Year: 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Day in Jewish History: November 20, 1945 — The Nuremberg Trials Begin On November 20, 1945, the world bore witness to a defining moment in history: the opening of the Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany. For the first time, the highest-ranking leaders of a defeated government were brought before an international tribunal, held accountable

From the moment I first learned about Red Flag laws, or Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), I have been deeply concerned, because the only risk is to our rights and their unconstitutional overreach beyond the Second Amendment. Why are anti-gun politicians so determined to create a national gun registry and expand red flag laws? It’s

When it comes to gun control, Republicans keep calling surrender “compromise.” The Left abandons an idea they never truly needed, and the Right gives up a freedom we already possessed. When it comes to gun control, Republicans keep calling surrender “compromise.” Click on the image to enlarge the cake compromise  

“So either the ATF agents who went after Adamiak knew it and concealed it from the court and from defense attorneys, in which case they committed a crime, or they were unaware of this previous ruling, in which case they were too incompetent to look for any such ruling.” I say both. Patrick “Tate” Adamiak