Breaking into a stranger’s home is a dangerous business, one that is better left undone. An alleged burglar in California learned that lesson in the hardest way and paid the ultimate price for his misjudgment. The suspect chose the morning daylight hours to allegedly commit his crime, possibly believing that no one would be [...]
A major victory for gun rights emerged on Monday when a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against a draconian California gun law. The state restricts the sale of new semiautomatic handguns to those manufactured before 2013. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney ruled that parts of the state law are unconstitutional. California’s so-called [...]
Sheriff Troy Heck of Benton County, Minnesota, recently wrote a timely and relevant defense of Second Amendment liberties and the foolishness of new gun control laws. Simply put, violent criminals will ignore the updated statutes just as they did the old ones. From the White House on down, some political leaders are desperate to [...]
Ten senators determined to enshrine the Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen decision into federal law are leading a push to codify the ruling for future generations. In a time when attacks on the constitutional freedom to keep and bear arms are incoming daily from anti-gun zealots, it is important to shore up legal defenses. There [...]
Even as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is under fire for trampling the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners, along comes a plan to make the agency even more powerful. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 increases the ATF budget by nearly $2 billion. This staggering jump [...]
A criminal in Detroit thought he had chosen an easy mark. The convicted felon followed two men into a Michigan liquor store and then back outside with the apparent intent on robbing them. That scenario fortunately backfired. Police in Detroit reported responding to gunshots at the liquor store. A ShotSpotter device alerted them to [...]
In a victory for Second Amendment advocates, a bill to repeal North Carolina’s handgun permit requirement cleared the state House and is headed to the governor’s desk by a nearly veto-proof margin. The House passed the measure with a whopping 70-44 majority. It would halt the state requirement that prospective handgun purchasers first acquire [...]
West Virginia is set to become the latest state to allow campus carry after the House of Delegates passed the legislation in a landslide 84-13 vote. This followed the Senate approving the measure by an equally overwhelming 29-4 margin. Campus carry now goes to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice for his signature. Permit [...]
A Georgia man was awakened early Saturday morning in just about the worst way possible. Josh Dobbs was undoubtedly startled to hear the sound of a woman screaming for help outside of his Union City apartment door. Fortunately for two women who survived a very possibly fatal knife attack, Dobbs responded quickly. The unspeakable [...]
A legally armed good guy stepped up Wednesday and stopped the suspect in a fatal shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, that killed one and injured three others. Shoppers were sent fleeing in panic after police say a 16-year-old suspect opened fire inside the Cielo Vista mall. Multiple shots were fired, [...]