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Dianne Feinstein announced Wednesday that she’s re-entering the battle over gun control during her keynote speech to the California delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein was president of the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on what she calls that city’s “day of infamy” in 1978, when a former colleague shot and killed Harvey Milk [...] Republicans have strengthened the pro-gun-rights portion of the party platform, including a new call for unlimited bullet capacities in guns, in a defiant response to criticism that followed recent mass shootings at a Colorado cinema and an Arizona congresswoman’s gathering. The 2012 platform, approved this week by GOP conventiongoers who nominated Mitt Romney for president, [...] On Monday, troche White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama supports renewing the Assault Weapons Ban, order but pointed to Congress’s intransigence on the issue of gun control as the reason the administration hasn’t aggressively pursued the measure. “He does support renewing the assault weapons ban,” Carney said at his press [...] One week after the Aurora, Colo., mass murder brought gun-control back to the forefront of political discourse, the Obama administration found itself faced with its first test on the issue — and blinked. An arms control treaty to regulate the $60 billion global business of illicit small arms trading that had worked its way through [...] I’m on vacation. Obviously. Flying down to West Palm via Washington, prescription D.C. I met a prominent conservative TV personality who shall remain nameless. He mentioned Emily Miller’s Washington Times series on exercising her Second Amendment rights in the nation’s capital. “Registering guns is crazy,” he said, dissing and dismissing the registration requirements stipulated by [...] Anti-gun violence activists in the U.S. are renewing their push for new gun laws in the wake of the revelation that the alleged Norway shooter claims to have purchased high-capacity ammunition magazines from a United States retailer. Anders Behring Breivik, visit web the alleged lone-wolf terrorist accused of shooting and killing 68 people at a [...] Guns are selling at a record pace this year at sporting-goods stores and specialty shops in Arizona, creating millions of dollars in revenue for retailers. The ability to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, general apprehension and lingering concerns that the Obama administration could crack down on gun ownership are among the sales drivers. [...] Like vultures, advice anti-gun congressmen are always picking the bones of some national tragedy looking for political advantage. ?And the horrific shooting in Tucson earlier this year is just another example, as a string of anti-gun bills have been introduced recently. You may have seen a television ad about one of them: H.R. 308, introduced [...] By Alan Korwin Legislators asked me to prepare this list. By focusing on magazine size instead of ways to stop active shooters you jeopardize everyone’s safety. Hoping to limit murderers by limiting magazines is irrational and hoplophobic. Why have people picked a ten-round limit? Why not two? Are they saying it’s OK to only [...] |
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