Second Amendment

Gun rights advocates won a big victory in federal court this week, in a case that was, for all intents and purposes, a back door ban on gun sales:

California is poised to join the list of states that will vote on ballot initiatives this November curtailing gun rights.

Lame duck presidents don't have a great deal to do at this point in their final term in office, except for create mischief. So Mr. Obama has decided to do two things about firearms.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says we just have too many guns. And it's the fault of the all-powerful gun lobby:

Twitter has fallen on hard times lately, with its audience stagnant and its stock price tanking because it can't seem to find enough ad revenue to support its valuation. One might think these factors would give the social network every incentive to allow political ad campaigns to spend money on its platform.

Gun rights foes have used any number of schemes to limit the Second Amendment, but in the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S.

 That's the general conclusion of an academic study from the University of Illinois, Chicago, which seems to believe that white racial resentment explains some of the push-back against gun control laws. But how did they arrive at such a bizarre conclusion? 

The Secret Service has decreed that no firearms will be allowed inside the GOP convention hall, nor will any be allowed within a 'predetermined outer perimeter checkpoint':

A unanimous U.S.