How To Protect Americans Without Destroying the 2nd Amendment: Podcast
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
So, too, have the politicians who said they really, really wanted a ban on the firearm accessory.
Robert Bork, majority rule, and District of Columbia v. Heller
The ATF has no legal authority to restrict the controversial firearm accessory.
The leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus explains why prohibiting the suddenly notorious gun accessories is rash and dangerous.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
The bill, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats, would ban much more than just bump stocks.
The video hosting website falls prey to a hysteria.
If you strip away legal protections for rights valued by millions of Americans, you're just going to make them angry to no good end.
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
The misguided call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
A response to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and his call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
Get your bump stocks while you can.
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
Resist "grotesque urge to immediately transform all human tragedies into a political agenda."
New York City arrests people who travel with guns-even when they notify and follow all TSA rules and have a valid gun license from their home state.
Is gun control a political thicket that unelected judges should not enter?
"The Second Amendment erects some absolute barriers that no gun law may breach."
A newly passed bill in the state would let cops and judges decide who can exercise their Second Amendment rights.
This confiscation, even beyond Second Amendment concerns, amounts to an unconstitutional taking of personal property.
Ten states and D.C. say you must.
"I find it extremely improbable that the Framers understood the Second Amendment to protect little more than carrying a gun from the bedroom to the kitchen."
Most gun-related deaths among minors are homicides, and four-fifths involve teenagers.
Responsible gun ownership could prevent terrorism.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Nick Gillespie, Andrew Heaton, Katherine Mangu-Ward, & Matt Welch on terrorism, climate change, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Evergreen, and more.
If you have to ask permission, it's a privilege, not a right. And maybe you shouldn't bother to ask.
SCOTUS may soon decide whether or not to hear arguments in Peruta v. California.
Due process protections preserved for those getting Social Security benefits.
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson urges judicial minimalism in Second Amendment case.
The appeals court says the prohibited guns and magazines are outside the scope of the Second Amendment.
Bad reporting, and bad attitudes, make a sensible move to prevent the government from discriminating against certain Social Security recipients seem like sheer madness.
Judge Diane Sykes strikes down Chicago gun range restrictions.