10Apr, 2025
Trump’s Second Amendment Executive Order: What You Need to Know
In a recent blog post, I detailed how to read an executive order like a political scientist. To refresh your memory, the main idea is that you need to take […]
04Sep, 2024
SB2 and the Attempted Assassination of Concealed Carry – Where are we with the sensitive area bill?
It doesn’t always seem so, but America in general is very pro-Second Amendment (2A). As we no longer, for the most part, have a free press populated with investigative journalists […]
17Jun, 2024
SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump’s Bump Stock Ban
Five years, five months, and twenty-eight days. That’s how long it took from the time Donald Trump’s DOJ bypassed Congress to ex post facto outlaw bump stocks to last Friday […]
03Mar, 2024
The Bump Stock Case Isn’t About Bump Stocks
On Wednesday, February 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court began to hear oral arguments in the case of Michael Cargill v. Merrick Garland, et al., commonly abbreviated to Cargill v. Garland […]
26Feb, 2024
Bizarre Legal Reasoning in Hawaii
By now, most readers have probably heard of the Hawai’i Supreme Court’s February 7th decision in State of Hawai’i vs. Christopher L. Wilson. In its 53-page ruling, the court declares […]
08Jan, 2024
The 9th Circuit Gets It Right! Amazing! – Goodness has triumphed over evil, at least for the time being
On Saturday the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made a correct and just ruling by reinstating the injunction barring the implementation of the “sensitive areas” part of SB2. This ruling […]
23Dec, 2023
SB2 Defeated! (for the moment) – The people of California have won a battle in the war against the ruling tyrants currently choking the life out of our state
On 20 December 2023 the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued a temporary injunction prohibiting enforcement of sections of SB2 dealing with prohibition of concealed carry […]
11Jul, 2023
U.S. Navy Sailor Wrongfully Convicted on Bogus Firearms Charges
Disappointed, but not surprised—that’s all I have to say about this latest bit of Second Amendment news. 28-year-old Patrick Tate Adamiak was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison […]
05Jul, 2023
State of the Second Amendment
Independence Day is a time for everyone in the United States to celebrate this country’s proud history and reflect on how it came to be. For Second Amendment activists, part […]
06Jun, 2023
Obituary for the NRA
Here lies the National Rifle Association; born November 17th, 1871; faded into irrelevance June 1st, 2023. The oldest and largest self-proclaimed pro-Second-Amendment organization is survived and succeeded by the Gun […]