With the Dayton shooter having used a 100-round magazine, such higher-capacity magazines are firmly in the spotlight once again. Anti-gun activists, the kind of people who have probably never fired a gun and have never actually studied gunfights to any degree, have been railing all about how you don’t need 100 rounds for self-defense. However,
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“Donald Trump can talk about due process. Lindsey Graham can talk about due process. David French can talk about due process. But when push comes to shove, state legislators will give it short shrift, and so will judges, because they both have strong incentives to cast the net as widely as possible, the better to
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“I believe “red flag” laws pretty clearly fail the “political constitutionalism” conception of what due process entails for a societally cherished and constitutionally enumerated individual right. The Framers would have been positively aghast at the notion that a next-door neighbor or workplace supervisor could successfully petition a court to deprive an individual of his Second
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‘Despite all this information to the contrary, the left and the right seem hell bent on refusing to let this tragedy “go to waste,” and are using it to further erode the rights of the 99.9999999 percent of the innocent people who are not murderous psychopaths. And all of it will be “legal” — due
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“Make no mistake, this is ONLY about setting up a process which can be later used for registration of guns and gun owners.” H.R. 8 is sold as a “background check bill” to keep guns away from bad people, but we know from 50 years experience that less than 1% of the bad people who
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