Year: 2025

Anyone with a driver’s license can turn a car into a deadly weapon, yet exercising a Constitutional right often requires invasive hoops or bending the law, like modifying a barrel by an inch to avoid prison. History shows that gun control has too often aligned with oppression, racism, and genocide. Congress may soon vote on

This is a disturbing incident, but it’s an outlier, and we have no clear baseline. School violence and kids bringing guns to school are not new—many cases in the pre-internet era went unreported unless someone was hurt. Even serious incidents, like the Cleveland Elementary shooting in 1979 and Olean High School in 1974, were largely

Just two weeks after a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel struck down California’s ammunition background checks as unconstitutional, Attorney General Rob Bonta petitioned for an 11-judge en banc rehearing. That request automatically stayed the ruling, keeping Prop. 63’s background checks and in-person purchase requirements in effect. While many gunowners praised a recent court decision reversing California’s

Vermont → Since 1791 (the original) Alaska → 2003 Arizona → 2010 Wyoming → 2011 Arkansas → 2013 Kansas → 2015 Maine → 2015 Mississippi → 2015 Idaho → 2016 West Virginia → 2016 Missouri → 2017 New Hampshire → 2017 North Dakota → 2017 Kentucky → 2019 Oklahoma → 2019 South Dakota → 2019

Anti-gun activists are trying to rewrite our laws through the courts because they can’t win in Congress. It’s an illegitimate end-run around democracy. The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t just reject Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against American gun makers — it obliterated it. A unanimous 9–0 decision in Smith & Wesson v. Mexico confirmed what Congress made clear two decades ago: The Protection of

“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

The 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

Not 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,

What 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.

“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