National Policy

Elementary-school students in Somerset, Mass., will face new rules around discussing and gesturing weapons when they return to class next week. Read more...

In response to our short paper in Academia Letters, Bondy et. al. published much longer response in this journal. We show that the Bondy et. al. criticisms are misleading and irrelevant. We present new estimates of the effect of right-to-carry and permit-less “constitutional carry” laws on the murder rate. Read more...

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) outlined the state’s plan to require guns sold in the state be outfitted with micrcostamping technology to leave an “identifying marker” on spent shell casings. Two things: 1) The technology only applies to semiautomatic firearms, as they are the guns that eject shell casings after each shot. Therefore, [...]

NRA spokesperson Billy McLaughlin told FOX News Digital that the Biden Administration’s “pro-criminal policies drive more people to buy guns.” The NRA’s chief goal was to take on one of Vice President Kamala Harris’s social media posts in which she pushed Biden’s claim that he beat the NRA once and will do it again. Biden was [...]

Critics ripped gun control group Moms Demand Action for a social media post claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse "was not held accountable" for killing two men and injuring another with his AR-15 rifle during a Black Lives Matter riot in 2020. Read more...

The Biden administration has repeatedly prioritized policies critics argue are politicized environmental efforts which will make conservation and recreational activities on public lands more difficult.  Read more...

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd Minneapolis, it became vogue to defund police agencies nationwide, primarily in liberal-run cities. In addition to municipal police departments, school systems also jumped on the bandwagon, with some cutting their police budgets substantially, with others removing school resource officers from their campuses. Read more...

The Biden administration’s misuse of last year’s ill-conceived Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) to threatening to withhold federal funding from elementary and secondary schools for their hunting or archery programs is drawing a strong rebuke from many in Congress. Read more...

With the 2024 presidential election on the not-so-distant horizon, President Joe Biden (D) is set to make gun control a central component of his campaign. This will reportedly start with the rollout of yet another executive action from Biden, with this one set to supposedly eliminate noncommercial, private firearms sales. Read more...

Anti-freedom politicians want to price you out of your rights. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), along with more than two dozen co-sponsors, recently introduced legislation that, if passed, would impose a 1,000% excise tax on the purchase of “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines. Read more...