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In a landmark ruling Wednesday, a New York appeals court upheld the state's red-flag law against a challenge to the law's constitutionality, the first New York appeals court to address this question. The Second Department of the Appellate Division said in its decision that the red-flag law...

New York and its localities ranked top in the nation in taxes and second for spending in 2021, according to a report released Tuesday morning by the Citizens Budget Commission. The report found the state led in taxes in both collecting the most per person and the most per $1,000 of personal...

Out-of-state gun owners filed a federal lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court in Albany arguing that the state’s ban on concealed carry permits for non-New Yorkers violates their Second Amendment rights. The lawsuit, filed by the Gun Owners of America and the Gun Owners Foundation, lists...

In what has become standard operating procedure since Joe Biden took office, the ATF is trying to intimidate Harris – and other home-based gun dealers – into surrendering his Federal Firearm License. If he refuses to comply – and he most likely will – Harris will face what ATF calls “adverse...

Cecil Trimble, a 35-year-old restaurant manager, took a fishing reel to Bass Pro Shop’s Tampa store last week to be spooled with new line. As he was waiting, he wandered over to the gun department and immediately spotted the object of his recent desire. Trimble had been searching for a Sig...

The federal government has been using Americans’ income and gun purchases to conduct warrantless tracking and deny Second Amendment rights. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gave salary estimates to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the reason...

Dan talks about Biden's EO on enhanced Background Checks.

President Biden will announce an executive order on Tuesday that reinforces background checks for gun buyers in what the White House is promoting as the most comprehensive policy the president can enact without Congress. The order will also strengthen federal support for red flag laws intended...

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Intense bodycam video shows the moment a Las Vegas police officer was shot during the pursuit of a suspect, but she managed to neutralize the gunman from the ground. https://www.theblaze.com/news/bodycam-video-las-vegas-police-officer-shot

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and her state have been making news for all the wrong reasons, as we get closer to the November elections. She seems desperate. The tide could be turning. Democrats are even endorsing Rep. Lee Zeldin, the governor's Republican opponent. As The New York Post covered on...

Citywide elected officials and three of the city’s five pension funds are pushing major credit card companies to start tracking spending at firearm dealers — part of a growing push in New York to flag suspicious gun and ammunition sales. An exclusive report from Gothamist earlier this week...

A gun-toting robbery crew on wheels has been wreaking havoc in Upper Manhattan, striking at least four times Saturday afternoon — till a good Samaritan finally yanked their weapon away, cops and sources said. Wild video captured the Samaritan incident, which occurred around 4:45 p.m. in Fort...

At a Monday evening rally for Democrat Pat Ryan, Hochul said the elections were about safeguarding democracy. "We're here to say the era of Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro -- just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?" Hochul said, according to a transcript of the rally...

Lee Zeldin lost the room. Last night at the Kodak Center, and last night at my house. It was the Newsmax debate, the first one before a live audience, and about three-quarters through, the frontrunner wasn’t the frontrunner anymore. At the Kodak Center, as he...

For what it's worth. Loudonville, NY. By 76-14%, voters say a new law requiring a permit to get a semi-automatic rifle – including being at least 21, passing a background check and taking a safety course – will be good for New York. By a similar 79-15% margin, voters want to see the Supreme...

Ten people were shot and six others were injured in an attack on a subway in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday morning, authorities said, and a manhunt for a suspect is underway. At a midday press conference, New York City Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said the shooting began on a...

Two Democratic state lawmakers on Monday called for an excise tax on ammunition production in New York to generate funding for gun violence research. The measure backed by state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assemblywoman Pat Fahy would tax ammo production between two and five cents. Lawmakers...

Mental health facilities would be required to gather and provide information on how to seek protection orders for people who are discharged or put on conditional release under a bill given final approval by lawmakers on Tuesday. The measure is meant to bolster New York's "Red Flag" law, a...

A package of gun reform bills, including giving the public the ability to sue gun manufacturers and a 10-day mandatory purchase waiting period, was passed this week by the New York State Senate. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said the Senate Democratic majority has...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign over multiple allegations of sexual harassment, but he has made it clear he has no plans to leave office. But the three-term Democrat is weakened, and Republicans are already lining up to run against him if...

As we warned, SB 554 is now scheduled for a hearing on Feb 22. This bill will make you a felon if you travel near an airport and have a firearm, even if you are a concealed handgun license holder. There are no exceptions and you do NOT have to enter the terminal or even leave your car. If you...

Conservation, sportsmen, and pro-hunting groups cheered the passing of the Great American Outdoors Act by Congress on Wednesday. The bill was a rare act of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. Introduced by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., in March, it passed the Republican-controlled Senate 73-25...

For more than two decades, the National Rifle Association has used member money to fund a covert campaign to keep Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his loyalists in power. That’s the story told in a recently released episode of Gangster Capitalism, a podcast that dedicated its second...

If you’re a healthcare worker who went to New York to volunteer to help fight the coronavirus outbreak there, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says you owe New York state income taxes. This man is…what’s the nice way to put this? There isn’t a nice way to put this. Andrew Cuomo is an idiot. He’s just made...

Second Amendment advocates are pursuing multiple lawsuits against gun-control measures in an effort to trigger a Supreme Court challenge that could upend decades of legislation. The Second Amendment Foundation has filed multiple gun-rights challenges in federal courts across the country...

For the third year in a row, Gov. Phil Murphy has proposed big increases to more than a dozen gun fees in New Jersey. Murphy’s push for higher fees in his proposed state budget follows a series of bills he’s signed adding new restrictions to gun laws that were already some of the toughest in the...

New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is a legislative genius. When last we checked on his work, he was planning to GPS-enable every new gun in the state, and require firearm owners to have just the sort of insurance that the state was busily shutting down. Amidst all of that, I somehow missed...

The bills include a prohibition on “ghost guns” by requiring self-manufactured firearms to have engraved serial numbers, establishing a statewide ammunition database, requiring manufacturers to include GPS technology on guns and establishing funding to develop personalized handgun technology for...

Butler is a little town on the east side of Wayne County, New York, home to something less than 2,000 people, in one of the poorest regions in America. It has no money, and it has no power. Its Republican assemblyman and senator have no voice in the Democrat-controlled state legislature, and its...

The ATF has issued new rules that will alter the format for Form 4473’s and make it easier to create a national gun registry. We also know that a software company exhibiting its wares at the Shot Show in Las Vegas has crafted a system where ATF can take the contents of all the dealer’s Bound...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing six gun control bills in his budget and more than two dozen more are active in the legislature this first election year since Republicans lost the State Senate majority and the power to block firearms measures...

Almost 10,000 gun crimes were committed in a year in the UK, despite the country being known as “gun free” due to its “strictest gun control laws in the world.” Britain has seen gun crimes rise by “27 per cent in five years and the number of firearms seized has quadrupled.” Gun smuggling...

Detroit earned its moniker "the motor city" for its leadership in the auto industry. But the city now is developing another reputation related to cars, it's practice of seizing seizing cars from innocent owners and then demanding a "ransom" to ensure their return. The Institute for Justice...

National gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety on Wednesday, Feb. 5, announced that it planned to make a $250,000 ad buy in Minnesota aimed at putting Republicans in the state Senate "on notice." The group said it would spend at least $60 million around the country in the lead-up to...

As millions of firearms owners looked to the 20k+ thousands of Virginians who showed up, peacefully assembled, and petitioned their government to protest against further infringement of their Second Amendment Rights, we all have sat back and looked at how one bad bill is pushed forward is...

While those features of “red flag” laws in other states are bad, Tennessee’s Sen. Sara Kyle [D-Memphis] and Rep. Gloria Johnson [D-Knoxville] have found additional ways that would give their state a “red flag” law that’s far worse than any bill I’ve seen to date in any other state or at the...

group that spent millions of dollars in Virginia to help flip the legislature is planning to spend money in North Carolina aimed at the General Assembly and gun laws. All 170 seats in the state House and Senate are up for election this year. The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the...

These two gentlemen, Marquise Tolbert and William Ray Tolliver, both 24, were walking to McDonalds when they got into an argument. They pulled out their illegal handguns and engaged in a Hollywood-style ghetto gun battle. In the chaos, seven people were shot and one woman was killed. One...

The St. Lawrence County Sheriff says he can’t support a Second Amendment sanctuary. This comes a day after dozens of citizens called for just that. Several county residents stood up in front of lawmakers Monday night asking them to protect their constitutional rights by becoming a Second...

A contentious fight over gun control measures in Virginia is prompting hundreds of counties and localities around the country to declare themselves "Second Amendment sanctuaries." The national movement is growing momentum as the newly-elected Democratic legislature in Virginia plans stricter...

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a woman’s misdemeanor battery conviction can’t permanently prevent her from registering for a state FOID card and owning a gun, and said the right to keep and bear arms should be considered a civil right, on par with the right to vote, under the state’s...

Everytown for Gun Safety announced on Monday its plan to spend at least $60 million in the 2020 election, which is nearly double what the National Rifle Association (NRA) spent in 2016. Billionaire former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is running for the Democratic presidential...

A drunken driving conviction could mean losing the right to buy and own firearms in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals has decided. The precedent-setting opinion handed down Friday hinges on the federal government’s definition of a “serious crime” — the level a crime must reach to trigger...

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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo told a press conference on January 23 that cars were “paralyzing” New York City and that motoring had to be discouraged with measures such as congestion pricing. When one reporter asked him if he would mandate car helmets for motorists—a measure that would...

all risk to their safety–the NRA is offering to compromise. NRA official Daniel J. Spiker made the repulsive comments in an article posted earlier today: “Anti-gun billionaires who invested millions in the 2019 Virginia elections expect a return on that investment,” said NRA official D. J...

An appeals court Tuesday partially overturned the most recent conviction of disgraced former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. In an 84-page ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Silver’s conviction on charges of honest services wire fraud, extortion, and monetary transactions...

New York’s SAFE Act has been on the books for almost seven years now, which is long enough for folks to form an opinion about how well the package of gun control laws is working in the state. New York University law professor James Jacobs has been studying the law and its effects for years, and...

Why does it seem that liberal extremists are pursuing new infringements on gun rights seemingly unchecked? Why do we have an escalated situation in Virginia where liberal politicians seek to further infringe the Second Amendment rights of its citizens, threatening imprisonment and even violence...