Gun Rights

Economist John Lott, noted for his academic advocacy of gun rights, says that when Barack Obama was his colleague at the University of Chicago, the future president treated him as if he were “evil.”

Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, went wingnut on the Huffington Post recently, blaming the death of Trayvon Martin on the NRA and marketing by gun manufacturers.

If you haven't seen these NRA Bill of Rights ads yet, then stop for a moment, download them, and take a close look. The deck reads, 'Before anyone edits the Bill of Rights, the authors would like a word with you.'

In a Washington Times column on April 2, Second Amendment legal scholar David Kopel examined how anti-gun lobbies are purposely misstating how Florida’s “stand your ground” works.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed House Bill 2728 into law, allowing hunters in the state to use lawfully-suppressed firearms for hunting.

U.S. consumers bought 20 percent more guns in March 2012 than a year earlier, adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System figures show.

Anti-self-defense gun prohibitionists in Washington State have been strangely silent following a textbook self-defense shooting in which a homeowner defended himself against an attack.

A Federal District Court Judge in Massachusetts today granted summary judgment in a Second Amendment Foundation case challenging that state's denial of firearms licenses to permanent resident aliens.

The high demand and short supply of ammunition in recent months has left many rifle shooters scrambling for alternatives to their centerfire firearms. While rimfire rounds may not be the complete answer to the problem—some types of rimfire ammunition in also in short supply—the popularity of the less expensive bullets is growing.

A member of the New Black Panther Party -- a felon -- who went on national television to offer a reward for the capture of George Zimmerman was arrested in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and charged with possession of a firearm.

Remington is threatening to pull its plant out of Ilion, New York, over a gun bill pushed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

According to data collected from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, NSSF reports that the number of Type 01 (defined as Dealer in Firearms . . .) Federal Firearms Licenses (FFLs) in the United States increased from 47,411 in January 2010 to 48,987 in February 2012.