Jan 6, 2023 – Chicago’s Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot recently addressed citizens of the Windy City and called for the celebration of alleged prosperity under her leadership. Lightfoot’s remarks came a day before New Years Eve and are, in my opinion, rather lacking. Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and her administration are highlighting some key accomplishments...

Jan 17, 2023 – The world of academia has largely ignored specific areas of study involving firearms. There’s hardly a place prospective students can turn to to study the Second Amendment, firearms, and related topics outside the realm of politics. Lawyers I’ve talked to have noted that when they attended law school, there was...

Jan 12, 2023 – We're dealing with a revolving-door justice system in the United States. Progressive jurisdictions just bounce perpetrators and predators back and forth from the back of police cars to holding cells and, all too often, back onto the street. A bill just introduced in the House of Representatives aims to require...

Jan 27, 2023 – The dust is hardly settled from the 2023 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, with me being home a full week already, and it's time to get back to work! Content creators have been pumping out material during the show and will be leaning on talking about the newest of the...

Apr 1, 2024 – So-called “suitable persons” provisions in permitting laws are verboten per several Supreme Court opinions. When an issuing authority makes a subjective decision through their own thought process rather than through objective and definable criterion, it’s unconstitutional. Back in December I wrote about a guy that was denied a carry permit...

Mar 25, 2024 – This is a difficult topic to cover. The situation is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don’t ones. I remember sitting in an English class in college many moons ago and my ultra-leftist pinko professor was talking about George W. Bush and how he stated, “Either...

Mar 26, 2024 – When disgraced Senator Bob Menendez ran into hot water again, I thought it was odd how quickly the progressives turned on him. Afterall, Menendez survived allegations of soliciting for underaged prostitution, so seeing the left turn on him over a few gold bars was strange to me. Governor Phil Murphy,...

Mar 27, 2024 – Few things pop up that are this egregious and beyond comprehension. Consider N.Y. and N.J.’s individual responses to NYSRPA v. Bruen. They all but completely abolished the practical aspects of the bare portion of the Second Amendment. Whether being pushed by the anti-civil rights governors, the progressive cabal in D.C.,...

Nov 20, 2023 – As Second Amendment supporters, we may not have heard it all, but we sure have heard a lot. And by what I'm speaking about is the bovine excrement served as rhetoric from the anti-civil liberties camp. Josh Sugarmann is about as deceptive as they come concerning verbiage used to damage...

Nov 19, 2023 – The First Amendment and Second Amendment are fine bedfellows. I often say that the ACLU should be supporting the NRA, and the NRA should be supporting the ACLU - lock-step. Well, we know that’s not how things operate, actually quite the contrary. But nonetheless, the importance of these amendments to...

Nov 17, 2023 – New Jersey has been in an awful spot for years concerning politics. The Garden State has been embroiled in political controversy after controversy. Whether we’re talking about the alleged Bridgegate from former Governor Christie's administration, former Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey’s resignation allegedly because he’s gay, or perhaps former Democratic Governor...

Apr 26, 2024 – Last month New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin made a treasure trove of information available via a “Permit to Carry Dashboard.” The dashboard is a tool that shows the number of permits to carry issued in different jurisdictions along with demographic data. The dashboard was lacking crucial data values, however, so...

May 3, 2024 – It’s difficult to appropriately set the stage when talking about New Jersey, especially since pop culture does a good job of painting the Garden State as a chemical wasteland that’s filled with the mafia. While the New Jersey of “The Sopranos” is a real thing, we can’t forget that the...

May 4, 2024 – In March I reported on N.J. Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office having released a “permit to carry dashboard.” The dashboard made publicly available a ton of great data that’s worth taking a look at. At the time, there seemed to be some missing data. I submitted an OPRA – N.J.’s...

Feb 7, 2024 – I’ve been pecking away at this series on the New York SAFE Act., for about two years, with a particular focus on the Mental Health Hygiene Law. I’ve spoken with several people who have been negatively, and wrongfully, affected by these provisions in the law, and have only scratched the...

Feb 4, 2024 – For some people (and most government agencies), the best thing to say is nothing at all, and that’s really something the ATF needs to heed. In this instance, the particular foot in their mouth comes while they try to make a celebratory Black History Month social media post. During...

Feb 1, 2024 – In the 21st Century, it seems like we need a license for everything. Government overreach is rampant, we know this at Bearing Arms. But you’ll have to forgive me while I completely destroy the fourth wall here to take some joy in one licensure measure that’s now in place. The...

Jan 31, 2024 – Early January, 2024 Cam covered a situation involving a housing authority discriminating against tenants by including a firearms ban in their lease, forcing those seeking aid from the Cortland Housing Authority in New York, to surrender their right to keep and bear arms as a condition of taking residence at...

Nov 1, 2020 – John Petrolino is a US Merchant Marine Officer, writer, author of “Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety &…

Jul 18, 2020 – John Petrolino is a US Merchant Marine Officer, writer, author of “Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety &…

Jan 28, 2024 – The other week I reported on a study that talked about the perceptions, habits, and understanding of gun laws and firearm issues in Colorado. One of the key talking points that was parroted by the alleged unbiased researchers was the importance of “safe storage.” Tom recently reported about the White...

Jan 24, 2024 – The technocratic overlords who run Meta, and whoever else is in the pocket of the U.S. government, the deep state, or otherwise affixed via Operation Mockingbird, have truly jumped the shark. The other day when I was searching for my own work here at Bearing Arms via a search engine,...

Jan 23, 2024 – A recent guilty plea at a federal court for being an “unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms” raised my eyebrows a bit. The BATFE loves to toot their own horn, and this plea the prosecutors were able to coax out of the defendant just reeks with...

Feb 18, 2021 – All these laws do are restrict the lawful gun owner and when John Q. … John Petrolino is a US Merchant Marine Officer, writer, author of “Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety &…

Feb 17, 2021 – John Petrolino is a US Merchant Marine Officer, writer, author of “Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety &…