https://bearingarms.com/in-the-best-of-hands-nypdbloomberg-press-conference-points-hundreds-of-guns-at-reporters/feedBearing Arms &ndash; Saving Liberty and Livesen-usFri, 10 Apr 2026 18:14:57 -0400<![CDATA[Monday is the last day for Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to veto legislation passed by the General Assembly this session, or else those bills will become law with or without her signature.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:29:05 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/10/as-spanberger-signs-gun-control-bills-doj-virginia-2a-advocates-vow-legal-response-n1232190<![CDATA[The Second Amendment states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. It doesn't state that the right to keep and bear arms is exclusive to the well-regulated militia. We know this because the exact phrase is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The people. Not the militia.]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:29:31 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Armed Citizen]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/10/columnist-brings-up-rebuttal-to-guns-only-for-well-regulated-militia-n1232174<![CDATA[And by "bold," I mean "idiotic."&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:01:56 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[violent crime]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/10/san-francisco-mayor-activists-bold-idea-stop-shootings-n1232181<![CDATA[Dr. Anthony Douglas, a surgical resident in Chicago, is leading the push for lawmakers to adopt a bill called the RIFL (Responsibility in Firearm Legislation) Act, which would require firearms manufacturers to obtain a license from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation before they can sell guns in the state of Illinois.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:01:01 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/10/illinois-doctor-and-anti-2a-activist-says-poor-people-better-off-without-guns-n1232177<![CDATA[Jeanne Pirro is the US attorney for the District of Columbia. She's...kind of been a trainwreck when it comes to gun rights. We all know it. Sure, she stopped enforcing a couple of laws in the early days, then pretty much keeps putting her foot in her mouth, even when she's writing.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:30:12 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Jeanne Shaheen]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/10/hey-hey-ho-ho-more-reasons-pirro-needs-to-go-n1232172<![CDATA[When there's a political thing happening, I get that not everyone is a big fan of every decision people make. I'm more than willing to engage with good-faith arguments about a bunch of topics. That's especially true when it comes to restoring gun rights to non-violent felons. They never should have been stripped in the first place, and when Florida AG James Uthmeier had a change of heart on that, I agreed.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:31:06 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/op-eds-disingenuous-attack-on-uthmeiers-stance-over-disarming-felons-n1232164<![CDATA[Did a Giffords staffer recently run afoul of Vermont's rules for lobbyists?&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:31:19 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Vermont]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/09/gun-control-lobbyist-not-fan-registration-requirements-n1232170<![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I'm grateful for what President Trump and his administration have done for gun rights. They've already done more to defend the Second Amendment than any administration in my lifetime, and I really do appreciate that.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:29:48 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[National Firearms Act]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/trump-administrations-whiplash-approach-to-the-second-amendment-n1232162<![CDATA[As things currently stand, the tide is largely against gun grabbers in much of the country. More than half of the states have some form of permitless carry, the Department of Justice is going after at least some local and state governments over their anti-gun measures, and Congress just isn't interested in passing gun control.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:29:33 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Ghost Guns]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[Wyoming]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/dont-think-colorados-gun-barrel-restrictions-will-stay-in-colorado-n1232161<![CDATA[When Donald Trump was on the campaign rail in 2024, he told gun owners at the Great American Outdoors Show that "Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day."]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:31:22 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[ATF]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/09/doj-says-its-sticking-with-biden-era-rule-that-white-house-calls-attack-on-gun-owners-n1232167<![CDATA[I, like many of you, think guns should be stored properly when not in use.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:29:12 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Gun Storage]]><![CDATA[Louisiana]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/louisiana-rejects-mandatory-storage-bill-n1232159<![CDATA[The Illinois Supreme Court is facing a lawsuit by a former Cook County judge who was canned for writing a column supportive of President Trump when he was not even on the bench, but as NRA board member Todd Vandermyde pointed out on social media, the state's highest court has at least one justice who's engaged in some blatant partisan politicking of her own without losing her job.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:31:26 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/09/illinois-supreme-court-says-partisanship-a-problem-for-cook-county-judge-but-ignores-its-own-issues-n1232165<![CDATA[In addition to gun control, I'm not fond of taxes. I might understand why a government needs to tax its citizens to some degree or another, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Especially when the taxes aren't just about funding things like police and fire departments, but about trying to create some kind of social change.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:29:58 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Owners]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[violent crime]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/two-academics-propose-tax-they-claim-will-reduce-homicides-without-infringing-on-gun-owners-n1232158<![CDATA[Maryland has already banned the sale of the most popular long guns in the country, but now Democrats are targeting some of the most popular handguns as well.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:31:50 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Ban]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Maryland]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/09/maryland-democrats-send-gun-ban-bill-to-governor-n1232163<![CDATA[With more than a dozen gun-related bills on the schedule, the Rhode Island House Judiciary committee met for hours on Wednesday afternoon and evening, with hundreds of Second Amendment supporters descending on the statehouse beforehand to urge lawmakers to oppose the vast majority of the bills.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:31:44 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/09/anti-gun-lawmakers-drop-the-mask-in-rhode-island-n1232160<![CDATA[The most shocking thing about Illinois's passing an assault weapon ban wasn't that they did it, but that they hadn't done it before. I mean, it's an anti-gun state that has no regard for the right to keep and bear arms, so it was kind of surprising they hadn't shut down ownership of things like AR-15s decades ago.]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:29:35 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Concealed Carry]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/09/chicago-thugs-clearly-arent-worried-about-illinoiss-assault-weapon-ban-n1232156<![CDATA[For a long time, I've ascribed to the idea that if you don't want to go to prison, you shouldn't break the law. To be sure, that's an important first step, to say the least, but we all know that's never been enough. Still, most of the cases of wrongful conviction were uncovered and corrected, because we want the innocent to be free and the guilty to be punished.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:31:18 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[ATF]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/08/adamiak-has-been-locked-up-for-four-years-and-it-could-have-been-any-of-us-n1232151<![CDATA[It took nearly four months to reach his conclusion, but DeKalb County, Tennessee District Attorney Bryant Dunaway has officially declared a shooting last December to be a justifiable use of force. Given the circumstances, I'm not sure why it took so long to come to that conclusion, but based on the information released by his office Dunaway made the right call.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:31:50 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Armed Citizen]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Defensive Gun Use]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[Tennessee]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/08/prosecutor-says-armed-citizen-shot-college-professor-in-self-defense-n1232155<![CDATA[Imagine that you created something that was a bit of a breakthrough in a given field. It changed a lot of things and the products you developed from that breakthrough became the most popular models in your industry.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:29:32 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Guns]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/08/illinois-bill-wants-to-force-glock-to-change-design-even-though-theyve-done-nothing-wrong-n1232149<![CDATA[I've talked a fair bit about how bad gun research is when it comes out of either academia or the activist bunch at places like Everytown. Cam started it back in 2022. The next year, I talked about self-censorship in academia, where research that doesn't conform to the narrative is tossed so that the researchers don't get hate from their colleagues.]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:29:42 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/08/social-sciences-garbage-gun-research-and-the-replication-crisis-n1232148