New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham (D) is sharpening her knives for another run at Second Amendment rights in the new year. Her first attempt to suppress the right to keep and bear arms crashed and burned as even her own party revolted against her [...]

Birmingham, Alabama, has the unfortunate distinction of being one of many American cities where violent crime continues to explode. After a particularly brutal weekend the homicide total for the county in 2023 is now up to 183. Media reports do not paint a complete [...]

From domestic abuse survivors to intended victims of violent crime, women are speaking out in a loud voice about the need for armed self-defense. And last week, their voices rang through the halls of Congress. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the emergency injunction request from the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) concerning the so-called “assault weapons” ban by Naperville, Illinois. The request was sent to Justice Amy Coney Barrett earlier this month after the Seventh Circuit [...]

The audacity of carjacking is shocking to the average law-abiding citizen. There is something inherently frightening about having a gun pointed at you while a violent criminal demands you exit your vehicle and hand it over. So, is it any wonder that armed Americans [...]

Despite the best efforts of anti-gun radicals, the weapons industry is alive and well. Another positive indicator came this week from the nation’s largest gun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson. The legendary company reported it posted a sales increase for the second consecutive quarter, continuing [...]

Shopkeepers are under siege in many parts of the country but perhaps nowhere more than coastal California. Longstanding retailers are fleeing in droves as gangs of criminals target their stores for massive thefts of merchandise. But some stayed, and some armed themselves. One such [...]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is up in arms over a sweeping proposal from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The institution said the misguided changes would alter the traditional definition of a gun buyer or seller and “unjustly criminalize” law-abiding [...]

There was a time when the home invasion was the stuff of movie plots, not real life. Burglaries when people are not home have been around since there’s been people, but to charge into an occupied residence armed and ready for violence was almost [...]

Americans continued to exercise their Second Amendment rights with healthy purchases of firearms in November.  Figures from gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) system checks last month proved that the people are opening their wallets and purses for everything from sport [...]

Gun control activists celebrate when a municipality initiates a gun buyback program. Proponents tell anyone in shouting distance that it will get firearms off the streets and out of the hands of criminals, which of course is nonsense. Bad actors are not lining up [...]

The right to keep and bear arms was clearly intended to cover all law-abiding adults, but some lawmakers stubbornly insist that this is not the case. There is no other explanation for the federal law prohibiting 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns from federal firearms licensees [...]

It is said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, and the same can be said for the law. The National Rifle Association (NRA) enjoys the support of a most unlikely ally as it argues its case before the U.S. Supreme Court — the American [...]

Every gun rights advocate knows the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major legal victory for the Second Amendment in 2022. In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, justices re-established the constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self-defense outside [...]

It is no secret that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) now has a “zero-tolerance” policy on the slightest slip-ups by federal firearm license (FFL) owners. This is part of an overarching strategy to force as many gun retailers as possible, [...]

Predicting that a politician will grandstand is like a forecast that the sun will come up in the morning — you can count on it. Unfortunately for gun rights advocates, the recent trend is for leaders to attempt to score points with their base [...]

The trend toward anti-gun activists taking legal action against the weapons industry continued this week with a lawsuit filed in Nevada. This time it is a group of shareholders seeking to damage legendary firearms company Smith & Wesson. The plaintiffs allege that directors and [...]

Logical people respond to spikes in violent crime by preparing to defend themselves. This certainly holds true for upstanding citizens in Philadelphia, where firearms sales and applications for carry permits skyrocketed in recent years. Since the pandemic’s onset in 2020, the increase in rates [...]

In what may become a resounding victory for gun rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court docketed an Illinois case challenging the state’s sweeping ban on semi-automatic weapons.  National Association for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville, Illinois, challenges both local and state prohibitions on [...]

California is hardly golden when it comes to Second Amendment rights, and even when forced to abide by the Constitution, officials notoriously drag their feet like petulant children. So much so that a lawsuit has been filed in federal court. On Monday, the California [...]

There is little more fundamental than the instinct to protect the young and defenseless. This behavior may be readily witnessed in the animal kingdom, and it remains a vital part of civilized society. There are few if any lengths a person will not go [...]

A key gun control ruling was handed down by a federal judge on Friday. It rejected the federal ban on licensed gun dealers selling handguns to law-abiding adults under 21, striking a blow to anti-gun forces. U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas S. Kleeh determined [...]

Residents of Kearney, Nebraska, know a governmental overreach when they see one. Political leaders do not operate independently of the people, but rather with their expressed consent. So, when they egregiously violate the trust placed in them and move against the wishes of their [...]

Anti-gun lawmakers are nothing if not consistent in their opposition to hard-won Second Amendment rights. Due to the Constitutional guarantee of the freedom to keep and bear arms, they are forced to resort to novel methods to slowly strip these liberties away. Now a [...]

Law-abiding Illinois gun owners know the Constitution protects their right to keep and bear arms. They are also well aware of a raw deal when they see one, such as the current mandate to register all semiautomatic long guns by Jan. 1, 2024. And [...]