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While gun control laws in the United States have racist origins, it seems today’s Second Amendment advocates owe civil rights activists more than they might realize. It is a history worth revisiting.  Read More...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by state law to sentence her to 20 years in prison. Read More...

As Congress continues to discuss limiting Americans' access to certain firearms, Louisiana residents are lining up to take concealed-carry courses, but the process for receiving those permits may soon come to a screeching halt. Read More...

There are no moving trucks pulled up to the door, no lines of employees exiting with boxes of personal effects, no real estate brokers with clipboards doing initial building inspections at this quiet industrial park on Young Court. Activity at Magpul, the largest manufacturer of ammunition magazines in Colorado, appears about as normal this morning as it probably does most mornings.  Read More...

Yesterday Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) revealed that her "assault weapon" ban will not be part of the gun control bill that Senate Democrats plan to offer next month. Although her bill still can be offered as an amendment, Politico reports, "its exclusion from the package makes what was already an uphill battle an almost certain defeat." At the risk of reading too much into this delightful development, I count it as a victory not just for the Second Amendment but for rationality in lawmaking. Read More...

Bureaucrats from 150 nations are ramping up efforts to impose gun control through international pact. Here in the United States, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has become the vehicle to drive an agenda that is deeply controversial because once a treaty is ratified by the Senate, it becomes the supreme law of the land.  Read More...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's "assault weapons" ban passed out of committee along party lines on March 14 and now heads to the full Senate for a vote that many wonder if it will be able to survive. Read More...

Charged With ‘Terroristic Threats’ After Reading the Constitution at Tax Dispute Assembly Read More...

California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.  Read More...

It took Harry Belafonte, the esteemed elder statesman, to raise the prickly questions during the celebratory atmosphere of the NAACP Image Awards last month. As the great debate rages about gun ownership and control and white Americans rail and rally in huge numbers against any stricter laws being proposed nationally and locally, the accomplished actor and activist asked: “Where is the raised voice of blacks; why are we mute; where are our leaders, legislators, the church?” Read More...