Who and how would such a determination be made? This is frightening insane. US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to put on hold a New York City licensing rule requiring prospective gun owners to show good moral character to own a firearm. In rejecting a stay request on Thursday relating to a district court
Read MoreThe history of “Gun Control”. In 1911, Turkey instituted gun control. Between 1915 and 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, no longer able to defend themselves, were rounded up and massacred. This does not include the hundreds of thousands of Greeks and islanders who were also executed. In 1929, the Soviet Union instituted gun control. Between 1929
Read MoreVery unwise tweet by one Michigan state police officer. Pushback was heavy. A Michigan State Police Public Information Officer has found himself in the hot seat after a tweet quoting him making disparaging remarks about concealed pistol license holders appeared in recent days. F/Lt. Mike Shaw, a public information officer (PIO), made a statement that
Read MoreThe drek of the Canadian left. Like the left everywhere. May they soon learn for themselves how much the evil they support hates them. Canada will halt future arms sales to Israel following a non-binding vote in the house of commons. The foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, told the Toronto Star her government would halt future
Read MoreLast night, I came across a video of a man in Chicago threatening people with a baseball bat, which made me curious about the frequency of bat attacks. I never thought this would be a topic, and the results surprised me because finding a list of incidents was way too easy. In the past few
Read MoreLots of discussion on this ruling in our community. What is the exact meaning of “the People” in the Second Amendment. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong? Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and
Read MoreWho better to lecture us on “gun safety” than Hollywood? Just ask Alec Baldwin… “This approach of utilizing the entertainment industry to model safe practices is one of the successes of ‘Show Gun Safety,’ a campaign launched by the advocacy group Brady United, which is now partnering with television studios across the country,” a one-sided
Read More“It shines a bright light on the fact that the vast majority of “gun control” laws do nothing to thwart criminals, but virtually always find a way of inconveniencing—and sometimes endangering—the law-abiding.” We generally don’t expect to see the Washington Post say anything positive about firearms or law-abiding gun owners, although there are occasional Op-Eds from pro-Second
Read More“Owning a gun is choosing to be an active participant in your own rescue” ~ Gideon Joubert (South African colleague). Unarmed “Guards”!? During the murderous “ISIS attack” at a Moscow (Russia) concert last Friday, uniformed (but unarmed) guards were generously posted at strategic points throughout the venue, as one might expect. As one might also
Read MoreThe founders had just defeated the largest and strongest military in the world. They wrote the 2nd amendment to ensure their new government could never outgun or disarm citizens, and that citizens could defeat their new government should it devolve into tyranny. Nothing has changed. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer wants America
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