As word of the impending resignation of Steve Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made big headlines Thursday, lurking in the political weeds on Capitol Hill is the promise by Missouri Republican Congressman Eric Burlinson to introduce legislation to abolish the agency. Reacting to Dettelbach’s conveniently-timed departure—just two days before […]

Wisconsin State Senator-elect Dora Drake, claiming that citizens in her state “overwhelmingly support” so-called “red flag” laws, told Wisconsin Watch in an interview published New Year’s Day that Democrats will once again push such a gun control measure when the legislature returns. But it could be a bumpy road for “red flag” proponents, since Republicans […]

For the second year in a row, the number of active concealed carry permits and licenses in the U.S. has declined slightly, but the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) suggests the drop reflects the impact of “Constitutional Carry” permitless states, so it’s not as though fewer people are packing heat. “Last year,” CPRC reported, “the […]

Washington state gun rights activists have scheduled a Legislative Workshop on Monday, Jan. 6 at the Tacoma Sportsmen’s Club, as they prepare for what promises to be a nasty 2025 legislative session at the state capitol in Olympia. Democrats have a stranglehold on the Legislature, incoming Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson is an affirmed gun control […]

By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press Mark “Choppa” Manley is a gun owner, a gun collector and a Second Amendment advocate who has more than 70 legally owned firearms stored in a gun safe at his Baltimore home. All of his firearms comply with both federal law and the […]

By Dave Workman Buried in a story appearing at the Cap Times, a Madison, Wisconsin-based news outlet, may be an inadvertent revelation about why Democrats—in Wisconsin and elsewhere—have lost all credibility when it comes to firearms and the Second Amendment. The report quotes Democrat state Attorney General Josh Kaul, complaining about private gun sales between […]