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With COVID Fading, Now is the Time to Ensure Gun Stores Aren’t Shut Down Again in Future Emergencies

  The COVID-19 pandemic is slowly drawing to a close. Fortunately, few precedents were set. Most governments recognized that the right to keep and bear arms was essential. And most governments that tried to shut…

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Industry Response Validates the ‘Essential’ Work of Keeping Gun Businesses Open

David Liu, right, owner of a gun store, takes an order from a customer in Arcadia, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) By Larry Keane The firearm industry is open for business. With exceptions of trouble…


SAF Tears Apart Everytown Law’s Memo on Emergency Gun Store Closures

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) From the Second Amendment Foundation: The Second Amendment Foundation today responded to a memorandum issued by ‘Everytown Law,’ an arm of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety gun prohibition lobbying group,…


Massachusetts Governor Closes Gun Stores Again After Listing Them as ‘Essential’

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) From the NSSF: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker closed federally licensed firearm dealers after briefly listing them open as “essential” services. The move effectively denies Massachusetts residents of their…


New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Didn’t Let a Crisis Go to Waste

(AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) Many gun owners have said for years, maybe decades, that the background check system — whether it’s the FBI’s NICS system or state-run operations — could be used as a convenient…