A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Or, so reads the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. That seemingly straightforward sentence contains some of the most hotly debated words in our country. One part […]
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Dear America Rather Than Gun Buybacks, Do This Instead:
Another municipality enticed its residents to turn in valuable guns for $60 a pop. What will they do with those “unwanted” guns? Oh, you know, just the usual … destroy them. Romeoville police were allowed to buy up to three firearms at 60 bucks a piece to get “guns off the streets” in their latest […]
Idiotic Anti-Gun Headline Of The Week: Gun Tax, Edition
Idiotic Anti-Gun Headline Of The Week: Gun Tax, Edition As if freedom-loving Americans weren’t taxed enough already, one Massachusetts lawmaker wants to raise her resident’s taxes on all gun-related purchases. And what do the gun-hating Massachusetts lawmakers plan to do with all this extra money gained by taxing? They are going to put it in […]
Doctors Triumph In Florida Firearms Case
But, does this necessarily mean a defeat for supporters of the Second Amendment? If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve no doubt heard that the U.S Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in a 10-1 decision, has overturned Florida’s Firearms Owners’ Privacy Act after several nationally recognized physicians’ groups filed a lawsuit alleging […]
Second Amendment: To “Keep And Bear” Means Own And Carry
No one can argue that there has been an ongoing effort on the part of many to erode the meaning of the Second Amendment. People talk about it all the time and these conversations have been the subject of daily public discourse in arenas ranging from politics to Hollywood. However, more recent trends seem to […]
