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Bush Administration Pursues “Reasonable” Ban on Guns

Larry Pratt — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:47:06 +0000

Leave it to the Bush Administration to put forward the argument that the Constitution permits "reasonable" infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.

The Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement, of the United States is the lawyer for the Justice Department. On January 11, Clement dropped a bomb designed to destroy the Second Amendment.

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Gun Control Disarmed Sean Taylor

Larry Pratt — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:09:02 +0000

Imagine using a machete to defend your family against armed intruders.

There are some lessons that we should learn from the murder of the Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor.

Taylor was gunned down in his Miami house. It did not have to be.

Taylor, by submitting to a bad law, brought a knife to a gun [...]

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism

Larry Pratt — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:30:02 +0000

Not only did Lee Harvey Oswald take the heat off his buddy Castro, but his monstrous act succeeded beyond his wildest imagination – he turned the country he hated against itself. A review of James Piereson's Camelot and the Cultural Revolution.

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered [...]

Veterans Disarmament Act to Bar Vets from Owning Guns

Larry Pratt — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:50:48 +0000

The "NICS Improvement Amendments Act" imperils the gun rights of thousands of Vietnam War vets who have been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Hundreds of thousands of veterans — from Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom — are at risk of being banned from buying firearms if legislation that is pending in Congress is enacted.

How? The [...]

Second Amendment Used to Dump Gun Law

Larry Pratt — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:45:50 +0000

Judge Laurence H. Silberman has written a landmark legal decision using the Second Amendment to overturn the D.C. gun ban.

Judge Laurence H. Silberman has written a landmark legal decision using the Second Amendment to overturn the D.C. gun ban. No court has ever used the Second Amendment to overthrow a gun law. The [...]

Sudden Jihad Syndrome: A Reason for Carrying Firearms for Self-Defense

Larry Pratt — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:10:57 +0000

Some radical muslims become so filled with hatred from hearing Islamic sermons and visiting jihadi web sites that they decide to become freelance Jihadis.

I have compiled (quite easily, I might add) a list of murders and attempted murders carried out by Muslims acting on the basis of what the founder of Islam taught them.

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Judicial Tyranny?

Larry Pratt — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:50:02 +0000

A sitting state judge, Robert H. Dierker, Jr., has written a book laying out exactly how extensive is the coup d'etat being carried out by the nation's judicial class.

The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault by Robert H. Dierker, Jr. Published by Crown Forum (December 26, [...]

Why the Instant Background Check Is a Bad Idea

Larry Pratt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:49 +0000

The anti-gun Centers for Disease Control has examined several studies that focused on guns and crime and concluded that gun control laws have no impact on crime.

Congress has legislation before it to expand the Instant Background Check, aka the Brady Law. Rather than expand the program, it should be abolished.

Since the background check is mostly [...]

John Dingell: Congressional Chameleon

Larry Pratt — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:55:15 +0000

Congressman John Dingell pretends to be a friend of gun owners with his membership in the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus.

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) is an example of why politics has a bad name.

As an NRA board member, Dingell voted to ban semi-automatic firearms owned by millions of Americans. Of course, these were guns protected [...]

With Friends Like These at the UN

Larry Pratt — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:29:50 +0000

The United Nations Small Arms Conference ended with a whimper.

The 2006 United Nations Small Arms Conference mercifully come to an end -for now. As usual, our ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, was a bright light in a dark swamp.

The U.S. State Department sent the Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Robert [...]