A gun control group headed by former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, have been joined by what the Washington Post described as “a group of law enforcement leaders” to oppose gun law reform bills that have been introduced on Capitol Hill. But according to a 2016 survey by the National Association […]
New CCW Estimate: 15 million and Rising
An estimated 15 million Americans are now licensed to carry, according to a story in Monday’s Washington Examiner, quoting John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Liberty Park Press spoke with Lott briefly Monday and confirmed the estimate. In a report released earlier this year, Lott had put the number of […]
The Fallacy of ‘Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns’
When the Seattle Times cheered passage 0f another gun control initiative this week, and immediately called for even more legislation banning so-called “assault weapons” and large capacity magazines, it may have surrendered any chance to argue that “nobody wants to take your guns.” Banning an entire class of firearms amounts to taking, critics argue. It’s not […]