Illinois Gun | The Law was passed by the Illinois General Assembly in a knee jerk response to the Virginia Tech shooting.

Times Online | Smith & Wesson expects to nearly double its annual sales in the next three to five years as demand for its firearms soars in the recession.

Thomas R. Eddlem | Ron Paul’s presidential campaign evidently inspired dozens of candidates for congressional office across the nation who seek to reform Congress from a constitutionalist perspective.

Detroit News | None said they plan to bring their weapons to City Hall, where armed security officers are assigned to council meetings to protect them.

Michael Boldin | In states around the country, there’s a growing movement to address and resist two of the most abused parts of the Constitution – the Commerce Clause and the 2nd Amendment.

Real Conservatives | As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control.

Andrew Marcus | The Mayor is using a straw-man argument that conveniently provides him with an opportunity to politicize the terrorist attack as part and parcel with America’s love of guns.

CNSNews | Rep. Peter Hoekstra said that the health care bill pushed by the Democratic House leadership will “shred the Constitution” and that Democrats have not given Republicans “any time to showcase” their ideas on health care reform.

CNSNews | Congress who want to force Americans to buy health insurance — as both House and Senate versions of the health care plan would do — are saying “the hell with the Constitution.”

Dudley Brown | Gun grabbers in our government-run education system are now seeking to brainwash your children into accepting their anti-gun agenda — also by rewriting the Bill of Rights.

Gun Owners of America | This bill will — like all the ObamaCare versions before it — most likely result in all of your gun-related health data being dumped into a government database.

Infowars | Learn about how the Oath Keepers, a non-partisan association of currently serving military, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters, who have sworn to uphold the Constitution and not follow unlawful orders to oppress the American people.

UPI | U.S. firearms owners have bought an estimated 12 billion rounds of ammunition during the past year

Maggie’s Notebook | It’s not about double jeopardy. It is all about dual sovereignty.

CNSNews | The Congressional Budget Office has said that the federal government has never before in American history forced Americans to purchase any good or service.

PRNewswire-USNewswire | The bill passed both houses of Congress earlier this month as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act.

JTCoyoté | When the president of the United States, Barack H. Obama, accepted rotating status as chairman of the United Nations Security Council, he committed high treason.

Donald Lambro | Congress has never before required citizens to purchase any good or service, but that is what both House and Senate health bills would mandate.

Timothy Baldwin | History proves with absolute certainty that a national government and its assuming principles were rejected.

Adam Murdock, MD | It may be soon that our constitutional rights are only as good as the next flu season.

Michael Gaddy | Don’t waste your time, money or efforts on “educating” those who believe in gun control.

Christopher Neefus | The White House is not going to allow the president’s newly created “czars” to testify before Congress.

Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership | As BATFE has been placing increasing importance on their tracing function, they have been creating more firearms registration records.

Tenth Amendment Center | The Constitution authorizes the national government to carry out seventeen enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8 and the powers of several of the ensuing amendments.

Declan McCullagh | The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems.

CNSNews | He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

You Tube | This Mayor is actually taking taxpayer money and giving it to people for snitching on their neighbors if they own a gun…

Nat Hentoff | The press has largely been uninterested in this suspension of the Bill of Rights — but we know a lot about David Letterman.

Infowars | Another fine example that the thin blue line is completely ignorant of the Constitution they are supposedly sworn to uphold.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | The case has been turned over to juvenile court prosecutors who will determine if the teen will be charged with a crime

Fightin’ Words | Regardless of whether global warming is taking place or caused to any degree by human activity, we do not want a global government empowered to tax Americans without elected representation or anything analogous to constitutional protections.

KATU News | Apartment management tells residents the American flag symbolizes problems.

Ryan Sabalow | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed into law a bill that requires buyers of handgun ammunition to leave thumbprints and detailed personal information with registered ammo sellers, as well as put restrictions on online bullet sales.

Gun Owners of America | Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has something to say to gun owners: “Own a gun; lose your coverage!”

Newsmax | Boehner is accusing President Obama of subverting and circumventing the Constitution by appointing so-called czars who are not subject to Senate confirmation or scrutiny.

Phillip Smith | Of 763 sneak and peek search warrants issued last year, only three were issued in relation to alleged terrorist offenses, or less than one-half of 1% of all such black-bag clandestine searches.

CNN | The Society of Professional Journalists expressed ‘outrage’ over President Obama’s proposed changes to the shield bill that would protect reporters from having to divulge confidential sources in court.

Star-Telegram | Fanned by angry contempt for Washington, secession movements have sprouted up in perhaps more than a dozen states in recent years.

Bob Livingston | Passage of either of two bills, HR 45 (also known as Blair-Holt Firearm Licensing and Record Sale Act of 2009) and S 1317, would be a devastating blow to Second Amendment rights.

The Norman Transcript | The authors of the U.S. Constitution intentionally made it open to interpretation so that it could be adapted to meet changing societal issues, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Thursday.

First Amendment Center | The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review parts of the Patriot Act and other laws that make it a crime to give “material support” including training and “expert advice” to designated terrorist organizations.

Nancy Reardon | Critics of a pandemic preparedness bill pending in the Legislature say it would allow all those things and sets the stage for a medical police state where any response to an epidemic of flu or other illness has the potential to steamroll civil liberties.

USA Today | The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will return to the controversy over individual gun rights by hearing an appeal from a group of firearms owners in Chicago.

ABC News | The Obama administration reaffirmed its belief this week that it has the power to indefinitely detain prisoners at Guantanamo.

Raw Story | President Barack Obama has quietly decided to bypass Congress and allow the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects without charges.

Rob Natelson | Pelosi has issued a press release in which she purports to rebut those of us who have expressed doubts about the constitutionality of some health care reform plans.

Andrew P. Napolitano | It’s clear that Obama’s health care plan is unconstitutional at its core.

Doug Green | These unconstitutional laws are a leading contributor to the destruction of our middle class families.

Right Soup | Constitution be damned, Barack Hussein Obama has decided to put HIMSELF in the drivers seat.

Charles Scaliger | How did a one-time champion of the gold standard and free-market economics come to preside over the largest experiment in fiat currency and monetary manipulation the world has ever seen?