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Freedom is in this Metal
“Wow, if that gun could only talk, I wonder what stories it would tell.” That’s a quote I’ve heard often while roaming the galleries of the NRA’s National Firearms Museum. As a museum curator for the past 32 years, I can tell you that if you closely examine any firearm, the …
Calif. Lawmaker Mistakes Plastic Litter for Firearm Packaging
Gun-control advocates often demonstrate that they have no knowledge of the very firearms they want to regulate or ban. California Assemblyman David Chiu (D) just joined those dubious ranks by posting on Twitter about finding plastic packaging for a Glock-style CO2 air gun that he clearly mistook for a firearm. …
Critical Lawsuits Where NRA-ILA is Leading the Battle
While most American gun owners know that NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is at the tip of the spear when it comes to lobbying against legislative assaults on the Second Amendment, many are unaware of the countless hundreds of hours NRA-ILA devotes to another battleground: America’s judicial system. NRA-ILA’s …
How New Gun Owners are
Dotted beneath the steadily warming spring sky of Southern California, a handful of locals—young and old, different ethnicities, men and women—have risen early on a Sunday morning. Despite their varying appearances and backgrounds, they have all gathered with smiles for the very same reason: They are training to shoot a …
Should Gun Owners Have To Pay A “Sin Tax”?
Why do legislators in anti-gun jurisdictions so often try to “balance the budget” on the backs of law-abiding gun owners? That’s the question some are asking now that lawmakers in California are considering an extra 10% tax on handguns and 11% tax on long guns, gun parts and ammunition. California A.B. …
New Data: “Buybacks” Futile and Foolish Waste of Tax Dollars
In the run-up to the 2020 election, most of the Democratic candidates were united in pushing for a national “gun buyback” program. Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, “The federal government must ban assault weapons and implement a buyback program to get assault weapons off the streets.” Candidate and now Vice President Kamala …
Republicans Join Democrats To Push Federal Gun Confiscation Bill By Paying States To Accept It
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced S.292 — Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2021, and he has garnered support from the gun grabbing Democrats and Republicans alike. On Wednesday, this latest Red Flag gun confiscation bill, gets a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which includes …
MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS SHOOTING THE PROVERBIAL GOLDEN EGG-LAYING GOOSE
Out of curiosity, are there any governors out there who might be interested in bringing a historic manufacturing business to their state? It’s one that employs thousands and contributes to over $4.5 million in state and federal taxes for a $2.4 billion economic impact. Massachusetts lawmakers are thinking about shooting …
Sen. Menendez Uses Blatant Mistruths to Promote an Anti-Suppressor Bill
Deceptively mislabeling firearm suppressors as “tools of murder” in a press statement, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), along with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), reintroduced the “Help Empower Americans to Respond Act” (HEAR) that would, if passed into law, ban the importation, sale, manufacturing, transfer and even the very possession of these …
The Coming Second Amendment Court Fights
The ink was barely dry on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision before lower courts began deliberately and systematically undercutting it. Judicial defiance has ranged from misreading the scope of the right enunciated by Heller to undermining decades of fundamental-right jurisprudence. For over a decade, attorneys sought only a …