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Multi-Organizational Amicus in Wolford Approaches Analogues
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/27/multi-organizational-amicus-in-wolford-approaches-analogues-n1230722
– New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts gun rights organizations teamed up as amici in the Wolford case. Their filing points out an oft-ignored fact; analogues are supposed to be close.Wolford v. Lopez is a Hawaii man’s challenge to the Aloha State’s so-called “vampire rule.” Coined by the acclaimed and celebrated Second...
Howell, New Jersey Marks 12th Town to Rebate Carry Permit Fees
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/26/howell-new-jersey-marks-12th-town-to-rebate-carry-permit-fees-n1230736
– The permit-to-carry fee nullification movement has been sweeping across the Garden State. On Tuesday November 25, Howell, N.J. passed a fee rebate resolution, making it a dozen.On June 11, 2025 a shot heard across the Garden State was fired. Englishtown, N.J. passed a first-in-the-nation resolution that stated a state’s permit-to-carry...
Radio Icon Mark Walters Nominated for a Gundie Award
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/25/radio-icon-mark-walters-nominated-for-a-gundie-award-n1230708
– The annual Gundie Awards are the people's choice awards of the Second Amendment community. Legendary radio icon Mark Walters has been nominated as a Top Voice of the Second Amendment.The celebrated and legendary radio talk show host has recently been nominated to receive a Gundie Award. Walters is the host...
First Look: Steelhead Drifter 1 Pistol Lock Box
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/22/first-look-steelhead-drifter-1-pistol-lock-box-n1230686
– I got my hands on a Steelhead Drifter 1 pistol lock box and I’m pretty excited about it. This is a first look at a box I think will deliver!With the holidays right around the corner, I wanted to tease this unit in case it would appeal to a special...
Talking GOA’s Empowered 2A With Terra Semaia
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/20/talking-goas-empowered-2a-with-terra-semaia-n1230672
– Women are one of the largest growing demographics of gun owners in the United States. Gun Owners of America’s Terra Semaia talked to Bearing Arms about the Empowered 2A program.GOA’s Empowered 2A is a women’s outreach program that believes in enabling women, rather than restricting them. Their ideology is that...
FPC & SAF File Blistering Brief Over DOJ's Attempt to Limit Pro-2A Ruling in Post Office Carry Case
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/19/fpc-saf-blistering-brief-doj-post-office-carry-case-n1230658
– A recent federal ruling stated that prohibiting carry in some United States Postal Service properties is unconstitutional. The DOJ, though, has clapped back, seeking limitations on the ruling. Now the plaintiffs have responded.Firearms Policy Coalition v. Bondi has been getting a lot of attention. The U.S. Government snapped back with...
Activist Charts Her Own Path to Open Doors to the Shooting Sports
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/18/activist-charts-her-own-path-to-open-doors-to-shooting-sports-n1230641
– Valentina Green got involved in the shooting sports and she noticed there weren’t too many folks like her participating. The instructor/activist changed that by extending opportunities to other minorities.Green, a trained firearms instructor, did not get started because she was interested in self-defense. It wasn’t fear or any other factor,...
Reasonable Person Podcast Reunites 2A Behemoths
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/17/reasonable-person-podcast-reunites-2a-behemoths-n1230619
– Podcasting is playing an important role in today’s information exchange. A new project has brought together some big personalities from the Second Amendment world and it’s worth giving a listen.In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, former podcaster and host of the Polite Society Podcast Paul Lathorp got energized...
NRA-ILA Welcomes Joe LoPorto as a State Director
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/17/nra-ila-welcomes-joe-loporto-as-a-state-director-n1230624
– Part of recent changes at the National Rifle Association include increased funding to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. The Association has brought grassroots activist Joe LoPorto into their fold.Previously reported, the NRA is undergoing a metamorphosis. In discussing the big changes to the Association, NRA President Bill Bachenberg emphasized...
Unlawful Practice in Montgomery County, Pa. Called Out in Letter to Sheriff
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/15/unlawful-p…ontgomery-county-pa-called-out-in-letter-to-sheriff-n1230607
– Pennsylvania has wrangled with the issue of preemption laws and some jurisdictions ignore the law. The Montgomery County Sheriff has been called to the carpet over unconstitutional practices concerning permitting.Sheriff Sean Kilkenny requires that license to carry applicants who are naturalized citizens produce a copy of their papers — certificate...
More on USPS Carry; Leaked Memo Confirmed Authentic
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/13/more-on-usps-carry-leaked-memo-confirmed-authentic-n1230587
– A federal judge found the prohibition on possessing firearms on some United States Postal Service properties unconstitutional. A leaked MEMO — confirmed authentic — outlines how USPS employees should deal with carriers.In October it was reported that the prohibitions on firearm possession and carry on some USPS properties was ruled...
Suit in New Jersey Attempts to Reclaim Rights of Spouse in Confiscation Case
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/03/suit-in-ne…ts-to-reclaim-rights-of-spouse-in-confiscation-case-n1230468
– The spouse of a woman that was wrongfully committed to a psychiatric facility had his firearms confiscated. Elsid Aliaj is suing Fort Lee, N.J. to get back his property.Earlier this year Aliaj’s wife was tended to at a walk-in medical facility for pregnancy-related health concerns. What was supposed to be...
Anti-Gun State Representative Beclowns Himself During Halloween Hearing
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/11/03/anti-gun-state-rep-beclowns-himself-halloween-hearing-n1230467
– On October 31, 2025, a Massachusetts joint committee met to ramrod 40+ bills through the process. Representative David Paul Linsky couldn't handle the heat and had some boo boo feels.With just over a week's notice, advocates and activists prepped for another round of garbage from the Massachusetts state legislature. It...
National Rifle Association Announces Massive Restructuring
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/30/national-rifle-association-announces-massive-restructuring-n1230440
– The National Rifle Association has undergone several changes. Under the NRA 2.0 leadership, the Association has been righting itself and they’ve announced that major changes are coming effective immediately.NRA President Bill Bachenberg has been a long-time member of the Board of Directors. Bachenberg assumed the office of president in April...
Massachusetts Hearing on Bills; Testimony Signup Mysteriously Goes Down
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/29/massachuse…ng-on-bills-testimony-signup-mysteriously-goes-down-n1230413
– On Halloween 2025, a Massachusetts joint committee will consider a pile of over 40 bills related to firearms. Mysteriously, the signup to testify went down hours before the advertised deadline.News broke the other week that the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will be hearing a package of...
Papers Please: DOJ Wants to Limit Relief in Carry Case to Only 'Identified' Members of 2A Orgs
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/29/papers-ple…limit-relief-carry-case-identified-members-2a-orgs-n1230415
– The Department of Justice is asking a federal district court to clarify a ruling; a request that would gut the court's decision that found some post office carry prohibitions to be unconstitutional.The case Firearms Policy Coalition v. Bondi is a challenge to the law that prohibits lawful carry of firearms...
Wait...Gun Rights Have a Chance in New Jersey Gubernatorial Race?
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/10/26/waitgun-rights-have-a-chance-in-new-jersey-gubernatorial-race-n1230376
– have banned them entirely.But he's on his way out, which means it's time for someone new in the governor's mansion, and as our own JohnPetrolino writes at America's 1st Freedom, the odds of gun rights coming out of this election in a decent place are better than ever.In … of a reason for her to discuss it, but it's probably because it's not as winning an issue for her as she might like to think.As John
New Jersey Governor's Race Poised to be 2A Battle
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/10/29/new-jersey-governors-race-poised-to-be-2a-battle-n1230417
– pro-gun Congress for that, so New Jersey is going to matter.It's going to matter a lot on that front.To say nothing about our own JohnPetrolino, a New Jersey boy, not having to wonder if living in Massachusetts or Illinois would be a much freer state to exist in,…
Massachusetts Lt. Governor Candidate Received Death Threats
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/22/massachusetts-lt-governor-candidate-gets-death-threats-n1230339
– Massachusetts’ gubernatorial election is in 2026. Anne Brensley, a candidate for lieutenant governor recently had death threats sent to her and it highlights the importance of being able to self-defend.Anne Brensley is currently running as a GOP candidate in the lieutenant governor race in Massachusetts. As of this time, she’s...
2026 NRA Election: Full Slate of Candidates
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/13/2026-nra-election-full-slate-of-candidates-n1230236
– The 2026 National Rifle Association Board of Directors election is ramping up. 25 candidates will be selected by the membership. We have a full slate of who’s on the ballot.Previously reported, the National Rifle Association Nominating Committee released a report recommending 30 individuals who they thought would be a good...
Knife Rights Case Oral Arguments at Ninth Circuit
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/10/knife-rights-case-oral-arguments-at-ninth-circuit-n1230224
– Knife Rights, Inc. v. Bonta challenges California’s prohibition on switchblade knives. Oral arguments were delivered on appeal in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week by attorney John Dillon.On October 8, 2025, attorney John Dillon — from the Dillon Law Group — delivered oral arguments in the U.S....
United States Postal Service Responds to Decision in Post Office Carry Case
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/09/united-states-postal-service-post-office-carry-case-n1230209
– Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, and two citizens secured an injunction concerning carry at post offices. The United States Postal Service gave Bearing Arms their comment on the ruling.Previously reported on September 30, 2025, FPC, SAF, et.al. received a favorable ruling in Firearms Policy Coalition Inc, et.al. v. Bondi....
2A Philanthropists Create Organization for New Jersey Hospital Gun Lock Drive
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/08/2a-philant…organization-for-new-jersey-hospital-gun-lock-drive-n1230188
– When philanthropist and businessman Mike Candido heard the local hospital could use gun locks, it created a cascading effect. What started as a pet project morphed into something much bigger.Candido is the president of J. Moore & Co. Mechanical Contractors and a philanthropist in North New Jersey. Over the years,...
2A Groups Seek En Banc Review of NJ 'Sensitive Place' Challenge
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/10/09/saf-seeks-en-banc-review-of-nj-sensitive-place-challenge-n1230205
– Jersey's anti-gun regulations have long been a sore spot for me, personally, and I don't even live there.When I've joked with our own JohnPetrolino that he needs to move to a freer state like Massachusetts or Illinois, and there was some truth to them being freer, at … John stays to keep up the good fight, of course, and I applaud him for that, but it's still just a sad state of affairs that there's…
CCRKBA Welcomes Rick Patterson to Board of Directors
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2025/10/07/ccrkba-welcomes-rick-patterson-to-board-of-directors-n1230167
– During the September 26 Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms meeting, firearms industry member Rick Patterson was nominated and then elected to the Board of Directors.The 2025 Gun Rights Policy Conference co-hosted by CCRKBA and the Second Amendment Foundation came and went. The day of the...
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