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ATF DIRECTOR: FIREARM INDUSTRY PROGRAMS WORK TO REDUCE CRIME, FIREARM ACCIDENTS
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach spoke at length with The Washington Post about his responsibilities at the helm of the federal agency charged with overseeing the firearm industry. The Post is unabashedly antigun and pushes gun control propaganda whenever possible. During the discussion, however, Dettelbach took the opportunity to highlight …
LESS COMMON FIREARM SALES: DO YOU KNOW THESE FFL COMPLIANCE RULES?
Scenario #1: A customer enters your store and says he is visiting from a neighboring state. He saw that you advertised a particular shotgun and he would like to purchase one. The laws in your state allow you to sell a shotgun to anyone over 18; he is 20. Can you …
Indiana: Gov. Holcomb Signs Carry Permit Privacy Bill
Yesterday, Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Bill 1323 into law. It prohibits the release of carry permit holder and applicant data to federal entities, except for single entry queries only for individuals who are subjects of criminal investigations or following an arrest. This ensures that such information held by Indiana cannot be …
States Target Discrimination Against Firearms Industry
Anti-gun advocates often are shocked to learn that they are in the minority when they can’t get legislation passed banning guns or limiting gun ownership in one way or another; of course, that doesn’t stop them from searching for other ways to accomplish their goals. One such way is through …
Inside Silencer Central
As an item regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA), firearm suppressors, or silencers, require ATF approval to own, and the process can be confusing, cumbersome and time-consuming. Brandon Maddox, a former pharmacist in South Dakota, found that to be the case in the early 2000s when he first tried …
Oregon: Senate Judiciary Committee Holding Vote on Implementing Measure 114 Provisions
On Monday, April 3rd, at 1:00PM, the Senate Committee on Judiciary will hold a work session and vote on Senate Bill 348, to legislatively implement the provisions of Measure 114, which is currently paused while NRA-backed litigation works its way through the courts, and other gun control measures as well. Last Friday night, the …
OUR CHILDREN NEED PROTECTION—THE REAL SOLUTION IS TO ARM TEACHERS
We need to focus on solutions that could have directly prevented the deaths that occurred in Nashville, Tennessee at the Covenant School—not unrelated gun control measures that would not have saved a single life in this situation. Anti-gun activists and politicians cannot name a single gun control law that would …
WHEN MY FAMILY WAS DISARMED: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PERPETRATED AGAINST DEFENSELESS POPULACE
The Armenian genocide during World War I was perpetrated against a disarmed populace, whose own government took advantage of a registry of guns to confiscate the weapons from Christian minorities who would use them to defend themselves. My family hails from the region of present-day Turkey that was ethnically cleansed …
PERMITLESS CONCEALED-ONLY CARRY PASSES FL LEGISLATURE, HEADED TO GOVERNOR’S DESK!
Good news! Permitless Concealed-Only Carry is on its way to Governor Ron DeSantis! The Florida State Senate passed their version of the bill, CS/HB-543 (CS/SB-150). Last week, the State House passed their version, HB-543. This is good news. Yes, I know we all want real Constitutional Carry. And we’re not …
NORTH CAROLINA’S LEGISLATURE HAS OPPORTUNITY TO RIGHT A WRONG
North Carolina’s General Assembly is at a decision point. It can vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill to repeal a Jim Crow-era law requiring a permit-to-purchase a pistol. Or, it can allow the governor’s appeasement of special interest gun control groups to keep a law, rooted …