Dec 4, 2021 – One of the things Black Friday is known for is all the sales, though this year the "low, low prices" didn't translate into big numbers. In fact, retailers overall reported a slight decline compared to last year's sales figures. But the firearm industry is bucking the trend. The National Shooting...

Dec 4, 2021 – JUSTICE KAGAN: -- because -- because that's open for -- you know, anybody can walk around  the NYU campus. MR. CLEMENT: Well, NYU doesn't have much of a campus. (Laughter.) JUSTICE KAGAN: I -- I would -- I would go back to New York, and I think you'll find that that's wrong. Similarly,...

Dec 3, 2021 – The background to background checks, known as NICS checks goes back to the 90's. When the federal system was implemented, a couple of caveats popped up in the provisions of the law. One of the things that was allowed to stay in place was a state's ability to handle the...

Dec 2, 2021 – Footage of flash-mob style looting events has been going viral. You don't have to look very far on social media to run into some video showing people destroying businesses as well as stripping the goods from those locations as if locusts descended upon the land. Normal, run of the mill...

Dec 2, 2021 – The New Jersey Education Association, the teacher’s union in New Jersey recently weighed in on the Rittenhouse verdict. I lightly covered some of that news the other week, but we're going to have to rehash that again. It seems that everyone had to weigh in on the fact that Rittenhouse...

Dec 1, 2021 – The spectrum of opinions on who may or may not be able to possess firearms is broad. One camp might say everyone has a right to arms, period. Another camp might say that no one should be able to have arms of any type, period. In between these diametrically opposite...

Nov 30, 2021 – Seeing a news story thumbnail that reads "Are current gun laws biased in favor of white people?" may make some giddy. I clicked. Oh yeah. I clicked that thumbnail like it was my job to click the ever-loving binary code outta it. Yes I did. Then I was greeted with...

Nov 30, 2021 – Reading a recent Yahoo! Finance piece entitled "A new reason to move: politics" by Rick Newman has me not completely disagreeing with him. However, I'll qualify that the situation's complicated. Newman attests that migration patterns in the United States are being tied more and more to partisan politics. He insinuates that the...

Nov 28, 2021 – The act of a "no-knock raid" is one that I personally don't really subscribe to. Sure, I understand there are some (limited) circumstances when a no-knock raid could be warranted or useful. However, I'm seeing more and more the carnage left behind when the G-men come busting into someone's home...

Nov 28, 2021 – I first read about an Oklahoma bill that's been introduced in a middle of the night forward from a contact. Kyle's Law is positioned to not only protect law abiding citizens, but it could also pave the way for a complete overhaul of our criminal justice system. Over at one...

Nov 27, 2021 – Recently colleague and fellow writer Lee "The Gun Writer" Williams wrote a piece for the Second Amendment Foundation's Investigative Journalism Project. In the piece "Huh? CNN claims there have been 641 mass shootings this year — almost two per day" Williams picks apart CNN's false claims about mass shootings. The...

Nov 27, 2021 – The gun control utopia of New Jersey can't keep itself out of our pages. It's real easy to point out their failures when there are so many. Take for example a recent case involving a dispute that resulted in an attempted murder charge. While all the details of the event...

Oct 11, 2023 – No doubt there’s been a frenzy of reporting on litigation since last year’s landmark opinion was given to us by the Supreme Court. Several things should have been already settled. Considering the grant, vacate, and remands that the high court issued in the wake of NYSRPA v. Bruen. Why are...

Oct 10, 2023 – As my colleague John Petrolino detailed earlier today, one couple managed to save their children and kill seven Hamas terrorists but…

Oct 10, 2023 – The politics and mechanics of the tragic events that are unfolding with our friends on the other side of the globe need not apply here. That is, there’s a conflict. This piece is not about their conflict, but rather, how many here view their conflict. The terror attacks in Israel are...

Oct 9, 2023 – A recent editorial over at The Trace does yeoman’s work to try to fortify arguments that are not outdated, but went previously ignored, pulling attention away from the bigger picture. There are a few issues with the reporting. For starters, the statistics. Second, and more importantly, The Trace is fixated...

Oct 8, 2023 – The Earth-shattering terrorist attacks in Israel took the globe by surprise on Saturday, October 7, 2023. It did not take long for videos and pictures of the horrors of war to get to the internet, and seeing footage of armed insurrectionists in housing areas intent on the slaughter of innocent...

Oct 26, 2023 – The morning of October 25th, 2023 had the wisps of an Indian Summer and the Philadelphia air was neither crisp nor overly warm. The oral arguments for the combined cases of Siegel v. Platkin and Koons v. Platkin were heard for a preliminary injunction in the Third Circuit Court of...

Oct 25, 2023 – Bearing Arms contributor John Petrolino was in the courtroom for the oral arguments and will have a first-hand report of his own in…

Oct 22, 2023 – About three weeks ago I reported on a survey that was being conducted by our friends over at Walk the Talk America. WTTA is an organization that seeks to bridge the gap between the firearm community and mental health community. Part of their continued service to both industries, WTTA conducted...

Oct 21, 2023 – The Nextorch TA30C One-Step Strobe Tactical flashlight makes for a good everyday carry light. That is, depending on what your needs are of course. Naturally, not every product out there is going to hit the sweet spot with every person, but this light does have a comfortable place on the...

Jan 8, 2022 – Gun ownership in the United States has been on the rise the last two years in a big way. The pages of Bearing Arms has explored this more than once. Left of center pundits might peg this rise as a one-off, or perhaps try to blame the uptick in violent crime...

Jan 20, 2022 – A recent research letter concerning suicide by firearm highlights something that most gun owners already know. The short form of what was reported is that gun owners are not going to tell health care providers that they own firearms. Okay, that's at least the conjecture that the authors of the...

Jan 20, 2022 – One thing we can't ignore, and honestly, gun owners and Second Amendment advocates have been great about being engaged on this, is the fact that the Biden-Harris administration is no friend to civil liberties. From a party that talks such a big game about the rights of the people, they...

Jan 17, 2022 – When thinking of civil liberties in the United States, it's quite easy to turn our attention towards the Bill of Rights to get a good grasp of what we've been endowed with by our creator. To the casual observer, perhaps a happy wanderer in the Union, they might talk about...