NICS Checks in the Trump Era Break May Record
The NICS checks total last month was 1,942,677. That's a new record for May. The next highest was in 2016, 1,870,000. The National Instant Criminal background check totals continue to confound expectations. Instead of a...
Making Texas Safe for the Hearing Protection Act
Governor Greg Abbot has signed HB 1819 into law on May 26th, 2017. The law goes into effect on September 1. The law makes Texas safe for silencer ownership if/when the Hearing Protection Act...
Oklahoma Governor Signs Defensive Display Bill into Law
Governor Mary Fallin signed Oklahoma's defensive display bill, SB 40, into law earlier this month. The bill will go into effect on November 1. The vast majority of defensive gun uses consist of showing the...
Brits Raise Terror Alert to Critical
In the aftermath of the horrific Muslim terror attack in Manchester yesterday, the British authorities have raised their terror threat level to "Critical." According to the government, they expect additional terror attacks to occur imminently.
The...
Illinois Gun Dealer: ‘We Can’t Give Springfields Away’
Your scribe had himself a busy day, delivering copies of GunNews Magazine (click to here to download the latest issue) to Guns Save Life's Chicagoland distribution team. In the course of my travels across...
Michigan: Keep Licensing, Eliminate Pistol Registration
A bill to reform Michigan's handgun registration law has been introduced. Michigan handgun registration was originally passed 90 years ago in 1927 and may have been used as an example for the National Firearms Act of...
IDF Push to Stop Illegal Gun Manufacture on West Bank
In many places around the world where firearms are very difficult to obtain legally, small shops manufacture simple submachine guns for the black market. They are common in Brazil, Israel, the Philippines, and increasingly in...
Illinois Gun Dealer Licensing & Gun Rationing Up For a Vote
The Illinois Senate will vote this next week on SB1657, a bill that would license gun dealers in Illinois and ration gun owners to nine firearm transfers per year. Yes, the feds already license...
A Glimpse of Secretary of State Tillerson’s Moscow Security Detail
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow this morning on Air Force Three. Russia Today showed a live shot of the arrival. Interestingly, we got a rare peek at the SecState's security detail....
Gorsuch to Feinstein: Heller is the Law of the Land
https://youtu.be/MwBFLRcZP1s
At his confirmation hearing today, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared that D.C. v. Heller was the law of the land and that he would apply and enforce that decision if confirmed.
"Whatever's in Heller...
Australia Man Faces 20 Years for Printing a Replica Gun
Australia has some of the world's most extreme gun regulations. Even so, by jumping through a great many hoops, carefully filling out the right forms over several months, you can own and use a significant...
Iowa House Introduces Omnibus Gun Law Reform Bill
Iowa House Study Bill 133 is an omnibus weapons law reform bill. The authors of the bill appear to have searched through various weapons laws enacted in the United States in the last several decades...