The Fact Is, Only You Can Prevent Gun Fire
While dining at El Sombrero this evening I was surprised to see a public service announcement on the TV displaying the character Smokey the Bear with the caption: āOnly You ... Read more
Bruen, Dobbs In A More Perfect Union
In June, 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled against Bruen in NYSRPA v. Bruen and upheld Dobbs in Dobbs v. Jackson Womenās Health. Ā In so doing, it left half of ... Read more
Intellectual Bankruptcy: Trying to Preserve Gun Control in the US Using a 14th Century English Law
By MarkPA Much is made of the 1328 Statute of Northampton to minimize or even to deny the right to bear arms. Northampton seems to be the core of the ... Read more
Duke Center for Firearms Law: Parsing the 2A to Invalidate Individual Gun Rights
The Duke Center for Firearms Law is publishing a series of papers on corpus linguistics and the Second Amendment. Corpus linguistics is the search for and study of words and ... Read more
Why Open Carry is a Better Idea Now Than Ever
I had thought that the open carry debate had been beaten to death. But I saw a Fox News segment about homeless camping in Austin, Texas that triggered me. Maybe ... Read more
We Need to Create Loopholes in Any ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulations
Can we live with regulating home-made guns? The answer is yes. Californians have lived with detachable magazine regulation through the ābullet button.ā All it takes is a little ingenuity. To ... Read more
Gun Rights Supporters Have Given Up the Home Field Advantage
In any war, each side seeks to lure their opponent to a battlefield where the adversary will be disadvantaged and operate on what Iāll call the home field advantage. In ... Read more
Does a Graduated Step Toward Constitutional Carry Make Sense for Some States?
We the People of the Gun have debated constitutional carry vs. shall-issue for quite some time. The shall-issue debate breaks along the dividing line of a perfunctory NICS check vs. ... Read more
The Supreme Court Should Take a Close Look at What ‘Proper Cause’ Means in New York
The Duke Center for Firearms Law had a few comments on the Corlett carry permit case recently taken up by the United States Supreme Court: The caseāNew York State Rifle ... Read more
