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Keeping Firearms from the Mentally Ill

Once on any government "list," it is not always easy to get off. At the very least, the restoration of such individuals' right to buy or own firearms should come after a qualified clinician has determined the person is unlikely to relapse or become a danger to himself or others.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Obama administration announced January 3, 2014 executive actions intended to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a rule whereby states can submit information on such people to the National Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

Feds Are Spending Billions to Help States Avoid Privacy Laws to Ban Firearm Ownership

New proposals would add mental health issues and minor drug convictions to the list of those blocked from buying or possessing guns.

(SALEM) - Documents from the U.S. Government Accountability Office published in 2012, reveal that the federal government is spending billions of to help states avoid privacy laws and add Americans with mental health and minor drug convictions to the roles of people blocked from buying or possessing firearms.

States are being rewarded with money if they help the DOJ and other agencies peel back the privacy laws and rights that block federal access to state records.

EXCLUSIVE: Feds Tell Veteran He Will Lose 2nd Amendment Rights Because of PTSD

When did serving your country become a crime?

(MYRTLE CREEK, OR) - If Pat Kirby's guns are taken away by the federal government, then everyone else is probably going to eventually face the same thing. The clock is ticking.

School of Assassins Faces Protest & Congressional De-Funding

The SOA burst into the news in 1996, when the Pentagon released copies of its torture training manuals. The Sept. 21, 1996 Washington Post, in “U.S. Instructed Latins on Executions, Torture; Manuals Used 1982-91, Pentagon Reveals”

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The US Army School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia is a notorious training operation for Latin American officers and soldiers. It’s associated with some of the worst dictatorships and human rights violators in the hemisphere.

For over 20 years, the grassroots School of Americas Watch (SOA Watch) has grown into one of the most dynamic, multi-generational, cross-continental movements against militarism in the Americas (SOAW.org/November).

Shir Hever on Israel`s Weapons Industry

A lecture by Shir Hever, Jerusalem/Göttingen "Israel's Weapons Industry, Arms Trade and Military and Surveillance Co-operation with the European Union" (in English)

(JERUSALEM) - The European Union is Israel's most important trading partner. An increasingly important part of that trade is in goods and services of the defense and homeland security industries. These have become a pillar of Israel's economy, and also play a big role in a number of EU countries.

Israel touts its "battle-proven" technologies such as electronics and drones used in surveillance and assassinations, as well as the expertise and equipment it uses to repress popular resistance activities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Assassinated DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Fell in a CIA Operation Gone Awry, Say Law Enforcement Sources

He Was Killed, They Say, Because 'He Knew Too Much' About Official Corruption in the Drug War

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was abducted in early February 1985 shortly after leaving the US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico. His body was found several weeks later, partially decomposed, wrapped in a plastic death shroud and buried in a shallow grave some 70 miles north of the Mexican city.

One of the chief architects of Camarena’s kidnapping, brutal torture and ultimate death, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released prematurely on Aug. 9 from a Mexican prison, by order of a Mexican federal court, after having served 28 years of a 40-year-sentence for the crime. His release caused an outcry among US law enforcers and officials, who contend his freedom is an affront to justice and to the memory of Camarena.

Kiki Cameron Executed On Orders of the CIA?

El Diario de Coahuila (10-13-13) Proceso (10-12-13) By Luis Chaparro and J. Jesus Esquivel. Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat. By Borderland Beat Reporter un vato

(WASHINGTON DC) - A story that sounds like it was taken from a complex espionage novel has just exploded on U.S. television.

Enrique Kiki Camarena, the DEA law enforcement officer murdered in Mexico in February, 1985, was apparently not the victim of the Mexican capo Rafael Caro Quintero, but rather, of a dark member of the CIA. This individual was the one charged with silencing the anti-narcotics agent for one serious reason...

Former CIA Whistle-blower Targeted by Govt. for Facebook Posts

Salem-News.com writer/photojournalist Tosh Plumlee stirs the hornet's nest by revealing truthful information about US govt. weapon running...

(AUSTIN) - William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot who flew arms and ammunition for the agency during the Cuban Project of the 1950s, has been targeted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for directing hard-hitting questions toward the Senate, Congress and the president on his Facebook page.

Plumlee has appeared as a guest on the Alex Jones Show several times and is highly respected for his whistle-blowing efforts...

Navy Yard Mass Shooting: Deja` Vu All Over Again

Already victims' relatives and relatives of other mass shootings are again calling for federal gun control legislation.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On September 16, 2013, Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist, killed 13 people at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. Alexis was shot to death by police. Already there are renewed calls for gun control legislation, which will fall on deaf ears.

The Navy Yard killings is the latest mass shooting in the United States.

3-year old among 13 shot in Sanford Fla., or Chicago?

Ok, Chicago’s the, “Murder Capital” of our society but alas, Is there any truth to less gun violence if certain bills pass?

(CLEVELAND) - Thursday night basketball at a south side Chicago park,
Gunfire amidst chaos as shots echoed loudly in the dark,

Our culprits? DreadLocked men in a dark colored sedan,
The tally would have been even greater had some not ran.