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Earlier in the week, New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB551, which repealed the requirement for an additional local retail license to lawfully sell firearms in the Granite State. Firearms dealers are already required to have a federal firearms license (FFL), which the previous Administration was systematically turning into a trap. Numerous FFLs I know … Read more
Gov. Phil Scott today vowed to veto S.131, Burlington’s ban on firearms and a bill that would establish permanent funding and government programs for services to unhoused Vermonters. Neither bill has cleared the Legislature yet. At his weekly press conference at the Vermont State House, Scott said Burlington’s charter change banning carrying guns in bars lacks … Read more
We stand at a pivotal moment to challenge the unconstitutional restrictions of the National Firearms Act (NFA) concerning suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. Two critical bills—the Hearing Protection Act (H.R. 404) and the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act (H.R. 2395)—must be included in an upcoming budget reconciliation omnibus bill. These bills will eliminate … Read more
You’d be right to wonder why, when you’ve finally got a majority in both chambers and the Chief Executive is one of yours, you’d waste your time on a bunt when you could swing for the fences. Ironically, we’ve got that in New Hampshire and DC, but Republicans don’t seem to know what to do … Read more
My friend Vindaloo Bugaboo and I often “collaborate and amplify” each other’s posts over at the commie enclave Carbon Upfront! to ensure that 1) we are trying to make the other side THINK about what they are writing, 2) get them to “play checkers” and start thinking of ramifications of “Move 1” and the effects … Read more
In the first half-hour, Mke Rogers joins me to talk through the legal challenges being erected to prevent Donald Trump from exposing the deep state; suits, courts, states, and more. In the second half-hour, I am joined by Kimberly Morin from the Women’s Defense League. We talk gun bills in the Granite State, from dopey … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League A critical gun control hearing will take place on Friday, February 7th, at 3:15 PM in the NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Rooms 202-204 in the Legislative Office Building. The hearing will be on House Bill 159 – authorizing the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and … Read more
Urgent Action Alert: NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee Hearings on January 30th The New Hampshire House is back in session and the real fight begins There is a lot to tell you in this email alert: First, the bill that we warned you about several weeks ago is now House Bill 159 Rep. Roy and … Read more
Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation requiring police to take possession of guns from accused domestic abusers who are subject to protection orders. The Prairie State statute seeks to protect domestic violence victims but may run afoul of the due process guaranteed by the Constitution. Rising Domestic Violence In support of the new gun seizure bill, … Read more
And Some Lessons In FAFO Nowadays, with over half of the US States (29, in fact) having Constitutional Carry with just shy of 500 MILLION firearms in their private possession, you’d think that even someone with a less-than-stellar belief that stealing is wrong would start to understand that the odds aren’t in their favor. That … Read more
Whenever Republicans hold the majority in the lower chamber of the legislature, they ensure the House Rules allow for concealed carry of a firearm. Democrats repeal the rule and prohibit firearms everywhere they can, when in charge. And they try to get them banned when they are not in charge. We’ve had armed Reps on … Read more
Disregarding the fact that there is no constitutional premise on which he should have lost his rights in the first place, the Third Circuit, deciding a case vacated and remanded to them by the US Supreme Court, ruled in a 13-2 decision that “Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania man convicted of food stamp fraud nearly three … Read more
Dear Fellow Gun Rights Advocates, I’m reaching out to you with an urgent plea regarding a new legislative threat to our God-given, constitutional right to bear arms. A bill, LSR 2025-0701, similar to the recent House Bill 1711-FN, has been filed, and it’s poised to strip away our freedoms under the guise of public safety. … Read more
Armed rebels in Syria have driven their former dictator out of the country. Armed rebels. The people of Syria, not the Syrian army. So, in case anyone is still confused: Ruth Ward et Rick Ladd removenda est.
In the comments of a recent post on attempts to ban guns at polling places, a reader asked what seems like a pretty simple question: How can one ban something that is constitutional? Here’s the short answer to that: You ban it, let people bitch while they get used to it, and then move on … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court is sending a chilling message to gun owners when it comes to encounters with police: comply or die. In refusing to hear an appeal in Argueta v. Jaradi, the Supreme Court is allowing a lower court ruling to stand, which threatens to erode Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable use of force by … Read more
“Self-defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish.” That’s how the great Mercy Otis Warren put it. But this wasn’t just a philosophical view for the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. They knew an armed society was essential to preserving liberty – because they lived it firsthand. In fact, it was one … Read more
For the sake of argument, let’s agree that people inclined to ignore the law will. Let us also consider that if you want to shoot someone or a bunch of them, the best possible locations are ones where you know you’ll have a significant force advantage. It, therefore, follows that any act of government that … Read more
The 18 lives lost in Lewiston, Maine, can’t be returned, but the political arguments never die. And while we mourn any needless loss of life, the world that took it is not an accident. Some people did something to borrow from the illustrious Ilhan Omar. Deliberate legal, social, and cultural choices made over years and … Read more
A crumbling economy and porous border, or the scary project 2025 and loss of “reproductive rights”; those are the messages both parties are inundating Americans with as election day rapidly approaches. But if Republicans hope to reach the estimated 10 million gun owners not registered to vote, hunting and pro-gun organizations alike know traditional messaging … Read more