National Policy

A bill introduced Friday by California Assembly Member Mike Gipson (D) would force insurance companies to provide lawmakers with an annual report highlighting homeowners with guns in their residence. The bill, AB 3067, says: “This bill would require an insurer, by January 1, 2026, to include questions on an application for homeowners’ or renters’ insurance seeking [...]

As part of a campaign launched by March for Our Lives and Change the Ref, lawmakers are receiving pleas for gun control via the AI-generated voices of people killed in shootings. CNN reported that one of the AI-generated voices is that of Joaquin Oliver, a student killed in the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting. [...]

It was a “The Pigs are Flying” moment after The Washington Post, the newspaper that has never found a gun control policy it did not fawn over, took up a gun control claim the Biden administration loves to repeat and determined it to be false. To be clear, Glenn Kessler’s The Fact Checker couldn’t bring [...]

A Harvard professor whose research went against the preferred, politically correct narrative of rogue cops gunning down minorities in the streets was forced to hire armed security guards when he went out in public, Fox News reports. In an interview with Bari Weiss of  The Free Press, Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics professor, discussed the [...]

Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) is pushing legislation that could prevent churches around the country from using a “security services unit” comprised of concealed carriers in congregations, parishes, etc. The bill is the Preventing Private Military Act of 2024, and it is co-sponsored by Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA). Read more...

Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are implementing a special merchant code to track gun and gun-related purchases in California. CBS News reported that the new merchant code will be used to comply with a “California law that will allow banks to potentially track suspicious gun purchases and report them to law enforcement.” Read more...

(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling that would prevent it from regulating privately made firearms called "ghost guns" that are difficult for law enforcement to trace. The U.S. Department of Justice in its petition argued the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnett v. Raoul, to consider the Constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on over 1,000 models of firearms including Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) and standard-capacity magazines. NSSF argues that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in its judgment upholding [...]

We may want to rethink our traditional assessment of older individuals as being safe from violent and property crimes. Those in the 50-65 and above groups have disturbingly high numbers. Rates doubled for serious violent crimes for those aged 50 and above. Are older individuals being targeted by criminal offenders? Read more...

New York City is locking up more teenagers and keeping them longer behind bars, according to an early report card of Mayor Eric Adams’ second full year in office. The number of young people held every day in the city’s youth facilities surged 31% over the past year to, on average, 260 detainees, last week’s preliminary Mayor’s Management [...]