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America's First Freedom provides news for the membership of the NRA with the goal of delivering professional, moving, and accurate journalism that promotes knowledge about the threats to our Second Amendment Rights
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Canceled Gun Raffles on Upswing, Leaving Fundraisers without Money for Youth Activities, Police Chaplain Program, Other Causes
The excuse the anti-gun squad uses is simple: they cite recent tragedies involving firearms.
Kimber EVO SP (CS)
When it comes to making things people want, there’s nothing like a free-market economy. Today, we are able to carry 9mm pistols that are no larger than the .380s we used to carry, and the new 9s have more features and better functionality than the .380s ever had.
Virginia Governor Loses An Anti-Gun Political Blame Game
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) ordered a special session of the legislature after the Virginia Beach attack.
Darryl Worley Is NRA Country
A day that changed the world, Sept. 11, 2001, is forever etched into our minds as American citizens. Yet as time passes and new generations grow up, it’s important for us to continue to honor the victims, and educate and remind people why we say “Never Forget.”
“Smart Guns” Have Become A Talking Point
“If I get elected president of the United States of America with your help, if that happens, guns, we have the capacity now in a James Bond-style to make sure no one can pull a trigger unless their DNA and fingerprint is on it.
Living In La-La Land: Joe Biden’s Alternate Reality
Anti-gun folks typically characterize their gun-control restrictions as “common sense” and “responsible” regardless of how poorly grounded in reality these “solutions” tend to be, or how little their proponents understand what these measures will do—like the gun-control supporters at one event who, when asked, were unable to explain what an AR-15 is.
Now and Then Even Hollywood Gets Something Right
In 2014 Keanu Reeves surprised and enthralled fans of action movies with his performance in “John Wick.”
Visa and MasterCard Resist Gun-Control Pressure, Stand by Second Amendment Freedoms
Gun control has become, sadly, the latest fashion for those wishing to seem responsible.
Gun Sales Surge Before Restrictions
Firearms sales in California surged 26% in June, the last month before stricter gun-control laws mandating background checks for ammunition purchases went into effect.
America’s New Shooters: Increasingly Female, Younger and Urban
In fact, women are the fastest-growing segment in the target-shooting population.
NRA Leads In Hunter Training
Did you know the National Rifle Association developed the first formal hunter-education curriculum? It’s true.
Gun Manufacturers Are Deemed “Enemies”?
On two successive nights in June, a total of 20 Democratic presidential candidates crowded a stage in Miami: 10 one night and 10 the next.
Five Senators Tell the Supreme Court to Back off Gun Rights … or Else
Whether this stunt will backfire on gun-control advocates remains to be seen, but it’s perhaps telling that only five of the most extreme anti-gun members of the Senate were willing to sign onto the filing.
Gun-Control’s Ship of Fools
Many of the Democratic party’s presidential aspirants think the best tactic to get the helm is to be the most anti-Second Amendment candidate. Where will this course take them and us?
Sometimes Gun Control Doesn’t Pay
What do you call a man who runs for the nation’s highest office specifically on a platform of gun control and who believes modern mass media does a fantastic job of “uphold[ing] the promise of our Constitution”?
Shooting Straight with Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter found his own way to becoming a gun owner as he worked in mainstream newsrooms. He didn’t grow up with guns in his home.
The Truth About Suppressors
A suppressor (also known as a “silencer”) is nothing more than a muffler. The term “suppressor” is preferred today because it is more accurate, as the sound of a gunshot is hardly silenced; it is suppressed.
Virginia Special Session Shows: How Gun Owners Must Mobilize To Defend Freedom
As many Americans spent the July 4th weekend enjoying cookouts, parades, and fireworks with family and friends, NRA-ILA and Virginia gun-rights supporters honored American independence by mobilizing to defend our unique Constitutional rights and heritage.
The Coming Wave of Anti-Gun Research
Popular myth, shoved at us by so many in the mainstream media, has it that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is barred from doing research on gun violence.