TEXAS GOVERNOR-ELECT MAKES IT CLEAR ON RKBA Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott wasted no time in making it clear how he feels about the right to keep and bear arms when he affirmed that he would support and sign leg­islation legalizing the open carry of firearms by law-abiding gun owners following his landslide victory. The incoming […]

BROADCASTER LARS LARSON DEFENDS GUN RIGHTS When tragedy struck a western Washington high school just days before a volatile gun control initiative battle was to be decided at the polls, nationally-syndicated talk host, and Oregon native, Lars Larson weighed in with a commentary that blistered gun control advocates who tried to exploit the incident to […]

MARYLAND SHERIFF STANDS FIRM ON FIREARMS RIGHTS Despite the juggernaut passage of increasingly restrictive gun laws in Maryland, at least one county sheriff there has taken a stand that has been getting a fair amount of attention, thanks to a YouTube video in which this lawman makes it clear he will not allow his citizens […]

VICTIM ADVOCATE SAYS GUNS ‘EMPOWER’ PEOPLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES Salem, Ore., resident Rachel Lucas, who grew up in a liberal, anti-gun household, seems on her way to becoming a gun rights advocate that gun prohibitionists could ever experience. A survivor of a brutal attack several years ago – the kind of incident which she acknowledged […]

DETROIT CHIEF HAS IT RIGHT ABOUT ARMED CITIZENS When Detroit Police Chief James Craig said recently that armed citizens are a deterrent to crime, a spokesman for one leading gun prohibition lobbying group didn’t care for that at all. “Our position is, more guns equal more crime,” said Josh Horwitz, director of the Coalition to […]

DEFENDING GUN RIGHTS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL Following two school shooting incidents—one at Reynolds High School in the Portland, Ore., suburb of Troutdale and the other at Seattle Pacific University—gun prohibitionists immediately ramped up the volume on their demands for more gun control laws. But a student journalist at the University of Texas, Austin took […]

U.S. RESIDENT HELPS SECOND AMENDMENT FIGHT Recent history has shown us that in the fight to advance gun rights for all American, it sometimes falls to a resident non-citizen to do some heavy lifting on behalf of the Second Amendment, and so it was with Martin Pot (pronounced “Pote”). Pot recently challenged an Arkansas law […]

JOHN JACKSON TAKES STAND, WINS NEW MEXICO CCW CASE When John W. Jackson, a New Mexico resident and Australian citizen, sought the ability to carry a concealed handgun for his personal protection and discovered that under the state law he was disallowed because of his citizenship status, he took the state to court and won. […]

Grown-ups can learn a lot from children, especially 9-year-old Shyanne Roberts of Franklinville, N.J., and that’s why we are recognizing this courageous young lady as the Gun Rights Defender of the Month.   She earned it. In an interview with Point Blank, Miss Roberts, a student at Main Road Elementary, became a standout for her […]

Freshman Louisiana State Rep. Jeff Thompson founded the “Defend Louisiana” campaign and he held an “open conference” with almost 10,000 participants, along with U.S. Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). That’s a success by anyone’s standard, and gun rights activists in other states ought to push their representatives to follow Thompson’s example. Earlier […]