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Bulletin
“When you lose resources, you lose members, and when you lose members, you lose resources.”
Gun Rights
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s unsupported evidence about the number of high-capacity magazines in the U.S. has been introduced in cases that could have major implications for gun restrictions nationwide.
Concealed Carry
A bold move to curtail gun violence in Albuquerque has gotten a lot of attention, but less controversial solutions hold more promise.
Bang for the Buck
No stranger to legal disputes, the National Rifle Association is still fighting with Ackerman McQueen.
Ask The Trace
Though federal legislation to strengthen requirements hasn’t passed, many individual states have plugged some of the gaps.
Gun Policy
Since the 1990s, John Lott has provided the empirical justification for looser firearms laws. Do his claims stand up to scrutiny?
After national tensions turned local, the militias never left the small Wisconsin city.
Culture
A new survey finds that support for strengthening gun laws and protecting the Second Amendment aren’t mutually exclusive.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision striking down New York’s concealed carry law, the City Council is exploring one option: a law that would declare any area with more than 10,000 people per square mile a “sensitive location.”
In striking down New York’s “good cause” permitting law, the justices set a precedent that may imperil licensing regimes in at least five other states.
BRIC TV profiles several Black firearms clubs and gun owners in New York, in the third installment of a series with The Trace.
Twenty years ago, only one state allowed residents to carry firearms without a license. Tennessee just became the 19th state to adopt “permitless carry.”
Extremism
Seeking to radicalize dispirited Trump supporters, far-right groups are invoking the 2nd Amendment and spreading conspiracies about gun confiscation.
Chicago
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.
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.
