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...

May 27, 2022 – A recent plea stemming from a 2020 act of arson helps make the case that evil will exist without the presence of a firearm. On February 24, 2020, it was alleged that Kalvinn Garcia, 25, of Sedro Woolley, Washington, engaged in a hate crime, when he lit the contents of...

May 27, 2022 – About a month ago Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) introduced a bill regulating so-called “ghost guns.” The regulation’s not a straight up prohibition, but rather sets a permissive atmosphere in the way of suing manufacturers and distributors of the parts and components that make up a “ghost gun.” The dangers of...

May 26, 2022 – My friends and colleagues over at Gun Owners Radio and San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO) have been doing tremendous work in removing infringements on the Second Amendment over there on the left coast. They went from a Peruta San Diego, where carry permits were hardly issued to anyone and...

May 26, 2022 – Starting back in February, the DC Project rolled out a series of videos about some of their members, setting the record straight, why firearm education and advocacy is so important, and the value of not coming up with legislative knee-jerk reactions. They took us on a journey that I chronicled...

May 24, 2022 – It seems as if the collective progressive anti-civil rights hive mind gets all the same messages immediately via telex, like something out of John Wick. I can hear the news wires ticking away in the dungeons of liberty-hating headquarters, where the likes of NJ politicians/political appointees, Biden-Harris troupe members, and...

May 23, 2022 – The Department of Justice (DOJ) was formed in 1870, something parroted by Attorney General Merrick Garland in recent remarks, and was assembled to protect civil liberties. The quick history has to do with Reconstruction era America and the need for seeing prosecutions over the usurpation of peoples’ rights under the...

May 22, 2022 – I often get very defensive over stock photos. Different publishing companies have different access to images that they pay for the rights to use, and it is what it is. Bearing Arms is no different. Sometimes I’m not in love with the images we’re beholden to use, but that’s life....

May 22, 2022 – Back in 2015 I remember reading a Forbes article that’s worth bringing up; “Should Guns Be Regulated Like Cars?” While this may seem like dated material, recent reporting from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) notes that there were approximately 42,915 motor vehicle fatalities in 2021, and I promise...

May 21, 2022 – Boy did we dodge a bullet when it comes to the Supreme Court of the United States. Although we all need to be braced for impact, as the tides can change quickly, the mortality of man is not endless. We can at least celebrate the fact that current Attorney General...

May 21, 2022 – The Kids S.A.F.E. Foundation (KSF) is one of those organizations that I love to follow. They’re doing such great work with getting out and about into the communities, and teaching much needed firearm safety to youths. The continued success of KSF has found them celebrating their 5th anniversary last year,...

Apr 29, 2023 – The irony of Massachusetts is that there’s extreme dichotomy in its history. On one hand, the people of the Bay State have a sordid history of hanging people that are different from the rest of the folks, branding them as witches. On the other hand, the shot that was heard...