2nd Amendment

A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League (AG & AG), one of the nation’s largest female firearms organizations, has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging justices to declare a New York state concealed carry gun law unconstitutional. Related Article: Henry Raises $30,000 for 8-Year-Old Texas Boy’s Treatment For the first...

Walgreens is the latest retailer to ask shoppers to leave their guns at home. “We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials” the company posted on its website Thursday. Related Stories: NEWS: Walmart Ends Ammo Sales & Asks Customers Not...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that strengthening background checks and red flag laws will “lead the discussion” on addressing gun violence in the wake of two mass shootings that left at least 31 people dead. Related Stories: NEWS: Stricter Gun Storage Laws Hit NY McConnell’s remarks on a Kentucky news radio show follow a...

Original story reported by  www.cnn.com Colorado’s controversial “red flag” bill was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, with more than half of the state’s counties declaring opposition to it and many sheriffs promising not to enforce it at all. Known as the “Extreme Risk Protection Order,” the law will allow a family...

As reported by Politico: Sen. Kevin Cramer is introducing legislation, the Freedom Financing Act, designed to discourage big banks from cutting off the firearms industry, the latest response to moves by lenders such as Citigroup and Bank of America that have distanced themselves from the gun business. The North Dakota Republican’s legislation would curb banks’ access to...

As reported by the New York Times: House Democrats are poised this week to adopt legislation requiring background checks for all gun purchasers, the first major expansion of gun control laws in a quarter century and the opening salvo in a broader drive to address an issue that once sharply divided the party. In back-to-back...

A Colorado gun control bill that would allow the seizure of firearms from “high risk” individuals was heard Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee, after being reintroduced in the statehouse last week. The bill, co-sponsored by House majority leader Alec Garnett, describes an extreme risk protection order which allows family, household member, or an officer...

Quay County in eastern New Mexico has declared itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” in protest of pending gun control legislation in the state. The Quay County Commission voted unanimously to pass the resolution, as reported by Albuquerque’s KRQE-TV. Curry and Union Counties passed similar situations earlier this week and Eddy County Commissioners are slated to vote on their...

With more than 20 gun-related bills in Olympia, WA this session, Second Amendment advocates say they’re starting to feel cornered. These gun laws are set to restrict who, what and where gun-owners can carry. Two-time combat veteran Steve Krause says he doesn’t think lawmakers respect, or even understand why people like him are upset. “Laws...

If passed, Senate Bill 501 would make Oregon’s firearms regulations among the strictest in the U.S. Compared to most other western states, Oregon already has stricter gun laws. The bill proposed to appear in the Legislature this year would require Oregonians to obtain a permit before buying a gun, limit the amount of ammunition a person could buy,...

Sales at Dick’s Sporting Goods dropped in the past three months amid backlash against tighter gun-sale restrictions following a mass killing early this year at a Florida high school. Dick’s raised the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 and stopped selling assault rifles last February after the Valentine’s Day shooting that left 17 students and staff...

The United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA), in its ongoing effort to educate responsibly armed Americans, has launched an interactive map detailing concealed carry reciprocity between all 50 states. The concealed carry reciprocity map is available at www.usconcealedcarry.com/ccw-reciprocity-map/ as well as on the convenient and free USCCA app for both Android and iOS. Veritable Cache of Valuable...

A MESSAGE FROM USSF: A disturbing trend that we are seeing all too much these days is the blatant virtue signaling by major corporations and financial institutions. Apparently, if someone decides to engage in hunting, the shooting sports, or decides to carry or own a firearm to protect one’s family, they should be shunned, made...

Gun-rights groups are suing California’s Riverside County and its sheriff after a legal U.S. resident from the Netherlands, who has lived in the country for 35 years, says he was denied a concealed-carry permit on the grounds that he isn’t a U.S. citizen. The case is the latest challenge to touch on the intersection of...

U.S. Sen. David Perdue Needs to Hear from You TODAY Ask him to introduce legislation to end financial services discrimination against the firearms industry. NSSF is on Capitol Hill raising concerns over the growing problem of banks and others in the financial services industry unfairly discriminating against members of our industry. Over the past several...

Washington State ballot initiative I-1639 categorizes all semiautomatic rifles as “assault rifles.” Ballotpedia quotes I-1639’s text: noting that the initiative is focused on “semiautomatic assault rifles.” Any rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull...

The NRA has reported significant issues with the California Department of Justice’s online assault weapon registration system, combined with a massive data breach. From the NRA: Following the closure of the “assault weapon” registration period, NRA and CRPA received complaints from hundreds of individuals who were unable to register their firearms as required because CA...

New Jersey New Jersey already has a reputation for having some of the tightest gun laws in the U.S. But gun control advocates may soon be able to boast the Garden State is the most stringent of any state. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a half-dozen new measures into law Wednesday — which will reduce magazine capacity, ban armor-piercing bullets,...

Hogue Inc. has announced that it will no longer partner with Dick’s Sporting Goods and their subsidiary Field & Stream as an authorized dealer of Hogue Inc. products. This decision comes after Dick’s Sporting Goods made the decision to halt sales of and destroy their inventory of modern sporting rifles. They no longer offer standard...

Seventeen-year-old Kyle Kashuv will be a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this fall. His views on gun rights differ from those of most of his classmates, as he is actively recruiting other high school students to join him in learning about conservative values and to promote his ideas on gun rights....

“Injury Prevention,” a scholarly journal, released what may be the closest look yet at gun ownership across the US. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a representative sample of 4,000 adults nationwide whether they own firearms. The findings helped the research group estimate gun ownership rates in each state. The national average is 29.1% From lowest...

Eric Swalwell, D-California, suggested that all assault weapons be confiscated, either by government buy-back program or force, in an op-ed piece that ran in USA Today. This is an incredibly bold statement, considering the furthest gun control supporters have gone is to suggest universal background checks and banning of assault weapons. Swalwell sites Australia’s gun buyback program as...