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https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/examining-the-practices-and-profits-of-gun-manufacturers
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hybrid hearing to examine the role of the firearms industry in America’s gun violence epidemic.
“With more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, and gun violence now the leading cause of death of children in America, it is clear that we are in a public health epidemic,” said Chairwoman Maloney. “Our hearing will examine the role of gun manufacturers in flooding our communities with weapons of war and fueling America’s gun violence crisis. It is long past time for the gun industry to be held accountable for the carnage they enable and profit from.”
On May 26, 2022, following the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, the Committee sent letters to Daniel Defense, LLC, Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., and other manufacturers seeking information on their sale and marketing of AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles and similar firearms, including revenue and profit information, internal data on deaths or injuries caused by firearms they manufacture, and marketing and promotional materials.
On June 8, 2022, the Committee held a historic hearing with survivors and impacted family members from the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.
On July 7, 2022, following the Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, Chairwoman Maloney sent letters to the CEOs of gun manufacturers Daniel Defense, LLC, Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., and Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., requesting their appearance at a Committee hearing on the urgent issue of gun violence.
This hearing will examine the responsibility that the firearm industry bears in contributing to the gun violence epidemic in the United States and the steps Congress can take to hold manufacturers accountable.
WITNESSES
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Defense, LLC
Mark P. Smith (Invited)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc.
Senior Advisor
Giffords Law Center
Senior Counsel and Director of Racial Justice
Brady: United Against Gun Violence
National Director of Women’s Outreach
Gun Owners of America
DOCUMENTS
Issues:
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of all the firearms, it was always the AR-15 that they raved about. Many of them are surprised,
given the anti-AR-15 rhetoric pushed by organizations spending millions of dollars trying to
deter them from owning one.
The AR-15 allows women to have a larger firearm without having to absorb the recoil as much
as one does with a smaller, handheld firearm. The AR-15 makes it easier for those who have a
physical disadvantage to the attacker to have an upper hand. Or at the very least an equal
platform. Having a rifle allows me the advantage of being able to shoot the attacker from much
further away than the standard handgun.
The AR-15 is the most common firearm in America due to it modularity and its ability to
conform to the needs of the user. What these so-called “assault weapon” bans like the one
currently being discussed this year do is leave a vast majority of Americans, including women,
unable to use the most effective self-defense firearm possible. For many Americans, a shotgun,
revolver, or bolt action rifle would NOT be as effective when compared to the ability to use an
AR-15.
The number one reason that women buy firearms is for self-defense. In fact, according to a
recent industry study, women reported self-defense as the number one reason why they
purchased their first firearm. Because of the very conspicuous nature of rifle or shotgun, women
are not using concealed carry permits to carry their AR-15s. But they are using them in case of
home defense at an increasing rate. Because of the increased marketing that gun manufactures
have spent, more women feel that they can and should use a rifle.
Gun manufactures are listening to the growing voice of women like me who have seen the
Second Amendment world stay a boy’s club for centuries. I am a proud owner of a Daniel
Defense firearm, and it is my “go to” rifle. It is, by far, lighter than any other rifle I own. It
makes it easier for me to hold, and yet it still does an incredible job of absorbing the impact after
each trigger pull.
Women have been known to use rifles in defense in plenty of instances. But the people who have
used Armalite Rifles range from older men to young women. For instance, Stephen Willeford, a
GOA spokesperson and senior living in Sutherland Springs, Texas, used an AR-15 to effectively
stop a mass shooter at the church in his town a few years ago.
she does not mention the SHOOTER used ar15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting
bkgd checks fail; red flag might have prevented? fired 700 rounds, reloaded; domestic viol ~ 2
[**Sutherland Springs church shooting**:{ occurred on November 5, 2017, when Devin Patrick Kelley, age 26, of :(style="background-color:#ffffffff"):}:[New Braunfels, Texas, perpetrated a mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Kelley killed 26 people, including an unborn child, wounded 22 others, and killed himself. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history, and the fifth-deadliest in the United States.[2][note ^1]
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It was the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015[3] and the Waddell Buddhist temple shooting of 1991.[4]
Kelley was prohibited by law from purchasing or possessing firearms and ammunition due to a domestic violence conviction in a court-martial while in the United States Air Force. The Air Force failed to record the conviction in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Crime Information Center database, which is used by the National Instant Check System to flag prohibited purchases. The error prompted the Air Force to begin a review.[5]]] ^[pence ^said ^he'd ^fix]
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^{{ ^On May 24, 2022, nineteen students and two teachers were fatally shot, and seventeen others were wounded atRobb Elementary School inUvalde, Texas, United States, by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. Earlier in the day, he shot his grandmother in the face[4] at home, severely wounding her. Outside the school, he fired shots for approximately five minutes[5] before entering unobstructed with an AR-15** [daniel defense? he would not answer if shot now pay later plan?] style rifle through an unlocked side entrance door. He then shut himself inside two adjoining classrooms, without locking the classroom door,[6]killed nineteen students and two teachers,and remained in the school for more than an hour before members of the United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) fatally shot him.[7] The shooting is the third-deadliest school shooting in the United States, after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012,[8] and the deadliest in Texas.[9]}}:
In November 2019, a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, used her family’s AR-15 to stop
two armed attackers in her home. After two home invaders severely wounded her husband and
attempted to grab her 11-year-old daughter, the wife grabbed the AR-15 they had in their home
and drove the attackers away. One of them was found dead from the round she put in him before
they began to flee from the scene.
[WT: confrontation was not the story of a “good guy with a gun” or even a “good guy with an assault rifle,” but “a good woman in her ninth month with an assault rifle.”
A home invasion in Lithia, Florida, last week was thwarted by the very pregnant woman firing an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon and killing one of the attackers, according to local news reports.
Jeremy King told Bay News 9 in Tampa that he was badly beaten up by two masked men carrying guns while he was at home with his family.]
{{ ITHIA, Fla. — A Lithia man who was the victim of a home invasion in October is now fighting to regain custody of his children after the state removed them following that attack.
“I'm appalled and I dumb-founded,” Jeremy King said.
- Jeremy King loses custody of kids after home invasion
- King's wife shot, killed one of the suspects with an AR-15
- Child Protective Services said home was an unsafe environment for the kids
- King fighting to regain custody of kids
King was severely beaten inside his home on October 30 after he said two masked men barged in demanding money. His wife, who was pregnant and hiding in a back bedroom, grabbed an AR-15 rifle and shot one of the men authorities later identified as Joseph Baez, 27.
Baez died at the scene.
Within days, Child Protective Services took King’s children into state custody. His infant son, delivered by his wife, was also removed.
“They said I created an unsafe environment for my children and that it's my fault the home intruders came there,” King said after a custody hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse.
Last week, authorities arrested Ty’Zae Robinson, 19, and Kiara Ragins, 24. Investigators believe Robinson, who was charged with felony murder over Baez’ death, was with him during the home invasion. Ragins, who was charged with accessory to felony murder, is accused of driving the getaway car.
An attorney for King said that state went too far.
“I have a lot of respect for what DCF and CPS and the judiciary have to do but in this case, I do believe they've overreached,” Derek Lucas, who represents King, said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriffs’ Office said in a statement “the residence is believed to have been targeted due to criminal activity happening inside the home.”
King, who does have a criminal record for marijuana possession, strongly denies he is involved in any current criminal activity.
“I feel like I've been victimized here and now my children are still being victimized,” he said.
Several custody hearings related to this case are scheduled for next month.}}:
On the other hand, a woman attempting to defend herself from two home invaders in 2016 was
beaten when her firearm ran out of bullets. After the incident, she stated that she will be buying
another gun, presumably one with a greater magazine capacity. The AR-15, with its standard
capacity magazine of 30 rounds, may effectively be used to defeat multiple intruders when one’s
life is on the line.
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Woman Shoots Suspect, Runs Out of Bullets, Plans to Buy ‘Another Gun’
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Jennifer Deasy holds her Colt Government .380 caliber pistol at the target range at Niagara Gun Range in North Tonawanda, N.Y., Thursday June 26, 2008. Americans can keep guns at home for self-defense, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in the justices' first-ever pronouncement on the meaning of gun rights under …AP Photo/David Duprey
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Over the weekend, a 61-year-old woman awoke to two suspects, unloaded her gun on them, and plans to buy “another gun” in case such an incident occurs again.
The woman lives in the vicinity of Terrell, Texas, but wishes to remain unidentified for her own security.
According to CBS DFW, the woman grabbed her gun when she heard the suspects in her home. Upon seeing them, she opened fire, shooting one in the stomach but emptying every bullet in her gun without hitting the second suspect.
She surmises that the suspects heard her gun as it began to “click” and realized she was out of rounds. At that point, the uninjured suspect allegedly began to beat her, leaving the woman with “a concussion and her face was covered with cuts and bruises.”
The woman called police after the suspects fled and the injured one — 21-year-old Saul Guzman — was quickly captured at Texas Regional Medical Center in Sunnyvale, seeking treatment for his gunshot wound. The second suspect — 21-year-old Pedro Guzman — was captured sitting in his car at a gas station across the street from the medical center.
The woman said she plans to install a security system so she can know if someone is in her house as soon as they enter. She also said she plans to buy “another gun.” She urged other woman to do the same, saying, “I hope other women will take note. I am glad I was able to defend myself.”
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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more recently, in Atlanta, a black Army veteran protected his home and family inside, using an AR-15 to fend off multiple intruders from his home. Caught on his home security camera, the man saw one of the men with a firearm near his vehicle. His wife was hiding inside the home, and the man used his rifle in defense of his family, home, and property. Sadly, there is legislation in Congress that would ban commonly-owned firearms and, thus, disenfranchise law-abiding citizens and good Samaritans everywhere of their ability to defend themselves and others. Take for example of the hero at the Greenwood mall in Indiana, where Elisjsha Dickens used his 9mm Glock to end the threat in 15 seconds. Under new legislation in the House, this weapon would have been banned as a “semiautomatic assault weapon.” Would Congress rather have a higher casualty count at Greenwood, Indiana; Sutherland Springs, Texas; or Arvada, Colorado? It is clear that being responsible for one’s own protection and carrying a firearm is a better response than simply waiting for the police. Mr. Dickens took action 308 times faster than those first responders at Uvalde. In conclusion, because of the many benefits of the AR-15 for women and those with physical disadvantages and the many reasons I stated above—including the fact that our Constitution is clear that no government body has any power to determine which firearm I choose to keep in my possession—the Armalite Rifle is
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In Miller, the type of weapon in question was a sawed-off shotgun. Since Miller did not show and no arguments were made, the case was remanded to the lower court. The government’s own arguments in Miller are even more to the point: “The ‘arms’ referred to in the Second Amendment are, moreover, those which ordinarily are used for military or public defense purposes …” “The Second Amendment does not confer upon the people the right to keep and bear arms; it is one of the provisions of the Constitution which, recognizing the prior existence of a certain right, declares that it shall not be infringed by Congress. Thus, the right to keep and bear arms is not a right granted by the Constitution and therefore is not dependent upon that instrument for its source.” We see two themes emerge from Miller that also were considered in subsequent Supreme Court cases and even in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The Second Amendment protects: • Weapons suitable for military purposes • Firearms in common use at the time The AR-15 semi-automatic rifle is similar to the military M-16 and M-4. The difference is that the AR platform is semi-automatic while the military rifles are select-fire (i.e. they can be set to fire in fully automatic mode). The AR is also a commonly owned platform in the United States used for a wide variety of legitimate purposes, including self-defense. Semi-automatic rifles are, therefore, weapons suitable for military purposes and in common use. Arguably, the civilian semi-automatic AR platform is LESS THAN suitable for military use since it is not a select-fire weapon. The true intent of the Second Amendment would preserve the right of citizens to own M-4s and M-16s. * This Appendix was provided by Dr. Val Finnell, who is the Pennsylvania Director for Gun Owners of America.
References 1. Reynolds, Alan. Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Frequent? CATO Institute. [Online] February 15, 2018. [Cited: September 3, 2019.] https://www.cato.org/**blog**/are-mass-shootingsbecoming-more-frequent.
- Gillespie, Nick.James Alan Fox: There is No Evidence of an 'Epidemic of Mass Shootings'.
Reason. [Online] August 14, 2019. [Cited: September 3, 2019.] https://reason.com/podcast/james-alan-fox-there-is-no-evidence-of-an-epidemic-of-massshootings/.ri
- Mass Shootings in America: Moving Beyond Newtown. Fox, James Alan and DeLateur, Monica J. 1, Thousand Oaks, CA : Homicide Studies, 2014, Vol. 18....
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the hero who stopped the gunman behind the deadly Texas church massacre said using an AR-15 enabled him to end the bloodshed. In an emotional interview with CRTV’s “Louder With Crowder” on Monday, Stephen Willeford described the gunfight and dramatic car chase that ensued to stop the shooter from slaughtering additional churchgoers.
The former National Rifle Association instructor was home Sunday morning when his daughter told Willeford she had heard gunshots from the nearby Baptist church, prompting him to get his AR-15 rifle from his safe and load a magazine. He ran to the church and confronted the alleged shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, who fired shots at Willeford. While taking cover behind a pickup truck, Willeford fired several shots at the gunman, who sped away in his car.
Willeford ran to a truck stopped at a stop sign and asked the driver to help him to stop Kelley, who had a history of domestic violence and had been kicked out of the military. The two men pursued the gunman, whom officials say wore tactical gear and a bullet-proof vest, down a nearby highway until the vehicle eventually careened off the side of the road. When police arrived, Kelley was found dead on the scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as well as two other gunshot wounds — one on his leg and one on his torso. Officials believe the gunman took his own life.
“If I had run out of the house with a pistol and faced a bulletproof vest and kevlar and helmets, it might have been futile,” Willeford said. “I ran out with an AR-15 and that’s what he was shooting the place up with.”
“I hate to politicize that, but that’s reality,” he added.
“I’m not hero,” Willeford said in an interview with 4029 news. “I am not.”
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/927693133453844480
“I think my God and my Lord protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done,” he said while choking back tears. “I just wish I could’ve gotten there faster, but I didn’t know. I didn’t know what was happening.”
About 7 percent of the town’s population was slaughtered in the deadliest church massacre in U.S. history. Willeford told reporters he had several friends who attended the church.
Bre Payton was a staff writer for The Federalist. She wrote on subjects ranging from Kanye West to Supreme Court rulings, to 2016 and breaking news. She appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, BBC World News, among others, and her work was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Daily Signal, and WORLD Magazine, to name a few. She had also worked as a reporter for Watchdog.org and received her degree in Political Journalism from Patrick Henry College.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting
bkgd checks fail; red flag might have prevented? fired 700 rounds, reloaded; domestic viol ~ 2
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https://reason.com/2022/07/27/with-deception-and-misdirection-house-democrats-vainly-try-to-make-the-case-for-banning-assault-weapons/
the House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on H.R. 1808, which would ban the production and sale of "assault weapons."That category includes semi-automatic rifles with features such as pistol grips, folding or adjustable stocks, barrel shrouds, and threaded barrels. The bill also would ban a long list of models by name. Setting the stage for the vote on H.R. 1808, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today:{ }
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The Democrats on the committee offered little evidence to support that perspective. In particular, they failed to show that "assault weapons" are especially likely to be used for criminal purposes, as opposed to lawful purposes such as self-defense or sport, or that prohibiting the features listed in the proposed ban can reasonably be expected to have a meaningful impact on gun violence.
in a press release she issued today, committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D–N.Y.) repeatedly asserts that "AR-15-style assault rifles" are "the weapons of choice for murderers responsible for America's deadly mass shootings." She reiterated that claim at the hearing, calling such rifles "the weapon of choice in most mass murders."
That is clearly not true. According to a recent National Institute of Justice report on public mass shootings from 1966 through 2019, 77 percent of the perpetrators used handguns. About a quarter of the perpetrators used weapons that would be covered by legislation like H.R. 1808.
Mass shootings represent a tiny share of all gun homicides—somewhere between 0.2 percent and 2.6 percent of the total in 2020, depending on how mass shootings are defined. Contrary to Maloney's claim, handguns account for the vast majority of firearms used in mass shootings, and they account for an even larger share of weapons used in all gun homicides: more than 90 percent in cases where the type of firearm was specified, according to the FBI's 2019 data. Rifles of any sort, only a subset of which would qualify as "assault weapons," were used in less than 3 percent of those cases.
Prior to the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004, according to a widely cited study published that year, guns covered by such laws "were used in only a small fraction of gun crimes"—"about 2% according to most studies and no more than 8%." Most of those were pistols rather than rifles.
It is clear from these data that the rifles Maloney wants to ban, contrary to the impression she is trying to create, are rarely used to commit crimes. Given the popularity of such firearms, it follows that they are overwhelmingly used for lawful purposes.
"AR-15 rifles are among the most popular firearms in the nation, and they are owned by millions of Americans," the Firearms Policy Coalition notes in a lawsuit challenging New York's "assault weapon" ban. "A recent survey of gun owners indicates that about 24.6 million Americans have owned up to 44 million AR-15 or similar rifles….And according to industry sources, more than one out of every five firearms sold in recent years were rifles of the type banned by New York."
Maloney unwittingly underlines this point by complaining about rising sales of such rifles. "Gun manufacturers collected more than $1 billion from the sale of AR-15-style semiautomatic weapons in the last decade," she says, "and sales are increasing as gun deaths and mass shootings rise."
The New York Times likewise implies a causal connection between sales of these firearms and recent increases in gun homicides. "The leading manufacturers of assault rifles used to perpetrate the deadliest mass shootings in the United States have collected more than $1 billion in revenue over the past decade as gun violence across the country has surged," it says.
But for much of that decade, the homicide rate in the United States was flat or falling. It rose slightly in 2019, then jumped by 29 percent in 2020. Even on its face, that trend does not support the theory that Maloney and the Times are pushing.
Furthermore, that theory cannot possibly be true unless "assault weapons" played a major role in 2020 homicides. But according to a Pew Research Center analysis of FBI data, the share of homicides involving any sort of rifle in 2020 was similar to the percentage in 2019.
The Times seems unfazed by those numbers. Its reference to "gun violence across the country" includes a link to a March 23 story about the "surge in U.S. shootings." Although the story is illustrated by a photo of a man buying a rifle at a gun store, the article says nothing about "assault weapons." It opens with descriptions of three shootings but does not specify the firearms that were used.
Maloney today demanded that rifle manufacturers "apologize to the victims" of crimes committed with their products. "When someone pulls the trigger, you refuse to accept responsibility," she complained. The continued sale of "assault weapons," she said, is "the very definition of putting profits over people." Given the data on firearms used in homicides, including mass shootings, the same dubious logic would apply with much greater force to handgun manufacturers.
Yet the Supreme Court has said that the right to own handguns, which it described as "the quintessential self-defense weapon," is guaranteed by the Second Amendment, notwithstanding the prominent role that such firearms play in homicides. More generally, it said the Second Amendment covers bearable arms "in common use" for "lawful purposes," a description that plainly applies to the rifles that Maloney wants to ban, which play a much smaller role in violent crime.
Antonia Okafor, national director of women's outreach at Gun Owners of America (GOA), illustrated those lawful purposes by explaining why AR-15-style rifles are useful for self-defense. "The AR-15 allows women to have a larger firearm without having to absorb the recoil as much as one does with a smaller handheld firearm," she told the committee. "The AR-15 makes it easier for those who have a physical disadvantage [relative] to the attacker to have the upper hand. Having a rifle allows me the advantage of being able to shoot the attacker from much farther away than a standard handgun."
Okafor added that she is "the proud owner" of a Daniel Defense rifle, which is "by far lighter than any other rifle I own." She said it is "easier for me to hold" and does "an incredible job of absorbing the impact after each trigger pull." Those characteristics are appealing to elderly gun owners as well as women, she said, citing a GOA member who "use[d] an AR-15 to effectively stop a mass shooter" at his church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, five years ago.
Okafor also mentioned a 2019 incident in which "a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy" used "her family's AR-15" to "stop two armed attackers in her home." And she cited "a black Army veteran" who used an AR-15 to protect his family by "fend[ing] off two intruders from his home."
Such examples may not prove that AR-15-style rifles are superior to the alternatives for self-defense.But Maloney and likeminded politicians suggest they are good for nothing but mass murder, which is obviously not true. Maloney et al. want to limit gun buyers' choices based on that false premise.
As Rep. Andrew Clyde (R–Ga.) noted during the hearing, the distinctions drawn by H.R. 1808 make little sense if the aim is to reduce mass-shooting deaths. Under that bill, for example, a semi-automatic rifle that accepts detachable magazines would be illegal if it had a threaded barrel, a barrel shroud, or a folding stock. Yet removing those features would not make the rifle less deadly: It would still fire the same ammunition at the same rate with the same muzzle velocity.
President Joe Biden, who brags about supporting the expired 1994 "assault weapon" ban, nevertheless concedes that it left lots of equally lethal firearms on the market. He wants to "stop gun manufacturers from circumventing the law by making minor modifications to their products—modifications that leave them just as deadly." But those gun manufacturers were not "circumventing the law"; they were complying with the law, which required changes that, by Biden's own admission, left firearms "just as deadly." H.R. 1881 does not solve that problem, which is inherent in the arbitrary definition of "assault weapons."
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5025456/user-clip-072722-goa-antonia-okafor
...KEEP MANUFACTURERS USING IT TO SELL CANS ALL OF THE TIME. THE GUN INDUSTRY'S ROLE IN FUELING THE EPIDEMIC CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED. THAT CANNOT STAND AND I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE NOW RECOGNIZED FOR YOUR TESTIMONY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN MALONEY, RANKING MEMBER CALMER, AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO TESTIFY TODAY AND FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICAN GUN OWNERS TO OWN AND MAINTAIN AR-15S FOR SELF-DEFENSE. MY NAME IS ANTONIA WOO OKAFOR AND I AM A NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON. I'M A RANGE SAFETY OFFICER WHO SPECIALIZES WITH WORKING WITH WOMEN WITH TRAUMATIC BACKGROUNDS. I AM WHAT YOU WOULD CALL AN ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST.
MY PARENTS WERE IMMIGRANTS FROM NIGERIA AND I GREW UP PRIMARILY WITH AN ANTI GUN, ANTI SECOND AMENDMENT MINDSET UNTIL MY ARRIVAL IN COLLEGE IN 2009, WHICH WAS GREATLY GRAVE AT THE EPIDEMIC OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OCCURRING AT UNIVERSITIES CROSS THE U.S..
AS A SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR MYSELF, I HAVE SINCE BECOME A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE OF EMPOWERING WOMEN, AND IN MY YEARS AS A RANGE SAFETY OFFICER AND FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR, I FOUND THAT MY FEMALE STUDENTS TEND TO GIVE THE AR-15 THE BEST REVIEW OVERALL. .
THIS YEAR, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA PUT ON THREE EVENTS FOR WOMEN THAT LET NEW FEMALE SHOOTERS TRIAL AND ARRAY OF FIREARMS. HAND GUNS, RIFLES, SHOTGUNS. OUT OF ALL OF THE FIREARMS, IT WAS ALWAYS THE AR-15 THAT THEY RAVED ABOUT, MANY OF THEM SURPRISED, GIVEN THE ANTI AR-15 RHETORIC PUSHED BY ORGANIZATIONS SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TRYING TO DETER THEM FROM OWNING ONE, THE AR-15 ALLOWS WOMEN TO HAVE A LARGER FIREARM WITHOUT HAVING TO ABSORB THE RECOIL, AS MUCH AS ONE DOES WITH A SMALLER HOW IT HANDLED FIREARM, THE AR 15 MAKES IT EASIER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A PHYSICAL DISADVANTAGE THE ATTACKER, TO HAVE AN UPPER HAND.HAVING A RIFLE ALLOWS ME THE ABILITY TO SHOOT FOR MUCH FURTHER AWAY THAN THE STANDARD HANDGUN. THE NUMBER ONE REASON THAT WOMEN BUY FIREARMS IS FOR SELF-DEFENSE.
I AM A PROUD OWNER OF A DANIEL DEFENSE RIFLE, IT IS MY GO-TO RIFLE, IT IS BY FAR LighTER THAN ANY OTHER RIFLE I OWN. IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR ME TO HOLD AND IT STILL DOES AN INCREDIBLE JOB OF ABSORBING THE IMPACT AFTER EACH TRIGGER PuLL. WOMEN HAD BEEN KNOWN TO USE RIFLES IN deFENCE FOR MANY INSTANCES BUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE USE THESE RIFLES USE RANGE FROM OLDER MEN TWO YOUNG WOMEN, IT GEO A SPOKES PERSON AND SENIOR LIVING USE AN AR-15 TO EFFECTIVELY STOP A MASS SHOOTER AT THE CHURCH IN HIS TOWN A FEW YEARS AGO. NOVEMBER 2019 IT WOMAN IN HER NINTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY IS HER FAMILY'S AR-15 TO STOP TWO ARMED ATTACKERS IN HER HOME.
AFTER THEY SEVERELY WOUNDED HER HUSBAND AND ATTEMPTED TO GRAB HER 11-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, THE WIFE GRABBED THE AR-15 AND DROVE THE ATTACKERS AWAY, ONE OF THEM WAS FOUND DEAD FROM THE ROUNDS SHE PUT IN HIM BEFORE THEY FLED FROM THE SCENE.
MORE RECENTLY, AND ATLANTA, A BLACK ARMY VETERAN PROTECTED HIS HOME AND FAMILY INSIDE, USING AN AR-15 TO FEND OFF TWO INTRUDERS FROM HIS HOME. HIS WIFE WAS HIDING INSIDE OF THE HOME, THE MAN USED HIS RIFLE IN DEFENSE OF HIS FAMILY, HOME, AND PROPERTY.
BANNING THESE FIREARMS WILL ONLY MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR WOMEN LIKE ME TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES, GARDEN BANS NEVER STOPPED BAD GUYS FROM GETTING FIREARMS.
AS MY WRITTEN TESTIMONY SHOWS, THE ORIGINAL BAN IN 1994 DID NOTHING TO REDUCE THE CRIME. CONSIDER ALL OF THE RECENT SHOOTINGS IN BUFFALO AND UVALDE, WHERE AIDED AND ABETTED BY GUN RESTRICTIONS THE BUFFALO SHOOTER INDICATED HIS VICTIMS WILL BE LIMITED IN THEIR ABILITY TO HOLD FIREARMS BY THE TOUGH FIREARMS RESTRICTIONS. 90% OF MY SHOOTINGS OCCUR AND GUN FREE ZONES.
A PRE-EXISTING SECOND AMENDMENT, THE RIGHT IS SELF PRESERVATION, THE SECOND AMENDMENTS PRIMARY FOCUS IS NOT ABOUT HUNTING,THIS SECOND AMENDMENT WAS PUT INTO THE CONSTITUTION AS PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AGAINST A OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT.
HISTORY HAS SHOWN, COUNTLESS TIME, THAT ANY GROUP WITHOUT THE MEANS OF KEEPING AND BEARING ARMS HAS REMAINED THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE GROUP. OUR HISTORY AMERICA HAS SHOWN OPPRESSION CORRELATED WITH GUN CONTROL.
EVEN AFTER BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS, THEY CAME HOME FROM INSTITUTIONS THAT TOOK AWAY FIREARMS FROM BLACK COMMUNITIES. COMMUNITIES THAT RELIED ON FIREARMS TO DETER ATTACKS FROM THE CLUE CLERKS CLAN.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR APPLIED TwO TIMES FOR A CONCEALED CARRY UNIT, BOTH TIMES THEY REFUSED TO GIVE HIM ONE. IN CONCLUSION, BECAUSE OF THE MANY BENEFITS OF THE AR-15 FOR WOMEN AND THOSE WITH PHYSICAL DISADVANTAGES, INCLUDING THE FACT THAT OUR CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR, THAT NO GOVERNMENT BODY HAS THE POWER TO DETERMINE WHICH FIREARM I CHOOSE TO KEEP IN MY POSSESSION
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fACT CHECK: Gun Owners of America Spokeswoman Claims ’94 Percent of Mass Shootings Occur in Gun-Free Zones’
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CLAIM: During Wednesday’s congressional testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Gun Owners of America’s (GOA) Antonia Okafor said, “94 percent of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones.”
VERDICT: True, when “gun-free zones” are defined as “places where where general citizens couldn’t carry guns.”
Okafor’s testimony is part of the Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing “examining the practices and profits of gun manufacturers.”
The hearing centered on AR-15 rifles, which Okafor said she was proud to defend. She listed numerous instances in which law-abiding citizens have used AR-15s for self-defense, then noted that mass public attacks with ARs largely occur in gun-free zones.
Okafor intimated that the attackers enjoy the gun-free zones because they know they will not face armed retaliation.
She said, “It’s not surprising that 94 percent of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones.”
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In a 2014 study, updated in 2018 then again on July 6, 2019, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that 94 percent of mass public shootings between 1950 and the date(s) of the study occurred in gun-free zones.
Mass shootings which occurred in gun-free zones during the study’s time frame include the Virginia Tech University attack, which killed 32 (April 16, 2007); the Fort Hood attack, which killed 13 (November 5, 2009); the Aurora movie theater attack, which killed 12 (July 20, 2012); the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, which killed 26 (December 12, 2014); the D.C. Navy Yard attack, which killed 13 (September 16, 2013); the Chattanooga military base attack, which killed 5 (July 16, 2015); the Umpqua Community College attack, which killed 9 (October 1, 2015); the San Bernardino attack, which killed 14 (December 2, 2015); the Orlando Pulse attack, which killed 49 (June 12, 2016); the Parkland high school attack, which killed 17 (February 14, 2018); and the Santa Fe High School attack, which killed 10 (May 18, 2018).
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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More Good Guys with Concealed Guns = More Violent Crime
Analyzing 37 years of data, a Stanford team finds no basis for a theory at the heart of the modern gun-rights movement.
By Alex Yablon Jun 29, 2017
The Trace
In the four decades that the modern, militant gun rights movement has been around, one of its most significant victories occurred not at the ballot box, on a president’s special signing desk, or in the courtroom. Rather, one of the biggest battles pro-gun partisans have ever won took place in the minds of millions of Americans.
Since the late 1970’s, the National Rifle Association and other firearm advocates have successfully fought to make armed self defense increasingly acceptable in everyday life. A wealth of survey data — the most recent of which came via a major Pew poll released last week — shows that Americans have grown more comfortable with the toting of concealed guns in public. Self defense is now the most common reason cited for owning a firearm, leading handguns to become the most popular kind of weapon in the American arsenal. Those attitudes and behaviors mark major shifts: In the mid 1990s, Americans primarily owned guns for recreation, and as recently as 2005, a strong plurality thought only police officers should carry guns in public.
At the heart of this campaign for the hearts, minds, and holsters of America has been an article of faith that the NRA and its allies have preached since at least the 1990s: that people enhance public safety by carrying guns to defend themselves. Economist John Lott first developed this “More Guns, Less Crime” theory in his 1998 book of the same title, and has since popularized it via frequent legislative testimony and op-eds. The NRA has deployed Lott’s work to beat back calls for new curbs on guns and their use. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, when NRA leader Wayne LaPierre made his infamous assertion that the “only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he was tapping into the already well-seeded notion that hidden guns at arm’s reach of their private owners increase public safety.
It’s a powerful, seductive idea, particularly to Americans who favor personal liberty over communitarian ideals. It’s also completely wrong, according to a new analysis of nearly 40 years’ worth of crime data.
“For years, the question has been, is there any public safety benefit to right to carry laws? That is now settled. The answer is no.”
John Donohue, Stanford Law School
In a new working paper published on June 21 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, academics at Stanford Law School ran that data through four different statistical models — including one developed by Lott for More Guns, Less Crime — and came back with an unambiguous conclusion: states that made it easier for their citizens to go armed in public had higher levels of non-fatal violent crime than those states that restricted the right to carry. The exception was the narrower category of murder; there, the researchers determined that any effect on homicide rates by expanded gun-carry policies is statistically insignificant.
While other studies conducted since 1994 have undermined Lott’s thesis, the new paper is the most comprehensive and assertive debunking of the more-guns-less-crime formula.
“For years, the question has been, is there any public safety benefit to right to carry laws? That is now settled,” said paper’s lead author, John Donohue. “The answer is no.”
More guns, more crime
Donohue and his co-authors looked at crime data from 1977 to 2014, both nationally and in 33 states that implemented “Shall Issue” concealed-carry laws during that period. The statutes are the handiwork of the NRA, which has by now successfully lobbied politicians in all but a sliver of state capitols to relax their standards for issuing permits to carry concealed guns. “Shall Issue” states, which Donohue refers to as right to carry (RTC), require that concealed-carry licenses be granted to anyone who meets basic criteria. Unsurprisingly, they accept permit applications at a higher rate than “May Issue” states, where authorities have greater discretion to decide who is fit to go about the world armed.
Since lowering the bar for concealed-carry licenses gradually leads more people to get those licenses (Florida alone has nearly 1.8 million people permitted to carry concealed guns, and Pennsylvania and Texas each have around one million), and because more guns in public is supposed to reduce crimes, then we should expect states to see less crime as “Shall Issue” laws kick in.
The Stanford team found precisely the opposite: “Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws,” they write, “violent crime is estimated to be 13-15 percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law.”
Prior assessments of right-to-carry statutes came earlier in the waves of “Shall Issue” laws that first swept states in the 1980s and mid-1990s. One of those was a well-known 2004 report from the National Research Council that also poked holes in Lott’s conclusion — but could not say definitively which way right to carry tilted crime rates, because there weren’t yet enough years of data to sift. Because the Stanford team was able to look at what was happening in states where expanded carry had been in place for a decade or more, it reached much stronger estimates of the effect of “Shall Issue” laws on crime.
The Stanford team suggested that the increased carrying of guns could have contributed to rising crime through several means.As more law-abiding residents arm themselves, so might the criminals in the same communities — rather than the other way around. Lawful gun-permit holders, the researchers theorize, could contribute to a street-level arms race by bringing more weapons into public, where they are more likely to be lost or stolen, making their way to the black market. The more that people become aware that their environs are filling with guns, their perceptions of society could become colored by fear and anger, thus leading them to more readily become violent.
“I wasn’t surprised to find violent crime went up,” Donohue said. “You’d expect guns to contribute to violent crime.”
Higher crime — no matter where you look
The Stanford findings fly in the face of not just the NRA’s message, but common understandings of crime trends over the last two decades. By national measures, violent crime has fallen dramatically after peaking in the early 1990s, and that drop has largely coincided with the expansion of the freedom to carry concealed guns. Lott and others are eager to point to declining national crime numbers as evidence for their theory, or at least to blunt concerns that more guns in public would lead to widespread bloodshed.
The problem with drawing a connection between the rise of concealed carry and the drop in the national crime rate, as Donohue and his co-authors point out, is that crime has not fallen equally in all parts of the country. Instead, the decline in violent crime has been most pronounced in states that maintained strict control over the right to carry guns, like New York and California. When other states decided to make it easier for residents to pack firearms, they appear to have missed out on reductions in crime of the same magnitude. Yes, in raw terms, crime declined in those right-to-carry states as well — but not nearly as much as it could have.
Examining statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting data, the authors estimate that states with stricter concealed-carry laws saw crime fall by 42 percent from 1977 to 2014. That drop is more than four times greater than the 9 percent decrease seen in right-to-carry states.
In conducting their analysis, the Stanford researchers wanted to make sure that it was differences in concealed-gun laws, and not some other factor — diverging economic fortunes or police staffing, for example — that sent crime plunging in some places but not others.
To find out, the team projected what would have happened in right-to-carry states had they not relaxed concealed-carry standards, accounting for differences in demographics, policing, and economic growth.
Here, too, the team was able to run calculations that were not possible in the 90’s and mid-2000’s, when the academics who first subjected Lott’s theory to scrutiny had significantly fewer years’ worth of data to crunch.
The Stanford findings rest on two statistical methods with obscure-sounding technical names: panel data analysis and synthetic controls analysis. Panel data essentially tries to break down complex social phenomena — crime being very much one of those — by studying their smaller, more easily measurable components, like incarceration rates, police staffing levels, poverty, income, and population density.
Synthetic control analysis allows researchers to compare data recorded after the introduction of a change — like a right-to-carry law — with projections based on what might have happened had the change never occurred. The synthetic controls projection is based on demographic data and outcomes in demographically similar places.
Different researchers make different judgments about which factors have the most power to drive crime up or down. Rather than rest their analysis on a single set of variables, the Stanford team ran their 37 years of crime data through four different panels: their favorite, called DAW; one developed by the nonpartisan Brennan Center; the panel John Lott used in “More Guns, Less Crime,” and a fourth favored by a pair of pro-gun researchers named Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell.
Projections made with all four panels showed that states with right-to-carry laws would have had even greater decreases in violent crime had those places not loosened their gun laws.
“The panel data gave no hint that anything good was coming from the right to carry,” Donohue said.
Take Texas, for example. Donohue’s projections found that 10 years after the Lone Star State put right to carry into effect, violent crime was more than 16 percent higher than it would have been without that law, as laid out in the graph below The dotted line, labeled “synthetic control unit,” is a projection of what might have happened to Texas’ violent crime rate had it not loosened its concealed-carry statute, based on a composite of demographically similar states.
The only difference between projections using the pro-gun scholars’ preferred variables and the other two panels came when singling out murder. The highest purpose of the armed citizen, in the rationale of the NRA and gun sellers, is to subdue or incapacitate marauding psychopaths before the killers can take innocent lives. But when the Stanford team ran the pro-gun researchers’ formulas, the graphs showed that right-to-carry laws actually propped up homicide rates.
The DAW and Brennan Center panels, on the other hand, showed only that non-fatal violent crime would be lower if states had never opted for the “Shall Issue” route. And they showed that in all 33 states where they ran the simulation, with no exceptions.
Better research, same real-world outcome?
For that question, Donohue relies not on sophisticated math, but his years of experience studying the gun issue. “Many people have such strongly fixed ideas about guns,” he conceded. “It’s hard to influence their thinking.”
Donohue may be understating the challenge that he and other scholars confront. Sociological and anthropological research suggests that Americans’ feelings about firearms and whether to carry them for self defense are driven by elemental notions like identity and masculinity, rather than empirical measures of safety gained or lost.
The NRA has gone to great lengths to foment the idea that the right to carry guns is the bedrock of American citizenship, and the option of lethal self defense is “the first freedom.” Gun companies market firearms to appeal to consumers’ need to see themselves as powerful and, often, hyper-masculine protectors. It’s hard for an academic paper to break through those kinds of beliefs.
But policymakers and judges are a different kind of audience than gun buyers or voters. Donohue hopes his findings make it in front of those influential eyes.
“The Supreme Court is eventually going to have to decide if there’s a right to carry,” he said, speaking the day after the justices declined to hear a challenge to California’s restrictive right-to-carry law. “What will they make of this evidence?”
Alex Yablon was a reporter at The Trace.
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project 21 member Antonia Okafor Cover is the founder and president of EMPOWERED, a nonprofit group designed to educate, train and equip young women in the use of firearms for protection on college campuses. The group also helps women advocate for their Second Amendment rights. Formerly the southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, Antonia was instrumental in the 2015 passage and implementation of a “campus carry” gun law in Texas.
Antonia has appeared in a commercial for the National Rifle Association and was a participant in the group’s “Armed and Fabulous” panel at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference. Her op-ed “Why I Bring a Gun to School” was published in the New York Times in 2017.
She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a Bachelor of Arts in international political economy. She is currently working on her Master’s in public policy at the school. She is also a campus correspondent for Campus Reform.
Antonia has appeared on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Blaze TV and was a regular panelist on the Daily Wire’s “Michael Knowles Show.” Red Alert Politics selected her as one of the “30 Under 30” young political activists in 2017.
Her PragerU video, “[Black, Millennial, Female… and Conservative](https://www.prageru.com/videos/black-millennial-female-and…-conservative),” has earned over 10 million views.
Her interest in public service evolved from her days as a Girl Scout, where she earned both her Silver and Gold Award. Her specific passion to work with women and children has led her to serve in the impoverished communities in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and a crisis pregnancy center in Savannah, Georgia. She also helped deliver aid in Managua, Nicaragua and Beirut, Lebanon – where she worked with Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
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Exclusive: Black Twitter assaults Antonia Okafor for Tomi Lahren photo. Now, she's firing back
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It's hard enough being a black conservative in America. It's even worse if you're a black conservative millennial whose profile is on the rise for advocating campus carry laws.
Antonia Okafor, a conservative writer and staunch Second Amendment advocate, was invited onto Tomi Lahren's show on The Blaze to discuss her latest efforts through her EmPOWERed campaign. She then posted this photo to Twitter.
After posting the photo, Lahren then retweeted it and Black Twitter lost their minds. They viciously attacked Okafor and resorted to personal insults, causing her to temporarily make her Twitter account private.
@BtSquared2 @antonia_okafor im more concerned about the MLK twitter background image! something ain't adding up... pic.twitter.com/DUUP2EXrPP
— forest green queen (@tinycombatboots) March 15, 2017
@antonia_okafor @TomiLahren
Not only did you sell out, you let Tomi SLAY you.
— Black. Queer. God. (@AdamantxYves) March 15, 2017
@antonia_okafor @TomiLahren you look like you get hair advice from white ladies ma'am, take ya coon ass somewhere else
— deanna (@IiIfenty) March 15, 2017
Okafor told Red Alert Politics in an exclusive interview that she's used to getting hate mail on the internet, but not like this.
"In the social media realm, it's definitely the worst [backlash] I've seen," Okafor said. "I had to take stuff off because they're still going at it."
She continued by saying that she almost exclusively saw the attacks come from black women and men. The sight of her smiling with someone like Lahren is somehow "reprehensible."
"I feel like it was coordinated because it was all at one time."
:{:{Okafor said that her most intense in-person confrontation came in late September 2016 during her EmPOWERed campaign tour at University of Texas at Austin. She was ambushed by Black Lives Matter protesters for 45 minutes.}:
"They were yelling at me and upset with me because it was racist of me to advocate for guns on campus. And how could I do that? But it was during a time when a lot of the media was focusing on black on white crime with the cops and black males being shot."}:
When asked whether liberals in the black community took exception to Okafor being a black conservative or her Second Amendment advocacy, she said, "They're equally upset that I would advocate for guns on campus and also upset that I would be of a conservative mindset... and that I didn't vote for Bernie or Hillary."
Okafor hopes to be a role model for others who feel like they're being targeted for their conservative beliefs, using the example of a young black woman with Turning Point USA who was called a "house n***er."
"It's easy for me to cower and not be in the public life and the majority don't like what I'm saying. But then those people who think like me and believe differently from other people and are afraid to say it, then they won't have anyone to gather strength from and look up to."
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Antonia speaks with JaPharii Jones, the president of the Virginia chapter of Black Lives Matter. The number 757 refers to the area code of the chapter. This chapter is unique in that it is very vocal…
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100% stop using the term "law abiding", agreed. The left has been weaponizing language for years, don't let them manipulate you.
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Wrong about Kyle Rittenhouse. He didn't cross state lines with a gun. It is up for debate whether he was legally able to cary the weapon. There were all kinds of people with guns AND people committing crimes that weren't arrested that night. Chased by pedo. Self-defense.
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She gets it. Thank goodness she gets it.
But guess what? There are many women out there in America that get it too. 3.5 million in the last two years alone.
The Assault Weapons Ban is a ban on women's choice.
The choice to defend ourselves the way we choose.
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Happy anniversary, y’all & congrats on the win!
BTW, considering Kirkland just forced out the legendaryPaul Clement & Erin Murphy despite their unqualified win in this case, GOA should have their new firm on their rolodex!⚖️
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Trauma-informed firearm training and gun ownership. Like I said in my previous post, the #1 reason women become gun owners is self-defense. Many of those women have experienced traumatic events (sexual abuse, assault, domestic violence, PTSD) and need to be trained in a way that is aware of that trauma. If you are a female gun owner and cold benefit from this conversation then please join us on July 6. Register to get the link. WOMEN-ONLY.
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Anna Matsumoto
That face!!!
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Raven 6 Studios is with Antonia Okafor.
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Going through the fundamentals of turkey hunting with a first-time hunter is essential. Seating, knee positioning, aiming points, movement...are all crucial elements that a turkey hunter must understand to be successful. Mentorship from seasoned sportsmen is key.
-Photography by Raven 6 Studios.
Women’s Mississippi Turkey Hunt. … See more
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Christopher Maverick
Awesome job of teaching new hunters!! Speaking of knee position have you ever used the Primos Trigger Sick small Tipod? Works so well for new hunters.
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Raven 6 Studios is with Antonia Okafor.
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Going through the fundamentals of turkey hunting with a first-time hunter is essential. Seating, knee positioning, aiming points, movement...are all crucial elements that a turkey hunter must understand to be successful. Mentorship from seasoned sportsmen is key.
-Photography by Raven 6 Studios.
Women’s Mississippi Turkey Hunt. … See more
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Chris Tucker
Yall look good
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Fox & Friends First
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The ACLU is facing backlash for claiming that racism is ‘foundational’ to the Second Amendment. Gun Owners of America National Spokesperson Antonia Okafor joined #FoxFriendsFirst to react.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6265397411001
Gun control has shown throughout history 'it's racist': Antonia Okafor Cover
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Gun control has shown throughout history 'it's racist': Antonia Okafor Cover
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Marjorie Conner
It seems like those calling everyone and everything racist are the real racists!
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Adrienne Pena-Garza
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Come one come all and let’s do this!
Special guest: Antonia Okafor- Black, Armed, and Conservative
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guns-cake-feat-antonio-okafor-tickets-73701516219… See more
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Greg Camarillo
Let me check but I’m sure I can head over to this event.
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ClintLoudermilk
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Fox & Friends First
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The ACLU is facing backlash for claiming that racism is ‘foundational’ to the Second Amendment. Gun Owners of America National Spokesperson Antonia Okafor joine… See more
Gun control has shown throughout history 'it's racist': Antonia Okafor Cover
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Gun control has shown throughout history 'it's racist': Antonia Okafor Cover
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Raven 6 Studios is with Antonia Okafor.
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Josh Johnson
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The Drift
pt...To join the NRA:
https://www.facebook.com/NRA/
Antonia Okafor- Black, Armed, and Conservative
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Clearing The Chamber
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Don’t stay at home... come be with likeminded #2A folks at this amazing event! I’m super stoked to reunite with my gun sisters Antonia Okafor & Rachel Malone along with my #pewpewjew Yehuda Remer!
You know we’re gonna bring the
Get your ticket, come break bread with us, have a cocktail and fight for your 2nd Amendment Rights! … See more
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