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Y'all need to stop accusing them of having principles in the 1st place!!!!
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WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has sent staff to the agency that enforces federal gun laws with the goal of revising or eliminating more than 50 rules and gun restrictions by July 4, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
DOGE is working with the general counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to cut the regulations as the Trump administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors, the newspaper reported.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Representatives for DOGE and the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The move illustrates a larger shift on gun control promised by the Republican administration of President Donald Trump, who narrowly survived a July assassination attempt by a gunman during the presidential campaign.
An adviser said shortly after that attempt that Trump would safeguard gun rights by appointing federal judges who oppose new firearm limits if he won the election in November……..
DOGE is working with the general counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to cut the regulations as the Trump administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors, the newspaper reported.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Representatives for DOGE and the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The move illustrates a larger shift on gun control promised by the Republican administration of President Donald Trump, who narrowly survived a July assassination attempt by a gunman during the presidential campaign.
An adviser said shortly after that attempt that Trump would safeguard gun rights by appointing federal judges who oppose new firearm limits if he won the election in November……..
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The best way to get gun control is for a whole lot of non-white skinned people to start buying all these guns and accessories.
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Guess this can go here
Interesting article
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In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
www.independent.co.uk
Interesting article
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In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
From eight-year-olds to trans anarchists, today’s gun owners aren’t who you think
The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, gun influencers are getting younger and younger. Holly Baxter speaks with the people at the forefront of the change — and considers how high a price...
www.independent.co.ukIf guns keep people safe then why is there gun crime? Why are guns prevalent in suicide?Guess this can go here
Interesting article
============
In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
From eight-year-olds to trans anarchists, today’s gun owners aren’t who you think
The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, gun influencers are getting younger and younger. Holly Baxter speaks with the people at the forefront of the change — and considers how high a price...
I certainly can understand Blacks, Latinos and Jews getting weapons because of the psychopathology of Whites and their fears. Trumpism has increased that but it has always been here.
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Yes the reasons listed of why these diverse groups are now embracing guns can be boiled down to Trump and the rise of far right arse haberdashers
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