The Los Angeles County sheriff announced on Wednesday his office plans to increase the number of gun-carry permits issued to residents by 400 percent. Sheriff Alex Villanueva (D.) said he would assign additional staff to process gun-carry permit applications in an effort to improve the sheriff department’s operations. He said the new resources could quadruple […] More
Reducing crime is an admirable goal of lawmakers and society at large. Honestly, it’s starting to become the only vision for America’s future that the left and right share. Unfortunately, the agreement ends there. While the left prefers to reduce crime by pretending it doesn’t exist or by attacking constitutional rights, the right wants to get out of […] More
Recall that it was only about two months ago when Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against fact-checkers by complaining that everyone was too fixated on politicians “being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” Well, once again, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from the Bronx has eschewed precise facts, as well as […] More
Oklahoma residents will be able to carry a firearm without obtaining a permit after Nov. 1, according to a new law signed Wednesday by Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt. From Daily Caller: His first legislation signed into law, Stitt discussed its importance in a ceremony held Wednesday after a Senate vote. “As I traveled all over the […] More
The Kentucky Senate passed a bill late last week to eliminate the state’s concealed carry permit requirement. The bill, SB 150, now heads to the Kentucky House. The NRA-ILA reports that SB 150 is sponsored by Senator Brandon Smith (R-30), and it passed the Senate by a vote of 29-8. WBKO reports that the text of SB […] More
Thirty-two Republican Senators are sponsoring national reciprocity legislation for law-abiding citizens traveling outside their home state with a concealed handgun. The legislation is titled, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). The 31 co-sponsors are John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Tom […] More
A woman identifying as a Virginia social worker took to social media Friday evening to vent about being fired from her job for being a concealed carry permit holder. Storm Durham, a former Department of Virginia Social Services employee who describes herself as a “22 year old blonde who is 5’2 and about 140 pounds […] More
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie claimed recently on NBC that 8 percent of Americans outside of New York and California have concealed carry permits. via CheckYourFact.com Massie’s figure holds up, although permits as a percentage of the adult population for all 50 states is lower at 6.6 percent. Many Republicans including President Donald Trump and Florida Governor […] More
National reciprocity for concealed carry has cleared its first major hurdle – on Wednesday afternoon the House passed the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” by a margin of 231-198. This is HUGE news for gun advocates and the NRA. From Conservative Tribune: If the bill becomes a law, concealed carry permits would function much more like […] More
The House has approved a Republican bill making it easier for gun owners to legally carry concealed weapons across state lines. The bill is the first gun legislation in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed more than 80 people. The House approved the bill Wednesday, 231-198. The bill is a top priority […] More
A brave Quiznos employee warded off three armed robbers when she used her own firearm to protect herself and her fellow employees until police arrived. According to the The Salt Lake Tribune, the incident happened Thursday at a Quiznos fast food store in Salt Lake City. The Tribune reported that one female and two male […] More
Concealed carry permits rose 215 percent between 2007 and 2015, and the murder rate dropped 14 percent during that same time period. In other words, more guns being carried for self-defense correlated with fewer murders. On May 22, Breitbart News reported that the demand for concealed carry permits witnessed its greatest surge ever between May 2016 […] More
