Month: September 2025

[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] 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.
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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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[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
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[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,
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[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
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[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
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[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.
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