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Everybody remembers that Top Gun (see original movie trailer here) colloquy about air-to-air combat tactics between student fighter pilot “Maverick” played by Tom Cruise and instructor “Charlie” played by Kelly McGilles: Charlie: A rolling reversal would look well in that situation. Maverick: If I reversed in a hard cross I could immediately go to guns on him. Charlie: Yeah, but at that speed it’s too fast. It’s a little bit too aggressive. Maverick: Too aggressive, yeah I guess when I see something I go right after it. But so far Maverick’s “going to guns” tactic appears too aggressive for both...

Based on the chatter on gun blogs and Internet forums, it looks like a groundswell is underway in Virginia to borrow a page from Napoléon’s playbook and vote ‘to the sound of the guns.’ Thanks to a new law passed by the Virginia General Assembly and signed by Governor Bob McDonnell (R), all that it will take to vote in Virginia this year is a concealed handgun permit. This means no photo is required to vote . . .

Indeed the Tenth Circuit hinted in dicta that GCA 68’s ban on Second Amendment rights for even legally present non-resident aliens was constitutionally suspect by noting that “[n]othing is this opinion purports to express an opinion on the Second Amendment rights of lawfully present aliens, yet we note that, since 1998, under this same statute, even those admitted on non-immigrant visas (usually issued to visitors for business or pleasure) are prohibited from having firearms and ammunition unless they secure a special waiver or happen to be hunters or diplomatic or law-enforcement officials here on business. . . . If the...

In Virginia, like most states, adults aged 18 and over may own and openly carry firearms, including handguns, in public without any need to register their guns or obtain a permit to open carry. But in a little noticed attorney general opinion last month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) issued a formal opinion on concealed carry in which he said that “provided the handgun is properly secured in a container or compartment within the vehicle, persons who may lawfully possess a firearm but have not been issued a concealed weapons permit may possess, in a vehicle, a handgun that...

The open carry of properly holstered handguns, an old American tradition, is on the rise in many states. And now comes the June 2012 edition of Playboy featuring on page 60, sandwiched between Tom Cruise’s interview and Danish model Stephanie Corneliussen’s Mojave Desert pictorial, a centerfold-like cartoon of a man in an aloha shirt open carrying a holstered handgun on his right hip while carrying a Starbucks cup in his left hand and ominously staring down an empty parking lot. . . .

Yes, it's been 57 years since the US Supreme struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. And do we see main stream media news headlines lamenting the lack of resurgence of school segregation?properly No. Of course not. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted to end the vestiges of slavery. It finally got enforced in the field of public education in 1956. Public opinion does not support re-segregating America. Nor does the main stream media. Yet last week McClatchy Newspapers published David Lightman's "news" article here in the District entitled "30 years after Reagan shot, outlook dim for gun...

No, not as in the fashion sense. . . . But rather as in the former Republican Delegate from Loudoun County, Virginia named Dick Black, a staunch backer of Second Amendment legislation long before it was politically cool to do so.