“Where the anti-2A/anti-gun White House may have just done an pro-gun thing unintentionally. … And now they can’t walk it back.”
Read More“The best hope for America is for the adults in the room to stop believing the mythical fairy tales about the Big Bad Gun-Industry Troll, and start focusing on holding accountable those who actually commit violent crimes with firearms.” KEY TAKEAWAYS Myth #1: Congress gave the gun industry special protections that make it completely immune from
Read MoreArmed and Beltway-ish: More Federal Bureaucrats Than U.S. Marines Authorized to Pack Heat
This is the type of government the Founding Fathers envisioned in the Second Amendment. And yet they want to monitor and track us. “Yet more than a hundred executive agencies have armed investigators, and there doesn’t appear to be any independent authority actively monitoring or tracking the use of force across the federal government.” When
Read MoreExcellent segment. Many of us protested loudly that giving in on the bump stock (I had no idea what that even was at the time) was a slippery slope. I recall Nancy Pelosi saying as much. I fail to understand why those who support gun rights are willing to compromise on anything with people whose
Read More“I can tell you, in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody’s home. And I would not want to chance that, if I were you, given that we’re a Second Amendment state.” Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Friday warned against looting in areas hard-hit by Hurricane Ian, reminding would-be looters
Read More“The Bruen test is clear. If a law restricts the right to keep and bear arms, especially weapons in common use, that law is unconstitutional unless the law is consistent with traditional, historic firearm regulations. Laws that ban or severely regulate weapons in common use are simply not going to survive scrutiny under Bruen. Both
Read More“Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%.” – John John R Lott Jr The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood,
Read More“Those under indictment can still vote,” he noted. “The right of the people doesn’t protect violent actors or criminals. But that is not the case for those merely under indictment. Indeed, excluding those under indictment from the right of the people to keep and bear arms would operate much like prior restraints in the First
Read More“Felons are those who have abused the rights of the people. And as outlined above, this Nation has a ‘longstanding’ tradition of exercising its right—as a free society—to exclude from ‘the people’ those who squander their rights for crimes and violence,” Counts said. “Consistent with Heller and Bruen, the Second Amendment should be no different
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