With many prominent government officials exhibiting a flagrant indifference to violent crime, it’s getting harder for anti-gun politicians to pretend that their gun control schemes are anything other than a means to harass law-abiding gun owners. Recent incidents from anti-gun jurisdictions St. Louis and the District of Columbia further illustrate …

Politicians in New York and California push extreme gun control restrictions under the guise of keeping people “safe.” Governors Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul should take note – their voters disagree. Perception is reality and if voters feel endangered by surging criminal violence and continue to see news stories of …

The binary trigger must have made Mohamad do it. What was the real ‘trigger’ for Mohamad Barakat, the Muslim terrorist who prepped for a mass murder of Americans at a local fair, before stopping to open fire on police officers and was himself shot and killed. The authorities still claim that they …

Armed Citizen® Today An Arkansas man is dead after encountering an armed homeowner in Kansas, Okla., ready and willing to defend the property. On the evening of Tuesday, May 2, the 20-year-old suspect was allegedly involved in an incident outside the home in question. After the incident, the man allegedly …

Oregon’s extremely restrictive gun-control initiative, passed by a narrow 50.6 to 49.4% vote last November, has been upheld by a federal judge. Earlier this year, America’s 1st Freedom contributor Charles C.W. Cooke explained why Ballot Measure 114 is unconstitutional, but on July 14, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut of the United States District Court for …

In 2002, Democrat lawmakers in New Jersey passed a first-of-its-kind bill to restrict the handguns that could be sold at retail in that state to “smart guns” (called “personalized guns” in the bill). The law would take effect once the state’s attorney general determined that “at least one manufacturer had delivered at …

On July 17, CNN ran a story with the headline, “A one-minute video reduced kids’ unsafe behavior around guns, study finds.” The item summarized the findings of study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics titled, “Effect of a Gun Safety Video on Children’s Behavior Around …

After a two-year process following a petition from October, 2021, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has instated a rule that prohibits the use of traditional lead-based ammunition in all state Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA’s) that allow regular hunting, as well as several state parks and other SNA’s that hold …

In the twilight of last summer, just as I boarded a flight, I glanced down at my phone to see four missed calls from Frankie, a good friend in Los Angeles. I hurriedly called back. “He’s dead,” she shrieked. “He’s dead, and I need to learn to protect myself.” Once …

One of the reasons that the shotgun is often overlooked as a defensive tool is recoil. Folks who have spent a lot of time shooting the .22 LR, .223 Rem. or even the lighter-caliber deer rifles either don’t know how to manage recoil or have gotten sloppy about it. When …