Background checks initiated with the National Instant Check System (NICS) in 2019 set a new record and one of the nation’s leading gun rights advocates gives credit to the political party that ironically seems determined to prevent such sales. Quoted by the Washington Times, Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment […]
More on Gun-Related Deaths 2017: The New Math of Hysteria?
Continued reporting on gun-related deaths in 2017—a record high in the U.S. in almost 40 years, according to The Hill and other publications—keeps one thing in perspective: combining the number of suicides, homicides, accidents, legal interventions and “operations of war” creates a more dramatic, and perhaps misleading, impression about firearms in the United States. Last […]
Bill Would Require ‘Purchaser Licensing’ for Handguns Across U.S.
Almost as a “parting shot” as she prepares to leave office, Connecticut Democrat Rep. Elizabeth Esty has filed legislation that would require people to obtain a “handgun purchaser license” before they are able to buy a handgun. The measure, H.R. 5490, has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Esty is leaving office at the […]
Abundant Warning Signs, But Antis Predictably Blame Guns
In the wake of Wednesday’s horrible school attack in Florida, reports have surfaced that there were ample warning signs about the suspect, ranging from his past troubles at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to a social media post that had been reported to the FBI, yet gun prohibitionists have predictably blamed firearms for the […]
Weiner Pleads Guilty, Must Register As Sex-Offender, says Judge
Disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner entered a guilty plea Friday in a Manhattan federal courtroom to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, and the judge told the once-rising liberal star he would have to register as a sex offender. U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska presided over the hearing, during which […]
Gun Rights Group to Media: ‘It’s Gangs, Not Guns!’
A national gun rights organization has squared off against the broadcast and print media, blasting news agencies for repeatedly blaming the ongoing carnage in Chicago on “gun violence” when there are clear indications that recent homicides involving children have been gang related. The Second Amendment Foundation looked at broadcast and print media coverage of the […]