Tentative cops and uncertain justice are driving up urban homicide rates. This feature appears in the March ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   The downward trend in violent crime over the last 25 years has been nothing short of remarkable. …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. Gun rights supporters understand that gun licensing and registration facilitates gun confiscation. Centralized data on gun owners and firearms has long been used to institute subsequent gun controls in the U.S. and abroad. For instance, in 1967 New York City enacted a law requiring that …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. Next week, Congress is expected to begin the review and potential repeal of a host of Obama Administration regulations put in place during the last 60 days of Obama’s tenure under the Congressional Review Act (CRA).  Among the regulations specifically targeted for action is the …

Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for California gun owners, the drought and wildfires turn to rioting, earthquakes, mudslides and tsunamis. As a fitting finale to a year in which Sacramento passed seven new anti-gun laws on the day before …

Article first appeared at American Rifleman. Recently, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen since my high school days—I’ll call him “Danny.” We talked about mutual friends, families, careers and personal interests and when he learned of my occupation, it became apparent that he belongs to what I call the …

Article first appeared at Guns in the News. On Monday, Barack Obama’s Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will doom tens of thousands of law-abiding (and vulnerable) disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to a loss of Second Amendment rights under the guise of re-characterizing them as “mental defectives.” …

Article first appeared at Cheaper Than Dirt. After a disappointing decision, the appellate court gave new life to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) effort to block enforcement of a law that would be impossible through today’s technological standards—namely microstamping. For most, it would not be much of a surprise …

Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. On September 28, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice released a report titled, “Audit of the Handling of Firearms Purchase Denials Through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.” The report details the operations of the FBI’s NICS system …

Apparently, we, the gun owners of America, make people like poor delicate Isadore feel unsafe in his own home. Oh, Muffin. *hands Isadore a tissue* First of all, I’m a Concealed Carry Permit holder in the state of California. To get my permit (which honestly, I never should have needed in the …

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 …