The local public defender’s office recently hired me to act as an expert witness in two self-defense cases. For those unfamiliar, an expert witness is an individual who has knowledge on a subject…

California has some of the strictest laws in the nation pertaining to firearms and was one of nine states that had some form of may-issue laws before the Supreme Court ruling in the Bruen case that…

Hawaii was one of nine states that had some form of may-issue laws before the Supreme Court ruling in the Bruen case that struck down a centuries-old law in New York. May-issue means applicants must…

Maryland was one of nine states that had some form of may-issue laws before the Supreme Court ruling in the Bruen case that struck down a centuries-old law in New York. May-issue means applicants…

Today, the United States House of Representatives voted on a gun-control bill, HR 1808, advancing it to the Senate where it is unlikely to pass the 60-vote threshold in the evenly divided chamber. HR…

As the political landscape grows more polarized, gun rights have become a core wedge issue used to verify the purity of candidates from the two major parties. A pro-gun Democrat is not likely to…

For the last 20 years, courts analyzing Second Amendment issues worked a two-step inquiry. The first step looked at whether the govern­ment could justify its regulation by establishing that the law…

A gun can save your life, but does it guarantee your freedom? USCCA director of content Kevin Michalowski and attorney Tom Grieve discuss what a gun can and cannot do for your rights. Diving immediately into this deep question, Michalowski says no, owning a gun does not secure your freedom.

“Independence is declared; it must be maintained.” – Sam Houston, American politician (1793–1863) Our Independence Day is a national holiday intended to celebrate America as Americans. Not as…

On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s strict “may-issue” gun law in a ruling that will impact at least six other states that also have such egregious laws in place. I could say that “gun-control advocates are up in arms,” but they hate guns.

As anti-gun politicians do their best to hammer another anti-gun bill into more anti-gun laws, there’s a ray of sunshine thanks to the SCOTUS decision on NYSRPA v. Bruen. Well, maybe that isn’t the…

As the third major ruling in a gun case since the Constitution was written, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down a 100-year-old law in New York. The law, known as “may-issue,” stipulates…