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Gun-Control Org Spent $1 Million For Firearm Ban That Could Go Down As Epic Self-Own
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) Despite massive spending in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race, the gun-control organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have left the state with far more modern semiautomatic firearms than there were prior to a short-lived ban. Pro-Second Amendment organizations filed suit after […]
Australia and New Zealand Crime Rates Higher Due to Dracconian Gun Control
By Royal A. Brown III The truth hurts these two socialist island nations. Narrative Busting: Canada and Australia Have Much Higher Violent Crime Rates Than the U.S. David Strom I admit that this surprised me too. No matter how much one distrusts media narratives, they shape our perceptions until something breaks the bubble and makes […]
The Vampire Rule Is Dead: A Briefing for Gun Owners
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Supreme Court just told five blue states that their attempt to turn licensed gun owners into supplicants, forced to beg permission before carrying on any business property, is flatly unconstitutional. In Wolford v. Lopez, decided June 25, a 6–3 Court drove a […]
Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat
By John Lott Written by John Lott Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes TPP Editors’ Takes A new poll by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) reveals that nearly 30% of general election voters now carry a firearm, with 13.2% doing so all or most of the time. This marks a 5.5% increase in carry rates […]
Supreme Court Sets Hawaii Straight on Second Amendment
By The Daily Signal This morning, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Wolford v. Lopez, an important opinion clarifying the scope of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms outside of the home. The issue before the court this time was whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Hawaii may […]
Huge Triumph for Second Amendment at SCOTUS: What This Decision Means
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that Hawaii’s law requiring licensed gun owners to obtain affirmative permission before carrying in any space open to the public (restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores) violates the Second Amendment. Justice Alito wrote the majority. The ruling doesn’t […]
SCOTUS Shoots Down Requiring Permission to Carry Handgun in Public Accommodations
By The Daily Signal The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Hawaii law banning licensed permit holders from carrying concealed handguns in public accommodations, without the property owner’s authorization, violates the Second and 14th Amendments. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in the case of Wolford v. Lopez. The ruling applies to private property open […]
SCOTUS Set to Rewrite Gun Carry Rights for 330 Million Americans: Are You Ready?
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Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat
By Royal A. Brown III Not at all surprising! Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail with her 2-year-old daughter and dog two-and-a-half years ago when a man began yelling at her and threatened to kill her dog. When the petite single mom made it […]
A Stepchild No Longer: Major SCOTUS Ruling on Gun Rights
By Neland Nobel nginx
$22 Million Gun Factory Relocates From Virginia to Georgia Over ‘Anti-Gun’ Legislation
By The Daily Signal On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents. “Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and world because we work with them, not against them,” Kemp […]
Are Jews Turning Back to Self-Defense Culture? The Context Behind this Shift
By Neland Nobel nginx
‘OPERATION SECOND AMENDMENT’: U.S. to Arm Iranian Citizens?
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) We have long called for regime change in Iran. Regime change means that the people of Iran have the right to freedom of speech. In order to accomplish this they must be armed, as we Americans are under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The […]
Trump Administration ‘Ending the Weaponization’ Against Gun Owners in 34 Rules
By The Daily Signal The Trump administration is proposing almost three dozen new rules to scale back gun regulations that proliferated during the Biden administration. The 34 rules placed in the Federal Register on Wednesday included reversing a 2024 Biden administration rule that attempted to force firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at […]
Gun Control is About Control: How We Know
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes ANALYSIS While the elite talk about “public safety” after each tragic shooting, the data shows they are ignoring several practical options for the comfort of focusing solely on disarming the law-abiding. While the media fixates on tragedy, they ignore that Americans use firearms for self-defense between 500,000 […]
The False Narrative of White Supremacists Doing Mass Public Shootings
By Crime Prevention Research Center nginx
The Global Ledger: Is American Gun Crime an Outlier?
By The Editors nginx
Enforcement or Villainy? The Actual Data Behind ICE
By The Editors nginx
EXCLUSIVE: Texas Facebook Billionaire Accused Of Violating Law To Fund Liberal Causes
By The Daily Caller A Texas philanthropist is abusing the nonprofit legal system to quietly fund Democratic priorities such as ranked-choice voting, a conservative watchdog group claims. John Arnold’s Action Now Initiative pretends to be a social welfare organization to enjoy tax-exempt status while spending heavily on campaigns, American Accountability Foundation (AAF) alleged in an IRS complaint […]
INGERSOLL: Man In A Dress Goes On School Shooting Spree, But Don’t Worry, Local Leaders Respected His Pronouns
By Geoffrey Ingersoll nginx
Pretti Should Not Have Left Home
By Bruce Bialosky nginx
DOJ Opens New 2A Civil Rights Section
By Todd Woodard nginx
Virginia’s New Democratic Trifecta Targets Taxes, Guns, and Sentencing
By Family Research Council A new wave of elected Democrats in Virginia is showing how much of a difference one election can make. In Virginia’s 2025 midterm elections, Democrats managed to sweep the state, claiming three high-ranking political positions: governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. It didn’t take long for the shift in power to […]
Gun Rights Attorney Reminds Sonia Sotomayor Hawaii Part Of United States
By Katelynn Richardson nginx
Australians Are Dramatically More Likely To Be Victims Of Violent Crime Than Americans
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Trans-Terrorist Who Killed Six at Nashville Christian School Bought Guns with Federal Grant Money
By The Geller Report Increasingly, evidence suggests that federal taxpayer dollars are being funneled—through NGOs, grants, fraud, and systemic corruption—into the hands of those destroying this country. The latest example comes from a report by the Tennessee Star, which indicates that the transgender individual who murdered six people at Covenant Christian School in Nashville in […]
Reflections on the Bondi Beach Massacre
By Neland Nobel nginx
The Bondi Beach Massacre
By Neland Nobel nginx
7-Eleven Fires an Employee for Saving Her Own Life
By Majority Report While being strangled she shoots her attacker. Then gets fired! There is a story out of Oklahoma that tells you everything about the modern corporate mind. It’s the story of a young mother, alone at night as a 7-Eleven manager, who gets strangled by a man trying to pawn off a fake hundred-dollar bill, […]
Democrats’ Favorite Talking Point About Children And Gun Deaths Is A Lie
By John R. Lott, Jr. nginx