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Gun Rights, Civil Rights -- The heirs of the Black Panthers and the fight for black open carry
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When a cop shot teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer, the death sparked protests, a militarized law enforcement response, and finally looting and destruction. But the Huey P. Newton Gun Club was ready. The Dallas-based group had formed in June 2014, more than two months before the shooting.
Charles Goodson, the club's founder, started recruiting members after he learned that Dallas police officers had shot at 40 unarmed citizens over the past 12 years. ...
A group of black men and women standing against police brutality and in favor of the Second Amendment: It's a combination that tends to scramble partisan narratives. Goodson says he's received support from across the political spectrum. |
Should We Respect the Law? Which law is worth our respect?
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Which is the greater threat to freedom, too little respect for the law — or too much?
With ever more laws on the books serving to curtail individual rights, suppress human flourishing, and cripple the process of wealth creation, it would seem that the healthy attitude for advocates of liberty would be one of unequivocal disrespect. |
Cornell University Law School: Individual Right to Bear Arms Created in 2008
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On Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII) webpage introducing the Second Amendment, the individual right to keep and bear arms is presented as dating all the way back to 2008.
They claim the “theory” of an individual right was given legs by the Supreme Court of the United State’s decision in District of Columbia v Heller (2008), and that prior to this decision, the right to keep and bear arms was viewed as a “collective” one. |
NC: Concealed Carry Permits Soar In Hippie-Filled Asheville
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Whatever the reason for getting a concealed carry — self-defense, political beliefs about the right to bear arms, worries about terrorism, crime or societal implosion — the numbers of concealed carry permit holders keep rising.
That mirrors a national trend in which the number of concealed carry permit holders rose by 136 percent from 1999 to 2014, when it passed 11.1 million.
In Buncombe County, the number of permits issued in 2010 was 1,238. Last year it was 2,491, a 101 percent jump. |
Why Can’t We Simply Carry?
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The so-called “mainstream” media likes to spin a scary narrative of lawlessness, even of anarchy, when “permitless carry” (sometimes called “constitutional carry”) is brought before a state legislature. When the media does this, whether through ignorance or bias, they’re simply ignoring the facts. For example, Vermont, which has long had permitless carry, has also long had one of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation.
States, nevertheless, can still be laboratories of democracy—even with politically incorrect gun laws. That is part of what’s going on with permitless carry. As of this writing, states with some legal form of permitless concealed carry include Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Vermont and Wyoming. |
VT: When Armed and Safe Is Not Good Enough
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Much to the frustration of gun control advocates who rate Vermont as "F," the state with the highest per capita gun ownership in the country and virtually no gun restrictions, has a murder rate so low it is "off the charts." The FBI reported that in 2012 there were just eight murders in Vermont of which only two involved firearms. As a 2014 article put it, Vermont is "Safe and Happy and Armed to the Teeth." The Vermont Constitution gives residents a robust right "to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State." Any Vermont resident or visitor to Vermont who legally owns a gun can carry it. |
How Your NRA Goes To Court
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Electoral politics and legislation obviously play key roles in defending our firearm freedoms, and no organization is more effective in this realm than your National Rifle Association. Yet another vital facet of advancing and protecting the Second Amendment is pro-gun litigation. Here, too, the NRA leads the way.
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Gun grabbers have hijacked the Boy Scouts—Who’s next?
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The Washington Times reported recently that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have banned water gun fights. Why? Because BSA leaders say that “pointing a firearm [simulated or otherwise]” is not “kind.”
Obviously, this has nothing to do with promoting scout values. Rather, it is just another attempt to villainize the use of guns—even fake ones—to promote their vision of a “utopian” gun-free world.
What better place to advance their indoctrination efforts than the Boy Scouts of America? The group describes itself as “one of the nation’s largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations.” By tweaking BSA’s values from within, gun haters are able to impact all the students who come through the organization. |
TX: Second Amendment 101: Texas moves to allow guns at universities
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A law restricting universities from banning the concealed carrying of handguns on campus received preliminary approval by Texas legislators. House Democrats tried to stall the vote on the bill, but gave up just minutes before the deadline.
The “campus carry” law, or Senate Bill 11, received preliminary approval by a 101-47 vote, after House Republicans added amendments exempting hospitals and allowing universities to establish limited gun-free areas. Another amendment said that private colleges would have to follow the lead of public universities concerning the measure, reported the Texas Tribune. |
TX: Gun bills inch forward in Legislature
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Both the House and the Senate have approved two hotly debated measures to expand gun rights by letting licensed Texans openly carry holstered handguns statewide and bring concealed handguns on any college campus.
But with less than a week left in the session, the bills aren’t going to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has said he would sign both into law. Instead, open carry now heads to a conference committee, and campus carry goes back to the Senate. |
TX: Law enforcement groups oppose open carry amendment
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Law enforcement groups from around the state voiced their opposition Wednesday to an amended open carry bill approved by the Texas Senate that would prohibit police officers from stopping or questioning someone solely because he is openly carrying a handgun.
Representatives from the Dallas Police Association, Houston Police Officers' Union and other police groups hosted a news conference calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to veto House Bill 910, which would legalize the open carry of handguns, if the amendment is left in the bill.
Ed.: These cops need to be reminded of the 4th Amendment. |
NV: Key gun bill awaits Gov. Sandoval's signature
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Sandoval has eight days to sign the bill into law.
The bill mandates wide-ranging changes on Nevada guns laws, supported by many in the gun lobby at the Legislature.
The key provisions of SB 175 include:
… Barring a person with a domestic violence conviction from buying a gun,
… Ending Clark County's "blue card" law, which mandates owners of handguns to register them with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department;
… Honoring more out-of-state concealed-weapons permits of those visiting Nevada; and
… Extending the "castle doctrine," where you are allowed to use lethal force to protect yourself in your home, to include occupied vehicles. |
TX: Texas students one step closer to campus carry
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"We embrace the first amendment on college campuses and this is a bill that would allow us to have a fuller expression of the second amendment for law abiding, concealed handgun owners on college campuses," State Rep. Matt Schaefer said,
Now that an amended version of the bill passed in the House, it sets up negotiations with the Senate, which has passed a similar bill. A compromise would have to be sent to Governor Abbott by June 1st to be signed into law. |
VA: Showdown in Arlington County Over Opening of Gun Store
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The would-be gun shop owner is a Marine Corps veteran: James Gates, 28 is getting his own support to open the shop and push back on the protest, from Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans. They’ve started a petition of their own:
“NOVA Firearms, which plans to open the shop, is owned by Marine Corps veteran James “J.B.” Gates. Stand with J.B., the 2nd Amendment, and small business owners everywhere by signing the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans’ petition of support below.”
The GOP petition features an image of Uncle Sam with the slogan “We Want You to Support the Second Amendment.” |
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