Jul 1, 2025 – Last year it was uncovered that Black New Jersey permit-to-carry applicants were denied permits at more than double the rate of whites. A bill introduced would force reporting on this potential bias.In May of 2024, after months of research and investigation, I was able to report that Black applicants for...

Jun 30, 2025 – On June 26, 2025, the National Rifle Association hosted their first virtual town hall-style meeting. Answering questions on behalf of the Association were EVP Doug Hamlin and President Bill Bachenberg.The evening meeting was presided over by NRA Editorial Director Mark A. Keefe, IV. The near-hour long question and answer session...

Jun 29, 2025 – Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was wrongfully convicted over trumped up allegations by the ATF. Journalist Lee Williams has been covering this case and the “Free Tate” petition drive has just launched.Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was wrongfully arrested, charged, and subsequently convicted of multiple felonies. It’s been reported the agents involved in the...

Jun 24, 2025 – Though it's a relatively new organization, the Second Amendment Institute has been a voice for freedom since 2016. The 501(C)3 was founded by Tyler Yzaguirre and the organization honors what it calls "Second Amendment Champions" every year. The 2025 awards ceremony was recently held in Washington, D.C. and the award...

Jun 22, 2025 – I've mentioned before that I joked with our own John Petrolino that he should move to a freer state like Illinois or Massachusetts…

Jun 23, 2025 – The National Rifle Association is working to regain the trust of members. In part of a number of reform-related efforts, EVP/CEO Dough Hamlin is hosting a town hall meeting.Over the last couple of years, major reform efforts have been underway at the NRA. Several moves were made by board and...

Jun 23, 2025 – Gun Owners of America and several other organizations filed an amicus brief on June 20, 2025. The filing with the U.S. Supreme Court supports challenging Florida’s under-21 firearm prohibitions.The case, NRA v. Glass, is the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a Florida law that prohibits those between the ages of...

Jun 22, 2025 – The Firearms Policy Coalition is leading a coalition of interest groups in addressing dangerous provisions added to the Big Beautiful Bill. The measure would make suing the government nearly impossible.FPC along with 24 other public interest organizations have sent a letter to Senators John Thune and Chuck Schumer. The letter...

Jun 19, 2025 – Knives are bearable arms, therefore they are afforded Second Amendment protections. On June 12, 2025, Governor Phil Scott, R-Vt., signed into law a repeal of the state’s switchblade knife ban.Since the 1950s, switchblade knives and other weapons associated with alleged gang activity have been scrutinized and overregulated. The 1958 Federal...

Jun 13, 2025 – ask.See, Attorney General Matt Platkin recently held a Q&A via Zoom, where he was asked a couple of questions by this guy named John … Petrolino, who happens to write for a number of places, including somewhere called Bearing Arms.Anyway, John asked Platkin a couple…

Jun 3, 2025 – Petrolino sent a letter to John H. … Bill of Rights, and the Second Amendment should not be treated like a second-class right," Petrolino wrote.That's far from the only … As both Gottlieb and Petrolino noted, this is unconstitutional, both at the federal and state levels.…

Jun 12, 2025 – On Wednesday evening, the Borough of Englishtown, New Jersey adopted a resolution that refunds much of the state's $200 permit to carry fees. Passage signifies the unconstitutionality of the fee, and rebates the municipality's portion back to applicants.In 2022, New Jersey passed a law in response to the NYSRPA v....

Jun 11, 2025 – There were four member resolutions that were raised at the 2025 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta. What were the resolutions? What’s their statuses? And, how authoritative are they?The NRAAM has come and gone. The April 24-27 exposition brought a lot of change to the Association. Between the board...

Jun 9, 2025 – People aged 18-20 have been found to be part of “the people” in multiple jurisdictions around the country, but the Garden State still prohibits young adults from exercising their Second Amendment rights. Now  pair of gun rights organizations are challenging N.J.’s under-21 arms prohibitions and well as a federal statute.The...

Jun 6, 2025 – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a group of 28 states in filing a brief. The amicus supports a challenge to Maine’s unconstitutional waiting-period law, filed in the 1st Circuit.In 2024, a waiting-period law went into effect in Maine. The law imposed a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of...

Jun 5, 2025 – A federal court found the nation’s ban on machine guns unconstitutional. Now before the 5th Circuit, several groups have filed a pair of amici in support of the lower court’s ruling.Justin Bryce Brown was convicted of being in possession of an unregistered machine gun. A federal district court found that...

Jun 4, 2025 – Massachusetts has been dealing with issues since their post-Bruen law change. Training has been a sticking point. Gun Owners’ Action League recently released an updated slide deck to help instructors.Gun Owners’ Action League is the Massachusetts National Rifle Association state affiliate club. GOAL’s training division has always been robust and...

Jun 3, 2025 – A Mexican National was sentenced to an almost six-year prison sentence for trafficking firearms. Edson Aregullin purchased over 150 firearms with the intent to smuggle them into Mexico from Georgia.According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Edson Aregullin, 47, pled guilty in 2024 to...

Jun 3, 2025 – In 2004 the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act was enacted. LEOSA grants certain privileges to LEOs. New Jersey’s Retired Police Officer program is nothing short of insult to law-abiding gun owners.The passage and enactment of LEOSA made perfect sense. The law enables qualified law enforcement officers the ability to have...

Jun 2, 2025 – Students have First Amendment rights. Firearms Policy Coalition announced that lawyers representing a student with chilled pro Second Amendment speech requested an en banc review by the Sixth Circuit Court.The case, C.S. v. McCrumb, involves a student who was banned from wearing a hat by her school that had the...

Jun 2, 2025 – Tony Simon started the Second is For Everyone Diversity Shoots over a decade ago. A Rutgers Gun Violence Research Center member attended a shoot and dished on the positive experience.Several times a month across New Jersey, Tony Simon and his volunteers from supportive organizations like the Coalition of New Jersey...

Jun 9, 2025 –  Bearing Arms contributor John Petrolino was on the press call today, and managed to stump Platkin with an astute question about…

Jun 1, 2025 – The National Rifle Association has been self-reforming. Part of getting that message out involves engaging with new audiences. It was announced the Association is now sponsoring Armed American Radio.Via a press release from the National Rifle Association, the organization announced they’ve teamed up to sponsor Mark Walters’ Armed American Radio....

May 30, 2025 – On May 29, 2025 the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 243. The bill criminalizes the possession of so-called “rapid fire activators” and creates a patchwork of sensitive locations for concealed carriers on properties controlled by governmental bodies.SB 243 pairs two distinctly different areas of firearm law; hardware bans and sensitive...

Apr 30, 2025 – The 2025 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting was a big one for the organization. After the membership meeting wrapped up–with a number of noteworthy happenings occurring there–the newly installed board met on Monday April 28. The election of officers did not go lock-step with what the nominating committee wished, and...