Year: 2016

On August 17 Psychology Today equated persuading minds to support gun control with persuading minds to support arguments for climate change. They also compared convincing Americans to support gun control with past efforts to convince Americans that cigarettes were dangerous. Psychology Today: The challenge of convincing people that gun ownership is not safe is not

Buzzwords like “assault weapon” and “semi-automatic” seem to be all the rage. But what do they mean? More importantly, what do the people pushing for “common sense” gun control and weapon bans think they mean? We find out…

It makes sense. If you have a Socialist state in economic decline with rising public anger at a corrupt left-wing oligarchy, it makes sense to launch a gun control bid to disarm the population. And I’m not even talking about Obama, but Maduro, the insane ex-bus driver presiding over a permanent Socialist revolution which took

Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination

Deadshot and Bourne stepped on a minefield. The popular characters hit the cineplex this summer in Suicide Squad and Jason Bourne, guns in hand, their marksmanship a telltale sign that film fans were in for a bloody good time. But as violent headlines — and a raging political debate on gun control — dominate the news, Hollywood has found itself battling

Our enemy is now identified. The Ammo Ban is official for the November ballot and has a new designation. Proposition 63 The below image was taken from the Secretary of State’s website right as it was updated. Read More by fpscadc.org

The Wild West isn’t usually thought of as a home to Jews, yet early Jewish Americans lived there and left their marks. Here are some surprising ways Jews helped shape the American Frontier. Several Thousand Jews America’s western regions in the 1800s were home to thousands of Jews. An 1878 survey by the Union of

Two students were robbed at gunpoint in a Florida State University (FSU) parking lot on August 16, just months after Florida Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (R-Miami) killed campus carry. Ironically, the robbery at gunpoint is the second high-profile criminal use of guns on the FSU campus in less than two years.

On August 15, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Plaintiffs’ Petition for Full Court Rehearing in the NRA/CRPA supported case, Peruta v. County of San Diego.  Plaintiffs asked for rehearing by the full court after an eleven-judge “en banc” panel overturned an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit. In

One of the lesser known Olympic events, pistol dueling was a popular sport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  It was certainly not the deadly past time of generations earlier, where young gentlemen killed each other over matters of honor.  Rather pistol dueling had transformed in a safe sport.  Conventional pistols were used,