HEMPSTEAD, Texas — Second Amendment advocates descended on the Waller County Courthouse to support a fellow Texan who was sued by the County after he served notice on them alleging a violation of Texas gun rights.
A recently released Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) study shows the number of concealed carry permits in the U.S. has surged by 215% under President Obama.
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas gun rights activists are converging on the Waller County, Texas, courthouse to protest what they are calling the “tyrannical” actions of the district attorney there. The D.A. sued the founder of Texas Carry, a gun rights organization that sent notices to 76 government entities complaining that officials are violating the law by excluding licensed to carry (LTC) holders. The Second Amendment activists will be engaging in an “open carry protest.”
On Sunday, a concealed carry permit holder shot an alleged robber in the head at a Family Dollar in Cleveland, Ohio.
The founder of a gun rights organization has sent notices to 76 government entities alleging they are violating Texas law by wrongfully excluding LTC (licensed to carry) holders. He is now being sued by one of those counties.
Ohio concealed permit holder Dylan DeBoard received a commendation July 27 for intervening to save the life of a Mount Vernon Police Officer who was under attack.
It is interesting to note that violent crime decreased during this surge in concealed carry. Between 2007 and 2015 “murder rates fell from 5.6 to 4.7 (preliminary estimate) per 100,000.” That is a 16 percent decline in murder. At the same time, “other violent crime fell by 18 percent.”
A U.S. Army National Guard staff sergeant says he and one of his Army veteran friends were assaulted by Black Lives Matter supporters in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday Evening. “As I was getting my face stomped in and thrown through a window, they (all 4 of them) were yelling racial slurs saying how whites sucked and black lives were better,” Marc Stephen, the second victim, said on Facebook.
Governor Mike Pence (R) is a strong advocate for the Second Amendment who brings an undeniable pro-gun voting record to Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On July 12, DeSoto, Texas, police said they issued a report on a robber who entered a Waffle House with an AK-47, only to be shot and critically wounded by an armed customer with a handgun.
Nearly 88 percent of police chiefs stated their conviction that “any vetted citizen” should be able to purchase a gun “for sport or self-defense.”
The Brady Campaign intimated that a Trump/Pence ticket would expand places where guns can be carried for self-defense, whether those carrying are “in a classroom or a crowded nightclub.”
On July 13 NY Mag suggested the NRA’s promotion of armed self-defense for women actually endangers women.
Three University of Texas professors have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the August 1 implementation of campus carry on grounds that it violates the Second Amendment.
On June 30, a licensed gun carrier opened fire on multiple attackers in Detroit’s west side, seriously wounding and hospitalizing one.
On July 1, businesses that disarm concealed carry permit holders with gun-free signage will be liable for the safety of those permit holders.
A concealed carry permit holder stopped an attempted mass shooting outside Playoffz nightclub on June 27.
On Monday night, Kern High School District (KHSD) board members voted unanimously to allow concealed carry permit holders to brings guns on campus for self-defense.
An MSBNC online poll asking if “people should be allowed to carry guns in public” found that 449K respondents said “yes,” with only 19K respondents saying “no.”
Organizers for the Houston LGBT Pride celebration have declared the parade route and other pride events to be gun-free zones. The move comes less than two weeks after the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack at a gay nightclub — another “gun-free zone.” It also follows a threat of gun violence on Twitter.
Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY-13) has declared that average citizens don’t need guns — but he and his Congressional colleagues “deserve” to be surrounded by them for protection.
After being attacked by a stranger in her North Carolina home, Top Gun actress Kelly McGilllis responded by getting a gun and a concealed carry weapons permit.
Wisconsin state representative Bob Gannon (R-Slinger) wants gun-free businesses to pay triple damages in the event that an unarmed law-abiding citizen is harmed during an on-premises attack.
Since the Orlando terror attack the LGBT gun rights group Pink Pistols has seen their membership grow from 1,500 to more than 7,000.
Rapper T.I. stood by daughter Zonnique Pullins after she was arrested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with a handgun in a piece of carry-on luggage.
During the June 17 airing of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh used rhetorical questions to drive home the point that “a gun-free zone is a red flag to a bull.”
During a June 15 speech in Atlanta presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained that concealed carry could have stopped or at least lessened the number of dead in the Pulse Orlando attack.
As Americans mourned the terror attack that took the lives of 50 innocent people and left 53 more injured on Sunday, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane mocked the idea of being armed for self-defense and suggested it is time to “ban automatic weapons.”
Carly Fiorina released a statement via email in which she said the Ninth Circuit decision is a clear demonstration of the importance of defeating Hillary Clinton.
When the Ninth Circuit ruled that Americans have no right to carry a concealed handgun outside the home, they were effectively alienating an “unalienable” right.
The Ninth Circuit’s ruling that Americans have no right to carry a concealed handgun outside the home for self-defense made one thing clear: only Donald Trump can save our gun rights now.
On June 9, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange denounced the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for ruling against carrying guns concealed outside the home.
A three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has placed a hold on U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s May 17 pro-gun ruling.
The case–PERUTA V. CTY. OF SAN DIEGO–was filed at the 9th Circuit by concealed permit applicants who believe the “good cause” requirement infringed their Second Amendment rights in San Diego and Yolo Counties.
A woman who was viciously attacked in a parking garage in January is informing gun controllers that she is alive today because she was armed.
On Memorial Day, a Walmart customer chased down an alleged purse snatcher, pulled a firearm, and held the suspect at gunpoint in the parking lot.
On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that Washington, D.C., may continue requiring concealed carry applicants to show “good reason,” even though U.S. District Judge Richard Leon recently ruled the requirement is likely “unconstitutional.”
Gabby Giffords’s gun control group — Americans for Responsible Solutions — is spending seven figures to air an ad against pro-gun Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
Gun-free zones are vanishing across Alabama because of a 2013 open carry law that “allows people to visibly wear pistols on government property.”
During his May 20 speech to the NRA Leadership Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Sheriff David Clarke Jr. said, “The only person safe in a gun free zone … is the criminal.”
