A 28-year-old Fort Worth Texas woman was shot and killed by police early Saturday morning after they received a welfare call from a neighbor reporting a door open at her home. The woman was shot from outside the house through a window by one of the responding officers. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . . […]
Defensive gun uses outnumber annual firearms-related deaths by a factor of anywhere from to 15 to 80 times. That means Americans use guns to prevent burglaries, robberies, assaults, rapes, and murders far more often than people die in incidents involving guns. And yet gun control advocates work tirelessly to restrict gun rights and reduce the […]
First, credit where it’s due. CNN’s Scott Glover has managed to turn out an excellent article about a fairly arcane aspect of guns and firearms law while getting the details right. That’s a notable feat for legacy media these days. Read the whole thing here. With that out of the way, the criminal prosecution — […]
By Elizabeth McGuigan What happens when a virulent anti-gun activist gets ahold of a journal’s entire October issue? We get headlines like: Study: U.S. Gun Deaths Surge, Except for Two States With Restrictive Gun Laws, just days after headlines such as: Homicides, other violent crime fell again in 2018, new FBI data shows and FBI: Southern States See Largest Drop in […]
Now, thanks to California Governor Gavin Newsom, just about anyone you’ve ever come in contact with can initiate a gun violence restraining order (“red flag”) confiscation order against you. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence […]
If you’ve been following the news this week, you’re probably aware of the furious kowtowing the National Basketball Association has been doing in order to avoid displeasing the Chinese Communist Party any more than it already has. The Houston Rockets’ general manager, Daryl Morey, put up a since-deleted tweeted in support of Hongkongers who have […]
By the Second Amendment Foundation The Second Amendment Foundation has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review a case challenging the State of Illinois’ ban on concealed carry by non-residents, asserting that without high court review, “virtually all Americans will be deprived of their full Second Amendment rights while in the State […]
California has the most limits, restrictions and regulations on firearms, their sale, and the right to keep and bear arms of any state in the nation. The state and its political class take great pride in the burdens they’ve placed on Second Amendment freedoms. That being the case, why are such drastic measures as those […]
The Yom Kippur shooting in Halle, Germany yesterday was carried out by a man reported to be a white supremacist who drew inspiration from the New Zealand shooter who killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch. According to The Guardian, the shooter failed to kill more people because his homemade firearm jammed. Footage broadcast on […]
Finger guns have been in the news a lot lately. First there was the Pennsylvania man who was charged with disorderly conduct for pointing his index digit at a neighbor. Last week, a St. Louis man stopped a fleeing hit-and-run driver by threatening him with his thumb and forefinger. Those stories sound crazy. But there’s […]
The stalwart civil libertarians at the New York Times have a big problem with inconvenient free speech protections like those provided by Section 230 of Title 47 of the US Code. That’s the federal law that protects online platforms used by third parties. The Section 230 shield has kept plaintiffs from suing sites like Armslist […]
You have to love a company with a sense of humor. When Walmart decided to try to appease the hoplophobic harridans of the civilian disarmament community by dropping sales of handgun and AR ammunition, Iowa-based Brownells cut loose with this bit of sartorial awesomeness . . . View this post on Instagram A […]
