The last few weeks haven’t been kind to gun grabbers – and we’re not just talking about President Joe Biden’s woeful poll numbers. Black Friday is typically the largest day of the year for gun sales. This year, gun buyers set a record for FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks on the unofficial holiday. Even better, on November 21 NBC News published a piece titled,“Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate.”

Micah Roberts of Public Opinion Strategies, who helped conduct the poll, told NBC News, “In the last ten years, we’ve grown [10 points] in gun ownership. That’s a very stunning number.” As shocking as some might find that figure, there is good reason to believe that the number of gun owner households is far higher than the poll reported.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20231204/nbc-poll-majority-of-voter-households-own-firearms

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The Senate passed an amendment introduced by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that protects veterans’ Second Amendment rights if the Department of Veterans Affairs steps in to manage their financial benefits.

“Veterans who sacrificed to defend our Constitution shouldn’t see their own rights rest on the judgment of unelected bureaucrats—but right now, they do,” Kennedy told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/senate-passes-kennedy-amendment-protecting-veterans-second-amendment-rights

On Friday, the Biden Administration announced that there would be a 90 day “pause” on commercial firearm exports. The “pause” comes amid other administrative actions and a commitment by this administration to exhaust every option to make firearms commerce more difficult.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20231030/biden-admin-freezes-commercial-firearm-exports

When gun sales reached record-high levels during the pandemic, alarmist gun-grabbers pushed the narrative that this unprecedented proliferation in lawful gun ownership was somehow responsible for a subsequent spike in homicides and other crime.

The hypothesis that increased gun sales caused a corresponding increase in violent crime was later debunked. A 2021 study by anti-gun researchers, no less, “found no relationship between state-level excess purchasing and non-domestic firearm violence” and concluded that “the magnitude of the increase in purchasing was not associated with the magnitude of the increase in firearm violence.” In late 2021, The Trace, Michael Bloomberg’s pro-gun control “newsroom,” cited the study but nonetheless stuck to the first-blame-all-guns line, asserting that the “research we do have, though, shows that immediate booms in access to firearms almost always lead to corresponding spikes in violence.”

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20231023/the-myth-that-guns-cause-crime-pandemic-relief-fraud-tied-to-gangs-violent-crime

Your help is urgently needed, as the official comment period on ATF’s rulemaking, “Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ as a Dealer in Firearms,” began on Friday, September 8. Comments on the rule will be accepted for 90 days, until December 7, 2023. The more comments ATF receives exposing the flaws, false premises, and overreaching nature of the rule, the more ATF will have to answer for if the agency persists in this ill-conceived effort. While it might be true that no amount of well-reasoned opposition will cause the Biden Administration to discontinue its persecution of gun-owning America, thoughtful comments exposing the proposal’s true nature may embarrass ATF into rewriting some of its worst provisions. And if that doesn’t happen, judges will be on notice that ATF was warned of the proposal’s problems when the final rule is, inevitably, challenged in court.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230911/your-help-urgently-needed-comment-period-open-on-biden-s-illegal-background-check-rulemaking

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and in 2022, the Court further expanded its support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen—a decision whose far-reaching implications are still being unraveled. To Trust the People with Arms explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the nation’s founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first century.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20231009/new-book-by-leading-experts-explores-second-amendments-history-and-interpretation

Last week, the office of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced a rare and welcomed shift in corporate policy to restore access to a popular brand of business software and payment processing that had previously discriminated against members of the firearm industry. The move came after Cruz’s office had investigated complaints from constituents whose small businesses were disrupted when their access to the brand’s services was abruptly canceled. In each case, there was no warning, no opportunity to appeal the decision, and no recompense for the economic harms caused. Diligent work by Sen. Cruz and his staff traced the chain of decision-making through the brand’s own hierarchy and on to large national banks with whom the brand had partnered. Ultimately, when confronted with its shockingly callous treatment of the constituents, the brand relented and agreed to change its policies…….

……….concerned the QuickBooks suite of accounting software, which its publisher Intuit claims is the leading such product for small businesses. Intuit executives acknowledged the actions against Cruz’s constituents and the “acceptable use polices” that discriminated against firearm businesses. But they blamed these policies, in turn, on mandates from associated banks, one of which was Bank of America and another was JP Morgan. JP Morgan, for its part, admitted it was the ultimate source of the Intuit policy. Bank of America, however, denied culpability. In any case, Intuit went on to revise its acceptable use policy to end the discriminatory practices.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20231002/sen-ted-cruz-restores-gun-industrys-access-to-popular-business-software

This large national survey of firearms ownership and use is the most recent authoritative source available, and has some interesting findings. The abstract at the beginning is worth reading, but the full document can be found by scrolling down or at the link at the bottom.

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In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms has become semiannual.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230828/once-again-no-children-are-not-more-likely-to-die-by-guns-than-motor-vehicles