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Unpublished CDC study confirms over 2 million annual defensive gun uses

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck’s findings of more than two million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

Salute to hero Blaine Gaskill

How the Second Amendment prevents tyranny

• The Second Amendment was supposed to protect us from the government by dispersing its coercive power among the people. We still adhere to that system today.

10 common arguments for gun control, debunked

• An attorney and former sniper team leader for the U.S. Army explains why 10 of the most common gun control arguments don’t make sense.

Here are 8 stubborn facts on gun violence in America

In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings.

Gun-owners are being blamed for the failures of liberalism

Liberalism is largely a process of adopting illogical and factually invalid positions and then artificially placing blame on its opponents when policies based on those positions inevitably fail. For the blame to bear fruit, it is necessary for people of good conscience to be fooled into believing that their actions and beliefs are bad for society and have brought about shameful consequences. At the same time, it is necessary for people whose consciences have already been deformed and co-opted by the faux morality of liberalism to be conditioned to think fellow citizens, who have caused no actual harm but hold contrary views, are evil.

The right to bear arms

The right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.

The Second Amendment covers machine guns

The puckle machine gun was patented in 1718 — 73 years before the 2nd Amendment. This invalidates the argument that The Founders couldn’t envision firearms more advanced than muskets.

Nick Freitas speech to the House of Delegates