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Dettelbach Confirmed as the Next ATF Director
This morning, the U.S. Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Steve Dettelbach by a vote of 48-46. Mere hours later, the confirmation vote sneaked by confirming Dettelbach to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). This marks the...
RMGO Sues Town of Superior Over New Gun Control Laws
The Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is suing the town of Superior over new gun control laws that ban semi-automatic rifles, arguing last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision gave gun rights groups munition to dismantle "unconstitutional" gun restrictions....
San Jose’s Gun Insurance Law Delayed Due to NAGR Litigation
San Jose’s first-in-the-nation gun insurance mandate was supposed to go into effect this fall, but with three pending lawsuits questioning the law’s constitutionality, city officials now expect the controversial ordinance to be delayed until at least 2023. But shortly...
NAGR Tells California to Ditch “May Issue” Permit Scheme
"Attorney General Bonta lays out an entire laundry list of non-relevant characteristics such as ‘fiscal stability’ that he suggests local officials review before deciding whether an applicant is ‘moral’ enough to get a permit, including checking an applicant’s social...
Implementation of Constitutional Carry a big win for HGR and NAGR
The National Association for Gun Rights and Hoosier Gun Rights are celebrating the implementation of Indiana's new Constitutional Carry law, which ensures residents no longer need a permit to carry a handgun. Will Fite, Director of Legislation for Hoosier Gun Rights,...
SUPREME COURT REVERSES LOWER COURT RULINGS ON 2ND AMENDMENT
The Supreme Court, in the wake of the landmark NY v. Bruen case, has issued notice to lower courts that their recent rulings on 2nd Amendment cases are wrong, and need to be re-evaluated. This pushes the last valid ruling down to the District Court level, when in...
John Cornyn Faces Backlash After Work on Gun Control Bill
John Cornyn is facing backlash from his own Republican party for being a lead negotiator on the newly-passed gun control bill. At the Texas annual Republican convention recently held in Houston, Cornyn was booed and heckled – a visible sign he is losing support from...
NFGR Vows to Restore Right to Carry After Supreme Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York's concealed-carry gun licensing law that required citizens to provide a "special need" for self-defense. Hannah Hill, Research and Policy Director for the National Foundation for Gun Rights -- the legal arm of the National...
What’s in the Cornyn-Murphy Senate gun control deal?
National Association for Gun Rights Position: OPPOSE Click here to download as PDF. BANS gun possession based on juvenile records for all gun owners. This is retroactive, so if a gun owner committed a disqualifying crime at age 16 and he’s now 45, he would lose his...
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn Booed for Supporting “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation
This afternoon, U.S. Senator John Cornyn faced Republican Party of Texas convention delegates for the first time since leading the Republican compromise for gun control “framework” in Washington, D.C. Chants of “No Red Flags” could be heard throughout the George R....
Biden Administration Moves to Cut Off 5.56/.223 Supply to Americans
Insiders close to the Biden Administration are reporting that the President is more than "considering" the move to no longer sell 5.56/.223 ammunition manufactured at the Lake City plant to civilians. This would affect as much as 30% of the commercial market's sales...
Support for a Ban on So-Called “Assault Weapons” Reaches All-Time Low
According to Fox News, a newly-released Quinnipiac University poll published on June 1st, a record low of registered voters claim to support a nationwide ban on semi-automatic long guns. Despite Joe Biden and the Democrats constant rhetoric to implement gun control,...
Watch Live: U.S. House Judiciary Committee Takes up Massive Gun Control Package!
The assault on your gun rights is underway right now. Under the leadership of notoriously anti-gun Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10), Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are moving to FastTrack an enormous gun control package through Congress. Watch...
From Concealed Carry to Eliminating Permits, Gun Restrictions Have Loosened Since Sandy Hook
“At the state level, there’s been a real push to restore rights,” said Christopher Stone, communications director for the National Association for Gun Rights, which was founded in 2000, and has pushed for pro-gun laws including permitless carry. “Our goal is to be...
The NRA has weakened. But gun rights drive the GOP more than ever.
“The NRA is not doing anything around the country anywhere; all their staff lawyered up and are fighting amongst each other,” said Dudley Brown, a gun rights lobbyist who has long criticized the NRA for being too open to compromise. Brown’s rival group, the National...
Thomas Massie Proposes Bill To Repeal ‘Gun-Free School Zones Act’
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) advocated for his Safe Students Act -- a piece of legislation that would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. "The 'Safe Students Act' would make it easier for state and local governments and school boards to unambiguously set their...
NFGR Prepares Lawsuit Against San Jose Over Gun Control Ordinance
You probably saw the news coverage of this -- the ultra-“woke” Lefty gun grabbers in San Jose want to make gun owners pay a “gun ownership tax.” In other words, they want to tax law-abiding gun owners simply for exercising their Second Amendment rights. This is just...
Biden Pledges Fealty to the UN Gun Control Agenda
Last week, the National Association for Gun Rights warned law-abiding gun owners about troubling statements made by a senior U.S. State Department official during the most important Small Arms Treaty meeting of the year -- the Seventh Conference of States Parties to...
UN “Small Arms Treaty” Status Update
The Seventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty wrapped up last week in Geneva Switzerland. Deputy Director for Conventional Arms Threat Reduction in the Department of State, William Malzahn, relayed the interests of the Biden Administration in the...
Texas Constitutional Carry Fight Won by Refusing to Compromise
After nearly a decade-long fight, the members and supporters of the National Association for Gun Rights and its state-affiliate, Texas Gun Rights, succeeded in pressuring lawmakers to make Texas the 21st Constitutional Carry state! Texas a Major Mile Marker in Fight...