Here is my prediction, and I don't think it takes a crystal ball to make it: Every so-called “assault weapons” ban in America is headed for the constitutional trash heap. The Supreme Court has spent nearly two decades rebuilding Second Amendment law one major decision at a time. The message running through those cases is increasingly difficult to ignore: politicians cannot simply invent convenient legislative shortcuts around an enumerated constitutional right because technology changes, political fashions change, or somebody announces a new public-safety emergency. If politicians want to rewrite the Second Amendment, the Constitution already provides the machinery. Article V allows constitutional amendments to be proposed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. Good luck with that. There is nowhere near the national consensus necessary to repeal the Second Amendment. So legislatures have instead tried to accomplish pieces of that objec...

In recent years, a particularly dangerous breed of idiot has discovered a new form of entertainment: weaponizing the police against complete strangers.  It is called swatting . The formula is breathtakingly simple. Some coward sitting safely behind a telephone or computer contacts law enforcement, pretends to be a terrified victim, neighbor, or eyewitness, and reports a fictional emergency. Hostages are being held. Someone has a gun. A family is about to be murdered. Pick whatever nightmare is most likely to produce an immediate and heavily armed police response. Congratulations. With a few lies, some fool has potentially turned somebody else’s home into a battlefield. Swatting gained notoriety through online gaming feuds, where spectacularly immature sore losers decided that losing a video game apparently justified sending armed police to the winner’s house. But the insanity did not remain confined to gamers. Swatting has become a weapon for revenge, harassment, intimidation, a...

  During the last two decades, local journalism has devolved in pay, benefits, staffing, and working conditions in a brutal way. There was a time when a television reporter actually had a team. The reporter gathered the information, interviewed the witnesses, developed sources, and told the story. Photographers shot the video. Editors edited it. Producers helped write and shape the finished product. Today, many reporters are expected to do damn near everything themselves. They research the story, shoot the video, conduct the interviews, write the script, edit the video, prepare material for the web and social media, and sometimes even set up their own live shots. The corporations discovered they could eliminate jobs and simply dump the work on whoever remained. Newspapers may be in even worse shape. Almost nobody wants to buy a newspaper anymore. The public has become accustomed to getting information instantly and, preferably, free on the Internet. Convincing people to pay for yes...

I begin with an important disclosure: I am one of Massad Ayoob’s “Ayoob Files” survivors. Ayoob wrote about my own self-defense shooting case in the July/August 1991 issue of American Handgunner. I have considerable respect for Ayoob as a firearms tactician and trainer. My disagreement concerns something very different: his advice about what an armed citizen should say to police and 911 immediately after a defensive shooting. In my view, some of that advice can be extraordinarily dangerous. No two shootings are identical, and there is no universal script that safely fits every case. A statement that appears helpful in one investigation can become devastating evidence in another. A traumatized citizen standing over a wounded or dead person should be extraordinarily cautious about making statements before consulting counsel. The 911 Call Is Evidence A 911 call is not merely a request for help. It is recorded evidence. The caller may believe he is simply summoning assistance, but saying, ...

California gave birth to the motion-picture industry. Hollywood became synonymous with American movies, American entertainment and American culture around the world. What an accomplishment. So naturally, California’s current Communist politicians have spent years figuring out how to screw it up. The once-Golden State has embraced an increasingly government-heavy political and economic model, piling regulation upon regulation, taxes upon taxes, mandates upon mandates, and then acting absolutely astonished when businesses start looking for the exits. Now Warner Bros., Paramount, and even Universal Studios are looking for ways to move their business outside California. Think about that. These aren’t some three-man production companies operating out of a rented bungalow. These are names practically carved into the cornerstone of Hollywood itself. California managed to create the American film industry, dominate it for a century, and then make doing business sufficiently unattractive ...

  The first and only lesson that should have been burned into the national skull is this: no airline hijacking involving Muslim fanatics has ever ended with the passengers walking off the plane. Not once. Criminals after money or attention sometimes negotiate, land, and walk away. Islamist suicide squads do not. With them, the only rational response is immediate, total, and violent resistance. Hesitate and you die. All of you. Nineteen scrawny Islamic death-cultists seized four airliners. Two hundred forty-six passengers and crew outnumbered them more than twelve to one. Their arsenal? Box cutters and theatrical “bombs.” None of the hijackers stood taller than 5’8”. Most weighed less than the average American woman. I know because I pulled their driving records and photographs myself for the media. These were not Navy SEALs. They were mid-sized fanatics with hardware-store weapons. The arithmetic is insultingly simple. Had the passengers risen as one and treated the cockpit door li...

  Oh, please. Call the (Alternative für Deutschland) AfD “far-right” one more time and the ghost of every actual fascist in history might rise up just to laugh in your face. They are not fascists. They are not Nazis. They are not the second coming of the Reich. They are the only major party in Germany still willing to notice that the emperor has no clothes, and that the clothes were stolen, set on fire, and replaced with a keffiyeh while the legacy media clapped like trained seals. The far-left and their obedient press lapdogs have spent years screaming “Nazi!” at anyone who dares prefer German streets to look German, German schools to teach German, and German women to walk home without calculating escape routes. It was the purest form of political gaslighting: smear the opposition into silence, then act shocked when the opposition refuses to die. Germany finally woke up. The election results didn’t just send “shockwaves.” They sent a tidal wave of pure electoral contempt crashin...

It took a bold conservative party called Alternative for Deutschland to dramatically and decisively unseat the left wing Christian Democratic Party after years of smug complacency. The popularity of the AfD surged primarily in the eastern sections of Germany that endured a brutal and soul crushing communist regime. They thoroughly and clearly understand what the Globalists running the EU in Brussels and the Christian Democratic Party were cynically and greedily doing to tightly keep their hands on power and government corruption. The Christian Democratic Party has relentlessly and shamelessly done nothing but a vicious disinformation campaign to smear the AfD claiming they are Nazis and ultra right wing fanatics. The AfD is far more like a party of George Orwell in its clear eyed truth telling. The Christian Democratic Party has finally and humiliatingly been exposed for what it truly is.  The German people have utterly and completely had enough of illegal immigration by Third W...

Let me begin with the fact that accused killer David Burke is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.  Today, Monday, August 31, 2026, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, David Anthony Burke (known professionally as D4vd) obtained new legal representation for his murder case.  During a pre-trial/arraignment hearing before Judge Charlaine Olmedo, his private defense team (including high-profile attorneys Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski, and Regina Peter) withdrew.  I suspect that this was about his inability to pay what Blair Berk demanded as a retainer. The motion to withdraw and substitute council was held in judicial Chambers and the record of what went on has been sealed by the court.  I’m sure that Mr. Burke was ordered to liquidate assets and pay a lesser amount to the public defender.   Burke confirmed in open court that he wanted the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office to represent him instead. The judge granted the request ...

On May 4, 1886, socialist and anarchist labor activists assembled at Chicago's Haymarket Square during the bitter campaign for an eight-hour workday. When police ordered the gathering dispersed, someone hurled a bomb into their ranks. Chaotic gunfire followed. Eight Chicago police officers ultimately died from injuries attributed to the attack: Mathias J. Degan, John J. Barrett, George F. Miller, Timothy J. Flavin, Michael Sheehan, Thomas Redden, Nels Hansen, and Timothy Sullivan. Fifty-nine other officers were wounded. August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and George Engel were convicted of murder under conspiracy and accomplice-liability theories and hanged on November 11, 1887. Louis Lingg killed himself the previous day. The unidentified bomber was never tried, and none of the executed men was proven to have thrown the bomb. Were they hanged for speech? Technically, no. They were convicted of murder based on an alleged conspiracy to promote and encourage revolutionary v...

On October 5, 2026, the first Monday in October, the United States Supreme Court will begin a new term. This will not be an ordinary term for the Second Amendment. The Court has agreed to hear two major constitutional challenges involving bans on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles: Viramontes v. County of Cook , No. 25-238, challenges Cook County, Illinois’s ban on AR-15 platform rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms. National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont , No. 25-421, challenges Connecticut’s ban on AR-15-style rifles and magazines holding more than ten rounds. These are not cases about machine guns. They are not cases about military weapons smuggled from an armory. They concern ordinary semiautomatic firearms owned by millions of law-abiding Americans for lawful purposes. The constitutional collision has finally arrived. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022), the Supreme Court demolished the interest-balancing test that lowe...