National Policy

There has been a lot of legal back and forth California’s new concealed handgun that law bans carrying guns in 26 new places; most public places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos, go into effect today (see the list below). Going into any business that doesn’t have a posted sign saying that [...]

In a recent response to concerns (see letter above) raised by a group of anti-gun attorneys general about the sale of ammunition to civilians, Mark Oliva, the Managing Director of Public Affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), strongly refuted the claims. In an email to GunsAmerica, Oliva asserted that the attempt to ban [...]

While many Americans saw the first week of the new year as an opportunity to work toward and achieve new goals in 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) chose instead to publicize some of the same tired propaganda constantly repackaged by gun-control groups and politicians over the past several years. Unfortunately for Newsom, his newest [...]

Like never before in our lifetimes, our personal safety, security and American freedom itself is at risk in the months ahead. This danger isn’t hidden. You don’t need to search for it in some vague anti-gun legislative agenda that has yet to materialize or in a deceptive campaign platform designed to mislead the American people [...]

NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, released the Firearm Production in the United States including the Firearm Import and Export Data 2023 Edition (reporting 2021 data) to its members. The report compiles the most up to date information based on data sourced from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF’s) Annual Firearms Manufacturing [...]

As an attorney in my professional life, and as NRA’s president in my volunteer life, I’m often asked by members about the ongoing legal fight for your right to keep and bear arms. While the landscape of this battlefield is changing almost daily, I’m pleased to report that the Second Amendment is increasingly prevailing in [...]

Gun control is not an effort to regulate firearms to promote public safety. Instead, it is a long-term project to disarm Americans and eliminate the right to self-defense. That has never been more blatant or undeniable than it is now. Even as the U.S. Supreme Court has underscored the Second Amendment’s import and scope, firearm [...]

State Sen. Terry Johnson, R-McDermott, is applauding the release of a report detailing a decrease in gun crime following the enactment of his constitutional carry legislation, Senate Bill 215. Senate Bill 215, which allows qualifying adults to carry a concealed handgun without obtaining a concealed handgun license, went into effect June 13th, 2022. Six of [...]

The number of firearms sold last year was the fourth highest on record at roughly 15,848,055, according to a National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) estimate. Only 2020, with 21 million, 2021 at 18,515,188 and 2022 (16,425,484) beat last year’s total in a record-keeping system that began when the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) [...]

A federal judge in Florida ruled it unconstitutional to bar people from possessing firearms in post offices. The judge cited a Supreme Court ruling from 2022 as precedent. Using the landmark decision from N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle dismissed part of a recent indictment of a [...]