Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is on record as supporting a renewed ban on so-called “assault weapons” and a supporter of “universal background checks,” and the nomination is already raising concerns among Second Amendment organizations. As noted by the Daily Mail, when Steve Dettelbach was running (unsuccessfully) […]
Gun Control Advocate Glaze Committed Suicide in Jail: Reports
Published reports in various newspapers including the Daily Mail reported this week that Mark Glaze, a gun control advocate who worked with Mayors Against Guns as a consultant and as executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, took his own life last month while being held at Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County Prison on a DUI charge. […]
Brakes Off in Effort to Stop Chipman Nomination to Head ATF
Gun rights activists and organizations have pulled out all the stops in an effort to block the nomination of David Chipman to head the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, including an Op-Ed by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, published in the Great Falls Tribune. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep […]
Coming This Weekend Online: 35th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference
For the first time in its history, the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference—hosted jointly by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms—will convene entirely online this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19-20, with more than 120 speakers, making it the biggest agenda in the event’s 35-year run. According […]
Swift Action to Protect WA Gun Owner ID; Legislation, Lawsuit Filed
Washington State lawmakers and a national gun rights organization have moved swiftly to prevent disclosure of the identities of gun owners who turned in bump stocks in exchange for $150 compensation from the state in an attempt to thwart a Public Records Act (PRA) request for the information from someone apparently using a fake name. […]