded in new guns, and retrofitted on existing firearms, so they could be located if they go missing. ...