Gun Rights

Despite being backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and gun-control groups like the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, New York state’s microstamping bill failed to pass the full legislature for the fifth consecutive year, according to Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Todd Gaziano, Director of the Center for Legal & Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation and a former lawyer in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, recently called into question President Obama's using executive privilege to shield Fast & Furious documents from scrutiny:

NRA's Facebook page has exploded in popularity, and this week reached its latest milestone of 1,500,000 likes.

By a vote of 23 to 17, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform passed a resolution recommending that the House find Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. in contempt of Congress.

The Pentagon appears ready to take on gun rights advocates this year in order to give commanders the ability to restrict troops at high risk of suicide from keeping their personal firearms easily available in their homes, according to Military.com News.

Everybody knows firing pins detonate primers, but not everyone can define esoteric aspects of these parts.

A House panel voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt for failing to cooperate with a congressional inquiry into Operation “Fast and Furious,” hours after President Obama asserted executive privilege over related documents, the Washington Post reports.

Kelly McMillan, managing general partner of McMillan Group International, which formerly did business with Bank of America until BofA company executives told him they preferred not to work with gun companies, extends his thanks to everyone who supported McMillan and 2nd Amendment rights. McMillan’s company is now banking with National Bank of Arizona.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was again on the proverbial hot seat this week as investigations into the infamous 'Fast and Furious' gun-walking scandal continue.

The NRA-ILA 'Jay M. Littlefield Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award' is an annual honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of our Second Amendment rights. Similarly, the 'NRA-ILA Volunteer Organization of the Year Award' is bestowed upon a group that has gone above and beyond in defending and promoting our rights over the past year.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation will file to intervene in the frivolous lawsuit brought today by the Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency to ban traditional ammunition containing lead components.

The NRA’s Florida lobbyist, Marion Hammer, sent a survey on behalf of the NRA and the United Sportsmen of Florida, whom she also represents, to sheriff candidates around the state for the first time ever earlier this month. The questions involve important issues such as the state’s Stand Your Ground law and the sheriffs’ opposition to an “open carry” bill.