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New Reality: Politicians, Gun Control Groups Learn to Deal With a Wave of Blue State Gun Sales

By Larry Keane The past two years have witnessed gun sales the likes of which have never been seen before. It’s not just red states either. The totals include big numbers in blue states already…


Mexico Needs to Explain Why Its Military ‘Loses’ 30% Of The Firearms It Buys From the U.S.

By Larry Keane Mexico is going to have to answer a few basic questions when their lawyers finally step in front of a judge to claim that U.S.-based manufacturers are somehow responsible for their own…


Agitprop and Conflation: Bloomberg’s ‘The Trace’ Employs Fuzzy Math to Sew Fear

By Larry Keane It’s like deja vu all over again. When gun control groups need to gin up fear about lawful gun ownership, there’s not a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistic they won’t…


Down Goes Obama: Joe Biden Take the Title of America’s All-Time Gun Sales Champ

By Larry Keane It turns out President Joe Biden is seeing more guns being sold in his first year than his two White House predecessors. For all his intent to hobble the firearm industry and…


Biden DOJ Takes Credit For ‘Safety’ Rule That Requires Gun Dealers to Keep Doing What They’ve Been Doing for Decades

By Larry Keane The Biden administration this week tried to take a gun control victory lap, but stumbled badly over facts coming out of the starting blocks. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a press release ballyhooing…


While Americans Bought 18.5 Million Firearms in 2021, NICS Data Show Gun Sales Returning to ‘Normal’

  The National Shooting Sports Foundation has toted up the adjusted background check numbers for December and we now have a full picture of 2021. That gives us a view of where the year stands…



Are You Traveling With Your Gun This Holiday Season? Here’s How To Do It Safely

By Larry Keane The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimates more than 110 million Americans are traveling this holiday season to visit family and friends. That’s not a record high but is significantly above last year’s numbers –…


Game Processors Struggle to Keep Up as Hunting, Meat Donations Boom

By Larry Keane Last year’s hunting season saw millions of sportsmen and women of all ages head to the fields and woods to give the great American pastime a try. Hunting recruitment efforts were successful…


Rutgers ‘Research’ Says 2020 First-Time Gun Buyers Are More Impulsive Than Longtime Owners

By Larry Keane Antigun think tanks and politicians push narratives that private citizens don’t “need” firearms for self-defense…so they shouldn’t have them. That narrative has fallen apart over the past two years of rampant rioting…