Gun Control

Should Bump Stocks Be Illegal?

by Laurence M. Vance July 16, 2024

In October of 2017, a gunman in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip fired multiple guns from his hotel window on a crowd of 22,000 gathered for an outdoor country music festival. After shooting over 1,000 rounds in about 10 minutes, 60 people lay dead, and more than 860 people were injured before the gunman took ...

Gun Confiscation Laws Put a Target on the Back of Every American

by John W. Whitehead June 17, 2022

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand What we do not need is yet

The Ninth Circuit Upholds the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

by Scott McPherson May 18, 2022

California’s Ninth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that a state ban on 18- to 20-year-olds buying semiautomatic rifles is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and must be overturned. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote Judge Ryan Nelson. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution ...

The Second Amendment Enshrines Our Right to Self-Defense

by Scott McPherson April 18, 2022

On April 1, four criminal thugs broke into a man’s house in Longre, France. Responding as any reasonable human would, the homeowner fired twice at the intruders with a rifle, killing one of them. Despite the forced entry into his home, and the fact that the man was protecting not just himself but his three-year-old daughter, police have charged ...

The Militia Is More Important Than Ever

by Scott McPherson February 22, 2022

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” These wise words from Thomas Jefferson seem particularly insightful after nearly two years of COVID hysteria. Across the country, and around the world, governments are in full steam, grasping power and lashing out at anyone who questions authority. What we're seeing is the “natural ...

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Citizen Militia

by Scott McPherson December 1, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges related to his actions on August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three men ambushed the teen as he provided security, fire-fighting services, clean-up, and first aid during the riots that ravaged the city for over a week. One of the attackers was armed with a handgun, another attempted to bash Rittenhouse’s skull ...

The Second Amendment’s Right to Bear Arms: What It Means

by John W. Whitehead July 13, 2021

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment to the US Constitution You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment based on their view of government ...

Armed Self-Defense Is Essential in a Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling April 20, 2021

The recent string of multiple-victim incidents of gun violence and police shootings of black Americans has once again resulted in renewed calls for restrictions on gun ownership. President Biden has said that executive instructions to various branches of the Federal government will attempt to reduce the frequency and possibility of such violence. Some of his proposals, however, are merely using ...

Anti-Gun Laws, Sanctuary Cities and the Second Amendment

by John W. Whitehead January 16, 2020

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” – The Second Amendment to the US Constitution We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can ...

Gun Seizures Could Lead to Civil War

by James Bovard December 1, 2019

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” declared “Beto” O’Rourke at a Democratic party presidential candidate debate in September. Compelling Americans to surrender their so-called assault weapons is “the newest purity test” for Democratic presidential candidates, according to the Washington Post. O’Rourke and other Democratic presidential candidates, including Cory Booker, Kristin Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio (now withdrawn ...

Banning Guns Will Not Make Schools Safe

by James Bovard November 1, 2019

School shootings have become the latest pretext for politicians to destroy the Second Amendment. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, declared in a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, “I was part of the first generation that saw routine school shootings. We have now produced the second school-shooting generation in this country. We dare not allow there to be a ...

Is Federal Gun Licensing Constitutional?

by Laurence M. Vance October 7, 2019

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is living proof that anyone in America can become a U.S. senator. According to Article I, Section 3, Clause 3 of the Constitution, there are three qualifications to be a U.S. senator: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a ...