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A bill that would allow police to confiscate firearms from a person who is suspected of being a danger to themselves or others is attracting attention nationwide following high-profile mass shootings in California and Connecticut.

On Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have banned all magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Is owning a firearm a sign of patriotism? In an attempt to answer that question, Fox News put that question to 1,018 randomly-selected, registered voters across the nation from June 21-23, 2014.

Dozens of Missouri teachers and school staffers are now training to carry firearms while at work to protect students from active shooters. While this is good news for those who value the Second Amendment, it also raises questions about the standards, gear and costs associated with that firearms training.

Moms Demand Action scored another victory on Wednesday when retail giant Target announced that it would ask gun owners to leave their firearms at home.

“We have been conditioned to fear people with guns. The media reinforces this fear while simultaneously exploiting it. We have been conditioned to feel that guns and gunmen in particular are evils from which any decent person should recoil in horror.” – Billy Johnson, NRA News commentator.

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government can enforce the Straw Sale rule even when the person it is being bought for is lawfully allowed to own a gun. Several different Federal Circuit courts had previously ruled on both sides of this issue, prompting the Supreme Court to hear the case. The Supreme Court, is a five-to-four decision, adopted a narrow interpretation of the law, saying the “actual transferee/buyer” must acknowledge that he intends to resell the gun when he buys it, even if the eventual owner is legally entitled to own a gun.

Already Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal has taken up the sword for new gun laws following the Elliot Rogers shooting. As we have warned several times, including this past week in a review of a new 2nd Amendment film, mental health is the Trojan Horse upon which the anti-gunners, and many pro-gun people, think we can find common ground. Such would be the case if the mental health profession wasn’t run by lockstep progressives and moonbats who only got into the profession to see if they could figure out what was wrong with them.

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