Second Amendment

• Second Gun Shop Reverses, Now Won’t Sell Smart Gun
    Second Gun Shop Reverses, Now Won’t Sell Smart Gun -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 5/2/14 Earlier this year a gun shop [...]
• In California, a Fevered Rush for Conceal Carry Gun Permits
    In California, a Fevered Rush for Gun Permits By ADAM NAGOURNEY, NY Times, 4/26/14 SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pete Alexander celebrated the [...]
• Guns Safe People Lives: Concealed Carry Part of Reason Chicago Murders DOWN 9%/Crime DOWN 25%
    What Happened to Chicago’s Murder Rate After Illinois Upheld Concealed Carry and Why it Matters By Mike Miller, Independent Journal [...]
• Otis Page: FIVE CITIES FIRE AUTHORITY TAX INCREASE
    FIVE CITIES FIRE AUTHORITY TAX INCREASE Otis Page, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views, 4/4/14 [email protected] Where Councils may be [...]
• Assault With Deadly Weapon Not “Moral Turpitude” Per Leftist 9th Circuit Court
    Full Circuit Calls for Fix Amid Shaky Precedent By ELIZABETH WARMERDAM, Courtroom News, 4/3/14     Assault with a deadly weapon under California law [...]
• NRA Does Victory Dance Over the Woes of a California Gun Foe
    NRA Does Victory Dance Over the Woes of a California Gun Foe By Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg, 4/1/14 It’s tough to blame [...]
• California gun store owner refuses to hand over customer list
    California gun store owner refuses to hand over customer list By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, 3/16/14 The owner of a California [...]
• CA Attorney General Asks Appeals Court to Repeal Second Amendment—Criminals Applaud
    State appeals concealed weapons ruling Central Valley Business Times, 2/28/14 • Appeals court has tossed the law restricting carrying weapons • [...]
• FBI Report Once Again Confirms What We Already Knew About Guns-Save’s Lives
    FBI Report Once Again Confirms What We Already Knew About Guns By Conservative Daily News,, 2/25/14 The FBI’s semi-annual uniform crime data [...]
• California’s concealed weapons laws shot down
    California’s concealed weapons laws shot down Central Valley Business Times, 2/13/14 • Federal appellate court rules in San Diego case • [...]
• Grimes: ‘Ghost guns’ could be an apparition in CA
    ‘Ghost guns’ could be an apparition in CA. By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 2/4/14 When 3D-printed guns first emerged on the scene, many [...]
• SB 808: Calif. Senator Kevin de Leόn’s “ghost law” that ignores the real problem
    SB 808: Calif. Senator Kevin de Leόn’s “ghost law” that ignores the real problem Firearms Policy Coalition, 1/23/14 SB 808: Senator Kevin [...]
• Smith & Wesson: No Further Gun Sales in California—Criminals and Democrats Win
    Smith & Wesson to stop selling guns in California due to microstamping law D.C. passes emergency bill to postpone the firearm [...]
• Gun Groups Challenge California’s Micro-Stamping Law
    Gun Groups Challenge California’s Micro-Stamping Law By John Hrabe Calnewsroom, 1/13/14 Two of the country’s leading firearms associations have filed a lawsuit [...]
• Obama to PUBLICLY Disclose ALL Medical Records in Effort to Tell Criminals Who Owns a Gun
    White House Aims To Boost Health Data Reporting to Gun Database iHEALTHBEAT, 1/6/14 On Friday, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights released a [...]
• Seiler: Detroit police chief, former LAPD cop: Citizens Should Carry a Gun
    Detroit police chief, former LAPD cop: Carry a gun By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 1/3/14 California just imposed a passel of new gun [...]
• California gun law expands infrastructure for confiscation
    California gun law expands infrastructure for confiscation By: Steven Greenhut, Human Events, 1/2/14 SACRAMENTO — Gun registration had always seemed like [...]
• Report: Fresno Co. has most handgun carry licenses in state
    Report: Fresno Co. has most handgun carry licenses in state Written by Business Journal staff, 1/2/14 Fresno County had 6,277 civilian [...]
• Grimes: Firearm association accuses Fish and Game commissioner of conflict of interest
    Firearm association accuses Fish and Game commissioner of conflict of interest By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 12/22/13 One of the most controversial bills [...]
• Silicon Valley Creates Technology for GOVERNMENT to Disable Your Gun—Criminals Loving It!
  ! The connected gun: Meet the Silicon Valley startup aiming to track and wirelessly disable firearms Lauren Hepler, Silicon Valley Business Journal, [...]
• Federal Judge Says California Attorney General Kamala Harris Wrong on Gun Control Laws
    Federal Judge Says California Attorney General Kamala Harris Wrong on Gun Control Laws CalGuns Foundation, 12/9/13 Court denies Harris’ arguments and agrees [...]
• Thanks To Sacramento Criminals May Use Pastel Colored Guns to Avoid Cops
    CA Law Would Require Toy and BB Guns Painted Bright Colors by AWR Hawkins, Breitbart, 11/23/13 In the wake of incidents in [...]
• NRA sues San Fran over high-capacity ammunition ban
    NRA sues SF over high-capacity ammunition ban by Jonah Owen Lamb, SF Examiner, 11/20/13 The National Rifle Association has sued San [...]
• California loses another round in lawsuit over ammunition rules-Court rules for Freedom
    California loses another round in lawsuit over ammunition rules By Patrick McGreevy, LA Times, 11/7/13 SACRAMENTO — An appeals court has affirmed [...]
• Blue-State Governors bruised by gun control bills: Is Jerry Brown next
    Blue-State Governors bruised by gun control bills: Is Jerry Brown next Red Alert by Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times, 10/6/13 WASHINGTON, October [...]
• Grimes: Finally Unions Support Members Principles on Second Amendment
    Labor and trade unions oppose CA lead ammo ban By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 9/19/13 A controversial bill to ban traditional lead ammunition [...]
• Democrats Claim Cops Killing Criminals Prove Guns Need to be Restricted From Honest Californians
  Assemblyman Jones Releases “A Closer Look” at Gun Deaths in California Assemblyman Brian Jones, 9/12/13 SACRAMENTO – Today Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee) [...]
• Democrats Marginalize Second Amendment for California: Bad Bill: SB 755 by Wolk
        2013 CA SB 755 - Wolk - Firearms: used firearms   Calguns.net, Adds more misdemeanors to the 10-year prohibition on firearm or ammunition [...]
• Greenhut: California’s slippery gun-control slide
    California’s slippery gun-control slide Is continuing gun-control push more than closing “loopholes?” By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 9/4/13 SACRAMENTO — Supporters of [...]
• Sacramento Democrats Try to Kill the Second Amendment Incrementally—Criminals to be Safer
    Gun controllers fire volley of bills through Legislature By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 8/29/13 A new Harvard University study found that gun bans [...]
• LA Community College drops NRA class after six years due to new regs
    LA Community College drops NRA class after six years due to new regs Katherine Timpf, Campus Reform, 8/19/13 Faculty at Los Angeles [...]
• Does buying back guns deter crime? No, But Makes Liberals Feel Good
    Does buying back guns deter crime? by Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 8/15/13 San Francisco police purchased 157 firearms during a recent gun [...]
• California: 30 Million More Guns—56% DROP in Gun Deaths—Guns Save Lives
    Gun-death drop sparks debate on where credit lies Kevin Fagan, SF Chron, 8/2/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE The center [...]
• How Many Guns Did AG Holder Provide Mexican Meth Dealers Importing Drugs Into San Diego?
    San Diego Biggest Entry Point For Mexican Meth By Jill Replogle, KPBS San Diego, 7/2/13 Above: More than 70 percent of methamphetamine illegally [...]
• Senator Barbara Boxer: Prefers Victims to Self Protection for Families on Government Property
    Sen. Barbara Boxer Allows Terrorism To Dictate Second Amendment Rights By Matt MacBradaigh, The Brenner Brief, 6/14/13 The inane arguments used [...]
• Seiler: George Skelton (L.A. Times) wants your bullets
    George Skelton wants your bullets By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 6/18/13 The L.A. Times’ anti-gun obsessive George Skelton now wants your bullets. He [...]
• Seiler: San Fran Sues Costa Mesa and Gun Show for Being Legal and Constitutional
    SF takes a bead on OC gun show By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 6/13/13 Here’s another reason to split the state apart into [...]
• Would Obama, Brown, Feinstein or Pelosi Prefer Grandma That Used Gun to Scare Away Criminal Die, Instead?
    Grandma, 72, Fires Revolver to Scare Away Burglar “Get the hell out of here! Get your butt out! Now!” the Southern [...]
• Santa Monica’s strict no guns policy questioned after mass shooting
    Santa Monica’s strict no guns policy questioned after mass shooting Robby Soave, The Daily Caller, 6/11/13 In the wake of the mass [...]
• Government School Teaches Students to Fear Guns and Constitution
    Elementary School Beginning Toy Gun Turn-In Program by William Bigelow, Breitbart, 6/19/13 Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s [...]
• Staples Disqualifies Gun Stores, Lumps Firearms Together With Illegal Drugs
    Staples Disqualifies Gun Stores, Lumps Firearms Together With Illegal Drugs by AWR Hawkins, Breitbart, 6/1/13 Staples is currently conducting a “PUSH It [...]
• California Democrats—Keep the Guns—Take Away the Ammunition!
    Newly merged ammunition tax bill advances By Josh Richman, Political Blotter, 5/13/13 Two Assemblymen’s newly merged ammunition tax bill was approved Monday [...]
• Grimes: Democrat Bill—AB 760—to DOUBLE Cost of Ammunition
    Ammo tax would cost more than the ammo By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 4/17/13 The recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School [...]
• SENATOR FULLER AND ASSEMBLYMAN JONES LEAD LEGISLATIVE CALL FOR AUDIT OF DROS FUND
    SENATOR FULLER AND ASSEMBLYMAN JONES LEAD LEGISLATIVE CALL FOR AUDIT OF DROS FUND Surplus Expected to Grow to $12.7 Million Under [...]
• Gun safety courses offered to elementary teachers in Galt-but no guns allowed for protection
    Gun safety courses offered to elementary teachers in Galt By Susan Frey, EdSource, 3/25/13 In a new twist to professional development in a [...]
• Police Nationwide Say “You’re On Your Own”
  
• WORSE BILL OF THE WEEK. SB 475—Stops Legal Gun Shows at Cow Palace—to “Protect Public From Self Protection”
  Honest people obey the law. When they buy guns they go through the registration procedure. When criminals buy guns they [...]
• Gun Buy Back Programs: No Evidence They Reduce Crime—Kern County Law Enforcement
    Local law enforcement largely unconvinced on gun buybacks BY JASON KOTOWSKI Californian, 3/9/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE But you [...]
• Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 by Thomas Jefferson—Why Washington Democrats CAN NOT Pass Gun Laws
  Kentucky Resolution of 1798 Written by Thomas Jefferson TO SEE THE COMPLETE DOCUMENT CLICK THE BLUE HEADLINE 3. Resolved, That it is true [...]
• California Democrat Congress members: Add Big tax on Gun Purchases to “buy back” guns
    Linda Sánchez Announces Gun Violence Prevention Legislation (Feb. 21, 2013) Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, 2/21/13 Monterey Park, CA – Congresswoman Linda Sánchez (CA-38) today [...]
• Gun-free zone: Comcast cable blacklists gun-related ads
    Gun-free zone: Comcast cable blacklists gun-related ads By Cheryl K. Chumley, Washington Times, 2/19/13 - Comcast Spotlight, the advertising and sales division [...]
• Sacramento Democrats: We have Bills to Negate Second Amendment in California—Package Name? “Sitting Ducks” Bills
    New California Gun Control Bills Californiality, 1/29/13 Liberal Democrats in Sacramento have aimed to fire new gun control legislation at Californians who [...]
• Gun crime on the rise in Mass. since 1998 firearms law-Strict Anti-self protection laws
    Gun crime on the rise in Mass. since 1998 firearms law By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, 2/5/13 Murders, aggravated assaults, and [...]
• George Runner: Bullet Tax Will Backfire
    Bullet Tax Will Backfire By George Runner, member Board of Equalization, 2/6/13 If you want to grow government these days, it seems [...]
• Sacramento Democrats Want to TAX Guns Via Mandatory “Violence Insurance”
    Assemblymembers Ting and Gomez Introduce Gun Liability Insurance Bill Assemblymen Phil Ting and Jimmy Gomez, 2/5/13 Second measure will provide tax credit [...]
• The Guns of Villaraigosa
    The Guns of Villaraigosa LA’s mayor declares war against the manufacturers whose weapons protect his city’s police department. By Jack Dunphy, PJ [...]
• Calif. Dept. of Justice: 19,784 state residents own guns who shouldn’t
    Calif. Dept. of Justice: 19,784 state residents own guns who shouldn’t Julie Small, KPCC, 1/29/13 State officials and gun owners agree on [...]
• Grimes: Unholstering the truth about guns
    Unholstering the truth about guns By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/28/13 Politicians are nothing if not predictable. With every tragedy, lawmakers seize the [...]
• Has the GEICO Gecko Trampled on the Second Amendment?
    Has the GEICO Gecko Trampled on the Second Amendment? by Bryan Preston, PJ Media, 1/25/13 One of our Tatler readers alerted [...]
• San Franciscans Demand Protection—Buy Guns—Are Brown and Obama Listening?
    As San Francisco gun sales increase, officials have no means to track number of firearms By: Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 01/22/13 Gun [...]
• Groupon Anti-Gun—Anti Second Amendment Policy
    Austin gun shop owner fires back at Groupon after ban Staff Austin Business Journal, 1/22/13 The owner of Central Texas Gun Works [...]
• El Dorado County Sheriff: I will not be pressured to enforce unconstitutional laws
    El Dorado County Sheriff: I will not be pressured to enforce unconstitutional laws Inedc, 1/12/13   Sheriff D’Agostini writes to the Vice President, [...]
• Obama: Support and Use of Second Amendment Rights is a Mental Disease
    Here’s The List of 23 Anti-Gun Executive Actions President Obama Announced Today Economic Policy Journal, 1/16/13 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the [...]
• Great Statements From Founding Fathers and Court Decisions on Second Amendment
    Gut check: why the founders wanted us to be allowed to own guns The Brenner Brief, 1/12/13 The following quotes by the authors [...]
• NY Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Outlaw Guns: High Taxes Create a 60% rate of smuggled cigarettes
    60% of cigarettes sold in New York are smuggled: report By Aaron Smith @CNNMoney, 1/10/13 New York has the highest cigarette tax [...]
• Five Federal Policies on Guns You’ve Never Heard Of
    Five Federal Policies on Guns You’ve Never Heard Of by Suevon Lee, ProPublica, 1/7/13 It’s not just states that have relaxed gun [...]
• City of Los Angeles Bought Stolen Guns/Weapons Used in Crimes—NO Questions Asked
    California Crime Drops As Gun Sales Surge Political Outcast, 12/31/12 Los Angeles officials recently lauded their gun buyback program on Wednesday that [...]
• No Guns in School? Armed guards have long been the norm on California campuses.
  No Guns in School? Armed guards have long been the norm on California campuses. Larry Sand, City Journal, 12/28/12 It was only natural [...]
• Smart Criminals in New York Will Stay Away From Legal Gun Owners—thanks to a New York newspaper
  Intimidation: NY Newspaper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Holders by Ben Shapiro, 12/24/12 , Big Governnent—Breitbart Today, the Journal News in [...]
• Greenhut: CA lawmakers take aim at guns
    CA lawmakers take aim at guns By Steven Greenhut, Calwatchdog, 12/24/12 SACRAMENTO – It took only days before California’s legislators reacted to [...]
• Second Amendment SAVED Lives in Oregon Mall—Other Places: Lack of Second Amendment Killed.
    Virtually Unreported: CCW Holder Likely Prevented Larger Clackamas Mall Death Toll By Tom Blumer, NewsBusters, 12/16/12   If certain aspects of stories relating [...]
• San Bernardino City Attorney: “Load Your Guns”
    SAN BERNARDINO: Penman “load your gun” comment stirs debate   BY IMRAN GHORI, Press Enterprise, 11/30/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE [...]
• Grimes: CA Democrat Legislators: Control BB Gun “Crisis” Instead of Fixing Pension Disaster
      Legislators pass bill to regulate BB guns By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 8/22/12 “They’ll have to pry my BB gun from my cold, [...]
• Grimes: Ignorance abounds in gun control stories
          Ignorance abounds in gun control stories By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 8/7/12 Within minutes of the most recent Colorado and Wisconsin massacres, breathless [...]
• Thanks to Obama and Brown: Californians buying more guns this year than ever
      Californians buying more guns this year than ever By Kevin Roderick , LA Observed, 7/28/12 The state Department of Justice says that [...]
• Grimes: More guns, less crime
      More guns, less crime By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog, 7/23/12 The mainstream news reports about the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting on Thursday [...]
• Results of Arnold/Jerry Release of Criminals: Gun Sales DOUBLE
      Number of gun shops up in Sacramento region By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee, 7/12/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “Sharff’s [...]
• Alameda County Sued for Denying Permit to Gun Shop; Allege Violation of 2nd Amendment
      Alameda County Sued for Denying Permit to Gun Shop; Allege Violation of 2nd Amendment California County News, 7/2/12 It was only at [...]
• Rush’s show: Holder, Guns and His Desire to Brainwash people
      Rush’s show yesterday: Holder, Guns and Brainwashing people Rush Limbaugh, 6/26/12 RUSH: I found a story from 1995. It’s actually a YouTube [...]
• Obama Admin. Credited with Gun Industry Boom-while selling guns to the Cartels
      Obama Admin. Credited with Gun Industry Boom Written by Bob Adelmann, New American, 6/27/12 According to the National Shooting Sports Federation (NSSF), [...]
• California: Anti-Gun and Anti-Hunting Bills to be Heard Next Week
      California: Anti-Gun and Anti-Hunting Bills to be Heard Next Week Please Contact state Legislators Today! NRA, 6/23/12 As early as Tuesday, [...]
• Grimes: Assembly catfight over guns
        Assembly catfight over guns By Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 5/22/12 Retribution in politics isn’t unusual. Every year we witness members of the [...]
• Democrats Anti-Second Amendment Bills Need to Be Stopped
      California: Anti-Gun Bills Need Your Help to be Stopped Please contact your state Legislators TODAY! National Rifle Association, 5/5/12 Mark Twain is quoted as [...]
• Bank of America to Gun Manufacturers: Go to Hell—You Can Not Bank Here
      Bank of America to gun company: Find another bank By Mike Piccione, Daily Caller, 4/20/12 McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and [...]
• NRA, Ralph Reed group plan get-out-the-vote efforts
    NRA, Ralph Reed group plan get-out-the-vote efforts By Peter H. Stone, IWatchnews, 4/10/12 The National Rifle Association, a Ralph Reed-led social conservative [...]
• Obama’s Gun Boom
      Obama’s Gun Boom Gun sales, permit applications spike, federal data show, as shooting ranges draw huge crowds BY: CJ Ciaramella, Free Beacon, [...]
• Radical “Turkeys” Not Protected by Court
      Animal Protection Group Fails to Block Youth Turkey Hunt in SD County; Criticizes Board California County News, 3/21/12 Wild turkeys don’t stand [...]
• When Police Can Not Protect You: A Hot Trend: Concealed Carry Licensing
  A Hot Trend: Concealed Carry Licensing Elisabeth Meinecke, Townhall, 12/31/11  It’s one of the most popular trends in America today: concealed carry [...]
• More Dumb Gun Laws From CA Democrats
  Calguns files a lawsuit against California Attorney General Kamala Harris Kimberly Dvorak, San Diego County Examiner, 12/27/11 The California Calguns Foundation has [...]
• Police Response Time in Oakland 15 Minutes-People are dying
  Delays for Paramedics Draw Criticism in Oakland Residents say victims of violence are dying because first responders must wait until police [...]
• CA Lawsuit Aims At ‘Open Carry’ Gun Ban
  Lawsuit Aims At ‘Open Carry’ Gun Ban By DAVE ROBERTS, Cal Watchdog, 12/13/11 “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security [...]
• Kitchen Scrubbing Pads to be Regulated by ATF? Gov’t is Crazy
  Kitchen Scrubbing Pads to be Regulated by ATF? Godfather Politics, 11/28/11 It sounds laughable, especially after Operation Fast and Furious, but according [...]
• Feinstein Having Holder Allowed Guns to be Sold to Mexican Drug Cartel
  Feinstein Uses ‘Fast and Furious’ to Make Case for National Gun Registration By Fred Lucas, cnsnews.com, 11/1/11 Making a case for national [...]
• Gun Rights Advocates Plan Lawsuit Against Open Carry Law
  Gun Rights Advocates Plan Lawsuit Against Open Carry Law The group California Right to Carry plans to file its suit on [...]
• Second Amendment Saves Lives in Washington and Chicago-Over Liberal Objections
  Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News By John Lott, Fox News, 9/30/11 Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to [...]