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We believe the 2nd Amendment is best defended through grass-roots organization, education, and advocacy centered around individual gun owners. It is our mission to encourage, organize, and support these efforts throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
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...and much more!
gun regulation
Gun control (or firearms regulation) is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians.
Most countries have a restrictive firearm guiding policy, with only a few legislations being categorized as permissive. Jurisdictions that regulate access to firearms typically restrict access to only certain categories of firearms and then to restrict the categories of persons who will be granted a license to have access to a firearm. In some countries such as the United States, gun control may be legislated at either a federal level or a local state level.
Recall that the victorious Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar forcibly relocated Jewish captives from Palestine to Babylon in 586 BC. Following is an excerpt from a rather old book by a Cambridge scholar, Terrot Glover, called The Ancient World: A Beginning, written in 1935. Speaking about the end...