The City of San Jose gave final approval in January to a new gun control ordinance under the guise of an insurance requirement and annual fee. The city’s mayor hopes others will “replicate these initiatives across the nation.” San Jose’s…
The ACLU has decided to pull the race card in its latest anti-gun narrative, but Second Amendment advocates aren’t buying it. The ACLU’s new theory about the Second Amendment is that it’s “anti-black.” Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies…
The Senate will vote this week to confirm or reject David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). Chipman is a senior policy adviser at Giffords, an anti–gun rights group founded by former…
Even in a country full of politicians, activists, and pundits who mislead and obfuscate, few public policy conversations come with more heat and less light than those surrounding “gun control.” Unsurprisingly, this is especially true during the emotion and trauma…
What many have portrayed as an attack on the Second Amendment can now be seen clearly as an attack on the First. While the debate over gun regulation has been longstanding, the current iteration involves an attempt not only to…
Firearm background checks hit an all-time high in June in response to the Black Lives Matter protests and riots, beating out the March spike caused by pandemic fears. A record high of 3.9 million background checks were completed by the…
On a hot and humid July 1964 night in Jonesboro, Louisiana, there occurred a series of unheralded but nevertheless pivotal events in the parallel histories of the civil rights movement and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These events…
A real gun fight is underway in America today, and it doesn’t target criminals or gang members who possess guns. It’s a fight waged against law-abiding citizens and their right to own and use firearms of their choice for self-defense…
Activists on the political left continue to push the U.S. health-care delivery system toward a single-payer, government-controlled plan. Many Americans are now debating a complete nationalized program versus an incremental move to fully socialized medicine. Alternatives such as a Medicare…
