One bill is a first-of-its-kind that mandates any one carrying a permitted concealed handgun must also carry an electronic stun gun. A second bill tries to make it as obnoxious as possible for people to carry by requiring a yellow or red placard for people to carry a...
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10th, 2025, a number of high-profile Democrats quickly demanded new gun control measures. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), who chairs the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, and...
The Trump administration has done a tremendous amount to protect people's ability to defend themselves and their families. . Registered rifle and shotgun owners may no longer face felony charges for carrying their weapons in Washington, DC due to concerns the...
The so-called Byrd Bath removes anything in a budget reconciliation bill that isn't directly related to taxation or spending. In anticipation of the Senate Parliamentarian’s imminent ruling on whether the Hearing Protection Act and the SHORT Act provisions included in...
Justice Thomas' concurrence highlights a massive loophole in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). The law lets plaintiffs sue gun companies if they "knowingly violated a State or Federal statute" tied to firearm sales or marketing, but the court is...
“Quite frankly, what is in the reconciliation bill does more to support assassins than it does American families,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern. There was some laughter in the hall. “Yeah, well you know what? Talk to law...
Trinidad & Tabago, a country of 1.4 million people, had a murder rate of 45.7 per 100,000 people in 2024. Murders have been steadily rising in recent years and reached their highest murder rate ever last year. Gangs are a major factor, with 43.68% of murders...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar5k6vxC3e8 Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has put forward H.R. 2267: "To require the Attorney General to submit to the Congress a report that includes the demographic data of persons determined to be ineligible to purchase a firearm...
A copy of the Supreme Court's decision in the VanDerStok case is available here. This case was a regulatory issue, not a Constitutional question. This was not a Second Amendment case. The decision contains some positive news as well as some negative news. On the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv4-Gagf8Rs Besides greatly the dangers of owning a gun in the home, the New York state legislature passed a bill that ignores the benefits of people owning guns for protection. Here is a related example where gunlocks have a small...
We have often pointed out the dangers of gun-free zones (see also here and here). Since teacher unions control most school boards, allowing individual school districts to set up the regulations will mean that few school districts will allow teachers or staff to...
The Illinois State Police won’t pursue charges against Illinois residents who didn’t register their weapons that fall under the new law by the January 1st deadline. The ISP says the FOID Portal will remain open and people can submit endorsement affidavits at any time....