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on December 14, 2016 in Gun Page World News

California Long Gun Sales Skyrocket with ‘Bullet Button’ Ban Approaching

by AWR Hawkins On January 1, 2017, the sale of modern sporting rifles with “bullet button” magazine release mechanisms will be prohibited and this has led to a run on AR-15 and AK-47-based firearms. For those not familiar with a “bullet button,” it is a magazine release that California lawmakers require as a means of reducing the speed at which a law-abiding citizen can remove an empty magazine to replace it with a loaded one. The mechanism releases the magazine once the citizen uses a tool or the point of a bullet–thus the name “bullet button”–to press in the button…. View Article

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on December 14, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Here We Go Again: Obama Sends Arms Trade Treaty to Senate for Ratification

by AWR Hawkins With just over a month left in office and no gun control achievements to speak of during his time in the White House, President Obama has sent the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to the Senate for one last shot at ratification. The ATT garnered a lot of attention as it moved through various bureaucratic channels in 2012 and 2013. Breitbart News reported that the treaty was supported by 46 Senators, two of whom were Independents–Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Angus King (I-Maine)–and the rest of whom were Democrats. It was signed by Secretary of State John Kerry… View Article

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on December 8, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Good Guy with Gun Stops Knife Attack at High School

by AWR Hawkins A campus police officer shot a Hug High School student who allegedly had a knife and “tried to attack others.” According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, the officer who intervened in the 11:25 a.m., December 7, incident was a Washoe County School District police officer. The school was locked down following the incident “as police went room to room accounting for all students and finding witnesses.” The student who was allegedly wielding the knife is listed in critical condition. Reno Police Chief Jason Soto said the incident began as “an altercation between two students.” One of the two students then pulled… View Article

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on December 8, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Former NSA Director Michael Hayden: Banning Guns ‘Might’ Be Part of Counterterrorism

by AWR Hawkins During a Wall Street Journal Future of Cybersecurity breakfast, former NSA director Michael Hayden suggested banning whole categories of guns “might” need to be part of America’s “counterterrrorism discussion” going forward. He specifically referenced the June 12 Orlando Pulse terror attack and suggested there “might be some guns out there that nobody should be able to buy.” Hayden told WSJ that the government has just about bumped into the wall regarding the Fourth Amendment — there “is not much” left that they can do constitutionally. He said, “We could probably do more things that’ll squeeze your privacy a bit, to give… View Article

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on December 7, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Gun-Controlled Chicago Surpasses 730 Homicides for 2016

by AWR Hawkins Over 730 homicides were committed between January 1, 2016, and December 6, 2016 in gun-controlled Chicago. The Chicago Tribune places the exact number at 731, a figure which represents approximately 240 more homicides than the city witnessed in all of 2015. And it is still just the first week of December. The number of overall shooting victims January 1 through December 6 sits at 4,133, which is roughly 1,145 higher than the number of shooting victims for all of 2015. The bottom line–2016 has been a bloody year for gun-controlled Chicago. On September 1 ABC News reported… View Article

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on December 6, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Amnesty Groups Fight to Hide California Gang Database From Trump

by AWR Hawkins Immigration advocacy groups are asking California Attorney General Kamala Harris to “block federal access” to the database containing names of gang members in the state. The goal is to block access before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, thereby preventing his administration from seeing the names of individuals who could find themselves on a the deportation short list. According to the Voice of OC (VOC),  a 2016 report from the California State Auditor claims the CalGang database has problems because of “weak oversight.” This means the database reportedly contains some names that should have been removed and other… View Article

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