TEXAS TRIBUNE 12 Hours Ago Gun Control Just Got Stricter? Come to Texas!, by Reeve Hamilton by Reeve Hamilton Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks wistfully — almost lovingly — about a rifle he recently fired while he was at a range in Leander owned by the manufacturer LaRue Tactical. “I’m incredibly passionate about a well-made piece of equipment,” Perry said in a phone interview last week, “whether it’s an automobile or a weapon.” After the visit, LaRue posted Perry’s results online. From 100 yards away, the governor took three shots and skillfully grouped them together — two shots hit the same spot — mere millimeters from the center of the target. “That was pretty good wasn’t it?” Perry said, though he reserved most of the credit for the machinery. “If you don’t have a very well-made weapon, then I don’t care how steady your aim, how controlled your breathing or how smooth your trigger pull is.” As debates over gun control intensify across the nation, Perry and some of his co

BREITBART.COM 9 Hours Ago Gun Control Group Falsely Claims Ronald Reagan Supported Universal Background Checks by AWR Hawkins31 Mar 2013, 6:48 AM PDTpost a commentView Discussion However, the truth is that Reagan supported the kind of background checks that emerged from the Brady Bill--i.e. the kind of background checks we have right now. In addition, when Reagan wrote his op-ed in 1991, his focus was on establishing a background check system for people who buy handguns. His op-ed did not say anything about shotguns or rifles. So the background check system Reagan wrote passionately about was not even as broad as the one we have in place right now. Moreover, in his op-ed, Reagan gave preference to state-level legislation over federal. He did that specifically regarding states that already had their own background check system in place. To them, he said, the Brady Bill "would not apply." Of course, those who passed the Brady Bill in 1993 did not take this advice in

NEWS BUSTERS 4 Hours Ago Chris Wallace to Gabby Giffords' Husband: Background Check Didn't Prevent Wife's Shooting by Noel Sheppard The gun-hating media are convinced that background checks are the panacea that will prevent mass shootings in the future. Don't include Chris Wallace amongst them for on the most recent installment of Fox News Sunday, the host told gun control activist Mark Kelly that a background check didn't prevent Jared Loughner from purchasing the weapon he shot Kelly's wife Gabrielle Giffords with in January 2011 (video follows with transcript and commentary): MARK KELLY: I think any bill that does not include a universal background check is a mistake. It's the most common sense thing that we can do to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from having access to weapons. I mean, the system that we have right now, we have 40 percent of all Americans who buy a gun buy it without a background check, and that's probably where mo

 THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM 4 Hours Ago WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER… During Easter Sermon Obama Pounds Conservatives With Racist Attacks by  Jim Hoft Worst. President. Ever. Obama attacked conservatives during his Easter Sermon today . ( AP ) It was a new low for this radical, divisive president. Barack Obama  accused  conservatives today of calling for  "blacks to be back in the back of the bus"  during a sermon he gave this morning in Washington DC. "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border." What a complete jerk. Not even his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright would stoop that low.