The law is clear that someone admitted under a student visa is banned under any circumstances that would apply to the student who murdered his professor at the University of North Carolina on Monday. North Carolina also bans guns on college campuses. BATF: "Generally,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4voCVzE4ms Mr. Tom Harris of the Sporting Arms Co. of Lewisville, Texas, is a disabled individual and father of five who makes his income from his home-based FFL. Apparently, Harris had some small paperwork mistakes fifteen and sixteen...
While the BATF claims that during the last half of 2021 they drove 5 FFLs out of business and an additional 88 in 2022, a lawsuit by Gun Owners of America found that the number of FFLs where a compliance inspection resulted in them going out of business increased from...
The original text in Portuguese of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first executive order is available here. The order represents a dramatic change in the regulations dealing with guns and ammunition. An English translation of the order is available...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie have a new op-ed at Newsweek on important new research from the CPRC. A frequent talking point in the gun control debate is that Americans overwhelmingly support "common sense" gun control measures, such as universal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IncBq5eKM California has a strict assault weapon ban, and handguns were used in both attacks, but Biden seems to think that solution to these attacks is to have a ban across the whole country. The handgun used in Monterey Park may...
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...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
Predictit.org has betting on whether the Senate will pass a gun control bill by June 30th. As of Wednesday, June 15th, the odds were somewhat against it passing.
You would think that the Heller and MacDonald U.S. Supreme Court decisions would prevent states from banning all handguns in a state, but California's microstamping regulation will soon move to ban all handguns. The irony is that if the Supreme Court strikes down the...
Brazil DataDownload When Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the “experts” they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Things are still...