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Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a recent federal change involving gun stores. The Department of Homeland Security added gun dealers, ranges, and manufacturers to its essential business coronavirus-response guide on Saturday. The updated guidance from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now considers “workers…

On Tuesday, March 24, Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker announced his office was suspending all pistol permit and concealed-carry services. However, as JLF’s Jon Sanders writes in his recent research brief, Baker does not have the authority to make that decision. Sanders writes: There’s a big problem with this announcement: Baker…

All the ambiguity and rigmarole over whether Wake County or Gov. Cooper were closing gun stores as nonessential businesses are now moot.

What is Wake County officials' problem with people being able to buy guns and ammunition "during a declared state of emergency even within one’s home 'where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute'"? 

Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon explores the extent of local governments’ emergency powers. North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a premier vacation destination on the east coast, closed its borders to visitors on March 17 because of the coronavirus pandemic. While border closures raise difficult constitutional problems, state…

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on North Carolina’s 11th District congressional runoff election. Amy Cooke’s Daily Journal explains why the pandemic represents an opportunity to advance freedom.

It's best for a fundamental civil right not merely to be strongly implied in the law. Make it explicit and remove a lot of uncertainty