Month: March 2024

If gun control is gaining steam in Congress, chances are Sen. John Cornyn is nearby, working on a ‘compromise’ with Democrats. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the first to announce his campaign to replace Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Senate’s Republican leader. The race for leadership will expose a weakness of Cornyn — his lack of

Great news! Federal just strikes down California’s one-gun-a-month rule. “California’s one-gun-a-month law directly violates California resident’s right to acquire arms and has no basis in history,” Firearms Policy Coalition vice president and general counsel, Cody J, Wisniewski, said in a statement. “Given it seems certain California will refuse to learn its lesson, we look forward

ATF must be abolished. And the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach and one of the Bureau’s leading firearms “experts” and acting head of the Firearms Ammunition Technology Division (FATD), Chris Bort, appeared on the CBS show, Face the Nation. What was

“A deprivation of Second Amendment rights is an injury that, by its very nature, is irreparable.” A coalition of gun rights groups are asking a judge to strike down New York City’s ban on Tasers and stun guns, arguing that restrictions preventing civilians from owning electronic weapons are unconstitutional. New York City Police began using

‘Property owners have a duty of care to maintain a safe environment so that people who come onto the property don’t suffer an injury. This responsibility is known as “premises liability.” It holds property owners and residents liable for accidents and injuries that occur on their property.’ I would so love to see this pass

Semi-automatic firearms shoot once per trigger action. Machineguns shoot continuously while the trigger is pulled. Bump stocks are a combination of stock and grip. They have no mechanism for holding the trigger down, and they do not alter the way the gun shoots. News reports on the Supreme Court’s first day of oral arguments in

Registration leads to confiscation. That is the very purpose of registration. Of anything. A bill filed in the Missouri House would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code that would enable the tracking of firearm and ammunition purchases. Rep. Willard Haley introduced House Bill 2778 (HB2778) on Feb.

This article by Daniel Greenfield is from November 9, 2018, shortly after the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The rabbi of this synagogue had blogged a month before the shooting about the virtues of gun control. I have some of that blog but the post itself has disappeared. One of

First: AR does NOT stand for “Assault Rifle” Misinformation. It’s everywhere. It is even more pervasive – and dangerous – when people who don’t understand what they are talking about try to teach other people what it is they don’t know themselves. Case in point: the assault rifle. Everytime there is a tragic murder involving

Name-and-shame. President Joe Biden campaigned on repealing the so-called “Tiahrt rider,” enacted in 2003, that protects from public disclosure law enforcement sensitive trace data contained within the ATF’s National Tracing Center’s (NTC) Firearm Tracing System (FTS). This is the database of firearms that have been recovered and traced by law enforcement in connection with a