Remington, America’s oldest gun company, is reportedly headed to bankruptcy and is in talks with the Navajo Nation as to its post-Chapter 11 future. The firearms maker, with operations in several states in addition to their flagship factory in Ilion, New York, could file for bankruptcy protection from creditors within days, reported the Wall Street Journal last week. A favored…
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – An attempted home invasion and robbery is thwarted by a sister with a gun who’s quick reaction helped to save her brother. It was early Sunday morning when a Shreveport homeowner said he was working on his Jeep in his garage along with his sister when two men with guns rushed up to him shouting “where’s…
I don’t spend a lot of time with the local PTA. While I still have one kid in grade school and another now in college, I never really could sit through one of the boring PTA meetings. I respect parents who want to make the school better and I’m willing to help where I can, but my ADHD rear can’t…
This article is part of the Guns & America explainer series. You can read other entries here. Under current federal law, licensed dealers are required to run background checks on all gun purchases prior to making sales. But this law does not apply to private gun transactions between individuals either in person or online, potentially providing a “loophole” for prohibited…
By Jeff Awtrey | June 23, 2020 at 11:59 AM CDT – Updated June 23 at 12:20 PM MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (KLTV) – The Mount Pleasant ISD board has approved a plan to allow some employees to wear concealed handguns. A spokeswoman for the school said the board approved using the Guardian Plan, which is a state-approved plan which solely…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – With North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s mandate Wednesday requiring masks if you can’t social distance, it raised a lot of questions on the legality of covering your face while practicing your Second Amendment right to own a firearm. As WBTV found out, there’s a lot of confusion out there about it. Whether you’re putting holes into…
Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) and the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) have filed suit seeking a stay on the enforcement of the Universal Background Check law that goes into effect July 1st in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The law forces nearly every transfer of a firearm to require a fee and a…
Maryland State Police warned this week of delays to background checks for those purchasing firearms because of a “catastrophic hardware failure” to a state data system. The hardware failure of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has caused an interruption in the state police department’s licensing division’s ability to complete background investigations for regulated firearm purchase applications, handgun…
As Ian Fleming opined, once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. What we have here is now clearly enemy action aimed at restricting the right to keep and bear arms. The gun control industry has been suspiciously quiet over the last few months as millions of Americans have crowded gun stores, many of them buying their…
Technically, the half-dozen gun control laws signed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam don’t take effect until July 1st, but city council members in Alexandria, Virginia aren’t waiting for them to kick in before passing some local restrictions of their own. Empowered by a new law that allows cities to ban guns in government buildings and public spaces, politicians in the D.C.…
