Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has been hard at work embracing and promoting the far-left gun control policies of Kamala Harris, his partner on the Democrat ticket for president.
NRA-ILA secured a significant victory today, as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined enforcement of the ATF’s “Pistol Brace Rule” in Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Inc. v. Garland.
On August 8, the State Fair of Texas announced that it is changing its weapons policy to prohibit attendees from exercising their Right-to-Carry at the event.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has been hard at work embracing and promoting the far-left gun control policies of Kamala Harris, his partner on the Democrat ticket for president.
NRA-ILA secured a significant victory today, as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined enforcement of the ATF’s “Pistol Brace Rule” in Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Inc. v. Garland.
On August 8, the State Fair of Texas announced that it is changing its weapons policy to prohibit attendees from exercising their Right-to-Carry at the event.
I’m really starting to have concerns about Abbott, I’ve liked and voted for him. Really questioning his motives now. 1st the whole border crisis, I have personally been effected along with my small town and surrounding ranchers I work for. Took him too long to close/secure it while it’s in his right to do so. 2nd he supported and endorsed tony Gonzalez dis 23. Tony’s voting record matched AOCs to a T less 1 time she voted not to send more money to Ukraine. These are the folks we need to vote out. Plus tony only won by 400 votes against Brandon Herrera who’s a gun tuber but a 2nd amendment advocate. Something isn’t what it seems. God Bless Texas.
We talked last week about one of the problems newly-minted VP candidate Tim Walz (D) had been facing. Whether it is considered “stolen valor” for Walz to have implied he served in an active combat zone when he did not is a hotly debated topic these days. Our problem with Walz, though, is the idea that he is any sort of an expert to be listened to when determining what firearms the government should prohibit law-abiding citizens from owning.
The legacy media has mostly given up the pretense of carrying out its once-professed mission – holding power to account. At this point, no reasonable person expects the regime press to cover legitimate news that might reflect poorly on their political allies. Still, conspicuous ignorance is one thing, distortion is another.
Americans are deeply divided on many issues these days. But a recent poll conducted by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, WI, revealed at least one area of broad agreement: A supermajority in the U.S. supports a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The poll questioned 1,005 adults nationwide from July 24 to Aug. 1, 2024, and has a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.
On August 16, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation filed an amicus brief supporting a challenge to Massachusetts’s carry restrictions for nonresidents. The brief argues that Massachusetts’s nonresident licensing scheme violates the Second Amendment because it is overly burdensome and unsupported by a historical tradition of regulation. Throughout American history, nonresidents were never subject to greater restrictions than residents. When nonresidents were treated differently, it was always to provide them greater carry protections. But Massachusetts’s licensing regime is significantly more burdensome for nonresidents than residents, often requiring multiple trips to the Commonwealth—in addition to other burdensome requirements—to acquire a nonresident carry license that is valid for only one year.
We previously reported to you on the announcement of a new policy banning License To Carry holders from possessing firearms at the Texas State Fair, property which is owned by the City of Dallas but contracted out to a nonprofit entity (the State Fair of Texas) to run the annual event in the fall. Today, Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the city, directing it to end this policy, which violates state law prohibiting restrictions on the carrying of firearms on property owned or leased by a governmental entity unless those premises are specifically enumerated as prohibited locations under Texas Penal Code Section 46.03 (note that the Texas State Fair does not meet the criteria for an "amusement park", which is one of the prohibited locations in 46.03.) Paxton also warned the city that unless the wrongful exclusion of LTC holders is corrected within 15 days, he will file suit to seek injunctive relief and civil penalties under Texas Government Code Section 411.209. NRA-ILA thanks General Paxton for taking swift and decisive action to enforce state law and protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Texans!
Yesterday, NRA joined an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in Lackey v. Stinnie to prevent governments that violate constitutional rights from avoiding attorney fee awards by strategically mooting a case before final judgment.
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On August 20, NRA filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge to the ATF’s Final Rule that redefines the Gun Control Act of 1968’s definition of “firearm” to include precursors of frames or receivers and weapon parts kits.
Today, the en banc Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License (HQL) requirement in Maryland Shall Issue v. Moore, an NRA-supported case.
A district court in Kansas has ruled that the federal law prohibiting the possession of “machineguns” failed the test set out in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen (2022).
Singer-songwriter John Rich is one of the most well-known voices in country music, having begun his career with the band Lonestar and then joining Big Kenny to form Big & Rich.
Long before the United States Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen (2022), a federal appellate court relied on the right to bear arms for self-defense to invalidate an Illinois law that generally prohibited the carrying of guns in public.
During the September 10 presidential debate, President Donald Trump correctly highlighted Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s support for gun confiscation. A visibly defensive Harris claimed, “We're not taking anybody's guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”
Now deep into her second national campaign, you would think we would have a clear message from Vice President Kamala Harris on where she stands on guns and the Second Amendment.
A 2023 Pew Research Center poll on gun ownership and public safety in America indicated that the overwhelming majority of Democrat and Democratic-leaning adults (86%) felt the nation’s gun laws should be even more strict.
Kamala Harris is the most anti-gun candidate who has ever been as close as she is to becoming president, even if she has been less than forthcoming on her specific views on firearms and the Second Amendment.
Vice President and Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has, in the past, been forthcoming about her support of gun confiscation and mandatory “buybacks” (here and here), and there’s little reason to believe that she has changed her values.
On September 24, NRA and the Firearms Policy Coalition filed an amicus brief in United States v. Duarte, a challenge to the federal lifetime prohibition on firearms possession by nonviolent felons.
This Executive Order is just one more attempt by the Biden-Harris Administration to deflect attention from their soft-on-crime policies that have emboldened criminals in our country. The orders are notably heavy on election-year rhetoric and light on substance. It's no secret that Americans don't feel safe under the Biden-Harris Administration, as evidenced by the record number of firearms being purchased for the defense of self and family.
Today, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced that President Donald J. Trump will serve as the special guest keynote speaker at the NRA’s “Defend the 2nd” event in Savannah, GA, on Tuesday, October 22nd.
As NRA-ILA noted last week, President Joe Biden has signed an executive order creating a “task force” bent on “combatting emerging firearm threats,” that purports to target “machinegun conversion devices and unserialized, 3D-printed firearms.”
On September 26, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington denied an NRA-backed request for a preliminary injunction against Washington State’s “assault weapon” ban.
On September 27, the plaintiffs in Maryland Shall Issue v. Moore petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License requirement.
This week, your Texas NRA-PVF team hosted numerous events, stretching from Harlingen to San Antonio, to promote our Second Amendment efforts and to highlight specific Texas House candidates who stand with us
In a lame attempt to run away from her radical anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment record, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has spent the last several weeks claiming that she is a gun owner.
Over the past several months, Youngsville Gun Club has partnered with your North Carolina NRA-ILA Grassroots Team and has been working tirelessly on Second Amendment activism ahead of the critically important upcoming elections.
During the September 10 debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, ABC News moderator David Muir purported to “fact-check” Trump’s statement that “crime in this country is through the roof,” with the contradiction that “the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
At a town hall event on October 21 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Democrat presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was asked how she would make “impactful and immediate progress around gun violence” if she was elected with a Republican majority in Congress.
Through a wide range of GOTV efforts, NRA is working overtime to ensure candidates who support our gun rights are elected from state houses to the White House.
On Friday, NRA-ILA and other sportsmen’s groups filed a formal protest against the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to close recreational shooting access to 1.3 million acres in the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.
While less prominent than the red sweep of the nation’s electoral map and the triumph of President Donald Trump, another telling development following the 2024 elections was the number of Californians in ultra-progressive strongholds who showed that they had had enough, finally, of the far left’s worse-than-useless criminal justice agenda and the havoc it wreaks on public safety.
Just a few short weeks ago, we wrote about Michael Bloomberg’s controversy-dogged gun control organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), and how another high-ranking member of the group had been indicted for allegedly committing serious crimes: bribery, campaign finance, and conspiracy felonies.
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois struck down provisions of the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) that prohibit “assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines” in an NRA-supported case, Barnett v. Raoul.
Today, NRA filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington in a challenge to Washington’s prohibition on magazines that hold over 10 rounds.
The North Carolina NRA-ILA Grassroots Team recently held an NRA “Day of Action” event to coincide with the start of early voting in the Tarheel State, and to encourage our Second Amendment community to “Get Out and Vote”!
In October, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) broke the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had stealth-revised its reported violent crime data for 2022 to show a 4.5% increase, rather than the originally reported 2.1% decrease, for that year.
Today, the NRA, Firearms Policy Coalition, and two individuals filed a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s prohibition on concealed carry by adults under 21.
Your Texas NRA-ILA Team recently attended, and competed in, the National Sporting Clays Championship at The National Shooting Complex, in San Antonio, Texas!
NRA-ILA routinely points out that it is more informative to watch anti-gun politicians and officials’ behavior than to listen to the platitudes they spew about enacting gun control to protect the public.
On December 5, at a late afternoon press conference in Ottawa, Canada’s federal Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that 324 additional makes and variants of rifles would be added to the 2020 list of over 1,500 so-called “assault-style firearms,” being semiautomatic guns that Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his officials had dramatically and disingenuously described as “military grade assault weapons.”
The plague of businesses and even individuals being exiled from the modern economy by politically motivated regulators is back in the news, thanks largely to a recent segment on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in which a guest highlighted the ongoing scandal.
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) today announced the successful conclusion of a multi-year legal battle with New York Attorney General Letitia James.
As critiques from news commentators and political analysts about what went wrong with Kamala Harris’ campaign subside, one clear fact emerged from the election – candidates who champion the rights of law-abiding gun owners and support the Second Amendment were swept into office.
Last week, the anti-gun attorneys general of Minnesota and New Jersey filed nearly simultaneous lawsuits against firearm maker Glock, essentially claiming the company was violating the laws of those states by making guns that are too easy to illegally modify.
Predictably, gun control activists are citing the cold-blooded Manhattan murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson to call for more gun control, particularly in the hot-button areas of “ghost guns” and “3D printed firearms.”
