The Atlantic: Exercising Second Amendment Rights Threatens Free Speech
Many Americans fervently believe that the Second Amendment protects their right to bear arms everywhere, including at public protests. Many Americans also believe that the First Amendment protects their right to speak freely and participate in...
Don’t Worry About The Military’s Thousands of Missing Weapons…Congress is On the Job
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate responded by writing stricter accountability into each chamber’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act. That bipartisan, must-pass legislation sets policy priorities for the Pentagon.
In coming...
New York Gun Violence Program Funneled $18 million to Unions, Created 20 Jobs So...
In mid-July, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the Consortium for Worker Education, a nonprofit group of 46 labor unions, would receive $18.5 million from the state to create 2,400 long-term jobs for young adults...
Everytown Sues DEFCAD and Others Over 3D Files Using Everytown, Moms Demand Action Logos
The Defendants have created and distributed downloadable files for use in 3-D printers to extrude gun parts and accessories. These files include the identical Everytown Marks in the file names and/or on the resulting...
Firearms Policy Coalition Joins Abortion Rights Activists in Opposing Texas’ New Abortion Law to...
This case is important not because of its specific subject matter of abortion, but instead for Texas’s cavalier and contemptuous mechanism for shielding from review potential violations of constitutional rights as determined by this...
TAP: High Ammunition Prices Are the Result of a Conspiracy By Monopolists…Or Something
DESPITE ALL THE ISSUES with the small arms market, there are steps that can be taken to help.
As in other industries, the Federal Trade Commission has been lax when it comes to enforcing antitrust regulations,...
Tucker: Gun Rights Should Limited Based on Modern Guns’ Increased Lethality
There is room for looking at the lethality of modern firearms when considering the constitutionality of gun regulation. The court implicitly acknowledged this in its Heller decision when it stated that machine gun bans were acceptable. It's a...
To Gun Grabbers’ Horror, 2020 and 2021 Have Been the Perfect Storm of Arguments...
I’ve spent much of the past six months interviewing people across the United States in the leadup to the case—part of research for a book I’m writing about the cultural and racial effects...
This is Why Police Don’t Shoot to Wound or Disarm
Why not shoot someone in the leg?
“And the answer is always, ‘Well, have you eliminated the threat if you shoot someone in the leg or the arm?’” said Shrewsberry, who is now the...
Defunding the Police is an Increasingly Difficult Argument to Make
The country experienced a record homicide spike in 2020, with cities like New York and Los Angeles reporting historic year-over-year surges — still well below the record murder rates of the ‘80s and ‘90s,...
Root: Striking Down New York’s Gun Control Laws Would Be a Victory For Criminal...
According to the public defender groups, New York's scheme has had predictably "brutal" consequences for their clients. They have been "stopped, questioned, and frisked," "forcibly removed" from their homes, locked up "in dirty...
Chickens Roosting: Beto’s Gun-Grabbing Pledge Haunts Him As He Readies For A Run for...
was so forceful and unyielding that gun-control advocates cringed, fearing that wary gun-owners would conclude that in their hearts, Democrats are gun-grabbers and that even modest restrictions are a prelude to confiscation.
“That is...