Gun Rights

Defending Our Rights with Second Amendment Foundation’s Founder Alan Gottlieb

By Tom McHale|2024-01-29T12:28:53-05:00January 29th, 2024|

The Second Amendment Foundation has been leading the fight in the courtrooms for gun rights for 50 years now. American Handgunner's Tom McHale talks with SAF founder and driving force Alan Gottlieb about the legal battles to protect gun rights. You might be surprised to learn how successful the SAF has been in the courts.

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Winning the Gun Rights Battle in the Courtoom

By Tom McHale|2024-01-27T10:47:07-05:00January 27th, 2024|

American Handgunner Editor Tom McHale discusses firearms rights and the ongoing battle in the courtroom to protect those rights.

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Danger! Guns and Sudafed

By Tom McHale|2023-12-04T10:05:17-05:00December 6th, 2023|

No need to worry, though. Our government does a bang-up job of regulating things, so we’ve got the problem under control. I know this to be a fact because the system caught me trying to defeat the controls put in place for my own good.

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Regulate This

By Tom McHale|2022-08-05T10:31:59-04:00August 5th, 2022|

Once again, the Second Amendment debate is front and center in the news. Whenever people violate the rules of human decency, exposing foundational flaws in our society even a turnip knows will never be fixed with some new law, people scream for action. “Just do something!”Predictably, the “do something” drumbeat points to proposed new gun laws and a challenge to the Second Amendment in principle. Then the pontificating begins (from those who’ve not read seven syllables of writings by our country’s founders) with, let’s say, creative and again predictable, hot takes.

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Undoing the Musket Argument

By Tom McHale|2021-10-14T09:32:10-04:00October 12th, 2021|

Undoing the musket argument... the Bill of Rights is an all-or-nothing proposition. It’s not a legal buffet from which you can pick and choose those rights you like while discarding those you don’t.

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How the 2A Community Beat Biden

By Tom McHale|2021-10-08T09:54:59-04:00October 8th, 2021|

Almost immediately after Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people in the firearms community familiar with the nominee began working to derail the effort.

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SAF Federal Lawsuit Challenges NY Stun Gun, “Taser” Ban

By Tom McHale|2021-10-06T07:13:20-04:00October 6th, 2021|

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit challenging New York state and municipal laws prohibiting private citizens from possessing and using stun guns and tasers, noting in its complaint, “Most courts have found that bans on stun guns and tasers violate the Second Amendment and are unconstitutional.”

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