Reasonable Restrictions On Guns And Gun Ownership

Last month we received a long awaited definition of the Second Amendment. In other words, the highest court in the land declared that the Second Amendment – “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” – guaranteed the right of the individual U.S. citizen to keep and bear arms.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion of the case and in his summation wrote this: Read more

Why Do We “Keep and Bear Arms”? Part 2

Last week just before the Independence Day celebration, I directed you to a story by Larry Elder at TownHall.com – “Why Do We “Keep and Bear Arms”? Part I. In Part I, Elder takes us through a brief history of the creation of the Second Amendment and then affirms the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruling the Washington, D.C. gun ban as unconstitutional – District of Columbia vs. Heller. Read more

Happy Birthday America!

Milt Inman Photo

This flag proudly flies in a field overlooking a rural Maine farmhouse! Hope you Independence Day if a great one!

Tom Remington

“Why Do We Keep And Bear Arms?, Part 1″

Tomorrow, July 4th, we celebrate Independence Day, the day we signed the Declaration of Independence to set us free from the rule of England. We actually made that declaration on July 2nd but signed the actual document on the Fourth.

Many, particularly our young people, don’t know what Independence Day means. They simply state it as our birthday. Independence Day was the beginning of our freedom and set forth over the course of many years a series of battles, in many venues, to keep and preserve that freedom – some of those events costing the lives of brave Americans. For this, understanding patriots are grateful. Read more