Op-Ed

Dettelbach’s Confirmation Will Hasten the Neutering of the ATF

With last week’s confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, gun control advocates and other nanny-staters are celebrating the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015. But what most…


California Enacts Firearm Maker ‘Nuisance’ Law, Acknowledging Its Background Checks, Waiting Period are Failures

By Mark Oliva California’s new law allowing state authorities and victims of crimes to bring lawsuits against firearm retailers and manufacturers is flawed in ways that Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom never considered. Among them might…


Not Content With Violating the 2nd Amendment, Gavin Newsom is Now Attacking 1st Amendment Rights

By Matt Manda California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new law to ban firearm advertising “attractive to minors” has criminalized First Amendment freedom of speech. It’s not a law protecting children as the governor frames it….


FPC: Continuing to Obstruct the People’s Second Amendment Rights is No Longer an Option

From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . . Quoting the plurality opinion from McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court held in Bruen that “[t]he constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not…



Progress: AP Stylebook Now Advises Against Using ‘Assault Rifle’ and ‘Assault Weapon’ in News Reports

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . After years of incorporating the terms “assault rifle” and “assault weapons” into news reports involving firearms, especially when used in crimes, journalists are now advised by the…


The Myth of Police Protection: Uvalde Video Reveals ‘Just Call 9-1-1’ Is a Dangerous Fantasy

By Jon Miltimore The gunman walked into Robb Elementary School almost casually. Minutes earlier he had crashed a vehicle near the school, spraying three bullets at a pair of men who approached the scene to…


Joe Biden and Democrats Won’t Stop Until They’ve Banned Your Guns

Despite the gun control law he just signed and the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, President Joe Biden told the nation we wants more still gun control. He wants to ban guns. President Biden demanded Congress reinstate…


Why the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Has Politicians and Gun Control Advocates Worried

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the authority for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to write their own rules without clear congressional authorization that Congress intended to delegate to the EPA could also…