(from motherjones.com) [Ed: DRGO sees lots of “studies” marketed as gun control justification that we don’t have time to report on in detail, though they all should be. Thankfully, they often are reviewed by other Second Amendment advocates. We thought we’d catch up on a few here this week, some having been mentioned on our Facebook timeline, some not, but all worth attention (sometimes repeatedly). The next installment comes Thursday.] “California's comprehensive background check and mis...

(from amazon.com) #MeToo: Women Who Shot Men in Self-Defense is a special book, just out in 2018. Special, not just in being another powerful tool against the prejudice against guns and individual self-defense so common in society, but in its development and focus, too. It’s available on Amazon.com in paperback (in black & white, which makes the charts hard to interpret). It had been available in color paperback for a substantial premium, but doesn’t come up. I’d recommend the full c...

(from en.wikipedia.org) [Ed: DRGO was asked for written testimony regarding a badly conceived, intended and written bill that the newly Democrat majority legislature would enact as an Extreme Risk Protection Order law there. This is our response. There will be further action at the NH Senate if (as is likely) it passes today's Committee hearing and then the NH House of Representatives. The present NH Governor also is a Democrat, so stopping it however possible is both crucial and difficult.]...

(from rand.org) [Ed: Here’s another example of the horrendous “research” we encounter every week. Thanks to DRGO writer Dr. Thomas E. Gift who pointed it out and gave us his read on it, which is incorporated here.] “Firearm Policies That Work” just came out February 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors are April Zeoli, a new name from the Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice and Daniel Webster, an old hand at anti-gun research from the Cent...

[Ed: This is the inspiring true story of men who took up arms to defend their families, communities and movement during the 1960's Civil Rights conflicts. It reminds us why firearms must be in the people's hands when authoritarian government would maintain its monopoly of arms. DRGO friend Philip Smith, President of the National African-American Gun Association, originally published this in its latest member newsletter.] The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed Afr...

(from theregister.co.uk) [Ed: This piece is excerpted from a much longer, and well worth reading, seven-part series first published by our colleagues at The Arbalest Quarrel on February 6, 2019.]  Oppressive antigun measures do not promote public safety Removal of guns from society won’t promote public safety. It never has; never will. (See . . .“The Failed Experiment, Gun Control and Public Safet...

(from bila.com) Like many of the rallying cries used by opponents of the right to keep and bear arms, the call for “universal background checks" is a deliberate misrepresentation.  While at first blush UBC legislation may sound appealing, the proposal is actually a ruse. (more…)

(from rightedition.com) Ed: We are delighted to welcome to DRGO a precociously "woke" medical student, Tyler Watson, who has given his permission for us to post his recent article from The DO. (more…)