Last Friday the Wall Street Journal released a podcast that asks the simple question, “Has The Smart Gun Revolution Begun?” This 26-minute discussion covers familiar bases, which might lead one to presume something new is happening. But it really isn’t. The controversy over so-called “smart guns” was perhaps best summed up earlier in the year […]
‘More Baloney From Maloney’ – CCRKBA’s Gottlieb on Gun Bill
Anti-gun New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, has introduced legislation that would require, among other things, that handguns be retrofitted to make them “smart” and that firearms manufacturers would be reimbursed for the costs of this process. Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, reacted bluntly. […]
‘Smart’ Guns Damaged by Dumb Rhetoric?
Right out of the gate in his opinion piece about so-called “smart guns” in the New York Daily News’ Sunday edition, Washington Ceasefire’s Ralph Fascitelli perpetuates the false impression that “gun violence” somehow accounts for the “almost 34,000 Americans (that) die from firearms annually.” Fascitelli knows that roughly two-thirds of annual firearms-related deaths are suicides, […]