Gun Rights
The ACLU joins the NRA in urging SCOTUS to uphold pot users’ gun rights
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), despite its name, historically has not been keen on defending the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. After the Supreme Court affirmed that right in the landmark 2008 case…
Politicians consider Soviet-style controls on 3D printers
The old Soviet Union strictly controlled photocopiers, because they empowered individuals to share ideas that challenged state control. The restrictions ultimately broke down under the weight of mass defiance as people took…
If ‘you bring a gun’ to D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro warns, ‘you’re going to jail’
If "you bring a gun" to Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro warned during a Fox News interview on Monday, "you're going to jail." Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, was touting her…
The NRA and NORML unite to oppose the federal gun ban for marijuana users
A federal law enacted in 1968, 177 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, makes it a felony, currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for an "unlawful user" of "any controlled…
Virginia Democrats advance 7 gun control bills
The Second Amendment states, and the Virginia Constitution repeats, that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Someone ought to tell the Virginia state Senate. This week, the…
DHS retreats from claim that agents who killed Alex Pretti faced a ‘violent riot’
Federal officials have repeatedly claimed that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees who fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on Saturday did so in the midst of a "riot." The situation,…
Disarming millions of Americans based on marijuana use is unconstitutional, a SCOTUS brief says
Judging from federal survey data, nearly a quarter of Americans 18 or older used marijuana in 2024, while 16 percent reported using it during the previous month. Those numbers suggest that somewhere between 43 million and 62…
Alex Pretti’s death widens a split between Trump and gun rights groups
After U.S. Border Patrol agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on Saturday, federal officials described him as a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assassin" who "wanted to do maximum…
Trump backpedals from portraying Alex Pretti as a ‘would-be assassin’
After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Minneapolis protester Renee Good on January 7, President Donald Trump claimed she "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE…
DHS promises to investigate Pretti shooting but has prejudged the outcome
Hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis protester Renee Good on January 7, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Good was engaged in…
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