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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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Who Are the Real Extremists?
Despite the best efforts of those in the gun-control crowd to paint America's gun culture as "fringe" and "extreme," this couldn't be further from reality.
From the Editor: Why Are We In Such Divisive Times
When activists masquerade as journalists to push a dishonest agenda, the public discourse becomes unfairly muddled. This is what the mainstream media so often does on issues related to guns.
Standing Guard | CDC: The Centers For Disinformation And Censorship
We've long known that gun controllers have embarked on a multi-decade mission to paint gun ownership as a "disease" that needs to be eradicated from American life.
President’s Column | The Groundwork Is Done — Now It’s Up To Us
Violent crime in the United States is escalating due in large part to left-leaning judges and prosecutors being unwilling to do their jobs.
Canada Illustrates The Reality Of The Gun-Control Agenda
What our neighbors to the north are doing provides a chilling and instructive lesson on what gun controllers really want. On American soil, gun controllers see these actions not as a warning, but as a roadmap.
16 Attorneys General Call Out Biden
If truth is still the basis of a sound defense, then a letter from state attorneys general should—if it gets deserved media attention—help to dispel President Biden’s anti-Second Amendment ambitions.
NRA’s Great American Outdoor Show Welcomed Over 200,000 Attendees in 2023
This year's Great American Outdoor Show was one for the books!
The Armed Citizen® February 17, 2023
True stories of the right to keep and bear arms.
Why the Gun-Control Crowd Loathes John Lott
Gun-control groups find the research from John Lott so inconvenient to their ambitions that they’ve spent years doing all they can to disparage, delegitimize and cancel him.
Georgia Has a Few Things to Say
Bert Brantley is deputy chief of staff for Gov. Brian Kemp and had insightful comments about how Kemp's office is responding to financial attacks on gun makers, how Georgia has fared since it passed constitutional carry and much more.
Lee Brice Is NRA Country
Lee Brice is an NRA Country alumnus, singer, songwriter and trailblazer.
Majority Of Americans Oppose Biden’s Ban of Semi-Automatic Rifles
As President Joe Biden continues his near-daily call for a ban on semi-automatic firearms, new research shows that he is quickly losing public support for his scheme.
New Study Shows Localized Nature of America’s Murder “Problem”
New research proves, once again, what most of us have known all along—when it comes to murder in America, the country’s millions of lawful gun owners are not the problem.
The Armed Citizen® February 10, 2023
True stories of the right to keep and bear arms.
NRA Great American Outdoor Show
Act fast and buy your tickets now for the 2023 Great American Outdoor Show.
What Biden Said About Guns in His State of the Union Speech
Biden’s most-recent State of the Union was more of the same, as was his previous one, and as will likely be his next one.
Brandon Maddox Explains What’s Up With Suppressors
As the ATF has gone through changes with how it deals with citizens who file required paperwork to purchase and own suppressors, we knew it would be helpful for Brandon Maddox to explain.
Oregon’s New Gun-Control Law is Unconstitutional
Voters in the state of Oregon delivered one of the most-egregious examples of a backwards step seen in decades. It was a disaster for American freedom.
Friends Of NRA Gun Of The Year: Springfield Armory SA-35
The 2023 Friends of NRA Gun of the Year is a Springfield Armory SA-35 with a unique NRA stock design.
Biden Keeps Pushing To Ban Semi-Automatics
Biden seems determined to try to ban not just so-called “assault weapons,” but also now seems to be going after all semi-automatic firearms, by implying anyone who owns them must be, in his mind, “sick.”