I plan to petition the federal government to implement the Barney Fife Gun Law. This law would allow each citizen to have one bullet, secured in a safe place to be used in an emergency only.

Don Knotts as Barney Fife and Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor fumble over a gun in a scene from ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ 1960 | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images ...

Since 1960, <i>The Andy Griffith Show</i> has been making audiences laugh. The rapport between Andy Griffith and real-life friend and side-kick, Don Knotts, is the reason we continue to love this ...

And the motoring public convinced me I look like Barney. I sort of pieced together a gun, a uniform." How do you keep the Galaxie in such good condition? "I don't drive it when there's salt on the ...

Another reason Barney Fife is so annoying is that we have so many of his kind in modern U.S. law enforcement. The latest example comes to you from Broward County, Florida.

I think this is a quite profound difference, and very promising. As robust a "gun rights" defender as exists in the Senate is weighing in about incremental, practical, reasonable steps to reduce ...

Mr. Knotts, who often played high-strung characters, won five Emmys for Best Supporting Actor in the 1960s as the swaggering but hapless Fife. Mr. Knotts developed the idea of the ...