Study: Lax concealed handgun laws don’t increase violent crime

A new study purports no significant link between lax concealed carry laws and violent crime rates.

Injunction sought in federal lawsuit over Riverside, California Sheriff Stan Sniff’s ‘discriminatory and unconstitutional’ handgun license policies

RIVERSIDE, CA — Counsel for a Riverside County resident and five public interest litigation organizations filed a new motion to seek an injunction against Riverside, California Sheriff Stanley Sniff and the County of Riverside over a “discriminatory and unconstitutional” policy that prohibits legal U.S. residents from applying for a handgun carry license. A copy of the court filings for van Nieuwenhuyzen v. Sniff can be viewed at www.calgunsfoundation.org/sniff.

50 years of federal gun control: The 1968 Gun Control Act

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The GCA is the main federal law that governs interstate commerce of firearms in the United States. Specifically, the GCA prohibits firearms commerce across state lines except between licensed manufactures, dealers, and importers. Under the GCA, any individual or company that wants to partake in commercial activity dealing with the manufacture or importation of firearms and ammunition, or the interstate and intrastate sale of firearms must possess a Federal Firearms License (FFL).

Operation Death by a Thousand Cuts

Since its inception, the Second Amendment has served as a firewall against tyranny. The colonists were all too familiar with the consequences of living beneath an overbearing monarch, so they drafted specific protections to ensure their God-given freedoms wouldn’t be stolen by leaders poisoned by power.

Riverside, California Sheriff Stan Sniff sued for ‘discriminatory and unconstitutional’ handgun carry policies in federal court

RIVERSIDE, CA — Today, attorneys for a Riverside County resident and five public interest organizations filed a new federal lawsuit against the Sheriff Stanley Sniff and the County of Riverside over handgun carry license policies and practices that, the plaintiffs allege, are unconstitutional. A copy of the complaint for van Nieuwenhuyzen v. Sniff can be viewed at calgunsfoundation.org/sniff.

The list of Leftists demanding gun confiscation

Once again proving that the Liberty grabber claim that ‘No one is talking about gun confiscation’ is a lie.

Defending what’s important

We defend our President with guns.

Texas judge rejects professors’ lawsuit claiming campus carry is unconstitutional

A federal appeals court soundly rejected a lawsuit by three University of Texas professors, which claimed that the state law allowing concealed carry of firearms on campus is unconstitutional, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Police want local school resource officers armed with AR-15s in North Dakota

A North Dakota police department wants to make sure school resource officers are on equal footing with anyone who may try to harm students, so it has requested some upgraded weapons, according to the Associated Press.

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Inventor wins battle with DOJ to distribute 3D-printed gun designs

Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) reached a settlement with the Department of Justice allowing unfettered publication of 3D gun files and other information in a case centered on free speech.

Teens carjack vehicle, punch owner to ground

Authorities released a video this weekend of four Wisconsin teens allegedly carjacking a vehicle and then punching its owner to the ground in a Milwaukee parking lot.

Trump aides advised to get guns, carry permits amid threat of violence

Aides to President Donald Trump are being advised to get guns and carry permits amid a growing threat of violence following comments by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and others.

Mass public shootings keep occurring in gun-free zones: 97.8% of attacks since 1950

• Original title: “More misleading information from Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: ‘Analysis of Recent Mass Shootings,’ Showing how mass public shootings keep occurring in gun-free zones” Originally posted on September 9, 2014.

Good men with rifles

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot bé persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

Report: Lawful firearm possession prevents violence

Possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens reduces crime and is key to deterring gun violence, a newly released report says.

New York Police Department is retiring the revolver

• About 50 officers still carry the storied six-shot revolver that became the standard department firearm in 1895, but the weapon is being phased out.

Unpublished CDC study confirms over 2 million annual defensive gun uses

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck’s findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

Does gun control reduce murder? Let’s run the numbers across the world

• After I thought about it, I realized the question of whether reducing guns in a society will lead to fewer murders is a testable hypothesis.

The ‘nice girl’ who saved the Second Amendment

• For Heller, thank the scholarship of Joyce Lee Malcolm