Having a weapon gives you a clear advantage in an altercation. It’s why we view introducing a weapon into an argument or fight as something pretty serious. The thing is, not all weapons are created equal. There are less lethal weapons, obviously, and lethal ones. Even among lethal weapons, though, there’s a hierarchy.
The anti-gunner lobby isn’t going to be happy about the findings of the 2026 National Firearms Survey, which destroys some of the most common arguments they make in favor of gun control.
The survey was conducted by Dr. William English of Georgetown University.
Oh, for the glory days of the CDC’s anti-liberty/gun “research!” They used to have the unrestrained ability to treat the Second Amendment as a contagion and spent untold millions producing “research” that treated gun ownership as a deadly public health threat. Needless to say, the conclusions of that sort of research were predetermined. But in 1996, Congress rained on that anti-liberty parade ...
The gun debate is one of those things where both sides are trying to take advantage. I’d call it a game if the stakes weren’t so high. Both sides make arguments, and the other side tries to punch holes in them.
This is reasonable and natural, even if I don’t like how the other side carries out their part.
Still, fair is fair, I suppose, and free speech means they have a right to say idiotic things. That’s just how it has to be.
Gun sales go up year after year. The Bruen decision meant that subjective permitting requirements were unconstitutional, scuttling generations of oppressive anti-Second Amendment laws. Through it all, though, we were told how every bit of our rights being restored would result in our society becoming less safe.
Never mind that all of this happened after the spikes in homicides in 2020 and 2021, which suggested the status quo wasn’t exactly helping.
Student op-eds are…interesting.
These are younger people who haven’t really lived much of their lives yet, but who have strong opinions on a great many things. That’s fine, obviously, because they have that right. Yet, because many of them lack real-world living experience, their arguments on things like guns can be baffling. Especially when they end up defeating their own argument.
Gun licence applications are on the rise in the Greater Toronto Area. Between 2016 and 2025, the number of applicants for possession and acquisition licences, or PALs—the permits that allow Canadians to buy firearms—have increased by nearly 50 per cent. In some parts of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, like the eastern suburb of Peel, they’ve more than doubled. And southern Ontario isn’t the only place where this is happening. The number of PAL licence holders across Canada is quickly nearing 2.5 million, the highest count on record.
We’re gonna need em.
About halfway into a chilling New York Times feature detailing how the “right to kill is growing” in the United States, investigative reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike McIntire drops a popular myth. The Constitution’s text, he contends, “says nothing explicitly about an individual right to have a gun for everyday self-defense. Locating that right in the Constitution became the grand project of the modern gun lobby.”
The very first rule of gun safety is “treat every gun as if it’s loaded.” The second rule of gun safety is “don’t point your gun at anything you’re not willing to kill.”
RSO clocked them so fast. pic.twitter.com/iiYix8avpw
— Doc Strangelove (@DocStrangelove2) August 6, 2026
Anti-hunting groups don’t make a lot of sense to me. I get people wanting harvested animals killed humanely and not left to rot in the woods. I want that, for crying out loud, and that’s true of every hunter I know.
Yet hunters are also conservationists. Not only do they help thin herds so there’s less competition for limited resources among animals like deer, but hunting license fees help fund government efforts to protect these animals.
The Supreme Court of Canada is preparing to hear four connected appeals concerning the federal Order in Council that prohibited more than 1,500 firearm models beginning May 1, 2020.
CSSA has applied for leave to intervene.
That does not mean the Supreme Court has granted CSSA a place in the case.
A jury in Simcoe will decide whether Toronto police officers were negligent when they shot and killed Norfolk County gunsmith Rodger Kotanko at his workshop west of Port Dover in 2021.
Officers from the Toronto Police Service’s guns and gangs task force came to Norfolk with a search warrant after two guns reportedly registered to the veteran gunsmith’s business were seized in criminal investigations.
In the wake of Kotanko’s death, his family sued Toronto police for $23 million, alleging “reckless” decision-making and poor planning needlessly put the 70-year-old in harm’s way.
h/t Mauser
Hundreds of people stood in the courtyard outside Winnipeg’s city hall in 34 C heat on Monday to express their opposition to a federal effort to compensate owners of guns the Liberal government describes as “assault-style” firearms.
The $700-million program has faced widespread criticism for both its cost and its effectiveness. The federal government hoped to buy 136,000 firearms through the program but ended up with only 67,000.
Ah, Toronto, Canada. A city that’s doing more for the cause of gun rights than probably any other community on the planet, and not because they’ve embraced it and shown the world that law-abiding gun owners aren’t the problem, but the answer. Oh no, because Canada has done the exact opposite, and Toronto has become a horrific place to hang out.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees what may be the most uniquely American of all rights. Those 27 words have inspired millions of words in thousands of debates over the Amendment’s meaning and what, if any, limits may apply.
There is no question that firearms played a pivotal role in the birth and growth of the United States of America.
