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 …

Second Amendment supporters and law-abiding gun owners can breathe a sigh of relief. For now, at least. The four major credit card companies – American Express, VISA, Mastercard and Discover – all announced they were “pausing” efforts to implement a newly-created Merchant Category Code (MCC) to track gun store purchases. NSSF worked …

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. …

NSSF’s President and CEO Joe Bartozzi had a few words for Connecticut lawmakers considering Gov. Ned Lamont’s gun control proposals. Bartozzi testified and used every second to explain how wrong the governor’s proposals are and how they would only severely penalize law-abiding residents in the Constitution State. Bartozzi was joined by NSSF’s …

Collecting military surplus rifles is no longer a hobby you can blindly dive into, and certainly not when you’re on a budget. While the author, only being in his 30s, missed the golden age of inexpensive surplus firearms, he still fondly remembers $79 Mosin Nagants, $89 SKS rifles, and fully …

Gun-control proponents are now focused on stopping the next generation from not only learning the truth about their Second Amendment rights, but also how to safely handle firearms and shoot. They want to culturally reshape America into a subservient, disarmed people. To accomplish this, gun-control-supporting politicians and advocates are moving …

Recently, plans have come to light for certain school districts in Rhode Island, a state that bans firearm registries by statute, to require parents to make declarations about privately-owned firearms when registering their children for school. Besides its tension with existing law and obvious irrelevance to the schools’ educational mission, this move risks stigmatizing …

If truth is still the basis of a sound defense, then a letter from 16 state attorneys general to President Joe Biden (D) should—if it gets deserved media attention—help to dispel Biden’s anti-Second Amendment ambitions. The letter is a reaction to Biden’s comments on our Second Amendment rights in his State of …

The ashes of World War II were still warm when tensions between the Soviet Union and western Europe, as well as the United States, brought forth the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Not long after its commencement on April 4, 1949, a treaty was established, and the alliance began searching …

Retired Marine Colonel Craig Tucker is throwing in his 25 years of Marine Corps service, combat experience and military expertise to deny Californians their Second Amendment rights. The problem is, he’s doing it on a bed of verifiably false allegations of what today’s Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) is and isn’t. …