In an expose on the NYPD “stop, question, frisk” program, The New York Times gives us a glimpse in to the future of the American welfare state where government provides everything from housing to welfare money to “protection”. In a land where everything is provided for you, no rights exist other than those the police […]

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There is only one sort of busybody “anti-x” that I find more annoying and absolutely non-sensical than drug warriors, and that’s your average libertarded anti-gunner. According to Peter Hamm, blatant government failure should result in government suppression, or at least significant government interference, of law abiding individuals wishing to obtain a concealed carry permit in […]

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Justice Stevens in a laboriously tortured dissent in McDonald v City of Chicago: In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___, ___ (2008) (slip op., at 1), the Court answered the question whether a federal enclave’s “prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution.” […]

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More quotes from McDonald v City of Chicago: Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day, and in Heller, we held that individual self-defense is “the central component” of the Second Amendment right. (footnote removed) [. . .] In sum, it is clear that the Framers […]

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Justice Alito via his majority opinion in todays McDonald v City of Chicago decision incorporating the 2nd Amendment as a fundamental right not to be trampled [PDF] by states and localities: Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___ (2008), we held that the Second Amendment protects the right to […]

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I’ve always been the envy of my gun loving friends when they discover that Buds Gun Shop, the retail location for budsgunshop.com, is a local gun shop here in town.  Now Buds is even better. I’m not in the habit of pimping other people’s stuff, but Buds is a high quality establishment with a fantabulous […]

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Roger Alford of the AP via The Lexington Herald-Leader: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates on Saturday, trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc in Kentucky. . . . Conway, the state’s attorney general, also is vying for the NRA endorsement, said campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley. “Jack […]

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