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    In this California town, Second Amendment is a No. 1 concern

    by Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times Aug 04, 2019 6 minutes

    NEEDLES, Calif. - The blistering sun hung high above the barren landscape, 118 degrees of scatter-the-critters hot, as Tim Terral loaded a magazine into his 9 mm pistol.

    He narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on a target before a succession of pops cut through the silence. Bull's-eye.

    Satisfied, Terral wiped a bead of sweat off his brow and cocked his head to the side, a coy smile spreading across his slender face.

    "I don't miss much," he crowed.

    Today, his attention was focused on a small shooting target. But Terral has his eye on a larger one: California's tough gun control laws.

    In June, other city leaders followed the Needles councilman's suggestion and declared this town along the Colorado River a "sanctuary city" for the Second Amendment.

    The collision of liberal and conservative buzzwords was meant to be a poke in the eye to the Golden State - the heart of the liberal "resistance" against a president voters in Needles overwhelmingly supported

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