In the News with Mike Dakkak
Minnesota State Rep. Shane Mekeland joins ITN to offer reaction and set the record straight on Gov. Tim Walz’s debate performance last night.
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Continue Reading…Continue ReadingLet me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress.
Government does NOT get to tell me or my constituents how we are allowed to keep our families safe.
I promise to always stand strong for our 2nd
A user on the social media site Gab.com recently posted about what he feels is the anti-gun stance on Facebook, and how it seems to be directed against Americans.
“I just want everyone to see that the anti gun …
Continue ReadingPatricia McCarthy at the AmericanThinker.com argues that the true mark of the level of safety people feel in their homes and in their communities these days can be found in the remarkable spike in gun sales seen over the last …
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— WILLIAM GREENBLATT (@BILLGREENBLATT) July 6, 2020
Citing what appears to be a crime lab document, KSDK-TV is reporting that a member of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s staff ordered the gun …
Gun purchases in the U.S. have skyrocketed in the first half of 2020. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), an industry trade group, millions of Americans have chosen to buy their first gun this year.
Gun sales have …
Continue ReadingFirearm background checks hit an all-time high in the U.S. last month, with 3.93 million inquiries run. It was the highest number of checks conducted since the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was created in 1988, and …
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More than 40,000 Illinois state residents have applied for a gun permit this month, an increase of more than 500% over the same time period last year, according to Illinois State Police.
The rush of new applications has caused a …
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Fourteen-year-old Audrey Larson has a list of inventions to her credit, including glow-in-the-dark pajamas and a device that pets your dog. This year however she’s focused her ingenuity on a much more serious issue: school shootings.
Larson, a resident of …
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The National Rifle Association, the nation’s foremost gun-advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for practices it says, is causing it irreparable harm. The actions are “a blatant attack on the First Amendment rights of …
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Massachusetts has become the latest state to allow law enforcement officials to remove firearms from individuals it deems to be a danger to themselves or to others. Governor Charlie Baker signed H. 4760 into law today, making The Bay State …
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A gunman opened fire in a high school in Texas this morning, killing ten, wounding ten others. The assailant, a 17-year-old student at the school, has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis. He allegedly used a shotgun and a .38 revolver, …
Continue ReadingFormer Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum criticized protesters who took part in the March For Our Lives demonstration for gun control for not taking enough personal action to solve the problem of gun violence.
“How about kids instead of looking to …
Continue ReadingFormer Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in an op-ed in the New York Times this morning, called for the repeal of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
“Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement …
Continue ReadingSenator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said today that Democrats will be making a major push on gun control this spring and warned lawmakers in Congress that they planned to make it a major issue in the upcoming elections.
“We’re going to …
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has submitted a notice to the Office of Management and Budget to expand the definition of “machinegun” to include any gun outfitted with “bump stocks.” President Trump had pledged to make the accessory illegal in the …
Continue ReadingSenators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Chris Coons (D-DE) have introduced a bill that requires federal authorities to notify local law enforcement when someone prohibited from purchasing a firearm attempts to do so. The NICS Denial Notification Act would alert state …
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