Archive for the ‘Gun Rights’ Category

Bill Clinton Gives Credit to the NRA

I am not the biggest fan of today’s NRA, due to their wishy-washy half-hearted support for the Constitutional rights of ordinary Americans to own firearms.  Nonetheless, I was very happy to see Bill Clinton remind us of the organizations purer days. In an exclusive interview with FoxNews, Clinton...
February 23rd, 2010 | Gun Rights, Politics | Read More

Who Can Amend the Constitution?

According to the original U.S. Constitution, the Constitution can only be amended when the change is “ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof.” Apparently that part of the Constitution doesn’t apply in Massachusetts. Greg...
February 17th, 2010 | Gun Rights, Politics | Read More

Flaying the NRA

Brian Doherty does a pretty decent job of flaying the National Rifle Association in a Reason article titled The NRA Muscles into McDonald v. Chicago. I’m an NRA Life Member and I tend to think of the NRA as a strong ally in the cause of liberty, but they have become a very unreliable ally. I am...
February 12th, 2010 | Gun Rights | Read More

British Subject Faces Five Years in Prison for Turning in Shotgun to Police

In the United States we say “A man with a gun is a citizen, a man without a gun is a subject.”  In Britain, it appears that a man who finds a shotgun and turns it in to his local police is not even a subject — he’s a felon. Paul Clarke was on the balcony of his home in when he...
December 4th, 2009 | Gun Rights | Read More

Implementing the Firearms Act

Implementing the Firearms Act is a fascinatingly detailed article from CBC News about the costs of gun registration in Canada. It seems that the leftist politicians who wanted the impose “gun” control on the people of Canada promised that it would only cost $2M to do so. It turns out that...
October 18th, 2009 | Gun Rights | Read More

Montana Stands Up Against Federal Government Tyranny

There is something about living in the wide open spaces of Montana which seems to lead men to understand the true nature of freedom more easily than those individuals who live in the crowded urban  jungles of our Eastern seaboard. The folks in Montana may have created a real problem for themselves this...
September 4th, 2009 | Gun Rights | Read More

A Gun Home is a Happy Home

Arthur Brooks recently penned a very interesting piece for the Wall St. Journal, Trigger Happy. Brooks mined data from the General Social Survey and published some very powerful statistics: 34% of American homes contain guns. Gun owners have the same level of formal education as non owners. Gun owners...
September 3rd, 2009 | Gun Rights | Read More