Gun Rights

Civil Liberties

Do You See What I See?

Charles Oliver | 5.29.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: Do You See What I See?

Charles Oliver | 5.29.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

The New York Times Redefines Crazy As It Pitches New Gun Restrictions

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2014 6:25 PM

Politics

Jacob Sullum on Gun Control, Mental Health, and the I.V. Massacre

Matt Welch | 5.28.2014 6:07 PM

Policy

Elliot Rodger and Gun Control's False Promise

The Isla Vista massacre reveals the emptiness of the anti-gun lobby's "real solutions."

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Jacob Sullum on the I.V. Massacre, Thaddeus McCotter on Afghanistan, I.J.'s Robert McNamara on Eminent Domain Abuse, Kmele Foster on Reparations, Plus Sexy After-Show!

Matt Welch | 5.27.2014 8:29 PM

Policy

Restrictive Laws Are No Barrier to the Likes of Elliot Rodger

J.D. Tuccille | 5.27.2014 3:23 PM

Politics

Santa Barbara Stabbing and Shooting Spree Can Be Used to Advance All Kinds of Agendas

But especially the ones trotted out after every sufficiently newsworthy tragedy like this

Ed Krayewski | 5.27.2014 12:01 PM

Politics

Suspected Mass Shooter Elliot Rodger's Final Video is Chilling, Deeply Disturbed

Nick Gillespie | 5.25.2014 9:57 AM

Civil Liberties

Australian Politician Joins Those Seeking to Ban Unbannable 3D-Printed Guns

J.D. Tuccille | 5.23.2014 5:04 PM

Policy

What It Takes for Cops to Break Into Your House, Kidnap You, and Steal Your Guns (Hint: It's Not a Warrant)

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2014 6:49 PM

Civil Liberties

NRA Holding National Police Shooting Championships in Police Shooting Friendly Albuquerque

Ed Krayewski | 5.20.2014 1:49 PM

Policy

You Will Be Assimilated

Charles Oliver | 5.20.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: You Will Be Assimilated

Charles Oliver | 5.20.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Why the Hell is the Department of Agriculture Buying Submachine Guns?

Matt Welch | 5.16.2014 11:52 AM

Politics

Federal Court Upholds D.C. Gun Control, Says 'Judiciary Should Defer to the Legislature'

Damon Root | 5.16.2014 11:46 AM

Police

Iowa Student Suspended for BB Gun Found in Car Parked Off Campus

Ed Krayewski | 5.15.2014 6:02 PM

Culture

11 Cringe-Inducing Moments From Noir, the NRA's Hip New Web Series for Millennials

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.14.2014 1:08 PM

Policy

It Turns Out Rifles Are Just As Lethal Without Threaded Barrels

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2014 10:57 PM

Policy

Why Civil Rights and Gun Rights Are Inseparable

A riveting new book restores "the black tradition of arms" to its proper place in American history.

Damon Root | 5.10.2014 2:00 PM

Policy

Pop-Tart Guns Now Legal in Florida Schools

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.9.2014 1:40 PM

Politics

Japanese Man Arrested for Making 3D Printed Gun

Brian Doherty | 5.8.2014 12:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Open Carry of Guns Freaks Out Provincial BloombergView Editors

J.D. Tuccille | 5.8.2014 12:01 PM

Police Abuse

Nearly Two Dozen Miami Dade Cops Fired 377 Rounds at Two Unarmed Men in a Car

Ed Krayewski | 5.7.2014 4:35 PM

Police

Cops Search Kid's Home After Tip About Pellet Gun Brought to Middle School

Ed Krayewski | 5.7.2014 3:49 PM

Politics

One Man's Loophole Is Another Man's Liberty

Big government tightens its grip on "loopholes." Beware.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.5.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Major Second Amendment Case

Damon Root | 5.5.2014 9:52 AM

Policy

Relatively Small Social Networks Responsible for Large Portion of Shootings in Chicago, New York City, According to Study, Police

Ed Krayewski | 5.2.2014 1:05 PM

Politics

Pistols Pulled Out

Firearms makers exit California

J.D. Tuccille | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Hung Up on 'Stand Your Ground'

The absence of a duty to retreat does not explain the outcome of Michael Dunn's murder trial.

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Remains Silent on Major Gun Rights Case

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 10:19 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: Little Squirt

Charles Oliver | 4.28.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Go to Heaven, Bloomberg

The meddling ex-mayor thinks he is on a mission from God.

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 7:00 AM

Science & Technology

Cody Wilson Talks 3-D Printed Guns and Bitcoin

Todd Krainin | 4.20.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

Is This the Supreme Court's Next Big Gun Case?

The Second Amendment protects the right to armed self-defense. Does that include the right to carry guns in public?

Damon Root | 4.18.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Can 'Enemy of Freedom' Michael Bloomberg Buy a Stairway to Heaven by Targeting Guns?

Brian Doherty | 4.18.2014 12:31 PM

Secret service

Mets Mascot: Secret Service Threatened to Shoot Me If I Got Too Close to Clinton

Ed Krayewski | 4.18.2014 10:43 AM

Politics

Illinois, Defying Federal Policy, Wants to Let Medical Marijuana Licensees Have Guns

Brian Doherty | 4.17.2014 8:45 PM

Policy

Gun Rights and 'Justice Stevens' Foolishness'

Damon Root | 4.17.2014 5:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Knife Control? Canadian Crimes Trigger Fretting Over Blades.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.16.2014 1:36 PM

Politics

No, We Don't Need to 'Fix' the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 4.14.2014 10:27 AM

Civil Liberties

Press Release Boo-Boo Reveals Lots About Rights-Preventing Gun Prohibitionists

J.D. Tuccille | 4.8.2014 10:22 AM

Politics

Otis McDonald, Civil Rights Hero and Second Amendment Champion, 1933-2014

Damon Root | 4.7.2014 11:25 AM

Civil Liberties

Otis McDonald, R.I.P. (The Man Who Got the Second Amendment Applied to States and Localities)

Brian Doherty | 4.6.2014 2:33 PM

Gun Control

Second Fort Hood Shooting Renews Same Debates over Security, Gun Control, Mental Health

Here we go again

Ed Krayewski | 4.3.2014 10:04 AM

Civil Liberties

New York's Assault Weapons Ban? We Can Design Around That.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.2.2014 8:01 AM