- Guns, The Hill
- December 31, 2017
A few weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 with bipartisan support. The Act would allow persons eligible to carry a concealed firearm in their home state to carry in other states as well. Opponents contend that the Act violates federalism. Actually, the Act is well within congressional powers under the Fourteenth Amendment. That Amendment was enacted specifically to give Congress the power to act against state infringements of national civil rights.
Section one of the 14th Amendment forbids states to violate civil rights. Section five of the Amendment grants Congress “the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Enacted during Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment was a remedy to ex-Confederate states denying freedmen the right to arms and other civil rights.
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There’s nothing the nanny state hates more than conservatives having fun. What they call dangerous activities, we call Saturday morning. PETA-friendly clay pigeons, cigars, and cocktails: Come Celebrate the perks of adulthood at the Independence Institute’s Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms Party and Fundraiser! We love enjoying the perks of adulthood as much as we love
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- Events, Guns, Newsletter
- December 14, 2018
Before you ever get to your Uncle Bob’s house for Christmas and ruin dinner by calling half your family Commies and the other half “weak-kneed Raiders fans,” you will first have to survive stop-and-go traffic on one of Colorado’s interstate parking lots. If only we had Fixed The Damn Roads. But I digress. Travel during
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