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The United States Constitution, ratified in 1789, has been amended 27 times to date. These amendments have played a crucial role in shaping the rights and protections of American citizens. While all amendments are important in their own right, there are certain ones that stand out as particularly significant. In this article, we will explore the top 5 most important amendments to the U.S. Constitution. 1. First Amendment: The First Amendment is arguably the most important amendment in the Constitution as it guarantees the freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition. These rights are essential for a free and...

Breitbart News noted that Walz began pushing for a special gun control session shortly after a transgender male attacked Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic school on August 27, 2025. After mentioning a special session, Walz attempted to pressure Republican lawmakers into supporting an “assault weapons” and complained when they would not. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has dropped his focus on a special gun control session after his push for an “assault weapons” ban fell flat in the legislature. CBS News reported Walz saying, “If we’re going to hold a special session on safety of our children and safety of our streets...

A Florida couple was arrested last week after police said they abandoned their 16-year-old son on the side of the road with a bag full of guns. The parents, Bradley Leon Guerrero Santos, 36, and Rosanella Mendiola Borja, 35, are facing child neglect charges. Police in North Port, a city near Sarasota, received a 911 call on the evening of October 1 about 'a suspicious male' who was walking south on the northbound side on Interstate-75, according to a probable cause affidavit. An officer approached the boy, who reluctantly identified himself as the child of Santos and Borja. He said...

SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — A Georgia man accused of tearing down a pro-Trump banner at a rafting business before exchanging gunfire with the business owner has been extradited to Swain County. Benjamin Michael Campbell, of Atlanta, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, discharging a firearm within an enclosure to incite fear, and willful and wanton injury to personal property in connection with the Sept. 6 incident. Deputies were dispatched to the Paddle Inn Rafting Company for reports of shots fired, but the suspect’s vehicle was no longer at the...

On January 15, 2019, an off-duty British SAS operator and high-level trainer, who goes by the nom de guerre of Christian Craighead, disrupted an Islamic terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya, at the DusitD2 complex. He is credited with saving 700 lives through his skills, action, heroism, and leadership. Christian gave the keynote speech at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Salt Lake City on September 28, 2025.If you wish to listen to the entire presentation, the video(above) of the Keynote speech by Christian Craighead, SAS, retired, starts at approximately 5:40:30 and ends at approximately 6:15:15.Christian grew up with a single...

A Texas mother was shot dead outside a PetSmart after confronting a young woman who failed to say 'thank you' when she held the door open for her. Cecilia Simpson, 41, was out shopping with her daughter in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood on Tuesday when an argument over a woman’s lack of manners exploded into gunfire - leaving the mother dead from multiple bullet wounds. The suspect, 22-year-old Keona Zachyua Hampton, told police she was 'just trying to get Simpson away from her,' according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox 5 News. She was taken into custody at Dallas...

A 72-year-old man, Vernon Patton, was working on a gravel road with his tractor when a 70-pound juvenile male black bear attacked him. The attack happened on September 3, 2025, in the Mulberry Mountain area of Arkansas. The attack occurred near Highway 23, just south of the Mulberry Mountain lodge. Vernon’s son came by to check on him. The son saw his father being attacked and drove off the bear by throwing rocks at it. From foxnews.com: A 72-year-old man had to be airlifted to the hospital this week after he was mauled by a 70-pound bear in Arkansas, state...

… In this country, guns are symbols of freedom. The right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution. For many, this right is more than historical; it is existential. It guarantees self-defense, deters tyranny, preserves sovereignty over government, and empowers citizens to resist oppression. This is why the U.S. has an estimated 120 firearms for every 100 people—meaning there are more guns than people in this country. The tension between freedom and safety sits at the heart of our next live debate, which we’re putting on with support from the Foundation for Individual Rights and...

Sorry: Ignoring how often recent high-profile shootings have a trans aspect, as most media are trying to do, does no one any good. The latest news: Nicholas Roske, who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, claimed (after being caught) to be a woman. Other examples: * Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson was in a relationship with a transitioning biological male. * Robin Westman, the Minneapolis school shooter who killed two kids and injured 21 others in August, identified as a transgender woman. * Audrey Hale, who killed six people at Nashville’s Convent School in 2023, was...

A sheriff’s deputy was killed, while another officer is fighting for his life after the pair were shot in a struggle with an arrestee inside a Louisiana courthouse Monday evening, authorities said. Deputy Charles Riley, a six-year veteran with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office and a married father of two, was fatally shot during a tussle with a man accused of sexual assault who tried to grab his gun, according to Louisiana State Police. Riley was interviewing the suspect — Latrell Clark, 27 — alongside Capt. Brett Stassi Jr., the son of Sheriff Brett Stassi, inside the Plaquemine courthouse building...

Amazon Prime Video is backtracking after fan outrage erupted over its decision to digitally erase guns from James Bond promotional artwork — a move critics mocked as absurd. The images in question featured actors who played the Bond character, including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. But rather than holding guns in the images, all of them stand awkwardly and empty-handed. The company’s revised artwork now features images from the movies themselves, though none of the promotional images show 007 with a weapon. In posters from Connery’s “Dr. No” and Brosnan’s “Goldeneye,” the guns were edited out...

Have you noticed a stark contrast between the anti-liberty left and the pro-freedom right these days? While one side is ramping up violence and lies, the other is having a grand old time pumping out sombrero memes and videos in an effort to restrain runaway government. One side is cosplaying at some sort of “Civil War” ramp-up scenario. The other realizes that those who have to resort to violence have run out of ideas, and that violence shows weakness in argumentation and ideological rigor.As of this moment, the worst (subject to change) would be the story of Virginia A.G. nominee...

BUENA VISTA TWP, MI — A roving party in Buena Vista Township ended in gun violence over the weekend, leaving one man dead and three people wounded. The party of 50 or more people began at the Liquor Basket, 3581 Dixie Highway, the night of Friday, Oct. 3, according to Buena Vista Township Police Detective Russ Pahssen. When the business closed at midnight, the revelers relocated to a park behind the Speedway gas station at 3357 E. Holland Road/M-46, Pahssen said. Among the attendees was a 32-year-old Saginaw man, who had a 9mm handgun with an extended 30-round magazine jutting...

Judge Reed O’Connor, a Chief United States District judge in the Fifth Circuit, has determined the ban on possession and carry of arms in common use in Post Offices and on property owned by the Post Office is an infringement on the rights protected by the Second Amendment. From the decision: The Court determines that both 18 U.S.C. § 930(a) and 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(1) are inconsistent with the principles that underpin this Nation’s regulatory tradition. Thus, they are unconstitutional as-applied to carrying firearms inside a an ordinary post office or on post office property.The decision was published on September...

This home is locked, loaded — and listed. Luxury homes often come with pools, spas or screening rooms. This $8.95 million estate in Warren Township, New Jersey, comes with all of that — and a 75-foot indoor shooting range. The 26-room residence at 4 Mason Hill, completed in 2020 on a 7-acre parcel, was custom-built by its current owners, who are now relocating out of state, according to NJ.com. Designed by architect Jeffrey A. Beer, the 11,000-square-foot home combines contemporary architecture with resort-style amenities, from dual outdoor kitchens to a multimillion-dollar movie theater. But it’s that one quirky amenity that...

As violent crime surges across America’s largest Democratic-run cities, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping in — this time, suing Los Angeles County for allegedly blocking citizens from defending themselves. The new lawsuit marks the latest clash in a growing battle between the Trump administration’s DOJ and Democrat-led cities over public safety and constitutional rights. Filed by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, the lawsuit accuses the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) of engaging in a "pattern or practice" of delaying or denying concealed carry weapon permits (CCW) for law-abiding citizens. Federal investigators found that out of more...

At least two people were killed, and a dozen others — including a child — were injured after gunfire erupted in a busy area of Alabama. Police responded to a “mass shooting event” in downtown Montgomery at around 11:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, Oct. 4, Montgomery Police Department (MPD) Chief James Graboys said in a press conference live-streamed online, per WSFA 12 News. Graboys confirmed that at least 14 people were struck in the incident, with two of the victims dying at the scene and three sustaining “life-threatening injuries." The remaining nine, he added, are not believed to have...

The second Trump administration has reversed the burdensome restrictions on the export of firearms and accessories imposed by the Biden administration in April 2024.During the first Trump administration, the regulatory burden on the export of firearms and accessories was significantly reduced. Much of this was done by transferring the application for export process from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of State to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The BIS issued regulations to comply with the change.On April 30, 2024, during the Biden administration, the BIS published an interim...

(The Center Square) – Three Muslim men have been charged in connection to a shooting at a youth baseball complex in Katy, Texas, a suburb west of Houston. Shots were fired into the Ameripark youth baseball field, known as “The Rac,” when a youth baseball tournament was being played. Video obtained by KPRC 2 NBC News shows adults and children running away from the fields; “12-year-old Texas Colts players in light blue jerseys [were] running frantically for cover as bullets flew past them,” the news outlet reported. A 27-year-old coach was struck in the shoulder, taken to the hospital and...

A mass shooting in downtown Montgomery on Saturday night left two people - including a teen - dead and a dozen others injured during what should have been a weekend of celebration in Alabama’s capital city. The gunfire erupted shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday near Bibb Street and Commerce Street. A total of 12 people were injured. Two people were killed - 17-year-old Jeremiah Morris and 43-year-old Shalonda Williams. Two juveniles are among those wounded. One has life-threatening injuries, police said, and the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries. In all, five victims remain in life-threatening condition, and seven sustained non-life-threatening...