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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project By a party-line vote of 27 to 13, the Florida Senate passed a bill Thursday authorizing the unlicensed concealed-carry of handguns.  The state House passed a similar bill last week, also along party lines. The bill is now headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has already promised to […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Capitol Hill Democrats have resurrected legislation aimed at spending millions of dollars on “gun violence prevention research” in response to the Nashville school shooting, but a leading gun rights organization is calling it a “boondoggle” and suggest the money would be better spent in efforts to make schools “hard targets.” Massachusetts […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief North Carolina gun rights advocates are cheering after majority Republicans in both the state House and Senate voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that repealed a decades-old requirement that handgun buyers first get a permit from their local sheriff to complete the transaction. Senate Bill 41 was […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms recently called on Congress to block funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until “Democrats and federal bureaucrats publicly recognize Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, and stop their attacks on legal gun ownership.” […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief President Joe Biden botched it again on guns and the Second Amendment, during a scheduled stop in Durham, N.C., where he wrongly referred to modern semiautomatic rifles as “weapons of war,” and mistakenly also declared citizens are not allowed to own fully-automatic firearms. As reported by Fox News, the National Firearms […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—After Judge Cormack J. Carney issued a Preliminary Injunction Order determining that the California Unsafe Handgun Act’s provisions…are unconstitutional in the Boland v. Bonta case, it took almost a week for Attorney General Raoul to announce that California will appeal to the Ninth Circuit. United States v. Missouri: A new briefing […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has called for the same kind of gun prohibition experienced in Australia and New Zealand following mass shootings in those countries, what Second Amendment activists call “compensated confiscation.” Randi Weingarten reportedly “addressed” the AFT Tuesday, declaring, “Today, we renew our call for […]

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Bear OPS has announced a new pocketknife, the Bold Action XV AC-1500-AIBK-B. This new automatic knife is one of literary dozens of premium autos from Bear OPS but looks nothing previously seen from the manufacturer. It offers a sleek design featuring a reverse Tanto blade, and is made from premium materials. It has a super […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Dramatic bodycam footage from two different officers shows a fast, determined response to Monday’s rampage shooting at Nashville’s Covenant Presbyterian school, with less than four minutes between the time heavily-armed police entered the building to the time the killer was down on the second floor. Nashville Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Constitutional Carry bills introduced and moving through legislature: Florida: The constitutional carry bill, HB543, passed the House 76-32 on March 24; Nebraska: LB77 is up for a vote on March 28; no change since last week for South Carolina; Alaska: HB61 passed the Community and Regional Affairs Committees 4-1 and SB63 […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Gun-related Congressional hearings are normally the soundstage for remarks that tend to raise a few eyebrows, but an exchange between Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Amy Swearer, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, raised the issue of elitist Capitol Hill condescension and liberal sexist hypocrisy. It came during Thursday’s […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer (Photos by author and Dave Workman) Tracking is an essential skill for the hunter but for many folks it seems to be a lost art shrouded in myth and mystery. While anyone should be able to follow tracks in muddy ground or a blood trail that looks like an […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Kerry Spurgin, speaking on behalf of the Oregon State Shooting Association during Thursday’s public hearing on a package of gun control bills in Salem, explained in 25 words why all three of these measures will not accomplish what proponents insist they will. “There is no evidence and there is no logic […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The parents of a victim in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were ejected from Thursday’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee on alleged overreach by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, causing committee Chairman Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) to call a recess because of […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Two polls released Thursday show President Joe Biden’s popularity has plummeted, perhaps for various reasons, and his gun control policy might be among them. As reported by Fox News, “Biden’s approval rating currently sits at just 38%, a significant drop from his 45% approval in February, according to a new poll […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Florida’s quest for full-blown constitutional carry has garnered the attention of the nation’s pro-gun movement and drawn the ire of the gun-ban industry. Twenty-five states have already passed constitutional carry, so Florida could become the “majority state,” which terrifies those opposed to civil rights. Two bills are rocketing […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—In the past week Second Amendment jurisprudence cases have had more activity than normal. On March 18 Fox News reported DOJ appeals to Supreme Court (SCOTUS) after the Fifth Circuit Court invalidates domestic violence restraining order gun ban. This case is United States v. Zackey Rahimi. The DOJ is appealing to […]

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When the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability convenes Thursday to discuss alleged abuses by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), one of the people offering testimony will be attorney Matthew Larosiere, who serves as an adjunct scholar of law and policy for the Second Amendment Foundation. The hearing may be […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A Canadian writer who specializes in that nation’s firearms policy is telling readers in an Op-Ed published by the National Post they should not believe gun control advocates who claim gun bans will save lives, a position with possibly as much merit in the United States as it has north of […]

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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    Like I said, at least a couple of months ago, I generally reload my straight cased ammo without resizing the brass when those loads are expected to be fired in the very same rifle again.     That’s the way I’ve been doing things for years but even with […]

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