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The Peruta dominos continue to fall. In an earlier decision in Baker v Kealoha, a District Court refused to rule in favor of the plaintiff, Christopher Baker. Baker had moved for an injunction against various Hawaii state agencies that had denied him a carry license. As a Ninth Circuit panel summed up the District Court’s rationale, the District Court denied the motion because, “Baker was not likely to establish that Hawaii’s restrictions on carrying firearms in public were unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, and therefore, Baker was not likely to succeed on the merits.” But that was pre-Peruta . ....

exas Governor Rick Perry was recently pilloried for bringing up the concept of secession (“succession” according to leftist political commentator Whoopi Goldberg). He did not, and was not, advocating it but the word obviously struck a nerve in the White House and its MSM trumpets. Everything the left does depends on financing from low tax states such as Texas, Nevada, and Florida. Low state taxes maximize income tax receipts, which help pay for the welfare state and vote buying so important to “liberals.” No person with an IQ above room temperature can read our Constitution and believe those states that...

TALLAHASSEE -- The National Rifle Association has been on a political roll in Florida.During the past two years, the much-loved and much-loathed group has successfully lobbied Gov. Jeb Bush and state lawmakers to approve a series of controversial laws dealing with gun rights.The prime example: a law passed this spring that makes it clear citizens can use force to fight back when attacked in public or in their homes or cars -- a law critics say threatens to turn Florida into a shoot-'em-up version of the Wild West.Now, fresh from those victories, the NRA and its legislative allies want to...

Do you think a change is needed in D.C.'s gun laws? Yes, D.C. citizens should have the right to arm themselves. No, there are already enough guns in D.C.