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A conservative columnist who was suspended by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after a pro-NRA piece talked to Charles Payne this morning on FBN.

Stacy Washington was suspended Friday over her column "Guns and the Media," and then she quit her position.

The paper's editor explained that, Her active promotional activities and professional association with the National Rifle Association represented an unacceptable conflict of interest in her most recent column, which resulted in our suspension of her work."

Washington's column was a response to a local op-ed in which the writer suggested the NRA is a greater threat to America than ISIS.

"The linkage is not only rife with improper context; it is false on its face," Washington wrote.

Washington said this morning she does not have a "professional affiliation" with the NRA. She said her op-ed was not a defense of the NRA, but more about a left-leaning newspaper publishing the ISIS vs. NRA comparison.

"You were fighting for the First and Second Amendments on this one," Payne noted.

Washington, a veteran, said she has always been open about her ownership of guns as an NRA member.

"Nothing in the column can be impugned by the fact that I may or not be a member of the NRA," she said.

Watch the discussion above.

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Bob Owens, a longtime Second Amendment advocate and editor of the website Bearing Arms, was found dead Monday in North Carolina. He was 46.

Leading with an item titled, We Are Diminished, Bearing Arms co-editor Jenn Jacques on Tuesday expressed deep regret and profound sorrow that Owens life came to a tragic end.

We did not make an announcement on Bearing Arms because it was more important to us to give the family a day to grieve than to break the story and get clicks, Jacques wrote, adding that Owens was a huge part of the 2A world, he was first and foremost a son, brother, husband, father, and friend.

Police in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina which is about 30 minutes south of Raleigh found Robert Eugene Owens dead near an intersection stop sign with a gun nearby, the News & Observer reported.

TheBlaze confirmed the victim was Owens of Bearing Arms. Police are working to determine if Owens death was a suicide or the result of foul play, town spokeswoman Susan Weis told the paper.

On Sunday, Owens posted about his progress on a book he was writing: Three days left and 10,000 more words to finish The Deplorables Guide to Guns. I got this.

Owens last Facebook message was posted Monday:

Owens Bearing Arms bio reads:

A long-time shooting enthusiast, Bob began blogging as a North Carolina native in New York at the politics-focused Confederate Yankee in 2004. In 2007, he began writing about firearms, gun rights, and crime at Pajamas Media, and added gun and gear reviews for Shooting Illustrated in 2010.

Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training.

Conservative commentator and fellow Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich penned a tribute to Owens in Townhall on Tuesday.

I didnt just work with Bob, Pavlich wrote. He wasnt simply a colleague who I spent time with here and there. He was my friend.

She continued, When I received the news of Bobs death Monday afternoon, I was in disbelief. Shortly after, complete sadness and grief took over. Then, devastation.

I will remember Bob for all of the smiles he put on my face and the laughter he brought to those around him. He was an incredible friend with the kindest of hearts, Pavlich said. He served as an important mentor to many and was an overwhelmingly positive influence in my life. I was blessed to know him and I will miss him dearly. Please keep his family in your prayers during this horribly difficult time.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for Owens wife and two daughters.

Heres a video interview Owens did with National Rifle Association TV on preserving the Second Amendment:

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Seattle deputies carry rifles near the scene of a shooting in downtown Seattle, April 20, 2017. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

SEATTLE The Ninth Circuit seemed skeptical of Seattle police officers claims that a new use-of-force policy mandated by the Department of Justice violates their Second Amendment rights.

U.S. Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith told the officers attorney he didnt have much of an argument at a three-judge panel appellate hearing on Monday.

More than 100 officers sued to block the police reforms in 2014, saying the revised use-of-force policy unreasonably restricted them from defending themselves and violated their Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights.

The Seattle Police Department was placed under a consent decree in 2012 after an 11-month investigation by the DOJ found routine use of excessive force and civil rights violations. As part of the police departments settlement with the DOJ, it implemented new use-of-force policies that stress minimal reliance on physical force.

U.S. Chief District Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed the suit from the Western District of Washington in 2014, finding no case supports the officers novel theory that a police department policy outlining expectations for an officers use of force can burden conduct protected by the Second Amendment.

Pechman also said the officers grossly misconstrue Fourth Amendment law by claiming the use-of-force policy is a metaphorical seizure of their right to use force.

At Mondays hearing, the officers attorney, Athan Tramountanas, urged the panel to revive the case.

He said the new use-of-force policy is overly complicated and dangerously restrictive.

Tramountanas stuck with the argument that the new rule robs police of their Second Amendment right to self-defense.

You must abandon your reason, Tramountanas said in reference to the guidelines that now require officers to use de-escalation techniques before resorting to force.

The officers arent arguing for no policy, he said, just a policy thats reasonable.

They have to be able to defend themselves, he added.

City attorney Gregory Narver contended that the lower courts ruling was spot-on, and that this was not a Second Amendment case.

Hyperbole aside, this doesnt disarm the police, Narver said. He also argued the policy doesnt keep officers from defending themselves.

If the officers had real concerns about the use-of-force policy, they should have brought them before the federal judge overseeing the police reforms rather than asking an appellate panel to create a new fundamental constitutional right, Narver said.

The 126 officers, sergeants and detectives who filed the suit did so without union approval.

U.S. Circuit Judges Carlos Bea and U.S. District Judge William Hayes sitting by designation from the Southern District of California also sat on the panel.

Read the DOJ mandated use of force policy below:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Use_of_Force_Policy.pdf

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Trump says that the eight year assault on the Second Amendment is over. The NRA crowd cheers. Looking back at that eight-year assault, the only thing that happened was that Obama signed a bill that allowed guns to be carried into the national parks. The universal background check bill died in Congress. Handgun bans in Chicago and Washington D.C. were invalidated by the Supreme Court.

Gee, where was the assault? Obama was the biggest gun salesman in history. Every time he spoke, gun sales went up. We doubled the number of guns manufactured in eight years with Obamas fake assault on the Second Amendment. Reality doesnt matter in todays politics. Facts supported by data dont matter either.

Trump signed an executive order allowing people on Social Security disability for severe mental illness to buy guns. A verified mentally impaired guy who is too sick to work can now buy a gun.

Think of severely mentally ill people having concealed carry firearms. If they forget to take their meds, any one of us can be seen as a threat that needs shooting. Afterwards they can pry the bullets from your cold dead body.

Pete Scobby

Newport

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SAF recently launched its Judicial Accountability Project, reminding American gun owners that "Black Robes Matter." There are more than 120 federal court vacancies that President Trump can fill. They are lifetime appointments and these judges will decide on issues including local, state and federal gun control laws.

"Like it or not," Gottlieb observed, "the Courts have the final say whether you have gun rights or not. I know this first hand. The Second Amendment Foundation's legal cases have accounted for about 80 percent of the case law that protects your individual right to keep and bear arms."

That is why SAF launched the Judicial Accountability Project. The Second Amendment community must be able to fully vet every individual being considered for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, Gottlieb noted. He said several gun rights activists and pro-gun civil rights attorneys and legal scholars asked the foundation to "take the lead" on this effort.

"We cannot risk the Second Amendment by being lethargic and disinterested in those individuals who will have the authority and responsibility to judge the merits of gun rights cases brought to the courts," Gottlieb said.

One thing that impressed him was a New York Times report about how anti-gun "liberal groups expressed alarm" at Trump's nominees.

"The louder liberal anti-gunners complain about federal court nominees," he stated, "the better the odds that these nominees will bring the proper perspective about the Bill of Rights to the bench."

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.

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