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It seems Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has found a Trump administration policy he agrees with: Those darn potheads can’t be trusted with constitutional rights. Nevada is one of 19 states joining the administration in urging the Supreme Court to uphold a federal ban on gun possession by users of cannabis products — including those users who reside in states where medical and recreational use of the drug has been legalized. On March 2, the court will hear a case involving the federal government’s efforts to prosecute a Texas man for violating a federal statute that prohibits gun possession by...

An article published on rollingout.com claims to “debunk” myths about guns with “real data”. All the “real data” used is from advocates who oppose the ownership of guns. If you skip to the end of the article, the source listed for the numbers used in the article is Everytown Research. Everytown Research is one of the propaganda arms of the anti-Second Amendment organization Everytown for Gun Safety, financed by Michael Bloomberg, a staunch anti-Second Amendment advocate. To use such a source to “debunk” myths is similar to asking the Flat Earth Society to “debunk” myths about gravity.The pitch starts with...

Even before the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session officially begins, far-left lawmakers have moved to prefile what gun-rights advocates are calling the most sweeping anti-firearms proposal in state history. According to a press release issued this week by the New Mexico Shooting Sports Association, an omnibus gun control measure has been prefiled in the Senate, sponsored by Democrat Sen. Bill O’Malley, Sen. Peter Wirth, Sen. Heather Berghmans, and Rep. Andrea Romero. Its contents are already drawing sharp backlash from Second Amendment supporters across the state. Zac Fort, legislative director for NMSSA, warned that the proposal represents a dramatic escalation in...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Police are responding to a shooting near 660 N Redwood Road in Salt Lakce City and have closed Redwood Road to traffic. They have confirmed multiple individuals were injured and two died as a result of the injuries. A large amount of emergency vehicles has appeared to have responded to the area of Redwood Road, according to traffic cameras in the area. While law enforcement have not disclosed why they have responded, it appears they have closed Redwood Road from 600 North to 700 North. Both police vehicles and medical vehicles are on scene Salt...

When Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez gave a speech condemning the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, she was accompanied by two men who can make or break the regime’s future. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino command Venezuela’s police and military, the forces that kept Maduro in power for more than a decade with deadly crackdowns on dissent. Trump said Rodríguez is the de facto leader of Venezuela. She is someone who despite her anti-U.S. rhetoric has privately assured Washington that she will do its bidding with Maduro facing prison, Trump said on Saturday. But Cabello and...

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state, ruling the restriction violates the Second Amendment. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with gun owner Mark Baird, finding that the state’s prohibition on open carry in counties with more than 200,000 residents is unconstitutional. About 95% of Californians live in those counties, which have been subject to some of the nation’s strictest gun-control laws. Why It Matters The ruling partially reverses a lower court’s 2023 decision that upheld...

The New Zealand government is working to reform its complex and draconian firearms law.In 2019, a far-left ideologue mass murdered dozens of Muslims in New Zealand. One of his goals was to promote draconian gun laws in New Zealand and in the United States. He succeeded in New Zealand. Many extreme restrictions on firearms and ownership were piled onto already restrictive laws.Far Left PM Jacinda Ardern was successful in pushing through the draconian law on a wave of media maximized emotion. As part of the pushback to these draconian exercises of power, the Hon. Nicole McKee was elected as a...

The federal government will launch a new gun buyback scheme in response to the Bondi beach terror attack in what Anthony Albanese says will be the biggest collection of weapons since the Port Arthur massacre nearly three decades ago. It comes as New South Wales announced a suite of gun control measures including capping the number of firearms most recreational shooters can hold at four. Costs for the buyback, which is expected to see hundreds of thousands of weapons destroyed, will be split between the federal government and the states, the prime minister said on Friday. States and territories will...

Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead. Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain. His proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen — who were a father and son — had held a gun license for a decade and amassed his six...

An IHOP cook has been charged after allegedly shooting two teenage porch pirates outside his home as they ran away with packages. Rakim Bradford, 34, opened fire after he came to the door to collect a delivery outside his townhouse in Atlanta and saw three youths he believed were trying steal it. He called a co-worker after the shooting and told them he was cleaning his gun when he got a notification that the delivery had arrived, according to the arrest warrant. The colleague told police that Bradford said he went to get the package holding his gun, and it...

New Mexico’s anti-gun politicians are again taking aim at lawful firearms dealers, pushing a proposal that Second Amendment advocates warn could deliver the “final death blow” to the gun industry by criminalizing shops for crimes committed by others. For longtime Albuquerque gun dealer Arnie Gallegos, the narrative pushed by these lawmakers is far removed from reality. Gallegos, who has owned ABQ Guns for 15 years, already keeps a vigilant eye out for anything suspicious. “If they’re buying, like, 15 ARs, or they’re ordering an AR every week or something like that, that’s kind of a red flag,” he said. If...

A manhunt continues for the people believed to have been behind the Stockton-area mass shooting that killed four and injured 11 at a child's birthday party. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said the attack appears to have been targeted. The ages of the victims who were killed were 8, 9, 14 and 21. Family of the 14-year-old identified him as Amari Peterson, a teen who was simply "in the wrong place at the wrong time." The 21-year-old was identified by family and friends as Susano Archuleta. The 8-year-old who died was a third-grade student with the Stockton Unified School...

The United Kingdom needs to be turned off and rebooted. No, I take that back. It needs a whole new operating system. The current one has become infected with a virus that has scrambled everything, and there is no way to set things right. In the opposite world view this is totally fine. pic.twitter.com/v5CahE52GL— Rich Stewart 🔰 (@richdstew) November 29, 2025If you think this story is bonkers, it really is only the tip of the iceberg. An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US....

President Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is being hailed Wednesday as the “first ever truly pro-Second Amendment” choice to lead the agency. ATF Deputy Director Robert Cekada’s nomination to the top job at the bureau was quietly transmitted to Congress on Tuesday and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Cekada, a former NYPD detective, has been with the federal law enforcement agency in various roles since 2005 and has served as deputy director since April. “In his role as Deputy Director, we have worked closely with Robert Cekada to ensure law-abiding gun...

The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers from the FBI show almost no change for firearms sales and for background checks, comparing October 2025 with October 2024.There has been a slight decrease in adjusted firearms sales, from 1.303 million to 1.299 million, a difference of about 0.3% of sales. The total NICS background checks fell from 2.298 million to 2.289 million, about a 0.4% decrease in background checks. There have only been four Octobers in the last 26 years with numbers higher than those in 2024 and 2025.NSSF NICS Report October 2025 NSSF NICS Report October 2025...

SANFORD, Fla. - A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion is facing the death penalty. Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted last week in the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo, of killing an unborn child and of burglary with a firearm. The jury later voted 11-1 to sentence Faison to death, the Office of the State Attorney said in a news release Friday. Faison shot Fiengo in the head as she sat in her car at Coastline Park in Sanford in 2022. Investigators discovered a bullet casing and an...

Police have confirmed they were called to three incidents before a knife attack on a train.Cops may have missed chances to arrest the Huntingdon train attack suspect after admitting they were called to multiple knife-related incidents prior to Saturday's rampage. Cambridgeshire Police had been called to three incidents in Peterborough prior to Saturday night's attack near Huntingdon Station in which ten people were seriously injured. And it admitted officers didn't even visit the scene on one occasion. Police in London were also called to investigate a stabbing in the early hours of the morning before the incident, but no-one was...

Paramedics rushed to save a Virginia elementary teacher's life after she was shot in her classroom by a six-year-old student, newly released body camera footage shows. Abby Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School. Distressing police body camera footage presented to the jury Wednesday showed Zwerner lying on the floor as first responders applied gauze and pressure to the bloody gunshot wound on her upper chest, near her left shoulder. The first-grade teacher, whose face was pale and displayed a pained expression,...

A group of 30 House Republicans is raising alarms about how the government shutdown is impacting gun owners across the U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Thursday urging its acting director to reclassify certain employees as essential workers, warning that current parameters are leaving many gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo. “As a result of this Democrat-led shutdown, ATF, like most federal agencies, is operating at a reduced workforce. And while Democrats continue to fight for benefits for illegal aliens, the constitutional rights...

SWAIN COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — A Georgia man accused of tearing down a pro-Trump banner at a rafting business before exchanging gunfire with the business owner has been extradited to Swain County. Benjamin Michael Campbell, of Atlanta, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, discharging a firearm within an enclosure to incite fear, and willful and wanton injury to personal property in connection with the Sept. 6 incident. Deputies were dispatched to the Paddle Inn Rafting Company for reports of shots fired, but the suspect’s vehicle was no longer at the...