Texas Sues To Stop Gun Safety Legislation Last month the Biden Administration announced new gun safety legislation that would require any individual who sells firearms outside of sporting or gun stores to conduct a background check on a ... 05/2/2024 - 11:10 am | View Link
Kansas and Texas attorneys general sue to keep a 'gun show loophole' for background checks Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco over a federal rule closing the gun show loophole. 05/2/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Texas AG Ken Paxton Leads Multi-State Legal Challenge Against Gun Show Background Check Rule J ust before the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in Allen, Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken a firm stance against the Biden Administration’s move to cl ... 05/1/2024 - 7:35 pm | View Link
Texas sues to void rules aimed at expanding kind of gun sales requiring background checks WASHINGTON — Texas is leading a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday to block new rules aimed at expanding the number of firearms transactions that require a background check on buyers. 05/1/2024 - 8:59 am | View Link
Republican-led US states sue to block expanded gun background checks The lawsuits challenge a rule finalized last month that U.S. Justice Department officials said is aimed at closing the "gun show loophole." Under the rule, those selling ... state's lawsuit, Texas ... 05/1/2024 - 7:11 am | View Link
“Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new role just two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving other clients at the firm where he still works,“ the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.
“On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance,” the New York Times reports..
“The Chinese leader has chosen three countries to visit — France, Serbia and Hungary — that each, to a greater or lesser degree, look askance at America’s postwar ordering of the world, see China as a necessary counterweight and are eager to bolster economic ties.”
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On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island.
“Still burning,” she replied.
Gary Moore is one of the least talked about guitarists of his time, but man could he rock.
Still Got the Blues For You is in my mind his signature track.
Music Radar conducted an excellent interview with Moore and he discussed his music and guitar playing in general.
Moore also has some advice for the prolix guitar player, and we have surely all been one, coming down with acute case of fretboard diarrhoea and using too many notes in our solos.
Take a phrase, says Moore, and work on it, playing around with all the different permutations, accenting the first, second, or maybe the last notes, working on the dynamics – these are all ways of workshopping your phrasing and learning how to make more out of something simple and familiar.