Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. Throughout its history, rock-n-roll music has provided youth who are fed up with being lectured and condescended to by out-of-touch or hypocritical elders a voice to respond and to advocate for their own generation. Athens, GA, rocker Micheal Stipe and his band R.E.M. helped fulfill …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. On Friday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) released a draft of a proposed rulemaking that would supposedly bring the agency into compliance with what it claims is its responsibility to report prohibited persons to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The proposal focuses …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. Fairfax, Va.— The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) issued the following statements on President Obama’s latest gun control push. In response to the President’s call for “smart gun” technology: Buy All-American! Bring health and vitality back to your body with these non-transdermal …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. In what has become as reliable as clockwork, with the passing of another week comes another Hillary Clinton attack on gun owners. This time, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination explained to supporters her intent to make an assault on gun rights and NRA …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st freedom. Remember Operation Fast and Furious? The program, run out of the U.S. Department of Justice, funneled thousands of firearms to members of Mexico’s drug cartels, and only came to public attention after one of those guns was used to murder Border Patrol agent …

Article first appeared at America’s first Freedom. Lawful, peaceable citizens in Europe are getting it from both directions today. On one side, suicidal, murderous Islamic terrorists are attacking with increasing ferocity and lethality—from Belgium to Denmark to France to who-knows-where tomorrow. On the other side, European Union officials are seeking …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. A handful of NRA-opposed bills are making their way through the state legislature in Hawaii, threatening to make the state’s already-restrictive gun laws even more onerous for law-abiding gun owners. Five measures have been approved by both the state House and the Senate, …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. The Obama administration’s gunrunning scandal, known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” is still being dragged, document by document, into the light. If you recall, this is the operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in which the ATF …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. Is Hillary Clinton so scared of losing the Democratic nomination fight to Bernie Sanders that she has to point to Vermont, a state that is by any measure among the safest in the country, and blame that state’s residents for New York City’s …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. We’ve observed that the ammunition drought is waning—thank goodness. Joining the ramp-up of established suppliers are new domestic and offshore sources, all supplemented by healthy growth of, and interest in, handloading. Thank goodness, again. We can finally get back out to the range …