Washington state has witnessed the sharpest decline in gun sales of any state in the union, and one group sounding the alarm may surprise both grassroots gun rights activists and the Seattle-based gun prohibition lobby—and local news outlets—because it is a conservative women’s group. Conservative Ladies of Washington is reporting a “staggering 45.7 percent decline […]
Gun Buying Slowed Down in July, First Time in Years: NSSF
For the first time in years, the number of people buying guns during the previous month has dipped below 1 million, according to data announced Monday by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). “July’s figures of 978,731 background checks for the sale of a firearm at retail beings an end to the streak of over […]
ATF Almost Gets One Right. Will it Continue? Should it Continue?
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press Six men who were living in DeLand, Florida have been sentenced for illegally straw purchasing and then trafficking 33 semi-automatic firearms that they sold to a violent Mexican drug cartel, the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG, which is located in […]
Gun Rights Groups File Fed. Challenge to Nat’l Firearms Act
A coalition of Second Amendment groups and two private citizens have filed a long-awaited federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) in a case known as Brown v. ATF. The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs are the Second Amendment Foundation […]
SAF Petitions Supreme Court for Review in Handgun Law Challenge
The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Brown v. ATF, SAF’s challenge to the federal ban that prevents adults aged 18 to 20 from purchasing handguns from licensed dealers. SAF’s Petition for Certiorari highlights the circuit split that has emerged on the issue, with the Fifth Circuit striking down […]
Murder, Violent Crime Declined in WA, Says Annual Report
Murder and violent crime in Washington State saw reductions in 2024, a year which saw a modest increase in the number of active concealed pistol licenses. According to the annual crime report from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), last year saw 312 murders, down 18.8 percent from the 384 slayings posted […]
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