California acknowledges the 2nd Amendment! A procedural decision in a landmark Second Amendment case could spell the end for California laws restricting the issuance of permits to carry concealed handguns. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would bar other law enforcement officials, including state Attorney ... MORE
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Showing posts with label 2nd Amendment. Show all posts
Americans Now Understand Guns Make Homes Safer
by Jason Keisling & J.D. Tuccille. "An armed society is a polite society" - Robert A. Heinlein. After Washington state voters passed an initiative imposing
background checks on people willing to subject even their private
and largely untraceable transaction to goverment scrutiny,
opponents of self-defense rights proclaimed that they've
found a ... MORE
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Eric Holder Wants Gun Owners To Wear Tracking Bracelets
from the Chicago Sun-Times. How's this for gun control: Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department wants to explore gun tracking bracelets as part of a new form of gun control. While appearing in front of the House appropriations subcommittee on Friday, Holder focused on technological innovations. “I think that one of the ... MORE
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DC’s Gun Restrictions Takes One Between The Eyes
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
Katie Kieffer: Let Students Carry On Campus
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
Georgia's Expanded Concealed Carry Good For Liberty
"An armed society is a polite society." - R.A. Heinlein. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal recently signed into law a bill
which expanded the rights of licensed gun owners to carry their
firearms into certain public places. The name of the bill was the Safe
Carry Protection Act, though critics have charged that it should be
better known as the ... MORE
Attracting Millennials To The Second Amendment
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
Thomas Sowell: The High Cost Of Liberalism - Part Two
Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally. Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones
who are the most peaceful — and disarming them makes them vulnerable to
those who are the least peaceful. We are currently getting a ... MORE
Polls Show Most Americans See Through Gun Control Spin
by Steve Sanetti. Gun control advocates are often quoted in media accounts as saying that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of stricter gun control laws before they spin off onto the particular “commonsense” new law they are espousing that day from that organization. Leaving aside the often dubious sources they cite, ... MORE
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Symbol of Freedom or An Invitation to Violence?
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
Supreme Court Hides From Montana Gun Rights Issue
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
Gun Control: A War Not A Conversation
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
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Missouri Senate Passes Gun Law Nullification Bill
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
It's Not A Right If Only The Sheriff's Pals Get To Hold Guns
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
Paul Elias: California's Concealed Weapons Rules Tossed
Local government nannies don't trump 2nd Amendment. A divided federal appeals court on Thursday struck down California concealed-weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The 2-1 ruling of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said California counties were wrong to ... MORE
Medical Marijuana Users Must Give Up Gun Rights In Illinois
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
Using Pot Legalization To Strip Citizens Of Gun Rights
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
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