Month: March 2017

Imagine you’re up late one night. It’s after midnight, and maybe you’re finishing a movie. Or perhaps you’re reading a book, and it’s too good to put down. Or maybe you’re like a young man named Andrew Scott: You’re playing video games with your girlfriend. You hear a loud pounding on your front door. You’re

So you just bought your first pistol and cannot wait to get some rounds down range?  Congratulations – welcome to the exciting, wonderful world of firearms and shooting!  If you’re like most of us, though, you probably don’t have your own private land to shoot on, which means you will definitely be heading to a range on a regular basis. Unfortunately, there

Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s general ban on openly carrying guns. The lead opinion acknowledged that an outright ban on carrying guns would seriously burden the right to bear arms “The core of the constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense,” the court concluded, includes carrying “firearms in public where a need

If you are legally carrying a firearm, or if you have one safely stored in your home, you fully intend on using that firearm lethally should the need arise. It is not your intent to wave it around or point it at someone just to threaten them. You are to legally draw that gun only

CHICAGO (AP) – When street-gang thieves slipped with ease into a Norfolk Southern rail yard on Chicago’s South Side and ripped locks off one train, they likely expected to see merchandise like toys or tennis shoes. What they beheld instead was a gangster’s jackpot: box after box of brand new guns. The guns had been

GRANGEVILLE, Idaho – Board members approved a new policy to allow trained teachers and staff members to carry guns. School leaders of Mountain View School District said they have wanted to arm teachers because they are unable to afford school resource officers. Mountain View School district is very rural, in fact, it is the sixth

A soccer player in the English Football League is proudly displaying his faith with a unique haircut. In an apparent reaction to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, Tomer Hemed, a striker with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., posted a photo of himself last week with a Star of David shaved

“If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.” Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.) If you want Never Again

As of January 1, 2017, new gun controls expanded the definition of “assault weapons” in California and required owners of all such guns to register them with the state government. But now two inventors, Travis Klein and Bart McCurdy, have created a new method of taking down an AR-15 that they say will allow owners of

“My companion attacks his friends; He violates his covenant. His talk is smooth as butter, Yet war is in his heart; His words are more soothing than oil, Yet they are drawn swords.” –Psalm 55:20-21 How often do you hear a story about someone bringing horrible suffering into the lives of others? Or perhaps you