By MarkPA While waiting in my doctor’s office I chanced to pick up the November 2017 edition of Smithsonian magazine. As a quasi-governmental entity, this journal speaks with more than a modicum of authority. John M. Barry, the author of “Journal of the Plague Year” writes of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50 […]
Following some prominent recent shootings in Toronto, Canada’s leftist government is considering a complete ban on all handguns in the country, similar to the one that currently exists in the UK. It’s a perfect example of the gun control “slippery slope” that US supporters of the Second Amendment have been warning against for decades. Canada […]
The Illinois State Police ended a small anti-gun protest Monday in Chicago by making a few arrests. At long last, law enforcement applied the rule of law. However, it took state troopers to do what the notoriously corrupt City of Chicago refused to do just a few weeks ago. The Rev. Gregory Livingston led this […]
Levi Strauss & Co. CEO and president Chip Bergh has jumped with both feet into the debate over the Second Amendment and Americans’ rights to armed self-defense. And he’s come down squarely on the side of those who advocated civilian disarmament. In 2016, Levi Strauss asked gun owners not to bring guns to their stores. […]
Over the weekend, South African Deputy Minister of Police, Bongani Mkongi spoke to SABC about the government’s intent to make South Africa a gun-free society. He went on about how civilians should be completely disarmed, and that those who dared “take them to court” are part of the problem. See the interview here. Mkongi is referencing gun […]
The entire 3D printed guns kerfuffle that was set off when Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed settled a longstanding lawsuit with the US Department of Justice has resulted in a nearly endless procession of news reports and commentary featuring jaw-dropping ignorance and misinformation about the nation’s gun laws. Or it would be jaw-dropping, if it weren’t already […]
A shipment of AK-47 type rifles was seized by a US Navy ship in the Arabian sea on August 27th. The dhow carrying the cargo was in distress. It wasn’t under power or under sail, and had no papers from any nation-state. This seems to be fairly common occurrence in the area. The boarding team […]
“Guns don’t feed violence, just as flowers don’t bring peace.” So proclaimed Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said while responding to critics who say that allow law-abiding citizens to own and carry firearms will increase the bloodshed rather than stopping crime. One plank of the populist ex-army captain’s campaign is people to keep and bear arms for […]
We’ll do our best to contain our glee, but we have German blood in our veins and schadenfreude is very a real thing. We apologize in advance. All of that said, Dicks Sporting Goods today reported a larger-than-expected drop in same store sales and their stock has taken a dive as a result. What’s more, analysts […]
In what Cody Wilson describes as a national plan of action, the Defense Distributed founder and self-described crypto-anarchist claimed in a press conference today that the judge’s order preventing him from uploading his 3D files only prevents their free distribution. In order to get around that restriction and remain in compliance with the judge’s order, […]
The US Department on Education — a federal agency with no clear purpose or need — conducts something called the Civil Rights Data Collection survey every two years. They ask all 96,000 public schools around the country hundreds of questions about all aspects of their operations, ostensibly to better craft education policy. They’ve just published […]
Tomorrow is primary election day in Florida. This past Legislative session, the majority of the Florida Republican party sided with gun-grabbers and pushed SB 7026 through into law. The post-Parkland bill will strip Floridians between eighteen to twenty-one years of age of their Second Amendment rights, impose a mandatory waiting period on long gun purchases, and […]
