Controversial new ad recreates Trayvon Martin Shooting
• http://www.kpho.com, By Greg ArgosA new public service announcement from the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is getting quite the buzz.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Illinois governor signs law expanding background checks for potential gun owners
• foxnews.comIllinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new gun-control measure into law Sunday that requires all gun owners, including private citizens, to check the background of the person buying the gun.
This Is How the NRA Ends A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived
• New RepublicWhat Bloomberg has embarked upon now is nothing less than the construction of a mirror image to the NRA. There is plenty of latent public support for gun control, his logic goes, but politicians only see a risk in voting for it. He wants to reverse t
Illinois expands background checks to all gun purchases
• ReutersIllinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a gun-control measure into law that expands background checks to cover all firearms purchases in the state, closing what he said was a loophole that exempted gun sales between private parties.
Apartment Complex Tells Tenants They Have to Get Rid of Their Guns – or They’ll be Forcibly Removed
• http://offgridsurvival.com, Rob RichardsonThe next step in the battle against guns seems to be limiting where you can and can’t carry a gun, and this may include your own home.
Self-Defense Shooting Question (Video)
• The ExaminerEach month the Armed Citizens Legal DefenseNetwork’s online journal includes a column titled “Attorney Question of the Month”, in which we ask you, our affiliated attorneys, questions about members’ potential interactions with the criminal justice sy
Enemies and Friends
• by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)My regular readers know that I have long suspected that many if not all of the spectacular and telegenic mass shootings over the past five decades were coldly contrived to manipulate public opinions about gun ownership.
LAPD's Hypocrisy About Gun Prosecutions - by C.D. Michel
• L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian EnterpriseThe LAPD needs help from the federal government's lawyers to determine whether LAPD SWAT officers violated federal firearm laws by purchasing and reselling special edition Kimber brand pistols for profit to civilians.
The Editor of NY Newspaper, whom Unethically released Names & Addresses of LAWFUL Gunowners, FIRED!
• Daily Paul.comMuahahahaha! Karma's a...
18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less cri
FIREARMS RECORDS BUREAU vs. JAY E. SIMKIN & others(1)
• socialaw.comFirearms. Practice, Civil, Action in the nature of certiorari, Judicial review of license to carry firearms. License. Statute, Construction. Administrative Law, Regulations. Words, "Suitable Person".
County Sheriff Challenges FL Governor on Guns – Sheriff Nick Finch (Video)
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/The state of Florida has issued over 2 million permits since the passage of its concealed carry law in 1987 to legally allow residents of the Sunshine State to bear firearms in public. Floyd Eugene Parish, on the other hand, was arrested for open car
Who’s too crazy to own a gun?
• http://www.vinsuprynowicz.comYes, I know those crying for ever more rigorous “background checks” and other permits and fees say making things harder for law-abiding gun owners is not their goal.
How and Why Adam Kokesh was Framed
• www.prisonplanet.comWeAreChange goes to the home of activist and YouTube host Adam Kokesh to find out what happened on the night he was raided and arrested.
Phoenix Police Illegally Detain Arizona Open Carry Supporter
• livingnotsurviving.comPhoenix Police illegally detained an Arizona open carry supporter who because of his knowledge and experience with this generation’s version of police, was recording the detainment with a video camera.
CA Returns Husband's Guns That Were Confiscated After Wife's Voluntary Mental Health Visit
• The BlazeLynette Phillips’ home in California was visited by police who were there to confiscate her husband’s firearms and ammunition because she had spent 3 days in the hospital (checked herself in) for mental health reasons, making her ineligible
Police Helicopter and Patrol Cars Dispatched for Man Photographing Courthouse
• Photography Is Not a CrimeWith a .45 caliber legally strapped to his side, Jordan McManus decided to photograph the federal courthouse in Phoenix, realizing he would probably draw attention from police, especially after reading about Raymond Michael’s experience
Gun Makers Saying Adios
• New York TimesEven gun makers want to be liked. So governors and other politicians from states eager to embrace the industry have descended on places where they are not so popular — like Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Colorado — offering
Study finds vast online marketplace for guns without background checks
• Washington PostThe marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun-show loophole.
Texas organization will arm and train 500 mothers to use guns during 'National Empowerment Day**
• naturalnews.comSome say there is no more naturally protective force than a mother looking out for her children, and one organization is doing all it can to make that task easier for moms - by teaching them how to handle and use a firearm.
Every Day Carry in Non-Permissive Work Environments, by D., Esq.
• Survivalblog.comI'm a lawyer. I'm a criminal defense lawyer. Every day I put on a suit and I walk though metal detectors and into a courthouse where guns, ammunition, and knives are not permitted.
Cover and Concealment: The Art of Protecting your Body
• Jesse Talks BackThere is a distinct difference between cover and concealment, concealment offers hiding but not protection from projectiles. Cover offers medium to high levels of protection from projectiles as well as a hiding place either temporarily or longer term
George Zimmerman armed during recent Texas traffic stop
• Yahoo! News blogGeorge Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted in the controversial shooting death of Trayvon Martin, had a handgun in his truck's glove box when a Texas police officer pulled him over for speeding near Dallas last Sunday, authorities say.
Teachers Will Be Armed in Arkansas
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/Clarksville High School in Arkansas will be the first high school to utilize state laws that allow armed security guards in schools to arm teachers. Training is underway now that will facilitate teachers carrying concealed weapons when classes res
A Mathematical Model Of Gun Control Means We Can Finally Argue Over Data
• http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy FerroUC Irvine researchers have published a model to predict how gun control affects homicide rates.
Facing a Recall After Supporting Stronger Gun Laws in Colorado
• nytimes.comAs he prepared to vote for some of the strictest gun control measures in the country earlier this year, John Morse, a former police chief and president of the State Senate, knew he would infuriate some constituents.
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue
• ABC News (video)George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today.
US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria
• zerohedge.comThe chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending has been rapidly declining since 2010.
UPDATE: Adam From Jail 130717
• YouTube.ComAdam calls into the crew from Fairfax Adult Detention Center on 7-17-2013
Eric Holder: 'Stand your ground' laws create 'dangerous conflict'
• APSpeaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in Orlando, Holder said the time had come “to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.”
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