2nd Amendment Rights

sleddogtwo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Gun Owners of America (GOA) just filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate a Florida law from the 19th century prohibiting the open carrying of firearms. It is using the recent decision in Bruen to overturn the law.The old law, according to the complaint, makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or...

AP Images Letitia James “The Land the Law Forgot,” is what liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley called New York in June. Oh, it’s not that it doesn’t have laws; it’s got so many, in fact, that studies found it to be our country’s least free state. It’s that N.Y.’s supposed law enforcers are ideological enforcers, using and going beyond the...

SolidMaks/iStock/Getty Images Plus On the surface, New Jersey District Judge Peter Sheridan (appointed to the bench in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush and who assumed “senior status” five years ago at age 68), got it right: New Jersey’s ban on the AR-15 semi-automatic firearm is unconstitutional.But he didn’t like doing so: It is hard to accept the Supreme Court’s...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by reclassifying certain types of rapid-firing triggers as machine guns, thereby making them illegal.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “unlawful” classification of forced-reset triggers (FRTs) as machine guns and...

AP Images Claudia Sheinbaum Sweden long ago became the world’s first officially “feminist” government. Will it now be followed by what some might think is, outside the Islamic world, the unlikeliest of places: Mexico? This may be the case if its president-elect, ex-academic Claudia Sheinbaum, has her way.Focus on FeminismIn fact, while Sheinbaum — a radical who reportedly supported Colombian...

Bill Hahn After a would-be assassin failed in his attempt to snuff out President Trump, some in the media are calling him out for his instinctive rhetoric of telling his supports to fight. Rhetoric that has won him millions of fans and also caused him to be the ire of some of the political Left.We’ll look into this and show...

arinahabich/iStock/Getty Images Plus A source told Fox News that Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, hid his gun at the site. It was ready and waiting for Crooks to carry out his murder raid. That news surfaced just before Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley’s shocking report:...

syahrir maulana/iStock/Getty Images Plus At least some of the leftists who took to social media to celebrate the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 are regretting it.Some have resigned jobs, some have been fired, and some have been suspended, including the FBI employee who thought the deranged “memes are gold.”And once again, the Libs of TikTok website is...

jc_design/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals released on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision that Minnesota’s ban on 18- to 20-year-old citizens of the state from carrying a handgun in public is unconstitutional. The state had a second chance to defend the indefensible, and it failed.Anti-gun Attorney GeneralThe state’s attorney...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus After parsing data from the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) for the month of June, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported that Americans continued to exercise their God-given rights, guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. They bought more than a million firearms — 1,059,037 to be exact — in June.If they...

YouTube Thomas Crooks Local cops spotted Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday, almost a half-hour before Crooks fired the shots that hit Trump and killed an heroic fireman in Butler County, Pennsylvania.The latest on the failed attempt on the 45th president’s life comes as the U.S. Secret Service faces questions about...

AP Images Secret Service agents escorting Donald Trump to his vehicle Federal authorities have identified the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.Seconds after he shot Trump, Secret Service snipers killed Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20.Yet with Crooks dead from a bullet to the head, the more pressing question is how he took...

AP Images Alvin Bragg In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, New York City’s infamous and corrupt Soros-backed District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged the high court to approve the ATF’s egregious and unconstitutional expansion of its powers.The ATF, taking its cues from the Biden administration’s anti-gun agenda, ruled that guns built at home from kits and...

Bill Hahn The U.S. Supreme Court certainly has given us a mixed bag of rulings since the overturning of Roe versus Wade. Some are winners and track according to the federal Constitution, while others seem to make little sense, especially in the tradition of limited government the Founding Fathers prescribed. Last week’s overturning of the Chevron case has the potential...

John Whitehead No matter what carefully crafted sound bites and political spin get trotted out by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in advance of the 2024 presidential election, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible, helpful way by either candidate, despite the dire state of our...

AP Images Representative Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House subcommittee tasked with appropriating funds to the Department of Justice, celebrated proposed cuts to both the ATF’s and the FBI’s budgets for next year: “This bill … cut wasteful spending and push back on blatant attempts to weaponize our justice system for political gain.… It specifically reins in the Federal...

400tmax/iStock/Getty Images Plus The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling in United States v. Rahimi announced earlier today upholds restrictions that prohibit domestic violence perpetrators from possessing firearms. The Court’s 8-1 majority opinion stated regulations that restrict dangerous individuals from possessing firearms are constitutional: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical...

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...