A briefing note to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino states a proposed federal gun ban will prohibit and confiscate firearms routinely used by hunters. The question period note, “Comprehensive prohibition of assault-style firearms,” dated Dec. 14, 2022, states, “We recognize that the proposed changes may reduce the number of firearms that some hunters use today.”…
Proposed Gun Bill Will Restrict Hunters, Says Government Briefing Note
Australians Hand in Almost 18,000 Weapons in First Year of National Gun Amnesty
Australians handed in almost 18,000 weapons, including a Vietnam-era flamethrower, automatic firearms, and a crossbow, to police during the first year of a national firearms amnesty. A total of 17,543 firearms weapons and 606 weapons components, including suppressors and magazines, were surrendered between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022, according to the Permanent National…
A Response to the Media on Brazil
Commentary Although one wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of gun control, the best social science has shown that law-abiding citizens frequently deter criminals. But when ideology trumps facts, policymakers are easily led astray. The latest example is occurring in Brazil, where massive increase in gun ownership in recent years has prompted gun control…
LIVE at 11AM ET: Does the Biden Administration Want to Take Away Your Right to Self-Defense?
President Joe Biden has a long history of advocating gun control laws that only make Americans less safe. Should you be worried? With crime rates skyrocketing across the country, citizens need to know their rights—and how to keep their families and communities safe. In this important new episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith…
LIVE NOW: Does the Biden Administration Want to Take Away Your Right to Self-Defense?
President Joe Biden has a long history of advocating gun control laws that only make Americans less safe. Should you be worried? With crime rates skyrocketing across the country, citizens need to know their rights—and how to keep their families and communities safe. In this important new episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith…
Does the Biden Administration Want to Take Away Your Right to Self-Defense?
President Joe Biden has a long history of advocating gun control laws that only make Americans less safe. Should you be worried? With crime rates skyrocketing across the country, citizens need to know their rights—and how to keep their families and communities safe. In this important new episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith…
Gun Owners of America Labels 18 Republican Senators ‘Turncoats’
Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Virginia-based Second Amendment rights advocacy group, issued a scathing rebuke of the 18 Republican senators who voted for the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Act. In a Dec. 22 press release, GOA accused the group of advancing the Biden administration’s anti-gun agenda. “Unfortunately, 12 gun-control items just passed the Senate with…
Gun Owners of America Slams Omnibus Bill for Advancing Biden Gun-Control Agenda
National gun rights organization, Gun Owners of America, raised alarm over the FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by Congress, saying it is meant to do more than designate spending. “Gun Owners of America strongly objects to the Senate amendment in the nature of a substitute to HR 2617 because it is infested with Second…
Judge Keeps Oregon’s Strict Gun Control Measure on Ice
An Oregon gun-control measure that many predict will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court remains in limbo. In a Dec 23 hearing, Circuit Court Judge Robert Raschio said he would rule by Jan. 3 whether to lift a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the Oregon Ballot Measure 114 requirement that a background check be…
New Gun Control Measures Proposed in Washington State by Governor, Attorney General
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both Democrats, announced legislative proposals at a press conference on Monday to prohibit the sale of so-called “assault weapons,” require permits to purchase guns, and make gun sellers potentially liable for crimes committed by private individuals. The text of the legislation had not been released…
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