by Vicki Mellino | Apr 9, 2019 | Caleb Kruckenberg, Opinion
Clark Aposhian, a resident of Utah, is now the last man in America who can legally own a bump stock. Last month, a formal bump stock ban went into effect. The ban ordered anyone who lawfully purchased one of these devices to either surrender or destroy it, or else...
by Vicki Mellino | Apr 5, 2019 | Caleb Kruckenberg, Opinion
Written by Caleb Kruckenberg Originally published on The Hill Following the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017, where the assailant reportedly used firearms equipped with bump stocks, lawmakers in both parties attempted to restrict these devices...
by mconnors | Mar 1, 2019 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently warned Republicans that if a GOP president can declare a national emergency over a wall on the southern border, the next Democrat president could declare one over gun violence. Her threat envisioned future gun control actions...
by nblazie | Dec 17, 2018 | Opinion, Peggy Little
“On Tuesday Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked tough questions to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, during a banking committee hearing about an opaque form of regulation which has silenced Americans for far too long. The SEC...
by nblazie | Dec 3, 2018 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
“November 30, 2018 marked an obscure but important one-year anniversary. On that date, shortly after the Solicitor General had filed a brief confessing error in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Securities and Exchange Commission sought to fix the newly exposed...
by nblazie | Nov 29, 2018 | Opinion
A new lawsuit filed in federal court in California seeks to have further SEC ALJ proceedings against former IA Ray Lucia dismissed, claiming the ALJ system remains unconstitutional because judges can only be fired via the civil service system. The latest legal twist...
