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Independence Day 2025

by Rick Jones

5:00am Friday, July 04, 2025

“FREEDOM”. We say it often, exclaiming our rights by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but is it really free? Daily, there are people who are ready, willing and able to chip away at our most basic freedoms as guaranteed by the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, and it is these people who we must fight against.

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How a Senate parliamentarian gamed National Firearms Act

by Bill Cawthon

6:00am Thursday, July 03, 2025

Last Friday, everyone rose up in arms when Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, yanked the Hearing Protection Act and the SHORT Act from the Big Beautiful Bill.

USA's birth came by way of armed citizens

by Mark Oliva

6:00am Wednesday, July 02, 2025

The founding of the United States of America was — and is — an audacious idea. It was the armed citizen that stood against the British army and navy, and without their guns, the idea of the United States might have just been that — an idea.

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Armed churchgoers prevent mass attack as Michigan lawmakers plot more gun control

6:00am Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Just over an hour away from the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan — even as lawmakers worked feverishly to pass various gun control measures, including expansion of “gun free” zones — a chilling reminder unfolded of the critical need to fight for the rights of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves for self-protection anywhere they have a legal right to be.

Pro-gun language stripped from reconciliation bill, put back in - sort of

by John Crump

5:00am Monday, June 30, 2025

Late Friday night, Republicans introduced new watered-down text to the reconciliation bill, trying to satisfy the Senate parliamentarian’s view on the Byrd rule. The new text will keep short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, any other weapons, and suppressors under the National Firearms Act of 1934 but would reduce the tax stamp fee to $0.

Big banks blinking on discrimination against firearms industry

by Larry Keane

6:00am Friday, June 27, 2025

Big banks are blinking in the stare down over discrimination against the firearm industry — so much so that even The Wall Street Journal is taking notice.

BFA testifies for SB 214 to remove suppressors from ordnance definition

6:00am Thursday, June 26, 2025

On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) submitted testimony to the Ohio Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee in support of Senate Bill 214, which would remove firearm mufflers and suppressors from the classification of dangerous ordnance.