In Case You Missed It: Question 1-Town Hall Forum – At last night’s Question 1 Town Hall forum hosted by the Mob Museum, the Clark County district attorney Steve Wolfson said he would use selective enforcement if Question 1 were to become law. Wolfson also said complying with Question 1 would be similar to “inconvenience” of going to the DMV. The Question1 gun control ballot initiative would criminalize virtually every private firearms transfer in the state and cost law-abiding Nevadans time, money, and freedom.
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| Federal agents have persuaded police officers to scan license plates to gather information about gun-show customers, government emails show, raising questions about how officials monitor constitutionally protected activity. |
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| As the number of people requesting background checks to buy firearms is at an all-time high, the number of people charged with lying on the form about themselves to buy guns has dropped significantly over the past dozen years, concludes a review of the Department of Justice. |
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| Right on cue, there it was: Hillary Clinton in her first debate with Donald Trump, or whatever that surreal blatherfest was the other night, calling for “common sense gun safety” measures, comprehensive background checks and barring the poor souls on the no-fly list their right to constitutional due process.All of that, she says, would make us safer. Nonsense. The truth is none of what she wants will make us safer. None of it. |
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| As the presidential election heats up and violent crime rises nationally, pistol permit applications are at an all-time high in the Capital Region. |
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| Now the issue is in the courts, with a Worcester gun shop as the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit. Familiar battle lines are being drawn: Second Amendment issues, issues on enforceability of gun laws, debates on guns as a public and/or personal safety issue, and the role of elected officials, the judiciary and the legislature all are part of the debate. |
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| Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly’s national get-out-the-vote tour in support of toughening gun laws made a midday stop at St. Petersburg’s City Hall on Thursday — but without Giffords or her husband, who were not scheduled to attend. |
