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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2013 33 Comments
In  Heller v. D.C. and McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court made clear that sweeping gun bans are unconstitutional. In response, we are seeing a new trend — don’t “ban” guns, but make it so costly, burdensome, and fraught with legal risk of an innocent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 9 Comments
Advocates of gun control and liberal pundits generally disparaged the notion that David Gregory even possibly was subjected to criminal prosecution for violation of the D.C. gun law by possessing a high-capacity ammunition magazine on television. The non-prosecution was declared the only reasonable conclusion, and those of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 49 Comments
Embedded below is the text of the gun law just enacted in NY State. The underlined portions are new wording or sections. It’s complicated stuff. I’ll be reviewing it to try to figure out the answers to some popular questions — such as what happens to current...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2013 58 Comments
What is wrong with this sentence? From The Daily News editorial cheering the draconian gun control law passed in NY State with no public discussion, no public debate, no normal waiting period, no time for Senators to read it, no likelihood of actually reducing crime, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2013 46 Comments
I’ve been giving serious consideration to finally joining the NRA. The people who want to take away your guns (and they would if they could) almost always are the same people who want to control every aspect of your life, from the health care you get to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2012 14 Comments
Fighting the conservative media on Newt, including attempts to strip Newt of his accomplishments and history. Defending Rush against Media Matters and StopRush. Helping advance Mia Love to national attention. Fighting the false racial narrative in the Trayvon Martin shooting. Helping to defeat Richard Lugar....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2012 20 Comments
One of the best columns about the David Gregory high capacity magazine story was written by Mark Steyn, Laws Are for Little People (h/t Ace): This is, declared NYU professor Jay Rosen, “the dumbest media story of 2012.” Why? Because, as CNN’s Howard Kurtz breezily put...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2012 8 Comments
The role of bloggers as the tip of the conservative arrow has been much in the news this week. The David Gregory gun-law issue is one example, as is the reaction to the newspaper which published the names and addresses of law-abiding gun owners. It...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 16 Comments
That’s where we are at the end of the day, today, via Jonathan Adler at National Review: It appears as if NBC’s David Gregory decided to brandish a high capacity magazine on NBC’s “Meet the Press” even though NBC was informed it would be illegal...
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