According to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), allowing permit-less carry hasn’t led to increasing rates of violent crime. If anything, these rates have gone down in states that removed the requirement to obtain a permit before carrying a handgun.
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Research: Constitutional Carry Does Not Result in Higher Murder or Violent Crime Rates
Published: February 8, 2022 { 2 comments }
Former Miami Police Chief Reviews Footage of Florida Highway Shooting
Published: February 8, 2022 { 37 comments }A Florida man is carrying on his self-defense claims following a freeway shooting on Interstate 95 near Miami in June of 2021.
ATF Admits It Has Nearly 1 Billion Gun Records, GOP Lawmakers Ask, ‘How Is This Not a Registry?’
Published: February 7, 2022 { 56 comments }The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is in hot water (again) after one of its officials admitted that the agency currently holds nearly one billion records of gun purchases and that 94% of those records have been digitized.
Biden, DOJ Announce ‘National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative’ to Crack Down on Homemade Guns
Published: February 3, 2022 { 84 comments }President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced today the creation of a “National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative” designed to crack down on homemade guns, sometimes referred to as “ghost guns.”
CNN Guest Compares GOP’s Inaction on Gun Control to ‘Mass Human Sacrifice’
Published: February 3, 2022 { 35 comments }In what must be the hottest take of the week, author Kurt Andersen claimed on CNN that the GOP’s refusal to go along with anti-gun legislation amounts to “mass human sacrifice.”
WATCH: Female Store Clerk in Philly Forced to Shoot Would-Be Robber, Both Injured
Published: February 3, 2022 { 25 comments }An employee of a Philadelphia convenience store was forced to shoot back earlier this week when two armed men tried to rob her shop.
ATF Raids Home of Amish Man in Pennsylvania Who Admits to Selling Firearms
Published: January 27, 2022 { 16 comments }Over a dozen agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided the home of an Amish dairy farmer who admitted to local media this week that he had bought and sold a number of firearms.
‘A Modest Fee’ — San Jose Mayor Celebrates Passage of Gun Tax, Liability Insurance
Published: January 27, 2022 { 13 comments }This week the San Jose City Council approved two gun-control mandates that will punish law-abiding citizens.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Calls Gun-Related Deaths in U.S. ‘Human Rights Issue’
Published: January 27, 2022 { 81 comments }The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is taking a page out of the anti-gun lobby’s playbook—almost literally.
New York Mayor Announces ‘Blueprint to End Gun Violence,’ Calls for ‘Assault Weapon Ban’
Published: January 27, 2022 { 31 comments }Newly sworn-in New York Mayor Eric Adams announced this week a “Blueprint to End Gun Violence.”