Day: May 5, 2017

Rhonda Ezell was really sick. Suffering from kidney failure, lung disease and other ailments, she didn’t like to venture very far from her South Side home. But to obtain a new Chicago firearms permit to keep a gun in her home in 2010, she had to go through hours of training — and Chicago didn’t have any

President tells NRA no longer will government ‘undermine your rights and your freedoms as Americans’ President Donald Trump promised his “friends at the NRA” that he would “never, ever let you down” when he addressed them during the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Georgia Friday afternoon. The president expressed his gratitude to the NRA

Last week, the New Jersey stun gun ban was officially declared unconstitutional, by consent order between the New Jersey Second Amendment Society (represented by Alan Beck) and the New Jersey Attorney General’s office. The AG’s office had concluded “that an outright ban on the possession of electronic arms within the state … would likely not

Thanks to your overwhelming response, Big Lake High School has rightfully overturned their decision to prohibit a photo of the high school’s trap team in the yearbook. Thank you for your quick action to make sure that these excellent stewards of gun safety and sports shooting are properly recognized in their school’s history. by Minnesotta

SALEM, Ore. — Oregonians worried about a loved one committing suicide or hurting someone with a gun should have legal recourse to get firearms out of that person’s hands. At least that’s the message Oregon senators sent when they voted through a controversial gun-control bill largely along party lines Monday. Senate Bill 719, cosponsored by

A student at University of Texas at Austin stopped what could have been a very grave situation when he pulled out his concealed weapon and stopped a man stabbing students with a knife. Multiple people sustained potentially serious injuries, and one person died after the stabbing attack that seemed to target fraternity members at the

We all know that because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Few if any, however, have questioned what a poorly regulated militia is good for. As it turns out, the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club

A new study shows that over half of murders in America take place in only 2% of the counties in the country. The study, conducted by John Lott’s Crime Research Prevention Center, shows that 2% of America’s counties had 51% of the country’s murders in 2014; 5% of America’s counties had 68% of the country’s murders. According to Fox News,