In an email blast from Marion Hammer, Florida’s current National Rifle Association lobbyist and former NRA president, the NRA-ILA is blasting incoming Florida Republican Senate president Bill Galvano for accepting a $200,000 donation to his Innovate Florida political action committee from Everytown for Gun Safety. That’s the civilian disarmament operation owned, operated and funded by former New […]
The Washington Post reports that subscriptions to National Rifle Association print publications are up about 350,000 between February and June. Since the NRA doesn’t release membership numbers, the WaPo figures that’s a good proxy indicating a surge in new memberships since the Parkland shooting on February 14. All NRA members are entitled to a complimentary […]
Civilian disarmament operations like Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords and the Brady Campaign disguise their true agendas by claiming they’re working for “gun safety,” a euphemism for ensuring that the fewest number of people possible own and carry firearms. Yet in a nation with over 400 million guns, they do precisely nothing to ensure that […]
“We assume that because a lot of people share our belief in gun control, any money we give to gun control groups will be a drop in the bucket, so we don’t give any money or time at all. When everyone acts that way, gun control groups end up under-resourced, even though they have popular […]
The NRA’s second annual Carry Guard Expo had been scheduled for this weekend in Richmond, Virginia. However that coincides with the projected landfall of Hurricane Florence, probably somewhere between South Carolina and Virginia. As a result, the NRA has decided to side with safety and has cancelled the event. Here’s their press release: NRA Carry […]
In the (not so) olden days, we had Operation Choke Point. That was the Obama Justice Department’s 2013 effort to squeeze firearms-related firms by threatening banks and other financial institutions that dared to do business with them. That legal and financial intimidation finally ended in 2017 with the change of administrations. Now that the federal government’s […]
My good friend and a strong defender of the Second Amendment is throwing his hat into the ring for a third time. Adam Kraut has announced that he’s running again for an NRA Board of Directors seat. For those who don’t know him, Adam is a lawyer and former gun store manager who deals exclusively with firearms-related cases. He’s has […]
California Lawmakers Approve 3 Bills Imposing New Restrictions on Gun Ownership This must be a day ending with a ‘y’ . . . California lawmakers on Monday approved a trio of bills that would reduce the number of people with access to firearms, including lifetime bans on owning guns for people convicted of domestic violence […]
Twitter is an enormous platform with an even larger membership. They reported 336 million active users worldwide on a monthly basis during the first quarter of 2018 and approximately 6,000 tweets go out every second of every day for a grand total of 350,000 tweets per minute. With that much activity there are bound to […]
My state of birth is Washington State. I was fortunate to grow up in a state with stunning mountains, plentiful pine trees, and more sunshine than one might expect. When I started shooting and hunting I discovered something else: Washington State had darn good laws relating to gun rights and awesome hunting opportunities. Fast forward […]
ACLU Sticks Up for the NRA?! First the California bill and now this. There are apparently a few vestiges of intellectual honesty left within the ACLU . . . The official view of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) remains that the Second Amendment protects a “collective right rather than an individual right.” But the […]
“The left has figured out that it is impossible at the present time to actually get rid of the Second Amendment. It is not going to be successful to use the government to confiscate weapons. They have made the judgment that going after people’s guns using the power of government or the efforts to eliminate […]
