National Policy

The NRA is pleased to announce Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed NRA-backed constitutional carry on Monday morning, making the Sunshine State the 26th in the nation where law-abiding residents do not need to pay additional fees and apply for a government permit to exercise their right to defend themselves and their families with a [...]

There can be few words in the entire English language that are as routinely abused as “safety.” Unlike some other words, which are merely stretched or twisted or pinched until they bulge, “safety” in its modern incarnation is often used to convey precisely the opposite meaning to the one that has been traditionally understood.  As [...]

As a member of the National Rifle Association of America, you know exactly how hard this organization works to maintain high firearms instruction and safety-education standards. Now, anti-gun lawmakers in some state legislatures around the country are redoubling their efforts to dismantle the Second Amendment by sponsoring legislation that removes NRA from state statutes as [...]

Legislators in North Carolina recently voted to do away with the state’s antiquated permit-to-purchase system, as well as to recognize North Carolinians’ right to self-defense while attending a church with a school attached. With the passage of S.B. 41, those in the Tarheel State will no longer need a permit just to purchase a firearm. [...]

During an April 9, 2023, interview on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) demonstrated that he thinks Florida’s newly signed constitutional carry law allows people to carry “weapons of war.” Psaki pointed out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed constitutional carry on a day when multitudes of protesters were converging [...]

On Thursday, Gov. Bill Lee (R) put forward three provisions to keep schools safe, the first of which is a budget amendment to fund an armed guard at every public school in Tennessee. Lee said, “There is no excuse to not have a guard at every school.” Read more...

President Joe Biden on Monday revived his push for a federal assault weapons ban in the aftermath of a deadly elementary school shooting. “I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapon ban. It’s about time we begin to make some progress, but there’s more to learn,” Biden said at a Small Business Administration [...]

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he's exhausted what he can do through executive action on gun control as he called on Congress to act following the nation's latest mass shooting – a massacre at a Nashville private school that killed three children and three adults. "I have gone the full extent of my executive authority, to do [...]

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) stated that the Nashville school shooter shouldn’t get a say in their identity since they killed six people. Author and Tablet Magazine columnist James Kirchick noted that the media has oddly decided to declare the Nashville shooter an exemption to their own [...]

Wyoming House Minority Whip Karlee Provenza (D) posted a meme of a grandma using an AK-47 to protect transgender people on Saturday, less than a week after a 28-year-old transgender person went into a Christian school and shot six people dead. The meme shows a grandma holding an AK-47 and the text says, “Auntie Fa [...]