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This result is consistent with the study’s premise. If individuals are willing to commit severe crimes and die in the act, they are unlikely to be deterred by laws with less serious consequences.

“Bruen is straightforward. Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion threw out the lower courts’ use of interest-balancing tests, which were unconstitutional from inception. No other right was subjected to multiple steps to determine if that right belongs to individuals and not to the government to treat as a privilege that can be doled out according to the whims of bureaucrats,” he said via email.

“There are better things to do with taxpayer dollars and time,” Keane asserts. “Introducing do-nothing bills is the antithesis of ‘doing something.’ These Members of Congress should be focused on holding criminals accountable instead of chasing headlines.”

“We’re very excited to introduce our first Ruger-made Marlin Model 1894,” said Ruger President and CEO, Chris Killoy. “We have spent many months working to make this rifle the best it can be.”

President Joe Biden called for stricter gun control at the Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, this past Friday.

Chairmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are turning up the heat on banks, broadening their investigation into voluntary customer data sharing with the FBI.

“We’ve seen – from the very beginning – [President] Biden wants to take away gun rights of law-abiding citizens. He’s tried it multiple different ways, but coming through the backdoor – trying to retroactively make felons out of people, including military veterans who lost limbs fighting for our freedoms – is shameful, and we’re standing up against that,” he said.

But, is becoming less dangerous, less capable of defending ourselves, the right path to societal peace?

Over the past week, there’s been a rapid succession of legal decisions and solid stances in the name of safeguarding 2A rights.