New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez announced Tuesday that he will not defend Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a fellow Democrat, in multiple filed lawsuits opposing her gun ban.
âI do not believe that the Emergency Order will have any meaningful impact on public safety,” Torrez’s letter reads. “I do not believe it passes constitutional muster.
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As the nation continues to reel from historic violent crime spikes, many gun control activists turn reflexively to the same âbumper sticker sloganâ policy âsolutionsâ that fail to address real problems while often undermining the Second Amendment rights of peaceable citizens.
Last week, some Hartford, Connecticut, residents made headlines for taking a different approach. Instead of demanding that their fellow citizens abandon their rights to armed self-defense, they announced that they would henceforth start exercising those rights in a public manner to enhance community safety.
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Illinoisâ gun and magazine ban remains in place after being upheld by a split Illinois Supreme Court.Â
The anticipated ruling in the case brought by state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, was released Friday.Â
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The Supreme Court stayed Tuesday a lower court decision to vacate a rule designed to crack down on âghost gunsâ by regulating gun parts kits as traditional firearms.
Read MoreAfter issuing a string of conservative rulings this week to close out the term, the Supreme Court will hear a key Second Amendment case later this year to determine whether a federal ban on gun possession affecting those under domestic violence restraining orders is constitutional.
At issue is a dispute involving Zackey Rahimi, whom Texas placed under a restraining order due to a violent altercation with his girlfriend, The Hill reported. He subsequently faced federal charges of possessing a firearm while under the order. He had challenged the constitutionality of the ban but pleaded guilty after losing the case.
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University rescinded its agreement to host a College Republicans United convention âafter doing researchâ on the group.
Richard Thomas, founder of the group, told The College Fix that the event was to be located at the universityâs âLower Hangarâ at its Prescott, Arizona campus for three hours and cost a total of $630.00 for media, support and cleanup.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held this week in Range v. Garland that the government cannot disarm people convicted of minor, nonviolent offenses. In doing so, it handed down perhaps the most significant Second Amendment victory since the Supreme Courtâs landmark decision last year, where it held that Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defense.
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A Milwaukee-based public interest law firm has won a key victory in a Second Amendment battle.Â
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty on Wednesday secured a preliminary injunction in federal court on behalf of three veterans challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosivesâ rule regulating up to 40 million pistols equipped with stabilizing braces.Â
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Governor Bill Lee called on the Tennessee Legislature to pass a Red Flag law â one that he proposed â before the 2023 Legislative session ended. The Legislators did not consider his proposal but instead they wrapped up business â they thought â and adjourned until January 2024. Governor Lee, apparently thinking of himself as perhaps the âmasterâ of the Legislature, has now stated that he will call a special session to force the Legislature to take up his call for a Red Flag law.
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It was a tough start for the old Hoosier and presumptive presidential candidate in Indianapolis.Â
Former Vice President Mike Pence stepped on stage at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum Friday afternoon to a small chorus of boos.
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After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the solution is to ban more places where people can carry permitted concealed handguns. Unfortunately, the proposal has nothing to do with stopping these attacks, and more gun-free zones only encourage these attacks. Other heavily Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, and Maryland are making similar pushes.
Concealed handgun permit holders didnât commit those or other mass public shootings. Permit holders are also extremely law-abiding, being convicted of firearms-related violations at 1/12th the rate of police officers.
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A new federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosivesâ (ATF) rule on pistols with stabllizing braces faces a Second Amendment lawsuit filed on behalf of disabled veterans.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed the complaint Tuesday in the U.S. Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division.
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The Biden administrationâs newly released regulations regarding âpistol-stabilizing bracesâ will instantly turn tens of thousands of law-abiding Americans into felons and create a national rifle registry.
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The editorial board of a major New Jersey newspaper started the year off with an anti-Second Amendment screed, decrying the right to keep and bear arms as a âcurseâ perpetuated by a âfanaticalâ interpretation created by the Supreme Court in 2008.
Among other things, editors at the Newark-based Star-Ledger bemoaned that the Second Amendment keeps the nation from enacting ârationalâ gun control along the lines of Canadaâwhich is a hairâs breadth away from banning all firearm salesâand called for readers to imagine the possibilities if the Supreme Court would just reinterpret the Constitution according to the justicesâ personal perceptions of âreasonableâ public policy.
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Half of the states in the U.S. no longer require residents to hold a concealed carry permit to carry firearms in public after Alabama, Indiana, Georgia and Ohio passed laws in 2022 removing permit requirements.
On Monday, Alabama began enforcing its permitless carry law, becoming the 25th state to do so, while Indiana, Georgia and Ohio also passed laws this year allowing residents to concealed carry firearms without a permit. Over the last two years 10 states have moved to permitless carry, including Utah, Montana, Iowa, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas.
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New Jerseyâs state Senate narrowly passed a new concealed carry gun control legislation Monday, with one Democratic lawmaker joining Republicans in saying it is unconstitutional, according to NJ.com.
The bill would require gun owners who seek a concealed carry permit to purchase liability insurance and take training courses, while also increasing permit fees and restricting guns in âsensitive placesâ like schools, public parks, courthouses, bars and private property, according to the legislation. The bill received bipartisan criticism, with Republican state Sen. Michael Testa calling the bill âabsolutely wrongâ and Democratic state Sen. Nicholas Sacco saying it is unconstitutional and will face legal challenges, according to NJ.com.
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I testified before Congressâ Joint Economic Committee last month in a hearing focused on âthe economic toll of gun violence.â
Of course, thereâs no doubt that gun violence imposes a tremendous cost on society, both financially and in far less readily calculable ways. How does one measure, for example, the mental and emotional toll of being shot?
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A leaked internal FBI guide about violent extremism lists the Second Amendment, the “Betsy Ross flag” and Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt as “Domestic Violent Terrorism Symbols” used by militant extremist groups in the United States.
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The Supreme Courtâs recent ruling on New Yorkâs anti-concealed carry law has broader ramifications for similar gun control laws across the country, many of which can now be challenged by Second Amendment advocates.
Politico reports that some of the states with gun control laws that may now be in jeopardy after the ruling include California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. Such states and jurisdictions also have laws in place that similarly try to restrict the ability of residents to carry handguns in public, in what is known as a âmay-issueâ approach.
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A pet store in California is facing intense backlash after announcing it would not allow any supporters of the Second Amendment to adopt animals from their shop.
Fox News reports that Shelter Hope Pet Shop, in Thousand Oaks, released a statement on their website declaring that âwe do not support those who believe that the 2nd Amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons.â
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In the wake of recent mass shootings in New York, Texas, and Oklahoma, Democrats are once again sending Americans up a blind alley. Their âsolutionâ is to punish millions of law-abiding gun owners for the crimes of a few evil maniacs. Undeniably, there is a certain appeal to this response. Gun control is a facile âfixâ to a complex problem.Â
Americans have owned guns since the founding, but it wasnât until comparatively recently that mass shootings became a concern. Guns are not the problem. Our culture is. Broken cultures produce broken human beings. For every school shooter, there are thousands of other weak, confused, mentally disturbed men who are drifting away from society. They arenât dating, arenât working, and they spend most of their time in their bedrooms playing video games, smoking weed, watching pornography, and stewing in social media echo chambers.Â
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The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and several other officials, challenging the stateâs ban on large-capacity magazines for handguns and rifles.
Senate Bill 5078Â prohibits the sale of gun magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds, along with the manufacturing, distribution or import of such magazines in Washington.
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Perhaps, like me, youâve always had a sneaking suspicion that the un-American Left is ignorant of many things. But then they open their mouths and remove all doubt.Â
The most recent example comes from the gaping maw of Elie Mystal on MSNBC, where he claimed that, like everything else in this country apparently, the Second Amendment is the creation of long-dead, racist white supremacists who supported it for the sole purpose of putting down slave revolts keeping the enslaved populations in bondage. Of course, there is as much âtruthâ to that as there is in the 1619 Project. Progressives use such revisionist history to discredit the founders so that they can dismantle the foundersâ republic.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday Joe Biden has no interest in Republican proposals that focus on âhardening schools,â i.e., installing greater security and safety measures, because âthe problem is with guns.â
Asked if she could elaborate on Bidenâs promise to meet with members of Congress on new gun laws, Jean-Pierre said gun violence is an “epidemic” across the country.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rejected a school safety bill proposed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Wednesday, one that had been promoted by several of the parents of victims of the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
Schumer dismissed the legislation, first introduced in 2019, on which the Parkland victimsâ parents had collaborated, claiming the bill âcould see more guns in schoolsâ and touting, âI blocked it.â
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On Wednesday, the Biden Administration announced its intention to sue the state of Missouri over a law passed last year that protects residentsâ Second Amendment rights from federal government overreach.
As reported by The Hill, the lawsuit was announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland, targeting Missouriâs House Bill 85 as an alleged violation of the âSupremacy Clause,â which âis preempted by federal law and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity.â Garlandâs Department of Justice (DOJ) will argue that the law harms cooperative efforts between the federal government, state governments, and local jurisdictions.
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I testified earlier this month at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Chicago on underlying causes of the spikes in gun violence in that city and around the country.
Although Sen. Dick Durbinâs interruptions of my opening statement stole the show in many respects, it shouldnât be overlooked that the Illinois Democrat also solicited disparaging remarks on the right to keep and bear arms from another witnessâChicago Police Superintendent David Brown. Â
In direct response to one of Durbinâs questions, Brown remarked that armed civilians make police officersâ jobs more difficult, and that he never has seen a lawfully armed civilian make a situation safer.
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In just one year, the Biden Administration has collected records of over 54 million legal gun-owners in the United States, for the purpose of increased surveillance of such citizens by the federal government, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
As shown in internal documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), the ATF processed approximately 54.7 million records in fiscal year 2021. These documents were obtained by the gun rights advocacy group Gun Owners of America (GOA). The records in question are âout-of-businessâ documents, which consist of all firearms-related transactions made by a particular gun store after the store has gone out of business, at which point those records become property of the ATF.
In the year 2021, the ATF used this method to collect 53.8 million paper records, and roughly 887,000 electronic records. Gun stores are currently allowed to destroy records that are 20 years old or older; the Biden Administration is actively pursuing avenues to ensure that such records are made permanent and cannot be destroyed.
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An NBC reporter said Monday that he has contacted the Secret Service about a gun dealerâs anti-Biden weapons parts. As Joe Biden sinks in the polls, multiple gun dealers appear to be capitalizing on his unpopularity to sell weapons parts and ammunition.
The dealers, according to NBC Newsâs âFusionâ Ken Dilanian, are âusing a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanityâ to mock Biden, and sell gun supplies.
That sloganââLetâs Go Brandonâââisnât actually about supporting a guy named Brandon,â NPR explained in a hard-hitting investigative report this past weekend. The publicly-funded radio organization spilled the beans on what the phrase actually means: âitâs a euphemism that many people in conservative circles are using in place of saying, âF*** Joe Biden.’â
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Many of our once revered and most hallowed institutions are failing us. To mention only the most significant ones: our top-ranking military echelon, the leadership of our federal investigatory and intelligence agencies, the government medical establishmentâand of course the universities.
For too long American higher educationâs reputation of global academic superiority has rested mostly on the sciences, mathematics, physics, technology, medicine, and engineeringâin other words, not because of the humanities and social sciences, but despite them. The humanities have become too often anti-humanistic. And the social sciences are deductively anti-scientific. Both quasi-religious woke disciplines have eroded confidence in colleges and universities, infected even the STEM disciplines and professional schools, and torn apart the civic unity of the United States. Indeed, much of the current Jacobin revolution was birthed and fueled by American universities, despite their manifest hypocrisies and derelictions.
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Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration are attempting to nibble away at the Second Amendment from both within and without the U.S., gun rights advocates warn, as Congress seeks to pass a red flag law for military members and the president eyes signing on to a United Nations arms treaty.
Red flag laws that would apply to military members were slipped into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by the House of Representatives last week with the help of 135 Republicans.
Red flag laws are “essentially bypassing due process,” Gun Owners of America’s Director of Outreach Antonia Okafor told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Wednesday. “It is going from one person who says they accuse you of being a danger to yourself, or to somebody else, and then going to a judge that then gets reasonable suspicion, right, that you are a danger to yourself or somebody else.”
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