The bill is entitled the “Second Amendment is Essential Act” and would ensure that Federal Firearms License Holders are always considered “essential” by the federal government in times of emergency.
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t’s no surprise that Joe Biden’s EPA is trying to expand the federal government’s jurisdiction and regulate every aspect of our lives...Biden’s unconstitutional WOTUS regulation will harm our way of life.”
This decision comes at a time when members of both parties are trying to increase the ability of the IRS to harass individual Americans, businesses, and organizations.
Karl Smith at Bloomberg thinks America should become a nation of renters. Homeownership made sense, he says, when ownership costs were low relative to rent. But now, due to something he calls “financialization,” homeownership is too expensive, and so we should abandon the American dream of high levels of homeownership. It may be self‐serving for them … Continue reading A Nation of Homeowners or Renters?
GOA will continue to champion the common-sense decision from the appellate panel that a bump stock is not a machine gun.
Every penny wasted is one that could have been used to support our troops. America’s military deserves a clean audit that would give them potential savings, allocate resources more efficiently, and bring accountability to the Department.
Some have dismissed last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia as small ball. I don’t agree. To begin with, as I observed last week, the line‐up indicated that there is now a majority on the Court, if not yet a working majority, to replace the Employment Division v. Smith standard with a standard more favorable to accommodation of religious believers’ convictions. While … Continue reading Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: Yes, It Was a Big Deal
The laws of economics don’t care about the politics of who is in charge of the federal government at the moment. As politically inconvenient as it may be for some, we just got even more confirmation that profligate federal policy is contributing to rising prices for American consumers.
Tracy Stone-Manning is a radicalized extremist who believes that babies are a cancer to the earth, that ranchers are destroying the West, that land management decisions are best made by bureaucrats in D.C., and that using violent tactics like tree spiking is justified in the name of environmentalism.
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed – anyone who does not understand that has no business running the ATF.