#Trump pledges to 'roll back' Democratic President Joe #Biden’s #gun#regulations put in place by Democratic President Joe #Biden & to fire the #ATF chief during a lengthy rally speech to the #NRA on Sat, during which he accepted the influential group's #endorsement.
The address to thousands of #NRA members at the group's annual Leadership Forum in Dallas was light on new #policy, but he used the platform to urge #gun supporters to go to the polls in the Nov #election.
"We've got to get gun owners to vote," #Trump said in his wide-rangingspeech, which covered everything from his #criminal trials to #trade & #immigration over >90 mins.
"I think you're a rebellious bunch. But let's be rebellious & vote this time."
The nation's top #gun rights group has now endorsed #Trump 3X - in 2016, 2020 & 2024.
The org cheered on Trump during his 2017-2021 term, as he appointed 3 #conservative justices to #SCOTUS & took a series of steps sought by the #GunLobby.…Including designating #firearm shops as “essential businesses” during the #COVID19#pandemic, allowing them to stay open.
A man serving 55 years has filed a motion to overturn his conviction, arguing that the state prosecuted him for giving a #gun to a drive-by shooter even though another man had already pleaded guilty to giving the same gun to the shooter.
👏🏻👏🏻“Sale of firearms on internet & at gun shows in US will in future be subj to mandatory #BackgroundChecks, DOJ said as it announced a “historic” new action to keep weapons out of hands of criminals.
"Almost 25 years after suing the firearms industry for failing to prevent illegal gun sales, the northwestern Indiana city of Gary won a critical victory last fall when a judge ordered gun manufacturers to hand [over] years of production and sales records.
As someone who almost always open-carries guns I must say, the one thing I dont like is how certain people assume your a republican or pro-trump when they see it. Today I had an experience with a tow truck driver who was overtly racist the whole ride home and I suspect its because he saw my gun and made some assumptions.
Pro-guns is probably the only topic where I align with the right at all really.
A #Manhattan#jury found 3 top execs of the National Rifle Association liable in a lengthy #civil#trial that focused on alleged corruption & the misspending of millions of dollars.
Longtime NRA leader #WayneLaPierre, a key architect in the nonprofit's hardline #gun rights agenda who stepped down as CEO last month, was central to #NY state's case.
The execs were accused of misappropriating & mismanaging funds donated to the #gun rights group's members. Acc/to #NYAG [hero] #LetitiaJames, who brought the lawsuit, their actions led to "the loss of >$64M in just 3 years."
During the 6-wk #trial, state lawyers alleged that #LaPierre had spent >$11M for private flights & approved $135M in #NRA contracts in exchange for yacht access & free trips to the Bahamas, Greece & other vacation hotspots.
The shootings in Missouri today are another clarion call: every state in the U.S. can and should enact statutes to ground civil suits against irresponsible #gun manufacturers and sellers. The gun industry is fighting these statutes in court. I explain and defend the desirability, lawfulness, and constitutionality of such statutes in this article, forthcoming in Yale Law Journal Forum. Neither #PLCAA nor the #SecondAmendment invalidate these laws. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dw3rMKXX1DlHKa9GXk1bojxSgYUxsP8r/view?usp=drivesdk#LawFedi#KansasCity
…#Trump’s lawyer on Thurs will be Mitchell, who was a #law clerk to Justice #AntoninScalia, the late Supreme Court #conservative. Mitchell will be standing…before …(#SCOTUS) for the 6th time & is scheduled to make his 7th trip later this month for a #SecondAmendment case, challenging a #federal#ban on #BumpStocks (a #semiautomatic#gun stock for rapid ammo reloading — cuz apparently the #FarRight thinks that’s something people need outside of war zones).
Maybe it's just because I'm former military but the absolute lack of muzzle awareness in literally every pop culture entertainment thing is so ridiculous.
If realism were factored in in the tiniest amount there would be soooo many dead or faceless characters from accidental miss fires. It's damn near rage inducing.
Say what you will about gun control, at the very least we could foster a safer gun culture if we must have one.
Gun crime is falling in Liverpool but of the three people shot to death in the city in 2022, all three were killed with the Skorpion machine pistol, a terrifying weapon that's become popular with criminals in Britain, often converted from a non-lethal, blank-firing version in local workshops.
Our long-running investigative programme File on Four has the whole story, on BBC Sounds.
Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings, or more appropriately the "May 4th Massacre". In the wake of recent events and our consideration of gun control laws I think this day deserves a great deal of reflection. Four Americans were murdered, and nine more wounded, by our own national guard simply for participating in an anti-war demonstration. If we want to consider limiting access to guns on american soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens. The last thing I want to see is an unarmed populace needing to deal with a well-armed police and military force. Lets focus on securing the rights of the citizen, not giving them up
Counterpoint; maybe #police would never have been able to justify being so heavily armed in the first place, if it wasn't EASIER to get a #Gun in the #USA than to get a #Degree, a #Home, or a #Job.
The "defence against tyranny" #rhetoric LOST ANY and ALL water it may have held once the #NRA got in bed with the most tyrannical #President elected to date.