Tech at Night: ECPA email bill and MFA sales tax bill appear to have Senate support.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 11:30 PM  | 

Some legislative action still ongoing: the Senate looking to fix the ECPA, an email search law that was written to the technology of the time, and now defies the expectations of its framers.

I was told Amazon and eBay would like the sales tax compact, but eBay is coming out against it, spamming its users. But the Senate continues to support it.

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The gun control bait and switch

By: John Hayward  |  April 17th at 04:50 PM  | 

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), which styles itself the second largest gun-rights group after the National Rifle Association, broke from the rest of the Second Amendment movement to endorse the Toomey-Manchin compromise with remarkably effusive praise: If you read the Manchin-Toomey substitute amendment, you can see all the advances for our cause that it contains like interstate sales | Read More »

Gun Advocate Alan Gottlieb Supports Toomey-Manchin Based on Bad Information [updated]

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 15th at 10:33 AM  | 

A prominent gun rights activist and board member of the American Conservative Union said this weekend he supports the Manchin-Toomey compromise, even telling associates that he believed “the gun grabbers have stepped into our trap.” Alan Gottlieb, the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and a power player within the conservative ACU, emailed nearly four dozen gun activists | Read More »

Filibuster Reid Gun Control Bill Now

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 8th at 06:40 AM  | 

When you are in the minority in the Senate, there is one thing you can do to stop unconstitutional legislation from getting started.  You filibuster the motion to proceed with debate.  We are all painfully aware that once the amendment process gets rolling, too many GOP senators are enticed into cutting a deal.  Momentum builds for passage of the underlying bill, and Republicans feel the | Read More »

Connecticut further suppresses Constitutional right to bear arms

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  April 4th at 11:00 AM  | 

Early this morning, in the dead of night – 2:26 a.m., Connecticut’s House of Representatives voted to pass a repressive 139 page gun control bill. The vote was 105 to 44, with two absent. Of the 98 Democrats present, 13, and 31 of the 51 Republicans present voted no. The state Senate approved it Wednesday evening, by a 26-10 vote. Two of 22 Democrats and eight of the 14 Republicans voted no.

Connecticut’s new restrictions on citizens Constitutional right to bear arms is said to be a response to the horrific murders of 20 children and six adults in Newtown’s Sandy Hook elementary school last December. Sadly, nothing in the 139 page bill would have done anything to prevent the killings. Nor does it do anything to prevent another such incident.

The legislation will only further suppress the Constitutional right of law-abiding Connecticut citizens to bear arms thereby making them additional victims of a young madman.

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Beware the gun tax

By: John Hayward  |  April 2nd at 11:08 AM  | 

David Addington at the Heritage Foundation reports on a little something-something slipped into the rough beast of gun control laws slouching toward the Senate to be born, courtesy of majority leader Harry Reid: Title I of the Reid gun control bill purports to “fix gun checks.” The proposed “fix” in section 122 of S. 649 is to take away an individual’s right to sell or | Read More »

Jim Carrey’s inalienable rights

By: John Hayward  |  March 25th at 02:23 PM  | 

Comedian Jim Carrey rolled into the gun-control debate with a “parody song” called “Cold Dead Hand,” whose purpose is to portray Second Amendment defenders as callous monsters who don’t mind sacrificing children to their gun-crazed ideology.  As Carrey put it via Twitter, his song is “about you heartless m***erf*ckers unwilling to bend for the safety of our kids.  Sorry if you’re offended by the word | Read More »

A Ted Cruz Missile Strikes Dianne Feinstein

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 14th at 02:13 PM  | 

If Ted Cruz keeps this up in the Senate, Democrats might try to impose gun control on his Cruz missile strikes. Earlier today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns, Ted Cruz directly challenges Dianne Feinstein to answer how her gun bans are constitutional if the same language protecting the right to bear arms (“the right of the people”) is used for the First | Read More »

Jed Babbin on Drones, Gun Control and Sequestration

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  March 6th at 10:30 AM  | 

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Allysen Efferson are joined by Jed Babbin to discuss the aggressive use of drones by the Obama administration, the Left’s efforts to restrict the second amendment and sequestration.

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Colorado Senate Meeting to Restrict 2nd Amendment TODAY

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 4th at 04:32 AM  | 

Colorado Democrats have gone too far, and the time to stop them is now. On Monday morning the Colorado Senate will take up a package of anti-second amendment measures, four of which have already been passed in the House. It is time for conservatives to take a stand against this assault on our rights. The Democrats in Colorado control both chambers of the legislature and | Read More »

Obama losing his gun control campaign

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:00 PM  | 

New polling from Washington Post-ABC News and Pew find that President Obama’s campaign to repress the Second Amendment right “keep and bear arms” is faltering.

On January 22, 2013, Pew released polling results that found the public followed news about Obama’s gun control proposals closely and the reaction is mixed. Only 39 percent think Obama’s proposals are about right, while 31 percent think the proposals go too far. Or, as Politico put it, “39 percent back Obama gun plan.”

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The Purpose of the Second Amendment

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 15th at 10:09 PM  | 

The President is ready to announce his plans to restrict gun ownership. Most likely, nothing the President proposes will do anything to stop a future Sandy Hook. We know the President understands he is putting Democrats in a terrible spot. We know because he did nothing after the Aurora, CO shooting in the midst of a political campaign. He had to wait so he wouldn’t | Read More »

The Real Gun Violence Problem

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 9th at 10:52 PM  | 

Piers Morgan has been in the news a lot lately with his interviews on gun control. He’s made it his cause of late. He interviewed my friend Larry Pratt a couple of weeks ago and really attacked Larry. The other night he interviewed that conspiracy crank Alex Jones and many conservatives and gun owners have lamented a perception that Alex Jones will become the face | Read More »

Barack Obama planning wide-range gun-grabbing legislation?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 5th at 08:30 PM  | 

(Via Drudge) Well, isn’t that special of them. From the Washington Post: The White House is weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation’s gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, according to multiple people involved in the administration’s discussions. A working group led by Vice President Biden is seriously considering measures backed by | Read More »

Gun Control, Gun Rights, Gun Politics and Newtown: Part I of II

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  December 26th at 03:16 PM  | 

The school shooting atrocity in Newtown, Connecticut has, predictably, touched off another round of the perennial gun-control debate. Especially for parents of young children (my youngest is the same age as most of the victims), the horror of the shootings is almost beyond description, and tends to make rational discussion impossible. And also unseemly, as Jonah Goldberg has explained. More to the point, this is | Read More »