As of 1776, North Carolina has recognized the common law misdemeanor of “going about armed to the terror of the people."
In the 1990s, once a leader on gun rights, North Carolina is now pushed into the position of playing catch up.
N.C. Rep. Jay Adams, R-Catawba, talks with The Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine during the Carolina Liberty Conference in Raleigh. Adams discusses the history of Second Amendment, and its future.
Four Republican members of North Carolina’s U.S. House delegation have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill limiting the Biden administration’s ability to track gun ownership. Reps. Dan Bishop of the 9th District, Ted Budd (13th), Madison Cawthorn (11th), and Richard Hudson (8th) are co-sponsoring H.R. 6945, also known as the No REGISTRY Rights Act....
A leading N.C. gun-rights group is demanding disciplinary action against a Democratic state senator from Mecklenburg County. The group claims Sen. Natasha Marcus made “false claims” during debate about a recently vetoed pistol-permit repeal bill. Grass Roots North Carolina is asking for Marcus to face a formal penalty under Article II, Section 20 of the...
National instant background checks have made the racist NC pistol permit process obsolete but gun control advocates refuse to let it go.
North Carolina no longer ranks in the top half of states when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Some on the left are trying to tie the Second Amendment to racism, yet it's gun control laws that are the true culprit.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson took aim this week at a proposed federal regulation that targets pistol stabilizing braces. Hudson led a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday drawing attention to the issue. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives proposed the rule in June. The news conference encouraged people to submit comments to the...
Recently, Judge Roger Thomas Benitez, a senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, ruled that the 1989 California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional. The ruling prompted the media to fall back on a common yet egregiously incorrect claim that the AR-15 is the “weapon of choice” for mass...
Individual states should be looking to expand the scope of more contemporary understandings of the Second Amendment, orienting more towards the intent of the American Founders.
