2nd Amendment Rights

AP Images Bill Lee Although scheduled to wrap up yesterday (August 24), the Tennessee state Legislature’s “special session” for dealing with gun violence and public safety has been prolonged and will continue debate on these issues Monday, August 28. Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, called for the special session of the Legislature after six people were murdered at Covenant...

AP Images Gavin Newsom Governor Gavin Newsom’s quest to replace the U.S. Constitution continues, as California’s chief executive is sponsoring legislation calling for a federal constitutional convention to rewrite the Second Amendment. Senate Joint Resolution 7 seeks “to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment...

Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.     On July 26, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president — Mohamed Bazoum — and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the...

Marco Verch/flickr The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a friend of the court brief on Wednesday urging the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to make permanent its temporary injunction imposed against New Jersey in May. Rather like a child being told “no,” New Jersey anti-gun politicians enacted...

Alpha Stock Images “A vast majority of Convention of States supporters are also firm supporters of the Second Amendment,” a recent Convention of States (COS) blog post declares. Really? A vast majority? So, not all, then, right? If I’m reading their own article correctly, they are saying that not all of those who support COS are “firm supporters” of the...

AP Images Javier Milei A libertarian member of Argentina’s parliament shook the establishment Sunday night by becoming “the most-voted-for presidential candidate in a key primary election,” as reported by the Buenos Aires Times. The outspoken and at times outlandish Javier Milei took 32.57 percent of the votes in Sunday’s primary election to determine the candidates for the next stage in...

Michael B./flickr The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday narrowly upheld the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” which was signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker earlier this year and bans the sale or possession of new assault weapons, including some semiautomatic firearms, along with high-capacity magazines and rapid-firing devices. The weapons-ban legislation was driven by state Democrats shortly after a gunman killed seven...

lucky-photographer/iStock/Getty Images Plus Last week, we received definitive proof that Vice President Joe Biden was deeply involved in son Hunter Biden’s global business empire, despite the “Big Guy’s” claims to the contrary. Hunter’s former business pal, Devon Archer, divulged the truth in testimony before the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Yet the extent to which veep Biden was involved went well...

The upcoming presidential election is more than a year away, yet the excitement over the Republican primary, the chances that President Joe Biden could drop out before Election Day, or the curiosity of a third-party candidate swinging the likely rematch between former President Donald Trump and his successor has already piqued the interest of politicos.  Many Trump supporters believe that...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), America passed a major milestone in July: For 48 straight months, concerned citizens have purchased a million or more firearms, adding an estimated 50 million more to the stockpile over the last four years.   That stockpile is estimated to be between 300 and 400 million, but the real...

scottlitt/iStock/Getty Images Plus In its ruling to suspend enforcement of ATF’s pistol brace rule for 60 days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday required the lower court to look more carefully at all the facts and then issue a decision on the matter. The appeals court strongly suggested that, based on the information it had,...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Members of the Massachusetts General Court are seeking to enact what would be the most restrictive and tyrannical gun-control law in the United States. House Docket No. 4420 (H.D. 4420) is euphemistically titled “An Act modernizing firearm laws.” However, if enacted, it would severely and unconstitutionally restrict citizens’ God-given right to self-defense. H.D. 4420 is 142 pages...

AP Images Adam Schiff “Stirred to fury and swayed by passion in all their counsels … the government will change its name to the finest sounding of all: free democracy; but will change its nature to the worst thing of all: mob-rule.” — Polybius, Histories, Book VIII Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has reintroduced the “Protecting Our Democracy Act,” an initiative...

AP Images Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) once again has raised the very serious question of whether the Biden administration worked with Facebook to identify and censor Americans who used the social-media platform to express their opposition to Joe Biden. “Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and...

Principal Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Louis Milione, has stepped down after a reporter revealed he had worked as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies linked to the opiate overdose crisis, the biggest public health problem in the U.S. According to reports, Milione turned to private consulting in 2017 after a 21-year career with the DEA. During this...

gsagi/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to MPR News, results of a recent poll reveal that over half of people who identify as supporters of the Second Amendment and over half of those respondents who claim to be Republicans approve universal background checks and firearm licensing and registration. From May 12-18, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy surveyed 1,000 adults as to their...

Mohamed Rasik/iStock/Getty Images Plus If you’re in Michigan, consider this your notice that the Second Amendment does not apply in “sensitive places” within your state. The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that the University of Michigan (UM) campus — and all other schools in the state — is exempt from the protections of the Second Amendment regarding keeping and...

ajr_images/iStock/Getty Images Plus A mind-boggling majority of college students believes that professors who say something “offensive” in class should be reported to the university’s administration. The survey, conducted by North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, in collaboration with College Pulse, sampled the opinions of 2,250 undergraduate students currently enrolled in four-year...

FARGO, N.D.—The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, authorities said Friday. Mohamad Barakat killed one officer and wounded two others and a bystander before a fourth...

A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he was selling his own guns was placed under warrantless surveillance by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF investigated the man, found no evidence, yet gave his information to the FBI to monitor him for at least six months. According to internal documents reviewed by The Epoch...