2nd Amendment Rights

arinahabich/iStock/Getty Images Plus Anti-gun zealots populating Illinois’ legislative bodies passed a bill into law in January called the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” or PICA. It was passed despite the clear ruling from the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen that the Second Amendment may only be contravened when a state can show that...

The latest chapter in U.S. President Joe Biden’s mishap-filled history came on Friday. In his speech in Connecticut, the 80-year-old Democrat discussed the need for tougher gun control laws. He closed by saying “God save the Queen!” to the audience. It is unclear why he said this and whether he was referring to the late British monarch Queen Elizabeth II....

Published in Kommersant (Russia) on 16 June 2023 by Anton Grishanov Translated from Russian by Nikita Gubankov. Edited by Wes Vanderburgh. Posted on June 19, 2023. *Editor’s Note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war...

MIFFLINTOWN, Pa.—Officials are expressing shock and sadness at the death of one state trooper and the critical wounding of another hours apart in central Pennsylvania over the weekend. Police in Juniata County said a man engaged troopers at about 12:45 p.m. Saturday near the Lewistown barracks and shot one trooper, who was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Authorities...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A second man has been found guilty in a shootout at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, that left one person dead and more than a dozen people injured. Terry Lorenzo Brown was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder, four counts of attempted second-degree murder and illegally possessing a firearm, KARE-TV reported. Prosecutors said Brown and Devondre Phillips began...

As mass shootings make headlines, one man who has spent years studying what it takes to get men to kill said it is clear that violent entertainment is a how-to manual for many killers. According to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, violent media molds the character of its consumers just as military basic training conditions soldiers to kill....

Running Press Kids/Amazon.com “If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816 Every time I find out that there’s a book written to teach children about the Constitution, I anticipate an attempt to miseducate our most vulnerable...

First lady Jill Biden is gearing up to raise funds for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, working toward securing a second term for her husband. This year, following her return from a six-day trip abroad, the first lady is embarking on her first solo trip for the 2024 campaign season. She will make a three-day fundraising tour, with stops in...

Luis Miguel A legend is dead. Beyond the fact that the properties the Left corrupts become instruments of Marxist propaganda, one of the biggest tragedies of the “woke” takeover of entertainment is that they cease to even be fun and entertaining anymore.  Now the social justice warriors have set their sights on and pulled the trigger on one of the...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Two people are dead and a third person is injured after a shooting involving a Kansas City police officer Friday night, but few details were immediately available. The shooting happened after an officer called for help shortly before 9 p.m. near a McDonald’s restaurant in eastern Kansas City. Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Andy Bell said the...

The return of Dianne Feinstein to the Senate after a three-month illness has intensified the debate over retirement from a political office because of old age. In February, 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein fell ill with shingles, after which she suffered complications including encephalitis and facial paralysis. The three-month absence of the Democratic senator and chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to curtail specific aspects of gun rights. “Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” Newsom said in a Thursday press statement announcing the proposed amendment. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do...

YouTube Man firing gun with a pistol stabilizing brace Barely a quarter of a million of the estimated three million to 50 million pistol braces legally owned by American citizens have been registered with or turned in to the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), according to Erik Longnecker of the agency’s Public Affairs Division. In response to...

Commentary The government of Western Australia is promising a complete overhaul of firearms legislation, with some new restrictions having already passed in May. Regardless of what is drafted, any new laws will end up passing through Parliament because the Labor government maintains control of both lower and upper houses, allowing it to introduce virtually any legislation unimpeded. Of course, on...

Presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he supports Second Amendment and would not seek a gun confiscation program if elected. Asked about his stance on gun rights by The Epoch Times, Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, replied, “I support the Constitution that includes the Second Amendment.” “I’m not going to take anybody’s guns away,” he...

At just 5 years old, Hu Yang was too young in 1989 to be part of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square that would later be violently crushed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using tanks and guns. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to keep its memory alive. On June 2, 2022, in front of a local government...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus As it stands today, federal “law” prohibits nine groups of people from receiving (including purchasing) and possessing firearms. Another way to say that is that the government of the United States has denied to nine groups of people their right to keep and bear arms as given by nature and protected by the Second Amendment to the...

According to a whistleblower who provided testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Bank of America handed over Jan. 6 banking records without informing its customers. Furthermore, the bank did this completely of its own volition; the FBI didn’t even ask it to do this. And, if you happened to have purchased a gun using a Bank of America credit card,...

Nicky Ebbage/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s not just that thinking you can have your very own pronouns is a bit self-centered. It’s also that, new research shows, using “non-binary” pronouns on job applications reduces your chances of being hired. Conducted by Business.com, the study had three phases. As the website explains: First, we asked hundreds of nonbinary people how their gender...

YouTube When hearing about rival Somali political factions rioting, one might assume the event occurred in Somalia, where political violence is the norm. But the mayhem in question actually was in Minneapolis, where, increasingly, being Somali is the norm. (Apparently, “Minnesota nice” hasn’t rubbed off.) Per The Post Millennial: A riot erupted in Minnesota during Democrat nominations for Minneapolis City...