Gun Control

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On its face, the idea shows promise. Everyone has contemplated or committed actions in times of crisis that they later regret when cooler heads prevail. But does the real-world data back up the feel-good policy?

“As a member of our nation’s highest court, Brett Kavanaugh threatens to overturn the NY Safe Act and put New Yorkers in danger. He must be stopped,” wrote Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Pigs are flying, Hell hath frozen, and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just handed down a pro-gun ruling. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the full court ruled that the state of Hawaii violated the Second Amendment rights of a man named George Young when they denied him a permit to openly carry a loaded firearm in public.

No details have emerged about the murderer who killed two and injured 12 last night in Toronto, but that hasn’t stopped the city’s highest officials from leveraging the attack to support their anti-gun agenda.

A Swedish watchmaker has taken gun-related virtue signaling to a whole new level. The company, helpfully named Transforming the Industry of Watches (TRIWA), is manufacturing time keepers constructed from the metal derived from 10,000 melted guns.

“Today, Illinois took a step in the right direction to ensure people in a crisis can’t access guns,” said former Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Facebook.

Roughly five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles. The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.

“We’re suing because California DOJ’s Firearms Application Reporting System (CFARS) broke down during the deadline week for people to register their firearms in accordance with new state laws,” said Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.