Jan 30, 2025 – The 2025 Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Show® put on by the National Shooting Sports Foundation brought all kinds of activists and advocates to Sin City. While attending, we had a chance to catch up with Michael Cargill. Cargill was the lead plaintiff in Garland v. Cargill, a case heard and...

Feb 6, 2025 – Bearing Arms contributor John Petrolino has been documenting the many issues with New Jersey's post-Bruen carry regime for months … In fact, the disparities appear to be even worse than what Petrolino was able to document. …  Kudos to John Petrolino for his initial investigation into how New Jersey's carry permits are being issued, as well as to the…

Feb 13, 2025 – Generous partners in the firearms industry help keep organizations going. Our friends over at the Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation recently announced a new partnership. Radian Weapons, a firearms manufacturing company, recently sponsored the Foundation.The Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Oregon, is proud to announce its latest partnership...

Feb 10, 2025 – In 2022 a challenge was brought in the District of Columbia to their prohibition on carrying on the Metro. That case was filed in the district court of D.C. and according to a newly filed brief, it was dismissed due to a lack of standing. The August 9, 2024 order...

Feb 10, 2025 – The 2024 Presidential Election was monumental for many reasons. Anomalies from the 2020 election seemed to be somewhat absent. 2024 found areas that were called for Biden in 2020 to have been flipped. Pennsylvania was one such jurisdiction that flipped from blue to red. Efforts from groups like Early Vote...

Feb 10, 2025 – A lot has gone on since the landmark 2022 Bruen decision. For folks in the “hateful eight” states, they were being presented with an opportunity to actually get permits to carry. New Jersey was one such jurisdiction that was forced into compliance by the High Court and permits to carry started...

Feb 3, 2025 – While in Las Vegas for the 2025 Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Show®, attendees could bump into all kinds of “gun people.” The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the group responsible for organizing the SHOT Show, attracts a wide range of folks, beyond just those looking to make deals with suppliers/manufacturers for...

Feb 4, 2025 – The National Rifle Association has been around since the postbellum era of the Civil War. The original mission of the NRA, according to a magazine editorial written by Col. William C. Church, was to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis." In the decades since, the group has...

Feb 7, 2025 – In December we reported on a lawsuit that was filed challenging provisions of Hawaiian law that subverted the rights of certain legal aliens. The nature of the law being challenged in the Aloha State, as the complaint stated, “prohibits adults who are not citizens of the United States, nor nationals...

Feb 14, 2025 – The anti-civil liberty camp won’t ever let an opportunity to lash out go by. We can’t say that we’ve seen it all, because more and more outlandish nonsense continues to pour out of the progressive pinko think tanks. One group, Josh Sugarmann’s Violence Policy Center, took to the web the...

May 20, 2022 – Last week Tom covered the cease and desist letter that JSD Supply received from the ATF on March 12, 2022. In the letter, the ATF admonished JSD Supply, owned and operated by Jordan Vinroe, over the sales of 80% build kits, and for having the potentiality of selling the rest...

May 19, 2022 – Domestic violence, violence against women, or really, any violence is unacceptable. Oftentimes we're approached with irrational and ineffectual solutions to complex problems. There are many "feel good" measures that get introduced by the left of center members of congress, and all they're good for is political grandstanding. Senator Richard Blumenthal...

May 18, 2022 – The Gun Owners’ Action League (GOAL) is always doing some serious heavy lifting in the Commonwealth. GOAL constantly has the odds stacked against them. Massachusetts is not really known for freedom and tolerance in regards to civil liberties. Something that our short memories tend to forget concerns a few little...

May 18, 2022 – Last month Representative Chris Jacobs introduced a bill to offer further protections to gun owners. H.R.7493 - Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2022 aims to extend protections to those that claim bankruptcy and the eligibility of what items are vulnerable in the estate. The bill is outlined in...

May 17, 2022 – The First and Second Amendments to the Constitution are arguably the most important. With the latter being more important than the former. When it comes to the freedom of expression, we can go down a rabbit hole on what is or is not appropriate. I remember once talking to a...

May 16, 2022 – Editor's note- This piece by John Petrolino was written before Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, New York, but it's even more timely … Not only did that evaluation fail to find any evidence that the suspect posed a threat to himself or others, but as John details below…

May 14, 2022 – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, aka, The Murph, embraces some of the most counterintuitive and dangerous philosophies around. I reported in 2020 about the impending end of New Jersey’s bear hunt that The Murph was pushing for. Well, he ended up weaseling in his wishes. Here we are now, a...

May 14, 2022 – Many of us at Bearing Arms share similar views on things. While I can’t speak for Cam, Tom, Ranjit, et.al. directly on everything, I have heard from Cam on more than one occasion state an axiom that I too subscribe to; “There’s no one size fits all solution to gun...

May 13, 2022 – If the name Philip Rizzo rings a bell, that’s because in the last gubernatorial race, Rizzo faced off in the primaries with other GOP members; Jack Ciattarelli, Brian D. Levine, and Hirsh V. Singh. Ciattarelli ended up snagging the nomination to run against Governor Phil Murphy, however, Rizzo ran one...

May 11, 2022 – My query was as follows: From: John Petrolino To: Knab, Meghan G. … Warmest Regards, John Petrolino This fishing expedition yielded replies from two entities. … Warmest Regards, John Petrolino Shocking/not shocking that I received no further reply.…

May 30, 2022 – The Violence Policy Center (VPC) is not allowing the latest tragic event go to waste, while simultaneously taking pot shots at the National Rifle Association (NRA). VPC is the braintrust of anti-gun zealot, perhaps the Grand Wizard of hate towards firearms, Josh Sugarmann. Sugarmann, the current Executive Director, or one...

May 29, 2022 – How many defensive gun uses are there annually? We can only estimate the number of successful self-defense scenarios, and that number, on the conservative side, is about one million times a year. It’s near impossible to put our fingers on it because we’d have to analyze every single person’s thoughts...

May 29, 2022 – In what’s been a terrible period the last few weeks, several active shooter events occurred, resulting in the taking of innocent lives. The anti-gun and anti-civil liberty camp is disgustingly dancing in the blood of those we mourn the loss of. These political hacks that move in to “strike while...

May 28, 2022 – To say I disagree with the tactics of and ways that our current Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) would be an understatement. The ATF is leaving the colloquial expressions of events, and entering a more official rendering of being an agency aiming to subvert rights and murder...

May 27, 2022 – Big tech has been enjoying protections under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and to be perfectly honest, they’ve been abusing those protections. The First Amendment online, is so closely tied to the Second Amendment, in that most Second Amendment related expressions or communications are constantly vulnerable to censor...