RIP Bill Dailey
Former member of the NRA Board, and Trustee, and chairman of the board, of its Civil Rights Defense Fund. A very good and honorable man. Disproving the adage that only the good die young, he passed on at age 87....
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RIP David Keene
Here's an obit. A good fellow....
Supreme Court grants cert on Hawaii case
Wolford v. Lopez. Alan Beck is attorney of record. Granted as to question presented No. 1. The questions presented were: "1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the Second Circuit, that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit...
DoJ sues California over the 2A and carry permits!
US DoJ's Civil Rights Division filed suit today. Yes, elections have consequences, but this is just staggering!...
It's always pleasant to think of the problems your opponents are experiencing
March For Our Lives is in serious trouble. It's running out of money, has laid off 13 of 16 employees, who are now suing it over racial discrimination. The layoffs appear to stem from internal politics: staffers wanted more focus...
RIP Bob Corbin
Obituary here. Bob died at age 96. He was Maricopa County Attorney when I was in grade school, and Attorney General of Arizona when I was barely out of law school. He served as a very forward-thinking NRA president in...
what a difference an election can make!
DoJ briefs, argues against latest Illinois infringements of the Second Amendment. I never thought I'd see the day.......
ATF official goes right to Bloomberg's antigun group
Marianna Mitchem, ATF's former Chief of Staff and Associate Assistant Director of Field Operations, is reported to have resigned and gone to work for Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety....
Quite a month for the Second Amendment!
The !0th Circuit strikes down a New Mexico "cooling off" law. But the 4th Circuit upheld Maryland's handgun purchase permit requirement. The 4th also rejected a facial challenge to a Fairfax VA ordinance forbidding firearms in certain places, including parks....
Minnesota mass killer planned to avoid armed citizens
Clayton Cramer has the story. The link to the story he cites is now here. The story is from the BBC: I doubt we'll see it in the US media....
John Lott vs. AI: guess who wins?
Dr. Lott posts on a debate between himself and Grok on gun issues. At the end he concludes that Grok is "biased and actually stupid" when it comes to empirical research. To the legal profession, that's not news. The risks...
Not a good time for criminals
Here in Tucson, two teens in a stolen car try to rob a man, and one robber dies and the other is injured and arrested. And in Traverse City, Michigan, a lunatic stabs 11 people, but stops when an armed...
Bellesiles An Academic Undead?
An interesting paper by Prof. Seth Barrett Tillman. Background: In 2000 alleged historian Michael Bellesiles published a book, "Arming America," which claimed that Americans were rarely armed in the framing period and, in fact, until after the Civil War. In...
Self-defense in Canada vs. the US
A short video comparison. Don Kates once remarked that we assume that because another country speaks English, we must share the same culture--but we don't....
Update on repeal of some NFA taxes
What is the effective date of the repeal of NFA taxes (if not of the NFA itself? SEC. 70436. REDUCTION OF TRANSFER AND MANUFACTURING TAXES FOR CERTAIN DEVICES. TRANSFER TAX.--Section 5811(a) is amended to read as follows: ''(a) RATE.--There shall...