As called out by the National Association for Gun Rights online and Gunpowder Magazine, the President’s nominee for Attorney General, William Barr, made a startling statement regarding Second Amendment rights during his confirmation hearing: “I think that the problem of our time is to get an effective system in place that can keep dangerous firearms […]
Naturally, the comedy far-left politics e-magazine Slate has taken interest in the first Second Amendment case SCOTUS has agreed to hear in a decade. The case challenges the city’s prohibition on transporting licensed, locked and unloaded handguns outside the city, and the Court’s decision could have far-reaching effects, as we discuss further here. Slate‘s take on this whole affair is […]
“Research” carried out using somewhat dubious means and with iffy parameters… “For each 10 percentage-point increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increased by 26.9 percent,” they wrote in their report, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “The only other factors that were associated with overall youth suicide rates were the […]
Ever been asked about gun ownership by a doctor? Wonder what you should do if this does happen to you? Listen to Dr. Robert Young: “There are two things doctors hate,” Dr. Robert Young with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership told me. “Non-professionals telling us how to do our jobs, and being turned into informants on […]
You’d think this would be obvious, but apparently it needs to be repeated: “Owning a firearm is a great responsibility and stolen firearms could be used to harm innocent people and children,” said the SAPD Facebook Page. “Please help us keep your firearms from circulating on the black market. Never leave your unsecured firearm in […]
Some Illinois Concealed Carry instructors simply cannot abide by Illinois’ relatively simple and straight-forward requirements in CCW classes. What does that mean for the students who paid for their sub-standard training? One Canton man says his concealed carry license was revoked at no fault of his own. It turns out, he’s not alone. People in […]
When an apology just isn’t enough (see our original story on this here): Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate recorded a video apologizing to members of the Iowa Firearms Coalition for his office’s failure to meet a requirement that would have advanced a pro-gun amendment to Iowa’s Constitution. The error set the gun rights amendment back […]
Apparently Governor Andrew Soprano Cuomo feels gun laws in New York are still far too lax: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday vowed passage of legislation in the first 100 days of the new legislative session to combat gun violence. It would include a ten day waiting period for anyone trying to purchase a […]
You don’t say… The Department of Justice just updated its decades-old study asking criminals where they got the guns they used in committing the crime for which they were currently incarcerated. After asking 287,000 prisoners in 2016 where they got the gun they used, 90 percent of them “did not obtain it from a retail […]
You know, Senator Fortunato, it might have been nice if you’d pushed this before Washington State came apart at the seams. State Sen. Phil Fortunato, R-Auburn, has introduced legislation in advance of the 2019 legislative session that would require lawmakers who draft gun legislation to be trained and pass a test. “We have legislators drafting […]
Oregon is looking to push some even more stringent gun control laws through such as requiring permits for gun owners, capacity limits and severely limiting ammo purchases (among other things). So where did the Democrats get their ideas for the new bill? It’s the brainchild of student activists connected to the movement that grew out […]
The guys over at Ballistic Magazine laying down some truth regarding the new Mossberg MC1sc. They received so many eye-roll worthy comments about Mossberg’s foray into pistols they decided to put together an entire piece about it. Here’s an excerpt: The Mossberg MC1sc looks like… Apparently “every handgun ever made, ever.” Seriously, we saw readers […]
