Self-defense shootings made headlines across America in 2025. Texas donut shop owner, Virginia homeowner fight back against ...

Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe. “We heard there are some antifa over here!” The shout came from a group of ...

Two armed U.S. Marshals on the protection detail for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot a would-be carjacker in self-defense last week, casting scrutiny on her co-signing a 2010 Supreme Court ...

Two years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right to carry guns in public for self-defense. But in Illinois, people with ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. It seems that many gun control activists want to take your guns so badly that ...

NEW HAVEN — The founder of a group that trains citizens in self-defense techniques, including carrying guns, said some residents reached out to start a New Haven chapter, but the mayor and police ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. As 2024 drew to a close, examples abounded of ordinary Americans whose Second ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in 2022, several states simultaneously made it easier to obtain carry permits and much harder to use them. Once they could no longer require ...

In this week’s edition of my Freedom’s Journal column here in The Philadelphia Tribune, I am writing about a historic- and prescient- event in the defense of Black people that took place on May 2, ...

The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their ...