Month: May 2019

Legislation was recently introduced in Congress that change the longstanding federal law prohibiting handgun sales to out-of-state buyers. The Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act was introduced in the U.S. House last week by Congressman Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican. The bill would remove some federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions, specifically handguns, along with a host

Last week a congressman embarrassed himself on Twitter. He got into a debate about gun control, suggested a mandatory buyback—which is basically confiscation with a happy face sticker on it—and when someone told him that they would resist, he said resistance was futile because the government has nukes. And everybody was like, wait, what? Of

They don’t respect the 2nd, no reason to believe they would respect the 5th or 14th. The California Assembly on Monday advanced a bill to add school faculty, employers and co-workers to the list of people who can ask a judge to take away someone’s guns. The measure, AB 61, passed the Assembly in a

FTA: It’s important to consider the realities of defensive gun use, which occur hundreds of thousands, or even millions of times per year. Someone who finds their home being invaded didn’t plan the encounter. Even law enforcement officers have a 39 percent probability to hit a target in a high-stress situation. This, combined with the

“Now this is a lesson, I would argue, for this country to recognize the importance of not disarming the average citizen. We have to recognize that when socialists get into power, they often turn to tyrants,” he warns. “And in this case, the tyrant has all the weapons, and he has strong allies that are

“This new law adds an extra layer of protection to individuals who must defend themselves in dangerous situations,” Lucas said. “Protecting our individual liberties and guaranteeing every American is able to exercise their rights set forth by our Founding Fathers is so important. This award reaffirms that we are taking the right steps in Indiana

FTA: This is not an argument against the rule of law, but rather a reminder of how seriously lawmaking ought to be taken. Lawmakers must consider what constitutes an offense so egregious to civil society that it’s worth depriving you of liberty and even threatening violence to force you not to do something. The only

“Rap Back is part of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system capabilities. That it is considered appropriate to use it to monitor gun owners adds a whole new dimension of concerns and potentials for abuse and denial of rights.” The Hawaii Firearms Coalition filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation Wednesday in

“[New York City is] the only place in the United States where a firearms owner is prohibited from traveling outside the area that he lives in,” he said. “That sounds more like something that would happen in Russia rather than the United States.” The Supreme Court had gun rights advocates cheering months ago when it

“But I had a M16A1 – a real assault rifle – and I had a bunch of buddies with M16A1s. The regular folks … not so much. The decent people of LA were terrified, and with good reason. See, the dirty little secret of civilization is that it’s designed to maintain order when 99.9% of