CNN reported over the weekend that, according to three inside sources, FBI Director Kash Patel, additionally serving as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has outlined plans that would reposition as many as 1000 ATF agents over to the FBI. The move would diminish the number of ATF agents … Read more
The Department of Justice under the current Biden administration, has introduced a new pair of gun control “rules” with the goal being to bring regulations into compliance with the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). The BSCA, mostly passed by Democrats, saw 15 “Republicans” led by John Cornyn (R-TX) abandoning their constituent base and values to … Read more
As election day finally arrives, gun sales in the U.S. haven’t experienced the usual surge that has become common with presidential elections over the past 20 years. In fact, October 2024 actually saw a slight decline in FBI background checks on gun-related transactions with numbers dropping by five percent from the same period last year. … Read more
July marked 60 consecutive months – or five years – of more than 1 million monthly NSSF-Adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications for the sale of a firearm at retail. This milestone is demonstrative of Americans’ desire to lawfully exercise their Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms for lawful … Read more
It appears those wacky bureaucrats with guns and jackboots are at it again. That’s right, the ATF is trying to change laws and even the meaning of words to allow them to lord over even more of the U.S. citizenry who might have a desire to defend themselves or maybe just have a little fun … Read more
Total firearms sold at retail in 2023 might not have topped the Covid pandemic-inspired years of 2020 and 2021, but they were still strong enough to make last year the fourth highest total since records have been kept. Background check numbers provided by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) totaled 15.8 million in 2023, bolstered … Read more
Florida Senator Marco Rubio delivered a rousing speech on the Senate floor this week, addressing the current situation in Cuba. The first lesson we need to take away from [Cuba] is that Marxism, socialism, doesn’t work. The way socialism, the way Marxism has always worked, the way it’s always empowered itself, is it goes to … Read more
ATF’s Form 4473, the required background check form for purchasing a firearm, includes a litany of questions to which the prospective purchaser affirms, on penalty of felony, that they have answered honestly. When 65-year-old Charles Castelluzzo answered the third question, which asks whether one has ever been convicted of a felony, his “no” answer landed … Read more
While all eyes have been on Sheila Jackson Lee‘s big licensing and registration bill, fellow Congresscritter Carolyn B. Maloney [D-NY] is taking advantage of the various distractions on Capitol Hill to enter five ambitious civilian disarmament bills of her own. While Lee’s legislation is patently absurd — and probably intended to be so — Maloney … Read more
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