Recent days have seen an uptick in self-defense shootings involving burglaries or home invasions, leading to the inescapable conclusion that gun-buying over the past 15 months is not working out so well for people who break into other peoples’ homes. Down in Orlando, Fla., the police were called to a home in the Lake […]
San Jose Council Vote: Tax Gun Owners for Crimes Others Commit!
The San Jose City Council has unanimously voted to charge an annual “gun owner fee to help cover the cost of gunshot-related police and ambulance response and medical treatment,” according to KNTV News, the local NBC affiliate. The “yet-to-be-determined” fee for gun owners amounts to a tax on the exercise of a constitutional right, and […]
A Tale of Two Politicians and Their Dramatic Differences on Guns
Two stories about two politicians—one a Democrat mayor in California, the other a Republican congressman from Ohio—illustrate the philosophical divide that exists when it comes to firearms ownership, a right protected by the U.S. Constitution and specified by most state constitutions. According to KNTV, the NBC affiliate in California’s Bay area, reported this week that […]
22 State AGs Sign Amicus to 9th Circuit, Asking Court to Strike Mag Ban
Fox News is reporting that the attorneys general in 22 states have signed onto an amicus brief to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to “again rule against California’s controversial attempt to ban high-capacity magazines, after the court agreed to reconsider its decision to rule it unconstitutional.” The case is Duncan v. Becerra, […]
Settlement Reached in Cal. ‘Assault Weapon’ Registration Case
A settlement in the long-running case of Sharp v. Becerra, a California case involving a botched computer program ostensibly designed to allow online registration of so-called “assault weapons” has been reached, according to the Second Amendment Foundation, one of the plaintiffs in the case. SAF announced the settlement Monday. The case dates back to 2016, […]
More Murders in Chicago than in Most States Last Year
Chicago has hit a milestone, racking up more homicides so far in 2020 than all but two states did during the entire 12 months of 2019, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for last year. Only California (1,679) and Texas (1,379) reported more murders in all of 2019 than Chicago has logged over the […]
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