Showing posts with label Gun Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gun Policy. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Mistake--They're Sitting Ducks

June 20, 2015 Gun Policy , Jesse Byrnes 0 Comments
Uber Changes Policy To Prohibit Guns In Cars 

By Jesse Byrnes, Jun. 19, 2015, The Hill

Ride-hailing company Uber has changed its policy to prohibit drivers and passengers from carrying guns in cars for trips arranged using its digital service.

Uber's updated legal page on its website includes a policy prohibiting "firearms of any kind in a vehicle" operated by an Uber driver, with violators potentially losing access to the app.

"We have adopted a no-firearms policy to ensure that both riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable on the platform," Uber's Matt McKenna said in a statement to the New Republic, which first reported the change in policy.

"We made this policy change after assessing existing policies and carefully reviewing recent feedback from both riders and driver-partners," McKenna added.


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Friday, January 2, 2015

Freak occurrence

January 02, 2015 2nd Amendment , Accidental Shooting 0 Comments
Gun Expert Surprised That Tot Was Able To Fire Pistol

Ryan Simms, Dec. 31, 2014, USA Today

"Their fingers usually don't reach the trigger," she said. "They'll turn their hand around to put their thumb on the trigger."

A Kootenai County Sheriff's Office investigation is continuing although a sheriff's office spokesman, Lt. Stu Miller, said Tuesday that the incident appeared to be a tragic accident.

Read more: www.usatoday.com


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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Don't tell Piers Morgan

November 18, 2014 Anti-Gun , Catherine A. Gallagher 0 Comments
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993

D’Vera Cohn, Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Catherine A. Gallagher, Kim Parker and Kevin T. Maass, May 7, 2013, Pew Research Center

National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.

Read more: www.pewsocialtrends.org


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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

What's next, give agents squirt guns?

November 11, 2014 Gun Policy , KVOA News 4 Tuscon 0 Comments
N4T Investigators: Border Patrol Stripping Agents Of Their Rifles

Lupita Murillo and Michel Marizco, Nov. 9, 2014, KVOA News 4 Tuscon

We learned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Offices of Border Patrol and Training and Development are inspecting the quality of agents' M4 carbines throughout Border Patrol sectors nationwide. But agents tell us, some of those M4s have not been replaced. And, we've learned, agents are required to share rifles amongst each other.

"There's a lot of agents that are pretty upset over it," said Art del Cueto, president of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector union. "We know it's a dangerous job. We know what we signed on for but we want to have as much of the equipment as we need to perform the job."

The M4 carbine is used by the U.S. military and by Border Patrol agents. It's even used by the Border Patrol's tactical unit, BORTAC. Agent Brian Terry was carrying the M4 when he was shot and killed in December 2010.

Del Cueto tells us that because some of those M4s have not been replaced, agents are pooling their weapons, which makes it difficult to personalize the settings on a rifle, such as the sights.

Read more: www.kvoa.com

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

A fact to a toe-tag liberal...

August 17, 2014 2nd Amendment , Dailycaller.com 0 Comments
FLASHBACK: Wayne LaPierre: Junk Science Drives Administration's Gun Policies

Wayne LaPierre,
Executive Vice President, NRA
By Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, NRA, Aug. 10, 2013, Dailycaller.com

With the stroke of his royal pen, President Barack Obama declared that federal law in the form of a 17-year congressional funding ban on gun-control “research” at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was trumped by his personal decree through an executive order restoring the CDC’s junk-science agenda.

Were I to choose a single word to define this action, it would be “outlaw.” The law forbidding expenditures by CDC to promote gun control still stands. It cannot be erased by an executive order. But this is President Obama, his rule and his rules.

As with so many other Obama executive actions disregarding federal law or ignoring Congress or the courts, this one has born poisonous fruit in the form of a voluminous manifesto. In this case, it’s entitled, Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearms-Related Violence.

Produced by the National Academy of Sciences (for the CDC), the research agenda was “supported by awards between the National Academy of Sciences and both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation, the California Endowment, the Joyce Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, one anonymous donor …”

Anonymous donor? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg or George Soros perhaps? After all, the deep-pocket largesse of the Joyce Foundation is the only reason the Violence Policy Center can keep its doors open.

Read the full story:  www.dailycaller.com

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