A friend recently pointed me to this old NPR Radiolab Podcast "More Perfect - The Gun Show" that is a little more than an hourlong podcast that purports to trace the "history" of the belief that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to firearm ownership to a coup in the National Rifle Association leadership […]
On Friday, Judge Roger T. Benitez issued a 94-page opinion striking down California's more than 30 year ban on "assault weapons." The ruling comes as little surprise, with Benitez proving himself over the past several years as a jurist who takes the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court's Heller decision seriously having struck down California's ban […]
After a concerted effort spanning several years, the Texas legislature passed a bill that would make the state the 21st in the nation to allow for permit-less carry, also known as Constitutional Carry, and Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to sign it. House Bill 1927 would allow anyone over the age of 21 who can legally possess […]
Our friends in the media have predictably lashed out at the decision by the Supreme Court to hear a carry case out of New York. With the court agreeing to hear the case against one of the last eight "may-issue" states in the union, the mainstream media has once again resorted to historical revisionism and […]
For the first time in more than a decade, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Second Amendment case that legislators will not try to moot before it's decided. The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett, targets New York's may issue permitting scheme that requires ordinary citizens demonstrate "proper cause" […]
For the better part of a decade, I've encountered a steady stream of the standard arguments and "solutions" that follow mass shootings. Universal background checks, banning assault weapons, age-based restrictions, magazine capacity restrictions, and much much more. These anti-gun arguments range from ineffectual to insane. Comparing gun control to voter fraud Most Second Amendment supporters […]
Two mass shootings in less than a week appear may spur President Joe Biden to put his spending plans on the back burner and push a series of gun control initiatives that are unlikely to have prevented either event. Gun control advocates have been frustrated that executive orders on gun control were not among the […]
In a 7-4 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there is no constitutional right to bear arms in public. The en banc ruling in the case, Young v. Hawaii, set aside a 2-1 panel decision that found Hawaii's system for permitting open carry of firearms was an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. […]
Moving quickly on President Joe Biden's gun control agenda, the House of Representatives passed two bills that would make some of the stringent background check laws in place in Restricted States applicable nationwide. Nationwide Universal Background Checks The first bill, H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, requires residents of the same state […]
Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 2-1 panel decision handed down last August in Duncan v. Becerra that found that California's arbitrary ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds was an unconstitutional infringement on Second Amendment rights. A majority of the judges on the Ninth Circuit, despite the best efforts […]
Over the weekend, on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., President Joe Biden finally unveiled his gun control agenda, calling for "commonsense" regulations that aren't commonsense and would have done nothing to prevent the crimes they allege to care about. Biden called on Congress to […]
When politicians insist that they're only in favor of "commonsense" gun control laws, they're lying—every time. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) has introduced H.R. 127, the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act, which is as audacious as it is draconian. As is typical, Jackson-Lee named her bill after one of the victims of the 2018 […]
