Second Amendment News
From Supreme Court rulings to state-level legislation, The Daily Signal provides conservative coverage of the battles over Second Amendment rights.
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Gun Rights Actually Are a Civil Rights Issue
It is becoming increasingly fashionable for those who support gun control to compare the post-Parkland, student-driven movement to the civil rights movements of earlier generations. “Young people said, ‘We will not tolerate what our ancestors have tolerated. We’ve had enough and we’re willing to fight for it and we’re willing to march in the streets… -
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Former Supreme Court Justice Urges Total Repeal of Second Amendment
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens argues for total repeal of the Second Amendment. in an opinion piece published Tuesday by The New York Times. Stevens, who retired from the high court in 2010, wrote favorably of Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstrations, but suggested gun control supporters are far too modest in their goals. “The… -
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We Hear You: 6 Young Americans Whose School Safety Ideas Don’t Include Restricting Gun Rights
Editor's note: We sought out the views of young Americans, especially recent high school graduates, whose first instinct in making schools safer is not to call for stricter gun controls. Here are responses from six of them on the weekend of the March for Our Lives. As usual, write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre 1. Charlee… -
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I’m a High School Senior. We Can Make Schools Safer Without Curbing Gun Rights.
Since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, students across the country have shown support for increased restrictions on gun ownership, and the media has given these students massive amounts of attention. As an 18-year-old who supports the Second Amendment, I can’t help but notice that teens who share my beliefs are being largely ignored. Almost all… -
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I Go to a School Where an Attack Was Foiled. Here’s Why I’m Against Limiting Gun Rights.
Police cars surrounded my high school as I walked fast across the street to the science building. Eyes were glancing in many directions. The slight panic—bordering on hysteria—was obvious. Hundreds of students stayed home, but I did not. Why? Because the threat was safely locked away in jail. Four months before the school shooting in… -
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Problematic Women: Should Gun Rights Be Included in #MeToo?
Facebook and Google create a new dating policy, men say they’re now uncomfortable interacting with women in the workplace, and conservative women say #TimesUp is getting political by hiring Anita Hill. Has the #MeToo movement gone too far? We discuss in this week’s edition of “Problematic Women,” co-hosted with Bre Payton of The Federalist. We… -
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Justice Thomas Calls Out the Supreme Court for Not Believing in the Second Amendment
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had stern words for his colleagues when the court declined to hear a case challenging California’s handgun laws, saying that the jurists do not understand the importance of self-defense. The case, supported by the National Rifle Association, involves San Diego resident Edward Peruta, who challenged his county’s refusal to grant… -
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Nothing More Feminist Than Self-Defense, Gun Rights Advocate Says
A panel of women said that gun rights should be a feminist issue Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. During the discussion, Antonia Okafor, a student at the University of Texas at Dallas and campus carry advocate, said gun rights—and the ability to independently protect yourself—are the very epitome of feminism. “How… -
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Separating Fact From Fiction With the Second Amendment and the War on Guns
The current presidential election notwithstanding, there are very few topics that generate as much passionate debate as the Second Amendment and gun control. Every time a tragic event occurs, the left calls for a renewal of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and other restrictive gun control measures, claiming that the proliferation of firearms in this… -
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How to Talk About Gun Rights With Gun Control Advocates
Guns are a tricky topic. Very rarely do you find voters ambivalent about gun violence, gun safety, etc. Someone is either strongly pro-gun rights or pro-gun control, which makes a civil conversation difficult to start or maintain. But the solution isn’t to avoid the topic. As I mentioned in my last column, you may be… -
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Knife Rights: The Unseen Side of the Second Amendment
While congressional Democrats and Republicans go head-to-head over gun control, proponents of a smaller, often overlooked facet of the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms pursue a battle of their own—the right to carry a knife. Knife Rights, an Arizona-based advocacy group aimed at ridding states of existing bans on specific types of… -
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A Legal Victory for Gun Rights
On Thursday, a three-judge panel vacated a ruling by a Maryland district court that had upheld the state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” and large-capacity magazines (holding more than 10 rounds). In Kolbe v. Hogan, the panel (in a 2-1 decision) sent the case back to the district court, holding that the district court judge… -
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NRA Executive: Second Amendment Rights Not to Blame for San Bernardino
President Obama shouldn’t blame the National Rifle Association or Second Amendment freedoms for the mass murder in San Bernardino, an NRA executive says. “Just when we think that politics can’t sink any lower, President Obama once again proves us wrong by politicizing the tragedy in San Bernardino before the facts were even known,” Chris W…. -
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D.C. Has Lost Another Gun Rights Case
Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, D.C. has lost another gun case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—one that involves the very same plaintiff, Dick Heller. In the latest case, Heller v. District of Columbia, a three-judge panel has thrown… -
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Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Law That Restricts Gun Rights
The Supreme Court has refused to hear a major case regarding gun rights, leaving a strict San Francisco gun law intact. Gun owners in the city filed the appeal in an attempt to overturn a requirement that all handguns be “stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock” when they are not… -
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Poll: More Americans Support Gun Rights than Gun Control
More Americans support gun rights over gun control, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center. According to Pew, 52 percent of respondents answered that it is more important to “protect the right of Americans to own guns.” In contrast, 46 percent said that it is more important to “control gun ownership.” Pew…