Williamson: Americans’ Demand for Guns is a Dangerous Leading Indicator

We sometimes talk about “American gun culture,” but another way of saying “American gun culture” is “American culture.” As a matter of civil liberty, the Second Amendment is every bit as important as the First or the Fourth or the Sixth, and it is no accident that the semiautomatic rifle has taken the place of … Read more

2020 Was a Hell of a Year for the Gun Industry

By Joe Bartozzi Twenty-one million. Let that number sink in for a moment. That’s a very big number. If I told you at SHOT Show last year that the industry would see 21 million background checks for the sale of a firearm in 2020, you would have thought I was crazy. One year later and … Read more