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Imagine the Precedent of Banning Things Every Time They Are Misused

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After explaining the long history of the AR-15, Peter Suciu asks readers of Spectator World to “Imagine the precedent of banning things every time they are misused.” Suciu also scuttles any attempt to equate AR-15s to “weapons of war.” He writes: After the Second World War, due to the huge number of surplus firearms, there […]

Fewest Americans Ever Support Assault Weapons Ban

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Anti-gun activists are desperately trying to implement new gun controls across America, including bans on so-called “assault weapons.” They have been pushing these bans for decades, and in 2013, Quinnipiac began polling support for such measures. Today, support for assault weapons bans is the lowest it’s ever been. Fox News reports: New polling shows that […]

MAKE NO MISTAKE: Biden and Beto Want to Take Your Guns

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When talking about gun control, Democrats usually couch their language in the terms of “gun safety” and “reasonable restrictions,” but every so often, they let it slip exactly what they want to do. Back in September 2020, Beto O’Rourke told viewers of a Democratic presidential primary debate, “hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, […]

The Republicans Who Want to Help Biden Take Your Guns

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There are a small number of House Republicans who have signaled their openness to supporting Joe Biden’s gun bans. It will be no surprise to anyone following politics for the last two years that perennial Democrat-supporting Congressman Adam Kinzinger is among them. In The Hill, Emily Brooks reports on the other GOP congressmen who could […]

GUN CONFISCATION: You Think It Can’t Happen Here?

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It can’t happen here, right? Well, it’s happened in Australia. It’s happened in the United Kingdom, and now it’s happening in Canada. The Anglophile world is losing its gun rights one country at a time. Still think it can’t happen here? At The Blaze, Sarah Taylor reports on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan for […]

PAUL: Politicians “Trade Real Liberty for Phony Security”

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America, as an idea, is founded on liberty. The Constitution was never intended to give the federal government unlimited powers in order to make the citizenry “safe.” In fact, the Bill of Rights was written specifically to constrain the federal government in its ability to “help,” Americans by smothering them with restrictive laws. In the […]

KRISTALLNACHT: How Well Intentioned Gun Registries Become Tools of Evil

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Despite creating its gun registry to deter Nazi violence, the Weimar Republic actually gave the Nazis everything they needed to purge Germany of any resistance. In National Review, Stephen Halbrook discusses how the Weimar’s gun registry eventually led to the horrors of the Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass. He writes: The perennial […]

President Joe Biden’s Good Question

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“As a nation, we have to ask, when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Fine, emotive words, writes Freddy Gray, “but just words.” The question, as sensible as it is, never gets answered, “least of all by politicians like Joe Biden.” Who is the “we” there? America? Or […]

CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY: Gun Grabber Scare Tactics Fall Flat

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You hear it every time. When a state is preparing to pass a constitutional carry bill, the gun control crowd begins chanting its mantra “violent crime will increase.” Like a monastic order, or perhaps more like a cult, it never fails. But the evidence just doesn’t agree. At Inside Sources, Ray Nothstine and John Ferebee […]