“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where
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Great history of America’s 2A. “It was always meant to protect an individual right” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. In 1791, the Founding Fathers placed into the U.S. Constitution a set of ten amendments that we refer to collectively as the “Bill of Rights.” Among them was an innocuous measure designed to
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“California’s state and local governments cannot simply suspend the Constitution. Authorities may not, by decree or otherwise, enact and/or enforce a suspension or deprivation of constitutional liberties. And they certainly may not use a public health crisis as political cover to impose bans and restrictions on rights they do not like.” After Virginia Gov. Ralph
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“Indeed if all needs felt by important groups that can be satisfied only by the exercise of dictatorial powers constitute an emergency, every situation is an emergency situation.” People are rightly wondering about the legal and constitutional authority to impose strict lockdowns on both the population and the economy, and more broadly wondering whether, like
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A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state; the right of the people to keep and bear arms Shall not be infringed It must be great to live in a world where no crimes are committed. I mean, after all, nobody gets murdered anymore because – hey – murder is
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Welcome! Ilya from Michigan writes . . . If you’d have met me three weeks ago, you’d unequivocally know my stance on guns. I was not only against the ownership of AR-15s, I was in the minority of folks who thought all private gun ownership should be illegal. Fast forward to today: I own a GLOCK
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Voting matters. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats in Congress are quietly pushing a mammoth gun control bill that would, among other things, ban “assault weapons,” mandate a license to purchase a firearm and ammunition, prohibit private firearm transfers, and effectively destroy the firearms industry. The bill was introduced in the House in
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Our founding fathers understood that government is force in the end, and wanted us to answer it with force if necessary. The second amendment, our right to keep and bear arms, is our right to self-defense, but ultimately it’s a check on government. – Bosch Fawstin
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“They’re shocked to discover they can’t just walk out of the store with a gun.” I was chatting with a friend of mine recently and the topic of gun sales came up. My friend’s father owns a gun range near me and she said he’s seen a huge amount of liberals coming in to purchase
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ATF okays curbside service for gun retailers. (CNN) — Gun retailers operating during the coronavirus pandemic will now be able to offer curbside service. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced on Friday that federally licensed firearms businesses could carry out transactions through drive-up windows and temporary booths in their parking lots or other
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