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Here we bring you all things Second Amendment because without the Second Amendment nothing else will matter.
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The Big Takeaways From the FBI’s New Report on Active Shooters
Cam Edwards – Bearing Arms
On Friday, the FBI released its report on active shooter incidents in 2025. The news, however, was quickly overshadowed by the active shooter incident that unfolded on Saturday afternoon in Twin Falls, Idaho, where a 24-year-old man opened fire on employees and customers at an In-N-Out restaurant before an off-duty police officer and an armed citizen sent him fleeing.
Like that shooting, the FBI report shows that the most common place for an active shooter incident in 2025 was businesses, though not all of them are open to the public. Of the 34 incidents recorded by the FBI last year, 14 of them took place in commercial areas. That’s double the number of shootings that happened in “open places,” which was the next most common category. There were six incidents in government buildings, four in educational settings, and three in houses of worship.
The 34 incidents recorded are ten more than the 24 shootings identified by the FBI in 2024, but are still well below the five-year average. These events are exceedingly rare, but there are…Read more here.
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Gun Range Emerges Victorious After Decades-Long Legal Fight
Cam Edwards – Bearing Arms
A Missouri gun range has finally come out on top of a decades-long legal battle dating back to the 1980s, after the Missouri Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to end an injunction that had placed tight controls on the range’s ability to operate.
Fifty years ago the Glendale Shooting Club acquired some property with the intent of operating a range. A family living adjacent to the property weren’t thrilled with the prospect of gunfire coming from the club, and eventually filed suit claiming the persistent pew-pewing affected their property.
In 1987 a judge on the Franklin County Circuit Court issued a permanent injunction that restricted Glendale’s operations, including limiting the number of competitions, shooters, hours of use, and restricting the use of firearms over a certain caliber as well. A Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the injunction, and in 1989 the family ended up selling their property to the Landolt family.
In the 1990s, Missouri lawmakers adopted a law granting…Read more here.
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Is China Also Meddling in Second Amendment Fight?
Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms
I do not hate any groups of people because of where they come from, what their ancestors did, or anything beyond their own actions as individuals, which might then land them in a group that I hate. People who hurt others, especially children, for example.
But I don’t blink about hating governments, and China has been a special case in my mind for years.
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump took to (most of) the airwaves to announce some disturbing evidence regarding China and its attempts to meddle in the 2020 election.
Considering Trump and his election integrity fight, I understand him bringing it up, though the American Left is looking at the same evidence we are and claiming it’s nonsense, as is the fact that American intelligence personnel downplayed the threat.
What I got out of that, though, beyond the obvious, was a…Read more here.
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Why Gun Debate Isn’t About Just Here and Now
Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS
In the midst of the gun debate, we tend to focus on two time periods. One is, obviously, the time when the Second and the Fourteenth Amendments were ratified. Under the Bruen doctrine, this is important as it gives us an idea of what those who ratified saw as just infringements on our gun rights. Looking there makes sense.
But the other time period is here and now. It’s not even really what’s happening, but the perception of what’s happening.
Gun control advocates tell us that the Second Amendment is antiquated, that it’s a relic from another time, and that the present day needs mean we shouldn’t be beholden to the ideas of the late 18th century on whether people should have guns. After all, that was a time of muskets–no, it wasn’t, but we’ve addressed that before.
When we tell them that the Second Amendment is the Founding Fathers’ insurance policy that we would be able to resist a tyrannical government, they scoff.
Some because they can’t fathom how regular people armed with things they got at the local…Read more here.
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