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The Increasing Burden of Backdoor Gun Control
Backdoor gun-control laws and regulations are often promoted as public-safety measures, as if criminals will heed new laws that limit places for concealed carry, require “safe storage” of firearms or create magazine-capacity limits. Anyone with a little common sense could tell you that only the law-abiding follow these kinds of …
Governmental Corporatism Continues Its Assault Against The Second Amendment
In this column last week, I reported the good news out of the State of Tennessee, how the Republican State legislature beat back a barrage of anti-Second Amendment attacks (including from Tennessee Neocon GOP Governor Bill Lee) and refused to pass any new gun control laws, most especially the draconian Marxist …
N.M. GOVERNOR SEEKS TO ‘NAME-AND-SHAME’ FIREARM MANUFACTURERS THROUGH EMERGENCY ORDER
New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham kicked the hornet’s nest when she published her emergency public health order that attempts to neuter the Second Amendment and force standardless firearm retailer “inspections.” The order is Constitutionally baseless and there are no laws or regulations giving the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department …
NEW MEXICO’S GOVERNOR REVEALS EMPIRICAL AMBITIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEMPT
New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham created a Constitutional crisis when she published an emergency public health order banning law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights. Or – she didn’t. She may have revealed that she’s nothing more than an emperor with no clothing. Gov. Grisham issued a public health …
Governor Lujan Grisham Attempting Unconstitutional Gun Ban in Bernalillo County!
Dear New Mexico NRA Member: Late Friday, anti-gun Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that she will attempt to institute and enforce an unconstitutional 30-day ban on open and concealed carry of firearms in public places in Bernalillo County. She apparently intends to accomplish this by administrative fiat under the guise of a public …
END SOFT TARGETS, END GUN FREE ZONES
Yet again, tragedy strikes, a life is lost, and the University of North Carolina campus becomes another statistic as one more person is killed in a gun free zone. Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the faculty member who was murdered in Chapel Hill. Yet, as …
Why The Gun-Control Narrative on Armed Citizens is Plain Wrong
A recent incident in Las Vegas proved once again that armed citizens save lives—and sometimes many, many lives. On June 23, a man wearing a helmet and armed with a rifle and other firearms charged into the Turnberry Towers luxury condominiums in Las Vegas and began firing shots in the …
SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED FOLLOWING JACKSONVILLE TRAGEDY
The jarring news of a racist attack against African Americans at a Dollar General Store in Jacksonville, Fla., is igniting calls for increased gun control legislation. The despicable attack on innocent lives deserves close examination. The firearm industry mourns this senseless loss of life. Authorities are releasing some information as …
A Brazil-Sized Problem … for Gun-Control Groups
So, John Lott, an author, former professor, and the founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), decided to challenge all of the leading gun-control-promoting academics to a bet. And this wouldn’t be some open-ended bet levelled at all possible challengers. Lott personally contacted a dozen gun-control-supporting academics and offered …
Please Don’t Put These Crime “Experts” in Charge
As the actor John Ratzenberger tells it, when he auditioned for the hit 1980s sitcom Cheers—a show that centered on a group of Boston pub goers—he was being considered for the role of “Norm,” the bar’s sage. Ratzenberger was wise enough to know that part didn’t fit him (it would be …