May 27, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Critics blast scope of Colorado’s semi-auto gun licensing list.

In the run-up to Colorado’s semi-automatic gun licensing scheme, going into effect on August 1, the Colorado Department of Revenue released guidelines which includes approximately 900 firearm makes and models that will be heavily regulated by the looming new law, many of which have gun-rights advocates calling foul.

As previously reported by Complete Colorado, the Democrat-backed Senate Bill 003, passed during the 2025 legislative session, heaps a long list a list of new burdens on potential gun buyers prior to purchasing a semiautomatic firearm.

Among other things, the law requires Coloradans complete a 12 hour, in person, firearms course through their local sheriff’s office, after a background check and application fee is collected. A final exam must be completed with a 90% minimum passing score.

After course completion, all personal information will be uploaded into a course record system granting them five years of eligibility to purchase a semiautomatic gun.

Earlier this month, The Colorado Department of Revenue released their ‘Specified Semi-Automatic Firearms Guidance’ which included 152 pages worth of firearms regulated under SB-003.

Plus: “Kopel continues that the gun rights prohibitionists behind this law lied about its regulatory reach.”

Well, yeah.

I’d just add that when it comes time to renew, previously law-abiding CCW holders might decide that it’s “better to be judged by 12 men than be carried by six” rather than comply with the new law’s time-wasting rules and high compliance costs.

Or just move elsewhere, which is what’s on my radar.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

WE KNOW WHO THAT’S AIMED AT:

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS:

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

WAIT, WHAT? School president cites study finding guns don’t increase crime to oppose campus carry.

New Hampshire lawmakers should vote down campus carry because some people might feel less safe, according to a university president.

Legislators were considering House Bill 1793, which would prohibit public universities from regulating guns on campus and establish a commission to study campus carry. The bill officially died last Thursday, however.

According to a student government survey cited by The New Hampshire, a majority of respondents said they would be less likely to attend UNH if campus carry were allowed. In response to the perceived campus climate, the student senate passed a resolution opposing the bill.

President Elizabeth Chilton also took an institutional stance against the law, sending out both a campuswide message and testifying to the state senate judiciary committee. She (pictured) submitted testimony along with Don Birx, president of Keene State College and Plymouth State University, and Mark Collopy, the police chief for UNH.

They said “research from states that have adopted campus carry has found increased fear of crime, lower perceptions of campus safety, and reduced confidence in campus police.”

But neither study found a link to actual crime and campus carry.

Neurotic feelings are more important than rights, or even basic safety concerns.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND ENTERTAININGLY TONE-DEAF:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Sanders’ anti-oligarchy tour spent $608k on elite travel.

Sanders is barnstorming the country on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, a series of rallies aimed at opposing President Trump and supporting economic populism. To defray its cost, he is raising and spending money through his principal campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders. Even as Sanders rails against billionaires’ political clout and economic inequality, his committee has relied on elite trappings more commonly associated with the wealthy.

The Center Square examined Friends of Bernie Sanders’ filings with the Federal Election Commission from the start of the tour in January 2025 through March, a 15-month stretch when Sanders was the featured speaker at 32 rallies at cities, university campuses, and small towns around the country. More than half a dozen other members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a New York Democrat, have also spoken at the rallies.

To travel, the committee paid $562,117 for 11 private jet trips and $16,633 for a chauffeured car or limousine service 11 times. For lodging, it paid $29,064 to stay at a four-star hotel 15 times.

Being in Friends of Bernie Sanders isn’t cheap, but pretending to stick it to the oligarchy that you’re actually a part of never was.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Another Rough Runoff Night for Trump Detractors. “I got quite a few emails and comments after that the Republicans simply needed to get the runoff election behind them in order to begin focusing on Talarico. Well, that happened last night, and the contest wasn’t even close.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

DON SURBER ON THIS YEAR’S PRIMARIES: Well, bye.

For RINOs this year, May was the cruelest month as MAGA voters primaried those who defied their orders.

In Indiana on May 5, Republican voters rejected six of the seven incumbent state senators who defied the desire to redistrict the state’s congressional map to send two more Republicans to Washington.

In Louisiana on May 16, Senator Wild Eyes Bill Cassidy finished third in the primary meaning he won’t be in the runoff primary that will decide the nomination. Cassidy voted to convict Trump in the second impeachment. MAGA impeached and convicted Cassidy.

In Kentucky on May 19, MAGA voters sent Congressman Thomas Massie packing. He’s headed to the Libertarian Party where he belongs. He’ll replace Jill Stein as their perennial losing presidential nominee.

In Texas on May 26 (last night), MAGA voters toppled Senator John Cornyn in a runoff against primary against Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general. The race was close until Trump endorsed Paxton. That blew Cornyn off the map as Paxton beat him by 27 points.

The media is lying when it frames the issue as Trump’s revenge against perceived enemies.

This is MAGA voters flushing the commode. The electorate has had it with politicians who promise voters everything but give them Dem Lite.

Democrats are on the 20 side of every 80/20 issue and yet Republican representatives and senators keep blocking action on those 80/20 issues.

Yes.

Again:

Hey, even Texas Democrats have started taking out the smelliest trash: Sex therapist who vowed to put ‘American Zionists’ into ‘castration’ centers loses Texas Democratic primary.

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

VDH: Spare Us the Selective Outrage.

Consider this hypothetical: the United States is roughly 34 times larger than Israel, with roughly 340 million to Israel’s 10 million citizens. Apply that asymmetrical magnitude to a thought experiment about how Americans would react to a proportional slaughter of their own.

Suppose that some 200,000 Sinaloa cartel killers (34 times the size of Hamas’s 6,000) swarmed across the southern border. They then began massacring 40,000 American civilians (34 times the Israeli number of 1,200 dead)—as well as torturing, dismembering, raping, and beheading. And then they were followed by thousands of tag-along civilians eager for loot and torture themselves.

Further imagine that the killers returned south across the border with 8,500 American hostages (34 times the 251 Israeli hostages). Once there, they then descended into a vast multibillion-dollar labyrinth of cartel tunnels beneath the cities of Sinaloa, protected by supportive and sympathetic citizens. Their tunnel entries and exits would be built beneath hospitals, schools, and churches.

So what exactly would the U.S. do if neither the Mexican government nor the cartel planners agreed to hand over the hostages and surrender the killers?

Take our case to the UN?

Ask NATO member Spain to chair talks?

Go to Geneva to negotiate with El Chapo and his henchmen?

If the Left got its way, yes.

And of course read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM?

Why does the left assume every Hispanic is an illegal alien?

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

#JOURNALISM:

Related:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

LEFTISTS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT WANT MAGA TO BE ALL ABOUT TRUMP, BECAUSE THEN WHEN HE’S GONE, IT’S GONE.

But Trump is an effect of widespread sentiments among the normals, not the cause.

Posted at 8:27 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE NATIONAL FELONS LEAGUE:

Wait, I thought the media loves it when NFL players are open about their politics:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll