The last state in America holding on to a complete ban on the concealed carry of guns by law-abiding citizens might finally give up that dubious distinction. The IL House has passed a measure to enact a “shall issue” permitting process statewide: Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the [...]
There have been several manufacturers who have responded to the raft of knee-jerk, wrong-headed gun laws getting rammed through state legislatures that restrict law-abiding gun-owners’ ability to exercise their civil rights by publicly stating their intention to move out of the states that pass these restrictions. The ridiculous restrictions on magazine size and the laughably [...]
The Toomey-Manchin amendment to the anti-gun legislation being pushed by Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) failed in the senate today, falling short of cloture by 6 votes. The 54-46 vote was, in fact, bipartisan with 4 Republicans voting in support and 5 Democrats voting in opposition. I could not be more pleased, unless you [...]
(This is the third in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) While our mainstream media and the gun-banning side of this debate have done everything they can to avoid it, you cannot [...]
After all the run-up in the media about how Obama was going to just come out swinging and propose bold, new, sweeping actions that would directly address so-called “gun violence” today’s actual list is an anti-climactic, weak, and scattered demonstration of someone flailing ineffectually in order to be seen as “doing something.” And those that [...]
(This is the third in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) Forefront in the push for so-called “reasonable restrictions” are outright, total bans on the possession of this or that widget that [...]
(This is the second in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) One of the pillars of the arguments advanced by the gun-banning side of the overall debate on civilian gun ownership is [...]
(This is the first in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) In the moments following the Sandy Hook/Newtown mass shooting the rising and increasingly strident calls for – let’s be honest, here [...]
It’s a deja’ vu moment for we Virginians to see that a New York newspaper thought it was “newsworthy” to publish the names and addresses of people who had followed the law and registered their handguns with the state. The Westchester Journal News published the story on 22 December and included a searchable, interactive map [...]
Welcome to the new year. So this is what life after the end of the world looks like. Who knew? 2012 was certainly a year of ups and downs, and plenty of the latter. It’s no secret that the elections didn’t turn out the way I wanted to see them go and I do believe [...]
