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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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Bloomberg-Backed Group to Pour Millions into Races in Key States
Everytown for Gun Safety plans to spend big in key battleground states.
Gun Sales Continue to Boom
Recent data shows a continued increase in background checks for firearms purchases.
Los Angeles Clippers Owner Gives Millions to Bloomberg-Backed Group
Steve Ballmer donated $7 million to Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.
Nighthawk Counselor
When you get a chance to review a Nighthawk pistol like the Counselor, you don’t say no. And so that is how I ended up testing the personal pistol of the Nighthawk’s CEO Mark Stone.
A Scary Fact Found in a Gun Survey on the Upcoming Election
Deep in a survey of likely voters is the startling fact that most people don’t realize Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, is a gun-control extremist.
Lessons In The Value Of Strong State Firearms Preemption Laws
A long with the sweeping success of the Right-to-Carry movement, strong state firearms preemption laws have been among the most important developments over the past half-century in the way average Americans own and use firearms.
Don McLean Is NRA Country
Any music fan will tell you that it’s nearly impossible to hear the song “American Pie” and not sing along. It’s hard to believe that superstar Don McLean released the song almost 50 years ago, partly inspired by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (JP Richardson) in a plane crash.
Joe Biden’s Unreasonable Gun Control Agenda – Malarkey Moderate
To borrow language from the Biden campaign, the notion that Barack Obama’s former vice president is a reasonable moderate is malarkey.
Why So Many Media Members Are Opposed to Your Freedom
You’ve probably noticed how mainstream-media outlets play up stories of firearms accidents all the time, while usually ignoring stories of citizens using guns properly to defend themselves.
Now Gun-Control Activists Want to Preach from the Pulpit?
It can be difficult to keep up with the politically correct rules these days. Can we follow the evidence wherever it leads, or may we simply reject it, as the anti-Second Amendment groups do, when it is inconvenient to our politics? Are we permitted to bring religion into politics, or must it be shunned completely?
Shooting Straight with Mark Robinson
In this hyperbolic age of Twitter memes, Instagram-polished images and one-sided mainstream media narratives, it is refreshing to know that honest outrage—sometimes a real breath of fresh air—can still rise right through the loud, partisan demagoguery of our current politics to give us Mark Robinson’s four-minute, tell-it-like-it-is speech to, of all the American forums, the Greensboro City Council in North Carolina.
Don’t Count On American Compliance With Gun Confiscation
As someone who works in Second Amendment policy, I often feel as though I have heard every bad, impractical or naïve gun-control argument that could possibly exist; in fact, it is becoming increasingly rare for me to find myself truly stunned at a statement made by a pro-gun control politician or advocacy group.
How Does New York City Get Away With This?
The U.S. Supreme Court recently sidestepped an important Second Amendment decision, and then passed on hearing other gun-rights cases.
30 Years Of Giving Back
For some, the headlines about freedom and our future may sound like someone else’s business. It’s exactly what the NRA Foundation has been supporting for the last 30 years.
Freedom is on the Ballot This November
The Second Amendment is more than just another political issue. It is our way of life, a fundamental freedom and part of our identity as Americans.
The Armed Citizen®
A 17-year-old male forced to defend a home fatally shot an armed intruder March 22 in Cobb County, Ga. Local law enforcement said three suspects attempting to rob the residence were confronted by the young armed citizen, whose shots hit two of them.
Standing Guard | A Time Like No Other
We are in a time of historic responsibility, a time of fundamental threats to our freedom and, yes, a time of great opportunity—if we dare to seize it.
“No Place” For Gun Confiscation In America
Americans idly speculating as to what life might be like if Joe Biden succeeds in his bid to become the next president of the United States, need look no further than to our neighbors up north.
President’s Column | Crisis Inspires Clarity
It is hard to believe we are past the halfway mark of 2020—a year full of challenges and changes to our everyday lives that only a few months ago would have seemed unimaginable.
Do Law-Abiding Gun Owners Have a “Death Cult Mentality”?
When a politician accuses America’s millions of lawful gun owners of having a “death cult mentality,” it’s tempting to not take them seriously. But when that politician is “hell yes we’ll take your AR-15” Beto O’Rourke, a person Joe Biden said he’d appoint to “take care of the gun problem,” it is worth taking his disturbing view of America very seriously.