By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project It’s not easy for Eli Pagunsan to talk about the ordeal that began seven years ago, when he was a high school freshman in Riverside County, California. His life was destroyed. He briefly considered suicide as a way out. When he looks back, the now 22-year-old feels a […]
‘Dozens of CO Sheriffs’ Will Defy New Red Flag Law: CBS News
CBS News is reporting that “dozens of Colorado sheriffs are ready to defy” a new state gun control law when it takes effect in 2020 because they believe the statute—a so-called “red flag”/extreme risk protection order law—violates the U.S. Constitution. The law, according to CBS, is modeled on language authored in part by Josh Horwitz, […]
Booker Demands ‘Camo-Speak’ from Buttigieg on Gun Control
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker took a swipe at rival Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., for what many in the Second Amendment community would define as a moment of complete honesty when Buttigieg described a “gun buyback” proposal as “confiscation,” according to the National Review. Booker, the New Jersey anti-gunner, declared in […]
Two Congressmen Explain Gun Control Failures, But Do Anti-Gunners Care?
Writing at Cincinnati.com Monday, a pair of Republican congressmen explain the problems with Capitol Hill gun control efforts, from not reading legislation to passing measures that will not prevent crimes, raising the most important question of all: Do devout anti-gunners even care? Judging from a couple of reader reactions to a gun control story in […]
Fox News’ Napolitano: ‘Red Flag’ Violates Due Process
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior legal analyst, thinks “red flag” laws are a bad idea. (Screen snip, YouTube, Fox News.) In an essay published Wednesday in the Washington Times and on Thursday by Fox News, that cable network’s senior legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, wrote strongly against the concept of so-called “red flag” laws, […]
‘Red Flag’ Laws Raise Constitutional Issues
At the state capitol in Augusta Monday, Maine lawmakers got an earful from both sides in a hotly-debated push to adopt a so-called “red flag” law, the generic term for legislation that would legalized Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) that allow people deemed to be “at risk” to have their firearms seized by police. The […]