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Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, a Democrat from San Diego, introduced a bill early this month that would ban handgun owners from openly carrying holstered, unloaded firearms, as state law has long allowed. This week it passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee. - [Read more]

After a Supreme Court decision affirming the right to bear arms was handed down in June, the owners of Midwest Sporting Goods, just outside of Chicago, started noticing something any retailer would find encouraging -- an increasing number of customers. - [Read more]

It is a truism to say that there are many anti gun ideologues among our educational elites. But few are as honest as Doug Van Gorder -- a math teacher at Brockton High School. He admits that he would rather lose a child than exercise his right to defend himself with a gun. In the wake of a recent school shooting, he wrote this in a Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe. - [Read more]

Perhaps the two clearest threads in all the human rights jargon are the focus on international law coupled with a potent strain of anti Americanism. This is a combination that can be deadly when accurately aimed at national sovereignty or individual rights. The most telling aspect of the lefts obsession with human rights is not so much what its proponents claim to defend but what they would be happy to sacrifice. And one thing all human rights activists are perpetually ready to jettison is... - [Read more]

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Violence Policy Center (VPC) are peddling the notion that concealed handgun permit holders are a danger to society. Last month, the center released a report claiming that in the past three years, 166 people were killed by holders of concealed weapon permits. A closer look at the evidence suggests that many of the so called victims of gun violence were criminals. Because more than 6 million Americans hold permits, it is important to set the... - [Read more]

Mayor Menino, who are you going to blame now? When 8-year-old Liquarry Jefferson was shot and killed by his 7-year-old cousin, Mayor Tom Menino went to their Dorchester home and “offered support to both families,” as he told the press. And why wouldn’t he? He certainly didn’t think it was the mother’s fault that the two boys and Liquarry’s 2-year-old half-sister were upstairs playing with a pistol - unattended - at 11 p.m. Instead, Menino claimed the National Rifle Association... - [Read more]

The Supreme Courts recent McDonald and Heller decisions have thus far thwarted the gun grabbers best efforts by upholding the individuals right to own firearms. Late Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency added another victory to the list as it shot down an attempt to undermine the Second Amendment through the regulation of bullets. On Aug. 3, the American Bird Conservancy and groups like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to... - [Read more]

Kansans can have them, carry them, and shoot them. But did you know you don`t have a constitutional right to own a gun in Kansas? At least, not yet. This November, when you vote for legislators and a new governor, you will also be asked to amend the Kansas State Constitution - to give Kansans the right to own a gun. - [Read more]

The Supreme Court is handing down eagerly awaited rulings on gun rights and three other remaining cases in its last meeting until the fall and the final day of Justice John Paul Stevens long service. The court is meeting Monday morning just a couple of hours before high court nominee Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing. - [Read more]

Reading the opinions in McDonald v. Chicago, you might think it was as much a civil rights case as a gun case. In the ruling, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that the Second Amendment applies to states and localities, not just the federal government, and struck down Chicagos handgun ban. The four conservative justices, along with Justice Anthony Kennedy, formed the majority. One of the conservatives, Clarence Thomas, also filed a concurring opinion. - [Read more]

In a 5-4 decision in the summer of 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller held that the Second Amendment protects an individuals right to possess a firearm for private use. Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty was apoplectic. "More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence," he predicted, demanding that the City Council promptly enact onerous new gun control rigmarole that would "get around" the Heller decision. "Armageddon never... - [Read more]

Call it the Obama effect. The murder rate dropped 7.4 percent nationwide last year, and the administration can enjoy some of the credit but not for the reason you might think. Mr. Obamas election sparked a surge in gun sales, and, consequently, crime rates have plummeted. - [Read more]

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to states and cities as well as the federal government. Judging from their objections, the four dissenters were still reeling from the courts landmark 2008 decision recognizing that the amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. - [Read more]

D.C. voting rights activists refuse to endorse a bill to grant the District voting representation in Congress, because the same bill would restore Second Amendment rights to D.C. residents, proving they are more committed to restraining freedom than advancing it. - [Read more]

The Supreme Court today is the scene of a Constitutional duel in a case that will decide if the Second Amendments guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applies to the states. The answer will determine whether the Courts landmark 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller is a hollow legal anomaly, or if it extends nationwide. - [Read more]

Today the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that is likely to result in a landmark decision. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Court will consider whether the individual right to bear arms it recognized in District of Columbia v. Heller can be enforced against State and local governments. In doing so, it may address more broadly the way in which individual rights are enforced against the States and the extent to which State and local governments can regulate or restrict those rights. - [Read more]

Mayor Mike is coming for your guns, but not even this administration — or this Congress — is naive enough to play along. Bloomberg appealed to Congress this week to address what is oddly being called the “terror gap,” but which supporters of Second Amendment rights better describe as “secret government lists.” - [Read more]

If Chicago were serious about bringing its violent crime problem under control, it would recognize the constitutional right of residents to use firearms to protect themselves. - [Read more]

John Lott, the nations premier expert on guns and crime, has offered more proof that more guns equal less crime. Writing at the Big Government website, Mr. Lott offers a counterintuitive truth: "President Obama surely didnt intend it, but he deserves some credit for last years 7.4 percent drop in murder rates. His election caused gun sales to soar, and crime rates to plummet." Gun sales soared because Americans rightly feared the leftist president would try to severely restrict the right to... - [Read more]

A bill preventing the government from seizing legal firearms during an emergency has been passed by the Hawaii Legislature. The full Senate voted 21-0 Friday to approve the measure after it already passed the House. - [Read more]