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Thoughts About Pirro’s Walkback Comments

Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro really stepped in it recently. She claimed that anyone coming from outside the district who had a gun was going to jail, and that upset a lot of pro-gun people who supported her taking that role.

It comes amid other unfortunate comments from Trump administration officials in the wake of the shooting of Alex Pretti, and that wasn’t great timing, to say the least.

She tried walking back those comments, as Cam noted on Tuesday.

There, Cam responded to Pirro’s statement by saying:

Unfortunately for Pirro, I don’t think she did herself any favors here. Among other issues, Pirro said her goal is to “take guns out of the hands of criminals.” Well, someone with a valid Virginia permit who carries a pistol in D.C. is a criminal under D.C. law, and Pirro apparently means to prosecute them as vociferously as she would someone charged with armed robbery or carjacking. 

As I pointed out in my earlier post, Pirro has already declared that, in her view, D.C.’s ban…Read more here.

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Can Congress Give Trump the 2A Win He Needs?

Cam Edwards – Bearing Arms

It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for the Trump administration when it comes to Second Amendment messaging, and there’s a real danger that the administration’s communications failure could lead to some gun owners staying home this November instead of voting.

Actions speak louder than words, though, and a big 2A victory would do wonders to quell the criticism. If Congress can get a national right to carry reciprocity bill to Donald Trump’s desk, the president has previously indicated he would sign it into law. And now that the Senate is considering using the talking filibuster to force a vote on the SAVE Act, they could do the same for HR 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.

First, the House needs to schedule a vote on HR 38. It’s been on the Union Calendar for several months, which means it could be brought to the floor at any time. If the House approves the legislation, the Senate could concur with just 51 votes by employing the talking filibuster. Read more here.

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Women Busted for Trying to Buy Gun to Kill ICE Agents

Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS

There are way too many gun control laws in this country, even at just the federal level. When you get into the laws in a state like New York, though, it gets beyond ridiculous.

And many of the people who are screaming about Alex Pretti and talking a big game about taking on ICE supported those laws. They wanted to keep guns out of the hands of people like you and me, not because they think the criminals get them from us, but because they simply don’t like what we might do with them if they get their way.

Now that they’re feeling the opposite of that, such as immigration laws being enforced, they feel very differently, and for one woman, well, that’s coming up to bite her in the posterior.

A woman who attempted to buy a gun in Western New York is being investigated after she allegedly said she planned to purchase the weapon to “protect herself from ICE Agents, and also to kill ICE Agents.“

In a press release, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the female U.S…Read more here.

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Why Selectively Supporting Gun Rights is a Disaster

Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms

The more I see about what happened with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the less I know about it. I’m fine with that, because it’s not my place to make a final determination as to whether the shooting was justified or not.

It is my place to take issue with the members of the administration, including the president, who have suggested that it was somehow wrong for Pretti to be carrying a firearm, that the presence of it and spare magazines suggested nefarious intent.

I don’t think carrying a firearm to a protest is a great idea much of the time, but especially when the protest in question involves interfering with law enforcement. It’s unwise, to say the least, but “wisdom” and “legality” aren’t synonyms.

He had a right to carry, and while he may not have had his permit on him, that’s a petty misdemeanor. It’s not an earth-shattering crime. Read more here.

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