The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ days look numbered. Once more, under its 2020 budget proposal, the Trump administration seeks to transfer the ‘alcohol’ and ‘tobacco’ duties from the BATF. The U.S. Treasury Department would take those duties if the administration gets its way. Today’s BATF would also get a new name: Bureau of […]
Kentucky’s Governor Matt Bevin signed constitutional carry into law on Monday. His signature makes Kentucky the 16th state that does not require a license for law-abiding adults to carry concealed. The change will allow those over 20 years of age, “and otherwise able to lawfully possess a firearm” to carry in the same places that […]
She should have been arrested, but after pounding out a threatening text message, an anti-gun activist was merely ejected from a Connecticut Senate hearing on gun control. According to a photo of her text in progress, she wrote, “If I had a gun, I’d blow away Sampson and a large group of NRA.” Clearly, a […]
The seemingly ineluctable push to move Florida away from its former Gunshine State identity marches on. No longer content with attacks on Second Amendment rights, Florida’s brightest legislative minds have now set their sights on the First Amendment, too. The latest assault on an enumerated right is a state senate bill (SB 1310) introduced by Senator […]
Why are “anti-violence” activists so violent? Could their anti-violence crusade simply mask their own violent tendencies and lack of impulse control? Either way, cops want to put the cuffs on a gun control preacher in St. Louis who also volunteers as a St. Louis Metro Police Department chaplain. Prosecutors say Pastor Ronald M. Fraction took […]
Nye County, Nevada Sheriff Sharon Wehrly doesn’t believe that the state can ban the sale of firearms between residents. In recent days, she announced she will not enforce Nevada’s new “universal background check” law, which really means a ban on the selling of guns between citizens. That, of course, has sent Nevada’s Democrats into a […]
By NRA-ILA By the standards of today’s anti-gun zealots, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) seems at first glance to be aiming rather low with H.R. 1263, which seeks to add to the National Firearms Act any “semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the capacity to accept a detachable [magazine].” Oh, don’t get us wrong. No reasonable, freedom-loving person […]
“…with thunderous applause…” By MARY HUDETZ Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill Friday to drastically expand mandatory background checks on firearms sales in New Mexico, as she shot down opposition against the measure and other proposed gun reforms as being part of a national “misinformation campaign.” The governor, […]
Lose your FOID to revocation, lose your guns. And you won’t get them back. Regardless if a court or the Illinois State Police rescind the revocation. That’s the what happens under a new bill currently being seriously considered in Illinois. Following the Aurora massacre and revelations of the ISP’s screw-up in failing to ensure a […]
Hanna Pennington, a Marshall University student (not pictured above), brings a new twist to the age-old, “I’m a gun owner, but I support gun control” shtick. Instead, she prefers to trump that with, “I have a concealed carry license, but I oppose campus carry.” Clearly, qualifying for a concealed carry permit doesn’t convey wisdom or […]
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has become a star chamber whose investigative sights have been set on their political opponents. As part of this effort, Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York has sent a document request to the National Rifle Association. Among other things, House Democrats want to “look into” the pro-gun organization’s […]
“Advisers said he ultimately decided not to run after concluding he could accomplish more through his political activism and philanthropic work over the next two years, and by focusing on such issues as gun violence, opioid addiction and climate change. “’I’ve come to realize that I’m less interested in talking than doing,’ he wrote. ‘And […]
