Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
News headlines this week revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration “abandoned an internal proposal” to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the US to investigate “gun trafficking.” The automated license plate scanners take pictures of every vehicle that passes their field of view and record the information in a database that can be used […]
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US Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) has filed the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA), HR 419, in the 2015 session of Congress. KOPA would extend to knives the protections afforded to firearm owners in the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. If a person may legally own a knife where he started and ended his travel, he would be protected
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MS Politics Rick Ward, who is a gun rights activist, trainer, and writer for Mississippi Gun News, is a candidate for State Representative, presumably in Covington County. Although a gun rights activist, I was shocked to find that a page on his website also indicates that he proposes to make shooting animals a felony crime. That probably won’t sit well
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You should have your ballot already in your February NRA magazine. If you receive your magazine electronically, the ballot should have been sent via USPS around the same time frame. At this time, I am endorsing only: Ronnie Barrett (Murfreesboro, TN) Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown (Boulder, CO) Joe Debergalis, Jr. (West Seneca, NY). This is not to say that
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“I have a difficult time accepting as credible someone who has never lifted a finger to do relatively easy stuff and then trusting they will come through for the long haul on real up close and personal involvement — and all that entails…” — David Codrea (regarding armchair commando gun control opponents)
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Criminal’s last words: “I thought you couldn’t own a gun in New Jersey.”
“I thought you couldn’t own a gun in New Jersey” Read More »
Gumbel “There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they’re pigs. I think they don’t care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape. So we got that on the record.” — “sportscaster” Bryant Gumbel Petzal Bushnell established the Bushnell Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011
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