2nd Amendment Rights

RonBailey/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston, nominated to his position by then-President Donald Trump in 2020, ruled on Friday that Illinois’ ban on citizens carrying a concealed firearm for personal protection on either of Chicago’s two mass transit systems violated the Second Amendment. The bad news is that his ruling only applies to the four individual plaintiffs who...

In broad daylight, the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers was shot in the chest Saturday afternoon by a teenage thief, and the star’s first words were “Am I gonna die?” Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall had been walking alone on a sidewalk near Union Square when a 17-year-old with a gun tried to steal his Rolex watch. Once...

AP Images Democrat political advisor James Carville offered an important message in today’s New York Times. Vice President and Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris must jettison Joe Biden’s failed policies if she wants to defeat Donald Trump.That was the most notable of the three pieces of advice Carville offered the Jamaican-Indian presidential candidate, the other two being to let former President...

Alan Mazzocco/iStock/Getty Images Plus Noncitizen participation in U.S. elections, political science professors Jesse Richman and David Earnest found in a 2014 study, “has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes.” This conclusion ought to raise eyebrows and red flags. But not, apparently, at the Associated Press. In fact, wrote the outlet just yesterday, “Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare.”...

New York Post/X Tim and Jeff Walz Jeff Walz, the big brother of veep candidate Tim Walz, says don’t vote for the far-left Minnesota governor.Jeff has spilled his political views on Facebook before. But on Friday, he zinged little brother Tim. The elder Walz is “100%” opposed to Tim Walz’s radical policies, one of which is his firm support of...

undefined undefined/iStock/Getty Images Plus Lafayette University officials rescinded its designation of the Lafayette Science Museum in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, as a “gun-free zone” last Wednesday following receipt of a letter from an attorney representing Gun Owners of America (GOA). Because the designation covers a 1,000-foot radius, because it also includes nearby two hotels being used by university students as dormitories,...

gguy44/iStock/Getty Images Plus Media “bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election,” informed Professor Tim Groseclose in his 2011 book Left Turn. As to this bias’ reality, there’s a story currently in the news that illustrates it well. To wit:Nicole Shanahan, billionaire, entrepreneur, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, just made a...

AP Images Wes Moore A top Democrat and Harris presidential campaign surrogate, has, like Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, exaggerated his military record and other facts about his past.The New York Times disclosed this week that Maryland Governor Wes Moore said he earned the Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan and claimed he was a member of the nonexistent...

westtexasfish/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Gun Owners of America (GOA) and its sister organization, Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court last week in Garland v. VanDerStok, asking it to affirm lower courts’ rulings against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).Despite being slapped down for its blatant overreach in its declaration that...

Evgenia Gordienko/iStock/Getty Images Plus John W. Broomes, a Trump-nominated judge of the U.S. District Court in Kansas, opened the door (just a crack) to the first real potential challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). He ruled on Wednesday that charges against a defendant for possessing two machine guns be dismissed. At issue is the law 18 U.S.C....

AP Images More remarks that expose Vice President Kamala Harris’ totalitarian plans and oddball ideas have gone viral. The latest on the Democratic presidential nominee are her comments about seizing guns from law-abiding Americans, her former plan to eliminate private health insurance, and her bizarre claims that Covid-19 killed over 220 million Americans. The first vice president to believe computer...

AP Images Day Three of the Democratic Convention wasn’t quite as bad as Days One and Two. Still, highlights abounded. Television star Oprah Winfrey mumbled something about a “childless cat lady”; Bill Clinton, strangely, bragged about being younger than Donald Trump”; and CNN’s Dana Bash admitted that vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz and Douglas Emhoff, presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ emasculated husband,...

kenlh/iStock/Getty Images Plus Biden-appointed Judge Adrienne Nelson of the U.S. District Court in Oregon found a way to keep the state’s onerous and unconstitutional ban on ghost guns in place. She ruled that although “bearable,” they are not “bearable for lawful purposes.” The language of the Second Amendment is clear: A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a...

AP Images Tim Walz Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has a strained relationship with the truth. During his first run for Congress, he lied to the public about his drunk-driving arrest in 1995. And he has falsely said he retired as a command sergeant major from the Minnesota National Guard. Now, he’s been called out for another falsehood, and it...

Lee Holbrook/iStock/Getty Images Plus The growing popularity of self-serve ammunition vending machines, operating like ATMs, is causing increasing angst among the anti-gun fraternity. Kris Brown, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, is direct: “We need to remove these machines from our grocery stores, and we need to do it now.” Said Nick Suplina, senior vice president of...

rarrarorro/iStock/Getty Images Plus Minnesota's new flag Presumptive vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz (D-Minn.) might’ve fiddled while Minneapolis burned and skedaddled when Iraq duty called, but he sure didn’t waver when it came to fighting a woke battle: changing his state’s supposedly non-inclusive flag. Four-star General of Destroying History In fact, while Walz might’ve never been the “Command Sergeant Major” he’s claimed...

kali9/iStock/Getty Images Plus It was 10 years ago already that the Obama administration sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating women equally. Female applicants, they said, should not have to meet the same already dumbed-down physical standards the men do. This mentality, epitomized by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) schemes, has long reigned all across law enforcement — and beyond....

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Secret Service’s 30×30 program — the brainstorm of disgraced former director Kim Cheatle that would put women into 30 percent of positions by 2030 — is working wonders. During a Donald Trump campaign event yesterday in North Carolina, a female Secret Service agent broke away from the job to nurse her baby. And in another...

The same forces and globalist organizations involved in the Covid-19 injections and the unprecedented global tyranny imposed under the guise of fighting the virus are preparing for a potentially catastrophic H5N1 Avian Influenza “bird flu.” Prominent doctors and critics are already sounding the alarm. Just last month, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) joined forces with the far-left Brazilian...

AP Images Tim Walz Already beset by charges of stolen valor and abandoning National Guard troops under his command before deployment to Iraq and the resurrection of a drunk-driving charge, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz faces new allegations that further embarrass Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for president. The latest on the hard-left governor: Two reports say he’s bosom buddies with...