Great read. (Comments are also wonderful.) “I have said many times that you can’t miss fast enough to win a gunfight. I was rather delighted the first time I read Wyatt Earp’s thoughts on the topic. I loved learning that my opinions are shared by arguably the most famous and successful lawman in the American
Read More“Hold on to your guns – When he came to power, Hitler used gun registration initiated by the Weimar Republic to disarm his opponents. After the invasion of France in 1940, gun owners were ordered to surrender their weapons on penalty of death. (Thanks to French registration, the Gestapo knew exactly who had them.) The
Read More“When, a few years later, it came time for James Madison to insert a similar provision into the federal constitution, he followed this lead, reserving the right to “the people,” and proposing that it be placed next to the other individual rights listed in Article I, Section 9, rather than next to the militia clause
Read MorePolice warn against using gun-shaped cellphone cases after traffic stop encounter; cases are banned in Chicago
I couldn’t believe this is a real item being sold, purchased, and used. Are people ever going to stop being stupid? Yeah, I know the answer. Do we really need a warning label on this? Police have put out a public plea asking people not to use cellphone cases shaped like guns after encountering one
Read More“Influencers from the NSC weighing in on “gun control” take things up more than a notch, to the point of adding a chilling new dimension to the government’s options. They are creatures of the White House, and their goals are its goals.” U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “We share Biden’s view that the level of U.S. gun
Read More“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good” While it may seem obvious that the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms” extends beyond the home, federal courts have been debating that question for years. This week, the Supreme Court agreed
Read MoreMaking More Sense of the Limited Cert Grant in NYS Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett
Love this comment: Colonial and 19th Century Americans didn’t go all freaky at the sight of a gun like liberals do today. On Monday, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s limited cert grant in NYS Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett. At the time, I wondered why the Court limited the question to “concealed-carry licenses.” I speculated that the
Read More“Biden may make appeals to the hearts of Americans, cheapening two tragedies in the process, but there is nothing compassionate about the Democratic Party’s gun control agenda. The realities of these policies mean depriving millions of Americans of the tools they use for self-defense and hunting—or turning them into fugitives overnight because they cannot afford
Read More“A society that loses its belief in the importance of manliness qua manliness will necessarily fail to appreciate the virtue of a home- and hearth-protecting paterfamilias. There is a direct, unmistakable connection between the decline of the former and a lessened respect for the latter.” The latest horrific mass shooting in America, this time roughly
Read More“Passover is called the festival of freedom. Patriots have never been more concerned about the preservation of our freedoms. But the Passover story reminds us that freedom isn’t free.” You think you know the story. Perhaps. But, after more than 70 years, I barely know it myself. There’s the Cecil B. DeMille version: Yul Brenner
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