Earlier this week we reported on the first few hours of the supposed-to-be massive protest outside the Colorado state capitol in Denver, where the group Here 4 The Kids is holding a sit-in to pressure Gov. Jared Polis into signing an executive order banning gun sales and possession in the state. While organizer Saira Rao predicted 25,000
Author: Cam Edwards
Joshua Fordham already has one armed robbery conviction to his name, and another may be on the way after he was arrested and charged with trying to hold up two men outside a Detroit deli last month. The defensive gun use didn’t make the local news reports at the time, but WDIV-TV got ahold of the criminal complaint this week, and to their credit didn’t sit on the story of Fordham’s encounter with an armed citizen. On Feb. 8, Shot-Spotter detected three gunshots in the parking lot of Carmen’s Delicatessen in Detroit. Police officers rushed to the scene and were flagged…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is calling on the Pentagon to hire more mental health workers and directing military-run health care clinics to screen for alcohol abuse in order to reduce veteran suicides, but he’s holding off on implementing several anti-gun proposals recommended by the Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee, at least for a few more months. That committee is recommending the Defense Department institute a seven-day waiting period for all gun sales on DoD property, along with a four-day waiting period for ammunition purchases. In addition, the committee says the Pentagon should raise the age to purchase a firearm on…
Buying a gun in California isn’t a simple or fast process thanks to the numerous gun control measures that anti-gun politicians have put in place over the past few decades, but thankfully the state’s draconian restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms didn’t interfere with one woman’s ability to use a firearm to defend herself and her husband from a stranger who tried to come inside their home. According to authorities, the woman in question had just picked up her pistol the day before, after waiting the 10 days required under California law between the time of purchase…
Cam Edwards from Bearing Arms explains how police “buybacks” of guns put firearms in gun stores rather than “taking them off the streets”