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Public reporting establishes that was a with a permit to carry, a fact repeated by local police and family members , while federal officials publicly asserted that he was found without identification ...
Measure 114 is currently active in parallel state- and federal-court tracks: at the state level the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and lifted a hold in March 2025 and the Oregon Suprem...
Donald Trump publicly urged Republicans to oppose a bipartisan border and immigration bill in early 2024, framing its passage as a political win for Democrats and inviting blame if it failed; multiple...
Research is mixed but leans toward stricter gun regulations being associated with lower firearm deaths and some reductions in violent crime in many studies; authoritative reviews (RAND, Johns Hopkins)...
The assertion that medical malpractice (medical errors) is the third-leading cause of death in the United States stems mainly from a Johns Hopkins analysis estimating ~250,000 deaths annually and plac...
AIPAC’s recent spending on elections and lobbying places it among the largest single-issue political players in Washington: AIPAC and its super PAC reported roughly $95.1 million on the 2024 elections...
has taken a mix of legal, legislative and administrative preparatory steps while remains tied up in court: the state pursued appeals to lift lower-court injunctions and the marked judicial victories a...
The short answer: yes—individuals with Russian ties did donate small amounts to the NRA, including a high‑profile life‑membership tied to Alexander Torshin, but investigators and regulators have not p...
States governed by Democratic majorities generally have —including universal background checks, permitting regimes, assault-weapons restrictions, and broader use of extreme risk (red flag) laws—while ...
The phrase "honor guns onion" pulls together three distinct threads in current reporting: The Onion’s recurring satire about U.S. mass shootings and guns, a commercial firearms maker named Honor Defen...
Available reporting shows widely circulated videos and synchronized visual investigation that contradict early federal descriptions of the encounter, officials at the framed as a violent threat while ...
No credible reporting in the materials provided shows the ; the legal orders to dismantle or cancel business certificates tied to Trump entities originated in courts and have been subject to stays, ap...
A direct claim that AIPAC and the NRA are equivalent in structure, tactics, and political power is an oversimplification; both are influential American lobbying organizations, but . Contemporary analy...
Libertarian and conservative views on gun control overlap in defending individual rights and opposing broad restrictions, but they diverge on the role of private choice, government enforcement, and wh...
Available reporting indicates the M7 series (type-classified XM7/M7) is a SIG Sauer MCX-derived design and SIG and multiple outlets describe it as piston-driven rather than classic AR-style direct imp...
Ilhan Omar’s early life—born in Mogadishu in 1982, spending years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and arriving in the U.S. at age 12—shaped a political identity centered on immigrant and refugee advocacy, e...
The phrase “honor guns” appears in multiple, distinct contexts in the available reporting: as the brand Honor Defense and its “Honor Guard” pistol line (coverage in American Handgunner, American Rifle...
AIPAC spent roughly on the 2023–2024 cycle, a figure that places it well above the federal lobbying totals recorded for the and, in at least one year, above the , though the Chamber’s annual lobbying ...
No major corporations or foundations are on record as having publicly . Reporting shows extensive scrutiny of Turning Point USA’s finances, questions about lavish spending and improper financial pract...
Guns shape political violence in the United States by amplifying lethality and enabling attacks across the ideological spectrum: historically, right-wing extremists accounted for most fatalities, but ...