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January 2021 Gun Sales Up Nearly 80 Percent
More than 2.2 million firearms were sold in the United States in January, according to an estimate from Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF). The number, which represents a 79-percent increase when compared to the same period last year, is based on the volume of records processed through the FBI’s …
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
What happens when the government limits the right to keep and bear arms to those who “need” it? If the rhetoric of those who favor stricter gun control is to be believed, the answer to this question is that all-knowing and exceedingly wise local bureaucrats are able to benevolently look …
Florida Alert! Safety of Churches Bill to be Heard in Senate Committee
DATE: January 28, 2021 TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends FROM: Marion P. Hammer USF Executive Director NRA Past President On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 2:30pm, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear SB-498 sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters and co-sponsored by Sens. Dennis Baxley, Jeff Brandes, Doug Broxson, …
Shooting Straight with Lauren Boebert
Like many, I first noticed Lauren Boebert when I saw a viral video of her confronting Beto O’Rourke over his gun-control extremism at a town hall meeting in Aurora, Colo., in September of 2019. “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” the former congressman and (soon-to-be-failed) Democrat …
The Long March to Restore the Second Amendment in New York
Timothy “Big Tim” Daniel Sullivan (1862-1913) (right), a New York City politician, in 1911, pushed the Sullivan Act through the City’s legislature-an unconstitutional infringement on our rights. “I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms. I used to travel on the subway from …
Mastering the Element of Surprise for Personal Defense
The gray-haired ranch woman looked like what everyone’s grandmother should look like, fixing breakfast at 4 am. Her husband was way down at the barn, feeding his livestock. The criminal thought this home invasion would be piece of cake. However, as he kicked open the kitchen door, the ranch woman turned and …
HEARING PROTECTION ACT DESERVES RESOUNDING CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT
Prospects for any sort of pro-gun bill moving in Congress are dim, but that doesn’t mean Congress shouldn’t try, especially when it’s a bill to make recreational shooting and hunting safer and make gun ranges better neighbors. That’s why NSSF is urging Congress to consider the Hearing Protection Act, H.R. 95. …
GOA FIGHTS TO STOP GUN-FREE ZONE ON CAPITOL HILL
A Republican congresswoman-elect from Colorado appears to have persuaded Democratic House leadership to preserve a decades-old rule that exempts lawmakers from Washington, D.C.’s ban on the carrying of concealed firearms. Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert wrote to House leaders Friday imploring them to keep intact the 1967 exemption which allows lawmakers to carry concealed …
What to Do After You’ve Bought Your First Firearm
The Problem You finally took the plunge. You bought a gun for protection. You took a class. You got your permit to carry concealed. You are all set—another thing checked off the bucket list of things to do. Is it that easy, or is there more to it? The Solution This …
Tanya Roberts Says Goodbye
She was a “Charlie’s Angel” in the hit TV show’s final season, which ran from 1976-1981. She was a “Bond girl.” Roberts played beside Sir Roger Moore in his seventh and last appearance as James Bond. Tanya Roberts made Moore look so very old and critics lambasted Moore for clinging …