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BFA-sponsored Protecting Houses of Worship class slated March 14 in Mansfield

6:00am Friday, January 30, 2026
Does your organization have a security team ready to go, and are they prepared to counter an active killing event? Sign up now for a March 14 training session at Walker Lake Baptist Church, 1602 Walker Lake Road, in Mansfield. The Saturday seminar is designed as an intro to help identify security needs as well as organizational and team training standards.

ATF rewrites rules for addicts, unlawful drug users as SCOTUS case looms

6:00am Thursday, January 29, 2026
On Jan. 22, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives published an interim final rule that revises the agency’s approach to determining who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” and therefore prohibited from owning or receiving firearms under federal law. Here's what that means.

New gun ban in Canada doomed to fail, spectacularly

by Lee Williams
6:00am Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Canadians have until March 31 to file their firearm declarations via a government website, but if they wait, they will lose amnesty for possessing a banned firearm. Meanwhile Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who has been overseeing the new gun-ban program, told a friend he “shouldn’t worry about being arrested for refusing to turn in a banned firearm because municipal police have few...

Vote for Linda Walker for re-election to the NRA Board of Directors

by Linda Walker
11:18am Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Dear Fellow Second Amendment Brothers and Sisters and NRA Members, My name is Linda Walker and I am asking for your vote for re-election to the NRA Board of Directors. As much of the NRA membership and the world knows, up until this past year, it has been tumultuous within the NRA. The sins, the greed, the arrogance of past leadership took our great organization into the negative news and court...

Case made to SCOTUS: States can't ban carry on property open to public

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Monday, January 26, 2026
AUDIO: The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a Second Amendment case out of Hawaii on Jan. 20 that could set precedent nationwide. Under new state law, the presumption is on prohibition of guns on property that is open to the public. The attorneys representing gun rights made the case that that unconstitutional presumption should be flipped.

Open borders, empty jails, and gun confiscation: That is their plan

by John Farnam
6:00am Friday, January 23, 2026
The politicians pushing open borders and gun confiscation like to control vocabulary to make their case, using such terms as "the homeless" and "random." But every now and then, these same politicians have inadvertent moments of honesty when it comes to what they'd like to see happen. We should take them at their word in those moments.

Interior Secretary Burgum issues order expanding hunting access nationwide

6:00am Thursday, January 22, 2026
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has issued Secretarial Order 3447 – Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of Interior Lands and Waters. This sets a department-wide policy that “public and federally managed lands should be open to hunting and fishing unless a specific, documented, and legally supported exception...

DOJ landmark opinion: Federal ban on mailing handguns is unconstitutional

by John Crump
6:00am Tuesday, January 20, 2026
The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a groundbreaking memorandum opinion Jan. 15, concluding that 18 U.S.C. § 1715, the nearly century-old federal statute prohibiting the mailing of concealable firearms, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected arms, such as handguns.

Lott paper: Australians dramatically more likely than Americans to be victims of violent crime

by Crime Prevention Research Center
6:00am Friday, January 16, 2026
John Lott, PhD, and Crime Prevention Research Center senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than Americans. Here are the facts.

Post-COVID crime data debunks gun control’s ‘Wild West’ narrative

by Larry Keane
6:00am Thursday, January 15, 2026
Since COVID-era uncertainty began, millions of Americans have bought firearms, many for the first time. Critics insisted that more guns in private hands would inevitably mean a national slide into a modern “Wild West.” The most recent national and city-level data don’t support that claim.

Only remaining municipal gun-industry lawsuit grinds to final defeat

6:00am Monday, January 12, 2026
In 1999, the city of Gary, Indiana, launched its lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, retailers, and a wholesaler, raising claims of public nuisance, negligent design, negligent distribution, marketing, and failure to warn. On Dec. 29, 2025, a unanimous Indiana Court of Appeals remanded the case to a lower court with instructions to dismiss after finding that a 2024 Indiana law barred the city...

Daniel Defense SBR / Suppressor Raffle - $4,006 Prize Package

6:00am Friday, January 09, 2026
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