Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has done a good job of presenting himself to the media as a centrist Democrat. However, it’s also pretty clear that no matter where he stands on other issues, he’s in absolute lockstep with the most radical parts of the party on guns. After all, he vetoed two measures that were pro-gun, but shouldn’t have been remotely controversial. Unfortunately for Beshear, he’s the governor of Kentucky, and the legislature feels very differently about the Second Amendment.Kentucky lawmakers have overridden dozens of vetoes from Gov. Andy Beshear this week, including House Bill…
A major legal fight over one of the Biden-era ATF rules just took a sharp turn. And it’s a big one. According to Gun Owners of America and the Gun Owners Foundation, the Department of Justice has officially moved to dismiss its appeal in the ongoing case challenging the ATF’s “Engaged in the Business” rule. This is welcome news from DOJ, and helps fulfill President Trump’s campaign promise to get rid of Biden’s universal background checks.GOA’s preliminary injunction now returns to the district court, where we hope Biden’s evil rule will be vacated once and for all. 👏👏👏 https://t.co/2KSzYxUR96— Gun…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And if you’re Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, these are desperate times, indeed. Hot on the heels of polling data showing that she is so far in the hole that she’ll likely never climb out, Gov. Spanberger can almost see her party’s chance at redrawing Congressional district lines to heavily favor Democrats going down the tubes. Consequently, rather than sign the unpopular measure, SB 749/HB 217, passed by the State Assembly banning many common semi-automatic rifles, Gov. Spanberger has instead made minor amendments to that bill and several others, which will push her deadline…
The United States said that it may be preparing for a “financial bombing” of Iran. This will entail applying secondary sanctions on financial institutions that do business with Tehran. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on Wednesday that the U.S. is preparing to ramp up economic pain on Iran by levying secondary sanctions on financial institutions that do business with the Middle Eastern nation, according to the Associated Press News (AP News). Bessent called the measure the “financial equivalent” of the bombing campaign. U.S. President Donald Trump also claimed that China has agreed not to supply Iran with any weapons to be…
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Gun Owners of America is celebrating a win in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after the Department of Justice abruptly reversed course in a lawsuit challenging the ATF’s expanded definition of who is “engaged in the business” of dealing firearms that was put into effect under the Biden administration and then-ATF Director Steve Dettelbach. The rule was explicitly designed to get as close as possible to “universal” background checks without a new law being passed by Congress, and treated the vast majority of private, person-to-person sales as those that should be conducted by a…
Ohio has had a firearms preemption law in place for several decades now, but despite the statute cities across the Buckeye State continue to adopt their own local gun control laws. That could finally end, though, if a bill approved by the Ohio Senate this week is signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. The Columbus Dispatch says the bill is meant to “punish cities that pass gun restrictions by threatening local leaders with large attorney bills.” That’s true enough, though the paper would have been better off by stating the measure would “punish cities that pass…
An anti-gun organization’s shenanigans of enriching itself by refusing to file necessary reports on joint fundraising solicitations have the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) crying foul. On April 13, the NSSF filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Giffords PAC, the political fundraising arm of the gun control group Giffords. In the complaint, NSSF alleges Giffords PAC and its allies are skirting the FEC’s joint fundraising rules when they solicit funds for both Giffords PAC and their preferred candidates for elected office. According to an NSSF news release, Giffords PAC has been using these joint fundraising solicitations to…
In a 50/49 vote Thursday morning, the Senate chose to overturn a 20-year mining ban on the Superior National Forest outside of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Conservationists called it a major blow to public lands. Despite passionate arguments from Democrats against H.J. Res. 140, which passed the House earlier this year, Senate Republicans banded together to approve the resolution. Just two Republican Senators joined Democrats to oppose the measure: Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the only Senator who didn’t vote. It was introduced in January by Rep. Pete Stauber, a House…
This article was originally published by Mark Thornton at The Mises Institute. Over the last year, the precious metal markets have seen historic increases and then decreases in price. This, of course, is the result of the workings of supply and demand, but there have also been cries of market manipulation. I have laid out the supply and demand conditions both in the pure free market and under current conditions in the real world on this podcast and in several interviews reproduced here. Several forms of manipulation, such as changing margin requirements, are expected, and other forms of manipulation, such…
Originally, the One Big, Beautiful Bill was going to completely deregulate suppressors and short-barreled long guns. That freaked too many people out for no reason, so they just removed the NFA tax. That wasn’t ideal, but it was still a big step forward, and since the entire reason for the registry itself was to make sure people who had these things paid the taxes, it was time for the attorneys to fire up the old printers. Now, the Department of Justice, which works for the same president who at least seemed to be down with…
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President Donald Trump unveiled plans earlier this year to build a massive 250-foot arch among the historic monuments in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. However, a group of Vietnam veterans is suing the president, believing the arch will obstruct views of Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 400,000 American soldiers are buried. Over the weekend, artists’ renderings were released, revealing what the arch would look like, resembling the famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris. However, the “Independence Arch” would be about 100 feet taller and feature the inscription “One Nation Under God” in gold lettering, a Lady Liberty statue…
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