Will Democrats Really Grab Your Guns?
Debating "mandatory buy-backs," Afghanistan withdrawal, and back-to-school week on the Reason Podcast.
Debating "mandatory buy-backs," Afghanistan withdrawal, and back-to-school week on the Reason Podcast.
When it comes to deciding who should keep their Second Amendment rights, the deck is stacked against gun owners.
Facing his district for the first time since going independent, the libertarian congressman preaches legislative process and constitutional principle to an audience thirsty for gun fixes.
The gun control group's new policy proposal is radical, intersectional, and deeply contradictory.
Only if you assume they would have happened in the absence of gun confiscation orders.
The Democratic presidential contender suggests that "racist threats or anti-immigrant manifestos" could justify federal gun confiscation orders.
The five Democrats warn that the Court may have to be "restructured" if it keeps making decisions they don't like.
If your neighbor were unbalanced, armed to the teeth and busy posting social-media messages about how much he hates you, you'd certainly support measures to disarm him. But you'd feel more secure if he didn't hate you in the first place.
The nation's leading scholar of mass shootings explains how media coverage of horrific events such as El Paso and Dayton stoke unwarranted fear and anxiety.
"The Second Amendment is not a suicide pact," the senator says, while glossing over the due process issues raised by gun confiscation orders.
The presidential contender nevertheless insists the law reduced mass shooting deaths.
If "the notion that we can identify mass killers before they act" is a "fiction," the conventional policy responses to mass shootings are unlikely to be effective.
It's foolish for media outlets to imply that laws which were signed in May and June were passed in relation to the tragic shooting in El Paso.
Here is how the states with "red flag" laws fail to protect the constitutional rights of gun owners.
What’s next for the Second Amendment at SCOTUS?
The Trump-endorsed response to mass shootings gives due process short shrift.
Deflections, generational conflict, and misleading data abound.
Because psychiatrists are terrible at predicting violent behavior, the wider net would catch lots of harmless people.
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The familiar proposals would do little or nothing to prevent attacks like these.
The president offers the worst of both worlds.
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The presidential contender feels no need to defend the policies he favors, because "we all know" they are "the right thing to do."
The retired Supreme Court justice has died at 99.
As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over.
The new law says that someone buying a semi-automatic rifle has to be at least 21, pass a stricter background check, take a safety training course, and complete a 10-day waiting period.
The plaintiffs say manufacturers broke the law by producing rifles that were compatible with accessories that facilitate rapid firing.
None of the participants in last night's debate had a credible answer to the question of what should be done about the hundreds of millions of guns that Americans already own.
A flawed study continues to be repeated as if it proves something about the efficacy of gun permit laws.
Most of the party’s presidential contenders show little or no concern for the right to armed self-defense.
The bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons for possessing a product that is almost never used in violent crimes.
The dispute over Harvard's decision to rescind the admission of Parkland shooting survivor/gun rights activist Kyle Kashuv should remind us of the reasons why we should not have given any special status to his views in the first place. The same goes for most others in similar situations.
"We must act now" is not a gun control policy, let alone an argument.
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Cory Booker’s plan would unjustly deprive peaceful Americans of the fundamental right to armed self-defense.
The Democratic presidential candidate promises to fight for a design requirement that is not currently feasible.
And that's just one of the measures outlined in his new gun control proposal.
The process for obtaining "extreme risk protection orders" that take away people's Second Amendment rights is rigged against gun owners from the outset.
But most gun crimes are carried out with out-of-state firearms.
The California senator claims she could impose "near-universal background checks" and close the "boyfriend loophole" without new legislation.
The organization objects to gun restrictions only if they impinge on other constitutional provisions.
The House version of the reauthorization bill includes new gun restrictions that sweep too broadly.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
The Second Amendment covers magazines holding more than 10 rounds, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, because they are commonly used for lawful purposes.
The ban, which took effect this week, usurps congressional authority by rewriting an inconvenient law.