In an era when people around the world are debating freedom, safety, and government power, one truth stands firm: rights are only preserved if they are exercised, and rights abandoned are rarely restored. As Americans, we are heirs to a constitutional tradition unlike any other country. We place individual liberty at the center of our
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The contemporary debate over firearms rights in the United States often presumes that the Second Amendment confers a negative right, prohibiting the state from disarming citizens. Yet negative-liberty framing tells only part of the story. Underlying the jurisprudential debates in District of Columbia v. Heller and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen lies a deeper moral question: whether there is a positive moral right
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On November 20, the Pam Bondi Justice Department submitted its reply brief in a high-profile case challenging the National Firearms Act (NFA), both rejecting plaintiff’s request for summary judgement, and taking the position that this isn’t a case challenging the NFA, but rather a case addressing “…whether Congress has exceeded its enumerated powers or violated
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It won’t be passing Constitutional carry anytime soon, but New York — particularly New York City — is seeing a surge in gun purchases and jam-packed permit courses required by the state just for Gothamites to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Gun store retailers are working overtime to quell anxious and worried residents of the nation’s largest city, even
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Most shooters spend years chasing tighter groups, smoother triggers, and better optics, but there’s one thing that quietly affects your accuracy more than most people realize: your eye dominance in shooting. We talk about rifles, ammo, and technique all day long, but very few shooters ever stop to think about how their vision is shaping
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May 15, 1939, was 69 years before Heller and 83 years before Bruen. Eugene Stoner was 16 years old; it would be 15 years before he went to work for Armalite. On that day, Associate Justice James McReynolds delivered the Supreme Court’s 8-0 decision in United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174. Citing Aymette v. State, the Court said: “In
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The United States Department of Justice filed a response to a lawsuit brought by Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), Palmetto State Armory (PSA), the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition (FRAC), Silencer Shop (SS), and B&T USA (B&T), challenging the constitutionality of regulating suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and any other
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