It didn’t take long after a deranged murderer attacked students and teachers at a school-wide mass at Annunciation Catholic Church for Randi Weingarten to call for a complete and total national ban of modern sporting rifles.
The August 2025 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System figure of 1,091,342 is a decrease of 9.9 percent compared to the August 2024 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1, 210,995.
When The Trace’s Mike Spies says he wants bans on all guns – including handguns – believe him. That’s what he wants. That’s the narrative he is driving.
Several universities, in a matter of days, pushed out active shooter and shelter-in-place alerts to students and faculty. The unspeakable events in Minneapolis underscore the depraved nature of those who call a hoax emergency.
Much the same as the Biden administration weaponized the federal government’s power against speech it didn’t like or that opposed its agenda, they took a “whole of government” approach to rolling back Americans’ 2A rights, too.
O’Rourke might not regret his call to confiscate and ban Americans’ MSRs. At the same time, tens of millions of law-abiding MSR owners don’t regret dismissing O’Rourke or his insane ideas.
Gun control politicians seem to be stuck in a perpetual loop of recognizing that crime is a problem while ignoring the criminals who commit those crimes, instead call for more gun control in the name of “doing something.”
Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The Bloomberg billionaire-backed gun control group Everytown is rolling out a new campaign to teach gun owners how to be safe and responsible with the firearms. It would be easy to dismiss this as the stuff of comedy writers.
If the North Carolina House votes to override Gov. Stein’s veto, it will mean North Carolinians will have more options to exercise their 2A rights and protect their families, homes and businesses from criminals that blatantly and openly ignore the laws.
