Gun Rights

With Violence Still Surging, These States Want to Make It Even Easier to Carry Guns

Concealed Carry

With Violence Still Surging, These States Want to Make It Even Easier to Carry Guns

Twenty years ago, only one state allowed residents to carry firearms without a license. Tennessee just became the 19th state to adopt “permitless carry.”

Chip Brownlee
Extremists Are Using Gun Rights to Attract New Recruits

Extremism

Extremists Are Using Gun Rights to Attract New Recruits

Seeking to radicalize dispirited Trump supporters, far-right groups are invoking the 2nd Amendment and spreading conspiracies about gun confiscation.

Chip Brownlee
In a Year of Racial and Political Turmoil, This Black Gun Group Is Booming

Gun Rights

In a Year of Racial and Political Turmoil, This Black Gun Group Is Booming

The National African American Gun Association was founded as a refuge from the discrimination and fear that often come with being Black and armed in America. Thousands of new members have joined its ranks in 2020.

Lakeidra Chavis and Agya K. Aning
The Brothers Behind an Extreme Gun-Rights Network That Republicans Call a Big Scam

Gun Policy

The Brothers Behind an Extreme Gun-Rights Network That Republicans Call a Big Scam

Before they instigated some of the earliest protests against COVID-19 shutdowns, the Dorr brothers honed a brand of fiery Second Amendment activism that doesn’t sway lawmakers, but keeps the donations flowing.

Brian Freskos and Alain Stephens
Sound, Fury, but No Violence as Thousands Protest New Gun Laws in Virginia

Gun Rights

Sound, Fury, but No Violence as Thousands Protest New Gun Laws in Virginia

Gun-toting protesters swarmed the scene in Richmond. But despite fears, the day was peaceful.

Will Van Sant
Second Amendment Sanctuaries, Explained

Gun Policy

Second Amendment Sanctuaries, Explained

The wave of local resolutions to defy state and federal gun laws has reached more than 400 municipalities in 20 states.

Jennifer Mascia
SCOTUS Is Hearing Its First Big Gun Case in 9 Years. Here’s How It Might Play Out.

Gun Rights

SCOTUS Is Hearing Its First Big Gun Case in 9 Years. Here’s How It Might Play Out.

A constitutional scholar explains the challenge to a New York City gun restriction — and its potential to affect the right to bear arms more broadly.

Olivia Li
Gun Rights Activist Who Tailed Parkland Kids Charged With Illegal Gun Possession

Gun Rights

Gun Rights Activist Who Tailed Parkland Kids Charged With Illegal Gun Possession

Last summer, as the teen survivors of the Parkland school shooting embarked on a nationwide bus tour in support of gun reform, a group of Second Amendment advocates followed them in an armored Humvee topped with a replica of…

Jennifer Mascia
NRA Pays Lavish Executive Perks Even as It Cuts Costs

Gun Policy

NRA Pays Lavish Executive Perks Even as It Cuts Costs

The gun group’s latest tax filings disclose a wealth of new details, including generous executive benefits amid a growing cash crunch and mysterious payments to a former official.

Mike Spies and John Cook
To Build a Case for Guns in Public, a Judge Cited Racist Antebellum Legal Precedents

Gun Rights

To Build a Case for Guns in Public, a Judge Cited Racist Antebellum Legal Precedents

A federal appeals court panel ruled this week that laws banning the open carry of firearms violate the Second Amendment. The finding in the case of Young v. State of Hawaii is surprising in that it came from judges…

Alex Yablon
Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina Used NRA-Style Rhetoric to Connect With American Conservatives

Gun Rights

Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina Used NRA-Style Rhetoric to Connect With American Conservatives

The federal indictment of the accused Kremlin spy Maria Butina lays out how the 29-year-old operative infiltrated groups like the National Rifle Association in an attempt to push U.S. politics in a more Russia-friendly direction. American conservatives and Republicans, she told an…

Alex Yablon
Meet the Teen Organizing a National Student Walkout in Support of Gun Rights

Gun Rights

Meet the Teen Organizing a National Student Walkout in Support of Gun Rights

Days after thousands of students across the country walked out in protest against gun violence, one teen activist was busy organizing another mass demonstration — this time in defense of firearms. Will Riley Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad…

Kerry Shaw
Texas’s Most Pro-Gun Lawmaker Says Church Shooting Is a Case for Permitless Carry

Concealed Carry

Texas’s Most Pro-Gun Lawmaker Says Church Shooting Is a Case for Permitless Carry

The most pro-gun lawmaker in gun-friendly Texas says Sunday’s mass shooting at a small-town church only reinforces the need to pass a bill that removes any restrictions on the carrying of firearms in the state’s public spaces. “The truth is,…

Mike Spies
Americans Worry More About Racism and Coarse Language Than Gun Control: Poll

Gun Policy

Americans Worry More About Racism and Coarse Language Than Gun Control: Poll

A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll gauging American political sentiment ahead of the impending midterm elections found that only 42 percent of respondents are “bothered a great deal” or “bothered quite a bit” by attempts to tighten gun laws. That’s…

Alex Yablon
How Charlottesville May Change the Debate Over Armed Militias and Open Carry

Gun Rights

How Charlottesville May Change the Debate Over Armed Militias and Open Carry

One prominent group has issued a 'stand down order,' saying it feared being associated with racist protesters.

Ben Hallman

Gun Rights

With Violence Still Surging, These States Want to Make It Even Easier to Carry Guns

Extremists Are Using Gun Rights to Attract New Recruits

In a Year of Racial and Political Turmoil, This Black Gun Group Is Booming

The Brothers Behind an Extreme Gun-Rights Network That Republicans Call a Big Scam

Sound, Fury, but No Violence as Thousands Protest New Gun Laws in Virginia

Second Amendment Sanctuaries, Explained

SCOTUS Is Hearing Its First Big Gun Case in 9 Years. Here’s How It Might Play Out.

Gun Rights Activist Who Tailed Parkland Kids Charged With Illegal Gun Possession

NRA Pays Lavish Executive Perks Even as It Cuts Costs

To Build a Case for Guns in Public, a Judge Cited Racist Antebellum Legal Precedents

Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina Used NRA-Style Rhetoric to Connect With American Conservatives

Meet the Teen Organizing a National Student Walkout in Support of Gun Rights

Texas’s Most Pro-Gun Lawmaker Says Church Shooting Is a Case for Permitless Carry

Americans Worry More About Racism and Coarse Language Than Gun Control: Poll

How Charlottesville May Change the Debate Over Armed Militias and Open Carry