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Bob Owens, a longtime Second Amendment advocate and editor of the website Bearing Arms, was found dead Monday in North Carolina. He was 46.

Leading with an item titled, We Are Diminished, Bearing Arms co-editor Jenn Jacques on Tuesday expressed deep regret and profound sorrow that Owens life came to a tragic end.

We did not make an announcement on Bearing Arms because it was more important to us to give the family a day to grieve than to break the story and get clicks, Jacques wrote, adding that Owens was a huge part of the 2A world, he was first and foremost a son, brother, husband, father, and friend.

Police in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina which is about 30 minutes south of Raleigh found Robert Eugene Owens dead near an intersection stop sign with a gun nearby, the News & Observer reported.

TheBlaze confirmed the victim was Owens of Bearing Arms. Police are working to determine if Owens death was a suicide or the result of foul play, town spokeswoman Susan Weis told the paper.

On Sunday, Owens posted about his progress on a book he was writing: Three days left and 10,000 more words to finish The Deplorables Guide to Guns. I got this.

Owens last Facebook message was posted Monday:

Owens Bearing Arms bio reads:

A long-time shooting enthusiast, Bob began blogging as a North Carolina native in New York at the politics-focused Confederate Yankee in 2004. In 2007, he began writing about firearms, gun rights, and crime at Pajamas Media, and added gun and gear reviews for Shooting Illustrated in 2010.

Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training.

Conservative commentator and fellow Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich penned a tribute to Owens in Townhall on Tuesday.

I didnt just work with Bob, Pavlich wrote. He wasnt simply a colleague who I spent time with here and there. He was my friend.

She continued, When I received the news of Bobs death Monday afternoon, I was in disbelief. Shortly after, complete sadness and grief took over. Then, devastation.

I will remember Bob for all of the smiles he put on my face and the laughter he brought to those around him. He was an incredible friend with the kindest of hearts, Pavlich said. He served as an important mentor to many and was an overwhelmingly positive influence in my life. I was blessed to know him and I will miss him dearly. Please keep his family in your prayers during this horribly difficult time.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for Owens wife and two daughters.

Heres a video interview Owens did with National Rifle Association TV on preserving the Second Amendment:

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Trump says that the eight year assault on the Second Amendment is over. The NRA crowd cheers. Looking back at that eight-year assault, the only thing that happened was that Obama signed a bill that allowed guns to be carried into the national parks. The universal background check bill died in Congress. Handgun bans in Chicago and Washington D.C. were invalidated by the Supreme Court.

Gee, where was the assault? Obama was the biggest gun salesman in history. Every time he spoke, gun sales went up. We doubled the number of guns manufactured in eight years with Obamas fake assault on the Second Amendment. Reality doesnt matter in todays politics. Facts supported by data dont matter either.

Trump signed an executive order allowing people on Social Security disability for severe mental illness to buy guns. A verified mentally impaired guy who is too sick to work can now buy a gun.

Think of severely mentally ill people having concealed carry firearms. If they forget to take their meds, any one of us can be seen as a threat that needs shooting. Afterwards they can pry the bullets from your cold dead body.

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SAF recently launched its Judicial Accountability Project, reminding American gun owners that "Black Robes Matter." There are more than 120 federal court vacancies that President Trump can fill. They are lifetime appointments and these judges will decide on issues including local, state and federal gun control laws.

"Like it or not," Gottlieb observed, "the Courts have the final say whether you have gun rights or not. I know this first hand. The Second Amendment Foundation's legal cases have accounted for about 80 percent of the case law that protects your individual right to keep and bear arms."

That is why SAF launched the Judicial Accountability Project. The Second Amendment community must be able to fully vet every individual being considered for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, Gottlieb noted. He said several gun rights activists and pro-gun civil rights attorneys and legal scholars asked the foundation to "take the lead" on this effort.

"We cannot risk the Second Amendment by being lethargic and disinterested in those individuals who will have the authority and responsibility to judge the merits of gun rights cases brought to the courts," Gottlieb said.

One thing that impressed him was a New York Times report about how anti-gun "liberal groups expressed alarm" at Trump's nominees.

"The louder liberal anti-gunners complain about federal court nominees," he stated, "the better the odds that these nominees will bring the proper perspective about the Bill of Rights to the bench."

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.

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From todays Fisher v. Kealoha opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (and Judge Alex Kozinskis separate opinion, though he also joined the panel opinion) like many judicial opinions, it leaves much unresolved, but it flags an important question for the future: What sorts of procedures must the government offer for recovering Second Amendment rights that were lost as a result of a criminal conviction?

Kirk Fisher appeals the district courts adverse grant of summary judgment on the issue of whether section 134-7 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes constitutionally prohibits him from owning or possessing firearms because of his 1997 conviction for harassment [of his wife and daughter] in violation of section 711-1106 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

This appeal involves the interaction of three statutory provisions: (1) section 134-7(a) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, which prohibits a person from owning or possessing firearms if that person is prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law; (2) 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons convicted of any misdemeanor crime of domestic violence; and 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(33)(B)(ii), which provides that a person shall not be considered to have been convicted of [a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence] if the conviction has been expunged or set aside, or is an offense for which the person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored.

We have previously determined that section 922(g)(9) burdens conduct protected by the Second Amendment and upheld its constitutionality, facially and as-applied, under intermediate scrutiny. United States v. Chovan, 735 F.3d 1127, (9th Cir. 2013), considered, among other things, whether section 922(g)(9) could be constitutionally applied to a defendant based on a fifteen-year-old domestic violence misdemeanor conviction. We recognized that keeping firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers is an important government interest and noted the high rate of recidivism for domestic abusers and the number and likelihood of domestic violence deaths involving the use of a firearm.

We also rejected Chovans argument that section 922(g)(9) could not constitutionally apply to him because he had committed no further acts of domestic violence in the fifteen years following his conviction. Even assuming that Chovan had committed no such acts, we explained, Chovan had failed to adduce sufficient evidence:

(1) contradicting the governments evidence regarding the high rate of domestic violence recidivism; and (2) showing that a domestic abuser who has not re-offended after fifteen years is unlikely to do so again. Id. Thus, under intermediate scrutiny, the statute addressed a substantial governmental interest and was tailored sufficiently to satisfy intermediate scrutiny.

Fisher argue [that] his harassment conviction occurred many years ago, and he has not committed any other crimes since that time. This argument is not meaningfully distinguishable from the one that we rejected in Chovan, and we reject it here as well.

Fisher [also] argues that section 922(g)(9) is unconstitutional as applied to him because Hawaii law provides for only one of the four restoration mechanisms listed in section 921(a)(33)(B)(ii): gubernatorial pardon. [T]his second argument is not foreclosed by Chovan [Footnote: [I]n Chovan, we applied intermediate rather than strict judicial scrutiny in part because section 922(g)(9)s burden on Second Amendment rights was lightened by [the availability of mechanisms for restoration such as expungement or civil rights restoration]. Id. at 1138; see also id. at 1151 (Bea, J., concurring) (concluding that section 922(g)(9) was narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest in part because of the restoration mechanisms listed in section 921(a)(33)(B)(ii)).] [But] we decline to address it here.

Fisher concedes that he has not applied for a gubernatorial pardon for his 1997 conviction. Thus, Fisher has failed to avail himself of the one restoration mechanism that is available to him under Hawaii law, and he is in no position to argue that Hawaiis restoration mechanisms are constitutionally insufficient. See In re Coleman, 560 F.3d 1000 (9th Cir. 2009) (Where a dispute hangs on future contingencies that may or may not occur, it may be too impermissibly speculative to present a justiciable controversy.).

Kozinski, circuit judge, ruminating:

A states procedure for restoring Second Amendment rights bears directly on the degree to which the state encumbers those rights. Thus, despite defendants and amicis furious protestations to the contrary, we must consider Hawaiis available restoration procedures. Our modern Second Amendment jurisprudence trains its sights on the degree to which the state burdens the right and whether that burden is tailored to the states goal. Whether a state has a procedure for restoring Second Amendment rights plainly affects both the weight of the burden and our measure of its tailoring.

Criminal punishment, of course, always involves the deprivation of rights, but such deprivations can still raise constitutional concerns. The extent of the deprivation matters. Most recently, for example, federal courts have looked skeptically at lifelong restrictions on sex offenders Internet access. While restrictions on each right have their own distinctive history and restrictions on the Second Amendment are no exception it is unsurprising that we might look askance at a states permanent restriction on a misdemeanants right to bear arms.

Hawaiis procedure for restoring Second Amendment rights is notably slender: The governor can pardon someone. But gubernatorial clemency is without constraint; as Blackstone put it, an executives mercy springs from a court of equity in his own breast.

This unbounded discretion sits in uneasy tension with how rights function. A right is a check on state power, a check that loses its force when it exists at the mercy of the state. Government whim is the last refuge of a precarious right. And while Fishers case gives us no occasion to seek better refuge, others will.

In other contexts, we dont let constitutional rights hinge on unbounded discretion; the Supreme Court has told us, for example, that [t]he First Amendment prohibits the vesting of such unbridled discretion in a government official. Despite what some may continue to hope, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to reconsider Heller. The time has come to treat the Second Amendment as a real constitutional right. Its here to stay.

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LaPierre made clear there would be no apologies for the smackdowns. Rather, he pointed out that one of the things the American people love about the NRA is the fact that the group speaks truth.

LaPierre said:

For the last quarter of a century, in poll after poll, whether its Gallup or NBC or The Wall Street Journal, Americans have said they view the NRA more favorably than both chambers of congress or either national political party.The majority of Americans admire and trust the NRA because we always say out loud what we believe. We speak the truth, even when it may be hard, and we fight like hell to defend it.

In light of the NRAs voice for truth, Breitbart News pulled together eight pro-Second Amendment smackdowns, along with a bonus smackdown at the end. Most of the smackdowns require no commentary.

Colonel Allen West West said, Here I stand as a son of Atlanta, a native Georgian, and a board member of the oldest civil rights organization that this country has ever known: the National Rifle Association.

Sheriff David ClarkeClarke said: We won a huge battle last November but we did not win the war. You see, our fight for freedom continues in earnest. You see, these rat bastards on the left never give upfor them defeat is never final, election defeats dont matter. Its simply a time to regroup and continue their assault on our constitution, the rule of law, liberty, and American exceptionalism.

Chris Cox Cox recounted a conversation he had with President Trump after the inauguration, saying, [It got so] ridiculous that the media, they were even lying about the number of people who watched [[President Trumps] inauguration. I told him that the only number that mattered was the number of people that watched Hillary Clintons inaugurationZERO!

Senator Ted Cruz Cruz said, When the election results came in we heard a piercing wail of agony, as mainstream media reporters shrieked in horror because the American people had risen up and defied Washington, defied the mainstream media, defied pundits, and said, We will defend our constitution and we will defend our freedom.'

Wayne LaPierre After listing the mainstream medias failure to report the truth regarding the devious goals of Democrats and gun control groups around the country, LaPierre asked, When did the media stop being journalists and start becoming PR flacks for the destruction our country?

President Donald Trump After recounting the way he ran and won on the Second Amendment with the NRAs endorsement, President Trump laughingly told the thousands of attendees at the Leadership Forum to be ready to be wooed by Democrats, I have a feeling that in the next election youll be swamped with candidates, but youre not going to be wasting your time. Youll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and youll say, No Thanks or No SirNo Maam, perhaps Maamit may be Pocahontas, remember that. Amid applause Trump said, You came through for me and I am going to come through for you.

Chris CoxCox stressed that while Trumps election changed everything for law-abiding gun owners, it changed nothing for the media and Hollywood, And he made clear it didnt change gun controllers determination either, saying, Michael Bloomberg, hes still short, rich, and angry.

Colonel Allen West The oldest civil right, the oldest individual right, the thing that enables us to be this great independent country, is that we will not become subjects, we will not let anyone take away our guns; we will not allow anyone to subjugate us under a tyrannical rule.

BONUS SMACKDOWN LaPierre said, Bernie Sanders was not a movement, as fawning media called his campaign. Bernie is a political predator of young voters who were lied to by school teachers and college professorsLaPierre said young voters were told free, free, free, for me, but no one told the truth about how all that stuff was going to be paid for. Nevertheless, LaPierre made clear that the media was in on the play because socialism would have aided in the goal of disarming and enslaving the American people.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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For those who may disagree about open carry should read the second amendment of the constitution: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed(The Constitution of the United States, Amendment 2).

And The right of the people to keep and bare arms, is exercised annuallyin Lansing, at the citys Capitol building.

Wednesday, April 26 , nearly 400 activists stood strong behind the 2nd amendment by commemorating togetherin a peaceful protest amongst citizens and supporters.

Its an open carry rally to educate the public on what your rights really are when it comes to fire arms, said Sheriff Dar Leaf of Barry County.

Leaf attends the rally each year because its important to him as a sheriffand citizen in the state of Michigan.

For me its my job, my duty to carry, Id hate to be caught in a situation where I didnt have it, said Leaf.

His brother Michael Leaf strongly believes in his rights as well and wants to bring awareness to thecommunity.

A lot of flak against the second amendment of the constitution right now and we need to support it because it is a god given right, says Michael Leaf.

This rally not only helps educate the community, but it also provides gun resources to those seeking gun safety.

Phil Robinson, member of Michigan Liberty Militia is a pro and legal gun activist who explains what they 2nd amendment does for him.

Basically it protects our rights as Americans, it makes us citizens not subjects to the government, said Robinson.

They want the community to know that its their right to open in carry anywhere in the state of Michigan and that choice does not make them a bad citizen.

Null says, Were carrying guns, we everybody assumes were violent but were not, were probably most calmest people anybodyll ever meet

The importance of this rally not only informs the public about the 2nd amendment, but it also gives these people a platform a speak out.

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(AUSTIN, TX May 4, 2017) State Representative Justin Holland (R-Heath) recently passed House Bill 3784, relating to persons approved by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to administer online the classroom instruction part of the handgun proficiency course.

HB 3784 allows for an approved online course provider to administer the classroom instruction part and written portion of the handgun proficiency course in an online format, in an attempt to ease access to the handgun safety and training course required to obtain a License to Carry (LTC). The Department of Public Safety uses similar learning methods for driver education, driver safety, and Alcohol and Drug Awareness.

With over one million LTC holders in the State of Texas, Im proud to author an important piece of legislation that expands access to LTC classes through online training, while still providing beneficial handgun training on the firing range, said State Rep. Justin Holland.

HB 3784 now heads to the upper chamber where State Senator Van Taylor (R-Plano) is sponsoring the legislation.

Access to our Second Amendment rights should not require law abiding citizens to jump through government regulations. As we seek to expand our second amendment freedoms, this is a commonsense accommodation that will allow LTC applicants to complete the classroom portion of the LTC class and written test online, Sen. Taylor said.

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The other plaintiffs includeThe Calguns Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and the Firearms Policy Foundation.

According to CBS SF Bay Area, the suit is filed against Attorney General Xavier Becerra. AttorneyGeorge Lee is representing the plaintiffs and contends that the high-capacity magazine ban violates [the plaintiffs] Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The Firearms Policy Coalition announced the lawsuit and explained the circuitous route which Democrats traveled to secure the magazine ban:

Last year, California Governor Jerry signed into law Senate Bill 1446 (SB 1446), which changed state statutes to completely ban law-abiding people from possessing all large-capacity firearm magazines as of July 1, 2017. Following that, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsoms Proposition 63 (Prop 63) Safety For All Act gun control initiativewhich also contained language banning large-capacity magazineswas passed by voters in the November general election.

Firearms Policy Coalition notes that the thousands of law-abiding Californians who own high-capacity magazines now must remove them from their possession or ownership in the State by July 1 at their own expense or face criminal liability and fines. Again law-abiding citizens must surrender their magazines or destroy them at their own expense.

The plaintiffs contend that the high-capacity magazine ban violates Second Amendment rights by taking away an essential for semi-automatic firearms. They claim such magazines are an intrinsic part of all semi-automatic firearms and are not merely individual pieces of personal property, but rather, are intrinsic and inherent constitutionally-protected parts of constitutionally-protected firearms.

Attorney George Lee added, Not only does the ban infringe on Second Amendment rights, but it is clearly now a taking of private property. Lee points out the suit actually goes further by claiming that the ban amounts to a de facto confiscation.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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When our nations Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution, they added the Second Amendment for a reason: The right of the people to keep and bear arms.

They stated emphatically in that sacred amendment that that right should not be infringed upon.

More than 200 years later, we agree with the Founders wishes and wholeheartedly respect the Second Amendment and all that it represents.

There are some people in this country who have total disdain and contempt for the Second Amendment. If they had it their way, it would be totally thrown out the window and every law-abiding citizen would have their guns confiscated by the federal government.

We suspect former President Barack Obama is one of those people.

He believed more gun laws, executive orders on guns and restricting law-abiding citizens from buying guns were the way to keep America safe.

He couldnt have been more wrong.

The former president turned a blind eye to places like his hometown of Chicago, which has some of the strictest gun laws on the books and also has one of the highest murder rates in the country.

Statistics show the majority of these weapons used in these murders in Chicago werent bought legally.

U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said it best in 2016 when he noted that criminals dont care about that laws we pass with regards to guns, they never follow the law, thats why theyre criminals.

If criminals want a gun badly enough, they will simply buy it illegally. That is just more proof that more executive orders and stricter gun laws dont work.

After eight years of watching a president who had total contempt for the Second Amendment, it is nice to know that we now have a president in Donald Trump who actually gets it and has total respect for gun owners and the Second Amendment.

Speaking at the National Rifle Association annual convention Friday, Trump told the large crowd that the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.

Trump, the first sitting president to address the groups annual meeting in more than 30 years, assured the audience that he would defend their right to bear arms.

He told the crowd that they have a true friend and champion in the White House.

Trump promised to do away with Obamas efforts to strengthen background checks and to eliminate gun-free zones at schools and military bases.

We applaud Trump for pledging to get rid of these proposals, which actually make citizens less safe.

We believe Trump is an ardent supporter not only of the Second Amendment but for gun owners and will be a true friend to that very large group of people during his presidency.

What a very nice, welcome change!

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We all know thatfemale participation in gun ownership and shooting sports is up. Female gun owners are alsolining up for theircarry permits as well.The gun industry knows that women are the next big thing for their business. Its no longer an activity or a right exercised solely by white men, which if often an anti-gun talking point to denigrate the Bill of Rights. In fact, its made the gun control movements work in the stripping of our Second Amendment rights all the more difficult. They will put forth statistics about how a firearm in the home makes it less safe, but people dont care. They want to be safe and more often than notvoters will side with the notion that a firearm increases ones security. For starters, no one likes to be told how to live and how to manage their own safety priorities, let alone being lectured by anti-gun wingnuts from the liberal bastions of America about it. Well, The Guardianreported that black women are beginning to line up to learn how to use firearms for their own protection. What started as a group of ten women in Georgia has grown into a movement.

They nervously giggled as Marchelle Tigner began her lesson. Seven of them had never held a gun before.

This is a movement, and it starts now, Tigner told her students. Heads nodded.

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Tigner, who lives in Savannah, Georgia, sensed that there was pent-up demand when she launched Trigger Happy Firearm Instruction in November. She found the Bullseye firing range near Atlanta and offered the class through social media, hoping for 20 students. But the class sold out in two days, so she expanded it to 40. Another class scheduled for 4 March sold out to 40 students in 24 hours; a third class for 30 on 18 March sold out in 30 hours; and so did a fourth on 19 March. Tigners now got classes scheduled through the end of May, including several in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

She said shes surprised at the response her classes have received. The growth of these classes I never expected it, she said. It shows me how unsafe these women feel in their communities.

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I can confirm that more African American women are learning to shoot, said Kenn Blanchard, author of Black Man with a Gun, a gun ownership manual. Im getting emails from places like Pennsylvania, Arizona, saying: Hey Kenn, these seven ladies were shooting look at their scores. Thats never happened before, said Blanchard, whos based in Maryland.

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Nicholas Johnson, law professor at Fordham University and author of Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, pointed to a 2014 survey showing that 54% of black people felt that owning guns did more to protect people than endanger personal safety, nearly doubling the 29% who said the same two years earlier. I would not be surprised if it is stronger now, with the idea that the political environment has tacitly approved violent behavior, he said.

The publication added that Tigner and her business partner are both survivors of domestic abuse. Other black women who have organized gun training seminars across the country touched upon their growing fear about interracial violence, namely since Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Still, there seemed to be a consensus that violence, no matter who is committing it, is very much part of the black experience in America. Hence the need for protection from these elements, which is a right enshrined in our Constitution and settled in the 2008 D.C. v. Heller case.

Frankly, racists or no racists, it doesnt matter. If someone is threatening you and your family with violence, then by all means do what is necessary to protect yourself and your loved ones. While I doubt that Trumps win has been the harbinger for these racist incidents (weve always had moronic racists among us), Im glad to see that more women are lining up to get trained in firearm use.

Still, there are some black women who tend to view those packing heat as Uncle Toms. Take Antonia Okafor, a campus carry activist and Independent Journal Review contributor, who said that black women are the ones who give her the harshest criticism for her Second Amendment advocacy.

People dont know me, or how I came to my beliefs, she said. My experience comes more from being a woman and being empowered through my gun. And for women facing a life-threatening situation by a male assailant, a firearm is the greatest equalizer.

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