“Their ascent is part of a nearly decade-long shift, from gun violence prevention being a third-rail issue in politics that was rarely spoken about on campaign trails.”
As a bit of a sneak preview of an upcoming amicus brief I’m working on for the Second Amendment Foundation,
The gun permit, given to a man who had once shaken hands with Osama bin Laden and had fought for the Taliban, did not ring alarm bells in the NSW Police counterterrorism unit for two weeks after it was issued.
Between 1990 and 2021, the gun industry flooded the American market with at least 717 million detachable firearm magazines that hold 11 or more rounds of ammunition.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has denied New Mexico’s petition for rehearing en banc in Ortega v. Grisham, allowing
“Living in our nation’s capital should not preclude law-abiding citizens from exercising their fundamental constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”
Only one policy reduced both the number and severity of mass public shootings: allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves by carrying permitted concealed handguns.
“Safety from mass shootings is impossible unless we want a quarter of Americans working as armed guards, adding a 30% surtax on every product and service in the process.”
Gun ownership has risen at a lower rate than population increases, but there are now more guns in fewer hands, with every license holder owning an average of more than four firearms.
This isn’t a practical or useful analysis of safety. It’s a policy report card explicitly designed to produce a desired narrative.
