Concealed carry is the overwhelming norm. Gun-control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way. Recently, a federal judge struck down the District of Columbia's ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. Anti-gun forces have been losing in legislatures for a long time. Now they are finding that even where they win, ... MORE
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Frank Pariato: Jury Nullification Set Wild Bill Hickok Free
Although he killed a man illegally. On July 20 1865, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was playing in a poker game at the Lyon House Hotel in Springfield MO., when a friend of his, Davis Tutt showed up claiming Hickok owed him $45 from an earlier game. Hickok said he only owed $25 since he had paid Tutt $20 some days before. Tutt snatched ... MORE
Paul Hsieh: Gun Violence Is Not A 'Public Health' Issue
Which of these things is not like the other? 1 Measles, 2 influenza, 3 tuberculosis, 4 murder. If you picked #4, “murder,” you’re right. The first three are medical diseases. In contrast “murder” is not a medical problem, although it is a tragic cause of death. But in recent years, anti-gun organizations (and some physicians) are seeking ... MORE
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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
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
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gun rights,
individual liberty,
politics,
poll,
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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
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
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crime,
Democrats,
firearms,
gun control,
gun running,
hypocrisy,
liberal,
politics
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
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gun control,
guns,
police,
police state,
political correctness,
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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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2nd Amendment,
firearms,
gun control,
gun rights,
Obama,
regulation,
restrictions,
self-defense
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
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government,
gun control,
gun rights,
guns,
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regulation,
restrictions
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
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protection,
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self-defense,
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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
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