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Neighbors Speak Out After Gun Owner Kills Home Intruder
Cam Edwards / BEARING ARMS
We’re learning more details about a defensive gun use in San Jacinto, California that happened last Friday night and resulted in the death of a home intruder.
According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, 45-year-old Israel Martinez was shot and killed after firing a shotgun at the homeowner, who was visiting with neighbors when he heard screams and the sound of a gunshot coming from his home. The sheriff’s department said that Martinez’s girlfriend was also found about a half-mile away from the armed citizen’s home shortly afterwards, suffering injuries she allegedly received after Martinez assaulted her.
Now neighbors are providing more information about the confrontation between the homeowner and Martinez.
“His goal was to get his daughter out safely, regardless of what happened to him,” neighbor Robert Dorame said. “I’m shattered for them because they’re good people.” Read more here,
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Experts Figure Big 2A Wins for Gun Rights Coming from SCOTUS
Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms
There are a couple of cases we’re expecting the Supreme Court to rule on here soon. One deals with gun rights for people who use drugs considered illegal under federal law, while the other addresses Hawaii’s version of the “vampire rule.”
While one involves a long-standing federal law and the other revolves around a relatively recent measure that was part of the state’s “carry killer” provisions, the fact that both are being addressed by the Supreme Court seems almost poetic.
And it seems that Reuters looked to some experts to give them their take on these cases, and neither is going to work out the way the anti-gunners want.
In a nation divided over how to address persistent firearms violence including frequent mass shootings, the court has taken an expansive view of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which enshrines the right to keep and bear arms. Read more here.
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Virginia Gun Sales Double As ‘Assault Firearm’ Ban Nears
Cam Edwards – Bearing Arms
We’re now less than a month away from Virginia’s ban on so-called assault firearms and large capacity magazines taking effect, and gun sales are still soaring ahead of the ban.
In fact, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s adjusted NICS numbers, the 74,959 background checks conducted on gun transfers in Virginia in May are a 103% increase over the number of background checks performed in May, 2025.
April 2026 saw a 79% increase in gun transfers compared to the year before as well. In fact, sales have been up in Virginia since at least February of this year, as residents seek to purchase one or more of the popular rifles, pistols, and shotguns that will be pulled from store shelves on July 1 unless enforcement of the law is halted by a judge.
Last month Virginia had the fourth highest gun sales of all 50 states, behind Texas, Florida, and California. The Old Dominion was second in the nation in terms of long gun sales, however, slipping in…Read more here.
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Why Did NRA Political Victory Fund Endorses Alabama Incumbent?
Ton Knighton / BEARING ARMS
Endorsements probably shouldn’t matter all that much in politics, but the truth is that most people don’t devote all that much time into looking into the candidates. They get slammed by commercials for and against each candidate, leaving them a confused mess in the primaries, only to become a team sport in the general election, often without much more than a few articles or soundbites about what they actually stand for.
So, endorsements matter because it’s a stamp of approval from someone you might trust. The issue is that some people trust some sketchy sources.
The NRA’s Political Victory Fund, though, is a big endorsement for anyone who supports gun rights, and an endorsement in Alabama raised a couple of eyebrows, including mine.
The political action committee for America’s largest pro-gun rights organization has endorsed U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) in Alabama’s upcoming Republican runoff election for U.S. Senate.
On Monday, the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund released a letter of…Read more here.
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