Courage Classic 2025
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- July 11, 2025
I met Jon Caldara, president of Independence Insitute in 2000 when I started doing volunteer graphic design for II. Jon quickly offered me a contract position and an office in their suite. It was only a few months later when I heard from one of my colleagues that Jon’s infant daughter, Parker, was very sick.
READ MOREOriginally published on Reason.com Last week the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association filed an amicus brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging Maryland’s ban on many common semiautomatic rifles. The case is Bianchi v. Brown, and it has an unusual procedural posture; it is a petition for certiorari before judgement. Yet the case
READ MOREOriginally published on Reason.com Today I filed an amicus brief in support of a cert. petition challenging Maryland’s ban on various semiautomatic rifles. The case is Bianchi v. Frosh, and was brought by the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Second Amendment Foundation, and individual plaintiffs. Petitioners are represented by the D.C. powerhouse litigation boutique Cooper & Kirk.
READ MOREOriginally published on Reason.com Last week the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State settled a lawsuit and agreed to end their prior restraint of distribution of computer files for the production of 3D printed firearms. The “International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)” are a collection of regulations covering the export of military weapons
READ MOREHey kids, want to know how not to be the coolest kid in high school? Do what I did! Go down to your county court house right on your eighteenth birthday to proudly register to vote as a Republican. Yep. That’ll get you voted most likely to make it with the prom queen. I’ve been
READ MOREOriginally published on Reason.com When five schoolchildren were murdered at an elementary school in Stockton, California, in January 1989, the public learned a new phrase: “assault weapon.” To most gun owners and non-owners alike, it was a brand new term. It was also confusing. Whenever “assault weapon” laws have been enacted, they apply to guns that
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