Kurt Hofmann, St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner February 27, 2012 Arizona Senate Bill 1083, which would authorize and fund a volunteer “Special Missions Unit” state miliitia for emergencies and for patrolling the state’s border with Mexico, was passed by the state Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this month. From the Arizona Republic: The Senate Appropriations […]
Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Even in the wake of McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Supreme Court required the city to repeal its draconian handgun ban, Chicago has perhaps the most restrictive gun laws in the U.S. The Chicago Reader provides a partial list of what is required of […]
By Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly. So says Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), in pushing his bill to send people to prison for 10 years for having an 11-round magazine (except […]
Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner View all of Kurt’s articles With the failure last week (for now, anyway) of Illinios HB 148, to permit defensive handgun carry, the anti-self-defense lobby indulged in some predictable gloating. From the Brady Campaign’s Paul Helmke: The Illinois House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill, HB […]
April 1st, 2011 Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Wednesday, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police voted to support ending Illinois’ shameful status as the only state in the nation to outright ban any form of self-defense with a firearm in public for citizens. FOX Chicago News reports: Leaders of the Illinois Assn. […]
Kurt Hofmann Mary Shepard had the training to carry a firearm for her personal security, having already successfully completed five firearms training courses, including the NRA’s Personal Protection Outside the Home course. She had qualified for defensive firearm carry permits in two different states, and those permits were, between them, recognized in 31 states. Unfortunately, […]
Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” is a proverb with particular applicability to the gun rights/”gun control” debate. A mass shooting–an event that any decent person would certainly classify as “ill”–is, to the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, an opportunity to exploit. Long before Rahm Emanuel famously […]
Kurt Hoffmam Adam Winkler, who teaches Constitutional law at UCLA, claims in a Daily Beast article that Tea Party candidates’ support of gun rights is “radical.” A traditionally hot topic in election season, gun control has been conspicuously absent from the recent candidate debates. This would not be of note if the candidates themselves had […]