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Suspect in Burlington Mall Mass Shooting in Custody

Island County Sheriff’s personnel have arrested a person of interest in the September 23 Burlington, Washington mass public shooting. The suspect–unnamed at this time–is 20-years-old. According to USA Today, “KING-TV in Seattle reported that the 20-year-old man was taken into

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Democrats Face Off Over Gun Control Support

California Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown (D-47) voted for the bill requiring background checks for law-abiding ammunition purchasers yet she is facing a challenger from within her own party who believes Brown’s support of gun control could have been even stronger. Brown

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Supreme Court Second Amendment Case Could Overrule Heller Decision in 2017

WASHINGTON—For the first time in U.S. history, a federal appeals court on Friday struck down a federal gun-control law for violating the Second Amendment, meaning that next year the Supreme Court will hear a case that includes the opportunity to abolish citizens’ right to bear arms by overruling the Court’s famous Heller precedent.

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Tim Schmidt: Concealed Carry Has ‘Powerful Deterrent Effect’ Against Crime and Domestic Terror Attacks

Tim Schmidt, president and founder of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, was a guest on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the weekend’s terror attacks. As SiriusXM host Alex Marlow noted, they were further examples of the jihadist strategy of hitting “soft targets” or “anti-gun safe spaces” featuring large numbers of unarmed victims.

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Chicago Surpasses 500 Homicides With Labor Day Weekend Violence

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 13 were killed and another 52 were shot and wounded over the weekend. The Chicago Tribune reports that this brings the city’s homicide totals to 512 dead, with nearly four months left to go in 2016. There were 468 homicides in Chicago throughout all of 2015.

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