Credit Card Companies ‘Paused’ Firearm Retail-Specific Merchant Category Code. Suddenly, Gun Control Advocates Can’t Live Without Them. Here’s Why. There’s no bigger proof that the Merchant Category Code (MCC) specific to firearm retailers is really a bad idea than those losing their minds now that major credit card companies announced they won’t …

New ATF Data on FFL burglaries, robberies and the number of stolen guns confirms the firearm industry’s Operation Secure Store® makes communities safer. Keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals takes a monumental effort. Partnerships between neighborhood gun store retailers, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) …

Firearm Industry Expert and Veteran Ryan Cleckner gave the lawmakers a Civics 101 lesson during his testimony against ATF overreach. Ryan Cleckner knows a few things about standing up for what’s right, even when it’s not easy. The former Special Operations sniper, lawyer, author, former NSSF staff member, firearm safety …

There are myriad lessons to be learned from how gun owners are treated in other countries. Perhaps the most important one is: We must always be thankful our nation’s Founders had the foresight to recognize the importance of enshrining the protection of our right to arms in the Second Amendment. …

In a notable address to Congress, John Lott, founder and CEO of the Crime Prevention Research Center, quickly detailed the facts about crime the mainstream media has no interest in reporting. He appeared as an expert witness before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee. Before he …

Following his State of the Union (SOTU) speech earlier this month, in which President Joe Biden yelled, “Band [sic] ‘assault weapons’ now!”, the president predictably included the same demand last week in remarks at the National Association of Counties legislative conference. “I’m gonna say something that’s always controversial but there is …

Never underestimate the ability of California lawmakers to embrace the wildest ideas when it comes to eliminating gun rights. Other states are pushing back on “woke” banking discrimination. Not California. There’s an effort there to require it. State Sen. Dave Min introduced SB 637, which requires that California’s public finances cease …

In 2021, the Biden Administration announced a new “Zero Tolerance” policy for revoking the licenses of firearm sellers, known as Federal Firearms Licensees (“FFLs”).[i] As part of this new policy, the ATF recently updated its “Federal Firearms Administrative Action Policy and Procedures” (ATF Order 5370.1E.) Gun Owners of America obtained …

Someone needs to figure out what in the wide world of dystopian Buck Rogers in the 25th Century sci-fi fantasy world is going on in Maryland’s legislature. Antigun lawmakers there are advancing legislation that would require firearm manufacturers to attach RFID trackers to each and every firearm so government officials could …

Even after the 2022 midterms saw Joe Biden’s party lose control of the House of Representatives, where anti-gun bills were given a free pass under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Biden remains committed to pushing his gun-ban agenda. On Nov. 24, 2022, Biden attacked the majority of American gun owners …