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NYSRPA’s King: The Empire State Isn’t a Huge Gun-Free Zone

New York is arguing the entire Empire State is like a government building and should be a huge gun-free zone where only criminals and the privileged can bear arms. The state then defends its unconstitutional…


Amnesty International: Allowing New Yorkers to Carry Firearms Would Violate International Law

[Amnesty International] argues that “The Constitution was . . . drafted with international law as a set of background norms, and this Court should construe the Constitution accordingly.” However, none of the alleged “background norms”…


Houston Police Bodycam Video Shows Perp Shooting Cops With Illegal Full-Auto GLOCK Switch

  We’ve written in the past about illegal full-auto GLOCK switches sold by Chinese knock-off sites like Wish.com. It looks like one of these switches was used in September by a perp who shot and…


City Officials Can Only Preach More Gun Control to Do Something About Soaring Violent Crime

  What sort of gun laws might [St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter] have in mind? In February last year, the Star Tribune reported: “Democrats and gun control advocates have spent years pushing for a bill to…


Heller and Beyond: The Gun Rights Movement’s Decades-Long Effort to Redefine the Terms of the Second Amendment

  Despite Scalia’s professed methodology, we can also understand his opinion for the majority [in D.C. v. Heller] as an example of the modern understanding of the right to keep and bear arms, itself heavily…


Dick Heller Sues District of Columbia Again, This Time Over the City’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Ban

[A] new lawsuit argues that the city’s law [banning “ghost guns”] is overly broad and outlaws all polymer-based guns, including the top-selling handguns made by Glock — which are issued to most D.C. police officers….


Liberal Interest Groups Split on the Supreme Court’s Upcoming New York Concealed Carry Case

  On one side is the American Civil Liberties Union and its New York state counterpart, which contend that the state law is justified to protect First Amendment rights in the public sphere. On the…




Portland’s Image Has Been Trashed by 2 Years of Riots and Violence and the Far Left Doesn’t Like the Result

  [S]ome Portlanders came to see the demonstrations as a threat to the city’s appeal to tourists and investors. “Lenders and purchasers have for all intents and purposes blacklisted Portland,” said John Russell, a longtime…