The author of this article is herself a victim of violent crime, where a gun was used by a mentally ill stalker who murdered her husband in front of her. “If someone is a danger to themself or others, simply taking away guns is not a serious response. That person can still harm or kill
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“The case was a test for how far the court’s conservative majority is willing to go in backing gun rights following a major ruling in 2022.” FAILED. This will have negative consequences. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms,
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“Left unsaid is where Congress derives such authority in the first place, as the power to regulate and ban arms is nowhere delegated to it in the Constitution. The only clear mandate is “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” By any branch of government.” Three Rules enacted
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I was baffled when Trump made this executive order to ban bump stocks because I knew he and his sons were solidly 2A. The author of the post below is right that the NRA made little effort to oppose it. The post from a LinkedIn connection, Seán P. Fay, CEM, CHEP, now makes sense to
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Facebook removed this article from my Jews Can Shoot page because they deemed it to be “SPAM” and “against their community standards”. That has been happening more frequently in the last few weeks and I expect it will ramp up in a big way in the coming months. I did, however, find a way to
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In a significant shift, the appellate court ruled that a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means that convicted felons can’t automatically be deprived of their right to bear arms. Quite the timing. LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the only Republican so far who has signed on to the legislation. In a decisive move on Tuesday, Republican senators blocked a Democratic effort to pass a ban on bump stocks, a firearm accessory that has been at the center of heated debate even among pro-gun activists. The Democratic proposal, spearheaded by Senator Martin
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The ATF, the agency involved in other questionable issues through the years, is very busy making extrajudicial rulings infringing on the Second Amendment. A Texas judge granted an injunction Tuesday against a new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule that changes the definition of a “firearms dealer.” The ATF rule broadens the
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What’s bad for the ATF is good for Americans. Isn’t schadenfreude wonderful? Last week was bad for Joe Biden’s out-of-control Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Courts, particularly in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, are taking a very dim view of Biden’s executive fiats on guns, striking down two in as many
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“But this case was about reining in the bureaucracy. Communists infiltrated the government, rose to positions of power and cannot be fired. They then used their power to do such things as fund Red China’s development of biological warfare — covid 19 for instance — and banned gas stoves in the name of stopping asthma.”
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