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Brazilian Lawmakers Push Law Recognizing Right to Own Guns for Self-Defense

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Brazilian lawmakers are gearing up to push gun reforms that will recognize citizens’ right to own guns for self-defense. The goal of peeling back gun control took center stage when it became evident that Jair Bolsonaro would win Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro, a former Army Captain who ran as a law and order candidate, is now president-elect. On October 19, Bloomberg quoted Bolsonaro defending his support of private firearm ownership, saying, “Why have I always defended the ownership of firearms? It’s so that you, upstanding citizens, with a few requirements, can have…

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Study: Universal Background Checks in California Did Not Reduce Homicides

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A UC Davis study examining the first ten years after California adopted universal background checks shows that those checks did not reduce homicides. In other words, the very checks that the Democrat Party pushes on the national level — the checks that Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) describes as the gun control “north star” — already exist in California, and they did nothing to reduce homicides during the time frame studied. Townhall reported that the study was conducted by UC Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg…

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Report: Four Shot near Denver’s Coors Field, Suspect at Large

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Four people were shot, one fatally, nears Coors Field in downtown Denver on Monday. CBS Denver reports that a witness saw two men talking near Coors Field when one of the men allegedly pulled a gun and shot the other in the head. The gunman then reportedly kept shooting, wounding three others. UPDATE: Multiple parties shot and transported from the scene at 21st & Lawrence. No suspect information is available at this time. Investigation is ongoing.PIO is en route and will meet media at 21st & Arapahoe. #Denver pic.twitter.com/wE6kvdTQAg — Denver Police…

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Gun Control Lobby ‘Eclipsed’ NRA Spending in Midterm Elections

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The gun control lobby nearly doubled the NRA in spending during the midterm elections. The New York Times reports that Gabby Giffords’ gun control group and Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety spent nearly $40 million “at the state and federal level in the midterms.” The NRA spent $20 million. Spending by the gun control lobby “[stemmed] a trend of financial dominance for the NRA going back years.” It also exposes the vapidness of the gun controllers’ continued claims that the NRA’s deep pockets are controlling everything related to the Second…

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NRA, Second Amendment Foundation File Suit Against Washington State Gun Control

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The NRA and Second Amendment Foundation filed suit against the gun controls in Washington state’s Initiative 1639. I-1639 is a 30-page gun control conglomeration that bars 18- to 20-year-olds from exercising their Second Amendment right to purchase commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms. It also puts an enhanced background check in place for those commonly owned firearms, adds a 10-day waiting period on purchases of said guns, and enacts new gun storage laws, among other things. The NRA and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed suit along with Daniel G. Mitchell, Armen Tooloee, Nathaniel…

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Democrat Eric Swalwell: If Gun Owners Defy ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, ‘The Government Has Nukes’

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) defended a potential “assault weapons” buyback Friday afternoon, saying that if gun owners defy a legislative ban, “the government has nukes.” The exchange began with conservative Twitter commentator Joe Biggs responding to a story on Swalwell’s Thursday op-ed in USA Today, titled “Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters.” “@RepSwalwell wants a war,” Biggs wrote. “Because that’s what you would get.” So basically @RepSwalwell wants a war. Because that’s what you would get. You’re outta your fucking mind if you think I’ll give up my rights…

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Short List: 8 Potential ‘America First’ Candidates for Attorney General

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As former Attorney General Jeff Sessions departed the Department of Justice (DOJ), a short list of potential replacements has surfaced in Washington, D.C. Below, Breitbart News has compiled eight “America First” candidates for Attorney General. Kris Kobach Currently, Kobach is serving the last couple of months as Kansas’s Secretary of State. Kobach previously served as an adviser to President Trump on immigration, and most notably wrote Arizona’s SB 1070 law that made it a state crime to be in the country as an illegal alien. Having fought the open borders…

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Incoming House Democrats Promise Same Gun Control That Failed to Stop California Massacre

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Incoming House Democrats are promising to push the same gun control that failed to stop the Thousand Oaks, California, massacre. The Wall Street Journal reports that every one of the newly elected Democrats has an F-rating from the NRA, and they are ready to flaunt it. Pro-gun control Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) spoke for his fellow party members, saying, “This new majority is not going to be afraid of our shadow. We know that we’ve been elected to do a job, and we’re going to do it.” Thompson noted that…

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Hollywood Calls for Gun Control After California Shooting: ‘We Live in a War Zone’

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While many across America were mourning the horrific mass shooting at a California bar Thursday, the liberal activists of Hollywood were already busy using the shooting to promote gun control. “We live in a war zone, because Republicans do nothing about gun laws, while they see people being shot every day. They do nothing,” comedian Chelsea Handler roared. We live in a war zone, because Republicans do nothing about gun laws, while they see people being shot every day. They do nothing. — Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) November 8, 2018 Author…

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Report: Mental Health Team Chose Not to Commit Ian Long Earlier This Year

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A mental health crisis team chose not to involuntarily commit Thousand Oaks gunman Ian David Long for mental health evaluation and treatment in April of this year. CBS News reports the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office had numerous encounters with former Marine Ian David Long before he opened fire inside the Borderline Bar & Grill Wednesday night. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said they went to Long’s residence in April in response to a disturbance call. The Los Angeles Times reports that who went to Long’s house in April noted he  was “irate…

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