Gun Laws

Lenore Skenazy Sometimes a gal’s gotta rant (again), so here goes.Shootings are devastating. Obviously! But I also wonder about the value of LUMPING shootings together and reporting them as such. My Yahoo newsfeed on Monday screamed, “GUN VIOLENCE ERUPTS OVER FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND.”Then, in a country of 333 million, it told of three shootings in three different states that left...

Teachers are under attack — literally. Violent and indoctrinated students in government schools across the United States and beyond are increasingly beating not just each other, but even their teachers, according to a flurry of nationwide reports based on a survey of teachers that found startling levels of violence against educators.   According to the survey of over 8,000 teachers in...

Salena Zito Most of the great filmmakers in American cinema will candidly admit some of the most enduring and memorable moments in their films were scenes or lines that were never in the script.“Here’s looking at you, kid,” was never in the “Casablanca” script; it was a Humphrey Bogart ad-lib. “Leave the gun, take the cannoli,” from Francis Ford Coppola’s...

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/pexels U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor didn’t hold back in his criticism of the ATF in his decision yesterday in Mock v. Garland: “The Court VACATES the Final Rule on the grounds that violated the APA’s (Administrative Procedures Act) procedural requirements in promulgating it” and “because it was arbitrary and capricious….”  The fractious rule was birthed when Joe...

AP Images Rashida Tlaib Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) criticized the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision in Garland v. Cargill announced earlier today, stating on X, “Today’s Supreme Court decision will result in more gun deaths.”Tlaib’s remarks today come after attacking Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito yesterday, describing the associate justices as “unhinged, corrupt extremists.” “I know we need urgent action...

Larry Elder “This shows our criminal justice system works!”“No one is above the law, not even the son of a president!”“So much for former President Donald Trump’s hollow cry of being persecuted by a two-tiered system of justice!”This was the reaction of the liberal media following Hunter Biden’s conviction on gun charges.Hold the confetti.Given the array of serious crimes allegedly...

SKapl/iStock/Getty Images Plus Nuggets mined from the massive 80-page report from the Pew Research Center, “Cultural Issues and the 2024 Election,” released last week reveal that, despite the continuing onslaught of attacks on private gun ownership and the Second Amendment by the left-wing media and the Biden administration, Americans remain steadfast in their support of them.More than half of those...

AP Images Hunter Biden Hunter Biden has been convicted on all three counts in the federal gun trial resulting from his October 2018 purchase of a Colt Cobra .38 Special revolver. Prosecutors argued Hunter Biden was addicted to alcohol and narcotics, and presented evidence he regularly smoked crack cocaine at the time he purchased the firearm.Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict is...

AP Images James Comer Following the verdict in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial earlier today, the House Oversight Committee announced it would continue to hold President Joe Biden and his family accountable, alleging the family has received over $18 million in payments from foreign sources, stating on X: Since Joe Biden was Vice President, his family and their shell companies have...

AP Images Jon Tester Three-term Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) just tipped his hand, revealing to all Montanans his anti-gun agenda. The revelation could end his 18-year run as Montana’s only elected Democrat in the state.In 2016, Tester voted against a Democrat-sponsored proposal that would have required background checks for gun purchases at gun snows and online.He revealed his true colors...

AP Images It’s a fascinating phenomenon, people hating a man so thoroughly, so intensely, so irrationally. The wrath showered upon the 45th president is so anomalous and extreme, in fact, that it even has a name: Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). And it’s so befuddling that one of our time’s greatest psychologists has now weighed in on it.In a recent interview...

AP Images Naomi Biden Hunter Biden’s daughter Naomi Biden was called by the defense to testify during her father’s federal gun trial today. During her testimony, she said she visited her father in California in August 2018, stating, “I hadn’t seen my dad in a long time, and I knew he was in a rehab facility there. He reached out.”...

RobtC/X It was bad enough that President Joe Biden used his speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in France on the 80th anniversary of D-Day to deliver a bombastic, belligerent attack on Russia.But Hillary Clinton did him one better. Or worse. The loser of the 2016 presidential election compared GOP presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler...

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock/Getty Images Plus The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) announced on Wednesday that since 2020, more than 22 million Americans have purchased a firearm for the very first time. Sixteen million of those firearms have been purchased during Biden’s occupation of the Oval Office.The impact of that on the November presidential election can hardly be overestimated.NSSF iterated the reasons for...

AP Images Perhaps angered by her political irrelevance in 2024, onetime Democratic nominee for president and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton took to X to seemingly compare presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The former first lady used the anniversary of D-Day to make her opinion known.“Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect...

UltraONEs/iStock/Getty Images Plus The change in Bank of America’s “Environmental and Social Risk Policy,” updated in December, appeared to be good news for the firearms industry. Instead of refusing to finance any company involved in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of so-called assault weapons, BofA said it would subject requests for financing by members of the industry to “enhanced due...

AP Images Hunter Biden More than 250 potential jurors have been called in Wilmington, Delaware, as Hunter Biden faces charges over lying on a federal form when he purchased a firearm in 2018. The jury of 12, and four alternates, will be selected from that pool after being asked if they are influenced by the fact the Hunter is Joe...

D. Lentz/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment, anti-NRA New York State official overstepped her lawful bounds.Maria Vullo, while acting as the superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in 2018, threatened insurance companies under her jurisdiction with sanctions and fines unless they terminated their business...

baona/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday in the long-running war by Mexico against America’s gun-makers. An earlier brief, filed by 20 states’ attorneys general, focused on the protection provided by Congress when it passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in 2005.The present brief focuses...

SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In speaking to the NRA’s national convention on May 18, Donald Trump made it sound as if the average gun owner couldn’t care less about the upcoming election. But a study done in 2020 rebuts that presumption: Not only do gun owners vote more consistently and reliably than non-owners, they turn out in ever greater numbers.FactCheck.org,...