Category: Gun Control

Gun Owners Say Feds’ Proposed Firearms Bill Amounts to an ‘Attack’ on Their Property, Way of Life

Federal public safety minister Marco Mendicino stood in the House of Commons on Nov. 29 and said of his party’s new gun-control legislation: “I want to be clear that we are absolutely not targeting law-abiding gun owners.” But licensed firearms owners who spoke to The Epoch Times disagree, and expressed concern that they will be turned…


Biden’s Misplaced Emphasis on One Gun

Commentary We now know at least one of the priorities of the Biden administration during the remaining weeks Democrats control the House of Representatives. The president says he would try to “get rid of assault weapons.” Speaking to reporters at his Nantucket, Massachusetts, holiday house, Biden said: “The idea [that] we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be…


NTD Evening News (Nov. 25): Activist Speaks out Against Biden’s Push for Gun Control; Balenciaga Files Lawsuit Over Ad Campaign

President Biden on Nov. 24 said he plans to push for a ban on “assault weapons” during the lame duck Congress, but one activist says gun control policies actually hurt communities of color. Fashion house Balenciaga has filed a $25 million lawsuit against the producers of an ad campaign that included legal documents from a…


New Liberal Gun Amendments Target ‘Bird Hunters,’ ‘Grandpa’s Hunting Rifle’: Tory MP

Conservative MP and public safety critic Raquel Dancho today called the Liberal government’s last-minute amendments to their gun control legislation, Bill C-21, “sneaky” and “the largest assault on hunters in Canadian history.” “They’re going after Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle instead of gangsters in Toronto,” Dancho told reporters in Ottawa on Nov. 24. She told a…


3rd Circuit Upholds Federal Ban on Non-Violent Felons Owning Guns

Non-violent felons may be barred from owning guns, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit held on Nov. 16 in the first major federal appellate court ruling applying the Supreme Court’s new standard for reviewing Second Amendment cases. The Supreme Court ruling gave rise to many new legal challenges to existing gun restrictions….


New York’s Restrictive New Gun Law Reinstated by Federal Appeals Court

New York state may resume enforcing its sweeping new gun control law after a federal appeals court temporarily lifted a stay on Nov. 15 that had blocked parts of the law that had been declared unconstitutional by a lower court the week before. The judicial decision came as courts in states with restrictive gun laws…


When Protecting Criminals’ Rights Comes at the Expense of Victims

Commentary It took four years and nine months before Nicolas Cruz was finally sentenced for the murder of seventeen people in the horrific Parkland massacre. So much of the legal system focuses on fairness to the criminal; but the damage to the victims and their families as they wait for trial is tremendous. Those who have…


Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Trump-Era Bump Stock Ban

The Supreme Court has rejected another challenge to former President Donald Trump’s ban on so-called bump stocks that allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire as rapidly as a machine gun. The ruling came on Nov. 14 after the court recognized a constitutional right to bear firearms in public for self-defense in a June decision striking…


Democrats Shrug Off Crime as Their Cities Implode

Commentary Democrats have no solutions to today’s crime surge. Here’s how they shrug off the mayhem. First: Deep denial. Through Sept. 27, New Orleans suffered 208 homicides, up 44 percent versus that period in 2021 and 141 percent in 2019. The Crescent City has become America’s Murder Capital. “I do not embrace that at all,” said Democrat Mayor La Toya Cantrell….


The Finger on the Trigger

“I pulled the trigger” was a bold confession by mass shooting suspect Robert Crimo III following the tragic shooting of seven unarmed people at last year’s Fourth of July picnic in Highland Park, Wisconsin. One might think Crimo’s chilling admission would force many to deeply consider what drove the 21-year-old to take the lives of…