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

Why Conservatives Shouldn't Boycott Chipotle

by David Harsanyi.     For those of you who haven't heard, Chipotle Mexican Grill, which for years allowed local laws to dictate policy for the restaurant chain regarding open or concealed weapons, has decided to "ask" customers not to bring firearms into its restaurants after some zealous gun owners paraded around with "military-style assault  ... MORE

Why Gun Owners Oppose Universal Background Checks

Building the gun owner database.     Gun control groups (including the Obama White House) have been pushing hard for new laws and restrictions on firearms. One of their biggest dreams is to have what is known as a “universal background check” (UBC). The gun control groups see this as a panacea to stop violence. They believe that if they   ... 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

A. Barton Hinkle: The Case For Knife Rights

Big government overreach claims new class of victims.      A certain fellow—we’ll call him Fred—broke the law a while ago. He didn’t mean to. He didn’t even know he was doing it. Nevertheless, had he been caught he could have gone to jail—for a year. Fred lives in Virginia. Last fall he went on a camping trip. Not knowing what the terrain   ... 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

Selwyn Duke: The Plan For Police Nullification

First persecutors or first protectors?     “I [sic] give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun,” said the cop. This statement, made by Branford, Ct., police officer Joseph Peterson in a Facebook conversation earlier this month, created quite a news-cycle firestorm. Internet commenters from Sacramento to Saratoga   ... MORE

Kentucky State House Considering Gun Grab Nullification

by Joe Wolverton, II.       Making Madison and Jefferson proud. The Kentucky state House of Representatives is considering a bill that would nullify any federal attempt to take guns from citizens of the Bluegrass State. By voting for this measure, Kentucky state legislators could stand up and perform their constitutional obligation to check federal    ... 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

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

Mark Meckler: Connecticut Gun Owners Deliver A Message

Registration? Hell no!       Did you know that quietly--very quietly thanks to a biased media--tens of thousands of American citizens delivered a message about the limits of government? Did you know that citizens of one state engaged in a mass act of civil disobedience that has left statist officials from both parties scratching their heads as an ... 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

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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

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

101 Reasons To Move To New Hampshire

Freedom lives in the Granite State.     Among the many advantages of moving to New Hampshire, these 101 reasons are at the top.  New Hampshire has no general sales tax. New Hampshire has no general personal income tax. Dividends and interest are taxed at only 5%. New Hampshire state law prohibits the use of eminent domain for    ... MORE