Eric Swalwell Is Worried Republicans Will Shoot Democrats on the Floor of the US...
“What if it were the other way around?” That’s a common refrain in politics. How would you treat this information were the parties reversed, or if the name of the country or religion or...
Illinois Governor Signs Wide-Ranging Gun Control Bill That Outlaws ‘Assault Weapons,” Bans “High Capacity”...
“We got this done for all the victims, the spouses, the children, parents and friends and loved ones who are no longer with us, and for those who have survived mass shootings but were...
Cooke: The Fifth Circuit Stopped an Unconstitutional Power Grab by the ATF
As anyone who has considered this issue for more than ten minutes will ineluctably comprehend, the entire purpose of writing laws down is to guarantee that, until those laws are changed by legislators, they remain in effect...
Patrice: If You Want a Gun, You Should Have to Join the National Guard
Federal firearms law pre-empting state law based on an amendment authored for the explicit purpose of shielding states from federal regulation in this area is truly wild. Yet, it’s just the level of spit...
Shniderman: Firearm Owner Insurance Mandates Are Likely Doomed Under Bruen
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York Pistol and Rifle Association, Inc. v. Bruen brings a sea change in the way courts evaluate gun restrictions. Eleven of thirteen circuits have engaged in a...
5th Circuit: The Statutory Definition of ‘Machinegun’ Does Not Apply to Bump Stocks
Since the National Firearms Act of 1934, federal law has heavily regulated machineguns. Indeed, as proposed, that law was known to many as "the Anti-Machine Gun Bill." The possession or transfer of a machinegun...
Rethinking Criminal Justice, ‘Progressive’ Prosecutors and Defunded Police Have Resulted in More Minority Gun...
Gun control debates conjure images of white, conservative men who collect arms for sport. Today, a new population makes up a disproportionate percentage of first-time gun owners: people of color, especially women. Like Hudson,...
Star-Ledger: Imagine A World Where We Didn’t Have to Fight Opposition to Gun Control...
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority revoked women’s right to an abortion, overturning a 49-year-old legal precedent, it also struck down a more-than-century-old state law that restricts the right to carry a concealed...
Donohue: Constitutional Carry Degrades Police Performance…Or Something
Thirteen years ago, only two states — Vermont and Alaska — allowed its residents the unfettered right to carry a gun, relying on the Constitution’s Second Amendment as a blanket permit for all.
Since 2010, however, nearly...
Next Time Try Chunky: TSA Finds Disassembled Gun in Jars of Jif Smooth Peanut...
It was a sticky situation in a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checked baggage screening room at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) yesterday, Dec. 22, when a TSA officer removed two jars of peanut...
Komanoff: No, Gun-Grabbers, Guns are Not the Biggest Killers of Children in America
otal gun deaths for the 0-19 cohort were, indeed, the greater of the two (guns and vehicles). That’s the finding the N.I.H. reported this summer, yet mistakenly labeled as “childhood deaths,” a framing that...
DHS Failed to Process 6.4 Million NICS Background Check ‘Criminal Disposition’ Requests
We submit the following quotes from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report without comment.
Note that the OIG uncovered missing information going back as far as 1925. The NICS System was...