Every honest observer knows full well that harsh gun control measures do nothing to control violent crime. Political leaders pound the pulpit and loudly declare their commitment to do “something,” but bad people continue to do bad things. And every now and then these [...]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) suffered a significant setback recently in a Texas court, but the war may not be over. If there is still fighting left to be done, the Second Amendment Foundation said it is ready to carry [...]

The reality that many do not want to tell a stranger in person or on the phone that they own firearms should not come as a shock in 2023. After all, the Second Amendment is vilified daily and law-abiding gun owners are treated as [...]

Is it any wonder that residents are fleeing the great state of California? Since the Golden State began shedding population in 2020, it has lost roughly half a million people — or nearly the population of Wyoming. Even with the temperate climate and incredible [...]

Besides the city’s normally high rate of violent crime, Chicago has been the scene of several notable recent incidents in which armed good guys defended life and property against criminals. This latest occurrence unfolded Thursday around 10:40 p.m. in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. A [...]

Vermont gun range owner Daniel Banyai was ordered to be arrested and held behind bars in state prison until his gun range and all structures related to it are destroyed. The order was given by Judge Thomas Durkin of the environmental division of the [...]

Two alleged would-be robbers in San Antonio are dead after an attempted ATM heist on Friday turned against them in a big way. This case proved to be yet another incident where a good guy with a gun defends their life from violent criminals [...]

Take a moment and savor a bit of good news that everyone wants to hear. The surge in murders experienced by large U.S. cities for several years appears to be subsiding at the halfway point of 2023. Crime analyst and AH Datalytics co-founder Jeff [...]

If you are going to be out late at night in a major U.S. city — and certainly Chicago — there is a fair chance you may have a violent encounter. Not everyone does, of course, and many are able to enjoy the offerings [...]

Within the state that leads the nation in overreaching gun control, San Diego leads California municipalities in zealously enforcing so-called “red flag” laws. The efforts of local leaders led to hundreds of weapons being confiscated from persons deemed to be dangerous. To be perfectly [...]

As states throw their collective temper tantrums over last year’s monumental Bruen decision, there appears to be a competition to see which can pass the most unconstitutional laws that infringe furthest on citizen’s rights. Massachusetts is poised to take the lead. State leaders have [...]

A weekend and July 4th holiday marred by violent incidents across the nation included multiple deadly shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Fort Worth. And amazingly, there was not one loud public proclamation for getting tougher on violent criminals. Instead, it was the same old [...]

Unprovoked random violence is hardly the sole issue of the U.S., and it was a good guy with a gun who stopped a bloody attack on Tuesday in Israel. Authorities describe the incident in Tel Aviv as a terrorist attack that wounded at least [...]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Monday to halt its new rule regulating pistol stabilizer braces. The Second Amendment advocacy organization declared it is targeting “the failings of the new rule [...]

While the rest of the nation moved in one direction, California lawmakers decided to buck the logical trend and head the exact opposite way. At issue is the now-stymied push to require large financial firms which issue credit cards to track gun purchases. The [...]

A startling Internal Revenue Service (IRS) armed raid on a Montana gun store early last month led one congressman to act against the armed agency. Speaking exclusively to Fox News, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) announced a bill Friday to prohibit the IRS from exploiting [...]

Another Second Amendment case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, but this new litigation bears an unusual hallmark. It was neither brought by gun rights advocates nor supported by these organizations. It will, however, be worth noting how justices rule on yet [...]

The federal government’s war on private gun ownership shows no signs of letting up, but the good guys took an impressive win on Friday.  Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge in Texas, slammed the brakes on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and [...]

U.S. citizens exercised the purchasing part of their right to keep and bear arms an astounding 17.4 million times last year, according to a report from SafeHome.org.  That number is a million more than recorded by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The industry trade [...]

Domestic Second Amendment opponents are far from the only concern for gun rights advocates in 2023, as strong international efforts are well underway to regulate the right to keep and bear arms. The United Nations General Assembly is prepared to move forward with a [...]

There are obvious reasons why Second Amendment advocates have little faith in the mainstream media on this topic. Agenda-driven messaging regularly distorts the truth, and it takes personally digging for information to finally know what happened. The recent incident of a Chicago mother being [...]

Preemption laws are a rather basic legal concept that states enact to ensure local governments do not impose restrictions stronger than those enacted by legislatures. In the case of gun control, most states have these laws in place. They effectively handcuff local jurisdictions from [...]

A measure to require “universal” background checks even on most private gun transfers in Maine was finally defeated in the state Senate on Tuesday.  Lawmakers in the House approved by one vote the bill supported by the anti-gun lobby, but the proposal from Speaker [...]

The only thing more frightening than an armed lunatic clearly on a murderous rampage is that same mentally deranged individual not being confronted by a good guy with a gun. And Las Vegas knows all too well about this scenario. On Friday, a hero [...]

A notorious Pennsylvania sheriff backed away from his patently unconstitutional practices dealing with gun dealers in the face of legal action from the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). Montgomery County Sheriff Sean Kilkenny recently enacted a department policy that can only be described as draconian. [...]