by Ross Kaminsky. Concealed weapons legal in DC until further notice. The ruling
of Washington, DC district court judge Fredrick Scullin in the most
important current challenge to that city's unconstitutional restrictions
on Second Amendment rights takes judicial action against intentionally
law-breaking jurisdictions to a most welcome new ... MORE
Why force students into being sitting ducks? Pepper spray, police and cardboard signs failed to prevent the June 5 Seattle Pacific University shooting. Let’s stop mass violence on college campuses by defending college students’ right to carry firearms on campus. Tragically, this is the third column this year that I must write defending ... MORE
by Katie Kieffer. The Second Amendment is hipster. Millennials simply don’t realize how hipster. Happily, there are simple steps that the National Rifle Association can take to open the eyes of young people. According to a 2014 Pew Research study,
Millennials are no more liberal on guns than their parents or
grandparents. So, the NRA has an ... MORE
by John Whitehead. The 2nd Amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment based on their view of government and ... MORE
by Bob Unruh. The High Court just says no to Tenth Amendment. Contending it is “fruitless” to expect that the federal government would rein in its own “lust” for tyranny, the instigator of a years-long conflict with Washington over the Interstate Commerce Clause says the battle is over. At least for now. Gary Marbut, president of the Montana ... MORE
by William A. Levinson. President Obama said previously that the nation needed to have a "conversation" about gun control, and he reiterated this agenda in his State of the Union speech. New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has subsequently boasted that his SAFE Act has criminalized law-abiding gun owners for "offenses" such as having ... MORE
Tossing stones against the empire. An effort to nullify federal gun control laws and jail any federal agents trying to enforce them cleared the Missouri Senate yesterday, but a court challenge and another potential veto by Gov. Jay Nixon could ultimately block the legislation even if the House approves it again. Although state efforts to ... MORE
by Steven Greenhut. A “right” is an “entitlement” that’s not dependent on the whims of authorities. If you have a right to “free speech,” then you can speak as you choose. The courts let the government enforce a few standards, but it wouldn’t be a “right” if government officials got to preview and restrict what you were ... MORE
by Christina Sarich. The perils of politically incorrect medicine. Illinois is allowing patients with over 41 medical conditions, including cancer and AIDS to legally smoke pot, but a new plan proposed by state officials Tuesday will require them to give up their Second Amendment rights – the right to own a gun. They will also be ... MORE
L.J. Devon on a new anti-gun brainstorm. Lawmakers from the state of Illinois have proposed new medical marijuana rules that coerce patients to surrender their Second Amendment right in the application process. The new medical marijuana "legalization" bill requires Illinois citizens to undergo a background check, be fingerprinted and ... MORE
by Brian Doherty. Since the 2010 Supreme Court case McDonald
v. Chicago, which applied the ruling
in the
2008 Heller case (which said the Second Amendment
guarantees an individual right to bear arms) to states and
localities, the
Court has so far evaded any new case about the limits and
meaning of the Second Amendment. Those two cases, ... MORE
