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Today, the en banc Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License (HQL) requirement in Maryland Shall Issue v. Moore, an NRA-supported case. To acquire a handgun in Maryland, one must first obtain an HQL. Obtaining an HQL requires taking a four-hour class with classroom and live-fire components, which costs several hundred …

The 10th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty met this week in Geneva, Switzerland. Although it was heralded as a celebration of the treaty’s tenth year since entry into force the only thing worth celebrating was the fact that President Trump unbound the United States (U.S.) from its …

This week, anti-gun elected officials continue to liberally interpret state law to infringe on your Second Amendment rights, this time in an attempt to curtail the Right-to-Carry in Downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette declared that the Science Museum in Downtown Lafayette and contracted private hotels used …

With the legislature set to adjourn next week, several anti-gun bills have been moved out of the Appropriations Committee and could receive a floor vote at any time. It’s critical that all NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters contact their Senator today and urge their opposition to these bills! Senate Bill …

Crime in America is concentrated in only 0.5% of counties, which is home to only 0.8% of the nation’s population – yet these counties account for 25% of the nation’s homicides. How can it be that the entire nation’s homicide rate is consistently disproportionately higher in only a few counties? …

Tim Walz built his career feigning support for the Second Amendment and fundraising as a “pro-gun” Democrat who backstabbed gun owners nearly every chance he got. Gun Owners of America first rated Tim Walz as a “D.” Later, we downgraded him to an F after a litany of anti-gun votes. …

Much of the mainstream media loves to report that what the FBI classifies as “active-shooter incidents” are seldom stopped by armed citizens. To do so, they quote the FBI’s numbers to argue that only about 4% of such attacks were stopped by armed citizens during the 2014 to 2023 time …

Gun-related statistics generated by federal agencies have become suspect. In some cases, simple searches of media reports for certain types of crime shows, for example, that the FBI’s official data has holes in it. In some cases, it appears to be heavily biased; for example, the number of “active shooters” …

USA Shooting athletes pick up five medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: one gold, three silvers and a bronze. The U.S. Olympic shooting team brought home five medals and made history at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with shooting events held at the Chateauroux Shooting Range in Chateauroux, France, …

Built from titanium for strength and less weight in the field. Dead Air Silencers is releasing the new Nomad Ti XC and Nomad LTi XC suppressors. These latest additions to the Nomad series are engineered to deliver performance and versatility for precision shooters and hunters alike. Both the Nomad Ti XC …