Gun News

The Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association today filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle and Mayor Jenny Durkan over adoption of a so-called “safe storage” requirement, claiming it violates Washington State’s 35-year-old preemption statute, and is therefore unenforceable. Also named as defendants are the Seattle Police Department and Chief Carmen Best. State law prohibits cities, towns and counties or other municipalities from adopting gun regulations that ...

The Department of Justice settled a lawsuit with Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation in June, which will allow Americans access to firearm blueprints online, including designs that can be created with a 3D printer.

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously to throw out a lawsuit challenging California’s law requiring new semi-automatic handguns to microstamp identifiers on shell casings when the gun is fired. The lawsuit, NSSF v. State of California, filed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, argues that the law should be overturned because the technology to implement it does not exist. The law ...

  by Tim Pearce Activists in Wyoming are considering applying for one of 22 grizzly hunting permits to keep the license out of the hands of hunters looking to take home a trophy kill, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reports. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed Yellowstone grizzlies from the Endangered Species List in June 2017. States surrounding Yellowstone National ...

  by Molly Prince Constitutional lawyer and New York Times best-selling author Mark Smith combats David Hogg’s rhetoric in his latest book, “#Duped,” which serves as a response to the newly-minted gun-control activist and Parkland graduate’s recently released book, “#NeverAgain.” Smith exposes the left’s celebration and exploitation of students in order to advance so-called common sense gun control. “#Duped: How The ...

Shortly after filing suit in federal court to overturn New Jersey’s new ban on magazines that can hold over 10 rounds of ammunition, the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC) today filed a motion for an injunction to halt enforcement of the ban while the lawsuit is pending. “This unconstitutional law makes no one safer,” said ANJRPC executive director Scott ...

  by Molly Prince An investor confronted the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods on Wednesday at the annual shareholders meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, blasting the retailer’s recent anti-gun advocacy. David Almasi, a vice president at the National Center for Public Policy Research, attended the meeting representing the think tank’s Free Enterprise Project, according to Fox Business. Almasi accused CEO Edward Stack ...

A maker of popular finance and tax preparation software recently made changes that negatively impacted firearms consumers and gun-related businesses. Several gun-related businesses were suddenly — and without warning — disrupted in recent weeks when Intuit stopped processing credit card payments because sales were gun-related, The Post has learned. Some of the payments stopped didn’t even involve firearms, but simply ...

  by Molly Prince The National Rifle Association announced Thursday that it will challenge Oregon’s petition to ban assault weapons. Although Initiative Petition-43 has not yet been passed, the NRA released a press release disclosing the organization’s joint challenge with the Oregon Hunters Association. The petition was filed on March 22, 2018, by a Portland interfaith group, Lift Every Voice Oregon. The measure gives a ...

I had a checking, savings and credit card account at Bank of America – not anymore. Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make modern sporting rifles and Citigroup won’t service any retailer that sells “high-capacity” magazines -or- that sells firearms to anyone under 21. Democrats and the anti-gun looney left applauded the move – gun owners, ...

Dick’s Sporting Goods enacted a multitude of anti-gun policies including the hiring of several anti-gun lobbyists and those moves have caused many in the gun and hunting industry to cut ties and/or distance themselves from the troubled retailer. Last week, Springfield Armory cut ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods and because Dick’s owns the Field & Stream stores, Springfield firearms and ...

Springfield Armory, a major manufacturer of handguns and rifles, announced on Thursday that it was severing all ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods following reports that the retailer had retained three lobbyists to push Congress to restrict the Second Amendment. Dick’s Sporting Goods has now fully-abandoned hunters, firearms enthusiasts, competitive shooters and anyone else fond of their Second Amendment rights by taking their anti-gun zealotry ...

President Donald Trump will speak at an event hosted by the National Rifle Association further bolstering his strong support for the Second Amendment. President Trump’s schedule for 5/4/18 9:45 AM Depart the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews – South Lawn 9:55 AM Arrive at Joint Base Andrews 10:05 AM Depart Washington, DC, en route to Dallas, TX *_CDT_* ...

Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens, has called for “rational debate’ rather than politically motivated rhetoric” regarding the issue of gun control. “The murder of innocent children in our nation’s schools by mentally disturbed individuals cannot be tolerated. Nor should it become political campaign fodder. Yet that is exactly what is bound to happen in the next eight ...

  by Will Racke Dick’s Sporting Goods no longer sells AR-15-style rifles at any of its stores, and soon its unsold inventory of the much-vilified firearms won’t be available anywhere else. Instead of returning them to their manufacturers, Dick’s will destroy its entire stock of unsold AR-15s, the company said Monday. “We are in the process of destroying all firearms ...