New York’s Long-Distance Body Scanners Violate 4th Amendment

by Bob Adelmann | 5:59 am, January 23, 2012

We really know what’s happening here. Aside from conditioning us to the ever-encroaching police state, these searches are an indirect attack on the Second Amendment as well.

Arrogant ATF Makes Up Rules As It Goes Along

by Bob Adelmann | 12:22 pm, January 8, 2012

This is truly one of the most villainous and dangerous of the unconstitutional agencies. Just reading about their attacks on innocent civilians over the years gives me the willies.

Obama’s Anti-gun Agenda Remains Alive and Well

by Bob Adelmann | 12:06 pm, January 5, 2012

Just when we were beginning to think he’d forgotten about this, John Lott reminds us that Obama intends to disarm, and then enslave, us.

U.S. House Passes Conceal Carry Reciprocity Bill

by Jon Caldara | 1:06 pm, November 18, 2011

I wanted to alert my readers to a media release Dave Kopel sent out to Second Amendment friends this past Wednesday. And as a friend of conceal carry and gun rights myself, I have to give a big thanks to Dave for all his hard work. (yet again)

U.S. House passes law to allow Coloradoans [...]

Crime Plummets Post Heller and McDonald

by Jon Caldara | 10:34 am, October 19, 2011

Because of Dave Kopel’s dedication and hard work over the last couple decades, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people in the Washington DC and Chicago areas who would have been shot and killed, but instead will live full and fruitful lives. These people can thank folks like Dave Kopel who helped shape the [...]

Kopel on State Reciprocity and the Second Amendment

by Jon Caldara | 12:01 pm, September 21, 2011

Concealed carry is a hot topic in the federal legislature now with a bill coming out of the house called the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011 (H.R. 822). This bill would extend conceal carry rights across state lines, allowing a legal gun owner who lives in Colorado to freely move about the country with [...]

Colorado Supreme Court hears arguments in CU Gun Ban case; are Coloradans’ gun rights in the crosshairs?

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, June 10, 2011

“No man’s life, liberty, property, or constitutional rights are safe while the Colorado Supreme Court is in session.”  (again, with apologies to Mark Twain)
Clear The Bench Colorado has publicized the threat posed by the Colorado Supreme Court to our constitutional right to keep and bear arms in Colorado for some time (including an attempted exploitation of [...]

Dave Kopel v. Anti-Gun Thom Hartmann

by Jon Caldara | 11:35 am, June 10, 2011

What happens when an avowed anti-gunny named Thom Hartmann tries to take on Dave Kopel? Well, find out yourself.

Oooooohhhhhh, that must sting a little.

Weekend Wrap: Independence Institute Writers In The News

by Mike Krause | 1:05 pm, March 7, 2011

What do public-sector unions, highway traffic jams and gun rights all have in common? These are all recent topics of Independence Institute writers in the news.
First, in Friday’s Denver Daily News, Independence Institute education policy analyst Ben DeGrow points out, among other things, that while private-sector unions organize against management, public-sector unions actually organize [...]

Violent Euphemisms

by Jon Caldara | 3:26 pm, January 12, 2011

The New York Times, that bastion of fair and balanced reporting, has an entertaining opinion section called “Room for Debate.” In it, knowledgeable outsiders contribute little opinion pieces concerning the current events of the day. For example, the Tuscon, AZ shooting prompted the Times to solicit arguments for and against the notion that “more guns [...]

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