https://bearingarms.com/feedBearing Arms &ndash; Saving Liberty and Livesen-usTue, 21 Apr 2026 02:43:17 -0400<![CDATA[I've written a lot about Patrick "Tate" Adamiak, a former Navy sailor who, rather than going to BUDS as he planned, is instead rotting in prison for 20 years over what sure as hell looks like bogus, trumped-up charges that never should have been allowed to stand. Lee Williams, with the Second Amendment Foundation's Investigative Journalism Project, has done amazing work outlining not just the charges but why they were wrong.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:30:09 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[ATF]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment Foundation]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/freeing-adamiak-needs-your-help-n1232275<![CDATA[The importance of the Second Amendment is made clear throughout the world if you only care to look. From horrific crime in the third-world to Europeans' assault on free speech, the evidence isn't hard to find.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:30:39 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Guns]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/schlichter-iran-wars-lesson-is-buy-guns-n1232274<![CDATA[Most of us have heard the same arguments for gun control our entire lives. Whether we believed them at any point or not might be something different, but we all heard them, and the older we are, the more annoying they likely become.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:30:04 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Guns]]><![CDATA[History]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/new-book-shows-when-it-comes-to-gun-control-nothing-new-under-the-sun-n1232273<![CDATA[One issue with domestic abuse is that, absent physical evidence, it can boil down to he said/she said. Physical evidence is often covered up by the victim, or the abuser simply refuses to let the victim go anywhere where it can be documented. These are evil people, but they know that what they're doing isn't acceptable, so they want it hidden.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:30:47 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/how-spanberger-just-screwed-over-domestic-abuse-survivors-n1232272<![CDATA[There's a lot of information about you that you don't want out in the public. Your social security number is a big one, but it's far from everything. Trust me here, if someone starts finding that information, they can terrify you with what may seem to them a polite phone call.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:30:06 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[ATF]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Gun Owners of America]]><![CDATA[National Firearms Act]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/goa-demands-investigation-into-atfs-leaking-of-personal-information-n1232271<![CDATA[The last couple of years have been blissfully quiet on the mass public shooting front. Yes, they've happened, but there were only a few, and those were relatively low-key. Still incredibly tragic for everyone impacted, obviously, but not with the same loss of life as what most people tend to think of when you're talking about a mass shooting.]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:30:47 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]><![CDATA[Louisiana]]><![CDATA[Mass Shooting]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/20/tragedy-in-louisiana-as-convicted-felon-kills-8-children-n1232269<![CDATA[When the FBI's official crime stats come out later this year, we're likely to learn that 2025 saw a record-setting decline in homicides nationwide, and that the overall homicide rate is the lowest it's been since the FBI started keeping track in 1960.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[violent crime]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/19/despite-new-gun-controls-homicides-are-spiking-in-colorados-democratic-stronghold-n1232266<![CDATA[Gun control advocates insist on arguing that gun control works. They go to great pains to "prove" it works, too, which means garbage studies, ridiculous claims, and correlation lacking causation except when it works against them.]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[ATF]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Submachine Guns]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/19/minneapolis-mans-conviction-really-proof-gun-control-is-useless-n1232258<![CDATA[Over the past two years, there's been an explosion of interest in the right to keep and bear arms in the Jewish community, and for good reason. With a growing number of attacks synagogues and Jewish worshippers across the globe, including the Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia and the recent attack at a Michigan synagogue that was thwarted by armed security, many members of the Jewish faith are taking a vested interest in their own security and safety.]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Judaism]]><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/19/nra-partners-with-lox-and-loaded-to-bolster-jewish-self-defense-n1232264<![CDATA[Anyone who assumes women are the more docile sex has clearly never gotten between a mama and her kid. This is something that happens throughout the animal kingdom, but doesn't stop there. Rudyard Kipling didn't write, "That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male," for nothing.]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Armed Citizen]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Guns]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[violent crime]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/18/armed-mom-chases-off-teens-trying-to-rob-her-son-in-driveway-n1232259<![CDATA[The modern gun control movement in the United States has been around since the early 1960s, though it wasn't until the Gun Control Act of 1968 was introduced in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy that the movement coalesced and found its footing as a political force.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Ban]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/18/new-book-details-centuries-old-fight-over-gun-control-n1232263<![CDATA[The right of the people to keep and bear arms isn't about hunting. It's never been about hunting. It's about defending this nation, both from foreign invaders and tyrannical governments, and it seems some people are starting to wake up to that fact.]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Red Flag Laws]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/18/americans-of-all-stripes-waking-up-to-purpose-of-second-amendment-n1232257<![CDATA[This year's legislative session has drawn to a close in Alabama, and lawmakers left the state capitol without passing a bill that would have established a tax-free "holiday" on the sale of firearms, ammunition, and related accessories.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:21 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Alabama]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/17/alabama-lawmakers-fail-to-adopt-tax-free-holiday-for-guns-and-ammo-n1232261<![CDATA[2026 hasn't been a great year for gun control. Oh, they might have gotten some state laws passed, true, but they've also seen something far worse than just looking at a legislative vote. In fact, I now have to wonder just what kind of people support gun control in the first place.]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:29:40 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Brandon Herrera]]><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/17/why-do-some-of-the-worst-people-support-gun-control-n1232255<![CDATA[A few days ago, I wrote about a piece that argued that gun rights are imaginary because one person doesn't make a militia, so the right to keep and bear arms must be a collective right. It was just high-minded sounding enough that the gullible might buy it, but anyone who has actually delved into the topic to any degree--or is just skeptical enough to do a Google search--knows it's BS.]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:29:41 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Tennessee]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/17/2a-history-when-the-militia-set-things-right-n1232254<![CDATA[We already have a bill in Congress that would establish a national system of right-to-carry reciprocity for gun owners: H.R.38, the "Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025."&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:01:26 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Concealed Carry]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Gun Owners]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/17/north-carolina-congressman-debuts-nationwide-carry-bill-but-only-for-a-chosen-few-n1232262<![CDATA[Gun control activist and failed pillow-maker David Hogg is in damage control mode after telling a CNN panel this week that he's willing to give former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene "a chance" now that she's broken with President Donald Trump.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:01:17 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[David Hogg]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/17/shannon-watts-throws-shade-at-david-hogg-over-mtg-comment-n1232256<![CDATA[A year ago, a student brought two firearms onto the campus of Florida State University and opened fire. It wasn't as bad of an event as Parkland, but it was bad enough to spur the legislature into action, just like Parkland.]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:29:56 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[Campus Carry]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Gun Rights]]><![CDATA[School Safety]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/17/florida-has-correct-response-to-fsu-shooting-n1232252<![CDATA[I'd never really heard anything about Nick Shirley before he uncovered the massive amounts of fraud among primarily Somali-owned day cares in Minnesota. Billions of taxpayer dollars were not just stolen, but at least some of it found its way into the bank accounts of terrorist organizations. The fraud was staggering to many Americans, who had just started to recover from all the insanity funded by USAID.]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:31:51 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Knighton]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/04/16/how-california-bill-targeting-nick-shirleys-investigations-may-bite-second-amendment-n1232244<![CDATA[Earlier today I covered why one Supreme Court-watcher is optimistic about the justices taking up bans on so-called assault weapons and large capacity magazines next term, but those aren't the only 2A issues that will be discussed in tomorrow's conference. There are two cases making their first appearance in the justice's closed door meeting that could be granted cert (or denied) as early as next Monday, and both are worth taking up... and talking about.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:31:43 -0400<![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]><![CDATA[Concealed Carry]]><![CDATA[National Firearms Act]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Suppressors]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/04/16/two-more-2a-cases-make-their-supreme-court-conference-debut-tomorrow-n1232251