Panera Bread wants its customers to know something: your guns are unwelcome in our stores. CEO Ron Shaich recently announced the company’s decision to prohibit guns being brought into any of its 1,800 outlets across the country after weeks of consultation with anti-gun activist group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. In an interview with…
by Micah J. Fleck The assault weapon ban in Maryland that went into effect in 2013 as a result of the tragic Sandy Hook shootings was ruled unconstitutional on Thursday by a federal appeals court. According to the Huffington Post: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the…
Exciting development or a glimpse of a frightening tomorrow? A man has built a drone equipped with a gun that can find its target and fire itself. While the concept would allow soldiers and police to respond to violent and dangerous situations without putting themselves in harm’s way, it doesn’t take much effort to think…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By GRANT PHILLIPS Liberal media personalities and pages often make claims that appeal to emotion but also contain a very small inkling of fact. Many of them appear to be true on the surface, but a little bit of source checking and scrutiny more often proves them to be patently…
A tragic school shooting that left four dead in a small town in northern Saskatchewan is receiving scant attention by the American media. You can rest assured our president won’t begin to lecture Canadians about guns. After all, Canada has rigid gun control laws. President Obama assured us tragedies like this don’t happen in other countries….
One of the lesser reported moments from the president’s Town Hall event on Guns in America hosted by CNN, was the moment where the president confessed that the first lady had said she might want to own a gun. “At one point, Michelle turned to me and she said, ‘You know, if I was living…
President Obama is moving forward with executive actions aimed at restricting gun sales. The executive order is the president’s following through on a promise he made earlier in the year to seek unilateral solutions on gun control if congress would not act. Politico reports that the executive actions will include: According to gun industry insiders…
Entrepreneur and LP Candidate Discusses BTC and ISIS in New Interview [dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ohn McAfee recently shifted gears from the Cyber Party and is now running with the Libertarian Party. McAfee discussed his policies in an interview with libertarian podcast Revolution Report Live, the primary talking points of the interview being foreign policy, tech freedom, and Bitcoin. …
Michael Bastasch National Park rangers may have gone a little overboard this year when they bought “flashbangs” and automatic weapons, according to a government audit detailing how the Department of the Interior is struggling with “weapons accountability.” “In FY 2015, we issued a management advisory to the NPS Director when we found that law enforcement…
Stephen Rowe writes at Hypeline.org: A new study by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) found that, “92% of mass public shootings between January 2009 and July 2014 took place in gun-free zones.” The study confirms the common sense of most Americans, disarming good, honest citizens only helps criminals inflict more damage. Many media outlets are…