A national gun rights organization is demanding a federal investigation into possible gun law violations by NBC News and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office during the production of a “hidden camera” story about so-called “ghost guns” that aired March 17. The Second Amendment Foundation has called for the investigation after AmmoLand News reporter John Crump […]
Gun Extremism Costs Massachusetts Millions as Smith & Wesson to Move
Gun control extremism by state lawmakers in Massachusetts just cost the Bay State hundreds of jobs and possibly millions of dollars in revenue as Smith & Wesson announced this week it is moving a large part of its operation to Tennessee. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, this is not the first firearms […]
ATF Will Publish Proposed Regs Change RE; ‘Stabilizing Braces’
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Friday will publish a proposed regulations change headlined “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with Stabilizer Braces,” and critics are already sounding the alarm. Fredy Reihl, editor at AmmoLand News, calls the 15-page document “a thinly veiled blueprint for the largest firearm registration–and ultimately potentially […]
New Concealed Carry Numbers: Momentum Slowed by COVID-19 Outbreak
There are now more than 19.48 million citizens licensed (or with carry permits) to carry concealed handguns in the United States, and it might be more except for the shutdown in several states on accepting new applications because of the COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year. That was the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center […]
Does Center for American Progress Consider 2A a Right or Privilege?
A July 8 article from the Center for American Progress (CAP) regarding gun control laws and firearm sales ignited by the coronavirus pandemic might lead the reader to suspect this organization regards gun ownership as a privilege that should be strictly regulated by the government, rather than a fundamental right that is protected from […]
Carlson at Crosscut: Why Arming Teachers Might Be Good Idea
Veteran conservative Seattle radio personality John Carlson could just as easily have kicked a hornet’s nest when he wrote in his column at the left-leaning “Crosscut” online news magazine that arming school officials “might not be a bad idea.” According to several reader responses, it’s not a good idea, either. But those are reactions from […]