A Texas woman charged with the murder of her estranged husband in 2023 has been acquitted of all charges in the shooting after she and her attorney argued that she was acting in self-defense.
Cassandra Harris and her common-law husband Ricky Ellis, had been arguing about Ellis moving out of the home in April, 2023, when Harris said the dispute escalated to the point that she tried to retreat to a locked bedroom to get away from him.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involves whether possessing AR-15s is protected by the Second Amendment, but the court’s conservatives are signaling they soon will.
Only three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — voted to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on possessing AR-15s, barely falling short of the four votes required to take up a case.
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent a strong signal that he will provide that crucial fourth vote in a future case once the issue percolates more in the lower courts.
If there’s one thing that matters as much, if not more, to me than the right to keep and bear arms, it’s protecting our children from predators. There’s a certain level of evil that lurks in the hearts of some, where they seem to think that the youngest, most vulnerable people are prey rather than treasures that should be shielded from all danger
OTTAWA — As Canada continues to battle high crime rates, most Canadians want the federal government to focus on criminals rather than law-abiding firearms owners, according to a survey.
In a Leger survey commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 55% of those polled say Canadian gun policy should focus on introducing tougher measures to stop illegal firearms from being smuggled into Canada from the United States.
Artificial intelligence, as we currently have it, is an interesting technology, especially since it’s really just some pretty advanced if/then statements, more or less. It’s being embraced for a variety of purposes, some of which make sense and some of which doesn’t.
One area we’re seeing it used a lot is in gun detection efforts.
The “ban our way to safety” approach adopted by Illinois Democrats has made it impossible for lawful residents to purchase commonly-owned arms, and those guns that are allowed for sale can’t be possessed without a state-issued permission slip (and only after waiting 72 hours after they’ve been purchased).
OTTAWA — A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to act swiftly to implement key Liberal election commitments on firearms.
In a letter to Carney, PolySeSouvient says the mandate letter for the next public safety minister should include a commitment to “timely delivery” of promised reforms, especially the buyback of banned firearms.
PolySeSouvient includes students and graduates of Montreal’s École Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women in 1989.
Rise in gun ownership and stand-your-ground laws drives a lucrative new market to insulate shooters from criminal and civil liability
Just after 2 a.m. on a November night, police were called to the home of Joshua Huston to respond to a shooting. Huston had camped out with his AR-15 rifle on a lot he owned next to his Florida home, hoping to catch the person who had been stealing from the property.
Yes, there are liberal gun owners. There are liberal gun rights advocates, even.
However, we all know they’re the exception, not the norm.
Further, when we hear about a sociologist, we kind of have to brace a bit. The social sciences are heavily anti-gun, so when someone who is a sociologist offers up thoughts about gun culture, we–or, at least, I–tend to have certain expectations about what I’m going to read.
OTTAWA — Devastated and concerned.
That’s how Canada’s licensed firearm owners are feeling after Monday’s Liberal victory, which dashed hopes of a new government reversing the Justin Trudeau-era gun grab and starting to focus its crime-reduction efforts on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens.
School shootings are once again in the news. There were two last week. When the pundits in the media and online talk about school attacks, a false narrative often emerges that it is a uniquely domestic “American epidemic,” fostered by widespread firearms ownership and insufficient firearms regulation.
Canada doesn’t have a gun-control problem. And Mark Carney should stop pretending it does.
We do have a problem with gun crime, particularly in some of our larger cities. And we also have a problem with intimate-partner violence. These problems need attention and, critically, more resources. What they don’t need is more gun-control laws: everything that should be illegal already is, often several times over.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dodged questions Sunday about whether he would repeal the federal government’s handgun ban, a measure brought in to tamp down on the diversion of legal firearms into the hands of bad actors.
Poilievre hasn’t said much during this campaign about what he would do with the Liberal firearms legislation he voted against while in Parliament, but he has blasted the last government’s “assault-style” firearm buyback program as a “gun grab” that he would scrap.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney rebuilt his party by scrapping failed policies like the carbon tax, but there’s one apparent failure he’s doubling down on.
Carney announced that, if elected, he will “reinvigorate the implementation” of Ottawa’s gun ban and buyback program.
Carney should be listening to law enforcement experts and scrapping the expensive and ineffective gun buyback, not doubling down on the failed policy.
Active shooter events have been tracked by the FBI for over two decades. There are interesting results when those statistics are compared to other data. A new study states that civilian responses to these events are less adverse than police responses. The April 2025 study found that “armed citizens do not interfere with police, and in active shooter situations, they reduce deaths and injuries significantly more effectively than the police.”
