Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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At a time when some gun control advocates appear intent on painting lawful gun ownership as a danger to society, and the Second Amendment as… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Far too often, those who disagree with supporters of the Second Amendment about firearm-related policies resort to assertions that we simply care more about our… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Violence Policy Center—a gun control advocacy group—released a study last month it wrongly claims shows that “too many concealed-carry permit holders are a direct… Read More
SocietyCommentary
California long has been known as a place where leaders have little regard for the Second Amendment. But the state has outdone itself in recent… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Over the last several days, many journalists and commentators have reported on the tragic death of Atatiana Jefferson, a Fort Worth, Texas, pre-med student who… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When the Virginia State Crime Commission and the House Judiciary Committee held hearings earlier this fall regarding firearm policies, it was striking how little many… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Recent polls show most Americans support the basic premise of disarming dangerous people through the use of so-called red flag laws. This instinct is a… Read More
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It seems as though every day another celebrity or politician demands that we place more severe restrictions on the ability of law-abiding citizens to exercise… Read More
LawAnalysis
The national gun control conversation often sounds like a broken record, with the same advocates resorting to the same talking points about decades-old proposals, such… Read More
SocietyCommentary
My colleague John Malcolm and I joined 243 other Americans featured on the cover of Time magazine last year for a project dedicated to exploring… Read More
