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

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 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 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 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 – 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 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 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 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....

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 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...

Jul 8, 2025 – As I've mentioned before, I once joked to our own John Petrolino that he should move from the Garden State to a freer state, such as … the financial burden placed on New Jerseyans seeking to exercise their constitutional rights,” said NRA-ILA Executive Director, John…

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...