With the decisions in Heller and McDonald now in the books, you could be forgiven for thinking that absolute bans on handgun ownership in this country are now safely considered unconstitutional. And, for the record, you’d be right – as long as you’re not talking about an individual aged 18-20 years. Under federal law, otherwise [...]
A few days ago I caught wind of an attempt by some environmental activists to have the EPA ban lead ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. I was trying to perform some actual research on the matter (was this for real, was the EPA really considering it, etc.) and kept getting distracted [...]
Apparently Maryland missed the ruling in the case of McDonald v. Chicago where the Supreme Court of the United States held that the 2nd Amendment protections of Americans’ right to keep and bear arms applies to the states and would, therefore, preclude their denial of a handgun permit sans some issue of criminality. The Second [...]
In the wake of the McDonald decision the law of the land is clear: the right to keep and bear arms is a right possessed by all Americans regardless of where they live. Any locale in America that purports to support the Constitution or to revere the rule of law should move immediately to remove [...]
Thanks to Instapundit and the Volokh Conspiracy we see this press release (PDF) from the Jackson County, WI District Attorney’s office. This is an interesting development resulting from the recently decided McDonald case. Says DA Gerald R. Fox: Yesterday, in a resounding victory for all freedom-loving Americans, the United States Supreme Court confirmed that the [...]
As I mentioned briefly when it was announced, the Supreme Court ruled this past Monday in the case of McDonald v. Chicago that the protections offered by the 2nd Amendment are, in fact, incorporated against state and local action much like the 1st Amendment. Even though it’s being widely touted that this ruling has overturned [...]
I just saw from a couple of sources that the Supreme Court has just ruled in the case of McDonald v. Chicago that the 2nd Amendment protections of Americans’ right to keep and bear arms applies to state and local government action as well as federal. I am walking into an important meeting at the [...]
I got this from the Facebook page of Ed Levine, a local 2nd Amendment advocate, and my reaction to it was the same as his. A local police department in Nevada decided to “test emergency procedures” by putting an off-duty police officer in the role of a terrorist and having him stage an attack on [...]
Here’s a couple that’s surely glad Congress came to its senses on carrying firearms for self-defense in national parks: Officials say a backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with his handgun in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Park spokeswoman Kris Fister says man and woman reported that they were hiking Friday evening when the bear [...]
Supporters of the 2nd Amendment, such as myself, listened very carefully to the words of then-Senator Barak Obama, Senator Reid, and Speaker Pelosi and examined their voting and legislative record during the 2008 election campaigns. We found their words and intents to be very clear: they don’t care much for private ownership of guns. Any [...]
