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North and South: Anti-gunners Targeting State Preemption Statutes Ammoland Inc. Posted on Lawmakers in at least three state capitals are considering laws to repeal state preemption statutes. U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Anti-gun lawmakers in at least three states are pushing legislation to undo state firearms preemption statutes in an effort to return to the days when gun owners could easily fall victim to legal rat traps by crossing an invisible line between two jurisdictions with gun laws ...

Michael Goldberg   December 17, 2020   Five soon-to-be legislators convened at the 2020 Re-Wire Virtual Policy Conference for a panel conversation on their respective backgrounds, reflections from the campaign trail, and plans for the upcoming legislative session. This conversation was one of two panels that introduced a few members of the Legislature’s incoming freshman class. The Morning Wire: Keeping you informed on politics, policies, and personalities of Was...

Memories. >> are they thinking about perhaps hitting the road, getting out there, having a concert with the surviving members? >> they are, yeah. bobby and dennis, the surviving members, who are a drummer and a bass player and a lead singer, they got -- they recruited their guitarist from their reggae band, bobby duncan, to take the place of david hackney. so they are touring now, and theyre actually recording new death music, so thats great. >> im going to look for them when i hit new york city...

And nobody was interested. mostly because of how fast and heavy the music was but also because of their name. one person was interested, and that was clive davis, and he wanted to sign them, but david hackney, the leader of the band, said theres no way were changing our name. so they never got signed. >> because they wouldnt change their name? >> they wouldnt change their name. so they had this record they couldnt give to anybody. so they got their master tapes back and pressed 500 45s to get th...

Would not change the name. >> david was very adamant. he said, if we change our name, you take everything, you take our identity, you take our music. so he just wasnt going to have any of that. >> was it because of his father, though? there was some mention of that, i had heard. >> he just stood his ground, just early on. it was just all of them -- the rest of the brothers in the band just back up their brother, and when david the elder said this is the way things are going to be, he would just ...