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Why does the Hagerstown Police Department need 33 AR-15 rifles? (Update)

06 May 2020 21 December 2020 / By Rick Rottman

Why does the Hagerstown Police Department need 33 AR-15 rifles? - BENT CORNER

I was reading The Herald-Mail newspaper Monday when I read a piece about how the Hagerstown Police Department is obtaining 33 AR-15 “patrol” rifles from the Washington County Sherrif Department. They were purchased by the Washington County Narcotics Task Force. In other news, Washington County evidently has its own narcotics task force. In a former …

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Beto O’Rourke wants to take away your AR-15

13 September 2019 21 December 2020 / By Rick Rottman

Who’s that knocking at the door? It’s Beto O’Rourke and he wants to take away your AR-15 because it’s good at what it was designed to do.

The official hat to wear after a mass shooting

23 April 2018 21 December 2020 / By Rick Rottman

I think I’ve found the perfect hat to wear during the aftermath of a mass shooting. I call it the “Thoughts and Prayers” hat.

The reality of the ‘March for Our Lives’ anti-gun marches

26 March 2018 18 August 2019 / By Rick Rottman

Demonstrators took to the streets in cities quite literally all over the world on Saturday to denounce gun violence. The events were spearheaded by students reacting to the most recent mass shooting, the one perpetrated by a former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida against current students and faculty. The massacre left 17 people dead. …

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Dick’s Sporting Goods to stop selling assault weapons

01 March 2018 18 August 2019 / By Rick Rottman

The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Edward Stack, has decided that it will no longer sell assault-style rifles. They will also end sales of firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21. That means if you’re 18 years old and you want to get your hands on a firearm, you’ll need to join the U.S. military. Stack, …

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Why new gun control laws will not work

26 February 2018 18 August 2019 / By Rick Rottman

Congress could pass sweeping new gun control laws that would change gun ownership in this country as we know it. And it wouldn’t make a bit of difference if the authorities failed to uniformly uphold and enforce these new laws. Case in point, look no further than what happened during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas …

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