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Legislative Update — May/June 2023
Shucking Out Freedom in Nebraska A call for celebration brings us to the Midwest plains of the Cornhusker State. Nebraska is a state with flat, far-reaching farmland, tornadoes and now what could…
Continue Reading →Legislative Update — April 2023
Suns Out, Guns Out In Florida Why not start this off with some good news — as it might soften the blow for all of the new gun-control initiatives lawmakers have introduced for 2023’s legislative…
Continue Reading →How to Choose an Attorney
Kevin Michalowski and criminal defense attorney Tom Grieve discuss the qualities gun owners should be looking for in their self-defense lawyers. After firing your gun in self-defense, you won’t be…
Continue Reading →Legislative Update — February/March 2023
City Folk v. Country Folk: Oregon Many rural voters in Oregon discovered that the November 2022 midterm elections were far more than a vote for their state representatives. The unfortunate Measure…
Continue Reading →How Guns Played a Role in the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s evokes memories of non-violent resistance to discriminations: marches, bus boycotts and sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and businesses. While…
Continue Reading →Legislative Update — January 2023
Cash Only, Please Just when you thought cash was becoming a thing of the past, credit card companies decided to implement a de-facto gun registry. In September of last year, the International…
Continue Reading →Can a Felon Use a Gun in Self-Defense
What does the Second Amendment cover when it comes to felons protecting their lives and the lives of those they love? A viewer wrote to the USCCA explaining that he is a felon and knows he is not…
Continue Reading →Outthink Our Opponents: Challenging Gun Fallacies
There is broad consensus in the gun-rights community that the media consistently portrays guns in a biased, inaccurate and often deliberately deceptive way. That is true in news, entertainment and…
Continue Reading →Legislative Update — November/December 2022
Oregon: No. 114 and Counting “Violent crime is the story of Portland’s summer,” wrote Lucas Manfield on July 16, 2022. Lucas reports on “cops, courts and crime” for the Willamette Week in Willamette,…
Continue Reading →Mexico Sues U.S. Gun Manufacturers
*This post was originally published on August 28, 2021. Read the latest updates in the case. On August 4, Mexico filed a lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers with the U.S. District Court for the…
Continue Reading →‘Assault Weapons’ Licensing Bill Introduced in Congress
On September 19, Congressman Chris Jacobs (D-New York) introduced legislation that would require a license to own some of the most popular semi-automatic rifles, such as the AR-15 and AK-47, that…
Continue Reading →Legislative Update — October 2022
California: Major Data Leak On June 27, California Attorney General Robert Bonta announced that the California Department of Justice was releasing a 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal that listed 242,727…
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