Ninth Circuit Panel Rules Nonviolent Felons Don’t Lose Their Gun Rights
A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights, at least when it comes to nonviolent offenders who served out their sentence. In a split decision, the three-judge panel threw out firearm possession conviction of a Los Angeles member of a street gang who had […]
Steiner: America’s Protection of Gun Rights is Modern Idolatry
[P]olitical forces use the falsehood of the gun culture to stay in power. They are aided by gun manufacturers, lobbyists, and the culture warriors who abide in the gun mythos. These are formidable forces. …Christian Nationalism, with its strong support for the Second Amendment, originates in white supremacy. Its supporters’ identification of Christianity with the […]
With a Shortage of Troopers, Alaska Town Urges Residents To Arm Themselves. More Cities Should Do That
About six years ago, the Effingham County Board in Illinois passed a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” resolution. Shortly after that, Iroquois County followed. While similar resolutions had been around since 2013, the term “Second Amendment sanctuary” stuck and these counties across the country did the same thing. Today, well over half of America is covered […]
The Reckoning: A Lot of Apologies are Owed by a Lot of NRA Diehards
One reason more people aren’t outraged at the costs of many things — from supercars to government entitlement programs — is our inability to grasp the enormity of the numbers that are routinely tossed around. A million dollar supercar and a billion dollar government program may elicit the same response simply because we’re not […]
Law Journal Article Destroys Argument That Civilians Should Not Own Weapons Of War
A recent article in the Wyoming Law Review by Chuck Michel and Kostas Moros of the Michel & Associates law firm makes a very valid and compelling point about the right to keep and bear arms, as well as our defense of it. It’s common on social media and on gun websites for pro-gun people […]
A Mississippi DGU Proves (Again) the AR-15 is the Right Tool for Armed Self-Defense
The Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex loves to denigrate semi-auto rifles as useless for personal defense. They shriek that no one needs that kind of firepower or capacity. A recent defensive gun use in Mississippi, though, drives a stake through the heart of that argument. Let’s talk about what happened and then get to what this […]