President Biden’s Fantasy Gun Control Agenda
[…] uttering nonsense about the Second Amendment. President Joe Biden spoke to a collection of political donors as he’s gearing up his 2024 re-election campaign and used his gun control grindstone to churn out well-worn and discredited Second Amendment tropes. The problem is – it’s all malarky. No kidding, man. President Joe Biden might just […]
NSSF Files Amicus Brief for Challenge to Colorado’s Age-Based Gun Ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that challenges Colorado’s age-based gun ban. Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis signed a law last year that denies Second Amendment rights to adults under the age of 21, unconstitutionally denying their right to […]
What You Didn’t Hear in the State of the Union Speech About Cratering Gun Control Support
[…] in the past. He called it an “assault weapon.” It’s not. The MSR is a semiautomatic rifle that operates the same way as popular duck hunting shot guns and semiautomatic handguns used every day for personal protection. One cartridge is expended each time the trigger is pressed. That’s just one of President Biden’s favorite […]
Discover Becomes First Gun-Store Tracking Credit Card
[…] was the brainchild of Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times columnist who proposed that credit card companies and banks could play a pivotal role in ushering gun control outside of public policy channels. ‘Woke’ Banking Gone Wild That idea of sidestepping Congress and state legislatures to have nameless and unaccountable Wall Street banking […]
Supreme Court’s Fisherman Case Could Upend Executive Gun Control Overreach
This is a fish story that could have seismic impacts for the way the federal government generates gun control regulations. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases – both challenging a National Marine Fisheries Service rule that requires commercial fishing boats to pay for government monitors that keep watch over crews for […]
‘Pause’ on Credit Card Tracking Code Welcomed but Firearm Industry Keeping Watchful Eye
Second Amendment supporters and law-abiding gun owners can breathe a sigh of relief. For now, at least. The four major credit card companies – American Express, VISA, Mastercard and Discover – all announced they were “pausing” efforts to implement a newly-created Merchant Category Code (MCC) to track gun store purchases. NSSF worked diligently with […]
Following Latest Tragic Murders Gun Industry Remains Dedicated to Real Solutions®
[…] room for agreement. Disagreement That encouragement that the Senate can agree on these issues is boosted by the rejection of the knee-jerk and partisan calls for unconstitutional gun control measures. President Joe Biden used his national address from The White House to push for bans on commonly-owned Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs), magazine capacity restrictions, […]
SCOTUS Decision Sweeps Away Lower Courts ‘Interest-Weighing’ Tests on Guns
[…] the Supreme Court told the lower courts to cut it out. That’s significant, since it was a practice adopted by lower courts to seemingly always justify keeping gun control laws in place that ranged from subjective “may issue” concealed carry permitting laws to bans on entire classes of commonly-owned firearms and standard-capacity magazines. The […]
Maryland Lawmakers Want Sci-Fi Technology to Track Your Guns in Real Time
[…] needs to figure out what in the wide world of dystopian Buck Rogers in the 25th Century sci-fi fantasy world is going on in Maryland’s legislature. Anti gun lawmakers there are advancing legislation that would require firearm manufacturers to attach RFID trackers to each and every firearm so government officials could track their whereabouts […]
NSSF Criticizes DOJ Deal for Hunter Biden’s Gun Crimes
[…] terminating livelihoods for minor clerical errors with its “zero-tolerance” policy. The Biden administration and the Attorney General Merrick Garland-led DOJ are more interested in appealing to special-interest gun control donors than they are concerned with upholding the law. This agreement fuels Americans’ concerns that the Biden administration supports two systems of justice – one […]