The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018 could have the most significant long-term impact on gun rights in the nation. (Screen capture, YouTube) America’s gun owners may be particularly eager to celebrate the end of 2018 next Monday night, because for Second Amendment activists, it has been a tough year, and […]
Why Gun Control Fails: Proponents Just Don’t Get It
A weekend story in the Capital Gazette, the Maryland newspaper that experienced a mass shooting incident earlier this year in which five staffers were killed, featured an interview with perennial anti-gun Democrat U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen that illustrates why gun control is doomed to failure. Proponents just don’t get it, and if they could […]
Gun Prohibitionists Quickly Exploit Newspaper Shooting
Perhaps even before the bodies of the five victims in Thursday’s shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis had been removed from the crime scene, Everytown for Gun Safety was making a pitch for money, over the name of Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Everytown is the […]
Maryland, Delaware Shootings: Another Gun Control, Court System Fail
Wednesday’s investigation of fatal shootings in Maryland and Delaware and the subsequent arrest of the suspect and revelations about his criminal background unintentionally demonstrate yet another failure of gun control laws and the court system. Various news agencies have reported that the suspect, 37-year-old Radee L. Prince, had a criminal history that included burglary convictions […]
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Maryland Semi-Auto Ban
An en-banc panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ban on so-called “assault weapons” in Maryland, with a 10-4 majority opinion stating that such firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment, a position that gun rights advocates consider “absurd.” Judge Robert King, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in the […]