Yesterday, GunGuys posted a video from last summer’s Democratic CNN-YouTube debate where Sen. Joe Biden countered a Michigan assault rifle owner who asked if the Democratic presidential candidates wanted to “take away his baby.” Instead of pandering to the gun lobby, as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson did, Sen. Biden took the question head on: [...]
IL: An 8-year-old girl, Nacole Polk, shot in the stomach by a stray bullet while sitting on her porch, shielded her 1-year-old niece from gunfire. CA: An off-duty Los Angeles police officer, Christopher Campagna, accidentally shot and wounded his colleague in a San Diego hotel room. Campagna was holding a .38-caliber revolver that he thought [...]
We are re-posting a story and video clip from the Democratic CNN YouTube debate on July 23rd, 2007, when an assault rifle owner asked if the Democratic presidential candidates planned on “taking away his baby.” Jered Townsend from Clio, Michigan submitted this question — see video clip and transcript below. To all the candidates, tell [...]
MN: The father who mistook his 8-year-old son for a turkey while hunting and unintentionally killed him, was sentenced. Anthony M. Klaseus, 40, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for his role in the death of his son, Hunter, 8. MD: During a family house party, 12-year-old Glenn C. Ellis was playing on a computer with [...]
Go Left TV airs a story based on an ABC News Investigative Team report that a McCain insider, also an NRA lobbyist, had ties to NRA spy operative, Mary “McFate,” a.k.a., Mary Lou Sapone.
The ABC News Investigative Team connects Mary “McFate,” a paid mole by the NRA to spy on gun violence prevention groups, with a McCain insider. According to ABC News on Aug. 19th: A Republican political operative considered part of the McCain campaign’s “kitchen cabinet” oversaw a National Rifle Association lobbying campaign that allegedly hired a [...]
After it was reported last week that the Harrold school district in Texas would allow teachers and staff to carry hidden and loaded guns inside its schools, Texas Governor Rick Perry has recklessly come out to say that he supports the idea. This is hardly the first, nor the last time, these ludicrous ideas will [...]
GunGuys has posted numerous stories about individuals who use a shooting range to commit suicide. Now, such types of incidents are showing up in Canada, and gun range owners are claiming nothing can be done to stop them. We disagree. After the second gun suicide at a shooting range in 13 months, The Globe and [...]
NY: In East Hampton, Lester Stockel, a millionaire and founder of a credit card-receipt processing business, shot his wife Georgiana before shooting himself early Monday. KS: Robert McIntyre, 21, shot and killed his father, Daniel McIntyre, 57, in the bedroom of their house before committing suicide on the front lawn. VA: New evidence is discovered [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from IL Congressman Mark Kirk (R-10th) and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about a press conference held today on Aug. 18th at the Northbrook Police Department, to crack down on illegal guns. See a complete list of attendees below). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Aaron Winters [...]
Fear, coupled with a radical and irrational ideology, can help explain why a small Texas school district could allow teachers and staff to carry a loaded and hidden handgun into their classrooms. The new and dangerous policy was rationalized as a “prevention” measure to deter a Virginia Tech type massacre or school shooting. Spare us [...]
According to the Associated Press on Aug. 18th: EDGERTON, Wis. – Investigators in Edgerton are probing an apparent murder-suicide. Police Chief Tom Klubertanz says officers went to house around 8 a.m. Monday. They found the bodies of Shaun Vodermann and his wife, Jennifer Vodermann, in the home. Both apparently died from gunshot wounds. Klubertanz says [...]
CNN released a follow-up and a more in-depth report about the NRA spying on gun violence prevention groups and gun violence survivors. Mary “McFate,” an FSA board member and longtime gun control advocate was, in fact, revealed as a paid mole for the NRA for over a decade according to a shocking investigative report from [...]
According to CNN: The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party died Wednesday, hours after a shooting at the party’s headquarters, police said. Chairman Bill Gwatney died at 3:59 Wednesday afternoon after a gunman entered his Little Rock office and shot him several times in the upper body, Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said. Authorities [...]
CNN interviewed Freedom States Alliance Board Member, Angus McQuilken, about Mary McFate’s spying for the NRA. McFate joined our FSA board in September 2006. The NRA, as well as McFate, continue to have “no comment.” In response to the Mother Jones investigation, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg pressed the NRA for answers about the NRA’s [...]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Aug. 11th that a federal judge slapped down the gun lobby’s insane agenda to allow guns into non-secure areas of the Atlanta airport. We have to ask: Just how nutty can the gun lobby get? People with firearms licenses still can’t take guns into non-secure areas of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, [...]
The pressure is building on the NRA to come forward with information about the recent investigative report from Mother Jones that found that the gun lobby paid Mary “McFate” to spy on various gun control organizations, including our group, the Freedom States Alliance. Mary McFate joined the FSA board in September 2006. According to the [...]
FL: David Cates, 28, whose handgun a 2-year-old boy used to shoot himself in the mouth has been charged with culpable negligence. Cates had left the gun in the drawer of a bedside table because of a bear that had come onto his property. The boy, Tristan Lee McDade, is in a medically induced state [...]
The Associated Press just took recent media reports that the NRA has been spying on gun violence prevention groups for over 15 years and pushed it onto the top headlines of major newspapers and media outlets, including MSNBC, Yahoo News, and the Chicago Tribune for example. The original story was broken by Mother Jones that [...]
Mother Jones ran a follow-up editorial after last week’s shocking investigative report that found that the NRA engaged in over 15 years of spying on gun violence prevention organizations and gun violence survivors who have lost loved ones. After so much news and media attention, all the NRA. or Mary “McFate” for that matter, can [...]
(Watch ABC News video below). ABC National News ran an in-depth story about Mary “McFate,” also known as Mary Lou Sapone, who is a paid informant by the NRA to spy on gun violence prevention organizations. As a board member of Freedom States Alliance and CeaseFire PA, and as a lobbyist for States United to [...]
Major media outlets across the country are pouncing on the bombshell investigative report from Mother Jones that found that Mary “McFate,” also known as Mary Lou Sapone, was paid by the National Rifle Association to spy on victims of gun violence as well as our organization, the Freedom States Alliance (FSA). For the record, FSA [...]
Mary McFate’s own hometown of Sarasota reacted with shock when it was revealed that McFate was a paid corporate mole who spied on gun violence prevention organizations for over 12 years. After a news brief was posted on a local Sarasota TV station’s website, ABC Ch. 7 on Aug. 1st, residents were amazed that the [...]
A front page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug. 1st, sought reactions from board members, gun violence survivors, and advocates who were spied on by an NRA paid mole, Mary “McFate” a.k.a Mary Lou Sapone. The Inquirer’s reporter, Jeff Shields, wrote an excellent story about McFate’s background and the reach of her spying into [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from States United to Prevent Gun Violence). Gun Activist Served as Lobbyist for States United to Prevent Gun Violence Contact: Barbara Hohlt, Executive Director, 646-594-8956 Thom Mannard, President, 847-997-3020 NEW YORK Aug. 1st, 2008: Members of States United to Prevent Gun Violence were profoundly disturbed to [...]
The Associated Press reported on Aug. 1st a shooting in Niagara, Wis: Authorities were searching for a man wearing camouflage clothing and carrying a rifle on Friday after four people were shot, three fatally, near the Wisconsin-Michigan state line. Chief Deputy Jerry Sauve of the Marinette County Sheriff’s Department said his office got a call [...]
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