Month: October 2020

A circus act in Lake George, N.Y., 1972. (Bob Schutz / AP Photo) Here is a version of the old rock-paper-scissors game, on a topic that should be of urgent concern to people on the left: How did Trump’s America happen, and what can we do to dislodge its hold on our politics? One can

(Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images) Gun rights advocates are celebrating after a lawsuit challenging Seattle’s safe storage law got new life in an state appeals court decision Monday. It’s been over two years since Seattle passed its safe storage law requiring gun owners to safely store their firearms or face fines up to $10,000 should

ANALYSIS/OPINION: The November presidential election may well be decided, as analysts are predicting, in the nation’s suburbs. The Democrats essentially own the city vote and Republicans have increasingly drawn support from smaller towns and rural areas. The suburbs in recent elections are more evenly split politically and cannot be ignored by candidates seeking an edge.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers are working to rewrite the state’s student discipline laws after a Jefferson Parish fourth-grader was suspended because a teacher saw a BB gun in his bedroom during online classes held amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Education Committee backed the legislation without objection Monday, sending the bill by

He was a celebrated Washington fixture known for his good cheer and bonhomie, and yet even his closest friends knew to stay out of the way when Ralph Z. Hallow was in hot pursuit of a story, as he often was. Nobody could pester, cajole and harangue like Hallow, the chief political correspondent for opinion

Josh Horwitz has been an American gun control activist for nearly 30 years. In 2009, he co-wrote a book warning that the idea of armed revolt against the government was at the center of the US gun rights movement. Now, after a year that has seen heavily armed men show up at state capitols in

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s proposed gun control policy includes a provision that could require Americans to sell back their so-called “high-capacity magazines” to the government or be registered under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The latter, unless there were some form of carve-out, could mandate that American gun owners pay a $200 federal tax

LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES ITS POSITIONS ON STATE PROPOSITIONS – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Monday, October 19, 2020 · 528,743,532 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases Events & Conferences RSS Feeds

Americans have made clear that they value their Second Amendment rights, especially during uncertain times. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and then widespread civil unrest, Americans have bought firearms in record numbers. Through September, the FBI had processed a record-setting 28,826,449 total National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks for 2020. With three months of