Dr. John Lott has a piece at the Hartford Courant with Holly Sullivan, the president of the Connecticut Citizen's Defense League. Connecticut likely will lose the lawsuit against the state’s current assault weapon ban. Still, instead of learning lessons from...
Assault Weapon Ban
Alberta Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Explains that his Province will not help the Canadian Federal Government Confiscate “Assault Weapons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OORVcRfKN4 The Alberta Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro has strong language about how Justin Trudeau's assault weapons ban will not make Albertans any safer and how the ban depends a lot on Canadian's ignorance...
Canada moves to a “Mandatory” Semi-Auto Rifle Buyback Program
Under the label of "assault-style" weapon, the Canadian government plans to ban a broad range of semi-automatic rifles. They have already prohibited the sale or transfer of these guns, but now comes the mandatory confiscation. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair claims...
Biden on Assault weapons
When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled. -- Joe Biden, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Transcript of Biden's Speech Tuesday night about the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas There was no...
Ukraine gave out 18,000 assault rifles to civilians in Kyiv in one day
https://rumble.com/embed/vtg0x3/?pub=vzmga Some real heroes who felt that they had no other alternative. In about a day, the Ukrainian government gave out 18,000 machine guns to civilians in a country where gun ownership is very rare and they weren't previously...
At the Federalist: No, The SCOTUS Ruling On Abortion Doesn’t Affect California Gun Laws
John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about Gavin Newsom's promise to use the US Supreme Court decision on Texas' abortion law to push new gun control in California. You would never know it from the reaction of President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom, but the...
Beto O’Rourke on pushes ban on “weapons of war” and reversing Texas’ Constitutional Carry
Beto O'Rourke in talking about the Kyle Rittenhouse case: "This entire tragedy makes the case that we should not allow our fellow Americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battlefield use. That AR-15, that AK-47, has one single solitary...
Updated: Biden says he wants to ban semi-automatic guns, including handguns
Biden: “Actually, crime is down; gun violence and murder rates are up. Guns. I’m the only guy that ever got passed legislation when I was a senator, that made sure we eliminated assault weapons. The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40,...
Gun Control Myths: The lie that AR-15s are the weapon of choice of Mass Public Shooters
Here is an all too typical Twitter post making the claim that AR-15s are the weapon of choice for mass public shooters. But you have to wonder though if all this media coverage that these are the best weapons for mass public shooters actually causes more of these...
At the Wall Street Journal: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal on the push for an assault weapons ban. Warning about "weapons designed for the theater of war," President Obama on Wednesday called for immediate action on a new Federal Assault Weapons Ban. He said that "more of...