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Texas Proposes More Laws Protecting Gun Rights During Disasters

Texas lawmakers are trying to defend 2A companies from being shut down during emergencies. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- On Wednesday, we reported to you on House Bill 2249 and Senate Bill 18, NRA-backed bills which establish that firearms and ammunition manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, suppliers, and retailers are essential businesses that shall not be prohibited by state or local officials from operating during a declared disaster or emergency. Since then, several more measure...
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Texas Introduces NRA-Backed Laws Protecting 2A Rights During Disasters

COVID-19 and uncivil disorder have illustrated that in times of crisis or uncertainty, Americans buy guns. IMG NRA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- COVID-19 and uncivil disorder have illustrated that in times of crisis or uncertainty, Americans buy guns.  Last year, as concerned citizens across the country lined up outside gun stores to exercise their constitutional right to purchase and own firearms, state and local officials – including those in a number of Texas cities and counties – refused to desi...
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North Carolina: Committee Advances Worshipper Protection Bill

North Carolina may pass a bill to help protect worshipers from gunmen. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- February 23rd, the Senate Committee on Judiciary issued a favorable report for Senate Bill 43, to expand the ability of citizens to defend themselves and their loved ones while attending religious worship. They referred the bill to the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate for further consideration. Senate Bill 43 allows law-abiding citizens who hold a concealed handgun permit t...
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LaPierre to Newsmax’ Grant Stinchfield: ‘NRA Is Strong Financially’

NRA EVP Wayne LaPierre appeared on Grant Stinchfield’s Newsmax broadcast. (Screen snip, YouTube, Newsmax) U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Insisting the National Rifle Association is “strong financially,” embattled Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told Newsmax talk host Grant Stinchfield in a televised interview the organization is growing by “about 1,000 (members) a day” and intimated that the current legal and financial troubles are politically motivated and not just about him. “So much of t...
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Gun Ownership It’s Not Insurrection, It’s Patriotism, Try Telling That to Gun Banners

Opinion by Alan J Chwick & Joanne D Eisen Disarming enemies in order to prevent political disruption has occurred many times in the past, and is similar to what occurred in post-WWI Germany., iStock-Amitvs 864713050.jpg USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- For four-plus years, all we heard about Donald J Trump was: Lies Within Lies. Plots Within Plots. Twists Within Twists. The Democrats fake narratives of their political reality changed daily, as they needed. After years of carefully crafted, and bough...
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Tactical Deals: Alpha Defense Gear Freedom Hoodie, Face Mask & Hat Pack Just $39.99

Check out our Daily Gun Deals page for more savings! U.S. & Texas LawShield is America’s original legal defense for self-defense program. Alpha Defense Gear Freedom Hoodie, Face Mask & Hat Pack deal USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Alpha Defense Gear has a sale of their 4pc Hoodie Pack, one (1) sweatshirt, two Face Masks (2), and one (1) hat and a FREE decal for just $39.99. You can customize the prints for each item before you check out. Orders over $49.00 get free shipping with code “FREES...
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Menu Plan Monday ~ February 22/21 Weekly Dinner Inspiration

Welcome to Menu Plan Monday! Affiliate links are included in this post. This means I make a small commission should you purchase product using these links. This is at no extra cost to you. Hi friends! How are you all? We had another boring weekend here in lockdown. Thankfully our weather has warmed up so that’s good. I’m sorry if any of you are experiencing hard weather situations where you live. I’ve been praying for those of you in Texas and all you are going through. So so hard. I di...
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Weekend Cooking: What's New in My Kitchen

Happy Saturday! Have you hit the famed (or should I say "infamous") COVID wall? I think I did last week, but I've climbed over it and have safely reached the other side. Ugh. I'm so ready for winter to be over and to be able to see my friends again. Enough whining because I know I don't have it anywhere near as bad as many people in Texas have it. My thoughts are with Texans; I hope they see the other side of this soon. Let's take a look at what's new in my kitchen this month. Slow Cooker: I ...
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NRA Shows their Petticoats, and the US Trustee Objects to Brewer

NRA Shows their Petticoats, and the US Trustee Objects to Brewer, istock U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The judge in the NRA’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, has set March 9th, 2021, as the date for hearing most of the early motions. That’s the day when we should find out whether the judge is going to throw the case out altogether or allow it to continue. The first item on the agenda for that hearing is supposed to be NRA Board Member, Phil Journey’s motion to have an Examiner appointed to investigate...
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At Least We're Not in Texas

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Biden Breaks Silence on Guns, Demands ‘Common Sense Reforms’

Joe Biden used the anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., to press for extremist gun control U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Having waited about four weeks from the day he moved into the White House, Democrat Joe Biden used the Valentine’s Day anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., to demand that Congress “enact commonsense gun law reforms,” which is camo-speak for extremist gun control. What he calls “common sense” is considered nonsense b...
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Align Tactical Offset Extended Magazine Release for SIG Sauer P320 Pistols

Align Tactical is a Texas-based company that has recently introduced its first product – an offset extended magazine release designed for SIG Sauer P320 and P250 pistols. What sets the Align Tactical magazine release apart from the other extended mag releases available on the market is that besides being extended, it has what the company calls […] Read More … The post Align Tactical Offset Extended Magazine Release for SIG Sauer P320 Pistols appeared first on The Firearm Blog.
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The 10 Best Biographies of American Presidents

In 2017, I embarked on a project of reading a biography of every American president. Forty-five men and over 25,000 pages later, I finally finished just before Joe Biden assumed the helm. It wasn’t an easy task, and certainly sometimes dull (especially through long parts of the 1800s), but always intriguing and unendingly fascinating.  As with all biographies, the books were full of life lessons. Though these presidents attained the highest office in the land, they also dealt with obstacles ...
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NRA Board Member asks Court to Appoint Independent Examiner in N.Y. Case

The latest chapter in the ongoing NRA drama finds a member of the Board of Directors seeking court appointment of an independent examiner to investigate the allegations made against the association. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A motion has been filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by a member of the National Rifle Association’s Board of Directors asking the court to appoint an independent examiner to investigate fraud allegations made against the NRA by New York regulators in the ong...
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A Texas Senator is Attempting to make the Bowie the Official State Knife

A Texas Senator has recently introduced a companion resolution to one previously filed (HCR1) that would have made the Bowie Knife the official State knife of Texas. Despite the previously introduced resolution passing with bipartisan support in 2019, Governor Greg Abbott vetoed the resolution because of a glaring historical error contained within. A Texas Senator […] Read More … The post A Texas Senator is Attempting to make the Bowie the Official State Knife appeared first on The Firearm Blog...
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NRA Bankruptcy Control is Getting Dicey for Entrenched Leadership

Opinion NRA Bankruptcy Control is Getting Dicey for Entrenched Leadership USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Most readers probably know that the NRA filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month with the stated purpose of reorganizing the Association as a Texas corporation. NRA officials have made multiple public statements to the effect that the organization is in solid financial shape, and the bankruptcy is just being used as a legal tool for moving the Association’s charter out of the unfriendly environs of...
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Hi-Tech Licensing and Registration is Still Just Licensing and Registration

High-tech registration is still registration. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Having tried and failed to impose a national firearm licensing and registration scheme on an unwilling American public for more than half a century, gun control advocates have spruced up the policy for the 21st century. In a paper titled “A Decentralized and Encrypted National Gun Registry,” a group of Brown University researchers working with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) advanced a gun licensing and registration sche...
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Best-selling author Kristin Hannah reveals the unusual journey of ‘The Four Winds’

Kristin Hannah had spent a year researching and writing an early draft of her new novel when she realized she’d gone astray. “The Four Winds” is set in the Texas panhandle as the Depression and the Dust Bowl environmental disaster. In the margins of Hannah’s story as she initially conceived it, there was the character Elsa, a young woman who’d grown up feeling unloved and unworthy, who found meaning as the mother of two young children. “I wrote it for at least a year, and Elsa was kind of a peri...
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Democrats File the First of Many Anti-Rights Bills Aimed at Gun Owners

The Biden-Harris ticket could spell the end of the Second Amendment if elected. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A.– -(AmmoLand.com)- Democrat politicians said they wanted to disarm us. The Democrats didn’t wait long. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden would love to see action on gun control. The President promised to act on day one on this issue. This is an issue he is personally committed to. Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee filed two gun control bills, House resolutions 125 and 127. ...
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Anti-Gunner Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke Eyeing Another Run

By Larry Keane O’Rourke, a former Democratic Texas U.S. Congressman, aimed for higher office and missed the target. IMG iStock-884200682 U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- In Texas, someone who’s all talk with little to show is said to be “All hat. No cattle.” Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, with his gun confiscation schemes, wears a hat to block out the sun. That’s not stopping him from eyeing a possible run for Texas governor in 2022. O’Rourke, a former Democratic Texas U.S. Congressman, aimed for h...
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NRA-ILA: South Carolina Open Carry Bill In Legislature

Rep. Bobby Cox introduced House Bill 3094 allowing SC citizens with a concealed carry license to open carry. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- For the 2021 legislative session, Representative Bobby Cox (R-19) introduced House Bill 3094 to allow citizens who hold a concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun in the manner they choose. Currently, South Carolina is one of just five states that do not explicitly allow open carry, among them Illinois, New York, and California. Self-defense situat...
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Saving a Stranger in a Sandwich Shop – Armed Citizen Stories

Armed Citizen Stories U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- We start with this news report from the Kerrville Daily Times in Kerrville, Texas. It has been a long day. You’re hungry, so you pull over to buy some food from a well-known sandwich shop. It is dark outside, but a number of people are still eating and ordering food. Two of the customers inside the sandwich shop begin to argue. One of them pulls out a knife. That is when lots of people leave the shop.. except you. You shout for the man to stop. Y...
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2A Jeopardy: Biden ‘Committed’ to ‘Reform Court System’ Including SCOTUS

Far-left advocacy groups are pressing Joe Biden to fulfill his commitment for a “bipartisan commission to study Supreme Court reforms.”, iStock-1020504756 U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Sworn into office with a widely-reported gun control plan just waiting to be unleashed, Joe Biden is “committed” to act on his campaign promise to create a “bipartisan commission to study Supreme Court reforms,” according to Fox News. If the scenario plays out, it could open the door for anti-gun Democrats to pack t...
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Bounty Hunters, Crazy Neighbors, and Ex-Boyfriends – More Self Defense Gun Stories

Bounty Hunters, Crazy Neighbors, and Ex-Boyfriends – More Self Defense Gun Stories U.S.A. – -(AmmoLand.com)- You probably didn’t see this news covered by the mainstream media, but again last week, responsible gun owners defended themselves and the people they love. Self-defense instructor David Cole joins the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast to look at four new examples. Were these gun owners lucky, or were they prepared? (24-minute audio) document.createElement('audio'); http://traffic.l...
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Crochet artist turns viral Bernie Sanders image into a doll that sells for $20,000

‘I really hope he thinks this is something cool,’ said Tobey King, who made the doll and plans to donate the proceeds to charityBernie Sanders went from becoming a hit meme to a nearly $20,000 crochet doll in less than a week.After an inauguration day image of the Vermont senator went viral, showing him sitting on a folding chair, socially distanced from other guests, hunched against the cold wearing chunky knitted mittens, Tobey King in Texas got to crocheting. She turned the sensational meme t...
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Excuse-Making for Pfleger Illustrates Gulf Between Media and Normal People

Choosing perceived citizen disarmament gains over a thorough investigation of sex abuse claims, Gabby Giffords didn’t let accusations against Joe Biden stop her from supporting him. So don’t expect her to treat accusations against Michael Pfleger any differently. (Father Michael Pfleger/Facebook) U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)-“Two brothers on Monday detailed sexual abuse they say they suffered at the hands of the Rev. Michael Pfleger more than four decades ago, with one saying the abuse ‘destroyed...
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Word of the week: Fig

This post was going to be a short riff on a line in that Inauguration poem by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman—the line about the vine and the fig tree, which got me thinking about figs. Mmmm, figs. But one fig led to another, and next thing you know I was way down a figgy rabbit hole from which there was no escape. Go figure. Here’s the line from “The Hill We Climb”: Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afra...
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The splintering South: the growing effect of migration on Republican strongholds

Migration patterns have laid siege to southern Republican dominance. Solidly red states a generation ago—Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina—are now purple or bright blue. The Democratic presence in Texas and South Carolina grows as Florida remains a battleground. These are all “fast growth” states. The remaining Republican bulwark represents a declining portion of the Southern electorate. If the South is the core of the modern Republican Party, its days are numbered.The post-Reconstruction era “S...
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Sleepy Deacon

Nothing like an afternoon nap on a chilly day in Texas. Such a rough life, Jim! ;) Sheltie Nation - Largest Community of Sheltie Lovers on the Net!
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Trampling 2A at Core of Biden’s Empty Promise of ‘Unity’

Does this look like the face of a man interested in unity? Joe Biden can’t unify the nation when he’s vowing to crush the rights of 100 million gun owners. IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- In a video message broadcast by CNN, Democrat Joe Biden put the lie to his widely-reported intent to preach unity during his inaugural address to what essentially will be a capital city occupied by some 22,000 National Guard troops by basically declaring war on about 100 million of his constituents. “My...
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