Hawkins: The Second Amendment Does Not Create a Right to Keep and Bear Arms
The Second Amendment does not create a right to keep and bear arms, rather, it protects a pre-existing, God-given right to do so.
The Second Amendment does not create a right to keep and bear arms, rather, it protects a pre-existing, God-given right to do so.
The right to keep and bear arms is not something we as Americans possess because of government benevolence, but something with which our Creator endowed us.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the state’s ban on carrying switchblade knives violates the Second Amendment.
Tucker Carlson rejected the idea of gun control and told a reporter, “I have guns at home and often on my person when I’m in the United States.”
n February 7, 2024, Hawaii’s Supreme Court issued a decision saying that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) does not surpass Hawaii’s constitution, which recognizes “no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.”
A poll conducted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics shows nearly one-third of American voters believe they may have to take up arms against the U.S. government.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) used a Wednesday hearing to suggest that if Voter ID is a tax on voting rights, then firearm licensing is a tax on Second Amendment rights.
Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) announced that she will sign legislation on Thursday to eliminate the requirement for residents of her state to obtain a permit for concealed carry.
Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck says the “constitution gives gun owners greater rights than women.”
The rights enshrined in the Second Amendment would recover their fullest expression to date via national reciprocity.
The California Rifle and Pistol Association and a group of Los Angeles County residents have filed a suit to “block” state prohibitions against openly carrying a gun.
On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that Washington, D.C., may continue requiring concealed carry applicants to show “good reason,” even though U.S. District Judge Richard Leon recently ruled the requirement is likely “unconstitutional.”
Late Tuesday night, four juveniles allegedly invaded a home and were met with a burst of .380 gunfire, which wounded two, while the other two fled unharmed.
Beginning with the unrest after the August 2014 shooting of Micheal Brown and that which followed the grand jury verdict in favor of Officer Darren Wilson, as well as the fervor maintained by national hucksters intent on keeping racial tensions aflame, gun sales in Missouri are through the roof.