New Threats to Gun Ownership OCTOBER 2018 By Todd Woodard I honestly thought that once Donald Trump became president, we’d see fewer onerous gun regulations being rolled out — and, perchance, a rollback of some existing regulations, or even an expansion of gun rights. Silly me. President Trump did make it a campaign pledge to delete two regulations for every new one installed, but that effort hasn’t been extended to gun regulations, at least that I’ve heard of. Moreover, while wide-ranging federal efforts to restrict gun ownership and simply make it harder to own, buy, and transact firearms have stalled at the national level, that doesn’t mean that the inalienable right to self-defense with guns isn’t being challenged across the country. In fact, the new challenges to 2A rights are especially pernicious. To wit: In an excellent piece in National Review on August 21, 2018, entitled “Corporate Gun Control Might Be the Worst Threat to Gun Rights,” writer David French outlines the s...
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