“Ghost Gun” Regulations Incoming

Today, the President and Deputy Attorney General will also announce that the U.S. Department of Justice has issued a final rule to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns” – unserialized, privately-made firearms that law enforcement are increasingly recovering at crime scenes in cities across the country. Last year alone, there were approximately 20,000 suspected…

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WA AG Ferguson Proposes Assault Weapon Ban

Attorney General Bob Ferguson is proposing a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Ferguson, joined by a broad coalition of over 50 community leaders and elected officials, announced on Wednesday that he will submit agency request legislation in the 2017 session. Ferguson’s proposed legislation has two key elements: A ban on semiautomatic weapons with…

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The Battle of Athens

2 AUGUST 1946 I. Introduction On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud — forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff’s deputies…

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EU Plans To Restrict Semi Automatic Firearms

While perhaps not the most publicized recent development regarding the European Union, in recent weeks the political bloc has pushed forward with its plans to severely curtail gun rights across its 27 member states. On June 10, the European Council endorsed a version of the proposed changes to the European Firearms Directive pushed by the…

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