From GOA: Gun Owners of America Texas Director Rachel Malone released the following statement after Rep. Kyle Biedermann announced that he will file Constitutional Carry in Texas’ 87th Legislative Session: “I am thrilled that Rep. Biedermann has committed to filing Constitutional Carry legislation. This is great news for Texas because Constitutional Carry promotes safety and […]
By John Velleco The 2020 election is fast approaching, amid choruses of the old cliché about this being the “most important election in our lifetime.” But this time, the evidence is impossible to ignore. If Democrats catch any sort of tailwind on Tuesday, November 3, the three branches of government will be at risk and […]
[This is the final article in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] By John Velleco This article concludes a three-part series explaining the courts’ shabby treatment of the Second Amendment since Heller and McDonald were decided more than a decade ago. The first article recounted the U.S. Supreme Court’s abdication […]
[ED: This is the second in a three-part series. Click here to read Part 1] By John Velleco The first article in this three-part series recounted the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent, and deeply disappointing, abdication of its duty to protect Second Amendment rights in its New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n. v. New York […]
By John Velleco For the last decade, the United States Supreme Court has abdicated its constitutional duty to resolve “cases and controversies” involving the Second Amendment. It has run from its historic duty, as articulated by Chief Justice John Marshall, “to say what the law is.” The High Court has stood on the sideline while […]
The FBI has wants FFLs to know that the current high gun buying volumes and shut-down-related background check delays extend the “Brady Transfer Date” hold time that dealers must observe when a purchase is put in delayed status. Should a state choose to limit days of operation by completely closing state offices one or more […]
Last year, I wrote about a serious weakness in the “safe passage” provision in the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, which allowed states like New York to arrest innocent traveling gun owners for the mistake of stopping in the state for any reason with a legally owned firearm in their vehicle. Days later, Senator […]
[ED: Yesterday a Virginia Circuit Court judge denied the VCDL’s request for an injunction to block Governor Northam’s emergency gun ban executive order. The judge based her denial on the Heller decision’s ruling that gun rights are not unlimited and that prohibitions of firearms in “sensitive places such as schools or government buildings” is reasonable.] […]
Those newly outlawed guns aren’t going to confiscate themselves . . . “We see in the governor’s proposed budget that he wants $4 million and 18 new law-enforcement positions to enforce a ban on commonly-owned firearms,” said Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America senior vice president. “Gun owners want to know: Is this money going to be […]