Tag: guns

New poll: Background check position is boosting Hagan (video)

May 3, 2013 at 9:12 amCategory:Uncategorized

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One of the nation’s most influential and widely respected pollsters has new and encouraging data for Senator Kay Hagan and all those who support background checks for gun purchasers. In a poll released yesterday, Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling (see the video below) reported the following:

“PPP’s newest round of polling finds that Kay Hagan and Mary Landrieu helped their cause for reelection with their recent votes in support of background checks for gun sales. Read More…

Much as he’d like to hide, Guv must speak up on “social issues”

May 1, 2013 at 11:18 amCategory:Uncategorized

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McCrory11092012Governor McCrory made a fascinating (and troubling) statement in an interview with WUNC-TV’s Kelly McCullen the other day. When asked about the debate over gun control and why the state has failed to advance any new initiatives to strengthen it, the Governor said the following in response:

“I don’t know. And listen I’ve really tried to concentrate on the economy, the efficiency of government and education. And that’s where I’m focusing. I’m trying to…Tell you the truth, I’m trying to get off the liberal and conservative social issues and concentrate on the things that people are worried about most and that’s the economy.”

Uh, sorry to tell you this Governor McCrory, Read More…

This week’s sign of the apocalypse

April 30, 2013 at 7:47 amCategory:Uncategorized

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There’s obviously a lot of competition in this category these days, but as of late yesterday, it has to be the fact that the President of the University of North Carolina and law enforcement officers are reduced to begging the honorables on Jones Street to allow the university to remain gun-free.

God help us.

Have a Budweiser this weekend to toast Busch brewing heir

April 19, 2013 at 11:17 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Who said fabulously rich people don’t occasionally do and say some really smart things? As the Huffington Post reports:

WASHINGTON — Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family brewing fortune, resigned his lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association on Thursday, writing in a letter to NRA President David Keene, “I fail to see how the NRA can disregard the overwhelming will of its members who see background checks as reasonable.”

The resignation, first reported by KSDK, came a day after the Senate rejected a series of amendments to a gun control bill, including a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for gun sales. The NRA had vigorously opposed all those measures.

“The NRA I see today has undermined the values upon which it was established,” wrote Busch. “Your current strategic focus clearly places priority on the needs of gun and ammunition manufacturers while disregarding the opinions of your 4 million individual members.”

Read the entire story by clicking here.

Progress on the gun debate

April 11, 2013 at 1:44 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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GunsThe most apt descriptors are “painstaking” and “incremental” but Congress appears to be making some progress on the move to enact new background check legislation and some other modest improvements to federal gun laws.

Meanwhile, if you’ve been too frustrated or disgusted to keep up with the details — especially around the background check debate, Igor Volsky at Think Progress has everything you need to know – click here for “Your essential guide to the background check debate.”