All posts tagged "Second Amendment"

A couple of GOP lawmakers warned gun owners that the federal government is spying on them and Congress has "one week to get this right" in a Thursday op-ed for right-wing outlet Breitbart.

"Federal agencies are buying your personal data," Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Eric Burlison (R-MO) cautioned Second Amendment enthusiasts. "The data for sale includes your location history — every gun store, range, and sporting goods shop your phone went near. Your financial records — every ammo purchase."

The two Republican members of Congress wrote that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, will spy on gun owners through "queries" and under the guise of monitoring terrorist activity. ...

WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials have challenged long-held GOP orthodoxy on the Second Amendment in recent weeks — bringing condemnation from gun rights groups but notably not Republicans in Congress.

Democrats say this is yet another example of a dangerously divisive hypocrisy that holds the left and right to different standards.

“What we're seeing is complete hypocrisy. It's both stunning and crazy,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) told Raw Story at the Capitol this week. ...

MAGA CNN commentator Brad Todd admitted Monday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spread a wild falsehood in the aftermath of a federal immigration agent fatally shooting 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Todd called out Noem's baseless claims that Pretti had "brandished" a weapon despite video taken by witnesses showing the opposite.

"If the Second Amendment says that you have the right to keep and bear arms, which means you can have it anywhere you are legally and lawfully allowed to be, unless you've proven to be a threat to yourself or others already," Todd said. ...

Fresh on the heels of Sharron Angle running around to conservative media and telling everyone that her base, if they can't win at the ballot box, will turn to "Second Amendment remedies" comes the news that a congressional candidate from New Mexico is suggesting that we stop illegal immigration by blowing people up as they cross the border.