Archive for the '2nd Amendment' Category
Bump stocks and the Bill of Rights
Thursday, January 11th, 2018The Senate Judiciary committee heard testimony Dec. 8 on a proposal to try to outlaw “bump stocks” — devices that allow light, modern, semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates similar to machine pistols.
The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017Has anyone else noticed an odd omission from all the recent, harrowing accounts of sexual assault and outright rape of young women in the motion picture and TV news industries by older, powerful men?
‘Blood on their hands’?
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017(Note: A version of this column appears in the Nov. 10 edition of “Firearms News,” on newsstands next week.)
If they knew who caused all these recurring deadly California wildfires, would they do anything? Wanna bet?
Sunday, October 15th, 2017I see where 40 people have now died (with 5,700 homes destroyed) in wildfires along California’s central and north-central coast this month -– wildfires that are far hotter, more intense, more widespread, and harder to extinguish than would have been common 50 years ago.
Americans should be proud to love firearms . . . and freedom
Friday, October 13th, 2017At one of the local thrift shops this week I picked up the fifth ever weekly issue of Sports Illustrated — Sept. 13, 1954. The magazine has one major article, each, on college football (no NFL — my dad reported the pro league was still considered largely disreputable back then, sort of like professional wrestling); […]
On national reciprocity
Friday, July 7th, 2017The hysterical Left (“Russian! He attended the same party as a Russian!”) may have missed it, but America didn’t just start its glacial shift away from the bizarre agenda of the Democrat Party and the Mainstream Media with the election of Donald Trump.
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged
Saturday, June 3rd, 2017So I don’t get it. With all these Muslims running around London Bridge Saturday, slashing people’s throats, why didn’t a few law-abiding British bystanders just shoot ’em?
Should states that permit ‘concealed carry’ face boycotts?
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017Conspiracy convictions in Bundy standoff? Not a one
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017A federal judge in Las Vegas declared a mistrial April 24 in the case of four men accused of taking up arms against federal agents during the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014, The Associated Press reports.