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I touched on this very subject this morning speaking to a friend. On the silver price suppression scheme and how it works:
https://thebubblebubble.substack.com/p/the-mechanics-of-silver-price-suppression
Retail may soon wake up to the realization that their dollars are losing value:
https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/states-work-make-gold-and-silver-alternative-currencies-us-dollar
Armed Citizens vs. Police: Who Stops Active Shooters Better? The Numbers May Surprise You ~ VIDEO
Ammoland Inc. Posted on March 27, 2025 by Tred Law
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/armed-citizens-vs-police-who-stops-active-shooters-better/
National Constitutional Carry Reciprocity Advances in House
By Tom Knighton | 8:29 AM | March 27, 2025
AP Photo/Eric Gay, File
Constitutional carry is kind of the Holy Grail for gun rights in most states. When you get that, you tend to have pretty permission laws on the books. Sure, they might not be perfect, but if you can get permitless carry, you tend to have the right environment to get anything else pro-gun you need to get passed.
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Unless you’re in Florida, apparently.
Anyway, one issue with constitutional carry, though, is that if you’re traveling to a non-constitutional carry state, you have to go through the permitting process of your home state if you want to carry in that other state. That is, of course, assuming that your state has reciprocity with your destination.
National reciprocity has been high on gun rights advocates’ wish lists for quite some time. Constitutional carry reciprocity is even better, and it just advanced in the House.
Allowing people with state-issued concealed carry licenses or permits to conceal a handgun in any other state, a bill proposed by a North Carolina congressman, has moved forward from a congressional committee.
The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, authored by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., and also known as House Resolution 38, would amend title 18 in the United States Code. The Judiciary Committee of the House advanced the bill in a voice vote on Tuesday.
As of midday Wednesday, 178 cosponsors were on board in the chamber. That includes a lone Democrat in Rep. Jared Golden of Maine and each of the nine other Republicans from North Carolina.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the committee, told colleagues, “Our First Amendment rights do not change from one state to another and our Second Amendment rights should not either. Law-abiding citizens should be able to a concealed firearm between states without worrying about conflicting state criminal laws or onerous civil suits.”
He said there are in excess of 22 million concealed carry permit owners throughout the nation. Twenty-nine states have constitutional carry, or permitless carry laws.
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Gun Owners of America celebrated the move, noting that those of us living in constitutional carry states will be able to lawfully carry nationwide without a permit should this bill pass.
Also celebrating the victory was the NRA-Institute for Legislative Affairs, which was thrilled with the win of both this bill and H.R. 2184, which is the Firearm Due Process Protection Act. That bill gives people wrongfully denied a gun purchase due to an administrative mistake with the NICS database some kind of recourse.
The bill now goes to the full House for a vote, where it will hopefully pass.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that there are still enough anti-gun Democrats in the Senate to jam this up indefinitely via the filibuster. It kept a lot of gun control from passing when Republicans were the minority, but it’s a double-edged sword. It may keep this bill from getting the vote it deserves in the Senate.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no hope. Wheeling and dealing is part of politics, so it’s entirely possible this will be part of some deal and get put on the table for a vote, where I suspect it will narrowly pass.
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For now, though, we’re seeing movement on an important bill that many of us are extremely eager to see become law.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/03/27/constitutional-carry-reciprocity-advances-in-house-n1228106#google_vignette
Amsterdam city center stabbing leaves five injured; One arrested
https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/27/amsterdam-city-center-stabbing-leaves-five-injured-one-arrested
At least five people were hurt during a stabbing in the crowded city center of Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon. One person was arrested at the scene, but police said it was not yet known what led to the stabbing.
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Police and paramedics were dispatched to the bustling neighborhood in the Amsterdam-Centrum district just after 3:15 p.m. The arrest was made at the scene, and medical personnel quickly began to treat the injured victims.
Victims were initially treated on the street in front of a shop that sells quilts, with signs in the storefront window written in both Dutch and English. “I heard knocking,” an employee of the quilt shop told Parool. “Then I saw that a girl had been stabbed in the back. A boy then ran away.”
Police also secured evidence in front of the popular Drie Fleschjes cafe on Gravenstraat, which has a large outdoor terrace. “An older woman was stabbed in the back, she was with her husband,” an employee who did not see the incident told Parool. He did see the woman on the ground. “It was very frightening for the customers. It was very grim.”
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Apparently this is a photo of the attacker:
https://x.com/beschuit_p/status/1905290997493330112
There’s a rumor going around he is from Ukraine – D. Melnyk (34) from Odessa, but I can’t yet confirm.
Univ. Amsterdam pressing charges over “wanted” posters accusing board of Gaza genocide
https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/27/univ-amsterdam-pressing-charges-wanted-posters-accusing-board-gaza-genocide
In several locations at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Science Park, activists hung posters accusing the three members of the executive board of complicity in genocide in Gaza. They also shared the posters online. The university is pressing charges, a spokesperson told the student newspaper Folia.
The posters have photos of Edith Hooge, Jan Linsten, and Peter-Paul Verbeek, with the text “Wanted for complicity in genocide.” The posters also state, “They are the face. The institution is a crime. During a genocide, they give our dime.”
The posters were also shared by the Instagram account UvA Intifada. The organization describes itself as a “youth-led student organization” fighting for “an academic boycott at the University of Amsterdam in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance movement.”
On Instagram, UvA Intifada also provides a script students can use to protest the UvA’s continued ties with Israeli institutions. They also provide a telephone number and the UvA secretary’s email address where students can lodge their protest.
A UvA spokesperson called the action “a new low,” speaking to the UvA student news outlet, Folia. “We will file charges as soon as possible.”
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uva.intifada
https://www.instagram.com/uva.intifada/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veFc2CHz2_c
I did not know, that there is such a thing as “nudge units”.