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Via NBC Fort Worth: Open carry firearm demonstrators are complaining that police treated them like criminals Thursday night as the group staged a protest with their guns. An email from Sgt. Ray Bush, with the Fort Worth Police Department, said Jack in the Box employees at the South Freeway location at Sycamore School Road, were scared about the armed men …

Right wing sites such as Twitchy are mocking the above “ignorant” image because the gun is expelling “the entire bullet – casing and all.” And because the trigger doesn’t appear to be pulled. That’s what’s important here, folks.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that he will spend $50M to back candidates that support gun control. Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda — even Democrats whose positions otherwise align with his own. “They …

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Former Virginia Attorney General and failed gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli is selling retainers for his legal services just in case you happen to shoot somebody. “A legal retainer with Virginia Self Defense Law costs as little as $8.33 a month — less than half the cost of a hunting license,” the firm’s Web site says. “Don’t be a victim! Don’t …

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On Friday, the anti-gun group Moms Demand Action posted the below LookBack video satire which slams Facebook for allowing gun sellers to use the site.

Via Mediate: The NRA tends to stay silent in the immediate aftermath of a high-profile shooting incident, but the organization evidently felt enough time had passed since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in 1968 that they could put out the video below connecting the civil rights leader to the push for less restrictive gun laws. To …

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Blogger David Badash notes that today’s tweet came in the middle of yet another mass shooting at a high school in Colorado.

“Dear fellow self-reliant American: Between now and the end of December, we’re giving away 1,000 rounds of ammunition. You could win 1,000 rounds of ammo in less than 10 seconds. The best part? There are absolutely no strings attached. Simply click below and if you win, we’ll send a huge box  containing your new 1,000 rounds of ammo right to …

Think Progress reports: On Saturday, nearly 40 armed men, women, and children waited outside a Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun safety advocacy group formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. According to a spokeswoman for Moms Demand …

His own proposed campaign slogan: “Hi, I’m Ted Nugent. I have nine children from seven women, and I’m running for president.”

Beyond disgusting. In an appalling bid to “own” the Dec. 14 anniversary of the Newtown slayings, a coalition of gun lovers has announced plans to declare that horrific date “Guns Save Lives” day. “We are going to use the day to get our views out,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. “We don’t want (pro gun-control groups) own …

Wut.

Surrounded by armed security, Obama says fight for gun control ‘ought to obsess us’… You go first, Mr. President… — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) September 22, 2013

“There weren’t enough good guys with guns.”

Starbucks is asking its customers to stop bringing firearms into their outlets. Gun nuts in “open carry” states have been staging parties in their stores and selling t-shirts with the logo seen here. In an interview, CEO Howard Schultz said the decision to ask customers to stop bringing guns into stores came as a result of the growing frequency of …

Daily Caller and Breitbart, of course.