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Newtown father: “From my cold dead hands”

This is the father of a fifth-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students were gunned down in cold blood. She survived; the younger sister of one of her friends did not. Like all American gun owners, he is deeply saddened by the actions of an evil man. Like any rational American, he realizes [...]

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Red-handed: Associated Press caught inserting “assault rifle” into Alabama hostage standoff

Jimmy Lee Dykes has no business having firearms. A violent Vietnam vet with PTSD who beat a neighbor’s dog to death, threatened to shoot school children, and did shoot into an occupied vehicle, that Dykes wasn’t already incarcerated is a complete failure of the mental health and criminal justice system in this nation. All that [...]

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Gutenberg’s nuke

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a fascinating man. He learned the art and the trade of goldsmithing from his father, spent some time in a university, and was known to have joined the Strasbourg militia, but none of that made him famous. No, the name of Gutenberg is synonymous with his great invention, [...]

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“Common sense” should rule on guns

What makes Barack Obama competent to discuss, much less determine, national gun policy? He’s never taken even a basic gun safety course. He’s never fired a handgun, and couldn’t tell you the difference between a pistol and a revolver. He’s never fired a rifle, and he’d be completely unable to explain why a rifle with [...]

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Rumors that Walmart is stopping ammo purchase/resupply are completely false

I just spoke with a corporate public relations manager with Walmart… Ashley Hardie, I think her name was. Rumors being floated over the past 24-48 hours that the company is going to sell out their existing stock of ammunition then not purchase any more ammunition are, according to the official corporate voice of the company, [...]

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