On the menu today: Many gun-control advocates are insisting that the proper response to the Monterey Park mass shooting is to put a nationwide ban on the gun the shooter used, even though that firearm is already illegal in California, and there is no way he could have legally acquired it. Meanwhile, African Americans in Georgia give rave reviews to their voting experience in 2022, under election-reform laws that President Biden denounced as “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Gun Controllers’ Response to Monterey Park Shooting Has a Pretty Serious Flaw

If you’ve seen action movies, you’ve almost certainly seen a gun that looks like the semi-automatic 9mm MAC-10 before. Compact enough to be held with one arm, with an extended clip sticking out the bottom, the gun is usually associated with bad guys and gang members. The site FireArmsNews tartly observed that, “Hollywood would have us believe that every two-bit 1980s-era thug in America had a full auto MAC-10 tucked in his gym bag. In reality, the criminal use of full auto weapons has always ...

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How Do You Ban Something That Is Already Illegal?

On the menu today: Many gun-control advocates are insisting that the proper response to the Monterey Park mass shooting is to put a nationwide ban on the gun the shooter used, even though that firearm is already illegal in California, and there is no way he could have legally acquired it. Meanwhile, African Americans in Georgia give rave reviews to their voting experience in 2022, under election-reform laws that President Biden denounced as “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Gun Controllers’ Response to Monterey Park Shooting Has a Pretty Serious Flaw

If you’ve seen action movies, you’ve almost certainly seen a gun that looks like the semi-automatic 9mm MAC-10 before. Compact enough to be held with one arm, with an extended clip sticking out the bottom, the gun is usually associated with bad guys and gang members. The site FireArmsNews tartly observed that, “Hollywood would have us believe that every two-bit 1980s-era thug in America had a full auto MAC-10 tucked in his gym bag. In reality, the criminal use of full auto weapons has always ...   READ MORE

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