Politics – Shooting News Weekly

Trump OCC Gives Customers New Tools to Hold Banks Accountable for Anti-Gun Discrimination

Larry Keane — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:00:32 +0000

A bank that's seeking approval for a merger, charter, branch opening or other significant transaction can no longer assume its record of politicized de-banking will remain buried.

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James Talarico Wants You to Know That He’s Smarter Than Beto O’Rourke

Dan Zimmerman — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:08:37 +0000

The El Paso Democrat was chronically lacking the necessary cranial capacity needed to figure out that gun control doesn't sell well here in Texas.

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Durham County Sheriff Doing His Damnedest to Make Sure North Carolina Doesn’t Become the 30th Permitless Carry State

Dan Zimmerman — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:00:23 +0000

Permitless carry “makes our jobs more difficult – to put a gun in the hand of someone who’s not trained, who’s 18 years of age"

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Federal Gun Control Fraud: The ‘Virginia Plan’ is the California Plan…is the Bloomberg Plan…

NRA ILA — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:22 +0000

Beware the rhetorical shift and media narrative to flip the script and make an established national policy package appear more locally grounded and politically palatable.

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Ragin’ Cajun Reveals Strategy for Achieving One-Party Rule for Anti-Gun Democrats

Larry Keane — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:00:48 +0000

If Dems could add friendly Senate seats and recast SCOTUS, they would clear the path for the rest of their agenda including more crippling federal gun control and a more 2A-hostile judiciary.

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Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Use of Deadly Force to Protect Property

Shooting News Weekly — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:40 +0000

The legislation would allow people to use deadly force to protect property if they believe they had no other option and there was a serious threat to human safety.

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Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy

NRA ILA — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:35 +0000

The final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks.

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ZEV Technologies Leaving the Hostile Washington Business Climate for Gun-Friendly Utah

Dan Zimmerman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:00:20 +0000

The latest company to read the room and decide that their business is no longer valued or wanted where they’re […]

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Message for Maine: Don’t Fall for Graham Platner’s Latest ‘But I’m Good on Guns’ Messaging

Kostas Moros — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:00:11 +0000

Every prior Democrat who claimed this ultimately voted or supported an AWB once they were actually in office...at least all of them in the last decade or so.

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Why California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Should Worry Gun Owners

Lee Williams — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:00:14 +0000

Can you imagine a similar state law banning reporting that looks into San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention or the state chapters of Demanding Moms, Brady, or Giffords?

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