[ad_1] ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — The First District Court of Appeals formally struck down Florida’s open-carry gun ban as unconstitutional Wednesday. The three-judge panel included Judge Stephanie Ray, who wrote the opinion, as well as Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. What You Need To Know Florida law currently has banned the open carry
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[ad_1] Plenty of ink has been spilled on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the sweeping piece of budget reconciliation legislation that cuts taxes, creates “Trump accounts” for newborns, and grants an unprecedented new surge of funding in support of mass deportation and border security efforts. But one of the law’s biggest impacts may be
[ad_1] Americans today own between 350 million and 450 million guns — more than one gun per person, though only about one American in three owns them. On a per capita basis, no other nation, developed or developing, has more guns. This is also a nation with few gun laws, especially at the national level.
[ad_1] A bushy-browed, pipe-smoking, piano-playing Antonin Scalia—Nino—the scourge of the left, knew how to work a crowd. He loved opera; he loved theater; he loved show tunes. In high school, he played the lead role in Macbeth: “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.” As clever as
[ad_1] Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention, you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice last week. Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among DOJ top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was in the wake of last month’s horrendous Minneapolis church shooting by
[ad_1] It’s ground that presidents have hardly ever crossed outside of times of war, and experts say it’s remaking the role of the most powerful military in the world and its relationship with the American public. National Guard troops have been patrolling the streets of U.S. cities, as a prelude to weapons of war being
[ad_1] Society / September 9, 2025 The Pulitzer Prize– and Emmy Award–winning journalist recounts a story of hope and heartbreak on the South Side of Chicago. Ad Policy Carolyn Wortham holds a portrait of her family during a press conference on April 24, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. Worthams’ son, Chicago Police officer and Iraq War
[ad_1] Every spring, University of Pittsburgh faculty members gather to discuss a pressing topic affecting higher education. In 2021, this was antiracism and equity. In 2023, it was generative AI. Gagging Academia The right to teach, debate and protest faces a high-stakes challenge in Pittsburgh’s universities and beyond. This year was academic freedom. The gathering’s
[ad_1] In the wake of a tragic shooting in Minnesota, some conservative voices—including prominent commentators and alleged sources within the Department of Justice—have floated the idea of banning transgender individuals from owning or purchasing firearms. But national gun rights organizations are pushing back hard, calling the proposal unconstitutional and discriminatory. Conservative Voices Call for a
[ad_1] Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. A Florida sales tax holiday that typically applies to hunting, fishing and camping equipment has been expanded this year, covering firearms and ammunition for the first time. Starting Monday, those purchasing firearms and ammunition in Florida will be exempt from sales tax through the end of the year.
[ad_1] That tragedy in Minneapolis, where two children were killed, and fourteen other kids and 3 elderly adults were injured, could have been prevented or at least greatly minimized if only the five-year-olds who were attending mass were allowed to conceal carry. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a
[ad_1] Gun rights groups are increasing their criticism of the Trump DOJ’s trans gun ban, with the Second Amendment Foundation’s Kosta Moros calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” On Friday, Breitbart News reported that the NRA, Gun Owners of America, the National Association for Gun Rights, Texas Gun Rights, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to
[ad_1] The Trump administration is considering restricting the Second Amendment rights of transgender Americans, reports media outlets as varied as CNN and the New York Post. This would be an unjustified attack on the constitutional rights of Americans to defend themselves and it is absurd the administration is even considering it. The Constitution, as affirmed
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When it comes to Second Amendment issues, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is still the 800-pound gorilla of the pro-gun rights movement. Other groups take a harder line, but whenever an anti-gun politician starts working his or her blowhole about the “gun lobby,” it’s always the NRA they bring up as their arch-demon.
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Rifle Association (NRA) has sounded off on reports that the Trump administration is mulling a way of limiting transgender people’s ability to purchase firearms. The gun lobby group, the largest in the U.S. with 5 million members, according to its website, released a statement
[ad_1] The Trump administration’s reported proposal to ban transgender people from owning guns has drawn condemnation from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and every other notable gun-rights group in the country. The Daily Wire first reported Thursday, based on anonymous Justice Department sources, that senior officials in the department are considering using their rulemaking authority
[ad_1] The Republican Party and fundamentalist Christians that are bent on running the country are adamantly opposed to right to die laws because they fervently believe in the sanctity of life. They claim similar moral justification regarding a woman’s right to choose, disparaging the difficult choice to terminate a pregnancy, often referring to the mother
[ad_1] In the wake of last week’s Annunciation Catholic Church shooting by a transgender gunman, multiple outlets reported that the DOJ is reviewing its ability to possibly take away gun rights for transgender people. The NRA is taking the side of transgender gun owners, announcing its stance in a post on X. “The NRA supports
[ad_1] As an educator, I endure the trauma of lockdown drills with my students every month. I carry a bleed kit and a tourniquet—tools no teacher should ever need in a school but which have become as common as textbooks. Only in America would a teacher say this. No other advanced nation has normalized
[ad_1] Was floating a ban on trans people owning guns just some basement-level idiot’s idea for “owning the libs”? In the wake of Robin Westman’s deadly Minneapolis rampage, some troll in the bowels of the Trump Justice Department reportedly proposed blocking trans people from buying firearms by declaring them all “mentally ill.” This, of course,
[ad_1] LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Manual High School students walked out of class today to take action against gun violence. Dozens of students walked out of class on Friday, September 5, carrying signs and wearing shirts that read “students demand action.” The demonstration comes in the wake of the deadly shooting in Minneapolis. Two kids
[ad_1] After news broke that Trump’s Department of Justice was considering taking away transgender people’s right to gun ownership, I asked the uncompromising National Rifle Association for its position. I didn’t hear back. This morning, an NRA spokesperson sent a link to a statement on Twitter. Though it took a day to react to a red-line-crossing
[ad_1] The Justice Department is reviewing whether to expand how federal firearm restrictions apply, following a mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church that left two children dead and 21 others wounded. According to reports using anonymous sources from CNN and The Wall Street Journal, internal discussions have touched on whether transgender individuals could be
[ad_1] Before Donald Trump had even won last year’s presidential election, Gun Owners of America, one of the country’s most aggressive second amendment champions, saw an opportunity to use the coming budget bill to overturn one of the country’s core gun laws. Their target: the National Firearms Act. Passed in 1934 in response to gangster-era
[ad_1] Mandatory Gun Liability Insurance By Joel D. Joseph. Mr. Joseph was the publisher of NRA: Money, Firepower and Fear, the first expose of the gun lobby. Thirty-six years ago, I proposed in a New York Times opinion piece that gun owners should be required to have liability insurance. New York Times, July 8, 1989.
[ad_1] The National Rifle Association holds the Second Amendment to be self-evident. There is no room for debate. For decades, it has fought against almost every form of it on the local, state, and national levels. You can blame (or thank) the NRA for the assault weapons ban expiring in 2004 and for defeating a
[ad_1] Speculation swirls about fugitive accused double murderer Dezi Freeman’s potential ties to prepper groups and possible doomsday beliefs. There are even questions over whether he’s hiding in a home-made underground bunker. One Facebook user in a prominent Australian Preppers group wrote: I don’t like that the prepper community will now be made to look
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Jeff had this earlier today, but it’s a long time coming for some groups. The Justice Department is mulling banning gun ownership for those who identify as transgender. It goes beyond the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that occurred on August 27, where two kids were shot and killed,
[ad_1] A judge has ruled that a Delaware law tightening gun regulations for residents under the age of 21 violates the… A judge has ruled that a Delaware law tightening gun regulations for residents under the age of 21 violates the state Constitution. House Bill 451, which was signed into law in 2022 by former
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