Sep 18, 2022 – The readers of Bearing Arms are no stranger to the fact that our Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as many of the three lettered agencies that fall under the supervision thereof, has become a machine to crush political opposition and push a radical progressive agenda. Just by trending what...

Oct 6, 2022 – I’ve been following the New Jersey gun rights preservation movement for quite a long time. My first article on the Second Amendment was related to New Jersey in 2015 over at AmmoLand, and my first article here at Bearing Arms was also on the Garden State. That first article of...

Oct 4, 2022 – it was an incredible event with a lot of fantastic speakers, and special congratulations are in order to Bearing Arms contributor John … Petrolino, who was named the 2022 Gunblogger of the Year.…

Sep 30, 2022 – The Second Amendment Foundation's annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) is scheduled for October 1st and 2nd in Dallas. This year's conference is the 37th of its kind and after a 2 year hiatus of having been strictly virtual, patriots are gathering in person. Not able to make it to...

Oct 12, 2022 – Back in August, the Rutgers NJ Gun Violence Research Center released their “2022 Report on Firearms in New Jersey”. The twelve page document was not overly complicated or inflated with pseudo intellectual gobbly gook. The focus of the report were the answers delivered by the thousand plus participants who responded...

Oct 27, 2022 – There have been two cases, probably more, but two that I’ve followed over the last few years, that deal with Pennsylvania towns restricting people’s abilities to have shooting ranges on their property. There was a Second Amendment Foundation funded case, Drummond v. Robinson Township, which was settled in 2021 in...

Oct 26, 2022 – Regards, John Petrolino www.thepenpatriot.com I invite everyone to write in their sentiments too.…

Oct 25, 2022 – Our perennial friend Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of Violence Policy Center (VPC), sent out a “look at what we’re doing” e-blast recently, and I had to dig in. One of the “studies” was “States with Lower Gun Ownership and Stronger Gun Laws Have Lowest Suicide Rates”. We all know...

Oct 25, 2022 – Back in mid June I had the opportunity to listen to Adam Kraut give a speech at the San Diego County Gun Owners “gun prom”. Kraut talked about California and, forgive me if I mince words here, how important California is in the 2A fight. I did not get a...

Oct 24, 2022 – Over the past few months Cam has reported on several aspects of Oregon’s Ballot Measure 114. There’s been little outward support; actually there’s been opposition from several Democrats in leadership positions to this measure, several of Oregon’s sheriffs oppose 114, and polling shows there’s only about 51% that support the...

Oct 24, 2022 – My colleague John Petrolino is going to have a deep dive on Oregon's Measure 114 later today, but we also have some new information…

Oct 24, 2022 – A recent indictment for being a felon in possession of ammunition leaves more questions than answers. According to the ATF, 35-year-old Dartis Cobb was charged with one count of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. The lack of information given by the report caused the collection of more information,...

Oct 23, 2022 – The topic of New Jersey and bears has a bit of a contentious place in my heart. I remember seeing the lack of a bear hunt in the past, sighting a bear in New Jersey while hunting in the 90’s as a youth, which was unheard of. I also remember...

Oct 23, 2022 – Recently I discussed with Dr. Michael Anestis the “2022 Report on Firearms in New Jersey”. Anestis is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Gun violence Research Center. While chatting with Anestis he was pleased to announce to me the release of another paper he wrote that came out that...

Oct 22, 2022 – The other week I had the opportunity to chat with attorney Jay McMahon. McMahon is currently running for Attorney General in Massachusetts on the GOP ticket. I first was made aware of McMahon when he previously ran for Attorney General against Maura Healey back in 2018. A lot has changed...

Jun 28, 2021 – Author's Note: This review contains some spoilers, but not many... In the early 90's Shirley Watral was violently beaten and held captive by a former intimate partner. Decades later, Watral takes pen to paper to chronicle the experience in Heels to Holster: One woman's story of surviving an abusive relationship and...

Jun 27, 2021 – Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has run very pro Second Amendment campaigns. Looking at his record, he has cosponsored several freedom enhancing bills that remove unconstitutional provisions which infringe on the Second Amendment. However, it was not until March of this year that he actually introduced his own bill involving the...

Jun 26, 2021 – Hardly a day can go by without running into an opinion piece or article that sings praise for so-called gun control measures. CNN is not historically friendly to the Second Amendment, so finding another op-ed love letter to freedom-limiting measures came as no surprise. The piece "How 'red flag' laws could...

Jun 26, 2021 – A little over a month ago a bill was introduced in the house, H.R.3101 - RIFLE Act. The RIFLE Act was introduced by Representative Ashley Hinson [R-IA-1] on May 11, 2021 and is scaffolded to remove the tax burden imposed on those seeking the purchase of NFA regulated items. The...

Jun 24, 2021 – On August 10, 2018 Connie Wray's daughter Katie took her own life by using a firearm. Katie was a former Marine living with her husband, also a Marine, when she decided to end her life. Wray had expressed on more than one occasion her fears to her husband that Katie...

Jun 24, 2021 – There has been so much big talk from "the Big Guy", aka "the Chairman", Joe Biden on the "gun control" measures he intends on enacting. It's hard to keep track of all the hyperbole and blatant non-sense that's coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when it comes to the gun stuff....

Jun 23, 2021 – You know the drill. A high profile shooting happens. Anti-gun groups make statements based on emotions. Then more "we're doing something" legislation gets introduced. If I had to guess, if I saw the playbook of say Mom's Demand Action, they might say something specifically that tells their freedom stifling "advocates"...

Jun 23, 2021 – Sweltering heat, high humidity, and being caged like animals due to the COVID-19 pandemic is essentially what Governor Phil Murphy from New Jersey is blaming for an increase in crime. Colleague Tom Knighton, who is no stranger to heat or humidity, recently touched on the SOS that Atlantic City, NJ's...

Jun 22, 2021 – Springfield, Massachusetts is the most unsafe city in the Bay State, and ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. The city that was once the home of Dr. Seuss certainly does not reflect the idealistic writings of the celebrated children's author these days. Or is...

Jun 21, 2021 – Even though we've seen a stunning blow delivered by the anti-freedom caucus out of Colorado on Saturday, with the signing of a bill that removes firearm preemption, all is not lost in the country. The right to keep and bear arms is not just limited to firearms, but extends to...