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Key points that Republicans, Democrats, and expert witnesses alike agreed about during this morning’s hearing on the future of domestic drone use: Drones make surveillance cheaper, and increasing privacy risks. Miniaturization driven by advances in mobile computing and robotics also…
Today Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) signed bills which restrict rifle magazines to fifteen rounds, shotguns to eight rounds, and makes gun sale background checks universal. The statute is being hailed by some in bluing Colorado as a sensible response…
The Associated Press reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has officially dropped Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) assault weapons ban proposal from the Democrats’ gun regulation bill, confirming her Monday announcement to that effect. Via the New York Times:…
On a party-line vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) proposed assault weapons ban, setting the stage for a bruising floor fight. None of the four amendments offered today — all by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who…
White smoke has been sighted above Saint Peter’s Basilica. TAS will have updates about the new Pontiff as soon as information becomes available.
From the Hart Senate Office Building where the Committee on the Judiciary is marking up four gun regulation proposals: S.150, Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (Feinstein) S.54, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013 (Leahy) S.374, Protecting Responsible Gun…
“I don’t know why anyone would object to drying up the supply of these weapons over time,” Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said in defending her assault weapons ban proposal, asserting that “while gun homicides are down in this country, mass…
Attorney General Eric Holder’s brief letter to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) regarding the use of deadly force against American citizens without trial on American soil can be viewed below: The body is only 43 words. The letter ostensibly puts to…
Mother Jones reports that Attorney General Eric Holder has confirmed the federal executive’s authority to target an American citizen on American soil, with deadly force, without trial. The office of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) makes this claim based on a…
From the Dirksen Senate Office Building where the Judiciary Committee is holding a Department of Justice oversight hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder: A major story coming into this hearing is Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) epistolary exchange with Holder regarding…
