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NYSRPA’s King: The Empire State Isn’t a Huge Gun-Free Zone

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New York is arguing the entire Empire State is like a government building and should be a huge gun-free zone where only criminals and the privileged can bear arms. The state then defends its...
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Amnesty International: Allowing New Yorkers to Carry Firearms Would Violate International Law

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  argues that "The Constitution was . . . drafted with international law as a set of background norms, and this Court should construe the Constitution accordingly." However, none of the alleged "background norms"...
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Houston Police Bodycam Video Shows Perp Shooting Cops With Illegal Full-Auto GLOCK Switch

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  https://youtu.be/ttxOfz4ShA8 We've written in the past about illegal full-auto GLOCK switches sold by Chinese knock-off sites like Wish.com. It looks like one of these switches was used in September by a perp who shot and...
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City Officials Can Only Preach More Gun Control to Do Something About Soaring Violent...

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  What sort of gun laws might have in mind? In February last year, the Star Tribune reported: "Democrats and gun control advocates have spent years pushing for a bill to expand criminal background checks to...
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Heller and Beyond: The Gun Rights Movement’s Decades-Long Effort to Redefine the Terms of...

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  Despite Scalia’s professed methodology, we can also understand his opinion for the majority as an example of the modern understanding of the right to keep and bear arms, itself heavily influenced by the...
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Dick Heller Sues District of Columbia Again, This Time Over the City’s ‘Ghost Gun’...

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new lawsuit argues that the city’s law is overly broad and outlaws all polymer-based guns, including the top-selling handguns made by Glock — which are issued to most D.C. police officers. (The...
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Liberal Interest Groups Split on the Supreme Court’s Upcoming New York Concealed Carry Case

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  On one side is the American Civil Liberties Union and its New York state counterpart, which contend that the state law is justified to protect First Amendment rights in the public sphere. On the...
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Yamane: Lots of America’s New Gun Owners Won’t Necessarily Want to Identify as ‘Gun...

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  Many times people ask me, "Are you a golfer?" And my typical response is, "No, but I play golf." To embrace the identity of 'golfer' is to take on some attributes that I really...

Trading Freedom for Security: Authoritarian Australia Has Become a Warning to America

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Bloody hell. The absolute state of Melbourne right now. This is like something out a dystopian horror movie.#Melbourneprotest #Melbourne#Australia pic.twitter.com/ef4s2V99GZ — James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 2, 2021 And here we get at the second, more important reason...
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Portland’s Image Has Been Trashed by 2 Years of Riots and Violence and the...

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  ome Portlanders came to see the demonstrations as a threat to the city’s appeal to tourists and investors. “Lenders and purchasers have for all intents and purposes blacklisted Portland,” said John Russell, a longtime...
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SCOTUS Denies Cert in Three Cases Challenging Ban on Gun Ownership by Nonviolent Felons

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  In one of the cases before the court, a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in 2005 challenged the ban on purchasing or owning a gun. In another, a Pennsylvania woman...
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Dershowitz: With Crime Increasing, SCOTUS Will Extend Heller to Open and Concealed Carry

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"I do think that the justices will take into account the fact that people really need more protection than they used to need," he said. "Crime is going up dramatically, particularly in inner cities....