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Minnesota: Removal of Shotgun-Only Hunting Zones Added to Environmental Omnibus Bill

Friday, June 6, 2025 This week outside of regular session, the Environment Omnibus bill was agreed upon. This omnibus bill would remove shotgun-only hunting zones in the state. A special session has b...

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Historic Figures Who Recognized That Speech Is Freedom’s First Line of Defense

In a March 21, 2021 column ( One of the Most Significant Defenses of Free Speech in American History ), Boston Globe writer Jeff Jacoby quoted the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass: To suppress fr...

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Supreme Court Skeptical About Mexico’s Attempt to Pass Buck to U.S. Gunmakers

Monday, March 10, 2025 Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case in which the Mexican government is attempting to hold members of the U.S. gun industry financially liable for dr...

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Benjamin Franklin

Paper Money as a Weapon of War Don’t Be Kept in the Dark about Daylight Saving Time The Hidden Message on Ben Franklin’s Fugio Cent Why Telling Students to ‘Trust the Experts’ Is Poor Advice Why Respo...

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NRA Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Defending American Firearms Manufacturers in Lawsuit Brought by Mexico

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Today, NRA filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos . The Mexican government sued leading American firearms ...

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Daniel Bier - FEE

Daniel Bier Daniel Bier is the executive editor of The Skeptical Libertarian. His work has appeared in Newsweek , the Freeman , the Volokh Conspiracy, the Commentator , Kyiv Post , and elsewhere. His ...

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Civil Rights

A Libertarian Perspective on the Gay Rights Movement 14 Signs of Totalitarianism Justin Trudeau Said He Admired China’s Dictatorship. Canadians Should Have Believed Him 12 Marvelous Quotes on the Bill...

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Policing in the U.K. – Burglaries and Bain-Maries

Monday, March 11, 2024 We have written before about police “operations” termed “weapons sweeps” in the United Kingdom, in which law enforcement resources are used to scour public spaces to ferret out ...

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Like Most State Ideas, the Death Penalty Does Not Work

Growing up in a Catholic household, I was taught—and often reminded of—the basic concept of forgiveness. It is better to forgive another for their transgressions than to seek retribution. But to forgi...

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“[A]ll We Need You to Do is Give us the Gun”: U.K. Launches National Firearm Surrender Campaign

Monday, May 23, 2022 On March 12, a two-week campaign was launched in the United Kingdom to encourage subjects of Her Majesty the Queen to surrender firearms, ammunition, weapons, and any other object...

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America’s Decline of Civic Knowledge Puts Our Liberties at Risk

In 2017, a poll was released by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center in which just over one thousand American adults were tested on their knowledge of the US Constitution an...

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Shipping Companies Prohibit the Lawful Shipping of Firearms

Monday, September 19, 2022 Wondering what federal law says regarding individuals who do not have a Federal Firearms License (FFL) that need to ship firearms? Well, if you go to the website for the Bur...

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Voluntaryism

How Slavery Can Be Used as a Litmus Test for Claims about Liberty Taylor Swift and the Real Lesson From the Ticketmaster Antitrust Hearings Why Politicians Use Force Rather than Markets Forcing Railro...

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Gun Controllers: Ban Firearms for “Radicals” (and Designate Political Opposition Under that Category)

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 On Aug. 24, New York’s Democrat governor Kathy Hochul gave a speech about how the Empire State is combatting what she repeatedly referred to as “gun violence.” Among other t...

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The Nursing Home Is an Experiment with Centrally Planned Society

If you live long enough, much will go wrong with your body. As you age, you will lose your teeth, your hair will turn gray, your brain will shrink, and your eyes will see less and less. Your joints, s...

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Colorado: Senate to Attempt Semi-Auto Ban Vote Again Tomorrow

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 It seems the anti-gun radicals of the General Assembly are hoping that "third time's the charm" for the vote on their semi-automatic ban. After back-to-back delays the las...

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Murders, Assaults, and Shootings of Police Are Rarer than Ever

Following the tragic and horrible events in Dallas last week, it is important to grieve and to take stock of what led to that fateful evening that ended with five police officers killed. But it’s also...

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Why Are Cop Killings so Much Rarer than They Used to Be?

Despite several recent high-profile tragedies, police officers are much safer than they used to be. Fatalities, shooting deaths, and felony murders of police are way down . Since I started reporting o...

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First Affirmative Lawsuit in Support of Gun Owners Filed by Trump’s DOJ

Monday, October 6, 2025 California officials’ egregious foot-dragging over the issuance of carry permits has finally attracted the ire of the federal Department of Justice (DOJ). As we’ve reported pre...

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How Many People Are Killed by Police?

How many people are killed by police? It’s a simple and important question, but, until this year, the shocking answer was “we have no idea.” There is no central authority systematically keeping track ...

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