RARE.US 1 Day Ago Terrorists don't observe gun laws, notes AP BOSTON (AP) — As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city's police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat. After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition. Police Commissioner  Ed Davis  said the stockpile was "as dangerous as it gets in urban policing." "We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals. That's my belief at this point." Davis told CB...

 GUNS.COM 11 Hours Ago Technology, Concealed-Carry, and the Intention of the Second Amendment by  Max Slowik Last Monday the Supreme Court  declined to hear a case  to determine how accessible concealed-carry permits should be. They did so without remark or prejudice. This has a serious implication. It's not that the Supreme Court doesn't want to address the issue of shall-issue concealed-carry, it's that they didn't want to address it in this specific case. There are other concealed-carry cases in the pipe that they're facing, and they might have a preference. What does this mean for concealed-carry? Well, historically, the Second Amendment hasn't widely been said to protect concealed-carry , only open-carry, as early as 1897 in the case  Robertson v. Baldwin . That being said, people in the 18th and 19th century had a negative outlook on concealed-carry, with many people calling it dishonorable. Just the same, it wasn't illegal until the 19th century, when...

 RAW STORY 7 Hours Ago Gun group chief: Liberals OK with liberals dying in Boston to force more gun control by  David Edwards By David EdwardsMonday, April 22, 2013 15:26 EDT Larry Pratt, the head of the lobbying group Gun Owners of America, recently agreed with a pair of conservative Internet TV hosts who asserted that liberals didn't mind if other liberals were killed in bombings like the one in Boston last week because "they are like the Chinese" and "they got a billion backups." Creative People's Network host Steve Davis told Pratt in an interview last week that liberals "love guns," but they just wanted to keep them out of the hands of conservatives. "They don't care, they are like the Chinese who don't care if they have a million casualties because they got a billion backups" "They just don't want us to have guns," Davis explained. "And they don't care how many of us get killed, blown up, assaulted mur...

 DAILYCALLER.COM 3 Hours Ago Colorado poised to pass latest round of gun control bills by  Greg Campbell Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, center, talks with Rep. Joseph Salazar, left, and House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, right, D-Denver, about her bill on limiting the size of ammunition magazines at the Capitol in Denver on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) Tweet "To me it validates what I had been saying all along, that Colorado Democrats were the most extreme in the country" The last of Colorado's controversial gun bills are expected to clear their remaining hurdles at the Democratic-controlled state legislature this week, bringing to five the number of new gun control laws adopted in the wake of high profile mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo. Only one of the bills had any Republican support, a measure to require that training for concealed carry permits be done face-to-face rather than online.  Two Republicans voted in favor of it , a rarity in...

 ROLL CALL 4 Hours Ago The He Said, She Said of Gun Control: Get Over It by  Stuart Rothenberg Tweet By  Stuart Rothenberg Roll Call Staff April 22, 2013, 5:59 p.m. Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call The failure of the Senate compromise of Manchin, left, and Toomey doomed the entire gun control bill, Rothenberg writes. The deep disappointment coming from the White House, gun control advocates and the parents of Newtown, Conn., at the demise of the Manchin-Toomey Senate compromise gun bill is understandable. But some of the rhetoric following the amendment's defeat has been over the top. Supporters of stricter gun control have called those who voted against the measure "cowards," a strange label for senators who voted contrary to what 85 percent of the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and virtually all in the media wanted. Is it courageous to follow national public opinion and most of TV's talking heads or to vote against them? Opponents of additional gun restrictio...

 AMMOLAND.COM 2 Hours Ago Boston Marathon Bombers Broke Gun Laws to Acquire Weapons By AWR Hawkins Boston Marathon Bombers Broke Gun Laws to Acquire Weapons AmmoLand Gun News Washington DC -  -( Ammoland.com )- Less than a week after the push by Democrats push for more gun control went down in flames in the Senate, Reuters is reporting the suspected Boston Marathon bombers ignored gun laws that are already on the books in possessing the firearms they used in shootouts with the police. According  to Reuters,  "The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived." This means the handguns and "at least one rifle" the brothers had with them were acquired and possessed in ways that broke laws already in existence. For example, to have acquired and possessed the firearms legally, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother, would h...

 HOTAIR.COM 2 Hours Ago USA Today poll shows gun-control support slipping still further by  Erika Johnsen posted at 8:01 pm on April 22, 2013 by Erika Johnsen President Obama's  indignant display  of outrageously moral outrage following last week's failed Senate gun-control vote notwithstanding, Americans' support for further federal gun-control laws is  continuing on its  downward trajectory, according to  USA Today 's latest measure — which doesn't do much to bolster the notion that Americans' support for the legislation's passage was really  quite as robustly universal  as its advocates made it out to be. Four months after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a USA TODAY Poll finds support for a new gun-control law ebbing as prospects for passage on Capitol Hill seem to fade. Americans are more narrowly divided on the issue than in recent months, and backing for a bill has slipped below 50%, the poll finds. By 49%-45%, tho...