Showing posts with label firearms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firearms. Show all posts

Gun Homicides Down Dramatically; Americans Unaware

by Summer Dashe.   An inconvenient truth for gun control advocates. It seems there is something in the news every day about gun violence. The recent mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, a movie theater riddled with bullets in Colorado, children and teachers gunned down at school in Connecticut, and the list goes on. While you may be seeing     ... 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

Public Schools Deliberately Create a Culture of Fear

by Daisy Luther. Setting the stage for tyranny.     What is the best way to ensure that gun control takes place within a generation?Forget trying to change the minds of those who already have guns.  The best way to do this is to encourage a culture of fear among young people. And the public school system, with all of its zero tolerance lunacy, is doing just  ... 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

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

Anti-Gun California State Senator Busted Running Guns

Hypocrisy on parade.          State Sen. Leland Yee, an outspoken advocate of gun control and open government, was arrested Wednesday on charges that he conspired to traffic in firearms and traded favors in Sacramento for bribes - campaign cash paid by men who turned out to be undercover FBI agents. Yee, a Democrat who represents half   ... MORE

Gun Tattoo Attracts Cops With Assault Weapons

Ink can be so threatening.     Michael Smith went outside shirtless after being awakened Tuesday morning, yelling at a tree removal company to get off his property. The workers thought they saw a gun in his waistband and called police. Smith, who’d gone back to bed, was awakened again minutes later — this time by Maine State Police  ... 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

David Kopel: Concealed Carry Is Winning

See the growth chart of right to carry.      The chart below shows how Shall Issue laws for the licensed carrying of firearms for self-defense have become the American norm. As of 1986, slightly less than 10% of the U.S. population lived in states where there were objective and fair procedures for the issuance of concealed handgun carry        ... 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

No Count Of How Many People Are Killed By Police In U.S.

Here’s a pitch for a procedural:      Cops track down the number of police shootings in the United States in a given year. Why should that require any detective work? It’s that there are currently no national statistics on how many people are shot by police each year. In some areas, such as Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and    ... MORE

NY’s NRA Membership Nearly Doubles In Wake Of SAFE Act

by Tom Precious.       As gun-rights and gun-control groups continue to argue over the effects of the New York SAFE Act, one consequence is clear: Membership in the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association has soared since the law was enacted a year ago. Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, said the NRA     ... MORE

Jim Guy: ‘Microstamping’ Battle Heads To California Court

An effort to ban semi-automatic handguns.        Fresno County Superior Court will once again be the battleground between pro-gun rights forces and the California Attorney General’s Office. Opponents say the new technology that the law attempts to put in place — microstamping — is unproven and unworkable. They believe the legislation is     ... MORE

Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control

by Erica Goode. When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines. One, he says, he had before July 1, when the law banning the possession, sale or transfer of the large-capacity magazines went into effect. The other, he “maybe” obtained afterward. ... MORE

The Three Most Important Ongoing 2nd Amendment Cases

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

Murder Rate Nearly Cut In Half As Gun Ownership Soared

by Awr Hawkins.       A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply. According to the report, the "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate was 6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the      ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Are Guns The Problem?

Examining the inconvenient truth of the matter.        Every time there's a shooting tragedy, there are more calls for gun control. Let's examine a few historical facts. By 1910, the National Rifle Association had succeeded in establishing 73 NRA-affiliated high-school rifle clubs. The 1911 second edition of the Boy Scout Handbook made        ... MORE