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  • Families of Dunblane victims uneasy about dumbest thing

    11/01/2022 5:46:57 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    bearingarms.com ^ | 10/31/2022 | Tom Knighton
    The American media often swoons about the reaction to the Dunblane massacre. After all, in the wake of that shooting–the second in a decade–massive gun control laws were passed, effectively putting an end to private gun ownership as we would recognize it. (It should be noted that they’ve had as many mass shootings since Dunblane and passing those laws as they did before.) A growing craze of American combat-style shooting clubs is glamourising firearms – 25 years after the Dunblane handgun ban. A Sunday Mail investigation has revealed a disturbing spike in “practical shooting” courses in Scotland which allow people...
  • Come and Take It: Canadians Aren't Complying with New Gun Law

    12/31/2021 10:33:23 AM PST · by rktman · 14 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 12/31/2021 | Matt Vespa
    Well, good on ya, Canada. It seems the motto ‘come and take it’ isn’t unique to just Americans. Our neighbors to the north have a new gun law. It’s something that anti-gun liberals want here nationwide. All Canadians that owned firearms that have been included in the nation’s latest ban on so-called assault weapons must turn them over to authorities. The only problem is that they’re not doing it (via The Reload): It seems the only people who have willingly turned over their firearms are the Australians. As the publication noted, buybacks are hardly a guarantee—they mostly fail as well....
  • It Begins: Taliban Confiscates Private Firearms Because There Is No Need to Have Them Anymore(no search hits)

    08/18/2021 8:33:53 AM PDT · by rktman · 22 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 8/17/2021 1105 hrs EDT | Julio Rosas
    The Taliban told Reuters they have started confiscated firearms from residents of Kabul because they are no longer needed since they do not intend to harm innocent civilians. "We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians," a Taliban official told Reuters. Saad Mohseni, director of the MOBY group media company, said on Twitter Taliban fighters came to his company compound to inquire about the weapons kept by his security team. It is certainly a weapon and military gear bonanza as videos from Afghanistan show Taliban troops taking...
  • Here Are All the Gun Control Laws that Affect Cuba’s Freedom Protesters

    07/19/2021 9:48:21 AM PDT · by rktman · 10 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 7/19/2021 | AWR Hawkins
    As thousands of Cubans protest against the island’s communist regime, stringent gun control laws from Havana negatively impact their efforts. Whereas in the United States, it is common parlance to say the gun rights enumerated in the Second Amendment protect the all the other rights outlined in the Bill of Rights, in Cuba the people are not allowed any claim to a natural right to keep and bear arms. This creates a disadvantage as Cubans fight for freedom. The University of Syndey’s GunPolicy.org highlights the “restrictive” gun control measures in Cuba. Those controls include a ban on large swathes of...
  • Canada's Gun Ban Is About To Run into a Serious Problem

    05/05/2020 8:58:39 PM PDT · by rktman · 31 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 5/5/2020 | Christine Favocci
    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an impassioned speech about gun violence Friday in announcing a ban on 1,500 types of firearms. While Trudeau’s speech carried emotional weight, there is one glaring problem with the ban’s implementation — how can the nation’s government ensure citizens turn over their now-banned weapons when there is no way to know exactly how many such firearms are in circulation? “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country,” Trudeau declared, even though police believe the weapons used in the Nova Scotia attack were...
  • Bang! 5 years in jail for not handing in banned guns

    09/19/2019 9:05:22 AM PDT · by rktman · 35 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 9/19/2019 | unknown
    Following a ban on virtually all semi-automatic firearms, New Zealanders face 5 years in jail if they refuse to hand them in. A France 24 report on the government’s new buyback scheme showed a line of gun owners willfully giving up their guns in response to the Christchurch massacre earlier this year. This despite the fact that the shooter himself said in his own manifesto that provoking mass gunfiscation was one of his intended goals. Mission accomplished.
  • Swiss Voters Likely Set To Adopt Stricter Gun Measures, Polls Show

    05/19/2019 8:54:25 AM PDT · by rktman · 19 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 5/19/2019 | Whitney Tipton
    Exit polls Sunday indicate Swiss voters will likely adopt tighter gun measures more aligned with the European Union by a comfortable margin. Swiss citizens voted Sunday in a referendum that included laws entailing serial-numbering of some gun parts, training requirements and waivers to possess certain semi-automatic weapons. The referendum could also impact Switzerland’s standing in the visa-free Schengen travel zone, according to USA Today.
  • Gun-free London? Teen Shot Dead, Raid Uncovers Multiple AK-47s, Grenades

    03/29/2019 9:32:34 AM PDT · by rktman · 40 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 3/28/2019 | Jack Montgomery
    Violent criminals themselves have suggested weak sentences and mass immigration have also played a role in the breakdown of law and order in the city. One gang member who told the BBC he “wouldn’t be able to” count the number of people he had stabbed recently revealed that “Giving tougher sentences will prevent people from carrying knives because nobody wants to go to jail for 10 or 15 years just for carrying a knife.” Another told the Evening Standard how “In the last 10 years, since the Somalis and the Congolese came to London, they taught us a whole new...
  • New Zealand prime minister: We’re banning all “military-style” semiautomatic(T)

    03/21/2019 3:47:47 PM PDT · by rktman · 53 replies
    hotair.com ^ | 3/21/2019 | unknown
    Full Header: New Zealand prime minister: We’re banning all “military-style” semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles It’s not just how comprehensive the ban is that makes it draconian, notes Philip Klein, it’s the fact that it’s coming straight from the top, by virtual decree of the prime minister and her cabinet. Supporters note that New Zealand’s parliament stands foursquare behind her, with even the major opposition party in favor of the ban, but it’s difficult politically for the opposition to get crosswise with a country’s leader after a major terror attack. 9/11 gave us the Patriot Act and the Iraq war,...
  • Venezuela’s gun ban is working out perfectly for the socialist agenda

    12/16/2018 10:25:50 AM PST · by rktman · 28 replies
    hotair.com ^ | 12/15/2018 | Jazz Shaw
    While it may seem hard to believe, there was a time when the citizens of Venezuela were allowed to keep and bear arms. This wasn’t the distant past we’re talking about either. It was only in 2012 that the socialist government of Hugo Chavez enacted the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law.” When it was passed, the authors of the legislation pulled no punches, saying that the explicit purpose of the law was to “disarm all citizens.” That bill was spectacularly successful, massively reducing the volume of privately owned firearms. Then, when the new tyrant, Nicolas Maduro took power...
  • Photos of Prince George playing with toy gun cause controversy

    06/13/2018 12:16:44 PM PDT · by rktman · 52 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | 6/11/2018 | Sasha Savitsky
    Several photos of Prince George playing with a toy gun on Sunday sparked a heated debate on social media. The 4-year-old future King of England was enjoying some playtime alongside his sister Princess Charlotte and friends when he was snapped playing with a plastic gun. The young prince's mother, Kate Middleton, appeared to be enjoying the downtime as they watched Prince William play at the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy at Beaufort Polo Club. Many took to Twitter to criticize Will and Kate for allowing their son to play with a toy gun.
  • Gun-Free Britain: Drive-by Shooters Spray House with Bullets in Multicultural Manchester

    05/27/2018 10:14:56 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/27/2018 | Jack Montgomery
    Police are seeking drive-by shooters who sprayed a house in Cheetham Hill, an area of Manchester with an “entrenched criminal culture” and the site of several anti-terror raids. Two-men on a “moped-style motorbike” opened fire on a terraced house on Galsworthy Avenue around 12.40 a.m. on Friday morning in what is believed to be a “targeted attack”, the Manchester Evening News reports. “It’s still early in our investigation, and we are working to establish the full circumstances of the incident, but it appears this was a targeted attack,” commented Detective Chief Inspector Richard Ennis. “While we carry out enquiries, patrols...
  • Strict Gun Control Powerless as Attacker Opens Fire on High School in France

    03/17/2017 7:14:29 AM PDT · by rktman · 16 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | AWR Hawkins
    Yet a 17-year-old attacker had “a revolver, a pistol, a hunting rifle, and two grenades” on his person at the high school in Grasse. The report of “grenades” is a reminder that all the gun control in the world–even complete confiscation of every firearm ever made–would not stop a determined attacker; this is because determined attackers find other weapons–like trucks in Nice or, in this case, grenades–and are prepared to use those weapons against unarmed, defenseless civilians.
  • More than 800 guns seized in major counter-terror operation

    02/07/2017 10:49:35 AM PST · by rktman · 28 replies
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | 2/6/2017 | Martin Evans
    More than 800 deadly firearms have been taken off the streets following a major operation by anti-terror police and officers from the National Crime Agency. During a month long operation to prevent terrorists and criminals getting their hands on illegal guns, officers also arrested almost 300 suspects. Among the weapons seized were 200 handguns, two machine guns, one sub-machine gun, 11 assault rifles, as well as 4,385 rounds of ammunition. Some of the weapons were seized from registered firearms dealers who had had their licenses revoked, while others are thought to have been smuggled into the UK from the continent.
  • Australia agrees to first national gun amnesty in 20 years

    10/22/2016 9:47:24 AM PDT · by rktman · 30 replies
    cnsnews.com ^ | 10/21/2016 | unknown
    Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal firearms without penalty next year as concerns grow over gun crimes involving such weapons, a federal minister said Friday. Australia's police and justice ministers agreed at a meeting to start a nationwide gun amnesty from the middle of 2017, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said. "Australia is world-renowned for the strength of our firearm laws, but illegal firearms do remain a deadly weapon of choice for organized criminals," Keenan told reporters. It will be the first Australia-wide amnesty since a gun buy-back program in 1996 that followed a lone gunman killing 35...
  • Germany proposes stricter gun laws in wake of Munich shooting

    07/24/2016 6:33:14 AM PDT · by rktman · 27 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 7/24/2016 | Rick Moran
    German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain that the country "must continue to do all we can to limit and strictly control access to deadly weapons" while Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in a separate interview that "we have to evaluate very carefully if and where further legal changes are needed." Ali David Sonboly, 18, the dual German-Iranian national behind Friday's attack outside a shopping mall in which nine people died, obtained his Glock firearm illegally and he did not have a license, investigators said Saturday. But he would have...
  • Talking Point: Gun control laws the biggest con job in our nation’s history

    05/07/2016 8:13:44 AM PDT · by rktman · 19 replies
    themercury.com.au ^ | 5/5/2016 | CARLO DI FALCO
    The proposition you can vicariously control criminal or psychopathic behaviour by confiscating private property and burying law-abiding citizens under a mountain of regulation is simply absurd. Former Australian prime minister John Howard has claimed success because there had not been another mass shooting. The reality is last year we had our first mass shooting (four or more victims in a single incident) when a man shot his wife and three children before taking his own life at Lockhart, NSW. Mental health issues were a factor and firearms had been confiscated from this house previously.
  • Demand for Guns Soar in Sweden as Reality of Muslim Invasion Sets In

    12/17/2015 11:26:55 AM PST · by rktman · 57 replies
    visiontoamerica.com ^ | 12/16/2015 | Pam Geller
    This is indeed the future of Europe. By their irresponsible, short-sighted, suicidal immigration and refugee policies, Europe's political and media elites have ensured a future of violence, bloodshed and chaos for their people. "Sweden, the future of Europe: people stock up on fire arms, police recommend vigilante groups..," by Nicolai Sennels, 10News.dk, December 12, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com): This is a very interesting read, because the whole of Europe is heading the same way as Sweden. Sweden is, so to speak, the future of Europe. And in this future, those who can afford it pay security companies –-the rest get...
  • When seconds counted...(disarmed citizens)

    11/14/2015 8:01:03 AM PST · by rktman · 34 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 11/14/2015 | Russ Vaughn
    The growing body count as of this writing is 120 slaughtered in the Bataclan. We'll never know how much that body count could have been reduced if the foolish French allowed their citizens to go armed. Their imprudent gun control laws contributed to unnecessary carnage. Once again, when seconds counted, the police were just too many minutes away.
  • Denton, Howard to speak at gun control event

    08/12/2015 9:51:01 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    skynews.com.au ^ | 8/12/2015 | unknown
    The non-profit's chairperson Samantha Lee labelled Mr Howard 'an icon' for gun control. 'Mr Howard is an icon of the growing numbers of people who want gun controls to be tightened across Australia, despite the pressure from pro-shooting parties,' she said. She said any disruption to the September 8 event by pro-gun lobbyists 'would not be tolerated'.