“Jim Crow is the proper term to use to describe these laws. Laws designed to render natural and civil rights moot by unreasonable and unwarranted process are all Jim Crow rights. Coming out of the Progressive Utopia of Delaware this should come as no surprise. Next they will want to impose literacy tests on people
Read MoreThe Second Amendment protects an individual, pre-existing right to own and carry firearms, so any government requirement for permission, licensing, or registration, even under the guise of “safety regulations,” constitutes an undue burden and, from a strict textualist perspective, is an unconstitutional form of government gatekeeping. The State of New Jersey posts monthly data on
Read MoreNot everybody grew up with guns. For the rest of us, it’s an event. For me, it was the day after the election of Obama. One day, I was hanging with a group of gun rights folks here in town–it was many, many years ago–and we were all open carrying. We’d met up for dinner,
Read MoreWhat Americans need to hear I’m going to be painfully blunt. Don’t get cocky about the Second Amendment. It is a towering advantage, but it is not a force field. We’ve already seen prosecutors and judges try to “work around” Heller and Bruen. The Canadian path – ledger, freeze, prohibit, compensate, criminalize – can be translated into American bureaucrat-ese.
Read More“Nominations Sent to the Senate,” the November 18 “Presidential Actions” statement on The White House website announces, leading off the list with: “Robert Cekada, of Florida, to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.” Who he would nominate has been a source for speculation since before President Donald Trump took office after his
Read MoreNew York isn’t moving toward constitutional carry, but the demand for firearms in New York City is exploding. Gun shops and instructors are slammed with residents trying to navigate the state’s maze of requirements just to exercise a basic constitutional right. What many first-time buyers are discovering is that they can’t simply walk into a
Read MoreThis post on my Jews Can Shoot Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/JewsCanShoot/) is proving what I expected: lively debate. So far, 2.3K reactions, 1.1K comments, and 321 shares! My favorite comment so far: I love this argument. It enrages people all day without even getting into politics or religion. ‘“Why carry a 9mm when a .45 makes
Read MoreThe Justice Department’s new “Second Amendment Rights Section” is an expansion of government, the exact opposite of what the Founders intended. Gun rights aren’t a federal program. What we really need is fewer government offices and less 2A “oversight,” because that’s what these agencies become. The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of
Read MoreSenior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger is heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws. Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case
Read MoreIn early October, Canada’s Liberal government kicked off it’s long-delayed compensated confiscation efforts with a test run in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The goal of the “buyback” effort is to take thousands of lawfully purchased semi-automatic firearms from their rightful owners. While the Liberal government has called the scheme “voluntary,” anyone caught possessing one of
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