Appeals Court Rules Against Lifetime Gun Ban for Nonviolent DUI Offender
In a significant step forward for gun rights, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Wednesday in Williams v. Blanche that stripping Second Amendment protections from a nonviolent offender for life is unconstitutional. The…
2A Trio Challenges New Mexico’s 7-Day ‘Cooling Off’ Period
Three influential gun rights organizations, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), joined forces on Monday to oppose New Mexico’s latest infringement on the right…
Administration Releases Report on ‘Debanking’ of 2A Businesses
On Wednesday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a powerful new report detailing the financial industry’s efforts to “debank” Second Amendment-related businesses and individuals. Titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,”…
DOJ Doubles Down on Support for ‘Engaged in the Business’ Rule
The Department of Justice (DOJ) last week surprised Second Amendment supporters when the agency resumed fighting for the Biden-era “engaged in the business” rule aimed at ensnaring gun buyers and sellers in bureaucratic red tape.…
Good Guy with a Gun Stops Fatal Elementary School Shooting
Thursday’s horrific mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, was not stopped by the mass of law enforcement officers descending on the site as panic spread. Instead, a heroic bystander, a parent…
DOJ Launches Investigation into NJ Town’s Permitting Delays
Short of outright bans and confiscation, anti-gun government officials are well-versed in devious ways to impede the right to keep and bear arms. One of the most common schemes is to slow-walk the permitting process…
Anti-2A California County Sues Filament Maker for 3D Printers
San Diego County recently announced a package of lawsuits “aimed at protecting children, families, and public safety.” A commendable trifecta to be sure, at least at first glance, but the devil is in the details.…
SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to Minnesota’s Reciprocity Refusal
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the firearm industry trade group, got straight to the point in its report on the U.S. Supreme Court’s disappointing decision last week to brush aside a challenge to states’…
Desperate Arizona Gun Shop Owner Uses Truck to Block Potential Burglars
Tucson gun shops are the target of an apparent crime wave, and one proprietor took a simple but novel approach to protecting his inventory from the bad guys. In recent days, Elite Guns and Ammo…
DG Shopper Shoots Suspect Allegedly Beating Two Females
Georgia has about three times as many Baptist churches as Dollar General stores, but the budget outlets are rapidly closing the gap, as any resident can attest. In a Valdosta location Thursday afternoon, an armed…
ATF Provides Guidance on Defunct NFA Restrictions–and a Caution
On Friday, amid confusion over the fallout of an injunction against remaining National Firearms Act (NFA) requirements, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released much anticipated guidance. The agency declared that it…
Research Shows 21M New US Gun Owners 2019-2024
The flood of anti-gun rhetoric that blasts from the mainstream media and platforms such as TikTok might make a reasonable gun owner believe that they are an outlier. Some kind of historical holdover, an anachronism…
NRA: Anti-2A Forces Enlisting Clergy to Fight Gun Rights
Politics and the pulpit are as old as time, and modern issues certainly aren't excluded from sermons and homilies in 21st-century America. Still, it’s important to note when gun control zealots intentionally target the faithful…
Everytown Wants AI Parroting Anti-Gun Talking Points
Artificial intelligence, or AI, isn’t going anywhere. And while it replaced Wikipedia as the go-to for panicked students the night before exams, it is also frequently cited for questions about Second Amendment rights. That’s where…
Gun Rights Opponents Far Outspending 2A Supporters
It defies logic that a guaranteed constitutional freedom must be defended tooth and nail against radical opponents, but that’s where the Second Amendment stands in America in 2026. Now comes word from The Reload that…
Report: New Suppressor Rules Apply to ‘All Law-Abiding Citizens’
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, ATF Director Robert Cekada said his agency is expanding the recent federal court ruling against suppressor registration requirements to include all law-abiding American citizens. In August, U.S. District…
Terrifying Daylight Jewelry Store Attack Stopped by Hail of Bullets
Someone thought they had the perfect plan. Select a target with plenty of high-end items to steal and hit it in the middle of the day when they would least expect it. The element of…
Ohio Woman Uses Shotgun to Protect Family from Alleged Attackers
As has been noted many times of late, it is not necessary to discharge a firearm in many instances to stop a threat in its tracks and show violent criminals the error of their ways. …
Minnesota Mayor Pushes Gun Ban to Solve Gang Violence
Nadia Mohamed (D) is Minnesota's first Somali American mayor, an accomplishment to be sure. Her approach to the growing gang problem in St. Louis Park and other Twin Cities areas tells another story. It’s not…
CDC Updates Official Defensive Gun Use Estimates
It took four years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to reverse its bending the knee to gun rights opponents, but it is done. The agency now reports that there…
Opposing Views: Federal Judge Denies Injunction Against MD Glock Ban
A federal judge in Maryland rejected a request by gun rights supporters to grant an injunction against the state’s recently enacted law banning the sale of popular Glock handguns and similar models that feature a…