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March 9, 2021
Gun control groups are downright ecstatic with Congress’s opening salvo against law-abiding gun owners. It’s not because anything Congress is proposing would actually stop criminal misuse of firearms. It’s because, for them, it’s just the beginning.
That’s their words. Not ours.
U.S. Rep Mike Thompson, D-Calif., introduced H.R. 8 the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 that would criminalize the private transfer of firearms between law-abiding gun owners. A companion bill, S. 529, was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., although “bipartisan” might be misleading.
At introduction, just three Republicans signed on to co-sponsor S. 529. This was soon to be joined by the introduction of H.R. 1446 by Democratic Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., whose the Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021 would extend background check delay periods to up to 30 days and put the onus on law-abiding citizens to prove their innocence to the govern
Cedar Rapids Man Who Produced Child Pornography Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison
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A Cedar Rapids man, responsible for producing child pornography and then distributing it online, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison.
Nathan Krejci, age 41, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison sentence after a June 24, 2020 guilty plea to being a drug user in possession of a firearm, sexual exploitation of a child, and distribution of child pornography.
Information disclosed at his plea and sentencing hearings showed that, beginning in September 2016 and continuing to September 24, 2019, Krejci engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a female child between the ages of 6 and 9 years old. Krejci produced a video of the conduct and distributed still shots of the video to an undercover officer online. Krejci later admitted he distributed the images to less than 12 people on the internet. The Court found that Krejci drugged the vi
Weather, Low Inventory Translate to Slower Feb NICS Gun Sales Numbers The string of monthly record-high gun numbers slowed in February as gun shops increasingly had empty cases and gun buyers fought bad winter weather. While the second month of the year saw a significant increase in firearm background checks when compared to the data from February 2020, last month was only the third highest February on record rather than setting a new bar. The unadjusted number of 3,394,895 checks, conducted through the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System in February 2021, is a 22.3 percent jump from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,776,380 in February 2020.
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