Dunbar-Ortiz: America’s Gun Problem is Rooted in White Nationalism
The Progressive magazine asked a few, uh, distinguished scholars what can be done about "gun violence" in America. Here's the response of one historian, activist and author . . .
In brief: a reckoning with...
China’s State-Run News Agency Is Disturbed By Texas’s New Constitutional Carry Law
Note that Michael Bloomberg's Texas Gun Sense civilian disarmament advocacy operation (which is described as consisting of "mostly gun owners") was only too happy to enhance the Xinhua News Agency's anti-gun narrative with some...
California Will Argue to Reinstate Its Ban on ‘High Capacity’ Magazines Before the 9th...
Kris Brown, president of the gun-control nonprofit Brady, said the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to back Benitez’s rulings if either case reaches the high court.
“I cannot imagine the court rubber-stamping those opinions --...
Missouri Police Chief Quits Over New Gun Rights Protection Law
I completely understand the motivation behind Missouri legislators’ desire to protect the gun rights of their citizenry. I’m a strong proponent of the Second Amendment and have always respected those rights during my four...
Betting on the Court’s Courage to Defeat the ATF’s Proposed AR-15 Pistol Brace Ban
It’s not certain what a court faithful to the law can do to block the proposed rule on stabilizing braces, short of striking down the NFA on the grounds that its per-firearm $200 tax...
OMG! Open Carry is Legal and I Saw Someone Actually Doing It! OMG!
I have no idea if this guy is stable or mentally ill. Is he bothered by the heat and have a short fuse today? What if someone makes him mad and he has poor...
San Jose, CA Passes Law Mandating Video Taping of Gun Sales
“This set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and hopefully doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own.”
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At Least Some Federal Legislators Know the Purpose of the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment is not written for sporting. The Second Amendment is so that if a tyrannical government ever wants to rise up, we can stop them. And if anybody ever wants to say,...
TFW The LA Times Realizes Judge Benitez’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ruling Stands Up Under Heller
Winkler interprets both the Heller opinion and a 1939 court ruling — United States vs. Miller — as broadly protecting firearms currently in common use. That ruling regulated sawed-off shotguns and machine guns.
“Benitez’s...
The ATF’s Arbitrary Regulation of Pistol Braces is an Intolerable State of Governance
Millions of peaceable Americans lawfully acquired and lawfully own stabilizing braces and braced pistols. The proposed rule is coldly indifferent about the prospect of turning thousands or millions of those Americans into unwitting felons....
Gould: Benitez is Wrong, the Founders Never Wanted Citizen Militias to be Armed
The preamble to the Second Amendment mentions service in a militia as a reason citizens have the right to keep and bear arms: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a...
The Gun Rights Movement Is Far Bigger Than Any One Organization
The NRA is far from the only pro-gun group at the table in state legislatures now. In Utah, one of the first states to remove permit requirements this year, it was just one of...