It’s Strange the Things for Which Some People Are Willing to Make Liberty Tradeoffs

Watching the usual anti-gun tirades by gun-haters in the aftermath of a high profile shooting like the one in Lewiston, Maine, it’s interesting to see the things that people will and won’t make liberty tradeoffs for. Even those who can only argue by spouting things like, “How many people have to die for your rights?” … Read more

The Second Amendment Was and Is About Tyranny and Assault Weapons Bans Violate Our History and Tradition

The debate around what types of “arms” the Second Amendment protects has been revitalized in the wake of Bruen’s renewed focus on our historical tradition as the determinative factor in Second Amendment cases. Thus far, several district courts have upheld state “assault weapon” bans in part by ruling that the Second Amendment applies only to … Read more

CRPA’s CCW Reckoning Program Forces Hostile CA Counties to Issue Carry Permits

By C.D. Michel and Kostas Moros The landmark Bruen ruling was a huge win for gun owners across the country, but as we’ve seen repeatedly, Supreme Court rulings alone are not self-enforcing. It still takes work to pressure the government at all levels to comply. Enforcing Bruen is no exception.  Thankfully, the California Rifle & … Read more

Who Wants to Tell California AG Bonta that Access to ‘Weapons of War’ as a Check Against Tyranny is a Core Tenet of the Second Amendment?

  I spent much of the last week assisting my brilliant colleagues in preparing their supplemental brief in Duncan v. Bonta. This is the magazine-capacity case that kicked off the now-famous “freedom week” in California in 2019. Our win in district court was affirmed on appeal by a 3-judge panel, but then was reversed by … Read more

Moros: The Firearms Industry Should Put Anti-Gunners’ Outrage to Work for Them

New gun-related product that nobody knew about until anti-gunners gave it free advertising just dropped https://t.co/EM6warW2lS — Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) August 15, 2022 At this point if you make gun-related products and you don’t name your products something that will get the Karens shrieking with free publicity for you, you are being irresponsible. — Kostas … Read more