National Policy

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) allowed legislation banning the possession of so-called “ghost guns” to go into law Tuesday without his signature. “To allow a bill to go into law without a signature is a middle-ground approach available to the governor — in between striking it down with a veto and endorsing it with a signature,” VTdigger [...]

The National Rifle Assn., best known for advocating for gun rights under the 2nd Amendment, won an unusual 1st Amendment free-speech decision from the Supreme Court on Thursday. In a 9-0 decision, the justices agreed the NRA had a plausible free-speech claim that it had been targeted for harassment and threatened by state financial regulators in New York because of its [...]

QUANTICO, VA - A new report comprised of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) highlighting both public safety statistics and corrections outcome data has revealed that the states of Washington and Oregon have ranked as two of the most dangerous in the nation. As reported by The Post Millennial and per rankings from US [...]

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, some courts have been enforcing the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The New York Times is alarmed. Post-Bruen challenges to gun-control laws fail more often than not, but challengers are prevailing more frequently than before. [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a temporary restraining order on May 19, 2024, against the ATF’s universal background check rule. The case is State of Texas v. ATF, which was brought by Texas, Gun Owners of America (GOA), and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF).

On Thursday a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that Steven Duarte, a felon, has a “right to possess a firearm for self-defense.” Courthouse News Service noted Duarte has five felony convictions and was a member of a street gang in Los Angeles.

Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall In 2023, New Orleans had the third highest per capita murder rate in the country according to the FBI. Last week, New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick claimed that the city can lower this rate by creating a“firearm-free” zone encompassing the French Quarter and beyond. Kirkpatrick is particularly concerned about the dangers of Louisiana’s new [...]

The American news media has been working overtime to convince people that violent crime is dramatically falling. Here are typical headlines from ABC News and NPR. “US stats show violent crime dramatically falling, so why is there a rising clash with perception? ‘I don’t believe the statistics,'”‘ said Auriol Sonia Morris, a Trump supporter.” Bill [...]

The U.S. employs two distinct measures of crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting program counts the number of crimes reported to police annually. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in its National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), asks 240,000 people a year whether they have been victims of a crime. The two measures have [...]

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing Biden’s ATF over the new rule requiring background checks on private gun sales. Breitbart News reported the ATF’s announcement of the proposed rule on August 31, 2023. The rule redefines what it means to be “engaged in the [...]