Results for: john petrolino
Survey says Biden still underperforming on crime
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/04/survey-says-biden-still-underperforming-on-crime-n60011
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/04/survey-says-biden-still-underperforming-on-crime-n60011
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It’s difficult to be impressed by anything the Biden-Harris Administration is up to these days, but in particular, this is not a law and order bunch. Biden loves to run his mouth about all the protection to society he offered up when he supported and voted for past “crime bills”,...
Another suit attacking NJ’s “assault firearm” prohibitions filed
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/03/another-suit-attacking-njs-assault-firearm-prohibitions-filed-n60015
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/03/another-suit-attacking-njs-assault-firearm-prohibitions-filed-n60015
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The matter of those dirty nasty black rifles is being challenged the second time in one week in the Garden State. Cam reported about a Firearms Policy Coalition backed case, Cheeseman v. Platkin the other day, and on July 1st, the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC)...
Attorney General Garland playing favorites with civil liberties?
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/03/attorney-general-garland-playing-favorites-with-civil-liberties-n59999
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/03/attorney-general-garland-playing-favorites-with-civil-liberties-n59999
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When discussing the Second Amendment, one of the conditioning exercises I’ve personally had to go through has to do with language. Many people did and or do have to be conditioned to look at so-called “gun rights” through the correct lens. Friend, fellow contributor at AmmoLand News, and author of...
NYPD officers pose with impressive cache of firearm
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/02/nypd-officers-pose-with-impressive-cache-of-firearm-n59977
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/02/nypd-officers-pose-with-impressive-cache-of-firearm-n59977
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New York City isn’t exactly the oasis it was in the days after Rudy Giuliani cleaned it up, as a prosecutor and as mayor. Even Nanny Bloomberg managed to keep the Big Apple a habitable and visitable place. I’ve had a few recent trips into the city myself over the...
SCOTUS remands and reverberating effects
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/02/scotus-remands-and-reverberating-effects-n59995
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/02/scotus-remands-and-reverberating-effects-n59995
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The other day Cam wrote about several of the grant, vacate, remands (GVRs) the Supreme court ordered, and with those, we’ve yet to feel the full effects of what NYSRPA v. Bruen has to offer. We’re looking at just the tip of the iceberg on what both the decision and...
Massachusetts keeping their heels dug in on NYSRPA
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/01/massachusetts-keeping-their-heels-dug-in-on-nysrpa-n59946
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/01/massachusetts-keeping-their-heels-dug-in-on-nysrpa-n59946
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On more than one occasion the Bay State has appeared within the pages of Bearing Arms, and honestly, they deserve it. The state that was born from “extreme tolerance”, that of hanging those who were different and thus labeled “witches”, still has a wisp of that mentality. When it comes...
Firearms Policy Coalition to challenge non-violent firearm disqualifiers
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/19/firearms-p…lition-to-challenge-non-violent-firearm-disqualifiers-n60581
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/19/firearms-p…lition-to-challenge-non-violent-firearm-disqualifiers-n60581
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In 1991 anti-civil rights activist Josh Sugarmann made it his goal to completely scuttle the ability for individuals to get disqualifiers lifted from their records. Sugarmann did not like the idea that people could petition the Federal Government to have their gun rights restored if they were deemed no longer...
Teaching all kids firearm safety, even the blind
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/18/teaching-all-kids-firearm-safety-even-the-blind-n60488
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/18/teaching-all-kids-firearm-safety-even-the-blind-n60488
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Derek LeBlanc, founder and president of the Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation, made it his goal to educate children on firearm safety. To LeBlanc, it’s not just another check box for a youth to put on their accomplishment sheet, but rather a potentially life saving skill. The Foundation uses the catchphrase of...
Getting schooled: Hitting the clays course with Collegiate Coach Anne Mauro
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/17/getting-sc…ing-the-clays-course-with-collegiate-coach-anne-mauro-n60312
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/17/getting-sc…ing-the-clays-course-with-collegiate-coach-anne-mauro-n60312
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The first time I shot sporting clays I was about 15 or 16 and went through the course with my Remington 870 in 20 gauge. Dad and I drove the hour and forty five minutes to M&M Hunting & Sporting Clays in Pennsville, NJ, and little did I know that...
Firearms Policy Coalition provides legal ammunition for those applying for carry license in hostile lands
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/16/firearms-p…for-those-applying-for-carry-license-in-hostile-lands-n60440
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/16/firearms-p…for-those-applying-for-carry-license-in-hostile-lands-n60440
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I haven’t seen similar celebrations like these post NYSRPA v. Bruen rejoicings since the Ewoks tore up Endor, playing glockenspiels made of stormtrooper helmets, and danced around the un-environmentally friendly mostly plastic and electronics fueled funeral pyre. It did not take long for the jubilation to end for many of...
Associated Press tells reporters to avoid using "politically charged" terms like "assault weapons"
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/15/associated…using-politically-charged-terms-like-assault-weapons-n60431
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/15/associated…using-politically-charged-terms-like-assault-weapons-n60431
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On the side of freedom, we often talk about how language matters. The days of asking what “‘is’, ‘is’?” and such word salads need to be shattered to a million pieces and tossed to the wind. Trying to accurately report or even have a normal discourse with someone on the...
Another Massachusetts group weighs in. Let’s get ready for some litigation?
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/14/another-ma…ts-group-weighs-in-lets-get-ready-for-some-litigation-n60382
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/14/another-ma…ts-group-weighs-in-lets-get-ready-for-some-litigation-n60382
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It’s only been a week since I’ve reported on Massachusetts, after a flurry of correspondence between the state and Gun Owners Action League (GOAL), things quieted down a bit. The spat began with the Attorney General and RINO Governor Baker digging their heels in on the opinion in NYSRPA v....
Firearms Policy Coalition launches attack on NY’s “assault weapons” ban
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/14/firearms-p…coalition-launches-attack-on-nys-assault-weapons-ban-n60365
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/14/firearms-p…coalition-launches-attack-on-nys-assault-weapons-ban-n60365
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The war on America’s rifle might be coming to an end sooner than later. At least the viable war. We’ve already reported about the GVR on the Maryland case, with the Supreme Court telling the lower court they need to do a do-over on the so-called “assault weapons” prohibitions there....
NJ court finds stop unconstitutional, gun charge tossed
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/11/nj-court-finds-stop-unconstitutional-gun-charge-tossed-n60229
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/11/nj-court-finds-stop-unconstitutional-gun-charge-tossed-n60229
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A traffic stop in the Garden State in 2018 led to an unlawful firearm possession charge. In New Jersey, under the Graves Act, someone a foul of the law faces imprisonment for 3-5 years minimum mandatory. The conflict revolves around window tinting on the defendant's vehicle. NJ has a law...
Suit alleges school security guard dismissed for exposing vulnerabilities
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/suit-alleg…security-guard-dismissed-for-exposing-vulnerabilities-n60215
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/suit-alleg…security-guard-dismissed-for-exposing-vulnerabilities-n60215
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School safety and the hardening of our institutions should be a top priority going forward in our society. Left, right, and center can argue about everything else under the sun when it comes to mitigating or stopping acts of violence directed at students in learning institutes, but a lot of...
Lots to unpack in recent sentencing in firearm trafficking case
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/lots-to-unpack-in-recent-sentencing-in-firearm-trafficking-case-n60218
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/lots-to-unpack-in-recent-sentencing-in-firearm-trafficking-case-n60218
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How many times do people need to hear a north-eastern official bellow on about the so-called “iron pipeline”? They love pegging the problems of their own state on other states. Or progressive Chicago politicians blaming Indiana for there own incompetency. Finger pointing at those dirty other jurisdictions that have lax...
Time for the ACLU to change their name
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/time-for-the-aclu-to-change-their-name-n60222
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/10/time-for-the-aclu-to-change-their-name-n60222
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has long flirted with not really being about all civil liberties. Once in a while there were Second Amendment related causes that the ACLU got behind, but those days are long gone. Further, any support would have been in conjunction with another right, say...
Ammunition distributor noticing a lot of “missing” packages from UPS
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/28/ammunition…stributor-noticing-a-lot-of-missing-packages-from-ups-n60908
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/28/ammunition…stributor-noticing-a-lot-of-missing-packages-from-ups-n60908
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UPS has been in the gun world news quite a bit as of late. My colleague Lee Williams over at the Gun Writer Substack, AmmoLand News, and the Second Amendment Foundation Investigative Journalism Project just recently covered that a large number of firearm related companies have been having their accounts...
DOJ celebrates Disabilities Act while making life harder for disabled shooters
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/28/doj-celebrates-disabilities-act-n60827
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/28/doj-celebrates-disabilities-act-n60827
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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important law that we have in the United States. Yes, with any type of regulation that either restricts or expands a class of people’s rights, there’s room for abuse, but overall, allowing the differently abled to have a fair shake is not...
Dudley Brown from NAGR says Superior just the beginning on new challenges in Colorado
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/27/dudley-bro…rior-just-the-beginning-on-new-challenges-in-colorado-n60820
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/27/dudley-bro…rior-just-the-beginning-on-new-challenges-in-colorado-n60820
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The other day Tom reported on a Federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a so-called “gun control” law that was passed in Superior, Colorado. The challenge was against an “assault weapons” ban, among other things, which was passed by a vehemently anti-gun city council. Such laws are...
NYPD doing God’s work enforcing law regulating toys
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/25/nypd-doing-gods-work-enforcing-law-regulating-toys-n60736
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/25/nypd-doing-gods-work-enforcing-law-regulating-toys-n60736
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I remember calling an FFL in one of the boroughs many years ago asking questions about transferring an air gun, and the FFL went on a tear, directed at me mind you, about how they’re illegal in New York City. I was in search of answers to a pile of...
Data sharing part of a big globalist plan to control and disarm?
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/24/data-sharing-part-of-a-big-globalist-plan-to-control-and-disarm-n60723
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/24/data-sharing-part-of-a-big-globalist-plan-to-control-and-disarm-n60723
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I often find myself telling level headed people in conversation that I don’t wear a tin foil hat, but I do keep a roll of aluminum foil nearby just in case. A recent press release from the Department of Justice has my skin crawling with the underpinnings of the Ministry...
DOJ celebrates a year of crackdowns with new ATF director
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/23/doj-celebrates-a-year-of-crackdowns-with-new-atf-director-n60717
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/23/doj-celebrates-a-year-of-crackdowns-with-new-atf-director-n60717
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Our Attorney General, Merrick B. Garland, who did not make the cut to be a Supreme Court Justice, is celebrating a year of so-called crackdowns with the newly installed ATF director. Garland seemingly takes his frustrations out on law-abiding gun owners and peaceful citizens over his own character flaws which...
Gun rights advocate Rebecca Schmoe aims for seat in state House
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/23/gun-rights-advocate-rebecca-schmoe-aims-for-seat-in-state-house-n60674
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/23/gun-rights-advocate-rebecca-schmoe-aims-for-seat-in-state-house-n60674
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Some of the best politicians are advocates who find themselves stepping up to the plate and just taking a swing. The person that says “Ya know, somebody should do something about that,” and then decides to be that person. That doing something generally will be done with a zeal and...
Bill introduced to abolish NFA
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/22/bill-introduced-to-abolish-nfa-n60684
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/07/22/bill-introduced-to-abolish-nfa-n60684
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I’ve been sitting on news about the introduction of a bill for several days waiting for more details to come out. On July 15th, 2022 HR 8399 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the National Firearms Act was introduced by Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North...