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Tweet Today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co ventures a little further afield from a pure Second Amendment topic than we normally do, but the right to keep and bear arms does come up in our conversation with Jim Hanson, the author of the forthcoming book Winning the Second Civil War: Without Firing a Shot. The premise of Hanson’s book is simple: while the roots of our Cold Civil War date back to the 1950s, the growing cultural divide in this country has reached toxic proportions since the elec...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. President Biden will announce new executive action on gun control on Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated.  Psaki, during her press briefing Wednesday, declined to go into details on what the action would entail but said the president would have "more to say" tomorrow.  Earlier Wednesday, Politico first reported that an executive order is coming – after three recent mass shootings in Boul...

SPRINGFIELD — Republicans in the General Assembly have introduced a new bill that would hand over the process of drawing new legislative and congressional district maps to an independent commission that would be required to use official Census Bureau, rather than survey estimates, to draw the maps. The latest bill, introduced Tuesday as an amendment to Senate Bill 1325, mirrors a proposed constitutional amendment that was introduced in 2019. That proposal, which had 37 cosponsors, died in ...

(AP Photo/The Express-Times, Matt Smith) Our constitutionally-protected rights are supposed to be held sacred. Every elected official in the nation swears an oath to “support and defend the Constitution,” after all. And yet, all too often, that gets forgotten about just as soon as convenient. See, the Second Amendment  is part of our constitution. It’s right there between freedom of the press, religion, speech, and assembly and the right to not be forced to quarter troops. It really is a...

Why does this keep happening? Mass shootings in Boulder and Atlanta expose loopholes, weaknesses in gun laws Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – Back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado underscore how loopholes and weak restrictions in gun laws enabled both suspects to get quick access to their weapons of choice in attacks that left 18 people dead. The two shootings in March thrust the issue of gun violence back into the national spotlight...

Gun-Rights Advocates Want Feds to Look at Prosecuting Hunter Biden Biden accused of lying about drug addiction to pass background check Hunter Biden / Getty Images April 1, 2021 9:30 AM Reports of Hunter Biden’s reckless handling of his firearm have led gun-rights activists to question why federal authorities arent considering prosecution of the presidents son. Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, says there is significant evidence showing Hunter Biden was using d...

Judge: City cant be stricter on guns than state or feds Wednesday, March 17, 2021  |  Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish A Colorado judge has ruled against the City of Boulders anti-gun ordinance, bringing praise from Second Amendment advocates and criticism from gun-control activists. The ordinance, unanimously passed in April 2018 after its first reading, made illegal the possession, sale, or transfer of semi-automatic, magazine-fed sporting rifles, pistols, and ammunition magaz...

© getty On the heels of news that police in Buffalo, N.Y. would not be criminally charged for brutally shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground came video of officers in nearby Rochester pepper-spraying an emotionally traumatized nine-year-old girl as she begged for mercy in the back of a squad car. Other horrific recordings show police methodically squeezing the life out of George Floyd, Daniel Prude, and Tony Timpa — the latter after he called 911 for help while experiencing a mental-...

Lawmakers from both parties told officials from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration on Thursday, March 11 that the General Assembly should have some say in how the state spends the $7.5 billion in federal funds that Illinois expects to receive from the newly-enacted American Rescue Plan. Those comments came during a virtual hearing of the House Revenue and Finance Committee that took place just hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill into law. “I think th...

Dave Workman is an award-winning career journalist with an expertise in firearms and the outdoors. More than 40 states have “preemption” laws that place all authority for regulating firearms in the hands of the state legislature. However, a state appeals court panel in one of the states that pioneered preemption recently handed down a unanimous ruling that reinforced the regulatory approach. It drove anti-gunners nuts, because they have been trying to erase such laws across the country. Pr...