A story in Tuesday’s Seattle Times that blames “gun violence” for 75 percent of homicides in Washington State’s King County could serve as a learning tool for Second Amendment activists across the country because, while perpetuating a misconception about crime, it also undercuts one of the popular arguments of the gun prohibition lobby. Rights activists […]
Do Increased Gun Thefts Show Futility of Background Check Laws?
Bloomberg News reported Friday that gun store robberies have increased by an alarming 227 percent since 2013 and burglaries have spiked 71 percent during the same period, raising the question whether so-called “universal background check” laws are a feel-good exercise in futility. The Bloomberg story comes two weeks to the day after American Handgunner’s “Insider […]
Three Cities File Gun Check Lawsuit v. Pentagon
The anti-gun mayors of three liberal American cities have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense that alleges the military has been lax in reporting criminal convictions to the FBI’s National Instant Check System (NICS). Ironically, the mayors of New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco – all liberal Democrats – have essentially acknowledged […]
Background Check Bypass: Burglars Hit WA Gun Store
An early-morning burglary of a Bellevue, Washington gun store Tuesday has possibly put dozens of handguns on the street and underscored what gun rights activists might call a gaping loophole in the Evergreen State’s so-called “universal background check” law. Criminals don’t obtain guns the way law-abiding citizens do. Instead, they steal guns, and it’s a […]
On 5th Sandy Hook Anniversary, Anti-Gunners Still Don’t ‘Get It’
Today is the fifth anniversary of an American tragedy, the senseless mass shooting of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, yet with the passage of time the “common sense” that gun control advocates continually demand about gun laws still seems to elude them. Killer Adam Lanza would not have […]
9th Circuit Rejects I-594 Lawsuit, But after Law Amended
A U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging Washington State’s Initiative 594 requiring so-called “universal background checks,” but the ruling came only after the State Legislature had amended provisions in the law about when such checks are required. That fact was specifically noted in the four-page decision, which […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- …
- 10
- Next Page »