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The 2023 off-year election cycle is now in our rear-view mirror, and while the results were a mixed bag for those who support the Second Amendment, there was one interesting observation made when it comes to elected offices anti-gun extremists are seeking to purchase. Bearing Arms noted that anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg seems to be

NRA, as well as many involved both with combatting violent crime and studying ways to reduce it, have long held that imposing restrictions on gun ownership does nothing to deter violent criminals from committing crimes while using firearms.  As we have said time and time again, those who are already law-abiding will tend to obey

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats held a roundtable forum Monday on changing U.S. gun laws following a recent mass shooting in Maine, where 18 people were killed.  The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, invited witnesses to discuss gun violence solutions, and said that the gun industry lobby, the National Rifle

At this point, gun owners and other productive Americans don’t anticipate much good news out of Chicago. On November 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit lived up to those expectations when it upheld Illinois’ ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms in Herrera v. Raoul. In early 2023, Illinois enacted the ill-titled Protect

Former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday Oct. 24, 2023, during his civil fraud trial. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News/TNS) If you have opened social media or turned on cable news at any point in the last few months, then you know that former president Donald Trump has been indicted

On Oct. 30, GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer demanded all materials from D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb related to Leonard Leo. | Francis Chung/POLITICO D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb won’t share with Congress information about his investigation into whether judicial activist Leonard Leo abused nonprofit tax laws, according to a letter released on

Some of Nate Hosie’s fondest memories as a young boy include hunting for pheasants and grouse in northeastern Pennsylvania’s mountains with his father and grandfather. As an adult, he’s keeping that tradition alive with his own sons and wife while publicly advocating for the preservation of America’s proud “hunting heritage.” “At j​ust 5 years old,

Raise understanding There have been many complaints about lack of objectivity in televised news reports, but newspapers can be just as bad, which makes it refreshing to read columnists who are trying to promote education rather than market a favored opinion. Both George Will and Paul Krugman successfully educate as do David Brooks and others.

The Kearney City Council has attempted to follow in the footsteps of Lincoln and Omaha by passing Resolution 2023-149, which establishes all city-operated properties as “gun-free zones.” The measure was passed with two council members absent from the meeting, and Second Amendment advocates have been voicing their concern over the measure since its implementation. As

New questions have been raised about House speaker Mike Johnson’s speech four years ago for the right-wing Council on National Policy. The Louisiana Republican spoke to the conservative group on Oct. 4, 2019, at the New Orleans Ritz-Carlton, and there’s a 31-minute video to prove it. However, Johnson never filed a travel report or list

The two-year period before the arrival of Gov. Glenn Youngkin was the first time in decades that Democrats controlled both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. Come January, they’ll be back in charge. That sets up a policymaking dynamic that hasn’t been seen in Virginia since the 1990s: A Republican governor working with a fully

Considering the terrible situations in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere, the effects of climate change across the planet, the Republican debacle in the House of Representatives, and the continued Republican subservience to their multiple-indicted presidential candidate, the planet often seems to be an eight-thousand-mile-deep dumpster fire. But there are signs of hope. President Joe

WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during thelegislative week of Nov. 6-10. Readers can visit www.VoteFacts.com to research other topissues and individual voting records in the current 118th Congress and recent 117th Congress. House Censuring Rashida Tlaib Voting 234 for and 188 against, the House on Nov. 8 censured

Republican Celeste Maloy has a four-to-one campaign cash advantage over Democrat Kathleen Riebe in the final days before Utah’s special congressional election. Maloy, the GOP nominee in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District Race to replace Chris Stewart, reported just under $120,000 in cash at the beginning of November, while Riebe has about $30,000 in the bank

In domestic violence cases, battered women are five times more likely to be murdered if there’s a gun in the house. That’s why people under domestic violence restraining orders, by federal law, can’t have guns. Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging that federal law. Advertisement In March 2023, the conservative 5th Circuit

A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost from new products like its