Legally Armed Civilian Wounds Suspect in Fatal El Paso Mall Shooting
A legally armed good guy stepped up Wednesday and stopped the suspect in a fatal shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, that killed one and injured three others. Shoppers were sent fleeing in panic after police say a 16-year-old suspect opened [...]
Federal Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Illinois ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
A Chicago federal judge denied a bid for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block the ban on so-called “assault weapons” by Illinois and a similar measure in Naperville. The state law bans the sale of these semiautomatic firearms and limits magazine [...]
FIND Act Would Protect Gun Industry from Anti-Second Amendment Radicals
The forces lined up to snatch away Second Amendment freedoms have several foes that must stand united. The first is the Constitution itself, which clearly grants the right to keep and bear arms to law-abiding U.S. citizens in a manner that is not to [...]
MSU Rock Becomes Flashpoint for Gun Rights Debate
The aftermath of the Michigan State University shooting that left three dead and five critically injured further stirred the debate over gun rights. Mixed in with the predictable calls for stricter regulations are many who see the need for self-defense rights to be respected. [...]
Sheriff: Neighborhood ‘Safer’ After Elderly Woman Shoots Alleged Armed Intruder
A neighborhood in Interlachen, Florida, is safer after a 67-year-old woman opened fire on an alleged armed intruder at about 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. That’s the word from Putnam County Sheriff H.D. “Gator” DeLoach after the woman shot and killed the suspect. Police report [...]
NFL Great Marcellus Wiley: ‘We’ve Got to Stop Blaming the Gun’
Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end and current broadcaster Marcellus Wiley unquestionably ruffled some feathers with his video response to the horrific Michigan State University shooting. Three people died in the attack, and the reaction by many was the usual call for more gun [...]
Armed Carjacker Stopped by Legally Armed Defender in Philadelphia
Carjackings and other violent crimes have become a way of life across the U.S. Criminals believe they act with impunity and will easily get away with their crimes against defenseless civilians who are unprepared to resist them. Only, that narrative is starting to change. [...]
Armed Civilian Fatally Shoots Suspected Carjacker at St. Louis Gas Station
Of all the cities in the U.S. one could choose to live, the most dangerous is St. Louis, Missouri. That is the finding from last year’s WalletHub report that ranked the safety of 182 American cities. Though violent crime is a major part of [...]
Uncertainty Plagues Gun Laws New and Old After Supreme Court Ruling
Enemies of the Second Amendment are increasingly worried over the impact of last summer’s landmark Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. An exhaustive new CBS News report details the angst experienced by gun control advocates over the [...]
Lawmakers Want to Use ‘Star Trek’ Technology to Track Your Guns
Science fiction can be loads of fun. It creates fantasy worlds that allow our imaginations to explore extreme possibilities that we never encounter in our day-to-day lives. But the reality is that it remains fiction. None of us are flying off to other galaxies [...]
Armed Civilian on Military Base Fires Warning Shot, Scares Off Armed Intruder
An armed civilian who is also the spouse of the Air Force’s top noncommissioned officer stopped an armed intruder on a military base with a warning shot last week. The civilian, retired Army first sergeant Rahn Bass, is the husband to Chief Master Sergeant [...]
Hotel Clerk Armed With Handgun Stops Rifle-Carrying Robber
Two things we have learned we can count on are bad guys doing bad things and good guys — and ladies — exercising their Second Amendment rights to stop them. A pair of recent incidents highlighted the value of being legally armed in these [...]
ATF Barred from Enforcing Pistol Brace Rule in Montana
The battle lines are forming over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) new pistol brace rule. Now entering the fray is Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana, who declared Wednesday that the regulation will not be enforced in Big Sky Country. A [...]
Powerful Legal Challenges Mounted Against ATF Over Pistol Brace Rule
A pair of strong legal challenges were launched Thursday against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) new pistol brace rule. The National Rifle Association (NRA), 25 states and disabled veteran Richard Cicero joined in a legal challenge against the ATF regulation. [...]
Iowa Teen Sues Over Suspension for Wearing Second Amendment Shirt
An Iowa teenager filed a federal lawsuit against her school district and high school civics teacher. The reason? She was suspended for exercising her First Amendment right to free speech to endorse the Second Amendment. In a case that could impact students across the [...]
Biden Uses SOTU to Renew Call for More Gun Control
When the president talks, people listen. That goes with the territory of being the most powerful person in the world. So, when President Joe Biden used his State of the Union Address to call for weapons bans, it drew the attention of Second Amendment [...]
US Majority Now Opposes So-Called ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
The majority of Americans are now lined up in opposition to federal and state attempts to prohibit so-called “assault weapons.” That’s the conclusion from the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday. Despite massive volumes of propaganda pouring out of the mainstream [...]
Texas Homeowner Defends Fiancé, Shoots Intruder With Shotgun
The Second Amendment was not added to the Bill of Rights merely to protect the freedom to hunt squirrels. As important as that undoubtedly was, the framers of the Constitution knew all too well the value of personal defense in troubled times. And now, [...]
Federal Judge Strikes Down Law Barring Marijuana Users from Owning Firearms
A U.S. District Judge on Friday struck down a federal law prohibiting marijuana users from possessing guns. Judge Patrick Wyrick of Oklahoma ruled that the law infringed on a defendant’s Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. Wyrick cited last year’s monumental New [...]
Second Amendment Deemed Second Rate to Gun Control in California
Californians by a wide margin think little of the Second Amendment and prefer that it be handcuffed with even more sweeping restrictions from the state. A new survey released on Wednesday revealed that two-thirds of California voters rank gun control measures far ahead of [...]
YouTube Claims Mistake, Backtracks on Pulling Suppressor Videos
YouTube reversed course recently on pulling down videos and channels that feature guns equipped with silencers. The powerful social media platform said that moderation attempts aimed at noise suppression attachments for weapons were incorrect. The Reload reports that the affected videos included guides to [...]
Good Guys with Guns Incidents Prove Second Amendment is Alive and Well
Not one but two incidents from the past week clearly illustrated that the Second Amendment is still going strong. That despite the best efforts of self-serving politicians and the misguided mainstream media to convince the populace that gun control is the way to fight [...]
Gun Control Only Works to Control Law-Abiding Citizens
Insanity has been defined as doing the same act over and over expecting to see a different result. That definition also applies to America’s anti-gun zealots, who follow each heinous criminal act with more calls for stricter gun control. But does it work? Not [...]
Maryland Lawmakers Fast-Track New Gun Control Bill
The anti-gun lobby may sometimes speak in pleasant tones and frame their demands in friendly terms, but make no mistake about their ultimate goal. They are fully committed to nullifying the Second Amendment and stripping away all of the constitution’s sacred protections to keep [...]
Fierce Resistance Mounts to ATF’s Pistol Brace Rule
Before the ink was dry on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) new pistol brace rule Tuesday, Second Amendment advocates sprang into action. The highly controversial change means the ATF is categorizing pistol braces under the National Firearms Act (NFA). Firearms [...]
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