October 11, 2018

New legislation tightens gun control in California and Maryland

Over the past few weeks, a new wave of gun control bills has been signed into law in California and Maryland. California and Maryland already have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.  These include bans on certain...

March 7, 2018

Federal Overreach and the National Concealed Carry Law

When the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act was first introduced in January of 2017, it quickly garnered support from a number of Republicans in the House of Representatives, but this was not an indication of how the average American gun owner...

February 13, 2018

Media Focus on Mass Shootings Distracts from the Bigger Problem

Last year, we saw yet another knee-jerk reaction by liberals to the supposed "gun problem."  The Dems seized on the mass killing that occurred in Las Vegas as an opportunity to push for more restrictive gun laws and an...

December 23, 2017

Is the Second Amendment Unique?

The case for American exceptionalism is often overstated. It is true that our Constitution, at least when it was first written, was a revolutionary document, in both senses of the word: it represented a huge shift in the way that the state was concei...

September 27, 2017

Myth vs. Reality in Gun Debates

There is one debate which is particularly prone to being warped by politically-motivated myths: that on gun control. In addition, any fair observer would have to conclude that these myths are particularly prevalent on one side of the debate. Gun cont...