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A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  Bearing Arms editor Cam Edwards provides a daily dose of 2nd Amendment news and commentary, alongside interviews with experts, newsmakers, and gun rights activists from across the country.  Follow Cam Edwards on Twitter @CamEdwards.  Follow Cam and Company on Twitter @CamAndCompany.

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Massachusetts Democrats will have complete control of state government in just a few weeks, and incoming governor Maura Healey has already indicated that more gun control laws are coming. Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace joins Cam & ...

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11.21.2022 Mass-ive Resistance To 2A Rights Massachusetts Democrats will have complete control of state government in just a few weeks, and incoming governor Maura Healey has already indicated that more gun control laws are coming. Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace joins Cam & ...
11.17.2022 Blue State Ballot Measure Leads to Red-Hot Gun Sales So far, the biggest impact seen from the narrow passage of Oregon's Measure 114 has been an explosion in the number of residents purchasing firearms ahead of the measure's "permit-to-purchase" requirement taking effect, with the Oregon State Police reporting an ...
11.16.2022 Attorney Breaks Down NJ's Latest Assault on 2A Rights Attorney Daniel Schmutter, who's worked extensively with the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs in challenging the state's gun control laws, joins Cam to talk about the target-rich legal environment for Second Amendment litigation, as well as an ...
11.15.2022 Growing Defiance Over Oregon Gun Control Measure The number of sheriffs in Oregon vowing not to enforce a new ban on "large capacity" magazines continues to grow, while gun stores are reporting brisk business ahead of Measure 114's "permit-to-purchase" mandate, which, like the magazine ban, is set ...
11.14.2022 New 2A Battleground States Emerge From Midterm Meltdown Democrats have taken narrow majorities in the Michigan and Wisconsin legislatures, and may even flip control of the Pennsylvania statehouse as well. Gun control activists are salivating over the possibility of imposing gun bans and more in these new Second ...
11.10.2022 Learning The Midterm Lessons From Florida In what was overall a frustrating and disappointing night for Republicans, Florida stands out as an outlier; one, however, that can be replicated in states across the country according to Bearing Arms contributor, Second Amendment supporter, and school safety advocate ...
11.09.2022 How The Second Amendment Fared in The Midterms It may have been frustrating, but it wasn't a terrible night for Second Amendment advocates, In fact, as Cam details on today's show, gun owners won some significant victories on Tuesday, and have more to cheer about than their anti-gun ...
11.08.2022 RAND Releases Road Map For Gun Control Activists In the wake of the midterms, Democrats might not have as many opportunities to impose legislative limits on our Second Amendment rights, but the RAND Corporation is still providing anti-gun activists with a guide to gun control laws they believe ...
11.07.2022 The Top 2A Races to Watch on Election Day From a ballot initiative in Oregon to the New York governor's race, Cam breaks down some of the elections that are critically important for gun owners and details why gun control activists aren't likely to be popping champagne on Tuesday ...
11.03.2022 Trouble In Paradise For Hawaii Gun Owners A new bill restricting where concealed carry holders can lawfully protect themselves is moving forward in one Hawaii county over the objections of gun owners, who are vowing a lawsuit if the measure is approved without major changes.
11.02.2022 Former Sheriff Slammed for Resigning Ahead of Corruption Verdict The now-former sheriff in Santa Clara County may be able to avoid a jury verdict in her civil trial on corruption charges, but Laurie Smith won't be able to escape the public's scrutiny and contempt for her cowardly decision to ...
11.01.2022 Oregon Gun Control Measure In Trouble? Supporters of Oregon's anti-gun ballot initiative have received a late influx of cash from a deep-pocketed donor; a sign that Measure 114 isn't going to be the slam dunk with voters that gun control activists were hoping for.
10.31.2022 DC Offers Lame Defense Of Metro Carry Ban The District of Columbia (along with several anti-gun groups) are fighting to keep the ban on concealed carry on public transportation in place after a federal lawsuit was filed challenging the constitutionality of the prohibition, but in their latest filing ...
10.27.2022 D.C. Discriminating On Concealed Carry? A new lawsuit alleges the District of Columbia is unfairly discriminating against black applicants for a concealed carry license; in some cases even using their status as the victim of a violent crime to deny their application and their right ...
10.26.2022 California Town Enacts Gun Store Ban City council members in Redwood City, California have invoked the nuclear option after a pair of businesses applied to open up gun shops in the city. This week the city council voted unanimously to impose a 45-day ban on gun ...
10.25.2022 Why The "Gun Control Is Crime Control" Argument Is Falling Flat Democrats desperate to prove they can be tough on crime are instead pointing in many cases to laws that are aimed squarely at responsible gun owners hoping to exercise their Second Amendment rights; a midterm strategy that so far doesn't ...
10.24.2022 Nothing "Reasonable" or Rational About These 2A Infringements New Jersey's largest newspaper has come out in favor of the sweeping new restrictions on the right to bear arms proposed by anti-gun lawmakers like Gov. Phil Murphy, laughably claiming that the new measures are reasonable and rational despite the ...
10.20.2022 CNN's Good Move On Gun Coverage The Reload's Stephen Gutowski joins Cam to talk about his new role as a CNN analyst focusing on gun issues, the pushback to the decision from gun control activists like Shannon Watts, and the supercharged moment for the Second Amendment ...
10.19.2022 Civil Disobedience And NY's Carry Laws While the state's latest infringements on the right to bear arms are being challenged in court, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has spoken to a number of synagogue-goers who are still carrying to defend their sanctuaries in violation of New York's ...
10.18.2022 NJ Dems Attack Right to Carry With New Restrictions Scott Bach, head of the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, joins Cam to discuss the many anti-2A provisions in New Jersey's new concealed carry bill and what ANJRPC plans to do to fight their implementation.
10.17.2022 2A Group Thinks They Know What's Behind Permit Delays Paul Valone, the head of Grassroots NC, joins Cam to talk about the continued delays in processing concealed carry licenses in North Carolina's most populous county; delays that the Second Amendment advocate pins on Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, who's ...
10.13.2022 Veterans Affairs Backlog Leading to Concealed Carry Delays An untold number of concealed carry applicants have been stuck in a legal limbo for months, unable to receive their licenses because the Department of Veterans Affairs has yet to turn over mental health records required under North Carolina state ...
10.12.2022 California City's "Sensitive Places" Subject of New Lawsuit It's a local ordinance, but the city of Glendale, California's ban on concealed carry on vast swathes of public property could have national implications thanks to a new lawsuit filed by a coalition of 2A groups.
10.11.2022 Are Anti-2A States Slow-Walking the Right to Carry? It's been more than three months since the Supreme Court struck down "may issue" carry laws in New York and a handful of other states but many gun owners who've applied for their concealed carry licenses post-Bruen are still waiting... ...
10.10.2022 Concealed Carry Corruption Revealed in California Trial The civil trial against Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, who is accused of using her position to grant concealed carry permits to favored individuals (including donors), has revealed some ugly truths about "may issue" carry laws and the corruption ...
10.06.2022 Gun Control Mailer Could Have Major Impact in FL Race The fallout continues over a Democrat-produced mailer literally targeting GOP State Senate candidate Corey Simon by putting his image on a shooting target; an image that some civil rights activists and Black Republicans say has "dangerous" and racist implications.
10.05.2022 Armed Citizens Stop More Mass Shootings Than You Might Think According to the FBI, armed citizens have stopped less than 5% of mass shootings, but Dr. John Lott with the Crime Prevention Research Center has crunched the numbers and found them to be massively under-reported. In fact, his data shows ...
10.04.2022 SAF Founder Highlights 2A Legal Fights Second Amendment Foundation founder and executive vice president Alan Gottlieb joins Cam to talk about last weekend's Gun Rights Policy Conference and the dozens of 2A legal cases the group is involved with; including three new suits filed just last ...
10.03.2022 AMA Goes All In On Gun Control Dr. Robert Young with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership joins Cam to discuss the latest gun control-centric edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and how some physicians and healthcare workers are pushing back against anti-gun campaigns masquerading ...
09.29.2022 Anti-gun Politicians Aim for Private Property Gun Ban From Hawaii to New Jersey anti-gun officials are scrambling to adopt sweeping restrictions on the right to carry modeled after New York's latest infringement on our Second Amendment rights; including a de-facto ban on concealed carry on all private property.
09.28.2022 New Study Contradicts "More Guns = More Crime" Theory Do increased gun sales lead to increased crime rates? According to gun control activists, the answer is "yes," but a new study published in the Journal of Surgical Research finds no connection between firearm purchases and the number of crimes. ...
09.27.2022 DC Project Brings 2A Message To Capitol Hill The women of the DC Project recently had their fifth Capitol Hill fly-in, with dozens of members holding meetings with more than 100 congressional offices. DC Project founder Dianna Muller joins Cam to discuss what she and others learned during ...
09.26.2022 The Pressure Campaign Aimed at Shutting Down Gun Stores Big Daddy Unlimited co-founder and Chief Happiness Officer Sherrie McKnight joins Cam to talk about the recent fight over what was supposed to be the chain's Morgantown, WV location; a setting that was scuttled by the gun store's landlord after ...
09.22.2022 Florida CFO Warns Credit Card Companies Against Tracking Gun Buys The state of Florida's Chief Financial Officer says he'll be closely watching credit card companies to make sure they're not tracking gun purchases by law-abiding citizens, while the head of one of the country's largest banks told Congress on Wednesday ...
09.21.2022 DC Says No Right to Carry on Public Transportation Washington, D.C. AG Karl Racine is defending the designation of the DC-area Metro public transportation system as a "sensitive place" where concealed carry can be banned, despite the fact that the prohibition means those reliant on public transportation are unable ...
09.20.2022 A Closer Look at the Gun Control Lobby's Midterm Messaging With Republicans enjoying a double-digit lead among voters when it comes to which party is better at handling violent crime, the gun control lobby is hoping to aid their anti-gun allies in the Democratic Party by providing them with focus ...
09.19.2022 Meet Bearing Arms' Newest Contributor If you're a regular viewer or listener of Cam & Co, you've seen and heard Ryan Petty on the program on a semi-regular basis over the past few years. Now Petty, whose daughter Alaina was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ...
09.15.2022 NY Gun Law Panned by First Amendment Advocate A Syracuse University professor is speaking out against the state's new law demanding concealed carry applicants hand over a list of their social media accounts so they can be reviewed for evidence of "good moral character"; a practice she says ...
09.14.2022 A Second Amendment Silver Lining in Civics Survey? This year's Constitution Day Civics Survey from the Annenberg School of Public Policy reveals a high level of civic illiteracy on the part of many Americans, but there's at least one bright spot when it comes to our understanding of ...
09.13.2022 Growing Criticism of New Credit Card Requirements on Gun Sales From small town gun stores to the halls of Congress, the complaints and questions are growing over new rules adopted by credit card companies that could lead to a back-door gun registry.
09.12.2022 New Rules for Gun Buys Could Lead to Backdoor Registration The gun control lobby is celebrating after several major credit card companies say they will start categorizing sales at gun stores, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Mark Oliva joins Cam to explain the firearm industry's objections and concerns about ...
09.01.2022 California Gun Owners Notch Huge Win On Right To Carry New York-style restrictions on the right to carry will not be taking effect in California this week after anti-gun lawmakers failed to secure the votes necessary for passage, despite intense lobbying from Democrats like Attorney General Rob Bonta.
08.31.2022 New York Sheriffs Sound The Alarm Over New Gun Laws With New York's post-Bruen restrictions on the right to carry set to take effect tomorrow, some county sheriffs are warning that the new laws will only make things worse for law-abiding citizens.
08.30.2022 Biden Stumps For Gun Ban In Battleground State Joe Biden is pushing for his ban on so-called assault weapons in the state of Pennsylvania today, hoping that it will invigorate Democratic voters ahead of the midterms. Instead, the issue could galvanize conservatives and may even provide a lifeline ...
08.29.2022 California Gun Crackdown Avoids Entertainment Industry While unions and trade groups in Hollywood claim to support more oversight when it comes to gun safety on set, California lawmakers declined to impose any new mandates on the entertainment industry this year... focusing instead on legal gun owners ...
08.24.2022 New ATF Rules Won't Stop With "Ghost Guns" The ATF's new rules on unfinished frames and receivers are now effect, and more regulations imposing new restrictions on pistol stabilizing braces are on the way, but the gun control lobby is already laying the groundwork for the Biden administration ...
08.23.2022 Where Are The Calls For "Car Control"? It's not just violent crime that's been on the increase across the country over the past few years. Traffic fatalities have climbed by more than 20% since 2020, and are on pace to be nearly twice the number of homicides ...
08.22.2022 Buffalo Police Credit Change in Tactic, Not Gun Control Laws, For Crime Drop Shootings in Buffalo, New York are down by more than 30% this year, but it's not because of any other gun control laws approved by lawmakers. Instead, police are crediting a shift to focus on "micro hot spots" for the ...
08.18.2022 Is The FTC The Next ATF? Anti-gun groups are using legislation, litigation, and the threat of regulation in an attempt to chill the First Amendment rights of gun owners and gun makers, including a new complaint filed at the Federal Trade Commission targeting advertising within the ...
08.17.2022 WSJ Says Smith & Wesson Subpoena Crosses The Line The House Oversight Committee's subpoena of Smith & Wesson demanding "granular" details about its sales of modern sporting rifles isn't just an attempt at "character assassination", according to the editors of the Wall St. Journal, it's likely to be laughed ...

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