Month: April 2020

“No matter what gun-control advocates claim, public-health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic do not give governments carte blanche to trample on the constitutional rights of their citizens. Mandating the closure of all firearm retailers across an entire state or locality would do just that. State and local governments have a duty to protect their

In Colorado, an inmate filed a red flag petition to remove weapons from the sheriff of Weld County. In New Mexico, a “preponderance of the evidence” was substituted for probable cause in its red flag law in order to seize firearms from their legal owners. The “preponderance of the evidence” shows what a threat red

“History shows that tyrannical government diktats can long outlast the crisis that inspired them.” With panicked consumers emptying store shelves around the country, and shoppers in at least one city fighting over toilet paper, the coronavirus pandemic seems just a short distance from coronavirus pandemonium. The panic comes at a time when many police departments,

“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where

Great history of America’s 2A. “It was always meant to protect an individual right” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In 1791, the Founding Fathers placed into the U.S. Constitution a set of ten amendments that we refer to collectively as the “Bill of Rights.” Among them was an innocuous measure designed to

“California’s state and local governments cannot simply suspend the Constitution. Authorities may not, by decree or otherwise, enact and/or enforce a suspension or deprivation of constitutional liberties. And they certainly may not use a public health crisis as political cover to impose bans and restrictions on rights they do not like.” After Virginia Gov. Ralph

“Indeed if all needs felt by important groups that can be satisfied only by the exercise of dictatorial powers constitute an emergency, every situation is an emergency situation.” People are rightly wondering about the legal and constitutional authority to impose strict lockdowns on both the population and the economy, and more broadly wondering whether, like

A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state; the right of the people to keep and bear arms Shall not be infringed It must be great to live in a world where no crimes are committed. I mean, after all, nobody gets murdered anymore because – hey – murder is

Welcome! Ilya from Michigan writes . . . If you’d have met me three weeks ago, you’d unequivocally know my stance on guns. I was not only against the ownership of AR-15s, I was in the minority of folks who thought all private gun ownership should be illegal. Fast forward to today: I own a GLOCK