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