Jun 5, 2023 – There are a few big-time national Second Amendment organizations out there doing the heavy lifting when it comes to safeguarding our rights. The National Rifle Association is one that’s always in the limelight as the perennial boogeyman to members of the anti-civil liberties camp. Other groups such as the Second...

Jun 5, 2023 – If Supreme Court precedent has not taught us anything, the Second Amendment applies to all bearable arms. We learned that even includes arms not imagined by our founders, so naturally that means knives are a protected arm. In 1958 a law was enacted that severely limited how commerce could occur...

Jun 3, 2023 – When I first heard that Massachusetts was going to hold a series of Gun Law Listening Tour stops, I immediately thought to myself the whole thing’s got to be a sham. The Massachusetts House Judiciary Chair, Michael Day, was hosting the events all over the Bay State and at this...

Jun 2, 2023 – Last year we covered extensively a ballot initiative out of Oregon. Measure 114 was brought to voters through a citizen petition and barely grabbed the majority votes needed to enact the measure into law. There were widespread concerns with what 114 contained, even among progressives, as there were severe discretionary...

Feb 21, 2022 – I often refer to the teal wearing no nonsense women of the DC Project as super heroes, and there's good reason for that. The DC Project (DCP) is comprised of unique women from each state of the Union, all of which have their very own stories as to why the...

Mar 11, 2022 – New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs (anjrpc.org) For your reference, this is what I wrote to the Assembly on the matter: From: John … Petrolino To: Members of Assembly Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 Subject: Assembly Bill 2426 Attention Members of the Assembly … Warmest Regards, John Petrolino  …

Mar 11, 2022 – In January I covered the challenges in the race to 22 with Alabama being in queue to be the next state to go permitless, and it looks like it was pulled off. The bill, signed into law on March 10th, had steep hurdles to overcome, with law enforcement groups taking...

Mar 20, 2022 – The big tech oligarchs push a narrative and want their users/content creators to tow a certain line. I don’t know if you can identify any situations where say a big tech company just completely cancels a user because their voice is diametrically opposite to “the narrative”, and or they don’t...

Mar 17, 2022 – There are many jobs out there that are hazardous. The obvious like being a police officer, fire fighter, or working construction/around heavy machinery. Different jobs and occupations have different hazards. There’s one thing I’ve learned, you don’t have to be heading down into the coal mines to have a dangerous...

Mar 16, 2022 – The Bay State is the home of Salem. Interestingly, they had some righteous parties there, where if one did not fall into line they could find themselves falling at the end of a rope due to their witchcraft. Massachusetts has a great history of respecting the civil liberties of accused...

Mar 16, 2022 – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, more regularly identified as the ATF or AFT if you’re sleepy Joe, has started popping open bottles of vintage sparkling grape juice to celebrate 50 years of their awesomeness. This July 1st will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the...

Mar 15, 2022 – There’s a bill that’s been introduced in all but one session of congress since 2011 and it’s called the TRACE Act. On February 8, 2022, Representative Mike Quigley from Illinois re-introduced the bill; H.R.6646 - Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act. The bill has changed a little over the...

Mar 13, 2022 – A shooting at a school in Kansas that took place over a week ago had an outcome that might not fit the rubric of what the anti-freedom caucus would like to have. On one hand, to date, there has been no loss of life from this event, so that’s a...

Mar 13, 2022 – In January I reported on a bill being introduced in Virginia to repeal their switchblade knife ban and the bill was signed into law on March 11, 2022. The bill, now signed into law, lifts an archaic provision in Virginia’s weapons law prohibiting the possession of switchblade knives. The law...

Mar 12, 2022 – I don’t know too many people that would be surprised to learn that our Congress, our honest honest Congresscritters, would try to slip one past the goalie on an omnibus spending bill. Recently the Gun Owners of America (GOA) sent out an alert chronicling the serious issues they found in...

Mar 31, 2022 – Smith & Wesson, one of America’s oldest firearm manufacturers seems to be a bit on the offense as of late. With assaults from the state of New Jersey and their own home state of Massachusetts, in the way of both crappy legislation and litigation, Smith & Wesson has had their...

Mar 30, 2022 – Last week the Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) raised the alarm about a public hearing that was scheduled to discuss legislation related to the Second Amendment. The hearing, which occurred on Monday, March 28th via a Zoom session, included discussion on two bills. CCDL brought up some issues concerning these...

Mar 30, 2022 – On Tuesday March 29th, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that a special session is being called to open in April from the 19th to 22nd. The statement came when DeSantis vetoed a bill involving redistricting of the congressional map. While it’s not confirmed, DeSantis hinted at permitless carry being potentially added...

Mar 29, 2022 – Yesterday I reported on a bill that was introduced to force the ATF to stop using the electronic database illegally housing gun owners’ information. There’s another similar bill introduced earlier this month which is worth bringing up. H.R.6945 - No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights...

Mar 28, 2022 – As gun owners and Second Amendment advocates, we’ve suffered through some extreme unprecedented infringements of our rights inflicted upon us by the US Government (and more are on the way). While there has been very little ground surrendered to the anti-freedom caucus legislatively from the halls of Congress recently, we’ve...

Mar 28, 2022 – Everyone loves the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics. When they roll out every year we all jump on them and start postulating about crime proliferation throughout the country. A recent report was released by SafeWise, an online safety consulting website, and there were some interesting things brought up. The report,...

Mar 28, 2022 – Pictured (left to right) front Sarah Joy Albrecht & Genevieve Jones (Hold My Guns); rear Tony Simon (2A4E) & John Petrolino (Bearing…

Mar 27, 2022 – Recently a student of mine and reader of Bearing Arms reached out and asked me a question about permitless carry. With more and more states joining the ranks of those that don’t require any papers in order to exercise a constitutional right, the terms “permitless” and “Constitutional” get tossed around...

Mar 25, 2022 – According to one Pennsylvania attorney who specializes in Second Amendment law, it appears so, and now a major 2A organization is calling for an investigation into both the news network and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Investigative journalist John Crump, a colleague of mine over at AmmoLand News broke a story...

Mar 25, 2022 – The ATF launched a new administrative attack on the Second Amendment Thursday afternoon, this time going after certain triggers. Just under an hour after getting an open letter via email, an FFL tipster sent to me the notice they received. What’s that all about? It is or was, not really...