Jul 6, 2022 – Massachusetts has always found their way into the pages of Bearing Arms with regularity, but the last week has provided a cornucopia worthy of a Plymouth Thanksgiving of things to update people on. Yesterday I reported on the guidance document issued by Attorney General, and Democratic frontrunner for Governor, Maura...

Jul 6, 2022 – What seemed like it was going to take some pulling of teeth, apparently did not take that long, at all really. Maryland has dropped their “Good and substantial reason” requirements from their permit to carry application process. The Maryland concealed carry permit, officially called the “handgun wear and carry permit”,...

Jul 5, 2022 – While it may have seemed too good to be true that the governmental bodies in New Jersey have not been standing in the way of honest law abiding citizens applying for their permits to carry, cold hard reality is coming in the way of more infringements from gun-hating Governor Phil...

Jul 5, 2022 – Massachusetts was just the subject of a piece of mine the other day because it seemed like the state officials were going to keep their heel’s dug in on how they do business in issuing permits to carry. Well, the ink hardly dried on that piece and then guidance was...

Jul 4, 2022 – It’s difficult to be impressed by anything the Biden-Harris Administration is up to these days, but in particular, this is not a law and order bunch. Biden loves to run his mouth about all the protection to society he offered up when he supported and voted for past “crime bills”,...

Jul 3, 2022 – The matter of those dirty nasty black rifles is being challenged the second time in one week in the Garden State. Cam reported about a Firearms Policy Coalition backed case, Cheeseman v. Platkin the other day, and on July 1st, the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC)...

Jul 3, 2022 – When discussing the Second Amendment, one of the conditioning exercises I’ve personally had to go through has to do with language. Many people did and or do have to be conditioned to look at so-called “gun rights” through the correct lens. Friend, fellow contributor at AmmoLand News, and author of...

Jul 2, 2022 – New York City isn’t exactly the oasis it was in the days after Rudy Giuliani cleaned it up, as a prosecutor and as mayor. Even Nanny Bloomberg managed to keep the Big Apple a habitable and visitable place. I’ve had a few recent trips into the city myself over the...

Jul 2, 2022 – The other day Cam wrote about several of the grant, vacate, remands (GVRs) the Supreme court ordered, and with those, we’ve yet to feel the full effects of what NYSRPA v. Bruen has to offer. We’re looking at just the tip of the iceberg on what both the decision and...

Jul 1, 2022 – On more than one occasion the Bay State has appeared within the pages of Bearing Arms, and honestly, they deserve it. The state that was born from “extreme tolerance”, that of hanging those who were different and thus labeled “witches”, still has a wisp of that mentality. When it comes...

Jul 19, 2022 – In 1991 anti-civil rights activist Josh Sugarmann made it his goal to completely scuttle the ability for individuals to get disqualifiers lifted from their records. Sugarmann did not like the idea that people could petition the Federal Government to have their gun rights restored if they were deemed no longer...

Jul 18, 2022 – Derek LeBlanc, founder and president of the Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation, made it his goal to educate children on firearm safety. To LeBlanc, it’s not just another check box for a youth to put on their accomplishment sheet, but rather a potentially life saving skill. The Foundation uses the catchphrase of...

Jul 17, 2022 – The first time I shot sporting clays I was about 15 or 16 and went through the course with my Remington 870 in 20 gauge. Dad and I drove the hour and forty five minutes to M&M Hunting & Sporting Clays in Pennsville, NJ, and little did I know that...

Jul 16, 2022 – I haven’t seen similar celebrations like these post NYSRPA v. Bruen rejoicings since the Ewoks tore up Endor, playing glockenspiels made of stormtrooper helmets, and danced around the un-environmentally friendly mostly plastic and electronics fueled funeral pyre. It did not take long for the jubilation to end for many of...

Jul 15, 2022 – On the side of freedom, we often talk about how language matters. The days of asking what “‘is’, ‘is’?” and such word salads need to be shattered to a million pieces and tossed to the wind. Trying to accurately report or even have a normal discourse with someone on the...

Jul 14, 2022 – It’s only been a week since I’ve reported on Massachusetts, after a flurry of correspondence between the state and Gun Owners Action League (GOAL), things quieted down a bit. The spat began with the Attorney General and RINO Governor Baker digging their heels in on the opinion in NYSRPA v....

Jul 14, 2022 – The war on America’s rifle might be coming to an end sooner than later. At least the viable war. We’ve already reported about the GVR on the Maryland case, with the Supreme Court telling the lower court they need to do a do-over on the so-called “assault weapons” prohibitions there....

Jul 11, 2022 – A traffic stop in the Garden State in 2018 led to an unlawful firearm possession charge. In New Jersey, under the Graves Act, someone a foul of the law faces imprisonment for 3-5 years minimum mandatory. The conflict revolves around window tinting on the defendant's vehicle. NJ has a law...

Jul 10, 2022 – School safety and the hardening of our institutions should be a top priority going forward in our society. Left, right, and center can argue about everything else under the sun when it comes to mitigating or stopping acts of violence directed at students in learning institutes, but a lot of...

Jul 10, 2022 – How many times do people need to hear a north-eastern official bellow on about the so-called “iron pipeline”? They love pegging the problems of their own state on other states. Or progressive Chicago politicians blaming Indiana for there own incompetency. Finger pointing at those dirty other jurisdictions that have lax...

Jul 10, 2022 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has long flirted with not really being about all civil liberties. Once in a while there were Second Amendment related causes that the ACLU got behind, but those days are long gone. Further, any support would have been in conjunction with another right, say...

Jul 28, 2022 – UPS has been in the gun world news quite a bit as of late. My colleague Lee Williams over at the Gun Writer Substack, AmmoLand News, and the Second Amendment Foundation Investigative Journalism Project just recently covered that a large number of firearm related companies have been having their accounts...

Jul 28, 2022 – The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important law that we have in the United States. Yes, with any type of regulation that either restricts or expands a class of people’s rights, there’s room for abuse, but overall, allowing the differently abled to have a fair shake is not...

Jul 27, 2022 – The other day Tom reported on a Federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a so-called “gun control” law that was passed in Superior, Colorado. The challenge was against an “assault weapons” ban, among other things, which was passed by a vehemently anti-gun city council. Such laws are...

Jul 25, 2022 – I remember calling an FFL in one of the boroughs many years ago asking questions about transferring an air gun, and the FFL went on a tear, directed at me mind you, about how they’re illegal in New York City. I was in search of answers to a pile of...