There are “help wanted” signs posted all over the country, and billboards along the highway announce that major companies are rolling out the red carpet for new hires. Fast food restaurants in some states are even paying up to $20 per hour for jobs [...]

Memphis police reported an armed customer at a Dollar General location on the city’s south side stepped up Tuesday morning and thwarted a robbery attempt. One armed robbery suspect was killed, a second is in custody while a third is being sought by law [...]

Rights are precarious things. Once they start being infringed upon, there is little chance that those lost to bad actors will return. In this light, they must be shielded and protected with all the diligence society can muster. But what happens when rights intersect? [...]

Is a court ruling that law enforcement officials will not enforce a ruling? That is the question in Maryland, where state police say they will continue to enforce a controversial handgun law despite it being found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court. The agency [...]

Criminals by their very nature are not very smart, but sometimes they have the great misfortune of having this lack of brain power combined with sheer dumb luck. This was the case for a hapless alleged violent trespasser in Las Vegas. Security camera footage [...]

Not much is more annoying than a person who comes in from elsewhere trying to tell the locals how to live their lives. In the South, that person might commit the unpardonable sin of rattling on about how things are done “up North.” An [...]

There is a harsh truth about traditions, no matter how time-honored and cherished they may be. They could be centuries old and the stuff that family histories and even legends are made of. But if they are not cherished, if they are not carefully [...]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is celebrating a “significant victory” for gun rights in Maryland as a federal court on Tuesday struck down an oppressive state law.  The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the state’s Handgun Qualification License (HQL) violates the [...]

According to authorities in Port Orange, Florida, a man who was just released on bail the day before was shot and killed attempting to climb through a bedroom window. He was incarcerated for just a few hours before walking free. Police said 46-year-old Justin [...]

Michigan gun owners face a new wave of state restrictions on gun rights, and some of them are now expanded to cover non-violent misdemeanors. Proponents sold the package, signed into law Monday, to combat domestic violence, and certainly there are many cases in which [...]

It was 2022 when Oregon voters barely passed an anti-Second Amendment measure that severely curtailed gun rights in the state. The contentious proposal drew support from a few urban areas, but the vast majority of the state’s counties soundly rejected it. With only 50.65% [...]

American gun ownership is at a record high as more than half of U.S. voters live in a household with a firearm. This word came Tuesday from a nationwide NBC News poll. Researchers discovered that 52% of registered voters reported that they or someone [...]

Another day, another good guy with a gun defends themselves from a violent criminal. This is an all-too-common refrain in 2023, and it bears testimony to the need to be armed and prepared. In this most recent instance, a San Diego County homeowner shot [...]

Maryland officials a decade ago decided that the state’s law-abiding citizens should not own handguns. To get around the Second Amendment, lawmakers erected a series of draconian barriers in the Firearm Safety Act of 2013 to prevent possession of these firearms. But on Tuesday, [...]

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert signed a pair of anti-gun measures in her continuing push to suppress the Second Amendment in her Nebraska city. One banned citizens from owning bump stocks and the other prohibited hobby gun kits. Nebraska offices are nonpartisan, but she previously [...]

Let’s face it. In the age of Twitter and TikTok, many people get their current events in smaller than bite-sized morsels. There’s little reading to the end of the article or finding opposing viewpoints to balance perspective.  Instead, what the announcer says on the [...]

It seems like common sense that after a divorce or breakup, battling ex-partners should go their separate ways and move on with their lives. Thankfully this is normally the case, but all too often the exact opposite occurs. And sometimes it leads to deadly [...]

Many saw the video that went viral after a shocking Nov. 4 incident in California in which a father was attacked as he was entering his home. His wife and infant child were inside. Vince Ricci was not a victim, however, as he drew [...]

We are only two months removed from the humiliating defeat suffered by New Mexico’s anti-gun Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), and already state leaders are planning another round of attacks on Second Amendment rights. Citing a nebulous “public health emergency,” Grisham attempted to impose [...]

A highly publicized gun case ended with a whimper when charges against New York City council member Inna Vernikov were quietly dropped. She was accused of illegally carrying a concealed handgun at a pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College — deemed a “sensitive place.” When [...]

U.S. mayors have an interesting tactic for suppressing crime in their cities. Instead of targeting and locking away those who prey on the innocent, these political leaders more frequently go after those who obey the law and choose to defend themselves. Lawful gun owners [...]

A federal judge on Monday made the startling ruling that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms does not cover sales of weapons. In his decision, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane rejected a request from Colorado gun owners to enjoin the [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the contentious case of Cargill v. Garland, the legal challenge to the ban on bump stocks. The high court granted cert on Friday, meaning the arguments will be made before the bench for a final decision. The Bureau [...]

A man convicted of driving under the influence in 2005 received good news Tuesday, and it has implications for similar situations nationwide. Edward A. Williams was convicted of DUI in Pennsylvania. He had a previous DUI non-conviction in 2001 that was subsequently expunged, but [...]

The fight for gun rights is a never-ending quest for Second Amendment advocates. There is seldom a time when the guard can be let down or the diligent defense of liberties can be put aside for more trivial pursuits. Now, that fight continues in [...]