Millions of Americans Are Becoming First-Time Gun Owners — And the Second Amendment Is Stronger for It
New firearm ownership data reveals a historic shift in who is exercising the right to keep and bear arms, challenging long-standing stereotypes about American gun owners. Millions of Americans are making a decision that politicians, gun-control organizations, and much of the national media cannot ignore. They’re becoming gun owners. An October 12 report from The […]
San Antonio Distillery Cancels Second Amendment Concert Days Before Show — Then Claims It Was “Bamboozled”
A South Texas distillery may be learning a hard lesson of “you go woke, you go broke.” Rebecca Creek Distillery agreed in early September to host a Gun Owners of America–Texas concert featuring Creed Fisher and special guest Brandon Herrera. It cancelled the event days before the October 16 date. The venue then claimed it […]
New Study Finds Gun Storage Mandates Ineffective, Training Makes the Difference
A new study is raising serious questions about government-mandated firearm storage laws, finding that safety training — not state storage mandates — was the strongest predictor of whether gun owners securely stored their firearms. The findings challenge a central argument behind laws requiring gun owners to store their firearms according to government-imposed standards. As NRA-ILA […]
Texas Gun Rights Members Sue ATF, Challenge Constitutionality of Federal Gun Control Act
After nearly two years of federal investigations and property seizures, Texas suppressor manufacturers Jared Gee and David Abt are taking the fight directly to Washington — challenging whether Congress has the constitutional authority to license a business operating entirely within Texas. Two Texas Gun Rights members whose suppressor business was targeted in a sweeping federal […]
Clarence Thomas: Government Does Not Grant the Right
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently put one of the most important principles in Second Amendment law into remarkably simple terms: the Constitution does not give Americans the right to keep and bear arms. It recognizes and protects a right that already existed. During an appearance with Sen. Ted Cruz on the Verdict podcast, Thomas […]
Tennessee Congressional Candidate Calls for National Gun Permit Requirement
A Tennessee congressional candidate is calling for Americans to obtain a government permit simply to own a firearm — a proposal that would take federal gun policy far beyond concealed-carry permitting. Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, a Democrat running for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th District, wrote on September 8 that he wants Congress to […]
Texas DPS Director Tells Fifth Circuit Three Carry Bans Are Unconstitutional
Freeman Martin agrees the challenged Texas carry restrictions violate the Second Amendment—but argues the plaintiffs still cannot obtain relief against him. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman Martin has told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that three Texas restrictions on carrying firearms are unconstitutional. But the laws remain on the […]
New Survey Estimates Americans Own 461 Million Firearms; Federal Data Show Nearly Identical Type Mix
William English’s 2026 National Firearms Survey estimates Americans privately own roughly 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns. A separate analysis of more than a century of federal firearms-commerce data produces an almost identical handgun-rifle-shotgun distribution. A new national firearms survey estimates that American adults privately own approximately 461 million firearms. The […]
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Ban on Direct Interstate Handgun Purchases
A divided Fifth Circuit says the Second Amendment protects the right to purchase firearms and that the federal government failed to identify a historical tradition supporting its categorical ban on direct interstate handgun sales. One of the Gun Control Act of 1968’s major restrictions on handgun purchases has been struck down by the U.S. Court […]
Watered Down Brief Defends AR-15s as Militia Arms, But Draws the Line at Machine Guns
A new Supreme Court brief makes a forceful argument for protecting AR-15s under the Second Amendment: their usefulness as militia arms is a reason for constitutional protection, not a reason to exclude them from it. But the brief also draws a controversial line. While defending semiautomatic rifles, it assumes for purposes of its argument that […]