New data from the FBI’s National Instant Check System (NICS) confirms what many in the Second Amendment community joked about for the past eight years: Barack Obama was the nation’s best gun salesman, and coming in a close second is Hillary Rodham Clinton. But just because their threat to the Second Amendment has been diminished […]
Gun Control Derailed: Chicago Thefts Underscore Faulty Logic
The faulty logic that more gun laws will keep firearms out of the wrong hands hit a brick wall Friday with a report from NBC News in Chicago about how street gangs have stolen gun shipments out of railroad cars in Chicago’s South Side, including more than 100 Ruger handguns headed for Spokane, Washington. Out […]
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 […]
Gorsuch Nomination Proves the Election Did Matter
The nomination of Federal Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States is proof positive that elections do matter, especially the one last November in which Donald J. Trump surprised the press, pundits, Democrats and Hillary Rodham Clinton. And now Trump has fulfilled yet another of his campaign promises by nominating a […]
‘I Will Send in the Feds’ – Trump Ultimatum to Chicago Chaos
President Donald Trump is wasting no time showing the country that there’s a new man in the White House and he expects action rather than talk, and he may be using the ongoing violence in Chicago as an object lesson. On Tuesday, Trump’s fourth full day in office, he discussed the Windy City mayhem noting, […]
Has Trump Found Suitable Scalia SCOTUS Replacement?
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a Colorado federal judge “has emerged as a leading contender” to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Forty-nine-year-old Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was named by the newspaper as the jurist who could succeed Scalia, […]