Author: Victoria Snitsar Churchill

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Ukraine today, visiting the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and making several other stops across the capital city…

A report released by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) earlier today revealed that the FBI presented forms to individuals in several states that allowed people to voluntarily “red flag” themselves, giving up their ability to ever own firearms. Individuals did this by signing a form known as the NICS Indices Self-Submission Form. These were signed by “at least 15 people between 2016 and 2019” at the urging of federal agents, the report alleges. Per the DCNF’s report: “The forms were presented by the FBI to people at their homes and in other undisclosed locations, according to bureau documents unearthed through the…

Virginia Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) is the latest Democrat to call the Inflation Reduction Act what it truly is — a “climate change bill.” Beyer — a lead Democrat who is Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) and often considers himself to be a champion of environmental policies — said last night at a forum hosted by the Arlington County Civic Federation in Arlington, Virginia that despite the name, the “Inflation Reduction Act” was the “biggest investment in climate change we’ve ever had in American history.” This statement isn’t one that Beyer was forced into making via…

A tweet shared earlier this week by the New York Police Department (NYPD) in New York City’s 72nd Precinct is gaining significant traction on social media Tuesday. The department, which has jurisdiction over several city blocks in the borough of Brooklyn celebrated confiscating several guns over the Labor Day holiday weekend. The four guns featured included one real pistol that shoots actual bullets as well as three water guns. https://twitter.com/NYPD72Pct/status/1566455843297673216?s=20&t=KEYfArTjNC8uR7OkhsqA1Q With the exception of the pistol, the other three confiscated “guns” can all be purchased on Amazon. The top “weapon” appears to be a water blaster similar to this —…

The Virginia Police Benevolent Association (VAPBA) has recently endorsed several Republicans who are challenging “Defund the Police” Democrats across Northern Virginia. The VAPBA represents “law enforcement officers employed by federal, state, county and municipal governments.” The group is backing Karina Lipsman, Hung Cao and Yesli Vega against Don Beyer, Jennifer Wexton and Abigail Spanberger, respectively. The three Democrats have been endorsed by groups including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America that have also supported the “Defund the Police” movement. In VA-08, incumbent Don Beyer said at a recent candidate forum that he was “the opposite of the Defund the Police…

August 31st marked the final day of the state legislative session in California — and a day when legislators were unable to pass two bills that would’ve added additional restrictions upon residents of their state that wish to possess and carry firearms. The two bills that failed to pass in the state of California this week were SB 918 and AB 1227. https://twitter.com/CRPAnews/status/1565333297655341056?s=20&t=dj3ZC0lCUoIFoEzexhzFOQ SB 918 sought to “change the training requirement (for conceal carry permit holders) to be no less than 16 hours in length and would add additional subjects to the course including, among other things, the safe storage…

Thursday marked the first day that new gun laws in New York state went into effect. New York was forced to reexamine their previous gun laws in the wake of the NRA-backed NYSRPA v. Bruen Supreme Court decision handed down in June. Following that decision, Governor Kathy Hochul called a special session of the state legislature. Lawmakers used that session to pass new conceal carry regulations and worked to address what they often call the “epidemic of gun violence” — borrowing a phrase from fellow Democrats such as President Biden. Frank Miniter, Editor in Chief of the NRA’s publication America’s…

President Biden took the stage yesterday afternoon in his home state of Pennsylvania — also home to a key swing U.S. Senate seat battle this year — and addressed a crowd gathered in Wilkes-Barre to tout his “Safer America Plan.” https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1564698802354790410?s=20&t=034NSA9Af1fZ1BaDJnGbsg A notable part of the plan, which the White House highlighted in a subsequent tweet, is a measure to ban “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. In addition, it will ban the manufacture, sale, or possession of unserialized firearms, often referred to as ‘ghost guns.’” https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1564704945810673670?s=20&t=034NSA9Af1fZ1BaDJnGbsg Following his remarks, Biden reminded everyone of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act ” that…

Controversial movie star Alec Baldwin has been sued again by the family of a Marine who died during America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. Roice McCollum — sister of fallen Marine Rylee McCollum — has again sued the actor after another defamation suit filed by the family was dismissed in Wyoming because the court said it did not have jurisdiction over Baldwin, who lives in New York. Fox News has more on the situation: “The suit said Baldwin contacted one of McCollum’s sisters, Roice, on Instagram and donated $5,000 on the family’s GoFundMe page to give to his widow as…

The White House released on Friday its cost estimate for the student loan forgiveness plan President Biden put forth last week. As reported in USA Today, the White House believes that the plan will cost $240 billion over the next 10 years. The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden’s action to cancel student loan debt for millions of borrowers will cost the federal government $240 billion over the next decade after refusing to give a cost estimate earlier in the week. This is an extrapolation of an earlier number given by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre. She told CNN’s Don…