The founding of the Black Panthers was 59 years ago today
A 1970 poll revealed 25 percent of black Americans once felt the militant group “represented their views.” Modern proponents of open-carry firearms laws might agree.
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Gun-free zones and the rise of school shootings: a failed experiment
Gun-free zones & gun control nonprofits promote ineffective, rights-stripping policies that invite attacks. The real crisis is youth mental health, not guns, and it’s being dangerously ignored.
InfluenceWatch Podcast #369: Suppressors, the Second Amendment, and the Fight Against the NFA
As Second Amendment policy returns to the national spotlight under a second Trump administration, one provision buried in a massive reconciliation bill could spell the beginning of the end for…
The Big Five Gun Control Groups: Everytown for Gun Safety
Gun control is one of the perennially polarizing social fault lines running through modern American politics. While the past two decades have seen much success for Second Amendment supporters and…
The Big Five Gun Control Groups: Giffords
Giffords supports dozens of different gun control laws, including firearms licensing and registration, mandatory waiting periods, bans on high-capacity magazines and “assault weapons,” and strict limits on carrying firearms in…
The Big Five Gun Control Groups: March for Our Lives
Of all the major gun control advocacy groups in the United States, March for Our Lives has gone the furthest in embracing an intersectional “Everything Leftist” approach to its activism.
The Big Five Gun Control Groups: Final Thoughts
While Everytown, Giffords, Brady, March for Our Lives, and Sandy Hook Promise dominate the national landscape of nonprofit gun control activism in the United States, dozens of others are active…
Suing for Gun Control?
A recurring theme in political-issue activism is that when activists cannot achieve their desired policy ends through traditional democratic routes, many resort to other means they hope will ultimately have a…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #256: The Right to Self-Defense
The recent U.S. Supreme Court case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that curtailed a state’s ability to infringe on Americans’ right to carry publicly for their…