National Rifle Association -  NRA - Gun Purchases Rise as Usual Suspects Resort to Usual Tricks NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 7, NUMBER 27 NEWS     LEGAL & LEGISLATION   Gun Purchases Rise as Usual Suspects Resort to Usual Tricks The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported this week that the number of firearm-acquisition background checks in June was the highest for that month on record. Of 1,529,057 total firearm NICS checks in June, over 825,000 related to firearm acquisitions, over 10 percent more than in June 2014. Another 632,000 checks were conducted in relation to firearm permits. The increase in NICS checks was partly in reaction to gun control supporters' predictably opportunistic attempt to promote their background check legislation on the basis of the abominable crime that took place at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month. Within hours of the crime, the Brady Camp...

PowerLine Daily Digest Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds Reckon with this I, Latina A hack hacked (and fired) Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds Goodnight Vienna (8) Reckon with this Posted:   10 Jul 2015 03:20 PM PDT (Scott Johnson) After Dylann Roof murdered nine pastors and churchgoers in the course of Bible study in Charleston, President Obama couldn't wait to use the occasion for his narrow political purposes. "Let's be clear,"   he said with urgency in his voice . "At some point we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence … doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it." The implication, of course, was that additional gun control legislation was required but that his political opponents refused to see the light.   Now we learn in whose power it was to do something about it, and it wasn't anyone Obama was talking about. The Wa...

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