Dec 5, 2025 – New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin launched a gun-free zone registry and placard campaign in 2024. Does a letter that has surfaced prove he’s coercing favored speech though his office?A non-compulsory gun-free zone initiative was launched in March 2024, aimed mainly at businesses. It allows them to register as a...

Dec 4, 2025 – In mid-November a man allegedly attacked a suburban New Jersey mother pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller. The scenario highlights the importance of being able to self-defend even in safe communities.It was reported that the man put her in a choke-hold and then threw her to the ground. When the...

Dec 1, 2025 – There’s an experiment on the internet that’s interesting. “The Enemies Project helps ‘enemies’ discover the human being in each other.” What happened when the Second Amendment was in the spotlight?One of the things I feel we do at Bearing Arms — besides providing news and commentary — is highlight the...

Nov 29, 2025 – Bearing Arms contributor Tom Knighton got to take a ride in the Riding Shotgun With Charlie Stagecoach earlier this year. What’d Knighton and Cook discuss? It was a great conversation.Tom Knighton is the longest-running active contributor to Bearing Arms. By the time Cam showed up in 2019, Knighton already had...

Nov 27, 2025 – 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...

Nov 26, 2025 – 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...

Nov 25, 2025 – 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...

Nov 22, 2025 – 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...

Nov 20, 2025 – 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...

Nov 19, 2025 – 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...

Nov 18, 2025 – 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,...

Nov 17, 2025 – 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...

Nov 17, 2025 – 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...

Nov 15, 2025 – 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...

Nov 13, 2025 – 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...

Nov 3, 2025 – 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...

Nov 3, 2025 – 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...

Oct 30, 2025 – 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...

Oct 29, 2025 – 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...

Oct 29, 2025 – 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...

Oct 29, 2025 – 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 John … Petrolino, a New Jersey boy, not having to wonder if living in Massachusetts or Illinois would be a much freer state to exist in,…

Oct 26, 2025 – 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 John … Petrolino 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…

Oct 22, 2025 – 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...

Oct 13, 2025 – 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...

Oct 10, 2025 – 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....