Politics & Policy

New Anti-Gun Strategies

By Dave Kopel September 16, 2014

To mark the tenth anniversary of the expiration of the federal ban on so-called assault weapons, the anti-gun lobbies made a surprising announcement: They are not attempting to push for a ...

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Time for a Real Response

By Dave Kopel April 19, 2013

‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” So said Winston Churchill after the ...

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Turning Gun Owners into Felons

By Dave Kopel April 5, 2013

Public-opinion polls about “universal background checks” for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about “gun sales,” the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to ...

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Under the Gun

By Dave Kopel October 30, 2012

Where are the most important opportunities and dangers for the Second Amendment in the congressional and gubernatorial races? Here’s a state-by-state rundown, including every gubernatorial and U.S. Senate election, plus ...

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Colorado Consensus on Gun Laws

By Dave Kopel July 26, 2012

After the Columbine High School murders, Colorado enacted eight specific gun-law reforms. Three of these reforms are examples of what people usually call “gun control,” and five of them are ...

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Stick to Your Guns, Senator

By Dave Kopel February 24, 2009

What should Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand do about guns? As a two-term U.S. representative from upstate New York, she had a perfect pro–Second Amendment voting record. A week ago, she admitted ...

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Gunning for Victory

By Dave Kopel October 30, 2008

In a very tough election climate for Republicans, the good news is that the gun issue is increasingly non-partisan. We can see this every day in the Senate, where Democratic ...

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Tricked by UNICEF

By Dave Kopel October 26, 2007

Americans mostly know UNICEF through the “trick or treat for UNICEF” campaigns. The “trick” is on the donors who think that UNICEF is all about helping poor children. UNICEF has been ...

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Genocide Resistance

By Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen October 16, 2007

  Whatever may be said about the U.S. House of Representatives committee vote concerning the use of the term “genocide” in reference to Turkey’s atrocities against the Armenians during World War ...

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Ron’s Revolution

By Dave Kopel October 9, 2007

This weekend, I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, which was held at a convention center in northern Kentucky, a few miles away ...