So far this session, Republicans in the equally-divided Minnesota House of Representatives have voted in lockstep against Democrat proposals to ban so-called assault weapons and large capacity magazines, along with several other gun control measures being pushed by Gov. Tim Walz and Democrat-Farmer-Labor leadership.  Those…

The fight over Boundary Waters mining protections could hit the Senate floor today. Advocates are urging people to call their senators before a possible vote on H.J. Res. 140, which would overturn the 20-year mining withdrawal protecting 225,504 acres upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. If the resolution…

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The gun control lobby doesn’t really have anything that resembles the NRA’s Annual Meeting, which kicks off tomorrow in Houston, Texas, and where tens of thousands of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters will gather together for a weekend of fun, freedom, activism, and more. The closest that any…

There’s a needle that often needs to be threaded while talking about gun rights after mass shootings. I normally do a fair job of it, I think, but I’ve completely botched it as well. No excuses, but I will say that it’s tricky sometimes, because even people on our…

An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet with an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital was approved by the House Tuesday, but key senators and the families of the 67 victims think the bill still needs to be strengthened.The House…

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Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is sitting in prison for multiple weapons charges, only for all the evidence to look like it was manufactured by an ATF agent looking to make a name for himself.  At least, that’s my take on it, based on what Lee Williams…

The Duke Center for Firearms Law still has a veneer of academic respectability, but under the leadership of Hayley Lawrence the Center has gone from a somewhat stealthy embrace of the positions of gun control advocates to a more out-and-proud opposition to treating the Second Amendment as the fundamental…

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On January 27, 2026, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday clock, setting it to 85 seconds to midnight. This is the closest to midnight it has ever been, which means these scientists believe we’re closer to doomsday than ever before. They cite several reasons, but the main…

There are too many members of Congress for anyone to really know all of them. However, you don’t need to know them all to recognize a bad-faith attack on one who happens to support the Second Amendment. Now, what happens on a publication’s opinion page…

Living a stone’s throw from the Connecticut River, sandwiched between a raptor sanctuary and a state forest, I see a lot of different birds and animals. It’s gotten to the point where I spend a lot of time on iNaturalist and Merlin Bird ID, figuring out just what I’m looking…