Illinois State Representative Martin J. Moylan has introduced legislation in the Illinois Assembly that would essentially ban “assault weapons.”  The problem is, Rep. Moylan doesn’t really have any qualified experience to tell you what defines an “assault weapon.”

For now, let’s set aside that fact that there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.”  It’s a made-up term for political purposes.  It is not the same as an “assault rifle,” which actually has a real definition.  So since “assault weapon” is a political term, the law must define it.   [Read more…]

A brief look at today’s top headlines provided a glaring disparity between those who live life expecting the government to protect them and those who choose to be armed.   [Read more…]

The letters section of the York Daily Record provides us today with a shining example of how the anti-gun crowd, as much as they would like to have the intellectual if not also the moral high ground, simply cannot come up with an actual legitimate argument to substantiate their position.  (I believe that this is predominantly because public education no longer focuses on inclusion of logic and rhetoric as core subjects as does classical education, but that’s a story for another time.)  [Read more…]

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy says banning gun sales to people on federal no-fly watch lists is just “common sense.”  While it may sound like common sense, take a moment and think about what the government terror watch list and one of it’s subsets, the no-fly list are.   [Read more…]