An Open Letter to Open Carriers
By Will Mitchell
As a rural Alabama civilian I’ve never experienced any type of major crime. Never has my home been burglarized, never have I experienced an armed robbery, and never have I ever felt...
Bloomberg: First Amendment Exercise Zones Should Be Second Amendment-Free Zones
The National Rifle Association and its elected allies seem to think that should be the new normal. They want civilians armed to the teeth in state after state, city after city. As awful...
David French’s Irrational Fear of Guns is No Reason to Outlaw Open Carry
Open carry is materially different from concealed carry. It’s often designed to be menacing, to intimidate the public and public officials. And after the debates around Rittenhouse, it’s time to rethink open carry, as...
Firearms Policy Coalition Sues Texas Over the Carry Ban for Adults Under 21 Years...
From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . .
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has filed a new federal Second Amendment lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking to restore...
How Narrow Will the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Ruling Be?
As the court’s docket shows, the justices first discussed the cert petition at a private conference in March, before debating it again at two additional conferences in April. In each conference, however, the conservative justices failed...
Winkler Worries About Chilling the Political Debate Now That More Blacks and Latinos Carry...
"Everybody's entitled to self-preservation. I don't care who it is," Bezzel told CBS News. "I don't advocate violence, but I do advocate self-defense."
In May, Bezzel and several other groups organized hundreds of Black...
Kentucky AG: Cities Can’t Prevent Employees From Carrying Firearms on the Job
Local municipalities in Kentucky with anti-gun political leaders could not prohibit their employees from not only bringing guns to their workplace in personal vehicles, but from carrying them in the course of their workday....
Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson Illustrates the Problem With the Slow Progress of Gun...
In the upcoming November, 2022 elections, Floridians will be stuck between a rock and a hard place. Florida's current Republican Senate President, Senator Wilton Simpson has officially entered the race for Commissioner of Agriculture...
TheBear: Gun Rights Activists Need Better PR
TTAG reader TheBear writes:
I have a habit of checking out a number of online news sources on a daily basis. I try to stay informed not only of current events, but also of the...
OMG! Open Carry is Legal and I Saw Someone Actually Doing It! OMG!
I have no idea if this guy is stable or mentally ill. Is he bothered by the heat and have a short fuse today? What if someone makes him mad and he has poor...
Why Open Carry is a Better Idea Now Than Ever
I had thought that the open carry debate had been beaten to death. But I saw a Fox News segment about homeless camping in Austin, Texas that triggered me. Maybe the events of 2020...
Biden Talked About Guns for 3 Minutes Last Night…and Got Almost Everything Wrong
By Larry Keane
President Joe Biden spoke for more than an hour to a limited Joint Session of Congress for his first major speech since his inauguration. It was during a three-minute stretch near the...