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In 1963, the CIA had this document. It was declassified in 2004: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300540023-8.pdf https://www.mom-at-arms.com/post/gun-control-today-they-tried-to-warn-us-56-years-ago-and-they-were-right

Sen. Ted Cruz is warning that President Donald Trump making a deal with Democrats on gun legislation might cause conservative voters to stay home in 2020. “If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights,” the Texas...

Yesterday, Save The Second board member Rob Pincus attended the NRA Board Meeting…for about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, he was the only one of 5 Million NRA members who showed up to try to learn the truth about what was going on inside the NRA Board and to lobby for reform inside the troubled...

House Democrats this week advanced a new measure to encourage states to pass “red flag” laws, known as extreme risk protection orders, that authorize removing guns and ammunition from dangerous individuals. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee amended the measure during a Wednesday...

he Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. Two years later, McDonald v. Chicago made that right enforceable against state and local governments. The McDonald Court declared that the Second Amendment is...

Vara Safety, a Latham startup that makes a handgun holster that has a biometric lock, has shipped its first batch of orders to customers after quickly selling out its initial supply. The company was founded by Timmy Oh, a former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student from Orange County...

Leaders of 145 companies wrote a letter to the Senate on Thursday, urging the legislative body to take action on gun safety. The letter notes recent gun violence in Chicago, Newport News, Virginia, and other places, calling it a “public health crisis.” But the leaders also say that gun violence...

While district attorney for San Francisco, Kamala Harris withheld evidence that could have exonerated defendants on multiple occasions, in violation of a key due process ruling by the Supreme Court. Between 2004 and 2010, Harris’s office failed to inform defense attorneys about criminal and...

Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you. That’s because Apple and Google have been ordered by the U.S. government to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun...

Governor Cuomo is pushing to upend the presidential primary calendar, making New York jump close to the head of the line by having voters head to the polls in February instead of late April, sources tell NY1. Cuomo is considering vetoing a bill that would set the presidential primary on April...

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman announced Thursday he has introduced legislation that would allow New York students to take mental health days. According to Hoylman, New York law currently requires schools to develop their own attendance policy and determine which absences are excused and...

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (D) revealed that she did not think the left was “so mean” and “lied like this” until she ran for president as an outsider candidate. “I know this sounds naive. I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this,” Williamson...

The largest U.S. arms retailer also said it would discontinue handgun sales in Alaska, the only state where it sells these guns. Walmart will stop selling short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber after clearing current stock. While this type of ammunition is...

A 14-year-old boy has confessed to killing all five of his family members at their Alabama home, authorities said Tuesday. WAFF-TV reported that the teenager, who has not been identified, confessed to shooting his father, stepmother and three siblings. The incident occurred at the family's home...

A Pennsylvania man broke the law when he pretended to point a gun at his neighbor, using his thumb and index finger to create the shape of the weapon, an appeals court has ruled. Stephen Kirchner was convicted of disorderly conduct last fall, but appealed the decision. This week an appeals court...

There’s still no cell for Shel. Some 474 days after former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted — for the second time — of peddling his office’s influence in exchange for millions in kickbacks, he remains a free man. Silver, 75, still hasn’t spent a single night behind bars, as...

A white Florida man was convicted of manslaughter after shooting a black man during an argument over a handicapped space in a convenience store parking lot. Michael Drejka confronted Markeis McGlockton’s girlfriend while McGlockton was inside the store. Security footage showed McGlockton exit...

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The city of San Francisco is trying to change the public’s perception of criminals by introducing new language to refer to someone who committed a crime. The Board of Supervisors put the changes in place in July. So, from now on, according to Fox News, a “convicted felon” will be referred to...

He's never seen a gun control law he didn't like and vote for!

Democrats newly in control of New York State government this year pushed for and then passed a host of gun control measures. And they have made it clear they aren't finished. “I just think we need to have fewer of these guns that nobody uses for hunting and get them out of our houses and out...

Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings. “The Republican Party is going to focus on what the problem is, and the problem is not the gun; the...

The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Friday it will cut short its summer recess and meet on Sept. 4 to consider new gun control legislation in response to back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The panel will prepare a series of bills for consideration by the full...

— A left-leaning political organization that publicly backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her insurgent victory last year was also quietly plotting to penetrate another New York City power source — labor unions. The New York City branch of the Democratic Socialists of America presented its...