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 13, 2025 – ask.See, Attorney General Matt Platkin recently held a Q&A via Zoom, where he was asked a couple of questions by this guy named John … Petrolino, who happens to write for a number of places, including somewhere called Bearing Arms.Anyway, John asked Platkin a couple…

Jun 12, 2025 – On Wednesday evening, the Borough of Englishtown, New Jersey adopted a resolution that refunds much of the state's $200 permit to carry fees. Passage signifies the unconstitutionality of the fee, and rebates the municipality's portion back to applicants.In 2022, New Jersey passed a law in response to the NYSRPA v....

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 – 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 9, 2025 –  Bearing Arms contributor John Petrolino was on the press call today, and managed to stump Platkin with an astute question about…

Jun 6, 2025 – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a group of 28 states in filing a brief. The amicus supports a challenge to Maine’s unconstitutional waiting-period law, filed in the 1st Circuit.In 2024, a waiting-period law went into effect in Maine. The law imposed a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of...

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...

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 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 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 – 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 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 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 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....

May 30, 2025 – On May 29, 2025 the Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 243. The bill criminalizes the possession of so-called “rapid fire activators” and creates a patchwork of sensitive locations for concealed carriers on properties controlled by governmental bodies.SB 243 pairs two distinctly different areas of firearm law; hardware bans and sensitive...

Aug 8, 2023 – Some of the biggest and baddest news stories in history have been from “leakers” and “whistleblowers.” The most famous of all were so groundbreaking that they are shrouded in conspiracy theories even decades later. A colleague and friend of mine recently chided on a podcast that no one knows what...

Aug 7, 2023 – We have 27 permitless carry states. In theory, every state is “shall issue.” The states that were formerly “may issue,” prior to NYSRPA v. Bruen, we had about eight. Those same eight states are being referred to as the “Bruen states” or “Bruen response states.” Need help finding them? Look...

Aug 6, 2023 – Recently I came upon a piece highlighting the top “20 Best Gun Rights Podcasts.” Cruising the list I saw many familiar names, shows, and colleagues. I was happy to see that friend, attorney Evan Nappen’s Gun Lawyer podcast was rated as #1 on this list. While the actual aggregate of...

Aug 6, 2023 – The other day Cam had us popping the bubbly and clicking our heels over victories in Hawaii. Unfortunately with victories there’s also subversion. The celebration of Honolulu police chief issuing more firearm permits than ever can be overshadowed by some problems on the Big Island, Hawaiʻi proper. On August 4,...

Aug 5, 2023 – There are several camps of thought when it comes to advocacy and work as a Second Amendment activist. There’s one school of thought that strongly holds that any media outlets that may have a bias against the Second Amendment, can go pound sand - need not apply. One of the...

Aug 5, 2023 – The other month I reviewed a Coast flashlight after receiving a care package from the company who is based in Oregon. Among the items that I received was the Coast WPH30R 100 lumen headlamp. I had a chance to spend some time using the headlamp and want to express my...

Aug 5, 2023 – On Friday my colleague John Petrolino reported on some good news from Imperial City, California, where a proposed moratorium on gun…

Aug 4, 2023 – Back in June my colleague Cam reported on a town that put into effect a “moratorium” on the opening of new gun stores. Imperial Beach, California voted to halt the issuance of business licenses for firearm retailers for 45 days. The moratorium for 45 days had more to do with...

Aug 3, 2023 – Whenever I’m chatting with someone that keeps themselves politically disconnected and they talk about something in the “system” they don’t like, I remind them that elections have consequences. It’s an easy thing to do in New Jersey, especially how expensive everything got across the country, nevermind the special branding of...