Hello, Fellow Felons
If you haven’t heard yet, be advised that millions of gun owners may soon be classified as felons if a new Bureau of Alcohol,...
Gun News, Good and Bad
Over the past three years, historic numbers of Americans legally purchased a firearm. According to Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of...
Concealed Carry Continues Growth
John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), has released the group’s annual report of Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across...
Armed Citizens Stop Attacks
John Lott, Jr. has done an interesting study of how often armed citizens like ourselves intervene to stop mass shooters. Bottom line: The rate...
Lots of Gun Law Changes
If you’ve been looking at recent gun-law news, you might be shocked at the pace at which things are happening. I’ve been surprised at...
Fruits of Bruen
A couple of issues ago (August 2022), I wrote in this space about the earth-shaking effect that the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision would have...
The Commonly Owned AR-15
As I write this in late July 2022, the House of Representatives is poised to pass another ban on semi-auto rifles similar to the...
A Landmark Decision in Bruen
Belated Happy Birthday Cheers and Exaltations to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who celebrated his 74th birthday on June 23, 2022, by writing the...
A Landmark Decision in Bruen
From the the majority decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas in a landmark Supreme Court gunowner-rights decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association,...
Recalls
Recalls are part of making consumer products, but when it comes to firearms, the stakes are a little higher than if the products were...
Halfway There
On April 12, 2022, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 319, Constitutional carry, into law. Constitutional carry in Georgia goes into effect immediately....
Dodgy
I watched some of the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and came away underwhelmed. That’s not surprising because, if...
Ammo Price Increases Are Coming
Since President Donald Trump’s announcement on April 4 about new tariffs — a 10% blanket tariff on all imports, plus targeted reciprocal tariffs —...