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  • Defensive Uses of Guns Last Month Show Mexican Government’s Folly

    Last week, in a unanimous opinion in a case called Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against seven major U.S. gun manufacturers, seeking to hold them civilly liable for billions of dollars in damages stemming from gun violence committed in Mexico with…
    Amy Swearer
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  • The Myth of Mexico’s ‘American Gun Problem’ 

    This week, the Supreme Court tossed out the Mexican government’s lawsuit against seven major U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that a federal statute called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act barred Mexico from filing the lawsuit in the first place.   In the suit in question, Mexico alleged the gun companies were civilly liable for…
    Amy Swearer
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  • Court Documents Claim Student Who Led Pro-Palestine Protests Admitted to Building Guns to ‘Kill Jews’

    Court documents claim that a leader of pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University once told a gun shop owner he had built guns to “kill Jews.”   Immigration officials arrested Mohsen Mahdawi in April as the Trump administration continues to crack down on antisemitism and terrorist sympathizers who can be seen as a threat to U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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  • 11 Defensive Gun Use Cases in March That Kept Citizens from Becoming Victims

    Just before Easter weekend, a 20-year-old student opened fire inside Florida State University’s student union, killing two and wounding six others before being shot and apprehended by law enforcement officers. Recent reports suggest that the suspect suffered from significant childhood trauma related to his parents’ divorce and custody battles, and many of his classmates had…
    Amy Swearer
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  • Gun Control Is Racist

    Media scream, “Too many people have guns!” Second Amendment activist Maj Toure says more people should carry guns. “Everybody should be walking around,” he says in my new video, “like, ‘Oh man, I left my gun in the house. Let me go back and get it.’ It should be as normal as a cellphone.” Activists…
    John Stossel
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  • Defensive Gun Use Debunks Gun Control Ignorance

    It’s increasingly clear that gun control activism thrives on ignorance about the nature of crime and the importance of the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, far too many Americans continue to buy hook, line, and sinker into activists’ mischaracterizations of reality.   Take, for example, one recent survey that discovered a shocking number of American voters erroneously…
    Amy Swearer
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  • Survey Confirms Americans Still Shockingly Ill-Informed About Gun Deaths

    If a recent survey is any indication, significant numbers of American voters are shockingly ill-informed about the reality of gun violence. The survey—conducted by RMG Research Inc. on behalf of the Napolitan News Service—asked registered voters whether they believed that school shootings or gang violence led to more gun deaths every year. A staggering one-third…
    Amy Swearer
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  • 10 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show It’s Time to End War on Lawful Gun Owners

    Major gun control groups are already lamenting the outcome of the Nov. 5 election, decrying the results as detrimental to public safety. In reality, though, President Joe Biden’s yearslong war on law-abiding gun owners repeatedly and wrongfully placed them at the center of the federal government’s target. But ordinary lawful owners of firearms never have…
    Amy Swearer
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  • Good Guys With Guns

    Do you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s “The Rookie.” Liberal politicians agree. “A good guy with a gun…
    John Stossel
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  • What These 11 Examples of Self-Defense With Guns Ought to Teach Liberals

    Vice President Kamala Harris just announced her selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the Nov. 5 presidential election. As governor, Walz routinely touts his gun ownership and affinity for duck hunting as a reason why people should take his opinions in favor of more gun control seriously. He completely misses…
    Amy Swearer
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  • SMOKING GUN: Documents Show HHS Focuses on ‘Anti-Racism’ Despite Becerra’s Denial

    The Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden has received multiple recommendations to implement “anti-racism” in policy based on the premise that America suffers from “systemic racism,” even though HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra publicly denied having any “anti-racism policies.” “I would challenge you to show me where in our policies we call…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • These Accounts of Defensive Gun Use Speak Volumes

    It seems that many gun control activists want to take your guns so badly that they’re willing to take your voice, too. And increasingly, the war for the Second Amendment involves battles waged on a First Amendment front. Just ask the National Rifle Association, which last week needed the Supreme Court to vindicate its right…
    Amy Swearer
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  • More Defensive Gun Uses Undermine Government Claims About Armed Civilians

    It should be painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that the Biden administration distrusts an armed civilian population and is willing to fudge the truth time and again to defend its untenable positions. But for those living blissfully unaware of the Biden administration’s animosity toward gun owners, it once again demonstrated its animosity in clear…
    Amy Swearer
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  • 4 Things to Know About Biden’s Latest Attack on Gun Ownership and Firearms Industry

    It’s an open secret that the Biden administration disdains lawful civilian gun owners almost as much as it does the lawful gun industry. But in case there was any doubt, new gun export regulations published late last month by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security make the administration’s position painfully clear: It doesn’t…
    Amy Swearer
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  • FOIA Questions for DC Prosecutor Matt Graves: Why Don’t You Take Gun Crimes Seriously?

    Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, doesn’t take gun crimes seriously. The result has been more murder, mayhem, and carnage across the nation’s capital.  And now there is more data to prove that point, in the form of the 2023 annual report by the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission. The Sentencing…
    Cully Stimson
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  • Sentencing of Shooter’s Parents Underlines Responsibility of Gun Owners

    The convictions of James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer, for their roles in their son’s commission of a mass school shooting in Michigan that killed four and injured seven tells us one thing: If you are an irresponsible gun owner, you will pay the price if a crime is committed with your gun. It is…
    Armstrong Williams
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  • Gun Control Activists Admit They Overreacted to This Concealed Carry Case

    Gun control advocates have spent the past two years losing their minds over the Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case that affirmed citizens’ right to publicly carry a firearm for self-defense. One of the commonly repeated criticisms of Bruen has been that the high court’s ruling…
    Amy Swearer
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  • 14 Defensive Gun Uses That Show Armed Citizens Promote Public Safety

    Hawaii’s high court last week thumbed its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence, declaring that the right to bear arms in public clashes with the “Aloha spirit” and therefore doesn’t really apply in that state. That’s right. The Hawaii Supreme Court believes it can water down and reinterpret the federal Bill of…
    Amy Swearer
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  • Self-Defense Stories Debunk Anti-Gun Activists’ Claims

    As 2023 drew to a close, millions of peaceable Americans geared up for a new year that will bring with it many new limitations on their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In California, for example, Jan. 1 was the date to ring in the state’s plethora of new restrictions on carrying concealed firearms…
    Amy Swearer
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  • California’s Ban on Guns in Public Places Takes Effect Despite Ongoing Legal Challenges

    California’s new law banning firearms in most public places took effect Monday while legal challenges continue. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, blocked the law from taking effect in a Dec. 20 decision that found it to be “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”…
    Katelynn Richardson
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