“Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store” is an old meme gun owners use to express the more serious concern that Constitutional authority to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms is non-existent. “Boot the BATFE!” was a campaign the late Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
Read MoreIn a recent interview with The New York Times regarding his upcoming memoir, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens shares what he contends are the three worst court decisions to come down during his long tenure. His first choice, unsurprisingly, is District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 ruling that finally codified the Second
Read MoreFTA: Aptly called “the day the Holocaust began,” Kristallnacht was met with virtually no resistance; the Hitler regime already had disarmed the more than half-a-million Jews who called Germany home at the time. One of them was Alfred Flatow, the renowned German gymnast who had won three gold medals at the 1896 Olympics in Athens.
Read MoreIt has no nudity. No profanity. No sex, no gore, no torture. There’s no glamorized violence. Yet “The Reliant,” a faith-based movie about life, values and the threat of anarchy in the world, has been given an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Now J.P. Johnston, a writer and producer for the
Read More“Most gunmen are smart enough to know that they can kill more people if they attack places where victims can’t defend themselves. That’s one reason why 98 percent of mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where citizens are banned from having guns.” “This doesn’t happen anywhere else on the planet,” said California’s
Read More“That nation is surest to live in peace, that is most capable of making war; and a man with a sword always by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it.” ~ John Trenchard “Decline is a choice.” ~ Victor Davis Hanson Nogun Shogun!? Our current Secretary of Defense is apparently no
Read MoreApparently Facebook in it’s sense of ‘total fairness’ has decided to suspend pending deletion our 39,000 member FB Group ‘Calguns Members’ for a ‘Community Standards Violation’ although we were not told what that was nor when it occurred. In the screenshot of the notice the suggested remedies are changing the name, changing the cover photo
Read More“You don’t have to look hard to find cases of joggers being attacked by robbers or sexual predators. A simple internet search of “attacked while jogging (or running)” will provide more than enough news articles that might entice you to start Open Carrying a rifle instead. However, we’ll stick to the lighter, less conspicuous and
Read MoreThe Supreme Court should put gun rights on the same level as other constitutional requirements. If liberals should fear the great contradiction between the Constitution’s text and their elevation of an unenumerated right to privacy (as we argued in our last article), conservatives must confront the same challenge with gun ownership. Despite the text of
Read MoreOnly 3 countries in the world protect the right to bear arms in their constitutions
The right to keep and bear arms is a longstanding, often glorified right protected by the US Constitution. Americans own nearly half of all the civilian-owned guns in the world, and on a per capita basis, the US has far more guns than any other nation. Certainly, many countries are awash with guns. Among the
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