Tom Knighton

5 days ago | bearingarms.com | Tom Knighton

On April 30, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) introduced the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025.” Picking up where his predecessor Dianne Feinstein left off, Schiff’s legislation would ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, such as the AR-15. A week earlier, Illinois state Sen. Celina Villanueva, also a Democrat, filed SB2652, the so-called “Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act.” A companion House bill, HB4045 was filed a few days later.

5 days ago | tomknighton.substack.com | Tom Knighton

I don’t normally send stuff out on Saturdays, but I’m going to today, mostly because I’m asking for something. As some of you may or may not know, I have a YouTube channel as well as this Substack. Some of you came here from there, and some of you have gone over there from here. I’m getting close to monetization over there—the first tier of it, anyway—and could use a little help on that. Just click here to subscribe, if you would be so kind, and please watch the latest video there.

5 days ago | townhall.com | Tom Knighton

Following the revelations about the Buffalo Public Schools by SVU Detective Richard Hy, the school board announced it was launching an independent investigation. This sounded like a good thing in the wake of still more evidence about just some of what goes on in the schools in Buffalo.

5 days ago | bearingarms.com | Tom Knighton

When I read the Bruen decision, I rejoiced. It seemed pretty clear that there was a line in the sand and that most gun control laws were going to fall. There simply weren't the historical parallels needed to justify them. Rahimi muddied the waters a fair bit, but I hoped that Bruen would be listened to and the world of gun control would change forever. And at first, it sure looked that way. It seemed that gun control laws were falling left and right. Now, though, we have a problem.

6 days ago | bearingarms.com | Tom Knighton

The debate about whether an illegal immigrant has rights under the Constitution has been going on for a bit now. Usually, the news is filled with the words "due process," which is kind of funny from the same people who tend to want red flag laws, but that kind of inconsistency is hardly unusual. However, there's another case that involves constitutionally protected rights. It's a Second Amendment case, which isn't unusual in and of itself.