Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. Since 2008, reports of gun sales figures have felt like temperature checks of the American public’s passion for freedom. Looking back at 2016, we see that the FBI’s numbers show the agency conducted 27.5 million gun-related background checks in 2016, which is about …

Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. Last week’s attack at the Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., airport has provided anti-gun activists another ill-advised opportunity to try to advance their cause in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy. Minutes after the first fragmented news from Ft. Lauderdale streamed across our social media …

Europe is now facing the reality of their stupid policies of allowing Muslims to invade their countries. Facing rapes, threats by the Islamic State and other acts of lawlessness by these Muslim refugees throughout Europe, the Czechoslovakian Interior Minister is calling for a constitutional change that would protect citizens who …

Last week, I reported on the introduction of legislation that would seek to repeal illegal federal “laws” against knives. Now, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie is looking to get rid of the Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. Guns in the News reports: On Monday [January 2, 2017], U.S. Representative Thomas Massie …

The more the threats to freedom increased over 2016, the more Americans understood the need for the right to keep and bear arms, which is protected under the Second Amendment. More than 27.5 million guns were purchased by Americans in 2016. According to background check numbers released by the FBI, …

Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. This feature appears in the January ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   Watching the news during the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits can be a strange and unsettling experience. After a cursory look …

Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. This feature appears in the January ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   November 6, 2012, was a difficult day. As I thought about what I could say in these pages as we contemplated …

A waitress was fired from a Waffle House in Newnan, Georgia after she pulled a gun on three would be robbers. Now, the franchise is experiencing a plethora of robberies nationwide due to their gun free zone policy. WSB reports: Coweta County authorities are looking for three robbery suspects who threatened …

For most of us, we have never lived in a world where the 2nd Amendment was not the law of the land. We often talk about the 2nd Amendment. We talk about our right to bear arms, but, we have never actually had those rights fully, as government, since the …

Well, it looks like there are some Republicans who are not willing to just react to issues, but go on the offensive to advance an agenda, one of protecting the rights of the American people. This is something they have a duty to do in the first place. With that …