Category: guns

Appeals Court Rules Federal Ban on Illegal Aliens Having Guns Is Okay

The categorical ban that prevents illegal aliens from possessing firearms does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court held. The ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit came July 29 in United States v. Perez, court file 19-620-cr. Cam Edwards writes at Bearing Arms that the…


Appeals Court Upholds Federal Ban on Illegal Aliens Having Guns

The categorical ban that prevents illegal aliens from possessing firearms doesn’t violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court held. The ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit came July 29 in United States v. Perez, court file 19-620-cr. Cam Edwards writes at Bearing Arms that the ruling is…


Time to End Another Failed California Gun Control Law

Commentary Gun control laws don’t work. Yet politicians eager to curb Americans’ Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” keep pushing for tighter laws to grab more guns. A good example is California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), defined by Attorney General Rob Bonta’s website as “a database populated with data from a…


Biden Suggests He Wants to ‘Eliminate’ Gun Magazines That Hold More Than 20 Rounds

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said his administration wants to push for legislation that bars high-capacity magazines for handguns and rifles. “I’m the only guy that ever got passed legislation when I was a senator to make sure we eliminated assault weapons,” Biden said during a CNN event on Wednesday, referring to the 1994 Violent…


Biden Suggests He Wants to ‘Eliminate’ Handgun Magazines That Hold More Than 20 Rounds

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said his administration wants to push for legislation that bars high-capacity magazines for handguns and rifles. “I’m the only guy that ever got passed legislation when I was a senator to make sure we eliminated assault weapons,” Biden said during a CNN event on Wednesday, referring to the 1994 Violent…


4 Arrested, Guns Seized at Hotel Near All-Star Game Events

Four people have been arrested and more than a dozen weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition have been seized at a downtown Denver hotel that is close to several events planned in conjunction with the upcoming Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Officers responding to a tip searched two rooms at the Maven Hotel, a…


 White House Creates Gun Trafficking Strike Force for Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The White House announced July 12 that the U.S. Department of Justice launched a gun trafficking strike force in Los Angeles to prevent guns coming across state lines from areas with weaker gun laws. The funding for the strike forces—which will also be in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and the Bay Area—comes…


California Judge Rules That Mass Shooting Victims Can Sue Gun Manufacturer

A California judge ruled that victims of a 2019 shooting in San Diego that left one dead and three wounded can sue the manufacturer of a rifle and the gun shop that sold it. Superior Court Judge Kenneth Medel wrote Wednesday that the victims and families in the shooting in Poway, California, can file a…


California Judge Rules That Shooting Victims Can Sue Gun Manufacturer

A California judge ruled that victims of a 2019 shooting in San Diego that left one dead and three wounded can sue the manufacturer of a rifle and the gun shop that sold it. Superior Court Judge Kenneth Medel ruled (pdf) Wednesday that the victims and families in the shooting in Poway, California, can file…


Baltimore Police Bust ‘Ghost Gun’ Manufacturing Operation

Baltimore police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested four people who were suspected of manufacturing “ghost guns,” or do-it-yourself firearms that lack serial numbers, during a raid in North Baltimore. Other than ghost guns and manufacturing equipment, officials found drugs and drug manufacturing equipment. “Ghost guns are a fairly new but extremely dangerous phenomenon,” said…