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Standing Guard | Our Fight To Save American Freedom
America is at a tipping point. Almost everywhere we look today, the principles, values and fundamental rights that guarantee our freedom are under attack.
Biden Wants to Make “Smart Guns” Mandatory (Whether They Exist or Not!)
Within the “Gun Safety” section of Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign website, Biden states that if elected he would: “Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns….”
THE FORCES AGAINST FREEDOM
A letter from Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on how New York State's political leaders have cynically weaponized their legal and regulatory powers to try to take down the NRA.
Trump Administration Fixes Policy Concerning Suppressors
Last month, the Trump Administration fixed a U.S. Department of State policy on suppressors that had kept American suppressor makers out of the international market for these hearing-safety devices.
Kamala Harris Completes Joe Biden’s Anti-Freedom Ticket
Harris, like Biden, is no friend of the Second Amendment and the freedoms it guarantees.
12,141,032 Guns Sold
From January through July of this year, Americans bought an estimated 12,141,032 guns. This is just less than the 13,199,172 likely gun sales that occurred in all of 2019.
How to Build a Home-Defense Shotgun for Less Than $550
Any way you look at it, it’s a lot of home defense firepower for the money. Place it in your bedroom where you can get to it swiftly and then rest easy knowing your family is safe.
What the NY AG’s Lawsuit is Really About
This can’t be overstated. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, which is literally calling for the dissolution of the NRA, is a blatant and political assault on American freedom.
Bloomberg-Backed Group to Pour Millions into Races in Key States
Everytown for Gun Safety plans to spend big in key battleground states.
Gun Sales Continue to Boom
Recent data shows a continued increase in background checks for firearms purchases.
Los Angeles Clippers Owner Gives Millions to Bloomberg-Backed Group
Steve Ballmer donated $7 million to Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.
Nighthawk Counselor
When you get a chance to review a Nighthawk pistol like the Counselor, you don’t say no. And so that is how I ended up testing the personal pistol of the Nighthawk’s CEO Mark Stone.
A Scary Fact Found in a Gun Survey on the Upcoming Election
Deep in a survey of likely voters is the startling fact that most people don’t realize Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, is a gun-control extremist.
Lessons In The Value Of Strong State Firearms Preemption Laws
A long with the sweeping success of the Right-to-Carry movement, strong state firearms preemption laws have been among the most important developments over the past half-century in the way average Americans own and use firearms.
Don McLean Is NRA Country
Any music fan will tell you that it’s nearly impossible to hear the song “American Pie” and not sing along. It’s hard to believe that superstar Don McLean released the song almost 50 years ago, partly inspired by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (JP Richardson) in a plane crash.
Joe Biden’s Unreasonable Gun Control Agenda – Malarkey Moderate
To borrow language from the Biden campaign, the notion that Barack Obama’s former vice president is a reasonable moderate is malarkey.
Why So Many Media Members Are Opposed to Your Freedom
You’ve probably noticed how mainstream-media outlets play up stories of firearms accidents all the time, while usually ignoring stories of citizens using guns properly to defend themselves.
Now Gun-Control Activists Want to Preach from the Pulpit?
It can be difficult to keep up with the politically correct rules these days. Can we follow the evidence wherever it leads, or may we simply reject it, as the anti-Second Amendment groups do, when it is inconvenient to our politics? Are we permitted to bring religion into politics, or must it be shunned completely?
Shooting Straight with Mark Robinson
In this hyperbolic age of Twitter memes, Instagram-polished images and one-sided mainstream media narratives, it is refreshing to know that honest outrage—sometimes a real breath of fresh air—can still rise right through the loud, partisan demagoguery of our current politics to give us Mark Robinson’s four-minute, tell-it-like-it-is speech to, of all the American forums, the Greensboro City Council in North Carolina.
Don’t Count On American Compliance With Gun Confiscation
As someone who works in Second Amendment policy, I often feel as though I have heard every bad, impractical or naïve gun-control argument that could possibly exist; in fact, it is becoming increasingly rare for me to find myself truly stunned at a statement made by a pro-gun control politician or advocacy group.