Newsmax RSS FeedFri, 05 Aug 2011 12:35:13 EDTAs I have often written, after a right-to-carry guns law has been passed, people often wonder what all the fuss was all about. Here is an interesting front page article in the Detroit Free Press by Dawson Bell and Gina Damron. The quotes on people who thought that there...Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:23:47 EDTJust between three states (Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas) there are over 2.1 million permit holders. Dave Fehling at KHOU Channel 11 News in Houston asks if Texas is safer with more people licensed to carry:The Texas legislature has passed a bill allowing employees to...Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:59:43 EDTIndia is trying to tackle piracy. It would be a lot cheaper if India let sailors use guns, instead of paying ransoms or turning over shipments. At least by allowing armed security guards the government recognizes the benefits of self-defense. From The Hindu newspaper:In...Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:13:05 EDTThere are several things to understand about how the Brady Law background check process works. And more to learn about how it doesn't work. At gun stores or other registered dealers, would-be buyers have to fill out a form asking whether there are any criminal convictions...Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:10:18 EDTThe Castle Doctrine has cleared two people arrested in St. Louis, Mo., for fatally shooting an intruder, according to a report in stltoday.com, a St. Louis news website. The Castle doctrine designates one's residence (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such...Wed, 18 May 2011 16:14:31 EDTSo what do you do if the government can't protect your from crime? Well, in Mexico, it is pretty hard for you to do much of anything, legally. Here's another point. Apparently I don't live next to the cool U.S. gun stores touted in this article. If the Mexican drug gangs...Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:51:41 EDTNot only has Florida now issued over 1.95 million permits since October 1, 1987, but as of the March 31 of this year, there were 801,219 active permit holders.Since Jan. 1, 2008, only four permit holders have had their permits revoked for a firearms violation ( utilized is...Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:28:42 EDTOntario police recently shut down a portion of a major highway for an entire night because of a minor police call involving someone who owned registered guns, according to the Toronto Sun. The big offense turned out to be that trigger locks weren't properly attached to...Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:23:16 EDTA new gun law proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer would ban people with arrests for drug violations from buying guns. Forbidding people from owning a gun without even requiring that they have been convicted of an offense? What's next? Would Schumer support denying people the...Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:00:47 EDTA local station in Idaho is covering renewed debate over gun control in the state. A bill is advancing in Idaho that would allow concealed weapons carry on campuses. Note how concealed carry used to be allowed in universities in Idaho.Before the House State Affairs...Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:20:11 EDTGiven the Obama administration's recent interest in all matters guns, I wonder when the big gun control speech by Obama will be. It also looks like the administration will move to restrict the importation of shotguns. Now rifle restrictions are being pushed. The NRA-ILA...Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:05:39 EDTAnother gun control bill has been introduced in Congress. An article appearing in The Hill explains what New Jersey DemocraticSen. Frank Lautenberg proposes. It focuses on gun show dealers, but what it really seeks to accomplish is more control, pure and simple. Here's...Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:01:17 EDTThe Obama administration has released a report that is ominious in its scope on assualt weapons. It appears as if the administration wants to have stricter gun control regulations for imported guns than existed under the federal assault weapon ban. The conclusion of this...Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:27:12 EDTDarren Bush, an associate law professor at the University of Houston, wrote an Op-Ed last weekend for the Salt Lake Tribune. What is most disappointing is that I debated Bush at the University of Houston last fall. He made hypothetical claims about armed students fighting...Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:24:25 EDTThe lack of logic in the gun control debate simply astounds. Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig have this claim in their article on CNN. Here is one part that they claim to use my research to support their position.Author John Lott, an economist who supports gun carrying, says...Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:38:49 EDTThe Tucson Ariz., Gabrielle Giffords shooting tragedy has gun control advocates lining up, clamoring to join the rhetoric. Calls for gun control are already being made. Gun laws have to be examined, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, ...Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:38:40 EDTIt looks like Texas, Florida, and possibly Idaho have good chances of passing concealed carry on campus this coming year. There is apparently also some support in Arizona.This article reports that Sen. Jack Harper is crafting legislation that would permit students and...Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:35:39 EDTBeing interviewed on CBS' Washington Unplugged, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said this:Never before in our history has the federal government ordered Americans to buy a product under the guise of regulating commerce. Imagine if this bill were that in order to protect...Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:13:06 EDTOn Fox News, Justice Stephen Breyer recently said historians would side with him in the case against bearing arms because they have concluded that Founding Father James Madison was more worried that the Constitution may not be ratified than he was about granting individuals...Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:55:39 EDTMy guess is that after a few months people will forget that there was ever such a complete ban, but it is still a pain to go through the pre-notice requirements. Of course, it would be even better if they let permit holders carry their guns on trains, but for now, we can...