To hear the urban elite tell it, the problem in our country is that there are just too many guns. We need to curtail that, to discourage people from exercising their right to keep and bear arms, and make it so that only certain, approved parties have firearms lawfully. It’s funny how they keep saying it despite the fact that we’ve got more gun ownership than ever before, more people carrying guns than ever before, and violent crime is down over the last few years. Weird.Yet it is an unfortunate fact that horrible things do…

Iran has listed a new condition before ending the war with the United States. Tehran is seeking full sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. This has not been on Iran’s list prior to yesterday, and Donald Trump, the U.S. president, has told other ruling classes to head to the waterway and just take the Strait of Hormuz. Trump Threatens to Take Tehran’s Oil as Iran Says U.S. Proposal Is “Unrealistic” The narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ordinarily passes has emerged as the Islamic Republic’s most potent weapon. And it is now…

Mark it on the map. A new 2027 Volkswagen Atlas has just been unveiled at the New York International Auto Show. This VW gets smoother sheet metal, a new engine, and new in-cabin tech. All that also comes with the same large interior space and more standard features than before. Atlas Gets Smoother, Fancier for New Year (Photo/Volkswagen) The Atlas is VW’s largest SUV, and it’s a big deal for the brand on the sales sheet as well. The company isn’t rocking that boat, so the 2027 Atlas is all-new but also familiar. The body is the same shape, but…

Thanks to a quirk in federal law, for nearly a century it’s been illegal to use the United States Postal Service to ship “pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person,” even though long guns can be mailed with no issue.  In January of this year, though, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a formal opinion stating the ban violates the Second Amendment. According to the OLC:Although this statute does not prohibit the shipment of concealable firearms by private companies, major express services currently forbid all persons from shipping firearms,…

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Idaho, like most Mountain West states (excluding Colorado), has pretty solid statutes with respect to the Second Amendment. A pair of Republican lawmakers, though, says the state can still improve on its laws by scrapping the “gun-free” status of government buildings that house courtrooms along with other county government offices.  While HB 621 wouldn’t allow firearms to be carried in the courtrooms, some officials who testified in opposition to the bill said it would still put employees and the public at risk. Ada County Clerk Trent Tripple says his county saved millions of dollars by combining…