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Gun Skills: Qualification Primer
Test anxiety is a bummer; and, although that term may make you think of high school days, it also applies to situations beyond those involving pen and paper. Many states require some form of live-fire qualification before allowing you to carry a gun, as does nearly every law-enforcement entity. While …
UPCOMING VOTE AFFECTS EVERY GUN WITH PLASTIC PARTS
It skipped committee… It didn’t receive an amendment vote… But Last Wednesday, Senator Chuck Schumer snuck gun control into Section 6075 of the National Defense bill. Buy All-American! Bring health and vitality back to your body with these non-transdermal patches Get your Vitamin B17 & Get 10% Off With Promo …
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ‘WEAPONIZED’ BIPARTISAN GUN SAFETY LAW TO ‘ILLEGALLY FUND’ RED FLAG LAWS, REPUBLICANS SAY
Republicans and gun rights activists say the Biden administration unlawfully handed out federal funds to states that did not qualify under a program intended to promote so-called “red flag” laws. In 2022, Congress passed and President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in response to mass shootings in Buffalo, …
Federal Judge Upholds Oregon Anti-Gun Initiative
Oregon’s extremely restrictive gun-control initiative, passed by a narrow 50.6 to 49.4% vote last November, has been upheld by a federal judge. Earlier this year, America’s 1st Freedom contributor Charles C.W. Cooke explained why Ballot Measure 114 is unconstitutional, but on July 14, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut of the United States District Court for …
“Smart Guns,” Dumb Policy
In 2002, Democrat lawmakers in New Jersey passed a first-of-its-kind bill to restrict the handguns that could be sold at retail in that state to “smart guns” (called “personalized guns” in the bill). The law would take effect once the state’s attorney general determined that “at least one manufacturer had delivered at …
When A First Gun Comes Home
In the twilight of last summer, just as I boarded a flight, I glanced down at my phone to see four missed calls from Frankie, a good friend in Los Angeles. I hurriedly called back. “He’s dead,” she shrieked. “He’s dead, and I need to learn to protect myself.” Once …
SEN. CHRIS MURPHY TARGETS MILITARY GUN OWNERS IN DEFENSE BILLS
It takes a certain amount of brazenness to put the responsibility of defending the nation on a young American and then, in the next breath, demand they forfeit those freedoms they are literally willing to die to protect. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is never one to disappoint, though. His …
THIS COULD LEAD TO THE BIGGEST GUN BAN YET…
We need your urgent help stopping anti-gunners in Congress from sneaking a backdoor gun ban into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Senate leadership recently approved an amendment to the bill that would PERMANENTLY reauthorize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988. The vague language in this law could easily be …
MCC Update: Pro-gun States Block Credit Card Gun Registry Scheme
Last September, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved a Merchant Category Code (MCC) for firearm retailers. Since the ISO’s decision, NRA-ILA has worked to alert financial industry stakeholders to gun owners’ concerns and urged state lawmakers and attorneys general to address this matter. To date, several states and their attorneys general have taken important steps …
Gun Prohibition Advocates Demonize Lawful Industry, Ignore Actual Criminals
Here we go again. Four years after then-Vice President Joe Biden said, “Our enemy is the gun manufacturers,” gun control advocates are still trying to convince Americans that violent crime results from law-abiding businesses providing a constitutionally-protected product under exacting government scrutiny. Amidst the gun prohibition lobby’s never-ending – and usually illegal – campaign …