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Anti-gun folks typically characterize their gun-control restrictions as “common sense” and “responsible” regardless of how poorly grounded in reality these “solutions” tend to be, or how little their proponents understand what these measures will do—like the gun-control supporters at one event who, when asked, were unable to explain what an AR-15 is. …

On August 27th, the Tacoma City Council will be hosting a study session to consider an ordinance that would allow the city to levy a tax on all firearms and ammunition sales.  Please contact Tacoma City Council members and urge them to OPPOSE this proposed tax. This $25 per firearm and $0.05 per …

Divide et impera; divide and rule; divide and conquer. For millennia political actors have understood that one of the most effective means of defeating your enemy is to divide them and set the component parts against each other. For what seems nearly as long, gun control supporters have sought to …

Unlike Citibank and Bank of America, which have taken measures to infringe on the freedoms of legal gun owners and customers, financial giants Visa and MasterCard have declared they will not block firearms purchases from payment cards. Company leaders say gun-control measures are unfeasible for their businesses and attempts to …

This week, March for Our Lives – the gun control group that arose in the wake of the criminal mass attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. – released a lengthy plan outlining its vision for firearm regulation in America. Reduced to its essence, the plan is …

“Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have found that, in the three years since California implemented the nation’s first law allowing guns to be taken from individuals who pose an extreme risk, the so-called red flag orders have prevented at least 21 mass shootings. That’s how the Sacramento Bee summarized a …

“How many times I have broadcasted on air that you either deal lawfully with corrupt anti-gunner politicians for violating our Bill of Rights (Article 2, Section 4, US Constitution), or you will be disarmed. There is no in-between. If Americans do not want to learn from history, then Americans will …

It seems that the gun control ideas of former Congressman and Texas Democrat Robert “Beto” O’Rourke don’t travel well.  They didn’t even survive a trip across the Texas state line into Arkansas. O’Rourke is pushing a campaign platform that embraces an aggressive gun control agenda. It’s another of O’Rourke’s campaign reboots, this …

A “friend-of-the-court” brief from five U.S. senators, all Democrats, in a Second Amendment case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court made news for its impudence. The entire document is accusatory, especially its final paragraph, which states: “The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it. Perhaps the Court can heal …

When all the mainstream-media outlets are telling the same story about research backing gun control, it’s time to dig. In this case, researchers published a study in the journal Pediatrics titled, “State Gun Laws and Pediatric Firearm-Related Mortality.” The study’s researchers say they found that: “States with stricter gun laws had lower …