In less than a month from now, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, the challenge to Hawaii’s default ban on concealed carry on all private property (also known as the “vampire rule”, thanks to FPC’s Rob Romano) unless property owners specifically allow it. Amicus briefs in support of both the plaintiffs and defendants have now been filed with the Court, and over the next couple of days we’ll be taking a closer look at some of the arguments raised in defense of the gun control law… starting with the amicus brief filed by Everytown…
Jillian Hinton’s face lights up with a wide smile as Kylo, a two-year-old black lab, playfully saunters over to her desk, resting his face on her lap as Hinton begins a recent Zoom call. Kylo is the first service dog to be placed with a Gold Star family through Dogs Inc., which trains highly skilled companion dogs. Since losing her husband, Terrance, in a devastating accident in 2017, Hinton and her young daughter, Kayleigh, barely five years old, struggled to cope. But when Kayleigh was placed with Taylor, a therapy dog in 2020, her mom quickly saw how much the dog boosted…
United States forces recently launched Operation Hawkeye Strike in Syria, hammering ISIS targets in a large-scale assault provoking broader questions about the terror cell’s impact on U.S. national security.U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the Dec. 19 strike targeted Islamic State networks and infrastructure through coordinated strikes aimed at preventing future attacks on American and partner forces. The announcement of the military operation, part of an ongoing counterterrorism campaign, did not include a full accounting of targets hit, casualties, or whether additional phases are planned.“This operation reinforces our commitment to defeating ISIS wherever it attempts to operate,” a CENTCOM spokesperson told…
The state of California is about as drug-friendly a state as exists in the nation. Interestingly, that drug-friendly nature doesn’t extend to gun owners who might like to smoke a joint now and then. In the case U.S. v Hermani, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to the law restricting marijuana users from purchasing or possessing guns. A lower court ruled for the plaintiffs and found that the restriction violates the Second Amendment-protected rights of those pot users. That ruling was appealed to the Supreme Court. Now, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with AGs from 20 other…
The fundamental premise of the gun control lobby is that more guns leads to more crime. So you can imagine the headscratching and befuddlement by gun control activists now that violent crime is dropping dramatically across the country, to the point that 2025 is likely going to have the lowest U.S. homicide rate since the FBI started keeping track back in 1960. The Bloomberg-funded website The Trace says 2025 has been a “paradoxical year on the gun violence beat.” We’re still seeing hundreds of thousands of firearms sold each month, even if numbers are well-off…
Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one with a gunshot wound. Hours later, four German Wehrmacht soldiers showed up as well. The German woman forced both groups to surrender their weapons and sit down together for Christmas dinner. The next morning, the enemies shook hands and returned to the war.The brief moment of peace occurred in a hunting cabin in the middle of the Hurtgen Forest during the Battle of the Bulge.The Battle of…
We all love freedom. We love the range, the outdoors, the camaraderie, the cold beer waiting at the end of a long hunt or a long day. That’s normal. That’s American. But every now and then, it’s worth leveling with ourselves as gun owners: booze and firearms don’t mix, and the data is honestly a little sobering. This isn’t a lecture, and it’s not a call to hand over your guns because someone somewhere did something stupid. It’s simply a reminder that alcohol can turn bad situations worse and stupid situations deadly. And if we want to keep our rights…
World War I has a strange place in our collective memory. It changed our collective history and the world, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. On Tuesday, Jan. 13, that “forgotten war” gets the spotlight in Midtown, not through a lecture or a timeline, but through music, story, and a genuinely close-up, personal story. New World Stages hosts The Story of a Rose: A Musical Reverie on the Great War, a one-night-only presentation created by and starring Melissa Errico, produced by The Doughboy Foundation. It starts at 7:00 p.m., and it’s designed as a lush, theatrical one-woman concert:…
This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute. Our plane landed at JFK at 10:30 p.m. after a nine-hour flight from Istanbul. Our day had begun in Riga, Latvia, where my wife, me, and our adopted Latvian daughter had been visiting, the Latvia trip being her high school graduation present. Trans-Atlantic flights, especially when one travels in coach, are always an ordeal, but our ordeal really began after we had landed and were herded into the passport line. With a heavily-tattooed official barking commands at us, we dutifully lined up to try to enter our…
Western Australia is marking the one-year anniversary of what officials call the “toughest knife laws in the nation.” Government leaders are celebrating the milestone. Gun owners and civil liberties advocates should be paying attention. Since December 20, 2024, police in Western Australia have been granted sweeping authority to stop and scan people for knives—without a warrant, without suspicion, and without probable cause. In just twelve months, that power has been exercised more than 102,000 times across the state. The result, according to the government: 228 edged weapons seized and more than 1,900 criminal charges laid against 1,076 people. Those numbers…
First of all, Merry Christmas from all of us at Bearing Arms! Posting will be considerably lighter than normal today (in fact, I can’t promise there’ll be another post after this one), but we’ll be back in full swing tomorrow. Now onto the news. Yesterday I wrote about the historic decline in violent crime, especially homicide, that’s happened during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Most U.S. cities have seen significant decreases in both fatal and non-fatal shootings, including Nashville, Tennessee. Interestingly, those declines are happening despite police reporting a substantial increase in the number…
Leggio “Lee” Sassi’s military career started off as a precocious teenager, lying about his age to enter the Army. Almost 90 years later, he received France’s most prestigious service award. Sassi, 103, was given the French Legion of Honor – similar to the U.S. Medal of Honor – during a special event last week in Ellicott City, Maryland, according to Army.mil.Sassi lied about his age to join the Army in 1938 at the tender age of 15. After completing a two-year contract, he extended his service to help train soldiers at Fort Meade, Maryland. He received an honorable discharge in 1941…
American soldiers and German troops fought Waffen-SS units together in Czechoslovakia on April 28, 1945. The mission was to rescue some of Europe’s rarest horses before the Soviet Red Army arrived.Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought alongside each other against a common enemy. The raid saved more than 1,200 horses, including 375 irreplaceable Lipizzaners whose bloodlines stretched back four centuries. Days later, the Czechs greeted their American liberators with flowers as U.S. armor rolled into Pilsen. But the Yalta Conference had assigned Czechoslovakia to the Soviet…
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