In a recent report, the Washington Post outlines how the FBI turned to a small Australian firm for help after Apple refused to unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. used an August 23 CNN op-ed to claim national reciprocity for law-abiding citizens “is a gift” to the Islamic State.
Since the passage of “Gunpocalypse” and Proposition 63, California Democrats have learned that gun control is easy to pass but difficult to implement.
As Chelsea Handler prepares to host the gun control lobby’s Brady Center Bear Awards this Wednesday night, she is making clear her belief that President Trump loves the “gun lobby” and “doesn’t give a sh*t about people.”
A Stanford University study shows the surges in handgun purchases that occur after a mass attack are characterized by a large number of female buyers and “first gun buyers.”
The FBI spent $900,000 in its effort to unlock an iPhone found inside the San Bernardino terrorists’ home, a senator has revealed.
NBC published an article titled “Trump Now Uses an iPhone — Despite Once Calling for an Apple Boycott” to attack the president for switching from his potentially vulnerable Android handset to an iPhone.
Jezebel published an article ridiculing the training session they received from an official of the Department of Homeland Security for a workplace shooting because it was politically incorrect.
On December 17, an astonished New York Times observed that President-elect Donald Trump actually supports “arming people to defend themselves in gunfights.”
On Monday, the Los Angeles Times declared that Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 63 shows the nation how to secure more gun control on law-abiding citizens.
A gun control initiative that would expand background checks to all private gun sales in Nevada also portends something else: The “Californication of Nevada.”
During the October 9 presidential debate Donald Trump said he will nominate Supreme Court justices in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia in order to save the Second Amendment from “people like Hillary Clinton.”
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed that “many people saw the bombs all over the apartment of the two people that killed 14 and wounded many, many people [in San Bernardino].”
In response to questions from AARP Bulletin, Hillary Clinton made clear her position that to be successful, policies for ending terrorism must include gun control for all Americans.
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
During MSNBC’s September 7 Commander-in-Chief Forum, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested more gun control is part of the fight against terror attacks in the United States.
Speaking at an August 8 town hall in Rocket Center, West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized his state’s recently enacted constitutional carry law, suggesting that relying on the Second Amendment alone as a carry permit will actually increase ambush incidents for police officers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) will allow a vote on legislation dealing with terrorism and guns next week.
On June 24 the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) mocked Congress as cowards for not passing expanded background checks in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, an attack in which Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people with a rifle he bought via a background check.
During a June 3 campaign stop in San Bernardino, Hillary Clinton referred to the December 2 terror attack as “gun violence,” and pledged anew to “take on the gun lobby.”
During a May 20 speech to the NRA Leadership Forum, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said, “We’re getting rid of gun-free zones.”
A high school in Rancho Cucamonga has apologized after mistakenly naming a hijab-wearing 11th grade devout Muslim student “Isis Phillips” in its yearbook.
There was a “36 percent” increase in the number of background checks conducted in January, February, and March 2016 compared to the number conducted during the same time period in 2015.
Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.
This week, California sheriffs united and announced their opposition to the gun controls Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to place on the November ballot.
San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said officers responding to the December 2 terror attack carried out by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were outgunned and under-equipped.
On March 1, the California Assembly will consider legislation limiting rifle or shotgun purchases to one per month, and another bill broadening the state’s “assault weapons” ban.
San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood “wants to arm all eligible citizens” — including county workers — in a bid to prevent or stall another terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
San Bernardino County supervisor–and vice chair of the Board of Supervisors–Robert A. Lovingood is urging residents to get their concealed carry licenses and carry guns for self-defense to prevent another December 2-style attack. Writing in Daily Press, Lovingood observes: As
California Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) is pushing legislation to limit the purchasing ability of law-abiding citizens to one long gun a month.
One reason to be suspicious of Washington’s ability to deal with the threat of Islamist terrorism is that the same dodgy characters keep showing up as self-appointed spokespersons for the American Muslim community.
During an interview with the Daily Mail, actor Kurt Russell affirmed the he owned guns and said that “now is not a good time to lay” them down.
House Democrats pushed an “assault weapons” ban on December 16 that included a prohibition against the manufacture of such weapons, and on that very day, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that the American people were pushing back and doing so in greater numbers than ever before.
Prosecutors have filed papers in court alleging that San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook and Enrique Marquez planned to carry out an attack in 2012 that included bombing Riverside City College, then shooting drivers and passengers along a crowded stretch of 91 freeway in a secondary attack.
On December 16, the Huffington Post responded to sheriffs’ requests that citizens arm themselves to fight terrorism by suggesting the requests feed Islamophobia and make Muslim-Americans uncomfortable.
A majority of Americans oppose an “assault weapons” ban for the first time in 20 years of New York Times’ polling on the topic.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Kelly File,” former DHS employee Philip Haney said work he was doing that would have “put the red light on” the San Bernardino attackers was shut down due to fears of profiling. Haney
According to the NYT, Democrat proposals include the creation of an “ISIS czar,” which sounds like something that would come out of a satirical parody of Democrat national-security deliberations. I know – let’s create some new slots in the bureaucracy! That always fixes things! We already have a position to handle ISIS, kids. It’s called “The President of the United States.” The problem is the occupant of the office, not its job description.
Because it has caused a great deal of controversy (to put it mildly), it seems appropriate to quote the “Donald J. Trump Statement On Preventing Muslim Immigration” in full:
Following the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) Board on the UCLA campus is warning Muslim students that “patterns of tragic ignorance or hatred” are causing “increased scapegoating of American Muslims” by Islamophobics.
