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February 2017
"60 Minutes" attacks Remington, Remington hits back
Right here. It involves some hard hits. But then 60 Minutes has always been about creating horror movies with some slight linkage to real events.
Dana Loesch named as NRA spokesman
Press release here. An excellent move and an excellent choice. Most organizations communicate thru spokesmen (stop to think about it, even Presidents do, most of the time). The CEO has enough to do in running the place, and has no time to stay fully informed on the issues involved. The spokesman, in contrast, can spend their full time studying and issue and speaking on it.
NH adopts "constitutional carry"
...thus becoming the 13th state to do so. I can remember when Vermont was the only state that allowed concealed carry without a permit, and when my own Arizona didn't allow civilian concealed carry, period (there was no provision for issuing permits). Who would have thought that a quarter of the Union would allow concealed carry sans permit?
Congress takes down Social Security reporting to NICS
Dave Workman has the story.
Dave Kopel's take on Judge Gorsuch
Right here, in America's First Freedom.
Self-defense followed by conviction
It involves Mike Strickland, of Oregon, who drew his handgun after being menaced by a Black Lives Matter crowd. Project Veritas has some video of the incident, and James O'Keefe vouching for him.
Celebrities who gave up US citizenship
Hmmm... Here's a list of twenty of them. Hope they realize two things.
First, that they have become prohibited persons under the Gun Control Act (18 USC 922(d) and (g)(7) prohibit a person "who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his citizenship" from receiving or possessing a firearm).
Second, they are forbidden to hire armed bodyguards. ยง922(h) makes it illegal for a person to possess firearms or ammunition "while being employed for any person described in any paragraph of subsection (g) of this section...."
UPDATE: Yep, this is one of the subsections added to GCA 68 for no particular reason beyond getting even. Another involved making anyone given a dishonorable discharge a prohibited person. The argument was, well, if he couldn't bear arms for his country he shouldn't bear arms to protect himself. The real reasons were that way back when some celebrities were renouncing citizenship (at least supposedly) to protest the Vietnam War.
Another purpose was that Congress wanted to be able to say that Lee Harvey Oswald wouldn't have been able to purchase a firearm under the law they were going to pass, and it was thought (incorrectly) that Oswald had a dishonorable discharge and had renounced his citizenship. (In fact, he had a less-than-honorable but not dishonorable discharge, and while he'd tried to renounce his citizenship he didn't jump through all the hoops correctly).
House passes resolution to undo reporting of Social Security recipients
News here. The House took the action under the Congressional Review Act. The measure is now on to the Senate.